Episode 1754 Scott Adams: Willpower Is Imaginary. Obesity Is A Knowledge Problem I Am About To Solve
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Summary
In this episode, I teach you how to make a sneezing problem go away using a simple technique called "Go, Achoo, achoo" and how it can change your brain's perception of time and space.
Transcript
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Do you know how good this live stream is going to be?
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Imagine, if you will, you had an itch in the middle of your back and you couldn't reach it.
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And then you realize that your back scratcher is right there on your desk.
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Before the simultaneous sip, I'm going to give you value for the rest of your life.
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Now, this is based on an idea that I discovered was somebody improved on.
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The next time you feel you need to sneeze and you don't want to,
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I tried this the other day because somebody told me it worked.
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This is after I tried the technique of fake sneezing.
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Because I taught you that if you fake sneeze, you can stop the real one.
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And it would fake your brain into thinking you'd already sneezed.
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And so I thought, oh, I'll try that imagining thing.
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If you want to see how powerful your brain-body connection is, see if that works the next time you're ready to sneeze.
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And for those of you that it does work, it's going to freak you out when you see how you can make a sneeze go away.
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It might be because you want the simultaneous sip to kick off a learning experience which will change your life.
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And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tankard, chalicers, dine, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine.
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Now, I believe I told you that I was going to teach you.
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John says, under President Trump, the only way OPEC could hurt us was to lower oil prices.
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Let me run through some politics and then I'm going to deliver on my promise to show you that willpower doesn't exist and that obesity is an information problem, a knowledge problem.
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But many of you think that's not going to happen.
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I saw somebody in the comments earlier on locals think that I was not going to mention the school massacre.
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Do you think that I would let a story that big go unmentioned?
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Second story is about the New York Times has an update on Russia and Ukraine.
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Russia has narrowed its focus to the Donbass region.
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When is narrowing your focus the same as losing?
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Because you know what I do when I want to make a billion dollars, but I make a thousand dollars instead?
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In fact, I believe that every time I fail at anything from now on, I'm going to tell people,
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Because that's going to be my next Dilber comic.
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Let me teach you something about being a cartoonist.
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You should never be more than one step away from a writing utensil and something to write on.
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Because all day long you're thinking, oh, I should have written that down.
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Five minutes later, you've completely forgotten it.
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In approximately four to six weeks, you will see a Dilbert comic in which Wally narrows his focus.
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So, I guess we've created a situation in which Putin can win while losing.
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So, both sides will be able to claim victory, which is the only way anything ends.
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The only way the thing was going to end is if both sides could claim victory.
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Because we weren't really going to totally destroy Putin.
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I mean, did anybody think that was going to happen?
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So, the only way it ends is if both sides have a complete story of victory.
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Now, Putin will say, well, I narrowed my focus and succeeded like crazy.
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I captured that whole Donbass area and I got my land bridge and I got everything I wanted there after I narrowed my focus.
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And then the United States and NATO can say, it's a good thing we spent that $44 billion plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, because we got ourselves a Ukrainian victory.
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We beat back the Russian army and showed them that they can never do this again.
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You know, the best possible war is when both sides win.
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I hate those old kind of wars where you'd have a winner and a loser.
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Do you think the Russian public will think that Russia lost the war?
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Or, as they call it, the special military operation that was refocused.
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Well, there's some hacking situation going on in which somebody got a hold of a bunch of Chinese data on the Uyghur camps.
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It's called the so-called Xinjiang police files.
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So, I don't know who did the hacking, but a whole bunch of photos and communications that, among other things, prove that these things exist and that they're used for political punishment.
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Here's one of the crimes that could get you put into one of these prison camps, I will call it, as opposed to a voluntary vocational training center, which is what the Chinese government wants you to know.
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Here's one of the things that could get you rounded up.
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Not using your cell phone enough for your own purposes can get you rounded up and put in the camp, according to these documents.
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Because if somebody doesn't use their cell phone enough, it is presumed that they've figured out some secure communications channel.
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And if they have a secure communications channel, that is signs of working against the government or something, something, something.
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You're going to the detention center for not using your phone enough.
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But apparently, if you say anything bad against the government or you read the wrong stuff or you prayed the wrong way or some damn thing, you could get picked up and put it in there.
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Because did China really ever care what we knew about these things?
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They only cared that we weren't doing anything about it.
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And we're still not going to do anything about it.
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I don't see any way that we're going to say, oh, we're going to sanction you, China, for these Uyghur violations.
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So, I don't know that this makes any difference at all.
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It might make a difference in who knows what about what, but it don't or should make any difference to the world, sadly.
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There doesn't seem to be anything that would make any difference.
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So, there's a story about five Republican contenders running for governor in Michigan.
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And five of them, apparently, were involved in as many as 68,000 invalid signatures on petitions.
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So, they were on petitions as opposed to votes themselves.
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So, the petitions would, you have to get enough signatures to be qualified to be on the ballot.
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And there are 68,000 of them that look invalid.
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And, I guess there were 10 Republican campaigns.
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And, leaving five of them would be shorter than needed, 15,000 that they need.
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Now, it seems like a, you know, some kind of a petition is going to be, obviously, way less secure than votes.
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I wonder if Republicans are going to cheat like crazy, at least the ones that are just starting.
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I wonder if they're going to cheat like crazy going into this congressional election cycle because they think they can get away with it.
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How many Republicans running for office or their operatives thought to themselves,
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Wow, I thought it was easy to get caught, but I guess those Democrats, they would believe, this is not my allegation,
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but they would believe that Democrats got away with it.
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What happens if one party believes that you can cheat and get away with it?
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Not only do they believe the other party did, they believe they did it massively.
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So, I wonder if there's going to be some kind of weird Republican, like, backlash or counter-response
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where the Republicans go cheating extra, you know, extra much this time.
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Do the Democrats believe that they cheated and won?
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Do you think there are any Democrats who believe that?
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It seems to me that because there were so many allegations of cheating,
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and none proven by courts, none proven by the courts of any size,
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If people believed it happened and didn't get caught, whether that's true or not,
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Glenn Greenwald continues to be entertaining in the way he frames things.
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And he says, I guess he said this on maybe Tucker Carlson's show,
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priming people to believe that the perceived slump in the country
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is because you're too dumb to understand your own lives.
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And even though what he's saying is something that you've heard in some way
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or you've thought probably, just hear him say it this way.
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They're trying to, they're priming you to believe that the slump in the country
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is because you're too dumb to understand your own lives.
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And I thought, yeah, that's exactly what's happening.
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The Democrats simply replaced Trump with the same ideology they governed with for eight years under Obama
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that caused people to run away from them as fast as they could, he said.
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And now that people are doing that again, instead of asking, why is that happening?
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They're getting poised to blame the electorate for being stupid,
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for thinking the economy is bad when actually it's good.
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And ultimately, they'll just say there were too many,
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that the people were too racist to vote Democrat if they don't get elected.
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I wouldn't disagree with, like, one point on that at all.
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Yeah, that looks like exactly what's happening.
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And now that we know that the Clinton campaign and the Democrats were, in fact,
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they were, in fact, behind the whole Russia collusion thing,
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to make the voters think it's their own damn fault
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or there's something wrong with their perception.
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I mean, I guess that's the Nazi technique, right?
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because, hey, nobody would tell a lie that big.
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how likely did cheating affect the outcome of the 2020 election?
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Now, do you remember when people thought that Trump was not persuasive?
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he could convince the country of anything, I think,
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All right, so everybody thinks election integrity is important.
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how do you believe they think they did last year?
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that's fighting in the most contested regions there,