Scott Adams

Yeah, if you want to read it.

But I mean, yeah.

Okay.

So the seven tells are change.

If you change that, if someone changes the topic or if they make an ad hominem attack and ad hominem means you're attacking the person rather than the argument.

yeah well that's certainly what scott was saying is that you know probably most of these would fall under that category of if they do these things you can just declare victory and walk away but um the third one is mind reading um mind reading is where you imagine that you know what the other person's thinking and you act like you know what's in their head which is really never true

And you're often very wrong when you think you know what someone else is thinking.

And the fourth is word salad, which Scott explained is where you say a bunch of words, but it really doesn't mean anything.

Again, these are all tales of cognitive dissonance.

Like if you trigger someone into cognitive dissonance, typically that means you've said something that doesn't

agree with their worldview, doesn't agree with what they thought was true, and they really can't accept what you're saying.

So they go into this thinking mode of almost like a brain reboot, where they do these really irrational things.

But someone who's in cognitive dissonance can't tell that they're in cognitive dissonance, but other people certainly can tell.

And these are all things you can see.

Kamala.

Sorry.

That's word salad.

And then the next one is using an analogy instead of reason.

So again, it's kind of avoiding actually directly addressing an argument.

It's more just trying to use an analogy like saying, oh, it's like this.