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And Scott was like Twain in that he could surprise you and he could turn a phrase, but he was a lot more positive.

Was he Will Rogers?

Never met a man he didn't like.

Well, I kind of get the feeling that he didn't.

He maybe disliked them on second meeting, but on first meeting, he probably liked them quite a bit.

What he really never met that he didn't like was a problem or a difficulty that he couldn't see as an opportunity.

And the people who used to say things like that to me when I was young used to irritate me.

Oh, every difficulty is a challenge.

Every failure is a new chance to win in a new way or something.

I found those people endlessly annoying.

Why didn't he annoy me when he said those things?

What was it about Scott?

Because I could see he was living them and I could see it was working.

It wasn't like my school counselors who I knew had problems.

I mean, I knew, and as his life went on, and as I followed him more intensely on the rowing machine, because he made me wanna do things like row, I found myself getting stronger and stronger in these years after my dad died.

And then about last spring,

I saw that he was perhaps dying.

And on, I think it was the 22nd of May, I made a tweet.

I said, I'm a little uncomfortable with people who are acting like Scott Adams says is gone already.

While we're here, we're here, and he's here.