Loserthink with Scott Adams

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Investing, Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

If you've been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed a lot of dumb ideas floating around.

Such as, “we know when history will repeat and when it won't” or “we can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences.”

Wrong! So says our latest guest, Scott Adams, author of Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America and also the man behind the Dilbert cartoon.

If we're not careful, Adams says loserthink would have us believe that addicts should be responsible for fixing the opioid epidemic, and that your relationship fell apart simply because you chewed with your mouth open.

Even the smartest people can slip into loserthink's seductive grasp. This book will teach you how to spot and avoid it, and will give you scripts to respond when hollow arguments are being brandished against you, whether by well-intentioned friends, strangers on the internet, or political pundits.

You'll also learn how to spot the underlying causes of loserthink, like the inability to get ego out of your decisions, thinking with words instead of reasons, failing to imagine alternative explanations, and making too much of coincidences.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Jill Schlesinger on this episode of Jill on Money,
0:06.4	Dilbert Creator Scott Adams has a little advice for you for the workplace.
0:11.0	It's better to be able to guess stuff done in the long term people are going to judge you from that.
0:16.0	That will be the basis for your success.
0:18.2	But the little slip-ups, the errors, the mistakes, they should not stop you at all.
0:25.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast.
0:27.0	We are presented by Marcus by Goldman Sachs.
0:29.6	We have a treat for you today.
0:31.2	I don't know about you guys but I used to get those
0:33.7	Dilbert cartoons sent to me all the time by friends of mine who were in the
0:38.0	workplace and really understood that somehow or other the creator Scott
0:42.4	Adams he was able to capture some of the
0:44.8	nonsense associated with corporate America. Well Scott Adams is joining us
0:49.7	today he's just written a book called Loser Think, and it is very entertaining.
0:55.0	So is he. I think you're going to enjoy this interview.
0:58.0	Here we go with Scott Adams.
1:00.0	You're listening to Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger.
1:05.0	First question we always ask.
1:06.5	You ready?
1:07.5	Since you like right, the Dilbert column is so much about workplace and career.
1:12.0	So what is the best career decision you've ever made?
1:16.0	Oh, the best career decision was leaving the corporate world.
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