Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 791 Scott Adams Excerpt： I Will Rewire Your Brains to Relieve Anxiety

00:00:00.660 All right, we're going to change topics right now.

00:00:04.260 I'm going to raise my hands in the air because later when I edit this,

00:00:08.780 I might add it down to the first part with the politics

00:00:11.680 and just keep the second part that's coming up.

00:00:15.280 In the second part, I told you I was going to cure some of you

00:00:18.600 of anxiety-related problems.

00:00:23.040 Some of you may not believe that's true.

00:00:25.640 Some of you probably think it's probable.

00:00:28.380 Now, all of you are going to have a different experience,

00:00:31.120 and some will have a profound experience.

00:00:35.100 Some of you may cry.

00:00:37.380 Some of you may scoff.

00:00:39.500 A lot of you will just change the channel.

00:00:42.660 But let me go through the presentation,

00:00:47.900 and you can leave whenever you feel you would like to.

00:00:51.340 I'll give you this following warning.

00:00:53.080 I am going to be rewiring the brains of the people who stay.

00:00:59.020 I'm a trained hypnotist.

00:01:00.900 Most of you know that.

00:01:02.680 And what I'm going to be talking about has some basis.

00:01:07.480 Now, none of it is dangerous.

00:01:08.860 There's no risk of anything bad happening to you.

00:01:11.420 I promise you that.

00:01:12.400 Likewise, for those of you who have been watching me for a while,

00:01:17.700 there are two things that hypnotists do

00:01:21.200 that have already been accomplished.

00:01:23.880 I wasn't trying to do that, at least in this context,

00:01:27.980 but it happened.

00:01:29.120 One of them is credibility.

00:01:31.180 You have to have credibility in the hypnotist,

00:01:34.460 your therapist, your doctor.

00:01:36.000 It helps.

00:01:36.740 I have credibility to many of you

00:01:39.660 because you've been watching me for a long time,

00:01:43.220 and you wouldn't be watching

00:01:44.320 unless you thought I had some credibility.

00:01:46.740 So the first part is satisfied for most of you.

00:01:49.500 Second part is pacing.

00:01:51.940 This is what hypnotists do.

00:01:53.580 They match you in some way

00:01:55.140 until you feel compatible with them,

00:01:57.480 and then whatever message comes from the hypnotist

00:02:00.260 feels like it's something very comfortable and familiar

00:02:04.460 because you've already paced them

00:02:07.820 or matched them in some way.

00:02:09.980 Now, unintentionally,

00:02:11.440 it wasn't what I was trying to do,

00:02:13.080 but those of you who have been doing the simultaneous sip,

00:02:15.980 those of you who have been watching me for a while,

00:02:18.300 have somewhat accidentally paced me,

00:02:22.340 meaning that you feel some comfort with me.

00:02:25.160 That's requirement number two.

00:02:27.460 So the first two requirements of hypnosis

00:02:30.200 have been satisfied.

00:02:31.600 I'm not going to put you into a trance per se,

00:02:34.720 but I am going to have you go through a guided visualization,

00:02:38.040 which I think you will find, in some cases, profound.

00:02:42.680 In other cases, you won't feel anything.

00:02:45.640 So everybody will have a different experience from this.

00:02:49.660 All right, let me give you some background.

00:02:51.800 This is called the pre-talk.

00:02:53.600 In hypnosis, this is also part of the technique.

00:02:56.400 So I'm going to make you feel comfortable

00:02:58.360 with what I'm going to do next as part of the technique.

00:03:01.600 All right, here's some background.

00:03:04.020 I keep hearing from people,

00:03:05.720 and maybe you saw it yesterday,

00:03:07.720 that I had cured them of their Trump derangement syndrome

00:03:12.100 prior to the election in 2016,

00:03:15.040 or in some cases after.

00:03:17.140 And so many people have told me that independently

00:03:20.300 that I thought,

00:03:21.820 huh, there must be something to that.

00:03:24.360 So here people had a specific kind of anxiety,

00:03:27.140 fear that the world would be destroyed

00:03:29.480 by this orange monster.

00:03:32.360 And there's something I did,

00:03:34.340 or some things I did over time,

00:03:36.920 which caused people,

00:03:38.200 and they're telling me,

00:03:39.600 I'm not making this up,

00:03:40.680 this is what they report to me,

00:03:42.560 lots of people,

00:03:43.980 lots of them,

00:03:45.340 lost their anxiety

00:03:47.320 and felt comfortable with the president

00:03:49.620 after they listened to me.

00:03:51.720 So that's one example of where I know,

00:03:54.540 based on reports from lots of people,

00:03:56.560 that they had a specific kind of anxiety

00:03:58.620 that I cured.

00:04:01.880 But I heard an even more interesting example

00:04:05.000 the other day,

00:04:06.140 and it came from somebody

00:04:08.920 who reported having a lifetime of anxiety,

00:04:13.620 crippling mental problem anxiety, 0.52

00:04:16.920 the kind that really ruins your life.

00:04:18.980 Now, anxiety disorders take many forms.

00:04:22.040 You could be afraid of,

00:04:23.360 and I may be using the language a little differently

00:04:26.060 than maybe an expert in mental health would.

00:04:28.660 So take it as an approximate.

00:04:31.960 So anxiety would describe somebody out of phobia,

00:04:35.580 fear of the public,

00:04:36.780 fear of danger,

00:04:37.560 fear of this,

00:04:38.220 might describe somebody who had OCD.

00:04:42.020 OCD is kind of anxiety,

00:04:44.020 because you feel,

00:04:44.760 if I don't do this thing ten times

00:04:47.460 or whatever the number is,

00:04:48.920 some bad luck will happen.

00:04:50.700 So it's sort of this general anxiety fear.

00:04:53.960 Many of you probably are experiencing anxiety

00:04:57.140 in the last several years

00:04:58.480 that you had never felt before.

00:05:01.420 And there's something about modern life

00:05:03.120 and about, I don't know,

00:05:04.340 maybe it's about the news business

00:05:06.340 business that gets people worked up.

00:05:08.420 Maybe it's our technology.

00:05:11.260 But whatever it is,

00:05:12.140 there's a gigantic whole ball of different

00:05:15.840 anxiety-related problems that people have.

00:05:19.080 So this one individual told me a few days ago

00:05:22.280 that I had cured a lifetime of anxiety problems.

00:05:27.000 And I thought to myself,

00:05:29.860 I did?

00:05:31.900 What was it I said?

00:05:33.960 And so I asked,

00:05:35.000 what was it I said

00:05:36.040 that cured a lifetime

00:05:38.360 of anxiety problems

00:05:40.500 that all the medical professionals

00:05:42.420 couldn't make a dent in?

00:05:44.460 And this person told me.

00:05:49.160 And I started to connect it

00:05:51.240 with other things I knew

00:05:52.580 and develop an idea

00:05:55.200 of what causes it.

00:05:56.660 Now let me give you some more background

00:05:57.960 and I'll pull this all together.

00:06:00.000 I've talked,

00:06:00.880 and of course you've seen it in the news,

00:06:02.980 about how hallucinogens,

00:06:05.040 specifically psilocybin

00:06:06.680 that comes from hallucinogenic mushrooms,

00:06:10.400 LSD,

00:06:10.960 and some other hallucinogens

00:06:12.500 are being used by medical professionals

00:06:15.540 to cure various anxieties

00:06:19.060 from PTSD

00:06:20.180 to all kinds of stuff

00:06:22.160 and almost instantly.

00:06:24.640 In other words,

00:06:25.460 one dose,

00:06:27.260 in some cases,

00:06:28.240 is curing people

00:06:29.120 of a lifetime of mental problems.

00:06:31.260 And there's so much of that

00:06:32.520 and there's so many stories of it

00:06:33.980 that it's considered

00:06:35.360 one of the most exciting fields

00:06:37.420 in mental health.

00:06:39.140 Now if you read up

00:06:40.100 or if you've had the experience,

00:06:41.660 as I have,

00:06:42.420 of having any kind of

00:06:43.360 hallucinogenic experience,

00:06:44.740 I did mushrooms in my 20s,

00:06:46.700 and I talk about how it was

00:06:48.560 one of my most meaningful experiences.

00:06:51.620 And I read about

00:06:52.600 other people's experience,

00:06:54.140 and the most common thing

00:06:55.360 that people say

00:06:56.200 is that

00:06:57.620 they describe it as

00:06:59.780 ego death.

00:07:03.760 Ego death.

00:07:05.000 Now if you've never experienced

00:07:07.780 ego death,

00:07:08.660 and you've never experienced

00:07:09.720 any kind of

00:07:10.260 hallucinogenic experience at all,

00:07:12.880 that doesn't mean anything to you.

00:07:15.160 If I said,

00:07:16.240 hey,

00:07:16.960 ego death,

00:07:18.220 what does that even mean?

00:07:20.180 So everybody probably has

00:07:21.660 sort of a personal experience

00:07:23.340 that they tend to describe that way.

00:07:25.540 It's exactly how I described it.

00:07:27.160 Before I'd ever heard anybody else

00:07:28.820 use those terms,

00:07:30.560 it was exactly the words I used.

00:07:33.260 It's ego death.

00:07:35.260 Now,

00:07:35.800 for our purposes,

00:07:37.480 I'm going to define your ego

00:07:38.760 as that part of you

00:07:40.600 that makes you feel special.

00:07:42.940 The thing that makes you feel

00:07:44.660 like you're special and important,

00:07:46.680 that's your ego.

00:07:47.960 I'm giving you a very

00:07:49.320 friendly definition,

00:07:51.120 so no deep psychology here.

00:07:54.860 But the thing that makes you

00:07:56.040 really feel special

00:07:57.220 is your ego.

00:07:58.840 And let me tell you

00:07:59.920 why this is important.

00:08:01.640 By an analogy.

00:08:03.800 Now,

00:08:04.280 analogies are not good 1.00

00:08:05.220 for persuading,

00:08:06.200 as I often say,

00:08:07.140 but they're good for

00:08:07.920 explaining a new concept.

00:08:09.640 So here's the new concept.

00:08:11.440 Suppose I said to you,

00:08:12.840 I would like you

00:08:13.800 to take this potato,

00:08:15.740 just a regular,

00:08:16.660 uncooked potato,

00:08:17.740 and could you walk it

00:08:19.760 half a mile that way

00:08:21.500 and give it to somebody.

00:08:22.900 Now,

00:08:23.340 forget about why,

00:08:24.560 you know,

00:08:24.920 why you need to deliver

00:08:26.080 this potato,

00:08:26.820 that's not important.

00:08:27.960 But if I say,

00:08:28.720 could you take this potato

00:08:29.680 and deliver it over there,

00:08:31.580 and you've got the time

00:08:32.640 and the inclination

00:08:33.340 to do that,

00:08:34.680 would that give you

00:08:35.600 any anxiety?

00:08:37.880 Probably not.

00:08:39.400 Because what's the worst

00:08:40.420 that could happen?

00:08:41.620 You drop the potato,

00:08:42.680 well,

00:08:43.260 it's just the potato.

00:08:44.540 You lose the potato,

00:08:45.920 it's just a potato.

00:08:47.540 You get busy

00:08:48.720 and you don't make it

00:08:49.700 with your potato,

00:08:50.980 what's the difference?

00:08:52.120 It's just a potato.

00:08:53.460 That person can get

00:08:54.580 a new potato.

00:08:55.700 Potato has no value.

00:08:57.540 Now,

00:08:57.820 let's say,

00:08:58.420 I said,

00:08:58.820 instead of a potato,

00:09:00.380 could you take this

00:09:01.240 priceless painting

00:09:03.540 by Picasso

00:09:04.340 and just walk it

00:09:06.660 down the street

00:09:07.260 to my,

00:09:08.180 you know,

00:09:08.360 where it needs to go

00:09:09.020 to the museum,

00:09:09.820 could you do that for me?

00:09:11.120 Now,

00:09:11.360 let's imagine it's a world

00:09:12.400 where there's no crime,

00:09:13.440 so you're not worried

00:09:14.120 about crime.

00:09:15.060 You're only worried

00:09:15.880 about the safety

00:09:17.240 of the painting

00:09:17.940 and all you're doing

00:09:19.380 is just carrying it

00:09:20.820 half a mile that way

00:09:21.960 and giving it to the museum.

00:09:23.840 How much anxiety

00:09:25.200 would you have

00:09:26.220 if you were

00:09:27.480 holding a priceless,

00:09:30.360 irreplaceable painting

00:09:32.560 and you're just walking

00:09:34.060 down the sidewalk with it?

00:09:35.580 You'd be plenty worried

00:09:37.080 because of the value

00:09:38.540 of the painting.

00:09:39.340 You'd worry that a bird

00:09:40.460 would do something,

00:09:41.460 that a wind would come up

00:09:42.960 and put some dirt on it.

00:09:44.420 You'd worry that you'd trip.

00:09:45.860 You'd worry that somebody

00:09:46.740 would come along.

00:09:47.440 You'd worry that a car

00:09:48.400 would splash water on it.

00:09:50.340 It would be your fault.

00:09:51.400 You'd have to pay for it.

00:09:52.760 You'd have all kinds

00:09:54.340 of things to worry about.

00:09:55.940 And it's only because

00:09:56.960 the painting is so valuable.

00:09:59.220 The potato was not.

00:10:01.640 So what you need to learn

00:10:03.300 is to be the potato.

00:10:06.920 Don't be the painting.

00:10:08.840 Be the potato.

00:10:09.600 Now why is it that

00:10:11.080 a psychedelic experience

00:10:14.180 would give you ego death

00:10:16.680 and would turn you

00:10:18.320 from somebody who's

00:10:19.580 trying to deliver

00:10:21.160 a priceless painting

00:10:22.260 into somebody who says

00:10:24.200 no care in the world.

00:10:25.380 It's just a potato.

00:10:27.160 And here's my hypothesis.

00:10:30.280 The hypothesis is

00:10:31.980 that when you have

00:10:33.980 the ego death,

00:10:36.440 you have nothing to worry about.

00:10:38.220 because there's

00:10:40.020 nothing to protect.

00:10:42.040 And I think that the way

00:10:43.000 that you come about that

00:10:44.160 is indirectly.

00:10:46.060 The way that you get to that

00:10:47.540 is by being

00:10:48.720 in the hallucinogenic experience.

00:10:51.140 You see your environment

00:10:52.580 completely differently

00:10:53.860 for the first time.

00:10:55.580 And yet,

00:10:56.120 and here's the important part,

00:10:57.820 you understand it.

00:10:59.520 You see your world

00:11:01.100 as if it's brand new,

00:11:03.280 but you still understand it.

00:11:05.040 And by the way,

00:11:05.460 other people experience it,

00:11:06.800 explain it the same way.

00:11:09.180 Now,

00:11:09.900 once you've experienced

00:11:10.860 that you could have

00:11:11.560 a completely different set

00:11:13.620 of subjective interpretations

00:11:15.500 of your environment,

00:11:17.260 what does that tell you

00:11:18.960 about your old view

00:11:20.440 of the world?

00:11:21.800 It was subjective.

00:11:23.800 It wasn't right.

00:11:25.820 More importantly,

00:11:27.120 it wasn't important.

00:11:29.360 The way you always saw

00:11:30.900 the world

00:11:31.360 before that first time

00:11:32.660 you saw it differently

00:11:33.480 was never real,

00:11:35.260 and it was never important.

00:11:38.260 And if the way you see

00:11:39.200 the entire reality

00:11:40.560 is unimportant,

00:11:41.980 and you just feel

00:11:42.980 that you're part of

00:11:44.160 that larger reality,

00:11:45.480 and that it is subjective,

00:11:47.500 you suddenly start to feel

00:11:50.140 that you are not that important.

00:11:53.540 But here's the important part.

00:11:55.000 You never lose the sense

00:11:57.260 that you need to

00:11:57.960 take care of your life

00:11:59.480 and your health

00:12:00.020 and all that.

00:12:00.560 there's no danger.

00:12:02.520 You simply take

00:12:03.340 your unreasonable fear

00:12:05.560 of protecting yourself,

00:12:07.580 and it comes down

00:12:08.480 to a normal,

00:12:09.600 well, I have to eat today,

00:12:10.880 got to sleep,

00:12:12.160 got, you know,

00:12:12.700 if I cross the road,

00:12:13.820 still got to look both ways.

00:12:15.520 There's no downside.

00:12:16.900 You still will be

00:12:17.720 fully protective

00:12:18.580 of yourself,

00:12:19.480 but you will just learn

00:12:20.720 that you're more

00:12:21.480 like a potato

00:12:22.180 than like a priceless painting.

00:12:24.340 Once you get that feeling

00:12:27.480 that your ego

00:12:28.660 is not important,

00:12:30.420 what would you ever

00:12:31.820 be afraid of?

00:12:33.060 Would you be afraid

00:12:33.900 of the future?

00:12:35.300 No.

00:12:36.140 There's nothing

00:12:36.600 to be afraid of

00:12:37.500 because there's nothing

00:12:38.420 at risk

00:12:38.980 but a potato.

00:12:41.380 So,

00:12:41.940 I'm going to

00:12:44.100 walk you through something,

00:12:45.880 a set of thoughts,

00:12:47.600 that will reproduce

00:12:48.980 what a hallucinogenic

00:12:54.420 trip would do.

00:12:56.380 So,

00:12:56.840 I'm going to give you

00:12:57.680 without the hallucinogens

00:12:59.220 and therefore

00:12:59.760 without the risk

00:13:00.620 that any hallucinogen

00:13:01.760 might have.

00:13:02.300 There's a small risk,

00:13:03.360 but you won't have

00:13:03.980 any of that.

00:13:05.260 I'm going to give it

00:13:05.920 to you without that.

00:13:08.040 All right?

00:13:09.360 And,

00:13:09.920 bear with me,

00:13:11.480 it's going to take

00:13:12.140 a little bit of setup

00:13:12.920 and then we're going

00:13:14.740 to do it.

00:13:15.140 The first thing

00:13:18.920 you need to know,

00:13:19.620 and this will be helpful,

00:13:20.780 is that

00:13:21.300 there are different

00:13:24.080 filters in the world

00:13:25.180 and you've probably

00:13:26.280 experienced them.

00:13:30.360 For example,

00:13:33.780 did you know

00:13:35.300 that in quantum physics

00:13:37.000 a particle

00:13:40.340 that exists

00:13:41.440 on the other part

00:13:42.120 of the universe

00:13:42.800 that has never been seen

00:13:44.680 and never been measured

00:13:45.640 in any way

00:13:46.320 doesn't actually exist?

00:13:48.620 Did you know that?

00:13:49.760 This is actual

00:13:50.620 scientific truth.

00:13:52.620 Matter,

00:13:53.740 the actual building blocks

00:13:55.020 of our reality,

00:13:56.640 we know

00:13:57.240 don't actually exist

00:13:59.200 except as probability

00:14:01.680 until a human

00:14:03.540 or a machine

00:14:04.660 or an animal

00:14:05.360 or something

00:14:05.880 that can

00:14:06.440 see something

00:14:07.800 and detect something,

00:14:10.320 until something

00:14:11.100 is seen

00:14:11.640 and detected,

00:14:12.960 it doesn't actually exist.

00:14:14.680 Now all the things

00:14:15.880 in your room

00:14:16.440 around you

00:14:16.960 exist in a sentence

00:14:18.760 because you're

00:14:19.380 looking at them.

00:14:20.280 Somebody's measured it,

00:14:21.560 touched it,

00:14:22.040 looked at it.

00:14:23.540 But scientifically,

00:14:25.000 we know,

00:14:26.780 and by the way,

00:14:27.420 there's nothing

00:14:28.840 controversial in this.

00:14:30.320 This would be something

00:14:31.160 every scientist

00:14:32.440 would agree.

00:14:33.820 Matter doesn't exist

00:14:35.540 until it's witnessed

00:14:37.300 by a machine

00:14:38.260 or a person.

00:14:39.620 What's that mean?

00:14:40.520 Well,

00:14:41.420 it probably means

00:14:42.220 that there's some

00:14:43.160 subjectivity

00:14:44.000 to your perceptions.

00:14:45.420 Let me give you

00:14:45.800 some other examples.

00:14:48.820 Religion.

00:14:49.780 How many people

00:14:50.520 are walking around

00:14:51.500 that have different religions?

00:14:54.120 If somebody is,

00:14:55.860 let's say,

00:14:56.620 a Hindu

00:14:56.980 and they believe

00:14:57.620 that they have

00:14:58.360 reincarnated

00:14:59.260 and are going

00:15:00.060 to reincarnate

00:15:00.880 and they're standing

00:15:02.520 in the same room

00:15:03.260 with somebody

00:15:03.700 who's a Muslim

00:15:05.040 or a Christian,

00:15:06.720 are they experiencing

00:15:07.780 the same reality?

00:15:09.700 I would say no.

00:15:11.180 I would say no.

00:15:11.980 If you believe

00:15:12.600 that everything

00:15:13.620 that's happening

00:15:14.240 to you is God's will,

00:15:16.400 that's not really

00:15:17.220 the same reality

00:15:18.300 as the person

00:15:19.520 who thinks

00:15:19.980 it's their own doing

00:15:20.880 or the person

00:15:21.980 who thinks

00:15:22.380 they're in a simulation.

00:15:24.140 These are completely

00:15:25.000 different subjective realities.

00:15:28.600 You also know,

00:15:29.900 because you've been

00:15:30.500 following me for a while,

00:15:31.900 you know that

00:15:32.640 in politics

00:15:34.240 we can look

00:15:35.460 at the same set of facts

00:15:36.720 and see a different movie.

00:15:39.080 I call it

00:15:39.700 the two movies

00:15:40.400 on one screen.

00:15:41.740 You've seen it now

00:15:42.480 a hundred times.

00:15:43.360 You see it every time

00:15:44.180 anybody looks at a document.

00:15:46.080 I see this,

00:15:46.940 a crime.

00:15:47.780 I don't see a crime.

00:15:48.840 I'm looking at

00:15:49.340 the same document.

00:15:50.640 So you can see

00:15:51.360 in real time

00:15:52.120 on the news

00:15:53.360 every single day

00:15:54.780 that people

00:15:55.800 who are sincere

00:15:56.720 and they're not lying

00:15:57.980 in every case,

00:15:58.880 there are liars

00:15:59.540 on the news,

00:16:00.320 but they're not lying

00:16:01.440 about their perception.

00:16:03.200 They are looking

00:16:03.880 at the same stuff

00:16:04.960 you are,

00:16:05.420 but they're seeing

00:16:06.620 a different reality.

00:16:08.580 Normal,

00:16:09.760 completely common.

00:16:11.220 Once you understand that,

00:16:12.500 you can start to release

00:16:13.620 on your preferred

00:16:15.100 version of the world.

00:16:17.360 Yeah,

00:16:18.020 you've seen it

00:16:18.760 with the optical illusions

00:16:19.960 like laurel

00:16:21.080 and yanni

00:16:21.620 that you could hear

00:16:23.100 the laurel

00:16:23.680 or the yanni.

00:16:24.560 You've seen the ones

00:16:25.420 where you can think

00:16:26.700 a different word

00:16:27.440 and then the word

00:16:28.560 you're hearing

00:16:29.080 starts to sound

00:16:30.240 like that word

00:16:30.940 but then you can think

00:16:31.960 of a different word

00:16:32.740 and the sound

00:16:33.760 you're hearing

00:16:34.200 that's the same sound

00:16:35.100 sounds like

00:16:35.960 the other word.

00:16:37.340 You see lots of tests

00:16:38.380 like that

00:16:38.880 and again,

00:16:40.220 it's showing you

00:16:41.160 that your impression

00:16:43.300 of reality

00:16:44.040 is subjective.

00:16:46.940 Now here's another

00:16:48.060 framing

00:16:49.520 that will change

00:16:50.540 your frame.

00:16:52.180 Instead of seeing

00:16:53.140 the world

00:16:53.600 as there's you

00:16:54.900 and then there's

00:16:55.940 this reality

00:16:57.020 that's sort of fixed

00:16:58.000 and you're just

00:16:58.600 looking at it,

00:16:59.840 think of yourself

00:17:00.680 as almost like

00:17:01.840 the person

00:17:02.900 in the robot's head.

00:17:04.660 Think of your body

00:17:05.620 as a big old robot.

00:17:07.720 In this case

00:17:08.280 it's a moist robot

00:17:09.880 or a biological robot

00:17:11.480 but imagine yourself

00:17:12.920 as a person

00:17:13.780 in the control room

00:17:15.020 inside your head.

00:17:16.440 You're looking out

00:17:17.080 your eyes

00:17:17.660 and you're controlling

00:17:18.920 this big robot

00:17:19.880 that is your body.

00:17:23.400 Just think about that

00:17:24.540 and then think

00:17:25.520 about the fact

00:17:26.240 that there are

00:17:27.320 different filters

00:17:28.300 as I call them

00:17:29.220 on your perceptions

00:17:30.620 and so sometimes

00:17:32.420 your big robot body

00:17:34.060 is hungry.

00:17:36.240 You know

00:17:37.040 that you see

00:17:37.560 the world differently

00:17:38.300 when you're hungry.

00:17:39.300 Things bother you

00:17:40.120 that wouldn't bother you.

00:17:41.420 You're angry

00:17:42.040 about things

00:17:42.660 you didn't need

00:17:43.200 to be angry about

00:17:44.000 but you're not

00:17:44.880 really seeing

00:17:45.500 those things.

00:17:46.780 You're seeing it

00:17:47.540 through a filter

00:17:48.140 of your own hunger

00:17:49.280 and it makes you

00:17:50.360 angry sometimes.

00:17:51.860 Likewise,

00:17:52.300 if you're tired

00:17:53.120 that's a different filter.

00:17:55.300 Likewise,

00:17:55.800 if you're an optimist

00:17:56.920 you're seeing the world

00:17:58.040 through a different filter.

00:17:59.760 If you believe

00:18:00.620 you live in a simulation

00:18:01.680 you're seeing the world

00:18:03.000 through a different filter.

00:18:04.100 If you have a different religion

00:18:05.060 it's a different filter.

00:18:06.920 Once you start

00:18:07.740 to understand

00:18:08.400 that your filters

00:18:09.920 are interchangeable

00:18:11.300 and it has

00:18:12.360 nothing to do

00:18:13.380 with you

00:18:13.920 whoever is you

00:18:16.060 whatever is this

00:18:17.340 thing called you

00:18:18.140 your preferences

00:18:19.300 your experiences

00:18:20.240 your memories

00:18:20.860 whatever it is

00:18:21.660 it can be

00:18:22.980 all kinds of

00:18:23.960 different things

00:18:24.820 in terms of

00:18:25.880 how it sees

00:18:26.640 the world

00:18:27.120 but you don't

00:18:28.440 really change

00:18:29.260 not that much

00:18:30.780 anyway

00:18:31.060 what changes

00:18:32.140 is your filter

00:18:32.900 take a filter down

00:18:34.240 hey this president

00:18:35.640 is a big old monster

00:18:37.500 change the filter

00:18:38.840 oh he just

00:18:39.760 operates differently

00:18:40.600 now I see it

00:18:42.200 through a different filter

00:18:43.020 this mental exercise

00:18:45.440 of being able to see

00:18:46.520 the world

00:18:46.920 as a filter

00:18:48.060 will depersonalize

00:18:50.420 things

00:18:50.800 and give you

00:18:52.100 very close

00:18:53.700 to your escape route

00:18:55.400 but we're going to take

00:18:56.460 you all the way

00:18:57.020 there

00:18:57.320 in a moment

00:18:58.020 and it goes

00:18:59.300 like this

00:18:59.920 are you ready

00:19:00.460 here's the

00:19:02.300 here's the payoff

00:19:03.420 in the next few

00:19:04.860 moments

00:19:05.320 some of you

00:19:06.280 not all of you

00:19:07.180 because everybody's

00:19:08.200 going to have

00:19:08.440 their own experience

00:19:09.200 some of you

00:19:10.340 are going to have

00:19:10.980 a deep experience

00:19:12.100 in the next minute

00:19:13.220 or two

00:19:13.880 watch this

00:19:17.140 alright

00:19:17.860 I want you to relax

00:19:20.480 I'm not going to

00:19:22.100 hypnotize you

00:19:22.740 but I'm going to

00:19:23.600 take you through

00:19:24.200 some guided imagery

00:19:25.460 you don't have to

00:19:26.620 close your eyes

00:19:27.300 in fact

00:19:27.720 keep them open

00:19:28.600 keep your eyes open

00:19:29.840 take a deep breath

00:19:31.880 loosen your shoulders

00:19:34.160 and now

00:19:36.200 I want you to imagine

00:19:38.260 not as if it's true

00:19:40.460 but just imagine

00:19:42.100 that everything you see

00:19:44.040 in your environment

00:19:44.900 your room

00:19:45.820 the device you're looking at

00:19:47.820 the table

00:19:48.980 the objects

00:19:50.640 whatever you were

00:19:52.180 using to drink

00:19:53.320 imagine them

00:19:54.740 as if they're

00:19:56.520 a virtual reality

00:19:57.880 imagine that you're

00:20:00.380 not in a real reality

00:20:01.560 but rather

00:20:02.700 you're in a virtual one

00:20:03.860 now it's a special one

00:20:05.080 because if you touch

00:20:05.940 something

00:20:06.300 you can feel it

00:20:08.000 but imagine

00:20:08.940 that's just

00:20:09.620 an illusion

00:20:10.620 and imagine

00:20:12.040 without touching anything

00:20:13.180 you just look around

00:20:14.600 and you look at

00:20:15.560 an object

00:20:16.720 pick an object

00:20:18.020 in your room

00:20:18.740 and just look at it

00:20:20.080 and imagine

00:20:20.720 instead of it being real

00:20:22.160 that it's

00:20:23.740 a perfectly rendered

00:20:25.480 virtual reality

00:20:28.040 simulation

00:20:29.520 now watch how that

00:20:32.980 makes you feel

00:20:33.800 just feel yourself

00:20:35.500 in the moment

00:20:36.220 just looking at

00:20:38.060 your environment

00:20:38.720 don't think of

00:20:40.300 anything else

00:20:41.020 don't think of

00:20:42.500 anything outside

00:20:43.600 of your direct

00:20:44.900 immediate experience

00:20:45.740 experience

00:20:46.360 look at them

00:20:47.640 and imagine them

00:20:49.160 as a virtual reality

00:20:50.900 construct

00:20:51.900 and see what happens

00:20:55.660 do you feel it?

00:21:03.080 yeah

00:21:03.660 some of you are already

00:21:04.660 feeling it

00:21:05.280 keep doing it

00:21:06.620 stay in the moment

00:21:08.200 stay in the moment

00:21:10.140 future doesn't matter

00:21:11.940 just look at your

00:21:13.620 objects

00:21:14.120 look around you

00:21:15.480 and imagine that

00:21:17.200 they're not real

00:21:18.280 they're subjective

00:21:19.880 they're just like

00:21:21.760 a virtual reality

00:21:23.040 now

00:21:26.480 do that

00:21:30.360 and then repeat

00:21:32.060 the first time

00:21:35.460 you do it

00:21:35.940 some of you

00:21:37.240 will have a

00:21:37.740 profound experience

00:21:38.960 you see in the

00:21:40.320 comments

00:21:40.740 somebody says

00:21:41.660 goosebumps

00:21:42.420 somebody else

00:21:45.160 no experience

00:21:46.200 whatsoever

00:21:46.700 for those of you

00:21:48.780 who have had a

00:21:49.340 lifetime of anxiety

00:21:50.440 issues

00:21:51.020 keep these thoughts

00:21:52.780 in mind

00:21:53.360 because it's the

00:21:54.360 setup

00:21:54.760 as much as

00:21:56.240 the exercise

00:21:56.880 think about

00:21:58.440 life as filters

00:22:00.160 think about

00:22:01.820 your ego

00:22:02.920 as unimportant

00:22:04.580 worth protecting

00:22:05.760 but it's not

00:22:07.520 the be all

00:22:08.260 end all

00:22:08.740 just see yourself

00:22:10.740 in a simulated

00:22:12.000 subjective

00:22:13.260 reality

00:22:14.140 and know

00:22:15.420 that you can

00:22:16.000 change the

00:22:16.820 subjective reality

00:22:17.880 if you need to

00:22:19.040 you have

00:22:20.140 control

00:22:21.580 you can see

00:22:23.680 in the comments

00:22:24.400 somebody is

00:22:25.540 crying

00:22:25.960 some of you

00:22:28.420 not all of you

00:22:30.140 some of you

00:22:31.940 were just

00:22:32.420 released

00:22:32.940 from a

00:22:33.960 lifetime

00:22:34.280 of pain

00:22:35.740 a lifetime

00:22:37.400 of anxiety

00:22:38.800 some of you

00:22:40.540 just got

00:22:41.000 released

00:22:41.480 some of you

00:22:43.040 will be

00:22:43.400 released

00:22:43.840 later

00:22:44.560 you'll think

00:22:45.740 about this

00:22:46.340 and you won't

00:22:47.220 be able to

00:22:47.580 get it out

00:22:47.980 of your mind

00:22:48.580 and you'll

00:22:49.580 repeat the

00:22:50.120 exercise

00:22:50.580 on your own

00:22:51.620 you'll look

00:22:52.420 around

00:22:52.760 wherever you

00:22:53.300 are

00:22:53.540 you'll imagine

00:22:54.660 it as a

00:22:55.680 virtual reality

00:22:56.880 and it will

00:22:57.740 give you the

00:22:58.240 same sensation

00:22:59.100 that people

00:23:00.280 have

00:23:00.680 when they

00:23:01.660 experience

00:23:02.260 ego death

00:23:03.420 and it will

00:23:06.480 free you

00:23:07.060 and that's

00:23:10.640 all you need

00:23:11.640 and I'll end

00:23:14.080 it right there

00:23:14.620 and you have

00:23:16.500 a great life

00:23:17.560 such a

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 18, 2020

Episode 791 Scott Adams Excerpt： I Will Rewire Your Brains to Relieve Anxiety

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