Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's

most brilliant and interesting people, and turn their wisdom into practical advice that

you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

I just want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think

and behave and help you become a better thinker as well.

And today on the show, Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert Comextrip, he's been on the

show before and he tends to pop up in random places I saw Kanye West talking about him

once online.

That was an interesting morning.

His new book is called Loser Think, How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America.

The book in our conversation today is about certain mental models we use that sometimes

fail us and thinking traps that we fall into when we're looking to interpret communication

evaluate facts or evidence and form opinions.

And today we'll learn how to evaluate fake news and see why the business model of many

media outlets has actually been redesigned to keep us engaged at the expense of accuracy

and truth.

We'll also learn when and how to dial down our ego so we can clarify our thinking and

also when and how we can use our ego as a tool to move forward.

It's not always our enemy.

And we'll discover some ways to evaluate and poke holes and bad arguments and strengthen

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