Episode 3013 CWSA 11/09/25
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What shutdown drama is discussed in this episode?
Well, there you are. It's about time. Come on in. You're in for it today. The show of shows. It's going to be so good, I can barely even contain myself. What's that? Random. Get rid of that. Now, let me find your comments so that I can give you the full time of day. It's going to be good. It's going to be a short show today. See if he can tell why. All right. Really? Hmm. There we go. We're up and running. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take a chance on elevating your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tankard chalicer stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Well, it looks like everything's working. Yay. Yay. Everything's working. Some people like it when I do a reframe before every show. How many of you like to see a reframe before the show? A reframe from my book, Reframe Your Reign, the most important book in the English language. And all the other ones too, but it's not in those languages. It's just the most important. All right. All right, here's the next one. This is still in the mental health reframes section of the book.
How does the concept of 'Potato Reframe' apply to self-worth?
Well, actually, you've heard this one before. So if anybody hasn't heard this one, this was very viral for reasons that kind of surprised me. So see if you think this should have gone viral. It did at the time. So instead of the usual frame that you're a priceless work of art that must be protected, How many of you think that? I mean, it's an exaggeration, of course, but you think that you're important, don't you? You think I'm more important than, at least to myself, I'm more important than other people. The trouble is that's kind of limiting. It would be better to say you're a potato that is easily replaced. Here's the background on that. If I told you to carry a priceless piece of art across the road to another museum, you'd be pretty worried that something would go wrong, right?
But you're their priceless art. So when you're taking care of yourself, you're the priceless art. and you're just worried all the time about taking care of it. Would you like to worry less about what's happening to you and what's gonna happen to you and will a bad outcome happen and is it gonna be the worst case scenario? Wouldn't you like to worry about all that less? All you have to do is think of yourself as a potato. And think, if I were delivering a potato, like just an actual potato, across the street, wouldn't it even matter if I dropped it? It wouldn't matter. So as soon as you think of yourself more like the potato, which again is not insulting yourself, has nothing to do with your ego, just assume that you're not so important that if something bad happened to you, it would be somehow the end of the world.
You're more like a potato than a Mona Lisa. So when I came up with that one, I have to admit, I didn't think it would be powerful. But it's one of the ones that people have most commented on. Did Greg mention it? I think other people have mentioned it in other contexts. So I put it out there. Maybe you like it. Well, scientists say they figured out how to use an MRI to transcribe your thoughts. Do you believe that? Now that I've completely ruined for you the act of reading stories about science and then believing them, because it's fun to believe them. It's like, whoa, that'd be like a mind reading machine. To which I say, if you can thwart the mind reading machine just by shaking your head, because obviously the MRI makes you be completely still, that's not much of a mind reading machine.
And I don't know what they use it for exactly, unless you're like a locked-in syndrome or something. And I also don't believe that they can do it well, and I don't believe that they can do it and repeat it, and I don't believe anything about the story.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What shutdown drama is discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:24
2
How does the concept of 'Potato Reframe' apply to self-worth?
2:24–5:34
3
What insights does Jimmy Kimmel's wife's podcast reveal?
5:34–9:09
4
What is the significance of the BBC's apology regarding Trump?
9:09–12:04
5
How do recent grocery price increases relate to political narratives?
12:04–15:42
6
What does Michael Saylor say about Bitcoin's future?
15:42–19:01
7
How is Chicago's office vacancy rate impacting the economy?
19:01–22:22
8
What are the implications of a 50-year mortgage option?
22:22–58:32
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