The Creator of Dilbert Talks Persuasion, Hypnosis, and Living in the Matrix - with Scott Adams

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

Politics, Energy, Healthcare, News, World, Society & Culture, Regulations, Finance, America, Freedom

4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

How do you change the minds of your political opponents? Scott Adams knows. He has spent a lifetime studying psychology and persuasion to gain advantages in fields as diverse as banking, cartooning, writing, and even hypnosis. Scott joined Dan for a fascinating conversation about the differences between how Republicans and Democrats think, the top persuasion techniques you can start using immediately, and what coronavirus is teaching us about human motivations and decision-making.

Scott Adams is the creator of the comic strip “Dilbert” and author of “Loserthink - How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America.” Follow him on Twitter at @ScottAdamsSays.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	But all men are created.
0:04.0	Because I remember Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.0	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:09.0	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.0	China, bio-terrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.0	All right, everybody. Welcome back.
0:26.0	What a really interesting episode today with Scott Adams.
0:30.0	Scott is quite the career.
0:33.0	He is the creator of Dilbert, the cartoon, you all know.
0:37.0	But more than that, he is an author of many, many books on persuasion.
0:42.0	He is a hypnotist.
0:44.0	He famously predicted that Trump's persuasion abilities would win him the election.
0:50.0	He has got a BA in economics from Hartwick College and MBA from University of California at Berkeley.
0:56.0	He's been in banking and financial analysis.
1:00.0	And he calls himself a fake engineer in the Technology Lab.
1:04.0	Scott, thanks so much for being with us.
1:06.0	And what do you mean by fake engineer?
1:08.0	Well, thanks for having me.
1:10.0	I had an engineer on my business card.
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