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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 108 minutes
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0:00.0 | Scott Adams, the man, the myth, the legend. |
0:10.2 | Of course, everyone knows him from Dilbert, probably the most popular syndicated cartoon |
0:17.4 | ever. |
0:18.6 | It just perfectly summarizes the pain and agony of cubicle life and the workplace. |
0:26.4 | And Scott's been there, done that and he cartooned about it. |
0:29.7 | He used the cartoon to escape that one career. |
0:33.6 | Then he went on to political punditry fame when he amazingly predicted in early 2015 that |
0:41.2 | Donald Trump would be not only the nominee, but quite possibly the president. |
0:45.2 | How did he do that? |
0:46.2 | He describes in the book Win Bigly. |
0:49.8 | He's also been on his podcast several times discussing politics and how he predicted it. |
0:54.0 | It's very interesting because he has a background as a hypnotist and he thought Trump used |
0:59.8 | hypnotism techniques to win. |
1:02.6 | We talk about that a lot in a prior podcast and also I highly recommend his book Win Bigly. |
1:07.4 | He also, in one of our podcasts, we discussed another book of his that was really great, |
1:12.0 | how to fail at almost everything and still win big, but his latest book reframe your brain. |
1:18.8 | The user interface for happiness and success. |
1:22.0 | This book really summarizes in a very simple way techniques for improving your life and |
1:29.6 | your outlook on what life in a really just systematic way. |
1:34.4 | And when reading the book, I was thinking to myself, oh, I do this, I do this, I do this, |
1:38.6 | but I always thought all these things were just a collection, a hard project of things |
1:42.1 | I was doing. |
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