#70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dilbert creator and author Scott Adams shares cognitive tools and tricks we can use to think better, expand our perspective, and avoid slumping into “loserthink.”

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0:00.0	A typical artist says, I've made this great art.
0:03.0	If you don't like it, well, there's something wrong with you.
0:05.5	There's sort of an ego that comes with art.
0:07.4	But I lacked that type of artistic ego
0:10.7	because I came from a different path.
0:13.0	I was a business person.
0:14.5	Art was a thing I was trying to do.
0:16.6	Welcome to the Knowledge Project, a long-form conversation hosted by Shane Perish.
0:31.2	Her goal is simple, to learn something new in every conversation that makes this a little
0:35.3	bit smarter than yesterday.
0:37.6	You can learn more about the show and find past episodes at fs.blog slash podcast.
0:44.3	The Knowledge Project is a part of Fernum Street, a website dedicated to mastering the
0:48.2	best of what other people have already figured out.
0:50.9	Fernum Street puts together a weekly newsletter called Brain Food that comes out every Sunday.
0:55.4	Much like this podcast, it's high signal, timeless, and mind-expanding.
1:00.1	Read what you're missing at fs.blog slash newsletter.
1:03.6	Today, I'm speaking with Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author
1:08.3	of Losers Think.
1:09.3	We explore how Dilbert came to be and why a simple change, such as adding an email
1:13.9	address, turned it in to one of the most popular comics in the world.
1:17.2	You dive into persuasion and spend a lot of time on cognitive tools and tricks that can
1:22.1	help us think better, including how to deal with critics.
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