Scott Adams
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325 recordings
6 series
first heard Nov 2024
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Scott Adams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then more recently at had it failed almost everything and still went big.
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If you wanted to just get the uh the closest explanation to what I'll be giving you today, it would be in this letter book, How to Fail.
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So I was a young man in my twenties and I had a friend.
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Who
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was in mensa.
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So Ments is the high IQ organization.
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And she uh was very smart because you have to be to be in there.
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And
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She read a book, I don't remember the title of the book, but she was talking to me on the phone about it one day, and she said it taught something called affirmations and it was this idea of uh writing down fifteen times a day what you wanted.
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And she said that she tried it, you know, skeptically, and a series of coincidences happened, like just bizarre coincidences, that caused her to get the thing that she was affirming, that she was writing down.
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And I think she tried it a few times and she talked about somebody else's experience.
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And she said, uh, you know, why don't you try it?
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Now
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Keep in mind
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I'm highly skeptical.
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Maybe you'll think otherwise when we're done.
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But you know, I'm not a believer in any kind of supernatural power, luck, magic, horoscopes, you know, pretty much none of it.
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Yeah, I'm just completely skeptical.
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So how did she talk me into trying something that has no scientific basis whatsoever and seems like absolute crap?
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Well did I mention she was at Mensa?
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