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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

561. Scott Adams and Jordan Peterson

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.634.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this deeply personal interview, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with Scott Adams, cartoonist and creator of Dilbert, to explore the unlikely paths that shape a life—from illustrating a nationally syndicated hit comic to fatal illness and facing the metaphysical. Adams shares stories of coincidence and perseverance, including how affirmations, setbacks, and sheer optimism propelled him from obscurity to national fame. The conversation dives into themes of malicious envy, systems versus goals, American culture, simulation theory, and the power of narrative perception. Both reflect on trauma, purpose, and survival—making this episode a profound meditation on how we author meaning in a truly absurd world. This episode was filmed on July 7th, 2025 | Links | For Scott Adams: On X https://x.com/scottadamssays?lang=en On Youtube, watch or listen to the “Real Coffee With Scott Adams” podcast https://www.youtube.com/@RealCoffeewithScottAdams/videos Website https://dilbert.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Some of your viewers know that I have terminal cancer, prostate cancer that's metastasized,

0:05.8

and once it metastasized, you don't have the options of curing it like you would if it was localized.

0:11.6

So part of my system is to be open to all the possibilities, but the other is the belief that nothing's

0:17.1

impossible. The spirit of your aim answers your prayers.

0:22.5

This is literally the case, because once you set up an aim,

0:26.4

your imagination and your cognitive systems

0:29.9

orient themselves to serve that aim.

0:32.4

It wouldn't be the first time.

0:34.0

I had an incurable disease that I cured.

0:37.2

I'm a really cocky bastard. I kind of enter a lot of

0:40.2

situations thinking, I can do this. As an adult, I started thinking that, you know, I must be living

0:46.8

in some kind of a simulation and that somehow the way I steer the simulation is by imagining

0:53.6

what it is that I want to go toward,

0:55.8

and then things fall in line.

0:57.7

We're navigators, and we navigate towards a destination,

1:00.8

like we set our sights by the stars.

1:03.5

All of this is true.

1:04.8

Thank you. Most of us know Scott Adams as the creator of the world famous Dilbert cartoon,

1:26.4

wherein for decades he offered a satirical critique

1:29.4

of corporate culture and office life.

1:32.4

But Adams is also a sage

1:34.2

and a suffering sage.

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