I am Scott Adams, I'm the creator of the Dilberg comic strip, and for the last two years I've been writing a lot about President Trump's powers of persuasion.

I'm a trained hypnotist and have studied persuasion for decades for my work and in him I noticed a special set of tools that I've been writing about.

It's interesting you call yourself the creator of Dylbird

because I read your book, it's a long title,

How to Fail It Nearly Everything at Life and Still and Big.

And I had been familiar with

Delber's so when I think of you I think of you as more of a mindset guy or a something else

outside of Delber. My brand has changed a little bit because as I write more about persuasion and in particular as it applies to President Trump,

people are starting to know me from that part of my writing and less about the cartoon.

Yeah, because I actually recommended when I read your book on life essentially,

I thought, wow, he really systematized a lot of things

so that I had intuitively sort of recognized and noticed in people.

That book kind of took off the past couple years.

Yeah, so my book How to Fail It All took off the past couple years. Uh, yeah.

So my book, How to Fail Almost Everything and Still Win Big, is about persuasion in a sense.

It's about how to persuade yourself.

It's about how to reprogram yourself to be more effective. So that was my

introduction to the world of persuasion in terms of the the audience's perception

of me.

Yeah, that's an interesting point, which is that,

for example, we talk about mantras

in your book, a mantra is ultimately convincing yourself to believe in his

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