Ep. 112 - Scott Adams: How To Go Viral

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

They pick up where they left off... Talking about being obligated to continue doing what brought you success. Success can be a trap, but it's better than the alternative. Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and author of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, joins The James Altucher Show to talk about his career and how it landed him exactly where he wanted to be. Click here to listen to today's episode. He shares with us the story about he became "super fit" and how that changed his life. He and James dive into what makes a blog posts go viral. It may not be what you think. Scott loves to experiment with what it takes a post to go viral. Is it the title, the content, the angle you choose to take, the target you choose... Or could it be something else. Scott's been doing some Twitter testing. What's the ideal amount of characters, where should you place your hashtags? What he's discovered is that when he mocks a group his tweet becomes popular because everyone thinks he's talking about someone else. They also veer off into a quick conversation about how to stop ISIS. Listen, and decide if you agree. They finish up today with a bunch of new video ideas featuring Scott creating Dilbert. James says he'd watch that every day. So would I. Regards, David Newman Senior Producer of Stansberry Radio -------------------Additional Resources----------------------- What Makes Stuff Go Viral Science's Biggest Fail Dilbert Plus, if you want to learn more about Scott's new start-up, click here. ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altichar Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:10.9	Alright, well Scott Adams, welcome again to the James Altichar Show.
0:24.4	Thanks for having me again.
0:26.9	You know Scott, everybody says creator of Dilbert, but you know I think your true
0:34.3	inner passions are coming out as a blogger.
0:37.6	You know maybe I think if I could choose either drawing comics or blogging, I would actually
0:43.9	choose blogging.
0:44.9	I like it better.
0:46.4	Well okay, which brings up an interesting question.
0:49.4	After you do something for a long period of time and as we talked about last time you
0:53.6	have almost an infrastructure underneath you, you almost feel obligated to continue,
0:58.8	but your marginal happiness doesn't keep going up.
1:02.9	So success is a trap.
1:05.8	It's obviously a trap everybody would prefer over the alternative, but it does lock you
1:10.6	in a little bit.
1:12.0	So Scott, I think your particular talent in blogging is you like to outrage people.
1:18.7	You want to make them, I feel like you want to confuse them.
1:23.7	Like, you know, that's actually just the outcome.
1:27.7	I'll tell you what I'm actually trying to do.
1:30.7	Alright, I'm trying to present topics which people are already familiar with in an objective
1:37.2	fashion.
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