Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1757 Scott Adams： Fix Every Problem In America With Better Home Design. And Mutant Hamsters

00:00:00.000 Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to another amazing episode of Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:11.940 Now, you could also have your own favorite beverage, it doesn't have to be coffee, but

00:00:16.900 this is going to be a simultaneous something.

00:00:21.560 And when I say simultaneous, you know what I mean.

00:00:24.520 I mean it at the same time.

00:00:27.400 Or asynchronously, that works too.

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00:00:38.800 else and be yourself.

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00:00:44.520 sip, and all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, say, tank or chalice, a canteen

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00:01:15.980 Now, keep your mug with you, because this is more of a sipping kind of a day than it is

00:01:27.640 a news day.

00:01:29.500 Okay, let's talk about the tragedy, blah, blah, blah, tragedy.

00:01:37.240 Was that good enough?

00:01:39.180 Is everybody happy that I've covered the tragedy?

00:01:43.440 I really don't want to talk about it anymore, do you?

00:01:48.160 Not really.

00:01:49.780 Like, I had some notes here, and then I thought, you know, you know what you really need?

00:01:55.740 There's none of that.

00:01:56.680 How about let's just talk about good things?

00:02:00.940 So today's going to be a little bit different, because the news is nothing but that bad thing

00:02:08.680 that we're not going to talk about.

00:02:10.100 But there's some interesting things happening, too.

00:02:13.880 And one of the interesting things was, I just saw in the locals' chat, that somebody was

00:02:23.440 saying that the best predictor of success was the ability to put off rewards.

00:02:30.760 How many of you believe that's the best predictor of success?

00:02:34.440 The ability to forego immediate pleasure for later pleasure.

00:02:40.260 A lot of people say yes.

00:02:43.680 A lot of people say no.

00:02:45.480 Well, first of all, we don't know if studies ever are real.

00:02:50.020 I'm not sure any study's real anymore.

00:02:52.440 I've gotten to the point where if I see that a study says something's true, I just sort of

00:02:57.220 automatically think it might be the opposite of that, just as my starting point.

00:03:01.460 You know, I could be convinced, but as my starting point, as soon as I hear a study make some

00:03:07.620 wild claim, I just assume it's not true.

00:03:11.820 All right, now here's an alternative to that theory.

00:03:15.620 So one theory is it's the ability to put off pleasure to get a larger pleasure in the future.

00:03:23.740 Here's my reframe of that same concept.

00:03:26.520 What if the ability to put off pleasure now is really nothing but the ability to imagine

00:03:40.960 better?

00:03:42.800 Think about it.

00:03:45.820 I believe that I'm very good at putting off immediate pleasure, better than most.

00:03:51.960 If there were some kind of a contest where you said, all right, who's going to put off

00:03:57.380 pleasure the longest in order to get some big reward later, I would say, you don't want

00:04:02.700 to be in that contest with me because I can put off pleasure like a motherfucker.

00:04:10.160 I mean, I can really put off pleasure.

00:04:12.620 I can just shut down my pleasure as long as you need.

00:04:16.240 And if, here's the big if, if I can imagine a bigger pleasure that I'm competing for, right?

00:04:26.800 If I can't imagine a bigger pleasure later, then I'll take the pleasure today because it's

00:04:33.200 not being compared to anything.

00:04:35.380 The one today is the only one, so I'll take it.

00:04:38.540 Why wouldn't I?

00:04:39.400 But do you think it's a coincidence that I have, and I'm going to say that this is a

00:04:47.780 factual statement, and I'm hoping that you'll agree with this because it's important to the

00:04:52.660 concept.

00:04:55.020 Would you say it's a factual statement that I have a commercial-grade imagination, meaning

00:05:02.380 that my powers of imagination essentially are, you know, behind everything I create, and

00:05:09.040 that it is proven to have a commercial value in a few different domains.

00:05:14.480 So if you'll give me that, I'm going to see if I can generalize from it.

00:05:19.560 Now, this is just a hypothesis, right?

00:05:21.580 My hypothesis is that the ability to put off pleasure today is really just a difference in

00:05:31.140 imagination.

00:05:33.540 If you can really, really imagine what tomorrow looks like, you can bring tomorrow to today,

00:05:40.080 and you've got two things to compare today.

00:05:43.380 It's like a discounted cash flow, if anybody's an NBA nerd out there.

00:05:52.280 The way that you do a financial analysis, if you were, let's say, to compare an expense today

00:05:58.300 to some expense that might be done over time, you do this calculation on the expenses that

00:06:05.500 are done over time to bring them forward, or bring them, I guess, into the present, so

00:06:11.580 that you have two things that are both in the present.

00:06:13.820 So one is artificially massaged to bring those streams of money into the present by adjusting

00:06:20.120 for what it would mean in the present if you were to wait for it, basically.

00:06:23.500 And same thing.

00:06:27.120 So I think that putting off pleasure is completely related to how much you can imagine the competing

00:06:34.540 pleasure in the future.

00:06:36.820 Have I convinced you?

00:06:38.800 What do you think?

00:06:40.600 And now, if that's true, if my hypothesis is true, it means that you could cause people

00:06:47.100 to make different decisions by teaching them to imagine more vividly what the alternatives

00:06:54.800 are.

00:06:56.120 Now, there was an experiment that's always really influenced me, in which, now, of course,

00:07:03.740 who knows if this could be reproduced, but I'll bet it could be.

00:07:07.940 It agrees with my preconceived notions, so therefore I think it's good.

00:07:12.020 And that is that if you allow people to see themselves artificially aged, so you take somebody's

00:07:19.000 photo and you digitally age them so they can see themselves as a senior citizen, that they

00:07:26.000 will save more money today if they can see themselves like an actual photo of themselves

00:07:31.780 that looks like themselves in the future.

00:07:34.100 Because they'll protect that person.

00:07:37.480 It's them.

00:07:38.220 So, you've basically, you digital age something to bring it into the present so that you've

00:07:45.660 got two things in the present to compare.

00:07:47.640 Shall I save this money or spend it?

00:07:49.360 Ooh, I don't want to hurt this guy.

00:07:51.540 I'm looking at him right now.

00:07:53.700 So, I'll bet you, I'll bet you, the more time you spend imagining a good outcome that comes

00:08:02.060 from exercising or dieting or working hard to learn a new skill so you can improve your

00:08:09.700 career, whatever it is, I'll bet you, the more time you spend imagining the goodness of

00:08:15.880 the outcome, the more likely you're going to get there.

00:08:21.080 Just a thought.

00:08:23.240 All right.

00:08:23.580 There's a story about aggressive mutant hamsters in the news.

00:08:32.120 A team of scientists at Northwestern University, they've accidentally created overly aggressive

00:08:39.000 mutant hamsters.

00:08:40.860 So, they were doing a gene editing experiment.

00:08:43.580 They were trying to make the hamsters increase their bonding and be more lovable.

00:08:49.040 They wanted more lovable hamsters.

00:08:52.900 But they somehow accidentally created, quote, overly aggressive mutant hamsters.

00:08:59.880 Now, the first thing I thought, probably the first thing you thought, too, was, how do I

00:09:07.200 get one?

00:09:08.540 Am I right?

00:09:11.080 Because if there's anything I've ever wanted, it is an overly aggressive mutant hamster.

00:09:19.040 I've had a cat.

00:09:20.640 I have a dog.

00:09:22.380 Excellent pets.

00:09:24.400 Cats, love them.

00:09:26.020 Dogs, big dog lover.

00:09:27.800 I love dogs.

00:09:29.800 But if I could have an overly aggressive mutant hamster, I don't know if I'd even need friends.

00:09:37.000 I mean, I would just stay home and play with the hamster, if the hamster would have me.

00:09:41.460 I mean, I don't know what kind of powers the mutant hamster has.

00:09:46.360 They say mutant, but they're sort of quiet on what kind of superpowers the mutant hamster

00:09:51.080 actually has.

00:09:52.140 They say overly aggressive, but that seems true of most evil mutant hamsters.

00:09:59.500 So, I'm more specific.

00:10:01.440 Can they shoot any kind of lasers or maybe control the weather?

00:10:07.160 I don't know.

00:10:07.680 Richard Gere is reportedly trying to buy one.

00:10:13.140 I don't know what that's all about.

00:10:15.520 And, well, I don't know.

00:10:19.080 I think it would increase my bonding just to have one.

00:10:22.980 So, there's another story in the news, sort of.

00:10:27.160 All right, here's the nerdiest news story that, unfortunately, is the most interesting thing

00:10:34.220 in the world for me.

00:10:36.880 So, I'm going to try to convince you this is the most interesting thing in the world for you.

00:10:42.480 You just don't know it yet.

00:10:43.960 So, if you were to make a list of all our social problems, it would be a pretty long list, right?

00:10:52.740 You'd have everything from, you know, drugs to inflation to crime to bad schools to, you know, blah, blah, blah.

00:11:02.020 Well, but I contend that the following is true, that you could solve almost all of society's major problems

00:11:11.840 with better home design.

00:11:16.380 Does that seem like a big claim?

00:11:19.080 That you could solve almost all of society's major problems by better home design.

00:11:26.020 Not more expensive ones.

00:11:28.640 Much less expensive ones.

00:11:30.620 That would help you with your budget stuff.

00:11:33.280 But also ones that are designed for how people live.

00:11:37.760 And, so, let me give you just an example.

00:11:42.220 Home Depot now is selling entire homes.

00:11:45.780 So, you can order a Home Depot,

00:11:48.700 one of these little small homes that comes ready to assemble.

00:11:54.620 And they have a pretty big variety of them now.

00:11:57.740 And they have, I guess they've got their bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, little deal.

00:12:02.680 And you just snap it together.

00:12:04.920 And the cost, I think the high-end one with two bedrooms was $44,000.

00:12:13.720 So, that's where the, you know, the profits all built in, $44,000.

00:12:17.840 Now, of course, you'd need land and connect to systems and local permits and stuff like that.

00:12:23.500 So, I don't know what you would be in all-in.

00:12:27.120 But, you know, you can see where this is heading.

00:12:31.560 On top of that, so I tweeted that, that Home Depot had these new things.

00:12:37.460 And I said, imagine, you know, even though Home Depot is a fine company.

00:12:42.180 I mean, I have only good things to say about Home Depot as a company.

00:12:45.540 But imagine if these little small homes were designed by Apple.

00:12:52.200 How much better would they be?

00:12:54.200 Because Apple knows how to do human design.

00:12:57.420 They would build prototypes.

00:12:59.460 They would test it endlessly.

00:13:01.160 They would figure out what works and what doesn't.

00:13:03.280 They'd tweak it.

00:13:04.260 And then they'd really get you something.

00:13:06.380 But the way homes are built today,

00:13:08.580 I'm pretty sure somebody just designs it on paper and then builds it.

00:13:11.400 But I think that's it.

00:13:14.080 Am I wrong?

00:13:15.460 And maybe they learned something from one they'd seen before.

00:13:19.040 And when they took classes, somebody said,

00:13:21.520 don't make this mistake or that mistake.

00:13:23.660 So they do learn from their mistakes.

00:13:25.920 But it's nothing like design.

00:13:29.160 I don't think.

00:13:30.480 Even if you can build a 3D model and tour it with the software,

00:13:34.660 which you can do,

00:13:35.660 you don't really know what it's like to live in it.

00:13:37.980 So imagine taking the modern design capabilities of an Apple.

00:13:44.460 I would say similar to Google or Tesla,

00:13:47.600 just to pick three companies.

00:13:49.660 Amazon.

00:13:50.480 Amazon, same thing.

00:13:51.960 So imagine taking that level of design expertise,

00:13:56.940 figuring out what people really need in the modern world,

00:13:59.800 which is completely different than how homes are designed now,

00:14:02.760 and then building the good version.

00:14:06.760 Basically, the iPhone version of a home.

00:14:10.940 Now, by that, I do not mean overly technically complicated.

00:14:16.320 It could be the opposite.

00:14:17.960 But I mean, the iPhone was such a difference from any other kind of phone.

00:14:22.280 That's what I'm talking about.

00:14:24.220 So there's this company called CoverBuild.

00:14:27.440 I think it's one word.

00:14:29.900 If you want to follow them, it's at CoverBuild.

00:14:34.000 C-O-V-E-R-B-U-I-L-D.

00:14:37.800 CoverBuild.

00:14:38.920 And they build, it's a startup,

00:14:41.320 and they're making homes that are like,

00:14:44.540 they describe it, like Lego blocks.

00:14:47.540 How many times have we all talked about that, right?

00:14:50.280 Why can't they make a home that you could just put together,

00:14:53.140 like Sears used to do, except stop saying that?

00:14:57.500 The first person who says Sears used to make kits,

00:15:01.040 I'm going to block you.

00:15:03.800 Because here's the important thing.

00:15:07.140 Yes, it's been done in the worst possible way in the past.

00:15:11.680 There's nothing like what I'm talking about.

00:15:13.540 I'm talking about the best possible way.

00:15:15.140 So the fact that the Model T once existed

00:15:17.880 should not inform you whether you should buy a Tesla.

00:15:23.420 They're completely different products

00:15:25.200 by the time you fast-forward all the improvements.

00:15:29.000 So now CoverBuild has this Lego-like thing,

00:15:31.420 and based on the video,

00:15:32.840 it looks like you don't have to cut anything.

00:15:36.500 It looks like it comes with, like, panels.

00:15:38.820 So there's wall panels and floor panels,

00:15:40.820 and it looks like some kind of ceiling or roof panels.

00:15:46.180 Now, they're a little boxy,

00:15:48.540 because it's easier to make boxy stuff.

00:15:51.680 But if you make things boxy and well-designed,

00:15:56.420 meaning that you've got lots of glass windows on one side

00:15:59.220 and, you know, you've made the best use of space,

00:16:02.680 you probably have something pretty good.

00:16:04.760 And then if you put these homes in an organized community

00:16:08.340 where you've got things like forced ways

00:16:12.800 for people to interact,

00:16:14.500 in other words, you're making people interact

00:16:16.420 so that they have a social life

00:16:19.160 and they meet their neighbors and stuff like that.

00:16:21.840 So if you designed your community,

00:16:23.440 and by the way, this is done in senior communities already,

00:16:27.120 here are the following problems

00:16:28.760 that you could eliminate by designing your house

00:16:31.920 and your community from scratch.

00:16:36.280 Now, forget about the tiny part.

00:16:39.240 All right?

00:16:39.900 So the two things that we should forget about

00:16:42.120 in this conversation are Sears used to make kits.

00:16:45.980 No, that's the old primitive way.

00:16:48.740 It's irrelevant to what we're talking about.

00:16:53.280 Yeah.

00:16:54.380 And then the other thing was what I just mentioned.

00:16:57.340 Tiny.

00:16:58.360 So don't assume that tiny is the goal.

00:17:01.580 They could be tiny, but they don't have to be.

00:17:04.540 Tiny is just one way to save money,

00:17:06.520 and it's probably the worst way.

00:17:07.620 I'd make them a little bit spacier, actually,

00:17:10.600 so that they're the right space for living.

00:17:14.460 But here's what you could solve

00:17:15.760 if you just designed your house

00:17:18.220 and your community right.

00:17:20.320 You would save maybe 80% on your budget.

00:17:26.160 So I think that's completely doable.

00:17:28.940 Let's say one person living alone

00:17:30.960 could probably reduce their living expense by 80%

00:17:34.660 if they lived in a place that was designed for that purpose

00:17:39.240 and also to make it a good place to live.

00:17:41.880 You could, of course, be so green

00:17:43.800 that there's no fossil fuels used at all.

00:17:46.880 You could make every small house

00:17:49.220 sort of have a Tesla battery attached to it.

00:17:54.840 Of course, that's going to run up to cost another $20,000

00:17:57.900 or whatever once you're all in.

00:18:01.020 But you could make a community that's completely green,

00:18:04.940 as green as electricity can be.

00:18:07.580 You could get rid of loneliness

00:18:10.740 because you designed the community

00:18:12.320 so there's some forced interaction.

00:18:14.280 Maybe there's some apps that connect to everybody.

00:18:16.640 You could reduce medical costs

00:18:18.160 by having more places that people walk

00:18:21.920 and go outside and get vitamin D.

00:18:24.260 So basically, you create a place

00:18:25.600 where people just are automatically healthier

00:18:27.960 because they walk to the store

00:18:30.260 and they're getting outside

00:18:31.340 and they're meeting their neighbors

00:18:32.560 and all that stuff.

00:18:34.900 And they've saved so much money

00:18:36.080 they can all have health care.

00:18:38.680 Transportation, you could completely solve it

00:18:40.720 by having everything you need in the community.

00:18:43.040 You could get rid of crime.

00:18:45.720 You could just completely get rid of crime

00:18:47.500 by having cameras everywhere.

00:18:50.960 Now, again, you might say to me,

00:18:52.720 Scott, I don't want cameras everywhere.

00:18:54.760 Well, then maybe the public cameras,

00:18:57.120 I'm only talking about in public spaces,

00:18:58.760 but maybe the public cameras could have,

00:19:02.160 you know, you have to have a court order

00:19:03.580 to look at them or something,

00:19:04.780 so you'd have to have cause.

00:19:06.420 So you could see how you could design crime

00:19:08.720 right out of it.

00:19:09.860 How about education?

00:19:13.280 Homeschooling would be easy

00:19:15.540 if you designed the community for it, wouldn't it?

00:19:19.720 You just design, you know, micro classrooms

00:19:21.860 for five to ten kids

00:19:23.820 and you just schedule them

00:19:25.620 for whatever, you know, Guardian is there

00:19:28.980 plus whatever Zoom video is the class itself,

00:19:31.880 however they do it.

00:19:33.200 So it seems like if you designed it

00:19:34.700 from the ground up,

00:19:36.120 you could just solve systemic racism,

00:19:39.540 meaning that every kid,

00:19:42.740 even with low income,

00:19:43.960 would have enough money to live there

00:19:45.940 because it would be so cheap,

00:19:47.100 and then they'd have as good a school

00:19:48.740 as everybody else

00:19:49.500 because it would just be all, you know,

00:19:51.480 whatever is the best school designed,

00:19:53.140 I don't know what it is.

00:19:55.620 So he says,

00:19:56.820 dude, your opinions are creepy.

00:19:59.720 Now, what did I say there was an opinion?

00:20:04.460 Did anybody hear an opinion yet?

00:20:08.400 I don't know that there was any opinion here,

00:20:10.760 was there?

00:20:12.120 Because I'm saying things

00:20:13.240 that I think everybody would agree with

00:20:14.680 every part of it.

00:20:15.900 I'm not sure that even qualifies as an opinion

00:20:18.320 if everybody would agree.

00:20:20.160 So let me say the things

00:20:23.420 that I think you're thinking

00:20:24.460 and then see if that sounds right.

00:20:28.840 You're probably thinking the following things.

00:20:31.780 If it's organized like a commune,

00:20:34.780 it's going to be sort of communist

00:20:36.580 and not work

00:20:37.420 and nobody's ever made that work.

00:20:39.760 So why would you do that?

00:20:41.900 So I'm assuming you wouldn't do that.

00:20:43.820 You wouldn't design it a way

00:20:45.240 that doesn't work.

00:20:46.240 You would test it

00:20:47.820 until you knew it worked.

00:20:49.660 So if you're saying

00:20:50.600 don't do the things

00:20:51.480 that haven't worked in the past,

00:20:53.360 I'm saying that's exactly the idea.

00:20:55.360 Don't do the things

00:20:56.240 that haven't worked in the past.

00:20:58.120 That's the one thing you can rule out.

00:21:00.280 Hasn't worked in the past.

00:21:03.760 The other thing is

00:21:04.860 people are saying

00:21:05.820 it's like dystopian.

00:21:07.160 You won't have choices.

00:21:08.820 That's not true.

00:21:10.600 The cover build homes

00:21:12.600 are built

00:21:13.260 so you can reconfigure them

00:21:14.860 in an infinite variety of ways.

00:21:18.220 Infinite variety.

00:21:19.880 And you can imagine

00:21:21.020 that that would only improve over time.

00:21:23.700 So I think the current models,

00:21:25.680 it looks like the wall panels

00:21:27.120 have a structural part

00:21:29.280 and then a part

00:21:30.120 that's just a decorative inside cover.

00:21:33.200 But you can imagine

00:21:33.960 that the decorative inside covers

00:21:35.860 would start basic,

00:21:37.640 but then there'd be the one

00:21:39.480 that looks like a brick wall,

00:21:40.860 one that looks like anything else.

00:21:42.480 So you can imagine

00:21:43.260 that it would start basic

00:21:44.200 and then you could do

00:21:44.940 whatever you wanted with it.

00:21:46.620 So I would imagine

00:21:48.080 that the opportunity

00:21:49.920 to be customized and unique

00:21:52.440 would go up, not down.

00:21:56.600 Right?

00:21:57.340 So why would you assume

00:21:58.580 that any new design

00:22:01.060 that's meant to be better

00:22:02.560 would be substantially worse

00:22:04.700 in some way

00:22:05.700 that you can identify?

00:22:07.640 That's not the idea.

00:22:09.100 The idea is that

00:22:09.860 none of it's worse.

00:22:11.380 So if you're thinking,

00:22:12.640 yes, but this part will be worse,

00:22:14.100 well, that's not the idea.

00:22:15.400 The idea is that

00:22:16.260 every part of the living experience

00:22:18.100 would be better,

00:22:19.560 including it would look better,

00:22:22.040 feel better,

00:22:23.200 be cheaper,

00:22:24.480 more efficient,

00:22:25.740 it would give you a social life

00:22:27.380 just by forcing you

00:22:29.200 to interact with people,

00:22:31.320 et cetera.

00:22:31.580 So it's interesting.

00:22:35.920 You can see people's personalities

00:22:37.400 by how they respond

00:22:38.460 to something like this.

00:22:41.340 I think the personalities

00:22:43.180 that say this won't work

00:22:44.780 and here's the reason

00:22:45.740 probably have trouble

00:22:48.380 succeeding in life.

00:22:50.380 Whereas the people who say,

00:22:52.500 well, if the idea

00:22:53.320 is to solve all those problems,

00:22:55.140 then I'll go along

00:22:56.260 with that idea

00:22:56.860 that I don't know

00:22:57.980 if you can do it,

00:22:59.000 but if you could solve

00:22:59.820 all those problems,

00:23:00.620 I'd live there.

00:23:04.780 You won't own anything

00:23:06.000 and be happy about it.

00:23:07.060 Who said that?

00:23:08.940 Who said you won't own anything?

00:23:11.560 Everybody's just throwing in

00:23:12.660 like ridiculous ideas

00:23:14.040 so that you've imagined

00:23:16.180 something wrong with it.

00:23:18.040 Why would I say

00:23:18.960 there would be no private ownership

00:23:20.640 of anything?

00:23:21.580 Nobody said that.

00:23:23.300 I'd say whatever works.

00:23:25.000 And it could be

00:23:25.720 that there are different models.

00:23:27.840 Could be.

00:23:29.820 I feel like

00:23:31.840 one of the models

00:23:32.580 will be that you can buy

00:23:33.700 one for yourself

00:23:34.640 and one to rent.

00:23:36.800 And some people will say,

00:23:37.860 I'll just build

00:23:38.360 two units at a time,

00:23:39.700 one for me

00:23:40.260 and one to rent.

00:23:41.740 I think that'll be a thing.

00:23:45.840 Oh, that's a quote

00:23:46.780 from the W.

00:23:48.720 Oh, cheap house,

00:23:49.680 inexpensive land.

00:23:50.460 All right,

00:23:50.720 here's the second part

00:23:51.500 of the thing.

00:23:52.860 Am I wrong

00:23:53.840 that we've reached a point

00:23:55.100 where you could

00:23:56.180 make better use

00:23:57.680 of more remote land,

00:24:00.560 meaning that you don't need

00:24:01.940 to drive to the city

00:24:02.900 for as much?

00:24:04.220 Is that,

00:24:04.760 would you say that's true?

00:24:06.280 In other words,

00:24:07.680 could I put a community

00:24:09.120 on relatively cheap land

00:24:11.480 where that didn't

00:24:12.940 used to make sense?

00:24:14.120 You know,

00:24:14.440 in the old,

00:24:15.180 old days,

00:24:15.840 you wanted to be

00:24:16.440 near a coast

00:24:17.180 and then you needed

00:24:18.940 to be near

00:24:20.320 where the food supply

00:24:21.460 or the water is.

00:24:22.740 You still need to be

00:24:24.020 where the water is.

00:24:25.420 But if you had water,

00:24:29.540 you're in pretty good shape,

00:24:32.820 aren't you?

00:24:34.220 So probably if you just

00:24:35.920 went where the water source

00:24:37.100 is good,

00:24:38.320 you'd be okay.

00:24:39.500 Now,

00:24:39.740 have you seen

00:24:40.080 the inventions

00:24:40.820 that will take

00:24:42.320 moisture out of the air,

00:24:44.560 even in the desert?

00:24:46.360 How many of you

00:24:46.900 have seen that?

00:24:47.540 I don't know

00:24:48.160 how commercialized

00:24:50.080 that is.

00:24:50.620 But it's a thing.

00:24:51.520 It's a device

00:24:52.320 that sucks moisture

00:24:53.900 out of the air

00:24:54.440 and actually can create

00:24:55.720 a fair amount

00:24:57.240 of drinking water.

00:24:59.820 And so,

00:25:00.320 here's what I imagine

00:25:01.800 will happen.

00:25:04.360 I imagine that

00:25:05.460 the small home industry

00:25:07.660 will get somebody

00:25:09.900 building the infrastructure

00:25:11.120 part of the home

00:25:12.000 and then other people

00:25:13.680 building the walls

00:25:14.860 and windows and doors.

00:25:15.840 So the infrastructure

00:25:17.600 would be like

00:25:18.600 a Tesla battery

00:25:19.760 with solar panels,

00:25:22.340 some kind of

00:25:22.840 a Bill Gates toilet

00:25:24.260 so you don't need

00:25:25.320 actual sewage.

00:25:27.760 So Bill Gates

00:25:28.860 was developing

00:25:29.580 this toilet

00:25:30.520 for Africa

00:25:31.160 where somehow

00:25:32.740 it just recycles

00:25:33.680 everything

00:25:34.040 and it just doesn't

00:25:35.320 need to be connected

00:25:36.040 to the grid.

00:25:37.400 So if you get

00:25:37.960 your electric

00:25:38.480 off the grid,

00:25:39.680 you could get

00:25:40.220 your toilet

00:25:40.760 off the grid.

00:25:41.920 I don't know

00:25:42.420 how much of your

00:25:43.060 other sewage,

00:25:43.800 maybe all of it.

00:25:44.600 And then you

00:25:47.760 would want to

00:25:48.180 get your water

00:25:48.940 off the grid

00:25:49.660 and it's possible

00:25:51.500 that maybe

00:25:53.300 some future

00:25:54.000 version of this

00:25:54.800 device that

00:25:55.440 sucks moisture

00:25:56.160 out of the air

00:25:56.780 could be enough.

00:25:59.240 Maybe you could

00:25:59.940 just have that

00:26:00.440 thing working

00:26:01.400 all night long

00:26:02.120 producing water

00:26:02.960 and you fill up

00:26:04.220 your tank

00:26:04.680 and that's all

00:26:05.300 you need for the day.

00:26:06.000 So roads,

00:26:09.740 you would need

00:26:10.240 roads,

00:26:11.480 but you would

00:26:13.420 only need one

00:26:14.200 major road

00:26:15.100 to the

00:26:16.680 development.

00:26:18.920 And then once

00:26:19.540 in the development,

00:26:20.440 you wouldn't need

00:26:21.100 roads beyond

00:26:22.200 what electric

00:26:23.120 vehicles could do

00:26:24.080 to deliver stuff

00:26:24.960 back and forth.

00:26:25.780 But I guess you'd

00:26:26.320 need to bring in

00:26:27.760 some refrigerators

00:26:29.520 now and then,

00:26:30.160 so I guess you'd

00:26:30.980 need to be able

00:26:31.380 to deliver.

00:26:32.180 You need to

00:26:37.080 purify waste

00:26:38.120 now.

00:26:41.420 Anyway,

00:26:42.440 but I could

00:26:43.340 see that we

00:26:44.140 would have

00:26:44.540 indoor farms,

00:26:46.320 so you'd get

00:26:47.340 rid of all

00:26:47.740 your pesticide

00:26:48.900 and problems

00:26:49.620 like that,

00:26:50.840 all your

00:26:51.960 weather problems.

00:26:53.780 So you

00:26:55.640 probably would

00:26:56.300 have passive

00:26:58.240 cooling,

00:26:59.740 so the air

00:27:00.840 would probably

00:27:01.200 be flowing

00:27:01.680 through tunnels

00:27:02.440 or through

00:27:03.000 berms or

00:27:03.620 something.

00:27:05.780 So anyway,

00:27:06.700 you could imagine

00:27:07.300 that you could

00:27:07.780 get the cost

00:27:08.280 down by 80%

00:27:09.180 and the lifestyle

00:27:10.440 up by 500%.

00:27:13.120 And that,

00:27:15.460 ladies and

00:27:16.400 gentlemen,

00:27:17.260 plus legal

00:27:17.960 cannabis is

00:27:19.240 everything you

00:27:19.760 need.

00:27:20.880 You know,

00:27:21.500 aquaponics,

00:27:23.980 are you talking

00:27:24.740 about fish

00:27:27.060 farms or

00:27:28.220 hydroponics?

00:27:31.680 hydro?

00:27:35.700 I think fish

00:27:39.220 farms tend

00:27:39.860 to be a

00:27:40.540 kind of a

00:27:41.880 nasty way

00:27:42.740 to grow

00:27:44.620 food.

00:27:45.720 I'm surprised

00:27:46.320 that nobody's

00:27:46.840 made a fish

00:27:47.360 farm that

00:27:47.940 doesn't recycle

00:27:49.420 the waste

00:27:49.960 that's in the

00:27:50.660 fish farm

00:27:51.660 more effectively.

00:27:53.260 It seems like

00:27:54.080 that would be

00:27:54.380 an obvious

00:27:54.760 thing.

00:27:55.020 yeah,

00:27:56.220 tilapia is

00:27:56.880 just,

00:27:58.180 I used to

00:27:59.160 eat a lot

00:27:59.480 of tilapia

00:28:00.140 until I

00:28:00.800 found out

00:28:01.740 about it.

00:28:03.960 I won't be

00:28:06.660 eating any more

00:28:07.260 tilapia.

00:28:12.740 Fish farm

00:28:13.580 water is

00:28:14.080 great fertilizer.

00:28:14.960 Is that true?

00:28:16.960 So if you

00:28:18.380 had a fish

00:28:19.420 farm and

00:28:21.240 a vegetable

00:28:22.780 farm, you

00:28:24.560 could use

00:28:25.000 the fish

00:28:25.900 waste to,

00:28:29.200 now what

00:28:29.580 do you feed

00:28:29.940 the fish?

00:28:31.300 You feed the

00:28:32.160 fish on the

00:28:32.660 fish, right?

00:28:36.540 Can you feed

00:28:37.400 the fish the

00:28:38.100 waste that you

00:28:38.920 don't use from

00:28:39.660 the vegetables?

00:28:42.640 Or do they

00:28:43.420 have to eat

00:28:43.960 something alive?

00:28:45.700 So could

00:28:48.720 you have,

00:28:50.400 obviously

00:28:51.040 somebody's

00:28:51.640 thought of

00:28:51.900 this.

00:28:53.260 So is there

00:28:53.880 a fish that

00:28:54.620 would eat

00:28:55.100 the parts

00:28:58.360 of the

00:28:58.820 plant that

00:28:59.480 we don't

00:28:59.820 want?

00:29:02.040 Like the

00:29:02.820 corn cobs

00:29:03.960 and the stuff

00:29:04.420 you don't

00:29:04.720 want?

00:29:05.260 Could you

00:29:05.560 feed your

00:29:05.920 fish with

00:29:06.260 that?

00:29:08.520 No, they

00:29:09.300 eat a mush

00:29:10.420 of what?

00:29:11.720 I don't know,

00:29:12.180 it feels like

00:29:12.580 you could.

00:29:14.720 I've got a

00:29:15.400 feeling that

00:29:15.680 something like

00:29:16.280 that's going

00:29:16.600 to happen.

00:29:17.640 All right,

00:29:17.880 well, today

00:29:18.360 was the day

00:29:19.060 we are not

00:29:19.640 going to talk

00:29:20.000 about any

00:29:20.480 sad news.

00:29:22.100 We're just

00:29:22.720 chatting because

00:29:23.520 I know that

00:29:24.460 you like to

00:29:26.660 be here at

00:29:27.100 this time of

00:29:27.600 day.

00:29:28.140 Now, is there

00:29:28.580 anything else

00:29:29.120 that is not

00:29:30.640 sad and tragic

00:29:31.560 that we could

00:29:32.040 talk about?

00:29:33.460 Can we talk

00:29:34.020 about how

00:29:34.960 awesome your

00:29:35.560 weekend is

00:29:36.160 going to be?

00:29:37.360 The golden

00:29:38.100 age?

00:29:40.960 I really

00:29:41.600 think that

00:29:42.080 the building

00:29:43.720 industry is

00:29:44.620 going to

00:29:44.820 have such

00:29:45.320 a golden

00:29:47.500 age that

00:29:48.700 it will

00:29:48.880 drive

00:29:49.180 everything.

00:29:51.680 Because,

00:29:52.320 well, I

00:29:52.740 don't believe

00:29:53.320 that housing,

00:29:54.520 this is ironic,

00:29:56.160 the one thing

00:29:56.980 that I don't

00:29:57.560 think better

00:29:58.300 housing will

00:29:58.900 fix and

00:29:59.840 cheaper

00:30:00.120 housing,

00:30:01.160 what's the

00:30:01.580 one thing

00:30:01.980 it won't

00:30:02.280 fix?

00:30:05.120 Homelessness,

00:30:06.140 ironically.

00:30:07.640 It's the one

00:30:08.180 thing it won't

00:30:08.640 fix.

00:30:09.940 Because what

00:30:10.520 causes homelessness

00:30:11.340 is people

00:30:11.920 who don't

00:30:12.240 want to be

00:30:12.580 in a home

00:30:13.000 for the

00:30:13.660 most part

00:30:14.120 because they're

00:30:15.060 on drugs

00:30:15.580 or they have

00:30:16.440 mental problems.

00:30:17.700 It's not a

00:30:18.460 lack of

00:30:18.940 physical space

00:30:20.200 or economics,

00:30:21.580 it's people

00:30:22.060 who literally

00:30:22.620 don't want to

00:30:23.440 be indoors

00:30:23.920 because they

00:30:25.120 don't want

00:30:25.420 those restrictions.

00:30:30.880 This housing

00:30:31.640 idea hinges

00:30:32.260 on nuclear

00:30:32.840 power availability.

00:30:34.240 Well, that

00:30:34.580 would help,

00:30:35.280 but it doesn't

00:30:35.860 hinge on it.

00:30:37.560 I think if

00:30:38.500 you had your

00:30:39.000 own Tesla

00:30:40.840 batteries

00:30:41.400 and a

00:30:43.640 very

00:30:44.220 energy

00:30:45.060 efficient

00:30:45.540 place

00:30:46.240 and solar

00:30:47.560 panels,

00:30:48.740 I think

00:30:49.100 you could

00:30:49.380 live off

00:30:50.760 the grid.

00:30:51.500 We're probably

00:30:52.040 80% of the

00:30:53.240 way toward

00:30:53.920 having a

00:30:54.920 house that

00:30:55.300 can live

00:30:55.680 off the

00:30:56.040 grid

00:30:56.320 productively

00:30:57.500 and really

00:30:58.820 economically.

00:31:00.360 I know

00:31:00.960 people make

00:31:01.520 it work,

00:31:02.360 but I think

00:31:02.700 you have to

00:31:03.020 work at

00:31:03.600 it.

00:31:04.920 But we're

00:31:05.300 pretty close

00:31:05.980 to making

00:31:06.340 it just a

00:31:06.820 kit,

00:31:07.220 aren't we,

00:31:07.580 to live

00:31:07.980 off the

00:31:08.320 grid?

00:31:10.840 say

00:31:13.600 gridder?

00:31:15.620 Is that

00:31:16.760 like the

00:31:17.260 bad name

00:31:19.420 for somebody

00:31:19.880 who lives

00:31:20.260 on the

00:31:21.080 grid or

00:31:21.420 off the

00:31:21.720 grid?

00:31:24.640 There's

00:31:25.080 not enough

00:31:25.480 electricity for

00:31:26.600 everyone using

00:31:27.400 it for cars,

00:31:28.140 et cetera.

00:31:28.680 Well, that's

00:31:29.080 why the

00:31:29.940 community would

00:31:30.600 have to make

00:31:31.100 its own

00:31:31.420 electricity,

00:31:32.440 both for

00:31:33.700 your

00:31:34.180 transportation

00:31:35.180 as well

00:31:37.280 as your

00:31:37.540 house.

00:31:37.780 Yeah,

00:31:42.100 you're

00:31:44.280 seeing more

00:31:44.760 and more

00:31:45.220 energy around

00:31:47.140 the small

00:31:47.600 nuclear plants,

00:31:48.600 right?

00:31:50.020 Almost every

00:31:50.900 day now you're

00:31:51.460 seeing positive

00:31:52.300 articles about

00:31:52.980 nuclear energy.

00:31:54.480 Have you

00:31:54.760 noticed that?

00:31:56.100 That the

00:31:56.840 coverage of

00:31:57.680 nuclear energy,

00:31:59.280 I'd say in

00:31:59.900 the last

00:32:00.600 six months,

00:32:04.260 correct me if

00:32:05.020 I'm wrong,

00:32:06.300 in the last

00:32:06.780 six months,

00:32:07.660 every story

00:32:08.320 about nuclear

00:32:08.940 power has

00:32:09.540 been positive.

00:32:11.780 Yes or

00:32:12.400 no?

00:32:13.380 Last six

00:32:14.060 months, every

00:32:14.800 story about

00:32:15.460 nuclear energy

00:32:16.200 has been

00:32:16.520 positive.

00:32:18.300 Right?

00:32:19.100 And there

00:32:19.360 have been a

00:32:19.640 lot of

00:32:19.920 them.

00:32:20.400 And they're

00:32:20.740 all about

00:32:21.100 breakthroughs,

00:32:21.940 and something's

00:32:22.500 approved, and

00:32:23.320 old plants are

00:32:24.560 being opened

00:32:25.000 up, and

00:32:25.640 they found

00:32:26.640 new ways to

00:32:27.400 convert fuel,

00:32:28.520 and there's

00:32:29.220 a new fusion

00:32:29.960 record being

00:32:31.660 set.

00:32:33.380 Yeah.

00:32:33.700 Yeah.

00:32:36.780 And I feel

00:32:40.020 like collectively

00:32:42.660 we were part

00:32:44.220 of a very

00:32:45.720 large project

00:32:46.560 to make that

00:32:47.100 happen.

00:32:48.360 So do any

00:32:49.020 of you feel

00:32:49.540 any ownership

00:32:52.120 of that?

00:32:54.780 You know, it's

00:32:55.840 hard to say how

00:32:56.400 much any one

00:32:57.120 effect makes,

00:32:58.100 but I feel

00:32:58.520 like you were

00:33:00.120 a well-informed

00:33:01.080 group and

00:33:02.200 probably had a

00:33:02.980 lot to do

00:33:03.440 with spreading

00:33:04.040 the word.

00:33:05.960 Because there

00:33:07.360 was probably

00:33:07.840 a five to

00:33:10.560 ten year

00:33:11.060 time lag

00:33:11.900 between when

00:33:13.400 nuclear just

00:33:14.720 made complete

00:33:15.580 sense, and

00:33:17.160 when people

00:33:17.620 realized it.

00:33:19.160 Because I

00:33:19.800 think nuclear

00:33:20.260 had to, you

00:33:21.320 know, mature

00:33:22.140 just a little

00:33:22.740 bit to solve

00:33:23.800 the risk

00:33:25.000 problems and

00:33:25.780 solve the

00:33:26.240 waste problems,

00:33:27.840 et cetera.

00:33:28.680 And now that

00:33:29.280 it has,

00:33:31.740 and now that

00:33:32.220 it has, it

00:33:33.600 just took a

00:33:34.020 while for the

00:33:34.600 public to

00:33:35.220 figure it

00:33:35.600 out, and

00:33:36.460 then the

00:33:38.340 politicians.

00:33:46.520 Is housing

00:33:47.340 the new

00:33:47.740 thing?

00:33:48.060 I think so.

00:33:49.020 I think housing

00:33:49.760 is the next

00:33:50.320 thing.

00:33:50.820 And here's

00:33:51.180 why.

00:33:51.880 You have all

00:33:52.560 these enormous

00:33:53.200 companies.

00:33:54.060 This is, by

00:33:54.480 the way, this

00:33:54.860 was Professor

00:33:56.340 Scott Galloway's

00:33:57.540 insight.

00:33:59.740 Companies that

00:34:00.500 are as big

00:34:01.000 as Apple,

00:34:03.100 they can't

00:34:03.900 do a small

00:34:04.500 product.

00:34:06.140 So they

00:34:06.760 can't say,

00:34:07.260 all right,

00:34:07.580 next we're

00:34:08.180 going to

00:34:08.280 make the

00:34:08.640 pencil

00:34:08.960 sharpener,

00:34:10.360 that's the

00:34:10.740 Apple pencil

00:34:11.360 sharpener,

00:34:12.600 because the

00:34:13.160 total worldwide

00:34:14.340 market for

00:34:15.020 pencil sharpeners

00:34:15.860 is too small.

00:34:17.260 So if you're

00:34:17.940 Apple, you've

00:34:18.460 got to bite

00:34:18.940 off entire

00:34:19.960 industries, like

00:34:21.220 the big ones.

00:34:22.860 So one of

00:34:23.780 those thoughts

00:34:24.240 is that Apple

00:34:24.860 will take on

00:34:25.540 education, for

00:34:26.460 example.

00:34:27.960 But housing is

00:34:28.940 another one, or

00:34:29.740 cars.

00:34:30.660 You know, you

00:34:30.920 would expect

00:34:31.460 Apple is going

00:34:32.860 to make a

00:34:33.160 self-driving

00:34:33.680 car at some

00:34:34.260 point.

00:34:34.840 It almost

00:34:35.320 has to, because

00:34:36.880 it has to

00:34:37.300 take on

00:34:37.660 gigantic markets.

00:34:39.360 Likewise,

00:34:40.520 Amazon, Amazon

00:34:42.360 sort of had to

00:34:43.500 get into the

00:34:44.040 grocery business,

00:34:45.380 you know, the

00:34:45.800 Whole Foods

00:34:46.660 sort of model.

00:34:48.240 They sort of

00:34:48.680 had to, because

00:34:50.160 there's not that

00:34:51.040 much left that's

00:34:51.880 big enough for

00:34:53.040 an Amazon to

00:34:54.060 absorb and

00:34:55.740 make money

00:34:56.120 from.

00:34:59.740 All right, I'm

00:35:04.820 just looking at

00:35:05.260 some of your

00:35:05.640 comments.

00:35:08.600 Can we

00:35:08.960 reprogram ourselves

00:35:10.000 to be more

00:35:10.340 attracted to

00:35:10.840 our partners?

00:35:13.000 Oh, so I'm

00:35:13.620 asking, can we

00:35:14.320 reprogram ourselves

00:35:15.600 to be more

00:35:17.000 attracted to our

00:35:17.940 partners?

00:35:19.160 And the answer

00:35:19.940 is, your

00:35:22.100 partner can

00:35:22.840 program you to

00:35:24.480 be more

00:35:24.880 attracted to

00:35:25.580 them.

00:35:25.840 it would be

00:35:28.040 really hard to

00:35:28.760 just sort of

00:35:29.320 talk yourself

00:35:30.140 into it.

00:35:31.320 I mean, you

00:35:31.640 could, but that

00:35:32.680 would be the

00:35:33.060 hard way.

00:35:34.120 The better way

00:35:34.940 would be for

00:35:36.700 each of you to

00:35:37.480 learn how to

00:35:38.240 make the other

00:35:39.780 one more

00:35:40.300 attractive.

00:35:41.380 And how hard

00:35:42.420 would that be?

00:35:43.800 Well, you

00:35:44.760 would just pair

00:35:45.580 something that

00:35:47.400 you both like

00:35:48.200 with each other.

00:35:50.180 So the more

00:35:50.760 things you do

00:35:51.460 that is just

00:35:52.600 naturally

00:35:53.160 stimulating and

00:35:54.780 fun,

00:35:55.840 as paired

00:35:56.420 with each

00:35:56.800 other, the

00:35:57.160 more you're

00:35:58.120 going to be

00:35:58.360 attracted to

00:35:58.840 each other.

00:35:59.600 And the more

00:36:00.080 you spend

00:36:00.500 doing unpleasant

00:36:02.160 things together,

00:36:03.300 the less you

00:36:03.920 will be

00:36:04.160 attracted.

00:36:05.100 And you'll

00:36:05.420 think there's

00:36:06.400 some kind of

00:36:06.800 natural force.

00:36:09.120 You know, it's

00:36:09.360 like, oh, we're

00:36:09.860 just getting used

00:36:10.340 to each other.

00:36:11.100 No, it's

00:36:12.120 because when you

00:36:12.700 met, you went

00:36:13.480 on dates.

00:36:15.500 Right?

00:36:16.340 When you first

00:36:16.920 met, you went

00:36:17.360 on dates.

00:36:18.420 And you were

00:36:19.020 thinking, ah,

00:36:19.760 tonight's the

00:36:20.260 night.

00:36:20.620 I think we're

00:36:21.040 going to do

00:36:21.380 it tonight.

00:36:22.580 And it was

00:36:23.200 all good.

00:36:23.920 And then you

00:36:24.380 got together,

00:36:25.020 there, and

00:36:25.780 then what

00:36:26.060 do you

00:36:26.220 do?

00:36:27.980 Whose turn

00:36:29.520 is it to

00:36:30.100 clean up the

00:36:31.040 cat's vomit

00:36:32.500 from the

00:36:32.960 rug?

00:36:34.580 I'll get

00:36:35.320 it.

00:36:36.200 All right.

00:36:36.880 If you're

00:36:37.340 doing that,

00:36:37.880 I'll pick up

00:36:39.160 some groceries.

00:36:39.820 So basically,

00:36:43.180 you go from

00:36:45.100 pairing your

00:36:45.740 partner with

00:36:46.580 sex and

00:36:47.920 good food and

00:36:49.100 smelling good

00:36:50.640 and having a

00:36:51.700 shower and

00:36:52.580 everything that

00:36:53.940 feels good.

00:36:55.740 That's what you

00:36:56.280 paired them with

00:36:56.900 when you started.

00:36:57.840 And then as

00:36:58.740 soon as you

00:36:59.220 lock them in,

00:37:01.560 you start pairing

00:37:02.760 them with the

00:37:03.460 most awful

00:37:04.240 things, like

00:37:05.880 pain and

00:37:06.780 medical problems

00:37:08.320 and talking

00:37:09.740 about all

00:37:10.900 your problems

00:37:11.560 for the day

00:37:12.260 and all

00:37:13.600 your coworkers

00:37:14.300 are evil

00:37:15.160 and blah,

00:37:16.260 blah.

00:37:16.860 And then

00:37:17.180 every time you

00:37:17.640 see the face

00:37:18.320 of your

00:37:18.660 partner, what

00:37:19.840 do you think?

00:37:21.080 Ooh, yeah.

00:37:22.820 No.

00:37:23.660 After a while,

00:37:24.520 your partner

00:37:24.940 can wear you

00:37:25.700 down.

00:37:26.980 They'll wear

00:37:27.540 you down.

00:37:28.980 And there's

00:37:30.040 nothing but time

00:37:30.900 and focus and

00:37:31.660 repetition.

00:37:32.080 If you

00:37:34.500 pair people

00:37:35.920 with positive

00:37:36.600 thoughts, they

00:37:38.060 become more

00:37:38.800 appealing in

00:37:39.320 your mind.

00:37:39.820 If you pair

00:37:40.260 them with

00:37:40.660 negative thoughts

00:37:41.640 and actions,

00:37:42.740 over time, it

00:37:44.160 all becomes

00:37:44.640 one thing.

00:37:51.560 Then you

00:37:52.260 let yourself

00:37:52.760 go.

00:37:53.280 Yeah.

00:37:53.520 Somebody says

00:37:54.040 then you let

00:37:54.500 yourself go

00:37:55.180 because how

00:37:56.900 much work are

00:37:57.920 you going to

00:37:58.220 put into

00:37:58.800 preparing yourself

00:37:59.900 to take out

00:38:01.300 the garbage

00:38:01.800 and mow

00:38:03.200 the lawn

00:38:03.700 or whatever

00:38:04.020 you're doing.

00:38:05.540 So you'll

00:38:06.400 get ready for

00:38:06.920 a date, but

00:38:08.440 you're not

00:38:08.720 going to put

00:38:09.060 on your

00:38:09.360 nice shirt

00:38:09.900 to mow

00:38:10.420 the lawn

00:38:10.900 necessarily.

00:38:12.520 So, yeah.

00:38:14.180 The reason

00:38:16.120 that things

00:38:16.600 turn out the

00:38:17.180 way things

00:38:17.620 turn out is

00:38:19.340 because people

00:38:20.060 act the way

00:38:20.600 they act.

00:38:21.880 If they were

00:38:22.700 conscious about

00:38:23.700 the fact that

00:38:24.840 every time they

00:38:25.440 pair a negative

00:38:26.280 with a positive,

00:38:27.660 those two things

00:38:29.080 are going to

00:38:29.380 start conflating.

00:38:29.900 as long as

00:38:32.080 you know

00:38:32.340 that, you

00:38:33.580 can manage

00:38:34.120 your mind

00:38:34.740 and the

00:38:35.200 mind of

00:38:35.600 your partner

00:38:36.120 productively.

00:38:39.000 I bet you

00:38:39.520 didn't think I

00:38:40.040 could answer

00:38:40.400 that question,

00:38:41.040 did you?

00:38:42.880 Why you

00:38:43.480 haven't stayed

00:38:43.980 married?

00:38:46.140 Why you

00:38:46.860 haven't stayed

00:38:47.420 married?

00:38:48.420 Well, I

00:38:49.100 don't think the

00:38:49.580 question of

00:38:50.180 whether someone

00:38:50.900 stays married

00:38:51.800 has, you

00:38:54.160 know, there's

00:38:56.120 only one

00:38:56.580 reason to

00:38:57.100 that.

00:38:58.320 I was

00:38:58.880 thinking about

00:38:59.240 this the

00:38:59.560 other day.

00:39:02.620 And you've

00:39:03.260 heard me say

00:39:03.660 this before.

00:39:04.500 A number

00:39:05.020 of people

00:39:05.400 have expressed

00:39:06.720 sympathy or

00:39:09.520 empathy when

00:39:11.620 they heard

00:39:12.020 that I'm

00:39:12.840 going through

00:39:15.180 a divorce.

00:39:16.860 You know,

00:39:17.080 sort of long

00:39:17.660 process thing.

00:39:19.300 But I

00:39:21.340 always get

00:39:22.000 confused by it

00:39:23.060 because I

00:39:23.840 think, and

00:39:24.660 some of the

00:39:25.460 trolls online

00:39:26.780 have been

00:39:27.880 when the

00:39:28.840 trolls come

00:39:29.360 after me,

00:39:30.160 they like to

00:39:31.140 say, so

00:39:32.140 what about

00:39:32.840 your marriage

00:39:33.360 that fell

00:39:33.700 apart?

00:39:35.080 And I'm

00:39:35.380 thinking, is

00:39:36.680 that supposed

00:39:37.140 to bother

00:39:37.660 me?

00:39:38.680 Because that's

00:39:39.600 just my

00:39:39.980 biography.

00:39:41.740 I'm not

00:39:42.500 really bothered

00:39:43.680 by hearing my

00:39:44.460 own biography.

00:39:45.920 Like, I'm

00:39:46.520 pretty sure I

00:39:47.120 know what's

00:39:47.640 happening in

00:39:48.640 my life.

00:39:49.800 But here's

00:39:50.580 what I don't

00:39:52.100 understand.

00:39:53.100 Why would

00:39:53.560 anybody assume

00:39:54.600 that the

00:39:55.720 end of

00:39:56.100 something is

00:39:56.640 a failure?

00:39:58.380 Like, what

00:39:58.740 is the

00:39:59.060 mindset that

00:39:59.860 says that?

00:40:02.880 Because my

00:40:03.680 mindset is,

00:40:04.680 if it

00:40:05.120 worked when

00:40:06.000 it worked,

00:40:07.600 then that

00:40:08.360 part was a

00:40:08.920 success.

00:40:10.300 And then

00:40:10.720 when things

00:40:11.320 that work

00:40:12.220 stop working,

00:40:13.020 for whatever

00:40:13.480 reason, do

00:40:15.680 you change

00:40:16.360 so that you

00:40:16.860 find some

00:40:17.480 other thing

00:40:18.040 that works?

00:40:18.820 Or do you

00:40:19.360 just keep

00:40:19.720 doing the

00:40:20.080 thing that

00:40:20.400 doesn't work?

00:40:21.020 Is it a

00:40:22.640 failure if

00:40:24.840 you, you

00:40:25.900 know, enjoyed

00:40:26.460 something immensely

00:40:27.280 for some

00:40:27.820 period of

00:40:28.300 time, but

00:40:30.240 then something

00:40:31.520 changes, and

00:40:33.280 then you

00:40:33.540 don't?

00:40:34.820 So should

00:40:35.500 you just

00:40:35.800 keep doing

00:40:36.200 the thing

00:40:36.520 that didn't

00:40:36.880 work?

00:40:37.660 I mean, or

00:40:38.840 must you

00:40:39.860 always fix

00:40:40.560 the old

00:40:40.940 thing?

00:40:42.840 So I'm

00:40:43.360 not sure

00:40:43.660 that there's,

00:40:45.260 I think

00:40:46.500 there's sort

00:40:46.940 of a

00:40:47.260 failure

00:40:47.780 mindset,

00:40:48.980 and then

00:40:49.360 there's a

00:40:50.080 success

00:40:51.340 mindset.

00:40:53.580 And I

00:40:54.620 think you

00:40:55.120 can sort

00:40:55.520 of develop

00:40:56.120 the more

00:40:58.000 productive

00:40:58.820 one over

00:40:59.260 time, simply

00:41:00.760 by reminding

00:41:01.480 yourself to

00:41:02.080 do it, you

00:41:02.520 know, just

00:41:02.880 making it a

00:41:03.420 habit.

00:41:04.660 And I

00:41:05.780 never really

00:41:06.300 see the

00:41:06.660 end of

00:41:07.020 something as

00:41:07.720 a failure,

00:41:09.220 or even a

00:41:10.060 tragedy.

00:41:11.960 Of course, I'm

00:41:13.260 human, so I

00:41:14.360 go through all

00:41:14.860 the same

00:41:15.160 emotions everybody

00:41:15.900 does, but I

00:41:17.060 fairly quickly

00:41:17.860 talk myself

00:41:18.620 out of it.

00:41:20.080 somebody says,

00:41:22.100 why get

00:41:22.400 married to

00:41:22.860 begin with?

00:41:25.160 You know

00:41:25.760 you're going

00:41:26.060 to die,

00:41:26.500 right?

00:41:28.140 Everybody

00:41:28.540 knows that.

00:41:29.960 So why

00:41:30.560 do anything?

00:41:31.780 Why do

00:41:32.380 anything if

00:41:32.840 you're going

00:41:33.060 to die?

00:41:34.620 It's actually

00:41:35.260 a pretty good

00:41:35.740 question.

00:41:36.760 Why do

00:41:37.400 anything?

00:41:38.500 You're just

00:41:38.980 going to die.

00:41:39.640 It's not like

00:41:40.040 it lasts

00:41:40.360 forever.

00:41:41.940 And the

00:41:42.340 best I can

00:41:43.260 come up

00:41:43.640 with is the

00:41:44.140 only thing

00:41:44.540 that I know

00:41:45.380 for sure is

00:41:46.980 that some

00:41:47.380 things feel

00:41:47.940 better than

00:41:48.380 other things.

00:41:50.080 Well, I

00:41:50.360 know two

00:41:50.740 things.

00:41:52.400 I know I

00:41:53.300 exist because

00:41:55.540 I'm asking

00:41:56.260 the question.

00:41:57.320 So there

00:41:57.780 has to be

00:41:58.180 something asking

00:41:58.860 the question,

00:41:59.500 so I must

00:41:59.900 exist.

00:42:01.060 And I know

00:42:01.640 that I

00:42:02.160 have an

00:42:02.500 experience.

00:42:03.200 I experience

00:42:03.720 some things

00:42:04.360 like pleasure

00:42:05.340 and some

00:42:06.420 things not.

00:42:07.800 So I try to

00:42:08.600 get more of

00:42:09.000 the pleasure

00:42:09.340 ones.

00:42:10.700 Basically,

00:42:11.420 those are the

00:42:11.760 things you

00:42:12.100 can know.

00:42:13.560 And everything

00:42:14.040 else is a

00:42:14.680 little bit of

00:42:15.080 an interpretation

00:42:15.640 and a

00:42:16.220 guess.

00:42:18.700 Yeah,

00:42:19.020 and I do

00:42:19.980 believe the

00:42:21.000 most likely

00:42:21.720 explanation for

00:42:22.580 reality is

00:42:23.260 that we

00:42:24.420 are in a

00:42:24.920 simulation.

00:42:26.000 Or I

00:42:26.540 am, and

00:42:27.300 you're not

00:42:27.660 real.

00:42:28.460 Or you're

00:42:30.120 real and I'm

00:42:30.640 not.

00:42:31.260 All those

00:42:31.660 possibilities.

00:42:39.160 Oh,

00:42:39.760 please teach

00:42:40.360 me to talk

00:42:40.900 myself out of

00:42:41.640 the failure

00:42:42.120 mindset when

00:42:43.000 relationships end.

00:42:44.060 Oh, easy.

00:42:44.520 easy.

00:42:46.740 Why is it

00:42:47.360 your fault?

00:42:49.540 Why is the

00:42:50.260 end of a

00:42:50.640 relationship

00:42:51.100 your fault?

00:42:53.540 There's no

00:42:54.100 real logic to

00:42:54.740 that.

00:42:54.940 It's just

00:42:55.200 something we

00:42:55.660 feel.

00:42:56.900 Why can't

00:42:57.560 you just

00:42:57.860 say, you

00:43:00.500 know, mashed

00:43:01.260 potatoes and

00:43:03.200 a nail?

00:43:05.500 They don't

00:43:06.100 go together,

00:43:06.680 right?

00:43:07.380 Like if you

00:43:07.880 wanted to

00:43:08.260 pound a nail

00:43:08.920 into a

00:43:09.460 board, you

00:43:10.540 would need

00:43:10.800 something

00:43:11.080 harder like

00:43:11.680 a hammer.

00:43:12.660 But that

00:43:13.000 doesn't mean

00:43:13.400 mashed potatoes

00:43:14.120 are a

00:43:14.560 failure.

00:43:15.860 Does it?

00:43:17.120 Sometimes

00:43:17.620 mashed potatoes

00:43:18.380 are for

00:43:18.800 eating,

00:43:19.820 although maybe

00:43:20.680 not the best

00:43:21.320 thing for

00:43:21.660 you.

00:43:22.540 And a

00:43:23.540 hammer is

00:43:23.940 for hammering.

00:43:24.960 And so if

00:43:25.460 you've somehow

00:43:25.940 managed to put

00:43:26.740 mashed potatoes

00:43:27.480 and a nail

00:43:28.000 together,

00:43:29.560 what, did

00:43:30.120 the nail

00:43:30.560 fail?

00:43:31.460 Or did

00:43:32.080 the mashed

00:43:32.440 potatoes

00:43:32.860 fail?

00:43:34.560 Neither.

00:43:36.120 Neither.

00:43:37.700 Sometimes

00:43:38.260 people change

00:43:39.220 or a

00:43:40.340 situation

00:43:40.740 changes and

00:43:42.020 then things

00:43:42.740 don't work.

00:43:44.100 Do you

00:43:44.400 know that

00:43:44.700 every

00:43:44.960 relationship

00:43:45.520 is going

00:43:45.940 to end,

00:43:46.720 right?

00:43:47.020 One of you

00:43:48.020 is going

00:43:48.320 to die.

00:43:50.380 I was

00:43:50.960 trying to

00:43:51.300 think the

00:43:51.680 other day,

00:43:52.220 what would

00:43:52.600 be worse

00:43:53.160 to have a

00:43:54.740 series of

00:43:55.400 10-year

00:43:56.060 relationships

00:43:56.900 and all of

00:43:58.740 them come to

00:43:59.240 some kind of

00:43:59.720 end that you

00:44:00.480 didn't see

00:44:01.240 coming?

00:44:02.540 Or a

00:44:03.640 70-year

00:44:04.240 relationship and

00:44:05.160 then your

00:44:06.440 spouse goes

00:44:07.140 first?

00:44:07.580 imagine that.

00:44:11.160 One 70-year

00:44:12.560 relationship and

00:44:13.320 your spouse

00:44:13.800 dies first?

00:44:15.300 I can't even

00:44:16.280 fathom it.

00:44:18.340 A 10-year

00:44:18.900 relationship

00:44:19.640 that ends,

00:44:22.160 you know,

00:44:22.460 that'll tear you

00:44:23.140 apart for a

00:44:23.700 while.

00:44:24.460 But I can't

00:44:24.960 even imagine

00:44:25.540 the 70-year

00:44:26.220 one.

00:44:26.740 So when I

00:44:27.200 think to

00:44:27.460 myself,

00:44:27.840 which one of

00:44:28.240 those is the

00:44:28.740 better deal?

00:44:29.920 I'm not

00:44:30.580 entirely sure.

00:44:32.440 I don't

00:44:32.740 know.

00:44:32.880 If you

00:44:34.520 had, you

00:44:35.180 know,

00:44:35.860 several long,

00:44:37.080 longish-term

00:44:37.960 relationships that

00:44:38.860 were all

00:44:39.180 individually

00:44:39.780 awesome for

00:44:40.460 different reasons,

00:44:43.300 maybe that

00:44:44.320 was for you.

00:44:48.020 I also think

00:44:49.160 there's a whole

00:44:49.920 bunch of

00:44:50.280 different alternative

00:44:51.240 lifestyle things

00:44:52.220 going on that

00:44:53.880 if you haven't

00:44:55.620 talked to

00:44:57.660 anybody who's

00:44:58.180 involved,

00:44:59.520 you have no

00:45:00.120 idea how

00:45:01.460 many alternative

00:45:02.240 lifestyles are

00:45:03.120 out there.

00:45:04.560 And by

00:45:04.920 alternative,

00:45:05.540 I mean it's

00:45:06.640 not one person

00:45:07.420 dating one

00:45:07.980 person or

00:45:08.540 married to

00:45:08.960 one person.

00:45:11.340 All the

00:45:12.260 different models

00:45:12.980 of how people

00:45:14.080 relate,

00:45:14.920 they're all

00:45:15.600 more popular

00:45:16.580 as far as I

00:45:17.240 can tell.

00:45:18.260 All the

00:45:18.800 things that

00:45:19.160 people don't

00:45:19.520 talk about,

00:45:20.200 there's just

00:45:20.600 more of it,

00:45:21.420 a lot more

00:45:22.020 of it.

00:45:25.340 There is no

00:45:26.300 one right

00:45:26.920 way.

00:45:31.020 Now we

00:45:31.680 get to

00:45:31.980 the bottom

00:45:32.440 of it.

00:45:36.760 Sometimes I

00:45:37.560 have trolls

00:45:38.180 whose name

00:45:41.020 that they

00:45:41.520 pick for

00:45:41.880 social media

00:45:42.460 has something

00:45:43.680 to do with

00:45:44.160 trolling me.

00:45:44.960 Like they've

00:45:45.460 even picked a

00:45:46.080 name that's

00:45:47.280 specific to

00:45:47.980 trolling me.

00:45:48.640 you know,

00:45:53.580 so this is

00:45:54.320 one of the

00:45:54.800 downsides of

00:45:56.560 being in the

00:45:57.460 public eye,

00:45:58.580 I guess,

00:45:59.520 is the

00:46:01.400 people who

00:46:01.880 just make it

00:46:03.400 their hobby

00:46:03.940 to try to

00:46:04.500 hurt you.

00:46:05.960 Like there's

00:46:06.520 somebody here

00:46:07.060 who took time

00:46:07.720 out of their

00:46:08.100 day to think,

00:46:08.800 okay, how

00:46:10.080 could I hurt

00:46:10.580 this Scott

00:46:11.400 Adams guy?

00:46:12.520 I'll make a

00:46:13.180 fake account

00:46:14.020 and I'll

00:46:15.460 just stalk

00:46:16.660 all of his

00:46:17.280 social media

00:46:18.140 and say

00:46:19.480 stuff that

00:46:21.020 will try to

00:46:21.860 bother him

00:46:22.380 in some way.

00:46:23.440 And I'm

00:46:23.660 thinking to

00:46:24.060 myself,

00:46:25.280 there wasn't

00:46:26.600 anything else

00:46:27.340 you had to

00:46:27.720 do that was

00:46:28.100 better than

00:46:28.480 that?

00:46:30.000 Anything?

00:46:31.480 Of all the

00:46:32.240 things you

00:46:32.580 had to do,

00:46:34.180 that's the

00:46:34.680 one that

00:46:35.000 went ping

00:46:35.860 right to the

00:46:36.400 top of the

00:46:36.820 list.

00:46:38.580 Because I

00:46:39.120 wonder if I

00:46:39.560 looked at you,

00:46:40.100 would you look

00:46:40.500 like your

00:46:41.360 physical fitness

00:46:42.580 was right on

00:46:43.240 point?

00:46:45.940 Basically,

00:46:46.600 you're taking

00:46:47.080 care of all

00:46:47.760 of your needs.

00:46:49.480 I'm sure your

00:46:50.260 career is just

00:46:51.100 going great.

00:46:52.960 Probably your

00:46:53.540 social life is

00:46:54.260 good.

00:46:54.880 Because if

00:46:55.280 there's one

00:46:55.680 thing we can

00:46:56.200 tell about

00:46:56.760 somebody who

00:46:57.800 makes an

00:46:58.800 account just

00:47:00.040 to troll me,

00:47:01.820 one thing you

00:47:02.400 can know about

00:47:02.900 that person,

00:47:04.360 they've got a

00:47:04.900 great personal

00:47:05.560 life, huh?

00:47:06.620 Am I right?

00:47:07.900 That's somebody

00:47:08.680 who's got so

00:47:09.260 many friends,

00:47:10.420 they barely have

00:47:11.220 time for anything

00:47:11.920 extra.

00:47:12.580 so when I

00:47:16.880 see somebody

00:47:17.380 put that much

00:47:18.020 effort into

00:47:18.740 trying to make

00:47:19.460 me sad,

00:47:20.780 I think to

00:47:21.580 myself,

00:47:22.260 I feel like

00:47:23.540 I'm winning

00:47:24.000 this.

00:47:26.300 Because I

00:47:26.920 didn't put any

00:47:27.560 effort into

00:47:28.020 making you

00:47:28.560 sad, well

00:47:29.160 maybe now I

00:47:29.920 guess, but I

00:47:31.380 do it in the

00:47:31.940 spirit of

00:47:32.740 entertainment.

00:47:34.880 Finish him.

00:47:35.860 I'm not sure

00:47:44.580 I'm interpreting

00:47:45.260 that comment

00:47:45.840 right, but

00:47:46.720 the way I

00:47:47.160 interpret it

00:47:47.720 made me laugh

00:47:49.980 anyway.

00:47:52.740 Oh my

00:47:53.820 goodness.

00:47:57.520 Yeah, we're

00:47:58.160 not going to

00:47:58.540 talk about the

00:47:59.340 bad stuff in the

00:48:00.520 news today.

00:48:01.180 we're taking

00:48:02.020 a day off.

00:48:06.620 How do I

00:48:07.440 not let the

00:48:08.120 negativity on

00:48:08.920 Twitter affect

00:48:10.060 me?

00:48:11.480 Well, it's a

00:48:13.300 good question and

00:48:14.040 the answer goes

00:48:14.700 like this.

00:48:15.260 Number one,

00:48:17.340 Twitter is part

00:48:17.980 of my job.

00:48:20.160 I don't know

00:48:20.840 how you would

00:48:21.420 do it.

00:48:22.520 If you were

00:48:23.160 using Twitter

00:48:23.760 entirely for

00:48:24.600 entertainment,

00:48:26.040 I don't know

00:48:26.640 why you'd do

00:48:27.060 that.

00:48:28.100 Really, I

00:48:28.640 don't know

00:48:28.960 why.

00:48:30.420 But for

00:48:31.060 people like

00:48:31.540 me, you

00:48:33.580 need to have

00:48:33.960 a social media

00:48:34.640 presence in

00:48:35.360 order to sell

00:48:36.060 anything, right?

00:48:36.700 If I want to

00:48:37.200 sell a book,

00:48:38.320 if I want you

00:48:38.860 to remember

00:48:39.400 there's a

00:48:39.860 Dilbert comic

00:48:40.500 out there

00:48:40.920 somewhere,

00:48:42.080 social media

00:48:42.960 is basically

00:48:43.740 how one

00:48:44.280 does that.

00:48:45.500 And then the

00:48:46.360 live streams

00:48:47.000 work sometimes

00:48:49.860 compatibly and

00:48:50.960 sometimes opposite

00:48:52.080 of my

00:48:52.560 intentions.

00:48:55.960 So anyway,

00:48:56.580 when I use

00:48:57.620 Twitter, I

00:48:58.980 feel like even

00:49:00.400 if I'm enjoying

00:49:01.240 it, it's part

00:49:01.860 of my job.

00:49:03.800 So I'm not

00:49:04.500 sure I would

00:49:04.920 watch it every

00:49:05.540 day if it

00:49:06.540 weren't.

00:49:06.840 I probably

00:49:07.180 would look at

00:49:08.460 less contentious

00:49:09.440 news sites if

00:49:10.440 I wanted to

00:49:10.920 just catch up

00:49:11.900 on the news.

00:49:13.720 But, so the

00:49:16.420 first way is I

00:49:17.280 frame it as

00:49:18.120 it's just work.

00:49:19.800 And there's

00:49:20.380 always somebody

00:49:20.840 complaining at

00:49:21.500 work, right?

00:49:23.880 Doesn't it feel

00:49:24.600 different if

00:49:25.740 there's somebody

00:49:26.160 you only know

00:49:27.400 in your

00:49:27.640 personal life

00:49:28.420 and they're

00:49:28.940 complaining about

00:49:29.680 you?

00:49:30.520 Well, that's

00:49:31.020 going to hurt

00:49:31.440 you.

00:49:32.540 But if it's

00:49:33.220 just work,

00:49:34.240 like a customer

00:49:35.940 complained,

00:49:37.540 blah, blah, blah,

00:49:38.300 and you don't

00:49:38.680 even think it's

00:49:39.260 a valid complaint,

00:49:40.200 that doesn't

00:49:40.560 really hit you

00:49:41.340 the same way.

00:49:42.500 So some of it

00:49:43.200 is it's just

00:49:43.640 strangers.

00:49:44.340 Some of it

00:49:44.880 is it's just

00:49:45.300 practice.

00:49:47.060 The more you

00:49:47.820 see yourself

00:49:48.420 insulted,

00:49:50.400 the more it

00:49:51.680 doesn't mean

00:49:52.000 anything.

00:49:52.260 It's just like

00:49:52.980 looking at

00:49:53.420 scenery at some

00:49:54.340 point.

00:49:54.560 And I

00:50:00.360 also get

00:50:01.580 lost sometimes

00:50:02.600 in the

00:50:02.960 technique.

00:50:04.480 I'll look at

00:50:05.040 how somebody's

00:50:05.640 coming after

00:50:06.160 me and I'll

00:50:07.340 judge whether

00:50:08.020 it looks

00:50:08.720 successful,

00:50:09.520 relatively speaking.

00:50:10.860 I'll be like,

00:50:11.340 oh, that was a

00:50:11.860 good approach.

00:50:12.720 I also find

00:50:13.760 myself wondering

00:50:15.020 how organized

00:50:16.680 they are.

00:50:18.180 Because we

00:50:18.880 know they

00:50:19.620 were organized

00:50:20.360 trolls and we

00:50:21.140 know they seem

00:50:21.900 to have

00:50:22.240 disappeared after

00:50:23.100 elections.

00:50:24.500 Who knows

00:50:25.180 if that's a

00:50:25.660 coincidence or

00:50:26.320 not.

00:50:27.280 So I have

00:50:27.980 lots of

00:50:28.340 curiosity about

00:50:29.240 the trolls.

00:50:30.620 And I even

00:50:31.440 actually wonder,

00:50:33.520 what are they

00:50:34.180 thinking?

00:50:35.720 The ones who

00:50:36.840 come in just

00:50:38.420 to be terrible,

00:50:40.080 is it really

00:50:40.900 all about them?

00:50:42.900 Are they having

00:50:43.760 a bad life,

00:50:44.620 a bad day,

00:50:45.540 and they're just

00:50:46.100 taking it down

00:50:46.800 on me because

00:50:47.440 they think they

00:50:47.960 can get away

00:50:48.480 with it?

00:50:49.080 Because they

00:50:49.840 don't know me,

00:50:50.400 I'm not going

00:50:50.740 to fight back

00:50:51.280 or something.

00:50:52.260 So I always

00:50:52.820 wonder what is

00:50:54.000 broken about

00:50:54.900 the troll.

00:50:56.600 So here's the

00:50:57.660 first reframe

00:50:58.660 to help you

00:51:00.140 deal with

00:51:01.260 negative people.

00:51:03.320 There are two

00:51:04.040 kinds of

00:51:04.500 criticisms.

00:51:07.340 There are more,

00:51:08.260 but let's just

00:51:08.740 say there are

00:51:09.120 two.

00:51:10.420 One of the

00:51:11.080 kinds that are

00:51:11.620 valid.

00:51:13.420 Have you ever

00:51:13.840 gotten a

00:51:14.320 criticism that's

00:51:15.100 just valid?

00:51:17.400 Hurts,

00:51:17.940 doesn't it?

00:51:18.300 You hear

00:51:20.940 something bad

00:51:21.540 about yourself

00:51:22.060 and you think,

00:51:22.880 well, that's

00:51:23.400 true.

00:51:24.420 Okay.

00:51:25.640 I've got to

00:51:26.300 be honest.

00:51:27.480 Okay, that's

00:51:27.960 just true.

00:51:31.180 I always

00:51:32.400 take the

00:51:34.060 value out of

00:51:34.820 those.

00:51:35.580 Because the

00:51:36.240 thing that

00:51:36.600 punches you

00:51:37.120 in the face

00:51:37.760 is also

00:51:39.480 powerful.

00:51:40.680 That's why it

00:51:41.760 punched you

00:51:42.180 in the face.

00:51:43.100 It's powerful.

00:51:44.580 You can use

00:51:45.360 that power to

00:51:46.240 fix that thing.

00:51:46.980 Just use

00:51:48.520 it.

00:51:49.300 So if

00:51:49.600 somebody gives

00:51:50.280 you the

00:51:50.880 worst criticism

00:51:52.600 and you say,

00:51:53.260 that is true,

00:51:54.940 they've excited

00:51:56.260 that thing in

00:51:57.040 you that makes

00:51:57.540 it easier to

00:51:58.160 fix that thing.

00:51:59.360 So I always

00:51:59.960 think, oh,

00:52:00.860 you just gave

00:52:01.380 me a little

00:52:01.700 gift.

00:52:03.040 Because I

00:52:03.680 wouldn't have

00:52:04.160 fixed that

00:52:04.620 thing otherwise.

00:52:05.880 I wouldn't

00:52:06.280 have had enough

00:52:06.980 energy to do

00:52:07.720 it, but boy,

00:52:08.220 did you fix

00:52:08.700 that.

00:52:09.580 You totally

00:52:10.100 fixed my

00:52:10.660 problem.

00:52:11.980 So the first

00:52:12.760 thing I look

00:52:13.160 at is if it's

00:52:13.840 a valid

00:52:14.480 criticism and

00:52:16.180 I can fix

00:52:17.020 it, that

00:52:18.260 it was a

00:52:18.620 gift.

00:52:20.340 And I've

00:52:20.760 told you

00:52:21.040 before that

00:52:21.480 I actually

00:52:21.860 hear, cha-ching,

00:52:23.940 when I get

00:52:24.560 valid criticism,

00:52:26.500 something I can

00:52:27.160 actually fix.

00:52:28.220 I actually

00:52:28.980 hear like a

00:52:29.640 cash register.

00:52:30.960 Cha-ching,

00:52:31.580 cha-ching.

00:52:32.720 And I

00:52:33.040 actually will

00:52:33.920 replay that in

00:52:34.680 my head, like

00:52:35.760 as a little

00:52:36.140 reminder that

00:52:37.380 every time

00:52:37.780 somebody tells

00:52:38.620 me something I

00:52:39.280 can fix,

00:52:41.040 it's just

00:52:42.880 money in the

00:52:43.340 bag.

00:52:43.940 Why wouldn't

00:52:44.400 I fix it?

00:52:45.460 Thank you.

00:52:46.720 Now the

00:52:47.080 other kind is

00:52:47.640 the kind of

00:52:48.220 criticism that's

00:52:49.020 invalid.

00:52:51.160 Usually they're

00:52:52.020 misinterpreting you,

00:52:53.720 they read something

00:52:55.240 wrong, they're just

00:52:56.140 being bad people.

00:52:58.860 And those kind,

00:53:00.800 I just say,

00:53:01.760 these are just

00:53:02.240 strangers.

00:53:04.140 These are just

00:53:04.820 people with

00:53:05.420 chemical reactions

00:53:06.380 inside their

00:53:07.000 skulls.

00:53:08.320 I'm seeing the

00:53:09.220 output of it,

00:53:10.500 but I'm not sure

00:53:11.120 it has much to

00:53:11.680 do with me.

00:53:12.180 Now the

00:53:13.720 valid

00:53:14.100 criticisms,

00:53:14.800 they have to

00:53:15.360 do with me.

00:53:16.840 The invalid

00:53:17.880 ones have

00:53:18.540 something to

00:53:19.000 do with some

00:53:19.500 other person I

00:53:20.140 don't know.

00:53:21.320 There's a

00:53:21.660 person online,

00:53:22.820 they think

00:53:23.860 something's true

00:53:24.580 that's not

00:53:25.120 true, and

00:53:26.180 they're mad at

00:53:27.120 me because of

00:53:27.920 it.

00:53:28.820 Well, it's

00:53:29.320 hard for me to

00:53:30.140 really take it

00:53:31.500 personally when

00:53:32.960 it's literally

00:53:33.800 not about me.

00:53:35.440 Because the

00:53:36.140 thing they're

00:53:36.500 complaining about

00:53:37.200 generally is

00:53:37.760 some imagined

00:53:38.760 thing, you

00:53:40.000 know, out of

00:53:40.440 context.

00:53:40.920 So that's

00:53:42.380 not something

00:53:42.800 I did, it's

00:53:44.020 something imagined.

00:53:45.800 And then it's

00:53:47.300 a person I

00:53:47.860 don't know, so

00:53:50.160 how much should

00:53:50.660 that bother me?

00:53:52.260 So it's a

00:53:53.140 person I don't

00:53:53.840 know imagining

00:53:54.960 something that

00:53:55.700 didn't happen and

00:53:57.460 then flailing out

00:53:58.560 because they're

00:53:59.160 broken.

00:54:00.360 Because usually

00:54:01.220 there's something

00:54:01.740 wrong with the

00:54:02.280 critic, right?

00:54:03.160 They're broken in

00:54:04.500 some way.

00:54:05.680 So watching a

00:54:06.700 stranger flail at

00:54:09.000 the imaginary,

00:54:10.620 because they're

00:54:11.400 broken, is

00:54:13.740 easy not to

00:54:14.580 be affected by

00:54:15.460 it.

00:54:16.560 You just have

00:54:17.320 to see it that

00:54:17.880 way.

00:54:18.220 So that's a

00:54:18.640 reframe, right?

00:54:20.260 It's just taking

00:54:20.900 the standard

00:54:21.620 thing you're

00:54:22.080 already seeing

00:54:22.600 and just

00:54:22.920 reframing it.

00:54:24.100 Now suppose

00:54:24.900 it's somebody

00:54:27.100 you know who

00:54:28.860 is imagining

00:54:30.040 something and

00:54:30.840 now it's

00:54:31.420 actually a real

00:54:32.060 problem in your

00:54:32.720 real life.

00:54:33.520 Because the

00:54:34.340 imaginary stuff

00:54:35.200 can enter your

00:54:35.880 real life.

00:54:36.480 and it

00:54:37.300 happens all

00:54:37.760 the time

00:54:38.060 with me.

00:54:39.200 Because if

00:54:39.600 you looked at

00:54:40.160 people's, I

00:54:41.540 don't know if

00:54:41.800 you've ever

00:54:42.140 done this, if

00:54:43.160 you've looked at

00:54:43.600 people's

00:54:44.120 criticisms of

00:54:45.200 me online,

00:54:47.140 none of them

00:54:49.040 are true.

00:54:50.900 Actually none

00:54:51.660 of them.

00:54:52.580 Literally none

00:54:53.300 of them.

00:54:54.620 They're all based

00:54:55.460 on something out

00:54:56.040 of context.

00:54:57.300 That if you knew

00:54:58.060 the real context

00:54:58.880 you'd say, oh,

00:55:00.300 that wasn't so

00:55:01.260 bad.

00:55:01.520 So, I

00:55:07.900 don't know if

00:55:08.180 I answered

00:55:08.540 anybody's

00:55:09.080 question there.

00:55:15.180 Why no

00:55:15.920 man cave last

00:55:16.800 night?

00:55:18.160 Sometimes I

00:55:18.960 have other

00:55:19.280 things to do.

00:55:21.100 But I

00:55:21.740 like coming

00:55:22.720 to you from

00:55:23.200 the man cave.

00:55:23.780 I do that

00:55:24.180 only for the

00:55:24.680 locals,

00:55:25.840 subscribers.

00:55:29.880 Did that

00:55:30.460 help?

00:55:32.320 Was anybody

00:55:33.120 helped by my

00:55:34.240 description of

00:55:35.100 why the

00:55:35.440 critics are

00:55:36.760 irrelevant?

00:55:38.160 Chemical

00:55:38.600 reactions in

00:55:39.860 the brain of

00:55:40.320 a stranger over

00:55:41.880 something imaginary

00:55:42.960 that has

00:55:45.020 something to do

00:55:45.660 with them being

00:55:46.660 broken.

00:55:48.180 That's what it

00:55:48.940 is.

00:55:49.620 It's just not

00:55:50.200 about you.

00:55:51.620 You should

00:55:52.080 care about

00:55:52.880 things that

00:55:53.240 are about

00:55:53.500 you.

00:55:54.760 Because there's

00:55:55.440 plenty about

00:55:56.000 you.

00:55:57.140 I'm sure you've

00:55:57.860 got lots to

00:55:58.360 work on.

00:55:59.140 But you

00:55:59.360 shouldn't care

00:55:59.780 about somebody

00:56:00.300 imagining

00:56:00.860 something.

00:56:01.520 So here's

00:56:07.820 a perfect

00:56:10.200 example.

00:56:11.680 So here's

00:56:12.060 the sort of

00:56:12.400 thing I get.

00:56:12.920 So George

00:56:13.560 Siegel over

00:56:14.820 on YouTube

00:56:15.420 says the

00:56:16.240 following about

00:56:16.780 me.

00:56:17.620 Scott's always

00:56:18.320 right and

00:56:18.780 everyone else

00:56:19.320 is just not

00:56:19.960 smart enough

00:56:20.460 to understand

00:56:21.160 like the

00:56:22.040 vaccines and

00:56:22.800 masks.

00:56:23.800 Sheep.

00:56:24.120 should I be

00:56:28.800 concerned about

00:56:30.500 that criticism?

00:56:32.800 So that's

00:56:33.200 somebody who

00:56:33.640 says I

00:56:34.720 believe I'm

00:56:35.240 always right

00:56:35.880 but I

00:56:37.500 happen to

00:56:37.980 know the

00:56:38.300 context which

00:56:39.180 I often say

00:56:39.960 I'm wrong.

00:56:40.380 So it's

00:56:42.400 imaginary.

00:56:43.860 That's literally

00:56:44.480 based on

00:56:45.020 imagination that

00:56:46.040 I always think

00:56:46.660 I'm right.

00:56:47.060 and also

00:56:48.700 almost certainly

00:56:50.200 has an

00:56:51.120 imaginary

00:56:51.760 false memory

00:56:53.400 of what I

00:56:54.680 said about

00:56:55.140 masks or

00:56:55.820 vaccines.

00:56:56.400 I guarantee

00:56:56.860 that part.

00:56:57.780 That part's

00:56:58.220 guaranteed.

00:56:59.220 Now should I

00:56:59.780 be concerned

00:57:00.320 about George's

00:57:01.200 criticism

00:57:01.840 when I know

00:57:03.820 I don't know

00:57:04.420 George.

00:57:05.220 He's a

00:57:05.620 stranger.

00:57:05.940 what he's

00:57:09.040 criticizing me

00:57:09.900 for is

00:57:10.240 literally

00:57:10.640 imaginary.

00:57:13.700 And there's

00:57:14.380 something wrong

00:57:14.940 with him.

00:57:16.380 I don't know

00:57:17.160 what.

00:57:18.040 But the fact

00:57:18.680 that he felt

00:57:19.500 the need to

00:57:20.260 make that

00:57:21.000 comment.

00:57:22.020 Yeah maybe

00:57:22.420 he's just a

00:57:22.960 troll or

00:57:23.400 something.

00:57:24.000 So maybe

00:57:24.400 there's nothing

00:57:24.800 wrong with

00:57:25.240 him except

00:57:25.640 that he likes

00:57:26.520 being a

00:57:26.900 troll.

00:57:27.780 I would argue

00:57:28.660 that is

00:57:29.120 something wrong

00:57:29.680 with you.

00:57:30.860 But how is

00:57:31.380 that about

00:57:31.760 me?

00:57:33.200 Like where

00:57:33.600 like how did

00:57:34.720 I'm not even

00:57:35.480 involved.

00:57:36.680 It's literally

00:57:37.260 imaginary.

00:57:41.760 It diminishes

00:57:42.760 the value of

00:57:43.540 your brand

00:57:44.200 when you have

00:57:44.780 to watch

00:57:45.300 the trolling.

00:57:47.960 Don't know

00:57:48.600 what that

00:57:48.860 means.

00:58:02.540 Oh George

00:58:03.300 says he's a

00:58:04.060 fun troll.

00:58:04.800 He's just

00:58:05.100 trying to get

00:58:05.460 reactions.

00:58:07.780 Scott can

00:58:08.540 you choose

00:58:08.980 who to

00:58:09.280 fall in

00:58:09.680 love with?

00:58:10.800 Yes.

00:58:13.020 Yes you

00:58:13.660 can.

00:58:16.520 Does anybody

00:58:17.240 believe that?

00:58:19.900 You can do

00:58:21.140 it indirectly.

00:58:22.600 In the same

00:58:23.100 way you can

00:58:23.500 control luck.

00:58:25.840 You can't

00:58:26.640 control luck

00:58:27.220 directly but

00:58:28.960 you can go

00:58:29.560 somewhere where

00:58:30.140 there's going

00:58:30.520 to be more

00:58:30.980 of it.

00:58:32.380 So you can't

00:58:33.240 necessarily

00:58:33.700 control exactly

00:58:35.280 who you

00:58:35.620 fall in

00:58:35.980 love with

00:58:36.380 but you

00:58:37.280 could go

00:58:37.760 where there's

00:58:38.280 a certain

00:58:38.580 type of

00:58:39.020 person.

00:58:40.840 So if you

00:58:41.600 went to

00:58:42.480 college

00:58:42.900 there's a

00:58:44.560 pretty good

00:58:44.940 chance you'd

00:58:45.420 fall in love

00:58:45.880 with somebody

00:58:46.320 who's a

00:58:46.860 college student.

00:58:49.240 So if you

00:58:49.680 wanted to have a

00:58:50.480 relationship with a

00:58:51.440 college educated

00:58:52.720 person

00:58:53.180 would that be

00:58:55.460 luck or

00:58:56.120 something you

00:58:56.640 managed?

00:58:56.920 So you can

00:58:57.720 certainly manage

00:58:58.520 down to a

00:59:01.320 type but

00:59:02.640 then there's

00:59:03.700 a little bit

00:59:04.080 of luck

00:59:04.340 involved of

00:59:04.860 course.

00:59:06.580 And then you

00:59:06.980 can also

00:59:07.580 know when

00:59:08.240 to say

00:59:08.540 no.

00:59:09.960 So you

00:59:10.360 could fall

00:59:10.780 in love

00:59:11.080 with the

00:59:11.340 wrong person

00:59:12.000 but be

00:59:13.580 smart enough

00:59:14.160 to know

00:59:14.520 it happened.

00:59:15.440 You know

00:59:15.600 what I mean?

00:59:16.700 And back

00:59:17.640 out when

00:59:18.060 it's time.

00:59:19.660 Back out

00:59:20.260 early enough.

00:59:25.860 Well I'm

00:59:26.400 glad I could

00:59:26.860 help.

00:59:27.100 Los Angeles.

00:59:36.660 It's easier

00:59:37.540 to fall in

00:59:38.060 love during

00:59:38.520 the mating

00:59:39.020 years you

00:59:39.600 say.

00:59:40.020 Yeah probably.

00:59:41.340 I would

00:59:41.600 imagine that

00:59:42.080 we're built

00:59:42.420 that way.

00:59:43.580 Is there

00:59:44.120 oh the

00:59:45.060 amber turd

00:59:45.760 trial I guess

00:59:46.420 is the

00:59:47.820 jurors are

00:59:49.360 on recess.

00:59:50.960 Can you

00:59:51.160 imagine being

00:59:51.680 one of the

00:59:52.080 jurors in

00:59:52.600 that the

00:59:53.200 amber turd

00:59:55.060 thing?

00:59:55.320 That would

00:59:58.460 be so

00:59:59.320 disgusting.

01:00:00.900 Alright well

01:00:01.640 I think we've

01:00:02.100 done what we

01:00:02.540 need to do

01:00:02.940 today.

01:00:03.720 Today we're

01:00:05.420 going to go

01:00:05.860 and have an

01:00:06.680 amazing day

01:00:07.320 and somehow

01:00:10.100 I made this

01:00:10.960 last an hour.

01:00:12.600 I know.

01:00:13.360 I'm surprised

01:00:13.920 too.

01:00:14.760 But I enjoy

01:00:15.580 this time that

01:00:16.100 we spend

01:00:16.420 together.

01:00:16.880 There may be

01:00:17.340 more news

01:00:18.200 that is not

01:00:18.900 the tragic

01:00:19.920 kind.

01:00:20.800 I'm hoping

01:00:21.180 I'm guessing

01:00:22.740 the next two

01:00:23.380 days will not

01:00:24.240 be filled

01:00:24.760 with news.

01:00:25.320 So we'll

01:00:26.380 do the

01:00:26.600 best we

01:00:26.940 can.

01:00:27.760 I'll see

01:00:28.120 you tomorrow.

01:00:29.100 Bye for

01:00:29.580 now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 28, 2022

Episode 1757 Scott Adams： Fix Every Problem In America With Better Home Design. And Mutant Hamsters

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