Scott Adams

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really all analogies are wrong.

You know, there's always something different about them, otherwise it wouldn't be an analogy.

And it really is an ineffective argument.

It's not persuasive.

And so it's another tell for when someone's in cognitive distance to be like, well, it's just like this.

And it really doesn't make any impact, but people often do it.

And then the sixth one is insisting something's complicated and can't be summarized.

Scott has often talked about

The most persuasive arguments are simple.

Um, Trump is probably the poster child here where he can say build the wall or something very simple and visual that, um, gets right to the point.

I think Scott was certainly huge on this himself with Dilbert.

He honed the skill of distilling something down to its essence with just a few words every single day because that's what he had to do for his comic.

You know, he has to make a joke, but he has to do it very briefly, very concisely.

And I think it's kind of the essence of humor, too, is just getting to the very core of something and saying, here's the essence of it.

that's true, but it's also funny when you can do it.

But when someone says, Oh, it's complicated, you know, and, and it's, it's, it's complicated.

No way to do it.

And I mean, even scientists, like I think Richard Feynman and others have said, if you can't explain it, then you don't understand it yourself.

And, and so that's a sign.