Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3115 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸16⧸26

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00:00:49.420 Joshua Lysak is our guest professor today.

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00:01:55.240 anytime scott made like an extra noise or a little whatever i just laughed every time

00:02:02.880 i'm sure you guys did too tiger juice it is tiger juice welcome my name is erica welcome to the

00:02:09.560 scott adams school um our guest professor joining marcella and owen and myself is joshua lysic

00:02:17.220 your favorite and mine good morning joshua good morning erica thanks for having me on

00:02:22.700 of course we love it anytime uh so you need to stop the screen sharing we're screen sharing

00:02:28.740 what's happening oh how's that i don't see it how about now there we go okay rumble studio thank

00:02:40.860 you it's monday it's great okay you guys reframe your brain so if you have it with you uh the

00:02:47.680 paperback is page 86. The reframe is called take some chances. I'm just going to quickly read it.

00:02:54.460 We'll discuss it for a few minutes. Okay. So I felt like this was appropriate. There's been a

00:02:58.660 lot going on. Um, and this one I'm doing kind of personally for me. So I hope you enjoy it. It's

00:03:05.720 one of, I know it's one of our favorites. Okay. Take some chances. I talked about conquering

00:03:11.760 embarrassment in the success reframes chapter because immunity to shaming is one of the most

00:03:17.780 useful business and professional skills you can acquire. If you are lucky enough to succeed at

00:03:22.960 anything meaningful, bad people will appear from nowhere and shame you for the way you did it.

00:03:28.000 That's guaranteed. People who are immune to embarrassment have more options in life,

00:03:32.460 and those options are often the high payoff kind. But hardening yourself against shame and

00:03:37.420 embarrassment also has an immediate benefit in maintaining your mental health. No one feels good

00:03:43.220 when they also feel shame. That's why it makes sense to reframe it out of your life. As I mentioned

00:03:49.240 early, a reliable way to become immune to embarrassment is to intentionally put yourself

00:03:53.980 in the embarrassing situations. For example, volunteer to give a speech, sing karaoke in

00:03:59.540 front of coworkers, experiment with your fashion and hairstyle, chat up an attractive stranger,

00:04:04.840 that sort of thing. Don't try to avoid embarrassment, invite it. You'll get some

00:04:09.160 good stories out of it. And each mini shame toughens you up for the next one. So take some

00:04:14.120 social risks, flame out in front of witnesses, repeat. You'll be amazed at how quickly you can

00:04:20.500 murder your ego by ignoring its screaming needs. The usual frame is avoid embarrassment. The

00:04:27.080 reframe, invite embarrassment and use it as a club to kill your ego. If someone asked you to deliver

00:04:34.040 a priceless work of art across the street, you might balk at the suggestion. If you were to slip,

00:04:40.860 trip, get robbed or assaulted, that priceless art might get damaged. How comfortable would you be

00:04:46.220 carrying it? It makes sense to be on high alert to focus on protecting the valuable art. That

00:04:51.480 pressure creates a feeling of anxiety. Now, suppose I asked you to deliver an ordinary potato across

00:04:57.340 the street. If you drop it or damage it, no big deal. It was only a potato. Think of yourself

00:05:03.600 as the potato and not the priceless art. Only your ego makes you think you are worth protecting

00:05:11.160 and being worth protecting is what makes you anxious. If you can abandon the notion that

00:05:16.720 every speck of harm that comes your way must be avoided at all costs, you can better relax.

00:05:22.280 The usual frame, I am a priceless work of art that must be protected. The reframe,

00:05:28.220 I am a potato that is easily replaced. Be the potato. I love this so much. And I really feel

00:05:37.900 like I do my best to live this way and to keep this in my mind. And I really don't get embarrassed.

00:05:45.380 I never really feel bullied. Like when someone's bullying me, like I know they're trying to bully

00:05:51.100 me. And I'm like, I don't care. Like I just don't care. Um, because I know my intentions and who I

00:05:58.100 am. And so the other stuff is just noise. And also living my opinion, living in a day and age

00:06:05.000 with like social media, like X, for example, could be really brutal. Um, you have to just be tough

00:06:12.140 and you just have to let things roll off of you and not be embarrassed. And I think a lot of you

00:06:17.000 have really, really good things to say. You have really good thoughts and opinions. And maybe you're

00:06:22.720 holding yourself back because you're afraid someone might think what you're saying is stupid

00:06:27.020 or what if they don't like what I say? I better clam up and not do it. And I think Scott would

00:06:33.680 challenge all of us to do that thing. Start small if you have to, but do that thing. If someone's

00:06:42.260 laughing at you and you think you're going to feel embarrassed, who cares? They're not going

00:06:46.920 to be thinking about that thing for the rest of their lives. Like you can let it go. They can let

00:06:51.880 it go. We've all seen people do things that could be considered embarrassing. And do you care? Like

00:06:58.040 it's not like you think differently of the person or don't like them. So I just want to ask the

00:07:03.580 group here. I'm going to toss it to Joshua first. Like, is there anything you've done that you were

00:07:08.000 afraid of being embarrassed and you pushed it out of your way? And how did you handle it?

00:07:12.260 Yes. So in 2017, I gave a TED Talk via the TEDx platform. And there were a few ways that I sort

00:07:22.780 of prepared myself for that. So first and foremost, the TED platform, it's sort of the world's most

00:07:29.540 significant platform for public speaking that anyone, quote unquote, can attain and reach. And

00:07:37.060 everyone has a favorite TED Talk. Many of the people watching right now, you've probably seen

00:07:41.040 Simon Sinek's famous TEDx talk, Start With Why, that ultimately became the best-selling book and

00:07:47.560 everyone seems to know who he is in the personal development space, Simon Sinek. It all started

00:07:51.660 with a TED talk. Many people might also be familiar, particularly amongst my generation younger,

00:07:57.140 with the internet marketing guru named Tai Lopez. He also got his start with a TED talk. Many of the

00:08:03.180 famous people that have books on New York Times bestseller lists, month after month after month,

00:08:07.620 they got their start from a TED Talk. I knew this going into the experience and how significant it

00:08:13.820 was going to be to add legitimacy to personal brand perception, especially being a ghostwriter

00:08:19.500 by trade, nonfiction book ghostwriter, and people don't really know who you are. I decided to do

00:08:24.740 the opposite to market myself as to what everyone else was doing. And so I knew how significant that

00:08:30.500 this is going to be and therefore how bad it would look if I botched it. Okay. So here's what I did

00:08:36.280 to, to prepare. I think one of the reasons the ego can get rather noisy in a high stakes situation

00:08:43.940 is, is the, what if concern? What if this happens? What if I do this? What if I say this? What if it

00:08:49.740 doesn't go? What if, what if, what if, what if, and we just sort of spiral into that doom. And

00:08:54.120 then the, well, what if I, what, what if I go out there and I forget, and then you're in the moment

00:08:57.580 and then the lights are on and you can't see the audience and the lights are so bright.

00:09:01.020 knowing what the what a stage experience is like the lights are so bright you literally can't see

00:09:06.260 anything and it's like you know that hundreds to hundreds of thousands of people are all looking

00:09:14.580 at you and you can't see any of them that can be terrifying so here's what i did to prepare for

00:09:21.780 i decided to train my physiology to prepare this is the best advice i can give for men

00:09:29.100 and managing one's ego. Because when you physiologically prepare or otherwise train

00:09:34.420 yourself, you are not going to be overwhelmed. You're going to remain even keel and cool.

00:09:42.180 So what I did is I decided I was going to memorize my TED Talk word for word. It ended up being about

00:09:47.280 17, 18 minutes on the longer side, certainly. But I decided I was going to memorize it word for word.

00:09:54.000 Every little thing that sounded organic, even the uhs and the ums, I was intentionally inserting

00:09:59.680 into my speech. Like it's in the, it's in the script. It's in the transcript of the speech

00:10:02.940 that I wrote. It's all in there. Even though if you watch it, it looks like it's organic delivery.

00:10:07.300 Everything is rehearsed. But where I rehearsed it is key. I rehearsed it in the summertime.

00:10:12.200 I eventually would deliver it in November. I went to, I kid you not, I went to a local

00:10:17.780 mosquito infested swamp. And I, on a little tiny little spit of land in the middle of the swamp,

00:10:24.660 I rehearsed, I practiced my speech. So I was physically, very physically uncomfortable.

00:10:32.100 There's mosquitoes buzzing everywhere. You hear them. There's swamp there. It's rather long walk

00:10:37.560 to get there. I did not rehearse it anywhere else, by the way. I only rehearsed it in the

00:10:41.160 very uncomfortable dismal swamp and often past sundown where it was dark and I couldn't see

00:10:47.760 much of anything. So when I go out there on stage to deliver it, it's relatively comfortable.

00:10:56.120 It's a relatively easier physical space in which to be delivering the speech. And it

00:11:03.500 relatively was a relief. Oh, I'm doing it now. There's no mosquitoes. I can actually see things.

00:11:11.060 There's no frogs croaking or what's that? Things moving out in the swamp and whatnot.

00:11:16.220 on. And it's a climate controlled environment. So the way to sort of skip over the ego and just

00:11:22.780 don't even worry about addressing it like directly and head on in the things that it says,

00:11:27.600 which is what if, what if, what if, what if, simply maneuver your way around that by physiologically

00:11:32.900 preparing yourself for the environment in which you'll need to deliver whatever the delivery

00:11:38.840 looks like. And of course, in my unhumble opinion, I'm going to dial the ego up a little bit.

00:11:45.540 It is a fantastic TED Talk.

00:11:47.460 And even nine years later, I am very proud to send it off to people.

00:11:50.760 Even though I look a lot different now, I'm significantly healthier than I was at that

00:11:55.980 time.

00:11:56.260 I had been vegan for a while.

00:11:58.340 And after 10 years of chronic veganism, I'm no longer suffering and enduring that experience.

00:12:03.900 So fortunately, I would say I look better now.

00:12:06.260 But the delivery and whatnot are still so good that I will still share the video with

00:12:10.320 people if they want to see this highlight of early Joshua Lysak lore.

00:12:14.580 Oh, we'd love to see it.

00:12:15.440 will you post it for us after on your page? Sure. That would be amazing. I love that. Thanks

00:12:21.800 for sharing that. I'm sure the mosquitoes are all the wiser for your practicing out there.

00:12:27.080 Marcella, listen, girl, I know you are a Jocko devotee, so you must be very sharp on these types

00:12:34.520 of things. So are you ever worried about embarrassment or your ego? How do you handle

00:12:40.740 it if you are? So I was thinking of something that Mark Andreessen just said in an interview

00:12:49.220 that I wanted to share with you guys that reminds me of this is that he talked about the great men

00:12:55.300 of history had little to no introspection, meaning that they just went, they just go,

00:13:02.900 go forward, go. And I think part of that, you know, too much thinking about things doesn't

00:13:10.560 lead you to action. So this kind of reminds me of that. You just have to proceed and do it and

00:13:18.020 then not think of being scared, but think of the outcome and not the process. I think that's

00:13:23.380 another reframe. So that's where I would focus on. Where I lost my embarrassment is when I

00:13:32.120 start teaching and uh having 40 kids in front of you that don't care what you have to say

00:13:37.980 uh are doing drugs are just like uh had the worst of parents and all that and grabbing their

00:13:45.380 attention was my um like I just focused on that and being able to get uh to having them not stab

00:13:54.720 me and so that you lose your embarrassment very quickly um when you're teaching people and

00:14:01.920 that's where I lost my embarrassment. I think we need to talk about the school system after this,

00:14:06.980 but okay. It's California. So Owen, tell us what you do. You're

00:14:13.180 also very well-spoken and confident. And do you, I know also from what I know and what we've talked

00:14:21.060 about, you're also a great father. So I'm sure you try to pass these things onto your kids. So

00:14:26.100 how do you handle the fear of embarrassment or fear itself? Or if someone was bullying you,

00:14:31.340 What do you do? Yeah, well, I mean, I it's definitely when I was very young, had these

00:14:37.140 embarrassment issues and, you know, some embarrassing situations. And I think it was

00:14:42.700 basically just trained out of me. I don't even know how much of it was voluntary. Like I,

00:14:49.240 you know, I remember in junior high, I had a speech class and the very first one, it was just

00:14:54.440 so awful. Like it was the worst delivery you could imagine. Like I just almost like you forget your

00:15:00.520 whole speech and you don't know what to say like it was just terrible and that i remember i still

00:15:05.120 have that as like a scar in my memory of being embarrassed and um certainly i got better at it

00:15:10.960 after that but i think um a lot of it was just basically forced experiences maybe starting in

00:15:18.300 college with rotc in the army where you would get rotated through leadership positions and you'd

00:15:25.180 have to like deliver an operations order or you know call the jody march or whatever it is where

00:15:30.320 you have to say things and i would say that was probably a great transitional experience because

00:15:35.760 it's it's kind of like with training wheels because you pretty much know what you have to say

00:15:39.120 so the only real challenge is you're up in front of 100 people and you have to say it but like

00:15:44.760 they can't react they're at you know attention or at ease and like so it's basically a static

00:15:50.800 audience it's almost like you're talking to mannequins and they have to do whatever you say

00:15:54.440 when you give them orders so like there's really nothing there's no way it can go wrong really

00:15:59.200 because you you're you have to prepare they make you do your operations order and so you know

00:16:04.740 exactly what you have to say and you just read it or say it or whatever and it gets done and um so i

00:16:10.540 was basically forced to get comfortable a little bit with public speaking through that process but

00:16:16.240 i was still probably you know pretty rough in terms of just overall public speaking and things

00:16:21.220 like that. And when I, in my second job in consulting, um, the, the guy I was working

00:16:30.060 for, the partner I was working for said, Hey, you're too quiet. I'm going to send you to this

00:16:34.740 Dale Carnegie course and I'll pay for it, but you have to go. And so I'm like, all right, fine. I

00:16:41.480 mean, I didn't really have much of a choice. Right. And so I went to this thing and it was

00:16:44.540 incredible. It was really good. And I know Scott Adams went to the same course cause he's talked

00:16:49.460 about that. And, um, it, the magic of that is that they do force you to do public speaking,

00:16:56.120 but again, they give you a structure. They kind of teach you, okay, you're going to give a two

00:16:59.180 minute talk. Here's exactly what to say, or here's, you know, you can pick a topic, but here's

00:17:03.500 the structure of it. Here's the intro, here's the middle, here's the end. This is what you have to

00:17:07.440 do. And then the other part of it is no one in the audience is allowed to critique it at all.

00:17:13.800 You're not allowed to say anything negative. The only thing you can say is positive feedback.

00:17:18.120 so it's just a totally supportive totally positive environment and I think the whole structure of it

00:17:23.640 gets people out of their shell they you get more comfortable with it just through practice

00:17:27.460 by getting up in front of people you don't know and giving a talk but you know at the end of it

00:17:33.220 they're going to say something good about it they're just going to point out what you did right

00:17:36.760 and so you can work on improving in an environment where there's no critical nature to it there's no

00:17:42.060 negative feedback at all and that really did make a difference I was no longer as quiet and I don't

00:17:47.700 think anyone would necessarily describe me as a quiet person now, but I still am, I would say,

00:17:53.040 an introvert and probably am quiet most of the time when I'm around my wife and things like that.

00:17:58.640 But it made a big difference. And I think it really helped my career from that point forward.

00:18:04.300 And then from there, it was probably just going through all these client experiences where I was

00:18:09.440 expected to be the expert. So of course, I had to talk a lot and I had to lead them through

00:18:13.300 all these processes. And sometimes they were very stressful. Sometimes things go wrong. Sometimes

00:18:17.340 things aren't what you expect and you might have difficult people you're dealing with and I had

00:18:23.120 some clients that swore at me and I had clients that were ready to tear down every idea I had

00:18:29.280 that were Harvard MBAs and I had to engage with them and convince them that I was right when they

00:18:34.020 thought they knew better and that particular client because it was basically all Harvard MBAs

00:18:40.360 and the culture of that client was they were required to disagree with you if they didn't

00:18:44.640 degree and you had to respond to the challenge and if you didn't win the argument then you lost

00:18:52.560 like and if you didn't win early on apparently i would have been probably booted out of there

00:18:56.580 and i got through that and i i survived it and i you know was able to deliver everything we were

00:19:02.440 supposed to deliver and and basically outsmarted a bunch of harvard mbas um and and that gave me a

00:19:08.560 lot of confidence from that point forward i mean honestly every challenge after that it was like

00:19:12.700 yeah, this is easy. It's nothing like what I've been through.

00:19:18.000 Well, that's like what Scott wrote in the reframe. Just start doing the things. And each time you

00:19:23.460 feel that little bit of embarrassment and you push it away, you're just toughening yourself up. And

00:19:28.160 the next time it won't be like that. And the next time, and the next time, and the next time. And

00:19:31.460 before you know it, you've pushed it away. And I think I want to turn it over to Joshua for his

00:19:37.760 lesson for us, but I just want to challenge everybody. Thank you, Owen. And you guys should

00:19:43.100 know that Owen is actually really fricking funny. I've known him for a very long time

00:19:47.580 and don't let that, that stone cold look on his face, that expressionless face fool you. He's

00:19:53.760 very funny. He has a good sense of humor. He can be a little wise ass himself. So it's good that

00:20:00.260 you know that he's just like all of us. So I just want to say you guys, maybe pick something this

00:20:06.940 week that would maybe terrify you or make you afraid and just do that thing. And if you want

00:20:13.420 to involve us, like you could post it either on locals or you could tag us on X, like maybe you

00:20:18.800 want to sing karaoke. Maybe you want to show us what you're learning on the guitar or give us a

00:20:23.700 little mini speech or show us a drawing or give an idea that you never gave before. Do it. You

00:20:29.780 know what I mean? Just do it. I'm not going to mock anybody for, you know, trying to step out

00:20:34.920 of their fear of embarrassment, I think go for it. And the more you do it, the more comfortable

00:20:39.080 you will become. So thank you, Scott, for that. So listen, quick interstitial sip while Joshua

00:20:47.400 is preparing now to give us a lesson. And we're going to turn the floor over to Joshua.

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00:21:28.580 We have the whiteboard joining us today.

00:21:30.740 whiteboard lesson let's sit back and adjust the light so it's a little bit easier to see

00:21:35.580 there i want to show all of you the easiest storytelling framework and it's a perfect

00:21:41.700 day to be sharing this lesson with you because we're talking about public speaking presentation

00:21:46.360 ego and and managing it dialing it up and down um and and whatnot so when any anytime you are

00:21:53.940 giving a public presentation, or you are, let's say, called upon to share an anecdote, or what do

00:22:03.720 you think, or any type of being put on the spot, this framework will prove useful to you in telling

00:22:10.620 a story. It's also immensely useful when you are prompting, let's say you're prompting AI to give

00:22:17.280 you a better story, or you're prompting yourself, or you're teaching children how to tell more

00:22:22.620 effective stories on the fly, and it goes, wow, that sounds really good. How did you pull that

00:22:29.520 off? This is a way of making it look like you've rehearsed your story, but you're just coming with

00:22:36.900 it on the fly. That's what I love about templates, frameworks, is it shows the audience, whether it's

00:22:44.100 one or two people or it's tens of thousands, it shows that you know what the heck you're talking

00:22:48.760 about when you can rattle something up off the fly and it sounds like it's fully prepared that's the

00:22:54.200 power of this particular template and i recognize that this template exists because i was teaching

00:23:01.480 my almost eight-year-old son we were going through some of the uh work let's say non-phonetic

00:23:09.160 spellings specifically like who is obviously not spelled like w-o-o it's w-h-o obviously right

00:23:18.760 And what emerged here was a pattern that I recognized works really well, and so I want to teach it to all of you here at Scott Adams School and give a brief off-the-cuff demonstration to how well this works.

00:23:32.560 So many of us have heard the, let's say, this sort of instructions, directions, who, what, when, where, why, how.

00:23:40.920 We've all heard that, right?

00:23:42.380 That's sort of ubiquitous.

00:23:43.820 Well, the good news is you already know what the storytelling framework is, the easiest one ever.

00:23:48.760 Because you already know who, what, where, when, why, how.

00:23:57.200 Everyone knows these words, right?

00:23:59.040 Everyone's nodding.

00:24:00.160 Those of you at home listening on your devices.

00:24:02.600 Yes, everyone knows these words.

00:24:04.200 Who, what, when, where, why, how.

00:24:05.880 Well, it turns out that these are your instructions for implementing the easiest storytelling framework.

00:24:15.140 so let's use a very simple example here kind of looking or looking around so can someone give me

00:24:22.340 a who just any hypothetical two any hypothetical give me a noun just throw out a noun the postman

00:24:29.460 okay all right so suppose what's that it's like mad libs a bit yes but you have your template here

00:24:40.980 that you can immediately tell something so you could say the postman and then what's the postman

00:24:46.100 doing let's say erica he's singing all right so the postman is singing where is he singing at

00:24:52.820 in his truck the postman is singing in his truck now when when did this happen or perhaps what

00:24:58.580 time of day is it can you give me any of those details just one it was at like 3 45 today all

00:25:04.100 right the postman was singing in his truck at 3 45 today notice how precise that is and it is a

00:25:09.780 a little bit like mad libs but it actually makes sense unlike the mad libs are supposed to be funny

00:25:14.360 this is wildly precise and specific oh this sounds like it's going to be good like what you're

00:25:19.380 describing almost is the inciting incident it's a bit of a one-act play and it sounds like you have

00:25:25.800 gone through several drafts of this already even just from spontaneous okay most of them singing

00:25:31.260 his truck uh at 3 45 today why was he singing he was happy he was happy okay so the postman was

00:25:40.220 singing in his truck at 3 45 today because he was happy all right now the how dimension this i'm

00:25:46.460 gonna put a little bit of an asterisk we're gonna put an asterisk next to the how because there are

00:25:51.340 multiple dimensions we're gonna do this little little aura this is a little aura symbol okay

00:25:56.060 around how god see that see the aura see it yeah you see the aura okay that's the aura of how because

00:26:04.380 when i teach this to my son he might he might originally have gone through this and you know he

00:26:11.420 uh he was he was happy how because he was having fun how do you know he was having fun

00:26:19.420 how could you tell so see the so the questions the question is how it could be asked in different

00:26:27.460 ways how come how did you know how did that come about the how allows that's why it has the aura

00:26:34.160 and the asterisk so you're not exactly saying every single time how it's a sort of a starter

00:26:41.400 phrase hence why it's an asterisk and teaching this especially to children or people who are

00:26:47.560 learning the art of storytelling-based persuasion or hypnosis, which I'm a certified practitioner

00:26:53.340 of and do this professionally. This is a fantastic way to quickly build a sort of parable that you

00:27:00.460 interject suggestions into when meeting with your client or with your patient. And it just turns

00:27:08.080 out the who symbolizes themselves. It's either themselves, the patient, the client, or it's the

00:27:14.560 character that's meant to symbolize them and then what they do in the story and to complete fully

00:27:19.080 the story um one of my mentors said that the best most useful lessons in life are not taught

00:27:27.520 they're caught i mean people simply just receive them without necessarily you intending to do that

00:27:33.840 and they're often best caught through stories so you can intentionally make people believe what you

00:27:40.420 want them to believe by telling the correct story, which is both empowering and terrifying,

00:27:44.940 depending on what your moral compass would dictate. So we now have both women singing

00:27:50.200 in his truck at 3.45 this afternoon because he was happy. So then it's like, how come he was

00:27:56.160 happy? How do we know he was happy? How is that an unusual occurrence at all? Let's say there's

00:28:03.680 So you could have five more paragraphs.

00:28:07.300 You could have five books.

00:28:10.420 People are asking me, asking Erica to put Joshua on full screen so they can read the screen.

00:28:15.260 I saw that, you guys.

00:28:16.620 I'll try.

00:28:17.700 Let me see.

00:28:18.200 It's not going to be pretty, but see, it's going to put me.

00:28:24.320 Okay, maybe I need to talk.

00:28:25.400 Maybe it'll do that little thing automatically.

00:28:27.100 Let's see.

00:28:29.040 Let's see.

00:28:29.900 Is it going to come up?

00:28:30.820 is it gonna sometimes it's like if the person who's talking it'll automatically throw that

00:28:34.340 person's uh concept up on stage but the easiest story selling framework again is who what when

00:28:40.660 where why how and you can start with any any dimension so you could just pick a pick a random

00:28:46.420 character so you can do you know uh winnie the pooh what was what what was he what was he doing

00:28:51.940 where was he doing it when was he doing it winnie the pooh was was fishing down at the creek last

00:28:58.820 night uh it's something it's it's an evening routine he does with christopher robin and their

00:29:04.600 little friend piglet okay and then okay that's that's like a setup but you're not you you need

00:29:12.900 once you get past the setup you need to give us the how so the how is going to be well that's right

00:29:16.900 the how is going to be sort of and uh how this came about how is it different how do we define

00:29:28.540 defy expectations you see the house a lot of fun so in this case with our

00:29:33.160 hypothetical postman story let's let's play with how a little bit here so how

00:29:37.960 how is this different how is this unusual how do you know he was happy you

00:29:43.360 want me to tell you yeah hypothetically just running with this yeah okay cuz he

00:29:48.060 was singing a song that it was his last day on the job and he was retiring

00:29:52.660 because something about a book he wrote with Joshua Lysak just hit the charts

00:29:58.480 was doing really well fantastic excellent and then so what what song was it um he made it up

00:30:06.880 it was just like i'm retiring today and he was like skipping around it was great cool cool and

00:30:13.840 if it's different if it's if it's a different kind of story we could have it be he was singing

00:30:18.160 i don't care by iggy pop as he was crashing over all the mailboxes by the side of the road

00:30:23.040 true yeah that's a different kind of story rather funny but you see how the the how explanation

00:30:30.320 allows us to go off in a number of different directions and can tell a specific type of

00:30:35.280 genre uh story you know you could have you could turn it into a western you could turn into a

00:30:41.280 murder mystery you could turn it into sci-fi fantasy but the the setup is so key and we see

00:30:47.360 this with uh first usually first time novelists debut memoir authors where they will they will

00:30:55.120 not give you a setup they'll try to recount details they'll give us the autobiography

00:30:59.360 of their of their life uh so i was born here at this place so these kinds of parents and

00:31:07.840 that gives your autobiographical details and then they'll really zoom in wink wink on early life

00:31:13.440 uh section let's say and again who who really cares okay that's not getting you much of of

00:31:20.320 anywhere so even in the age of ai when i'm brought in to work with someone on their memoir or their

00:31:25.680 autobiography i will focus in on the how dimension meaning what kind of story is it that you're

00:31:31.600 wanting to tell what what sort of lessons do you want to communicate how do you want to be

00:31:36.160 remembered how do you want to add value to people's lives how do you want people to recommend your

00:31:40.800 book to others. And it's like, oh, you mean I have to be useful? Oh, yes. Sorry, Scott Adams here.

00:31:48.520 And therefore, depending on what the how they want to communicate is, then we'll focus on

00:31:53.800 this setup of it. What was the inciting incident of your life that sent you into your how, so to

00:32:00.880 speak? So then the first chapter might be one of the most important or significant or life-altering

00:32:06.660 episodes of their of their life and we communicate it in these dimensions who what when where and

00:32:12.740 why and then the rest of the book now teaches out the how let's say so if you're writing a book

00:32:19.080 joshua you might start with like that kind of a setup for the first chapter it's all about this

00:32:26.440 build-up yes you could think of it as the inciting incident or the lead-up and if there's not going

00:32:31.980 to be a full story after it and you want to tell a short little like a mini story or a one-act play

00:32:37.660 or relating something uh i could even communicate that by teaching how to give um let's say a panic

00:32:46.800 free speech in front of tens of thousands of people and it's uh i was preparing to give a

00:32:55.860 TED Talk, and I did so at the Humid Maxed Swamp late at night when I couldn't see anything around

00:33:06.140 me, especially not the mosquitoes that were buzzing around me. And the reason I did this

00:33:11.140 was to physiologically prepare for how nervous I might actually feel when I gave the TEDx Talk.

00:33:17.320 And then when I did, in fact, do that, there were no nerves. It was, in fact, relief. And I gave one

00:33:24.840 that quickly went viral and has been stacking views ever since. And there's my one-act story,

00:33:29.960 just from easiest storytelling framework. How do you decide which details of these

00:33:35.880 different aspects to include? Do you kind of follow the Chekhov's gun idea that if you

00:33:40.720 include something that there's some reason you included it?

00:33:45.640 Usually it's to create a multi-sensory simulation in people's heads. The best told stories,

00:33:52.220 I'm not going to say the best stories.

00:33:53.660 The best told stories are ones that can go from your mind

00:33:57.760 into someone else's mind with minimal detail being lost

00:34:02.780 and maximum detail being retained.

00:34:05.740 So it's sort of a knowledge transfer, right?

00:34:08.320 So if you get these five dimensions, you in effect have it.

00:34:11.980 You can imagine me in front of you rehearsing my TED Talk

00:34:16.580 in a swamp late at night and i can't see anything and there's different dimensions of that right

00:34:24.740 and so you can imagine the scene you can visualize it you can with your mind's eye you can hear

00:34:32.260 aspects of it in mind's ear you can feel aspects of it and then the why is oh well that makes sense

00:34:39.920 why are you telling me this why why are we doing this what's the purpose for this

00:34:43.520 get to the point what's in it for me that's communicated by the fifth dimension which is why

00:34:49.960 and then what's unusual about this how did it turn out how did it go you know my my son his

00:34:57.960 his stories all you know when we practice almost daily and his stories will be like let's see i was

00:35:04.500 playing uh let's see so we got the who and then what um at a playground this past weekend um

00:35:11.820 it had been a while since I had seen my aunt, let's say, you know, so now we have the five,

00:35:15.900 five dimensions. And then I would ask like, how did it go? It was fun. How did you know it was

00:35:23.040 fun? Well, because, and then he tells a three minute anecdote, right? So the how is a repeatable

00:35:30.280 question. But I included that with my little, my little TEDx example here of how the talk went.

00:35:37.940 How did it turn out?

00:35:38.960 How did all the stuff that I told you before with the setup, how did it actually go?

00:35:43.640 Now, this can become a full-fledged book just from this one little anecdote with these five

00:35:51.360 points in just a couple of sentences.

00:35:53.160 You can unfold it out from here.

00:35:54.800 So you can sort of scale this up or scale this down depending on how much time that

00:35:59.760 you have.

00:36:00.660 So I could expand, for example, on who it was that I pitched this TEDx talk to.

00:36:07.240 Perhaps I was nervous about this.

00:36:09.480 In the one example, I could talk about how, and I'd given you these details earlier, which

00:36:14.500 I had sort of followed the expanded version of this, an unfolded, longer version, scaled

00:36:20.740 up version of this.

00:36:21.700 When I originally told you this anecdote, this is a scaled down version, which I communicated

00:36:26.940 in roughly three to four sentences.

00:36:28.660 Whereas the first time I told you earlier in the show, it was closer to three to four

00:36:32.340 minutes.

00:36:32.820 so three and also if i wanted to teach this it's the exact same story i could expand it into a

00:36:38.260 three to four hour workshop following all the dimensions of this within it without any deviation

00:36:42.900 that's why i love this and i call it the easiest storytelling because anytime you need to tell a

00:36:47.020 story what's the easiest way to do it whether it's three to four sentences three to four minutes or

00:36:53.100 a freaking workshop three to four hours you come back to these six things every single time and

00:36:57.620 you just add more details to each of them to expand it given how much time you have allotted

00:37:02.800 i love that you guys that's so helpful i i think even um i'm thinking about a story i just told

00:37:11.460 somebody and i was like going through it i'm like did i tell it this way and i feel like i sort of

00:37:16.860 did i could have done some tweaking on it for sure but i think if you hit those elements you

00:37:22.640 know, like I already pictured, I pictured you standing in like this marsh with like chest

00:37:28.000 waders that has suspenders on them.

00:37:30.120 And I pictured you like standing there with a pieces of paper and mosquitoes like swarming

00:37:35.700 all around you and like sweat pouring off of you and just Joshua talking.

00:37:40.840 That's literally what I pictured when you told me that.

00:37:44.100 Fantastic.

00:37:44.700 So you've, so now you have sort of ownership of the story.

00:37:47.620 It's yours, like locked into your mind.

00:37:49.460 This is why everyone always says the book was better than the movie about everything, because the author, the novelist, a.k.a. the literary hypnotist, which is what all novelists are, the literary hypnotists, they create a simulation for you that allows you to, with your own detail, fill in how the characters look, what they look like, how they interact one with another.

00:38:10.900 What does the environment look like?

00:38:12.620 And then when the director and other characters do that, they sort of they sort of give you their version of it.

00:38:16.980 And it's like, well, that's not how it's like, that's not what they did, but everyone else

00:38:21.000 is interpreting it, which is why the book is always better because the book was your

00:38:24.500 own private trance of you doing all of this, given the prompts, the author gave you prompts.

00:38:30.540 You mean like LLM's?

00:38:31.840 Yes.

00:38:32.200 Basically the brain works like artificial intelligence, which is what it's modeled after.

00:38:36.720 Wow.

00:38:37.320 Joshua, thank you so, so much for teaching that.

00:38:40.660 And you guys, you can always follow up with, with Joshua and ask him questions on his ex

00:38:45.320 and he's always available to us which is so amazing thankfully so my pleasure thank you

00:38:52.340 um you guys practice it when you're tweeting too maybe make some posts with those kinds of

00:38:57.760 thoughts in mind um i want to quickly turn it over to owen and marcella so we can hit some news

00:39:04.280 before we just embark so go ahead you guys i don't know who's going first go for it marcella

00:39:11.420 all right um the news we all needed uh the new supreme leader is maybe gay i don't want him to

00:39:20.560 sue me um trump sorry segue segue into news uh trump laughed off a bombshell intel that

00:39:31.720 iran's new supreme leader probably is gay um the new york post is the one reporting this so who

00:39:39.500 knows in a stunning twist amid the scaling tensions with iran president trump brief last

00:39:46.000 week that the u.s intelligence believes the country's new supreme leader mustaba

00:39:50.760 khamenei is likely gay what wasn't last week owen weren't you talking about him being um

00:39:58.540 erectile dysfunction ed this is a problem yeah there's a rumor at least that he was treated in

00:40:05.300 the uk for that at some point so there you go and it was funny too president trump so you can

00:40:10.820 i think you can visualize him uh laughing at the elbow office over this um i think it would be

00:40:18.480 great for iran to have a gay supreme leader i think that would be awesome they could just throw

00:40:23.400 him off the building themselves well that's one outcome but i mean you know it might be part of

00:40:28.320 them turning into more of an open society, you know? Oh, right. Yeah. Maybe a DEI leader.

00:40:34.660 The rumor I heard was that he might be having surgery in Moscow. So that's the other rumor.

00:40:39.440 It's still fog of war. I don't know if it's true, but apparently Israel is claiming that they know

00:40:44.820 where he is. They didn't specifically say where, but then even that article said, by the way,

00:40:50.740 there's this report that he might be in Moscow getting surgery for his wounds from whatever

00:40:55.160 attack he was struck by so we're talking erectile dysfunction gay and missing a leg this is like not

00:41:03.120 good i bet he's single to every girl out there because his wife died in the money if he's single

00:41:10.960 is it a wife or a man that he's looking for we're very confused well his wife did die i

00:41:19.580 oop you muted yourself

00:41:22.760 yeah i don't i don't know if we really know what's going on there i think uh there's still

00:41:30.020 a lot of mute myself with my keyboard that's interesting still a lot of blog of war around

00:41:34.600 all this but yeah interesting that we haven't seen him he hasn't been cited um there are rumors

00:41:40.460 that he's missing a leg and that he's disfigured and that he's having surgery in moscow and

00:41:44.400 apparently that he's gay all right it's a lot a lot going on with him um and the next story that

00:41:51.320 i think owen can take on but i just started with dhs uh funding issues the airport nightmare

00:41:58.320 um there was a picture of people at 3 30 in the morning in one of these main airports that were

00:42:04.920 like in huge lines. The Democrats already take on this whole 2080 or 1090 issue where they side with

00:42:18.340 not funding the HS. The Senate on Friday tried to pass the funding bill, but they're stalling

00:42:25.500 because of ICE. They want guardrails, whatever that means, guardrails over ICE and how they

00:42:32.160 proceed in other states and basically they're not going to allow dhs to be funded which is tsa

00:42:39.680 which is also uh the u.s coast guard and ice as well you know so the main issue is that since

00:42:49.360 it's been since february 14 that tsa agents have not been paid it's not a good combo uh to have

00:42:57.440 have terrorist, Islamist terrorists out there wanting to take over or do a terrorist act

00:43:06.740 while TSA agents aren't being paid and some of them have walked out, which is why the

00:43:11.780 big lines in the airports, if you're flying, I don't know if Josh was flying recently or

00:43:16.480 any of you, but it's going to be chaos at the airport.

00:43:20.200 Owen?

00:43:21.360 Yeah.

00:43:21.940 I mean, I think to me, persuasion wise, if I look at it from that filter, I think the

00:43:26.740 Republicans have the advantage because every time we have another attack, whether it's this ROTC

00:43:33.340 instructor that was killed by an ISIS-linked person or this Michigan synagogue that was

00:43:39.220 rammed into with a car, and apparently that one, and it's also, I think the latest story on that

00:43:43.480 is that that person's brother is linked somehow to the Hezbollah rocket launches. And so every

00:43:50.360 time another story comes out, I think it makes Democrats look like they're just putting us all

00:43:55.160 at risk. And so if I were the Republicans, I wouldn't be compromising right now. I would

00:44:00.180 just be insisting that we need to fully fund all this stuff and that this is the wrong

00:44:03.440 time to be playing games with national security. But I do think maybe the theater will go

00:44:09.940 on a little longer. Things are probably at least minimally functioning. And I think the

00:44:15.840 core functions like the FBI are fully funded. But certainly at some point, we need to make

00:44:20.660 sure we have ICE and TSA and all the other functions fully operational. So I think they're

00:44:27.320 playing with fire on the Democrat side because there could be a really bad attack at any point

00:44:32.800 and they're going to be holding the bag. They're going to be the ones that are blamed for it if we

00:44:38.260 get to that point. Some say the bubbles in an Aero truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt

00:44:43.100 in your mouth. Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light. Rich, creamy,

00:44:48.600 chocolatey aero truffle feel the aero bubbles melt it's mind bubbling

00:44:53.620 joshua any thoughts on flying right now and what's going on i haven't seen a whole lot

00:45:01.060 as of like about a couple of weeks ago i i think i've i've averaged uh one set of trips every

00:45:08.060 other week since like sometime in november um i hadn't noticed any disruption although i was

00:45:14.360 expecting some but as of a couple of weeks ago it had still been pretty normal but we might have

00:45:19.480 seen some ramping up uh since then yeah it's probably highly dependent on which airport

00:45:23.860 you're in and whether or not you have the tsa pre-check and all that other stuff so

00:45:27.660 oh all right well let's you know let's hope the democrats do the right thing

00:45:32.540 well let's pray okay next story um when do you want to go or do you want me to

00:45:40.840 yeah well um the supreme court is apparently agreeing to hear a case on the colorado dispute

00:45:47.620 about climate change um it's this case uh suncorp energy versus the county commissioners on climate

00:45:54.940 lawsuits um i think the author is arguing that the lawsuits are falsely claiming that industry

00:46:01.840 disinformation is, you know, well, it's basically that there's a bunch of false information being

00:46:10.960 put forth. So it looks like we may have some kind of Supreme Court ruling as it relates to climate

00:46:16.600 lawsuits. So that's going to be an interesting one to follow. You know, not sure how that'll

00:46:21.680 turn out. I think the article was certainly saying we should just throw out all these cases and

00:46:26.420 just not have these climate lawsuits but we'll have to see how the supreme court interprets all

00:46:31.980 these things i could hear scott talking about the climate models right now and the bs we have

00:46:38.660 adored maybe they'll talk about climate models like this well it certainly might be relevant

00:46:46.760 and i think in the past we've seen stories that say that there's like activists that will coach

00:46:52.720 the judges and like quote unquote educate them about all these climate model things and

00:46:57.280 basically set them up to rule the way they want them to and i'm hoping the supreme court is going

00:47:02.720 to be able to resist that and be more objective or ask the right questions and um you know not

00:47:08.940 take this activist point of view um so we'll have to see what what they do but um and another

00:47:15.680 maybe not related story but apparently at the antarctic sea ice is back to normal that it's

00:47:22.160 i'll come back to the normal place um it was low for a while and now it's back so another sign that

00:47:29.040 the climate models might be off right and then i have another story about the antarctica that

00:47:34.000 apparently there's some kind of gravity hole over and oh yes under antarctica there's like a gravity

00:47:40.580 and nobody can really explain why there's this gravity hole in antarctica there's lots of

00:47:46.760 conspiracy theories around it that it might be some kind of alien thing or some kind of

00:47:50.380 Egyptian pyramid ancient

00:47:52.200 technology thing

00:47:53.280 but apparently there's some kind of unexplained

00:47:56.360 gravity hole over Antarctica

00:47:57.560 Joshua you're nodding your head what do you think

00:48:00.400 about this gravity hole in Antarctica

00:48:02.140 this gravity hole

00:48:03.260 so there is this

00:48:06.580 this will be a nice

00:48:09.920 little time on

00:48:11.500 YouTube if you look up

00:48:14.000 new Swabia

00:48:16.000 on YouTube

00:48:17.960 you'll find all manner of delicious

00:48:20.040 conspiracy theory videos about how the nazis built a secret base there um then the united

00:48:25.960 states and other allied forces they waged a significant uh naval conflict against the

00:48:32.120 uh nazi colony and antarctic oh shit there's this whole uh there's this whole delicious story um

00:48:40.180 you also look up operation high jump operation high jump and news new swabia and it turns out

00:48:45.820 that from antarctica the the reason that there's a gravity differential is because the nazis have

00:48:50.540 used ever since then and they still exist so goes the story okay this is not joshua goes the story

00:48:55.840 they um they have engaged in uh interstellar travel uh with their with their flying nazi

00:49:02.340 saucers and have a base on the moon and there was uh there was a there was a still there was

00:49:08.140 the first interstellar war in the 1950s that occurred between and among the soviet union

00:49:11.720 the antarctic nazis and the united states and people think this is real i love the moon-based

00:49:18.980 conspiracy theory i remember reading about that where apparently on the dark side of the moon

00:49:23.420 they've taken a bunch of pictures but then they're all classified in secret and somebody said they

00:49:29.380 were brought in to look at them and then they were like what the hell is all this and it's like all

00:49:33.180 these structures and buildings and like really you know intricate or elaborate structures that

00:49:39.460 couldn't have been just natural formations um and that just seems really entertaining to me that

00:49:45.280 you know right there in the dark side of the moon you can't ever see it of course because it's on

00:49:49.760 the dark side and it never faces the earth but apparently there's in theory supposedly allegedly

00:49:55.500 um pictures of these alien structures and things that like this went to the other side you could

00:50:01.960 see them oh man this reminds me of uh wasn't it recently there's a picture last week of mars

00:50:08.760 and there's an item that they're not understanding what it is.

00:50:13.260 It looks foreign to Mars and they're questioning NASA and all sorts of things.

00:50:19.700 Did you see that?

00:50:21.040 I don't recall that one, but I've seen plenty of things like that.

00:50:23.700 I think there was one recently where they said there's some kind of laser coming from deep space that they can't explain.

00:50:28.700 But they did provide some explanation of how it could happen and say if a bunch of big objects collide,

00:50:35.420 they can create radio emissions and it might look like that.

00:50:38.760 And I think that's generally how these things go is that when you get some unexplained thing,

00:50:43.140 there's usually a theory that explains it without any weird stuff happening.

00:50:48.420 But it's fun to think about.

00:50:49.760 Well, Steven on YouTube said, don't laugh.

00:50:52.360 It's true.

00:50:52.980 I know.

00:50:53.480 I was there.

00:50:54.080 They gave me a ride on their Nazi saucer.

00:50:56.340 They let me turn on the headlights.

00:50:57.580 So we do have someone who's verifying the story.

00:51:00.860 How do you know what the headlights are on a saucer?

00:51:03.240 They told him.

00:51:04.220 Whoever they are told him.

00:51:06.500 They.

00:51:08.120 Yeah.

00:51:08.560 Yeah. Well, my favorite conspiracy theory though, is the time traveling Trump. And I posted a story

00:51:12.780 about that recently where there's this, well, I think the update was there was some kind of

00:51:19.780 hieroglyphic or painting in a cave or some old thing like that, that apparently had the word

00:51:24.660 Trump written on it and it had ancient characters in it. But there's also this whole book like

00:51:31.400 Barron's Trump Adventures or I forget what the name of it is.

00:51:34.580 and all that yeah and there's a whole theory about how um trump has gone forward in time to

00:51:42.160 fix or backward in time to fix the past so that we don't have some calamity and there's a whole

00:51:47.960 you know it's i think i first saw it on like 4chan or something and it would but it was just so

00:51:52.180 entertaining it just makes me smile whenever i see it it's a fun one do we know it's not true

00:51:57.340 As Scott would say, maybe.

00:52:00.040 Non-zero chance.

00:52:01.040 He would say there's a non-zero chance.

00:52:03.280 There may be a chance.

00:52:04.880 Could be.

00:52:05.080 I mean, if you were a time traveler, wouldn't you make money in the stock market somehow and come back as a billionaire?

00:52:12.000 Well, maybe money is not the secret.

00:52:14.800 Maybe it's the time traveling and controlling the future.

00:52:19.020 Right.

00:52:19.800 You want power.

00:52:20.880 Yeah.

00:52:21.560 Yeah.

00:52:22.120 All right.

00:52:22.540 So non-zero chance.

00:52:25.940 All right.

00:52:27.340 Back to the Hormuz, Trump is pushing a Hormuz coalition to break Iran's oil blockade.

00:52:36.580 President Trump is ramping up, back to the news news, is ramping up to pressure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

00:52:45.320 As you know, this is like a main deal for crude oil that passes through there.

00:52:50.460 Iran has blocked tankers from the Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia.

00:52:55.480 So Trump is trying to get together other countries to help pay for it and also help not just pay for it, but help secure it.

00:53:06.440 China, he's asking China, he's asking Japan, South Korea, France, the UK and NATO to be allies, to send warships and to help escort commercial ships.

00:53:17.280 he's even indicated so he had a president trump had a planned trip to china on january 31st

00:53:27.660 he is now claiming that he is no longer going to go to china march during that time unless china

00:53:34.940 starts helping and one country that's already indicated that they are unwilling to help in the

00:53:41.380 coalition is australia which you know stella feels very strongly about that she wanted to get involved

00:53:48.880 yeah so i tend to think some countries will come around because i think everybody has an interest in

00:53:54.600 having the oil flow through the strait of hormuz including china and russia and um but really

00:54:01.800 everybody right and so i i think to me this does look like it might be a pretty um genius plan to

00:54:09.720 say you're going to have some kind of international security around this because i don't think it

00:54:14.520 would work at all if you just said the united states is going to stay here and try and defend

00:54:18.240 this or something but if you had all the countries around the world you know all participating then

00:54:24.860 that could really change the picture where it's saying you know anytime anyone might get attacked

00:54:29.300 by iran it's almost like they're attacking the whole world and they would bring the whole world's

00:54:33.880 wrath upon them so i i think it is a good plan um i don't know if it was originally part of the plan

00:54:38.740 but it does seem like a great way to handle it a little bit well he brings up the 90 of chinese

00:54:46.000 um you know crude oil goes through there so it's not like and exports as well so it's not like it

00:54:53.260 doesn't affect china china has been neutral on the war it has not shown you know they've been

00:54:59.860 always backing iran before uh but have remained neutral and this would actually force them force

00:55:07.500 their hand to not be neutral anymore. You know, Trump is negotiating, playing his cards. One of

00:55:15.100 them is not going to China when he's supposed to. The other one is Karg Island was hit last week.

00:55:24.720 The military targets were hit, but he is claiming that he will be hitting the oil targets now of

00:55:32.920 Iran there. And if he does hit the oil targets, which they haven't wanted to because they

00:55:37.640 want it to keep how the US has indicated, they want it to keep the populace of Iran

00:55:45.320 on the side of the US and just take out the leadership. But they are thinking of doing

00:55:50.540 it if Iran keeps putting mines, doing things, undermining, you know, so, and then in the

00:56:00.160 other big news come to that i guess that's all i'll say about that at this point yeah i hope we

00:56:04.640 don't have to go that far i know and joshua where is your take on hormuz should we change the name

00:56:11.480 yeah i don't know enough about uh the geopolitics to speak with any type of confidence or certainty

00:56:18.920 or correctness generally when i look at any sorts of international stories and this this can be

00:56:24.000 helpful one one might think does does this impact my life in any direct or indirect way that's

00:56:30.000 possible it's very possible that it might now hear this knowing more about this event

00:56:37.020 and perhaps it does affect me will it change my behavior in any way does knowing this change my

00:56:44.940 behavior in any way if i spent some time researching this would that change my behavior in

00:56:49.960 any way and that that does answer changes story to story there are some global affairs that do

00:56:56.540 in fact change our behaviors um i have uh i have a colleague who was planning on international trip

00:57:03.800 to southeast asia this month but given the qatar airways and all of the stuff going on with um

00:57:11.600 with with with conflict in dubai there had been planned a series of like you know connecting

00:57:18.080 flights through that part of the world and given department of state travel recommendations that

00:57:25.520 weren't necessarily things that she was sent she started doing her research wow this looks pretty

00:57:32.840 bad yeah it starts looking it up so it starts doing her research oh shoot i better not actually

00:57:38.680 go so it changed her it changed her behavior um so this this is why there's sort of two levels

00:57:45.120 of internet research doing your homework reading the news straight from was there anything else

00:57:50.240 does this directly affect my life in any way that's the first question to ask and they're

00:57:56.180 sort of investigating a little bit to see that if it does okay and if it does level two does it

00:58:02.260 change my behavior in any way or what am i just going to do what i did and i can't affect it it's

00:58:06.940 no nothing nothing's going to change regardless right that's sort of a sense making tool that i

00:58:13.780 learned first from michael gimmerin who would be a good guest on the scott adams school in my opinion

00:58:18.160 He has all manner of fantastic reframes and lessons and insights to share.

00:58:23.120 But I picked that up from Michael.

00:58:24.800 It's a way of sort of allowing yourself to expand your time, effort, energy, and mental resources on changing what you need to change.

00:58:33.860 Kind of like the serenity prayer.

00:58:35.080 You're familiar with serenity prayer?

00:58:36.400 It's like applied to global news and information.

00:58:40.520 That's a great filter, though, for people who tend to get really anxious.

00:58:44.260 like the news can really sway their mood and how they feel is just to put that frame on it,

00:58:50.860 what Joshua just said. And it just might help. And like you said, yeah, it might affect each

00:58:56.200 one of us differently. So it depends on you. We only have two minutes left. I know. Marcella,

00:59:03.560 did you want to jump in? Go ahead. Okay. I think I'm the sportscaster in this program.

00:59:08.040 um u.s wins again in the world baseball um classic um they're going to the finals

00:59:16.120 um that's pretty coming up it's kind of controversial you guys that the u.s won

00:59:22.440 um they went against the dominican republican they won two to one um there was issues allegedly

00:59:31.300 the dominican republic is claiming that the umpire made certain two different calls that were wrong

00:59:38.080 and they're now claiming that we need an ai robot empire to go and um and do the uh

00:59:48.360 refereeing or whatever you want to call it uh yeah so there's less jobs now but um we won

00:59:56.420 And regardless if there was any kind of, you know, issue, we won USA, USA.

01:00:03.280 And then we also won in the Olympics, in the hockey with, what is it, para, I forget.

01:00:14.220 Oh, Paralympics.

01:00:15.960 Paralympics, there we go.

01:00:17.040 Yes.

01:00:17.700 Well, about the baseball, I would just say, you know, there probably were some bad calls.

01:00:22.060 I just was looking at a clip, but it definitely looked like something was called a strike when it wasn't.

01:00:25.900 But what I would say about that is like I've been through so many years of baseball with my son and just the umps call is final.

01:00:33.680 I mean, they do have a little bit of a process of review, I think, where the umps can get together and decide if they made the right call on something.

01:00:39.940 But if they make the call and they say that's the call, then that's the call. Right. And that's just part of the game.

01:00:45.340 and my son was a catcher and that was very relevant because like what a catcher does how

01:00:53.340 he moves how he moves his glove can influence how the ref sees the pitch and so if you move

01:01:01.640 your glove in a certain way it might make it look like a ball when it wasn't or if you move

01:01:05.440 your glove in another way it might look make a ball look like a strike and so that's part of

01:01:10.660 strategy is learning okay how should i move how should i put my thing and so i as far as i'm

01:01:16.820 concerned the united states won we won usa all right it's official it's official it's in the

01:01:23.340 books yay team okay so just uh i want to say a major thank you as always to you joshua we

01:01:30.360 love when you're here the chat's so happy you were here and they're thanking you

01:01:34.100 and so are we so y'all tomorrow it'll be the three of us maybe a fourth for part of the show not sure

01:01:42.200 yet but the three of us will be back um wednesday returning is bj ditchter we'll be doing news of bj

01:01:50.020 um and thursday you may have heard first time on the show and hopefully it'll he'll be a returning

01:01:58.580 guest is Walter Kern. You asked for him, we got him. So Thursday, Walter Kern joins us. Okay. So

01:02:07.560 we look forward to all of that. Let's have a closing sip to Shelly, to Scott, to all of us,

01:02:14.500 but to Scott, we say thank you for providing this platform for us to stay together and be a family.

01:02:22.240 and I hope everyone's continuing to be useful and we will see you tomorrow you guys to Scott

01:02:29.000 be useful everyone to Scott very well thank you thanks Joshua

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