Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 10, 2020


Episode 965 Scott Adams： Teaching You the User Interface for Reality and How to Author Your Life With it


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32 minutes

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152.72226

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4,979

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320

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Summary

Learn English with Elon Musk. Elon Musk is a world-renowned neuroscientist, bestselling author, and motivational speaker. He s been described as the most influential person in the world in terms of his understanding of reality and how it affects us. In this episode, Elon explains how he came to believe that reality is more subjective than we are led to believe.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Bum, bum, bum, bum.
00:00:02.400 Bum, bum, bum, bum.
00:00:04.820 Bum, bum, bum, bum.
00:00:06.240 Oh, hey, everybody.
00:00:08.620 I'm glad you could make it.
00:00:10.900 Today will be, for some of you,
00:00:13.600 the most incredible day of your life.
00:00:16.820 Not everyone.
00:00:18.280 Some of you will just get a little bit smarter.
00:00:21.800 Others of you will find a transformational experience
00:00:25.700 happening tonight.
00:00:26.720 Yes, tonight you're going to find out
00:00:30.340 the user interface for reality itself
00:00:34.300 so that you can author your own reality.
00:00:38.560 Don't believe it?
00:00:40.580 Why are you here?
00:00:42.420 Yeah, you're curious.
00:00:43.820 You're wondering, can I do it?
00:00:46.460 Well, you're going to find out.
00:00:49.500 So, it turns out that there are some stories
00:00:53.020 that can't be told right away.
00:00:57.180 There are some things that, by their nature,
00:01:00.480 cannot be communicated.
00:01:04.520 And there are a number of reasons
00:01:06.400 why some stories can't be told.
00:01:08.760 Maybe there's a secret involved.
00:01:11.020 Maybe there's a violation of trust,
00:01:13.520 if you were to tell the story.
00:01:15.040 Maybe somebody's being modest
00:01:17.420 and they don't want to brag.
00:01:18.800 Maybe there's a lack of credentials involved.
00:01:21.500 Somebody knows something and they're right,
00:01:23.700 but nobody can hear it
00:01:25.120 because they lack credentials.
00:01:28.660 It might be a question of loyalty.
00:01:30.480 You've promised you wouldn't tell somebody.
00:01:32.420 You don't want to hurt somebody.
00:01:33.500 It might be complicated.
00:01:36.180 Complicated.
00:01:37.740 It might be complicated.
00:01:38.960 And so, it's just too hard to explain.
00:01:44.100 And, this is important to know
00:01:48.480 because you're going to wonder,
00:01:51.020 why didn't I tell you
00:01:52.140 where the user interface for reality was before?
00:01:56.760 It's kind of a heck of a thing to hold out, isn't it?
00:01:59.820 And the reason is, I couldn't tell you before.
00:02:03.640 There needed to be a certain perfect situation.
00:02:07.600 And, that perfect situation happened today.
00:02:13.600 Today.
00:02:15.000 After 22 years,
00:02:18.200 my plan came together.
00:02:21.460 Today.
00:02:22.920 And, I'll tell you about that.
00:02:24.800 And, that plan was that
00:02:26.600 someday I wanted to be in a position
00:02:28.260 to tell you the thing
00:02:30.260 that I'll tell you today
00:02:31.300 that I couldn't tell you
00:02:33.240 until now.
00:02:35.360 And, you'll see why.
00:02:39.200 Let me show you my path
00:02:40.880 toward figuring out
00:02:42.800 the user interface.
00:02:44.220 It's important that you know
00:02:45.620 how I got there
00:02:46.540 so that you can have some trust
00:02:49.420 that there's something to it.
00:02:52.500 And, here was my path.
00:02:56.140 When I was a kid,
00:02:57.240 I was influenced,
00:02:58.100 as was my mother,
00:02:59.020 by the book,
00:03:00.420 The Power of Positive Thinking,
00:03:01.700 by Norman Vincent Peale.
00:03:02.840 Most of you already know
00:03:04.340 that President Trump
00:03:05.180 was also influenced by Peale.
00:03:08.260 In fact,
00:03:09.400 weirdest coincidence in the world,
00:03:11.440 or is it,
00:03:12.480 Norman Vincent Peale
00:03:13.440 was actually the Trump family pastor
00:03:16.460 for the church they went to.
00:03:18.180 But, he was more famous
00:03:19.440 for being the author of a book
00:03:21.300 that suggested that you could
00:03:23.380 somehow change your life,
00:03:26.420 or maybe you were changing reality.
00:03:28.920 It wasn't really clear
00:03:30.120 if you could simply think positively.
00:03:34.100 So, this was my first introduction
00:03:35.920 to the concept
00:03:37.320 that maybe reality was not fixed
00:03:40.400 and something that you were a victim of,
00:03:43.300 but rather you could do something.
00:03:45.440 There was some mechanism,
00:03:46.840 some technique,
00:03:48.520 some tools you could use
00:03:49.920 to get some control
00:03:51.580 over your environment
00:03:52.640 and your life,
00:03:54.340 as opposed to having it control you.
00:03:56.580 And that was my first thought
00:04:00.500 that reality could be programmable
00:04:02.380 in at least some simple sense.
00:04:05.000 But, of course,
00:04:05.880 I embarked on a lifetime of exploration
00:04:08.840 to find out
00:04:10.020 if I could find out more
00:04:11.900 about how to program reality.
00:04:14.960 And that led me to learn meditation.
00:04:17.700 I became a trained hypnotist.
00:04:19.460 Of course, mushrooms
00:04:21.520 let you see the world
00:04:22.900 in a completely different reality.
00:04:25.740 And all of these things,
00:04:26.920 from studying all the different religions
00:04:28.620 to doing affirmations,
00:04:30.940 which is really just visualizing
00:04:32.360 what you want
00:04:32.980 and writing it down every day.
00:04:35.880 And then learning persuasion.
00:04:37.380 These all had the same cumulative effect
00:04:40.580 of teaching me that reality
00:04:43.020 was indeed far more subjective
00:04:45.580 than you're led to believe.
00:04:51.580 And when I say reality is subjective,
00:04:54.060 I don't mean that there isn't
00:04:55.620 some base reality that's real.
00:04:58.060 What I mean is that
00:04:59.360 we don't have access to it.
00:05:01.560 In other words,
00:05:02.440 just take religion.
00:05:04.620 Two people with completely different religions
00:05:06.940 can go into a store,
00:05:08.280 they can shop,
00:05:09.060 they can get married,
00:05:10.500 have children.
00:05:11.520 They don't really need to reconcile
00:05:13.000 the fact that they live
00:05:14.080 in different worlds.
00:05:14.940 One thinks there's an afterlife,
00:05:17.120 one thinks there's reincarnation,
00:05:19.040 one thinks there's nothing,
00:05:20.660 and yet we all survive
00:05:22.040 and thrive and reproduce.
00:05:24.360 There's nothing to suggest
00:05:26.160 that our brains are the kind of brains
00:05:28.760 that can understand reality.
00:05:32.300 Instead, all of the evidence suggests
00:05:34.600 that we can put filters,
00:05:37.240 optionally and somewhat subjectively,
00:05:40.020 on our reality,
00:05:41.440 and the thing that we deal with
00:05:42.700 is the filter.
00:05:43.420 We're not dealing with
00:05:44.660 the underlying reality,
00:05:46.300 but our filter on it
00:05:47.360 is the thing that's real to us.
00:05:49.240 And you can change those filters.
00:05:51.840 So that's the important part.
00:05:55.080 And you can change them fairly easily.
00:05:57.600 And if you find a filter
00:05:58.620 that predicts better
00:05:59.620 and makes you happier,
00:06:01.120 well, that's the better filter,
00:06:03.220 even if it isn't a better
00:06:04.740 approximation of reality.
00:06:07.080 What matters is you're happy.
00:06:09.080 What matters is
00:06:10.100 you're getting what you need
00:06:11.540 to understand the life.
00:06:12.780 So once you accept
00:06:14.540 that there's a subjective reality,
00:06:16.840 you're starting to get ready
00:06:18.360 to accept the user interface
00:06:21.860 for that reality.
00:06:25.140 So during this time,
00:06:26.420 I started to feel that
00:06:27.800 I may have discovered
00:06:30.360 the user interface for reality.
00:06:32.460 And the reason that I thought that
00:06:36.260 is that my life was working out
00:06:38.660 so well
00:06:39.420 that I couldn't explain it
00:06:41.900 in any ordinary way.
00:06:44.140 I tried to become a cartoonist
00:06:46.000 with no experience in cartooning.
00:06:48.760 And at about this time,
00:06:51.060 1997 is the time
00:06:52.540 I'm going to be talking about,
00:06:54.200 I had already won
00:06:55.340 the top award in cartooning.
00:06:57.200 I'd never,
00:06:58.940 without any cartooning experience,
00:07:00.820 I was the hottest cartoonist
00:07:02.180 in the country.
00:07:04.160 And at about the same time,
00:07:06.220 I had written my first book
00:07:07.560 and it was a number one
00:07:08.440 New York Times
00:07:09.300 runaway bestseller
00:07:10.600 with no experience
00:07:12.080 at writing books.
00:07:13.340 And there were a number of things
00:07:14.520 that I was touching and doing,
00:07:16.360 you know,
00:07:16.540 the licensing for Dilbert,
00:07:18.080 et cetera.
00:07:18.340 And it seemed as if
00:07:19.900 I could manipulate reality.
00:07:23.620 But here's the thing.
00:07:25.660 Was I manipulating reality
00:07:27.340 to get these ridiculous results?
00:07:30.500 Or was I simply good at my job?
00:07:34.720 How can I tell?
00:07:36.360 How would I know
00:07:37.340 if I were manipulating reality
00:07:40.560 because that's sort of
00:07:41.340 what it felt like,
00:07:42.660 but that didn't seem right, right?
00:07:45.140 Or was I just good at my job
00:07:47.200 and I didn't realize
00:07:48.120 how good I was.
00:07:48.980 So I performed better
00:07:50.020 than I expected.
00:07:51.580 Maybe.
00:07:52.740 Could be.
00:07:53.940 It's possible.
00:07:55.440 But I wanted to test it.
00:07:57.600 And so in 1997,
00:07:59.560 I did a bold experiment.
00:08:03.880 And the experiment was this.
00:08:06.160 I very publicly
00:08:07.440 and annoyingly
00:08:09.300 made a prediction.
00:08:10.800 And I chose
00:08:11.820 an area in which
00:08:13.920 I had no expertise,
00:08:15.780 which is important
00:08:17.440 because if my good success
00:08:19.360 so far
00:08:20.120 had been because
00:08:21.540 I was just good at my job,
00:08:23.800 then one way to test it,
00:08:25.340 of course,
00:08:25.700 not perfectly scientifically,
00:08:27.280 but at least to get
00:08:28.680 an indication
00:08:29.220 of what's happening
00:08:29.860 in the world,
00:08:30.660 I thought I would try
00:08:31.740 something that was
00:08:32.520 just impossible.
00:08:34.700 I would make
00:08:35.440 the most unlikely prediction
00:08:37.300 and then wait
00:08:39.220 as long as it took
00:08:40.440 for it to become true.
00:08:42.280 And if indeed
00:08:44.940 I could hit
00:08:46.520 the most unlikely prediction,
00:08:48.680 then maybe other people
00:08:50.020 would believe me
00:08:50.940 when I explained to them
00:08:53.220 the user interface
00:08:55.200 for reality.
00:08:56.940 Because this was something
00:08:58.680 I couldn't communicate
00:08:59.780 because why would you
00:09:00.660 believe me?
00:09:01.580 Why would you believe me
00:09:02.820 that I actually knew
00:09:04.700 where the user interface
00:09:05.740 for reality was?
00:09:06.580 Well, I had to do something
00:09:08.060 that was so weird
00:09:09.080 and so out of my
00:09:10.720 experience zone
00:09:12.400 that if I got that right,
00:09:14.860 you would be forced
00:09:15.720 to say,
00:09:16.880 okay,
00:09:17.380 that could have been luck too,
00:09:19.320 but at least
00:09:20.120 I'm going to listen to you.
00:09:21.800 So I won't claim
00:09:23.100 that I'm right.
00:09:26.080 I will claim
00:09:27.220 that it makes me
00:09:28.720 sound incredible enough
00:09:30.160 that for the first time
00:09:31.880 that little doorway
00:09:32.740 just opened
00:09:33.460 and I can tell you
00:09:34.760 something
00:09:35.100 that I couldn't tell
00:09:36.540 until now.
00:09:37.860 And here's what it was.
00:09:39.340 I predicted
00:09:40.200 that in my lifetime
00:09:41.700 the theory of evolution
00:09:43.700 would be debunked
00:09:45.540 in scientific terms,
00:09:47.760 not in religious terms,
00:09:49.480 but in scientific terms.
00:09:51.360 You can imagine
00:09:52.360 how well that went over
00:09:53.540 because again,
00:09:55.020 I intentionally chose
00:09:56.180 an area in which
00:09:56.980 I don't have credentials.
00:09:58.540 All the people
00:09:59.320 who do have credentials
00:10:00.360 rushed in
00:10:01.620 to destroy my career
00:10:03.400 and reputation
00:10:04.280 as best they could
00:10:06.540 quite angrily
00:10:07.960 for what they thought
00:10:10.400 was giving,
00:10:11.200 let's say,
00:10:12.260 comfort to the
00:10:13.180 intelligent design people.
00:10:14.940 They didn't want them
00:10:15.760 to have any energy.
00:10:17.580 And although
00:10:17.880 I was not promoting
00:10:18.940 a God view
00:10:20.000 or intelligent design
00:10:22.480 per se,
00:10:24.100 they felt that
00:10:25.560 if simply
00:10:26.080 on this narrow point
00:10:27.960 that if evolution
00:10:29.320 I was predicting
00:10:31.540 was going to be
00:10:32.400 debunked in my lifetime,
00:10:34.500 well,
00:10:35.720 you know,
00:10:36.200 obviously I'm a nut
00:10:37.400 and I should not
00:10:38.160 be listened to
00:10:38.780 and you shouldn't
00:10:39.260 listen to anything
00:10:39.860 else I ever say.
00:10:41.400 That was
00:10:41.960 22 years ago,
00:10:44.540 23 years ago.
00:10:46.740 Today,
00:10:47.960 two things are true
00:10:50.540 that weren't true
00:10:51.460 back then.
00:10:52.860 Number one,
00:10:54.860 we're in the era
00:10:56.040 of the Trump administration.
00:10:57.480 And in the Trump
00:10:59.860 administration,
00:11:01.120 you've watched
00:11:03.120 as my predictions
00:11:05.920 about Trump,
00:11:07.700 not just that he would
00:11:08.780 win,
00:11:09.420 which was interesting,
00:11:11.180 I don't look at it yet,
00:11:12.640 not just that he would
00:11:13.680 win,
00:11:14.680 but I predicted
00:11:15.780 boldly
00:11:16.600 and many times
00:11:18.180 that he would
00:11:18.600 change
00:11:19.120 your understanding
00:11:20.420 of reality.
00:11:21.720 And that was
00:11:22.480 also necessary
00:11:23.580 for you to hear
00:11:24.980 what I'm going to
00:11:25.580 say next.
00:11:26.540 If you had not
00:11:27.520 experienced yourself
00:11:28.800 the fact that
00:11:30.220 there's this guy,
00:11:31.400 Adam Schiff,
00:11:32.500 who's created
00:11:33.460 an artificial world
00:11:34.780 and sold it
00:11:35.480 to half of the public
00:11:36.500 in which the president
00:11:38.160 was guilty
00:11:38.820 of colluding
00:11:39.460 with Russia,
00:11:40.600 at the same time
00:11:41.720 the other half
00:11:42.300 of the country
00:11:42.760 knows that isn't true,
00:11:45.440 you see it
00:11:46.600 with your own eyes.
00:11:47.520 There are two movies,
00:11:49.060 subjectively,
00:11:50.240 that are running
00:11:51.240 based on the same
00:11:52.260 observations.
00:11:54.020 Now,
00:11:54.320 if you hadn't
00:11:54.800 seen this
00:11:55.340 with your own eyes
00:11:56.200 time after time
00:11:57.680 after time
00:11:58.460 during the Trump
00:11:59.640 administration,
00:12:00.860 two completely
00:12:01.620 different worlds
00:12:02.500 being created
00:12:03.280 in whole
00:12:03.980 and they both
00:12:05.200 can survive.
00:12:06.800 Even the Adam Schiff
00:12:08.520 world,
00:12:09.680 his world view
00:12:11.240 is surviving
00:12:12.880 the fact that
00:12:14.620 we have the transcripts
00:12:15.740 and we know
00:12:16.120 none of it's true.
00:12:17.940 It still doesn't
00:12:18.700 change it.
00:12:19.800 You know,
00:12:20.000 the people he convinced
00:12:21.300 are still just
00:12:22.760 as convinced.
00:12:23.360 Now,
00:12:25.180 in order for me
00:12:25.760 to tell you
00:12:26.160 the crazy stuff
00:12:26.980 I'm going to tell you
00:12:27.620 next,
00:12:28.280 you had to live
00:12:29.420 and experience
00:12:30.960 reality breaking
00:12:32.900 down that way.
00:12:33.620 You had to see
00:12:35.040 different worlds
00:12:36.120 being formed
00:12:36.960 right in front
00:12:37.960 of your eyes.
00:12:38.700 But here's the
00:12:39.640 tough part.
00:12:41.260 You have to be
00:12:42.600 willing
00:12:43.380 to take it
00:12:44.900 up to the next
00:12:45.560 level.
00:12:46.880 The lower level
00:12:48.080 of awareness
00:12:48.580 says
00:12:49.120 that you have
00:12:50.360 the right answers
00:12:51.080 and those people
00:12:52.680 who disagree
00:12:53.180 with you,
00:12:53.940 let's say on the
00:12:54.600 other side of
00:12:55.160 politics,
00:12:56.100 they have the
00:12:56.880 wrong answers.
00:12:58.160 If that's where
00:12:59.020 you are,
00:13:00.040 you're not ready.
00:13:02.280 And when I show
00:13:03.080 you this,
00:13:03.480 it's just going
00:13:03.960 to make you angry
00:13:04.760 and you're just
00:13:06.660 not ready.
00:13:08.060 But,
00:13:08.920 if you can
00:13:09.840 follow me this far,
00:13:11.200 you're ready.
00:13:12.020 And it goes like this.
00:13:13.600 If you understand
00:13:14.700 that neither of you
00:13:16.040 have a grasp
00:13:16.780 of reality,
00:13:17.540 not you
00:13:18.860 and not the
00:13:20.260 person who
00:13:20.660 disagrees with
00:13:21.360 you on politics,
00:13:22.840 neither of you
00:13:23.640 have a grasp
00:13:24.220 of reality.
00:13:25.320 Once you
00:13:25.680 understand that,
00:13:26.600 that you've
00:13:26.960 simply chosen
00:13:27.680 filters that
00:13:29.240 may or may
00:13:29.740 not work well,
00:13:30.820 may or may
00:13:31.420 not predict
00:13:32.060 well,
00:13:33.200 but it gets
00:13:33.780 you through
00:13:34.100 life.
00:13:35.380 You can get
00:13:35.920 through your
00:13:36.260 life with your
00:13:36.840 filter.
00:13:37.720 And that's
00:13:38.100 all it is.
00:13:38.680 Once you
00:13:38.980 understand that
00:13:39.700 it's the
00:13:40.100 filters that we
00:13:40.980 deal with,
00:13:41.940 not the
00:13:42.380 reality,
00:13:43.520 then you're
00:13:43.920 ready for the
00:13:44.380 next part.
00:13:44.840 So something
00:13:47.260 happened today
00:13:48.020 that was a
00:13:49.720 very big deal
00:13:50.660 in my life
00:13:51.660 because it
00:13:52.700 opened the
00:13:53.180 door for me
00:13:53.920 to tell you
00:13:54.340 the next thing
00:13:54.880 I'm going to
00:13:55.240 tell you.
00:13:56.220 And it was
00:13:56.680 that there
00:13:57.020 was a
00:13:57.420 podcast
00:13:58.140 by Red
00:14:00.680 Pilled
00:14:01.000 America
00:14:01.500 on iHeart
00:14:02.600 Radio
00:14:03.060 with Patrick
00:14:04.160 Kurelshi,
00:14:05.720 I hope I'm
00:14:06.180 saying that
00:14:06.560 right,
00:14:06.940 and his
00:14:07.720 co-host
00:14:08.360 Adriana
00:14:09.100 Cortez.
00:14:10.340 Now I
00:14:10.820 tweeted this
00:14:11.460 so you
00:14:11.800 can take
00:14:13.260 a good
00:14:14.620 you should
00:14:16.360 just see
00:14:17.880 it.
00:14:18.560 Well, you
00:14:18.880 should listen
00:14:19.240 to it, I
00:14:19.560 should say.
00:14:20.340 You should
00:14:20.760 listen to
00:14:21.180 this podcast
00:14:21.740 as one of
00:14:22.360 the best
00:14:23.000 produced,
00:14:24.880 written,
00:14:26.460 directed,
00:14:27.700 performed
00:14:29.300 thing I've
00:14:30.780 ever seen.
00:14:31.820 I mean, it
00:14:32.180 is really
00:14:32.700 high quality
00:14:33.400 just as a
00:14:33.940 production.
00:14:34.880 So even if
00:14:35.360 the content
00:14:36.120 didn't interest
00:14:36.780 you, and
00:14:37.120 believe me,
00:14:37.440 it will,
00:14:37.920 it's really
00:14:38.360 interesting,
00:14:39.380 the content
00:14:40.000 is amazing.
00:14:41.280 Part of it's
00:14:41.920 about me,
00:14:42.480 which is part
00:14:42.940 of the story.
00:14:43.380 But it's
00:14:44.880 just really
00:14:45.320 well done.
00:14:46.260 So do
00:14:46.780 yourself a
00:14:47.340 favor and
00:14:48.240 listen to
00:14:48.940 it.
00:14:49.400 It will be
00:14:50.060 necessary,
00:14:50.960 probably,
00:14:51.940 for you to
00:14:52.720 fully get
00:14:53.960 this next
00:14:54.500 part.
00:14:55.880 But you
00:14:56.420 can do it
00:14:56.800 afterwards,
00:14:57.300 and it'll
00:14:57.440 be fine.
00:14:58.820 And here's
00:14:59.360 the story he
00:14:59.960 told, and I
00:15:00.760 won't ruin it
00:15:01.380 for you because
00:15:01.900 you really need
00:15:02.460 to get it
00:15:02.940 from him.
00:15:04.100 He told the
00:15:04.880 story of my
00:15:05.480 prediction.
00:15:07.460 And by the
00:15:08.460 way, you
00:15:08.760 might be
00:15:09.180 watching this
00:15:10.340 right now.
00:15:11.380 And if he
00:15:11.880 is, hi
00:15:12.440 Patrick, it
00:15:13.060 was an
00:15:13.260 amazing job
00:15:13.880 on the
00:15:14.760 podcast.
00:15:17.020 He told
00:15:17.620 the story
00:15:18.080 of, he
00:15:19.700 heard of my
00:15:20.340 prediction about
00:15:21.080 evolution being
00:15:21.900 debunked, and
00:15:22.960 then he
00:15:23.560 brought the
00:15:24.760 story into the
00:15:25.400 question of
00:15:25.860 the simulation.
00:15:27.520 Now, of
00:15:27.880 course, if the
00:15:28.460 simulation is
00:15:29.300 true, then
00:15:30.580 what we believe
00:15:31.340 about evolution
00:15:32.200 probably isn't,
00:15:33.880 because you
00:15:34.160 don't need
00:15:34.640 evolution if
00:15:35.960 you have the
00:15:36.340 simulation.
00:15:37.000 We just are
00:15:38.020 here, and our
00:15:39.000 history is created
00:15:39.980 on demand
00:15:40.740 whenever we
00:15:41.760 go looking
00:15:42.200 for it, and
00:15:43.320 that it's
00:15:43.720 made to be
00:15:44.400 compatible
00:15:44.920 programmatically.
00:15:47.840 And Patrick
00:15:48.420 told the
00:15:48.860 story very
00:15:49.340 well of how
00:15:50.440 there are
00:15:50.760 very serious
00:15:51.360 people like
00:15:52.100 Elon Musk,
00:15:53.820 who we
00:15:54.560 had on some
00:15:55.980 clips talking
00:15:57.100 about it.
00:15:57.600 He had some
00:15:57.960 clips of me
00:15:58.540 talking about
00:15:59.140 it, but then
00:15:59.920 he had clips
00:16:00.420 of actually
00:16:00.880 credible people,
00:16:01.940 and here's
00:16:02.240 the fun part,
00:16:03.400 you know,
00:16:03.600 actual scientists.
00:16:06.140 Nick Bostrom
00:16:07.060 was mentioned
00:16:07.800 as the
00:16:08.380 creator of
00:16:09.200 it.
00:16:09.700 He talked
00:16:10.060 about some
00:16:10.480 science fiction
00:16:11.200 things that
00:16:12.280 are fun as
00:16:13.240 well.
00:16:15.200 And
00:16:15.460 essentially,
00:16:17.880 what Patrick
00:16:19.400 did is told
00:16:20.740 you something
00:16:21.280 that I
00:16:21.740 couldn't do
00:16:22.660 myself, which
00:16:24.320 is I couldn't
00:16:25.040 tell you that
00:16:26.360 my prediction
00:16:27.040 had actually
00:16:27.760 came in.
00:16:28.920 I've been
00:16:29.500 trying to,
00:16:30.380 but I feel
00:16:30.900 like I had
00:16:31.400 failed at it
00:16:32.200 because I'm
00:16:33.220 not credible
00:16:33.920 about judging
00:16:35.240 my own
00:16:35.900 prediction.
00:16:37.300 Obviously,
00:16:37.920 I've mistaken
00:16:38.380 it.
00:16:38.980 But once
00:16:39.400 you see it
00:16:39.840 from a
00:16:40.160 credible
00:16:40.480 source,
00:16:41.760 in other
00:16:42.120 words,
00:16:42.580 listening to
00:16:43.040 the scientist
00:16:44.440 talk,
00:16:45.700 compatible with
00:16:46.780 what I've been
00:16:47.220 saying,
00:16:47.800 and also
00:16:48.220 directly saying,
00:16:49.720 if the
00:16:50.860 simulation is
00:16:51.580 true,
00:16:52.980 evolution
00:16:53.520 isn't.
00:16:54.700 So 22
00:16:55.380 years later,
00:16:56.840 I'm not
00:16:57.420 saying that
00:16:57.920 evolution is
00:16:58.760 not true.
00:17:00.000 I'm saying
00:17:00.520 that there is
00:17:01.040 now a
00:17:01.660 competing
00:17:02.100 theory that
00:17:03.300 serious
00:17:03.900 scientists
00:17:04.740 buy into,
00:17:05.940 and although
00:17:07.580 you can't
00:17:08.080 tell which
00:17:08.420 one is
00:17:08.740 the true
00:17:09.180 one,
00:17:10.360 if either
00:17:10.820 one is,
00:17:11.580 maybe neither,
00:17:12.500 maybe they're
00:17:12.880 just filters,
00:17:14.120 but what you
00:17:14.680 can tell is
00:17:15.760 the odds.
00:17:17.240 And the
00:17:17.620 odds are
00:17:18.220 maybe a
00:17:19.580 billion to
00:17:20.080 one for
00:17:21.220 the simulation.
00:17:22.780 Doesn't mean
00:17:23.440 evolution can't
00:17:24.300 be true,
00:17:25.340 it's just that
00:17:25.940 the odds are
00:17:26.420 a billion to
00:17:26.940 one against
00:17:27.380 it,
00:17:27.880 because the
00:17:28.240 other theory
00:17:29.060 is better.
00:17:29.660 Now,
00:17:30.520 having told
00:17:31.020 you that,
00:17:31.540 and again,
00:17:32.620 hearing it
00:17:33.480 from me
00:17:33.900 should not
00:17:34.560 be compelling,
00:17:36.460 and that's
00:17:36.800 probably what
00:17:37.300 you're feeling.
00:17:37.900 You're thinking,
00:17:38.660 I don't know,
00:17:40.240 I'm not
00:17:40.600 buying that
00:17:41.420 the simulation
00:17:42.260 means evolution,
00:17:43.660 I'm not
00:17:44.100 buying that.
00:17:45.280 That's why
00:17:45.740 you have to
00:17:46.120 hear the
00:17:46.360 podcast.
00:17:47.540 So hear the
00:17:48.300 podcast,
00:17:49.360 and then
00:17:50.260 you will.
00:17:52.400 All right,
00:17:53.020 so,
00:17:54.380 having nailed
00:17:55.840 my 22-year
00:17:57.300 gamble,
00:17:57.820 that I
00:17:58.620 could make
00:17:59.000 a prediction
00:17:59.520 so unlikely
00:18:01.140 that the
00:18:02.740 best explanation
00:18:03.620 is that somehow
00:18:04.440 I'm authoring
00:18:05.560 the reality.
00:18:08.320 Now,
00:18:09.240 just as a
00:18:09.900 filter,
00:18:10.400 again,
00:18:10.760 that doesn't
00:18:11.140 mean that I
00:18:11.620 can actually
00:18:12.320 change reality,
00:18:13.540 it means that
00:18:14.240 if I put that
00:18:14.880 filter on it,
00:18:16.060 I get good
00:18:16.660 results.
00:18:17.840 And if you
00:18:18.420 just think you're
00:18:19.160 happy but you're
00:18:19.800 not,
00:18:20.080 are you happy?
00:18:21.240 Yes,
00:18:21.600 you are.
00:18:22.660 If you think
00:18:23.500 you're happy,
00:18:23.940 you're happy.
00:18:24.720 If you thought
00:18:25.620 you went through
00:18:26.220 life as a
00:18:26.840 billionaire,
00:18:27.140 but you
00:18:28.240 were just
00:18:28.580 crazy and
00:18:29.140 you weren't,
00:18:30.440 still good?
00:18:31.840 Still good.
00:18:32.920 Because you're
00:18:33.360 happy.
00:18:33.780 You thought
00:18:34.060 you were a
00:18:34.400 billionaire.
00:18:35.400 So,
00:18:35.820 accept your
00:18:36.400 subjective
00:18:37.040 life.
00:18:41.080 Somebody was
00:18:41.500 asking me for
00:18:42.080 Patrick's last
00:18:43.000 name.
00:18:43.440 It's Patrick
00:18:44.160 Kurilsche,
00:18:45.800 C-O-U-R-R-I-E-L-C-H-E.
00:18:50.480 But just
00:18:50.820 Google,
00:18:51.660 if you want
00:18:52.040 to find it,
00:18:52.600 Google
00:18:52.860 Red Pilled
00:18:53.840 America
00:18:54.520 on iHeart
00:18:56.080 Radio,
00:18:56.700 and then
00:18:57.040 my name
00:18:57.540 will pop
00:18:58.140 up.
00:18:59.900 All right,
00:19:00.440 at long
00:19:00.760 last,
00:19:02.180 the user
00:19:02.680 interface for
00:19:03.800 reality.
00:19:04.680 Some of
00:19:04.960 these things
00:19:05.440 you're going
00:19:05.700 to say,
00:19:06.060 hey,
00:19:06.680 I've heard
00:19:07.260 about those.
00:19:08.260 I've heard
00:19:08.720 about them
00:19:09.180 in your book
00:19:09.740 Win Bigly.
00:19:10.500 I've heard
00:19:10.900 about them
00:19:11.320 in your book
00:19:11.920 How to
00:19:12.700 Fail at
00:19:13.000 Almost
00:19:13.240 Everything
00:19:13.680 and Still
00:19:14.180 Win Big.
00:19:15.220 And I
00:19:15.660 saw a few
00:19:16.880 things in
00:19:17.280 your latest
00:19:17.680 book,
00:19:18.120 Loser Think.
00:19:18.660 And that
00:19:19.500 is where
00:19:19.800 you should
00:19:20.160 go if
00:19:21.780 you want
00:19:22.080 any detail
00:19:22.580 on these,
00:19:23.100 but let
00:19:23.300 me run
00:19:23.580 through
00:19:23.780 them.
00:19:25.060 First,
00:19:25.600 you must
00:19:25.860 accept
00:19:26.320 the frame,
00:19:28.120 at least
00:19:28.500 as a
00:19:28.880 filter,
00:19:30.180 that there
00:19:30.800 could be
00:19:31.140 a subjective
00:19:31.680 reality and
00:19:32.560 that you
00:19:32.800 can manipulate
00:19:34.160 it.
00:19:34.820 Again,
00:19:35.340 you might
00:19:35.720 only be
00:19:36.220 manipulating
00:19:36.760 your own
00:19:37.320 impression
00:19:37.720 of reality,
00:19:38.680 but that's
00:19:39.280 good enough
00:19:39.880 if it
00:19:40.560 predicts
00:19:41.020 well and
00:19:41.540 gets you
00:19:41.820 to a
00:19:42.060 happy
00:19:42.280 place.
00:19:43.520 You
00:19:43.960 should
00:19:44.140 accept
00:19:44.480 the systems
00:19:45.100 work better
00:19:45.660 than goals.
00:19:46.580 People are
00:19:47.000 telling me
00:19:47.460 every day
00:19:47.900 that they're
00:19:48.480 after reading
00:19:49.540 my book
00:19:50.080 had to
00:19:50.880 fail almost
00:19:51.320 everything
00:19:51.660 and still
00:19:51.940 win big.
00:19:52.740 They implemented
00:19:53.340 systems and
00:19:54.660 it changed
00:19:55.100 their life.
00:19:56.540 This is
00:19:57.440 one of the
00:19:58.340 biggest
00:19:58.700 buttons on
00:20:00.520 the interface
00:20:01.180 for life.
00:20:01.920 If you
00:20:02.420 don't like
00:20:02.860 where you
00:20:03.240 are and
00:20:03.980 you want
00:20:04.260 to go
00:20:04.500 somewhere
00:20:04.860 else,
00:20:05.720 learn how
00:20:06.260 to build
00:20:06.800 systems for
00:20:07.580 everything from
00:20:08.180 your diet
00:20:08.720 to your
00:20:09.500 career to
00:20:10.120 your social
00:20:10.580 life to
00:20:11.760 fitness,
00:20:12.500 everything.
00:20:13.240 And that's
00:20:13.640 in this
00:20:14.480 book if you
00:20:14.900 want more
00:20:15.220 details.
00:20:17.080 Talent
00:20:17.560 stacking,
00:20:18.180 also from
00:20:18.580 the same
00:20:18.880 book,
00:20:19.480 the idea
00:20:19.960 that if
00:20:20.340 you
00:20:20.480 intelligently
00:20:21.160 add new
00:20:22.040 talents,
00:20:22.920 you become
00:20:23.520 not just
00:20:24.200 a little
00:20:25.440 bit better,
00:20:26.380 but exponentially
00:20:27.200 better because
00:20:28.240 talents really
00:20:29.320 explode your
00:20:30.260 capability and
00:20:31.140 your options.
00:20:32.440 So this
00:20:33.160 is one of the
00:20:34.520 biggest buttons
00:20:35.460 on the
00:20:36.320 interface to
00:20:37.300 reality.
00:20:38.100 Now you've
00:20:38.420 seen these
00:20:38.820 before,
00:20:39.300 a few of
00:20:39.720 them,
00:20:40.480 but it's
00:20:40.860 the totality
00:20:41.620 of them that
00:20:42.240 I'm trying
00:20:42.620 to present.
00:20:44.240 You've seen
00:20:44.840 them individually.
00:20:45.480 Affirmations,
00:20:47.180 the idea of
00:20:48.220 writing down
00:20:49.160 or visualizing
00:20:49.900 your goals,
00:20:51.060 seems to
00:20:51.680 be something
00:20:53.120 that gives
00:20:53.640 you the
00:20:54.020 impression
00:20:54.560 that it
00:20:55.060 works.
00:20:56.060 And I say
00:20:56.420 that very
00:20:56.860 carefully.
00:20:57.840 Does it
00:20:58.260 work?
00:20:59.220 Do
00:20:59.440 affirmations
00:21:00.060 change
00:21:00.500 reality?
00:21:01.740 I don't
00:21:02.020 know.
00:21:02.700 But I can
00:21:03.480 tell you that
00:21:03.960 when I've
00:21:04.380 used them,
00:21:05.040 the results
00:21:05.600 I've gotten
00:21:06.160 don't seem
00:21:07.460 like anything
00:21:08.000 could have
00:21:08.420 been natural.
00:21:10.180 I mean,
00:21:10.540 I cured an
00:21:11.500 incurable voice
00:21:12.480 problem.
00:21:12.960 I had
00:21:13.900 ridiculous
00:21:14.900 stock market
00:21:15.900 luck when
00:21:16.920 I used
00:21:17.160 the
00:21:17.300 affirmations.
00:21:18.780 I, you
00:21:19.260 know, my
00:21:19.540 career, as I
00:21:20.220 told you, is
00:21:20.620 just crazy.
00:21:22.000 And it
00:21:23.500 feels like it
00:21:24.140 works, but I'm
00:21:25.620 not going to
00:21:26.000 tell you it
00:21:26.460 does.
00:21:26.880 Again, you
00:21:27.420 should see
00:21:27.780 these as
00:21:28.240 filters.
00:21:29.240 If it
00:21:29.800 feels like
00:21:30.320 it works,
00:21:31.420 keep doing
00:21:31.920 it.
00:21:33.380 All right,
00:21:34.120 you should
00:21:34.760 know that the
00:21:35.260 mating instinct is
00:21:36.300 the base of
00:21:36.860 pretty much all
00:21:37.460 of your
00:21:37.760 impulses.
00:21:38.720 So if you
00:21:39.060 haven't learned
00:21:39.620 that pretty much
00:21:40.200 everything from
00:21:40.880 the way you
00:21:41.900 talk, present
00:21:42.780 yourself, hold
00:21:43.600 yourself, dress,
00:21:45.240 everything you
00:21:45.960 do is some
00:21:46.780 kind of expression
00:21:48.140 of your mating
00:21:48.880 instinct, whether
00:21:50.140 you like it or
00:21:50.740 not.
00:21:52.160 Everything you
00:21:52.880 show off about,
00:21:54.320 everything you,
00:21:54.980 you know,
00:21:55.360 that you don't
00:21:56.980 want to show if
00:21:57.640 you have a
00:21:57.960 flaw, pretty
00:21:58.900 much everything
00:21:59.400 you do comes
00:22:00.260 back to wanting
00:22:01.000 to look good
00:22:01.820 and present
00:22:02.740 yourself well
00:22:03.560 for mating
00:22:04.660 purposes.
00:22:05.300 Once you
00:22:05.620 understand that,
00:22:07.140 you start to
00:22:08.240 understand where
00:22:09.160 the buttons are,
00:22:10.240 right?
00:22:10.840 Because you'll
00:22:11.520 say, oh,
00:22:12.180 that's why
00:22:12.880 that's happening.
00:22:13.740 It's an
00:22:13.980 extension of
00:22:14.640 the mating
00:22:14.980 process.
00:22:16.020 Once you
00:22:16.460 see it, you
00:22:17.080 can't unsee
00:22:17.740 it.
00:22:18.260 You'll see it
00:22:18.720 everywhere.
00:22:19.520 And it's like
00:22:19.960 the veil will
00:22:21.060 come off and
00:22:21.940 you'll start
00:22:22.740 seeing everybody's
00:22:23.640 actions as,
00:22:24.780 wait a minute,
00:22:25.500 why is it?
00:22:26.180 Everything is
00:22:26.920 compatible with
00:22:27.780 that showing
00:22:28.920 off for mating
00:22:30.020 purposes situation.
00:22:33.020 Here are the
00:22:33.740 other buttons,
00:22:34.540 which are mostly
00:22:35.460 self-explanatory,
00:22:36.920 but freedom is a
00:22:38.280 big thing.
00:22:38.700 People will
00:22:39.340 trade a lot
00:22:41.020 for freedom.
00:22:42.140 You can say,
00:22:42.820 would you like a
00:22:43.340 bad life with
00:22:44.240 freedom or a
00:22:45.600 good life with
00:22:46.240 no freedom?
00:22:47.320 And people will
00:22:47.780 take the bad
00:22:48.300 life with freedom.
00:22:49.620 So if you ever
00:22:50.440 have a chance to
00:22:51.540 create a situation
00:22:52.560 where you can
00:22:53.480 offer someone
00:22:54.260 more freedom,
00:22:55.720 that's very
00:22:56.520 powerful.
00:22:57.040 That's a button.
00:22:58.140 And you should
00:22:58.580 get as much for
00:22:59.280 yourself as you
00:22:59.960 can, and you
00:23:01.160 can use it as a
00:23:02.080 tool to help
00:23:02.880 other people get
00:23:03.520 what they want,
00:23:04.360 because they will
00:23:04.900 trade a lot for
00:23:06.260 freedom.
00:23:06.600 Freedom can
00:23:07.960 come in the
00:23:08.380 form of getting
00:23:09.520 money, that
00:23:10.660 gives you
00:23:10.980 freedom, having
00:23:12.040 a flexible
00:23:12.580 schedule, being
00:23:14.120 in the right
00:23:14.560 kind of social
00:23:15.320 situation, etc.
00:23:16.660 So there's lots
00:23:17.100 of ways to get
00:23:17.600 it.
00:23:18.200 Fear is a
00:23:18.980 motivator.
00:23:19.580 I don't recommend
00:23:20.240 using it unless
00:23:21.540 you're trying to
00:23:22.060 save somebody.
00:23:23.340 You could use
00:23:23.980 fear to keep
00:23:24.620 them from smoking
00:23:25.420 cigarettes, for
00:23:26.100 example, but I
00:23:27.640 wouldn't use this
00:23:28.180 in the evil way.
00:23:29.600 Curiosity is one
00:23:30.660 of the most
00:23:31.120 important and
00:23:32.580 overlooked buttons
00:23:34.120 on the human
00:23:34.860 interface.
00:23:35.440 you can see
00:23:37.040 that authors
00:23:37.820 that are good
00:23:38.580 at it will
00:23:39.480 make you curious
00:23:40.420 at the end of
00:23:41.120 a chapter so
00:23:42.540 that you'll want
00:23:43.100 to keep reading.
00:23:44.500 So building
00:23:45.040 curiosity into
00:23:46.200 things is a
00:23:47.380 really, really
00:23:48.060 important button.
00:23:49.500 You'll see that
00:23:50.100 President Trump
00:23:50.820 does this often
00:23:52.040 because he'll
00:23:52.720 tease things that
00:23:54.220 are coming.
00:23:55.200 He'll say,
00:23:55.680 yes, well, I
00:23:56.400 got an announcement
00:23:57.040 on that, and
00:23:57.820 tomorrow you're
00:23:58.820 going to hear
00:23:59.060 about that, and
00:23:59.760 I think you're
00:24:00.260 going to be
00:24:00.460 really impressed.
00:24:01.840 When you can
00:24:05.320 stoke somebody's
00:24:07.020 curiosity, you
00:24:08.760 can really shape
00:24:10.320 what they do, and
00:24:11.680 you can shape your
00:24:12.500 environment through
00:24:13.740 curiosity.
00:24:14.480 Very, very
00:24:14.980 powerful.
00:24:15.820 You notice how I
00:24:16.560 use this to get
00:24:17.400 you to come here.
00:24:20.080 Novelty is very
00:24:20.940 important for memory.
00:24:22.680 So you want to
00:24:23.480 make sure that you
00:24:24.540 always inject
00:24:25.540 novelty.
00:24:26.820 It's what triggers
00:24:27.740 memory because your
00:24:28.920 brain will get
00:24:29.540 bored of the
00:24:30.440 sameness, so you
00:24:31.560 need to trigger
00:24:32.260 memory and
00:24:33.800 attention with
00:24:34.340 novelty.
00:24:35.540 Contrast is a
00:24:36.460 way to get
00:24:37.140 people to move
00:24:38.520 from where they
00:24:39.180 are to where you
00:24:39.820 want them to be.
00:24:40.640 You just say,
00:24:41.080 well, it's much
00:24:42.360 less expensive
00:24:43.920 than this, so
00:24:45.760 contrast is one
00:24:46.720 of the most
00:24:47.020 important buttons.
00:24:47.940 Use contrast
00:24:48.740 often.
00:24:49.600 Hey, you don't
00:24:50.120 want to be this
00:24:50.760 bad.
00:24:51.520 You could be
00:24:52.000 over here.
00:24:54.780 Repetition and
00:24:55.460 simplicity.
00:24:56.540 Our brains are
00:24:57.400 just simple
00:24:57.940 machines.
00:24:58.980 The more you
00:24:59.440 repeat, the
00:25:00.220 more the
00:25:00.580 wiring gets
00:25:01.420 solidified.
00:25:03.640 And if you
00:25:04.020 keep things
00:25:04.500 simple, the
00:25:05.160 brain can
00:25:05.580 process it and
00:25:06.400 deal with it.
00:25:07.200 If it's
00:25:07.520 complicated, your
00:25:08.420 brain has a
00:25:09.060 tendency to just
00:25:09.780 flush it out.
00:25:10.920 Can't deal with
00:25:11.540 it.
00:25:11.720 Flush it out.
00:25:13.080 So simplicity
00:25:13.920 is important.
00:25:15.040 The fake
00:25:15.360 because is a
00:25:16.980 form of
00:25:17.440 pseudo-logic.
00:25:18.800 Sometimes you
00:25:19.600 need to get
00:25:21.340 people moving
00:25:22.040 with a fake
00:25:23.160 reason that
00:25:24.300 doesn't even
00:25:24.920 actually pass
00:25:25.820 logical standards,
00:25:28.000 but people
00:25:28.920 don't need
00:25:29.660 logical reasons.
00:25:31.420 Just look at
00:25:32.280 politics.
00:25:33.320 People have
00:25:33.760 incredibly different
00:25:35.300 opinions and
00:25:36.520 many of them
00:25:37.020 are smart.
00:25:38.160 So if you've
00:25:38.920 got smart
00:25:39.440 people on
00:25:40.320 opposite sides
00:25:41.180 of basically
00:25:41.780 every issue,
00:25:42.860 you can see
00:25:43.500 that they
00:25:44.760 don't need
00:25:45.080 real reasons.
00:25:46.300 We're not a
00:25:47.000 species that
00:25:48.380 operates on
00:25:49.020 real reasons.
00:25:50.340 We just
00:25:50.700 will take a
00:25:52.020 fake reason,
00:25:52.840 we'll take one
00:25:53.380 we made up,
00:25:54.400 we'll take a
00:25:55.080 guess, we'll
00:25:56.340 follow our
00:25:56.840 friends.
00:25:57.920 Once you
00:25:58.360 understand that
00:25:59.020 people don't
00:25:59.680 need real
00:26:00.360 reasons, it
00:26:01.720 frees you.
00:26:02.680 Because if
00:26:03.100 you're locked
00:26:03.560 in a little
00:26:04.060 world at a
00:26:04.780 lower level of
00:26:05.520 awareness where
00:26:06.160 you say,
00:26:07.060 well I'm not
00:26:07.420 going to convince
00:26:08.000 somebody unless
00:26:09.380 I have a real
00:26:09.980 reason.
00:26:11.960 Sorry, that's
00:26:13.300 not the reality
00:26:14.080 any of us live
00:26:14.840 in.
00:26:15.520 Real reasons
00:26:16.360 are good, I
00:26:17.260 mean if you
00:26:17.700 have them, use
00:26:18.280 them, but we
00:26:19.480 don't need
00:26:19.840 them.
00:26:20.420 Once you know
00:26:20.940 you don't need
00:26:21.620 them and the
00:26:23.300 reality can
00:26:24.740 be authored,
00:26:26.240 you're in
00:26:26.460 better shape.
00:26:26.960 Pacing, leading
00:26:27.560 I've talked
00:26:28.000 about, that's
00:26:28.520 just matching
00:26:29.020 somebody until
00:26:30.160 they feel
00:26:30.560 comfortable with
00:26:31.280 you and then
00:26:31.920 you can lead
00:26:32.480 them.
00:26:33.940 People can be
00:26:34.800 very influenced
00:26:35.580 by aspirations.
00:26:36.760 This is another
00:26:37.300 way to refer to
00:26:38.700 the high ground
00:26:39.360 maneuver.
00:26:39.920 The high ground
00:26:40.420 maneuver is
00:26:41.500 essentially you
00:26:42.720 challenge somebody
00:26:43.720 to be a better
00:26:44.860 version of
00:26:45.460 themselves.
00:26:46.440 Sort of the
00:26:46.980 Jesus method,
00:26:47.940 right?
00:26:48.560 It's not telling
00:26:49.600 you you must do
00:26:51.100 something or you'll
00:26:51.960 die, that's
00:26:53.040 fear.
00:26:53.980 Aspiration is,
00:26:55.320 don't you want
00:26:55.840 to be the
00:26:56.200 better version
00:26:56.740 of yourself?
00:26:57.880 Don't you want
00:26:58.360 to be the
00:26:58.680 person who
00:26:59.080 sees the
00:26:59.440 big picture?
00:27:00.640 Very, very
00:27:01.380 important button.
00:27:02.840 Association, you
00:27:04.560 know that any
00:27:05.480 quality of one
00:27:06.400 thing rubs off
00:27:07.160 on the other.
00:27:07.980 If you want
00:27:08.460 somebody to like
00:27:09.260 something, pair
00:27:10.600 it with something
00:27:11.140 else they like
00:27:11.900 already.
00:27:13.060 So the
00:27:13.400 likability of
00:27:14.300 one thing will
00:27:15.000 rub off on
00:27:15.620 another, but
00:27:16.480 also the
00:27:17.040 unlikeability.
00:27:18.620 So for example,
00:27:19.380 if you have a
00:27:20.200 TV show, let's
00:27:21.060 say the news, and
00:27:22.460 you have
00:27:22.760 commercials that
00:27:23.620 are really
00:27:23.960 unpleasant, eventually
00:27:25.920 the unpleasantness
00:27:27.420 bleeds into the
00:27:28.400 show, and it
00:27:29.500 would be better
00:27:30.040 if you associated
00:27:31.340 only things that
00:27:32.020 were positive.
00:27:33.300 So learning to
00:27:34.160 associate only with
00:27:35.780 positive things, one
00:27:37.580 of the most
00:27:38.140 important user
00:27:40.060 interface rules of
00:27:41.700 reality.
00:27:43.860 I accidentally
00:27:44.940 put contrast
00:27:45.720 twice, forget
00:27:46.500 that.
00:27:47.240 Pattern recognition,
00:27:48.320 once you realize
00:27:48.980 that humans are
00:27:49.880 not logical
00:27:51.420 machines, we're
00:27:52.620 pattern recognition
00:27:53.620 machines.
00:27:54.940 And so pattern
00:27:55.520 recognition, that
00:27:56.280 isn't very good.
00:27:57.860 Pattern recognition
00:27:58.580 is what makes you
00:27:59.360 a racist.
00:28:00.560 Pattern recognition
00:28:01.300 is what makes you
00:28:02.060 an ageist, a
00:28:03.360 sexist, everything
00:28:05.240 bad, because your
00:28:06.820 patterns are all
00:28:07.760 you have.
00:28:08.740 You're not really a
00:28:09.780 logical person who
00:28:10.980 reasons everything
00:28:12.400 out.
00:28:13.160 Your brain isn't
00:28:13.840 big enough.
00:28:14.340 You wouldn't have
00:28:14.720 enough time.
00:28:15.940 So instead, you
00:28:16.680 default to these
00:28:17.660 little biases, which
00:28:19.240 are determined by
00:28:20.260 patterns.
00:28:21.300 Now the problem is,
00:28:22.220 many of those
00:28:22.680 patterns are fake.
00:28:24.380 Let's say you had
00:28:25.180 met three Elbonians
00:28:26.920 in your life, and
00:28:28.120 every one of them
00:28:28.780 slapped you in the
00:28:29.520 face with a glove.
00:28:31.220 The next time you
00:28:32.200 met an Elbonian,
00:28:33.440 you'd be like,
00:28:33.920 oh, no thank you,
00:28:34.800 I don't want to get
00:28:35.320 slapped in the face
00:28:36.200 with a glove.
00:28:37.300 Those last three
00:28:38.100 Elbonians were
00:28:38.820 pretty rough on me.
00:28:40.360 But, it's only
00:28:41.820 three Elbonians.
00:28:43.040 The odds that your
00:28:43.800 pattern is
00:28:44.900 predictive,
00:28:46.700 probably low.
00:28:48.480 So we fall
00:28:49.600 victim to
00:28:50.260 patterns, but you
00:28:51.480 can also use
00:28:52.160 patterns to
00:28:52.940 convince people
00:28:54.000 of things.
00:28:54.740 If you are
00:28:55.240 consistent, people
00:28:56.220 will say, oh,
00:28:57.200 this person is
00:28:57.820 always honest.
00:28:59.240 So patterns are
00:29:00.300 a tool, but they're
00:29:01.820 also our biggest
00:29:02.640 defect, and you
00:29:03.620 have to understand
00:29:04.280 it that way.
00:29:05.160 And then, of
00:29:05.540 course, understanding
00:29:06.380 the brain as a
00:29:07.220 visualization machine
00:29:08.260 is very, very
00:29:09.540 important, because
00:29:10.700 visualization is the
00:29:11.940 biggest, most
00:29:12.940 powerful part of
00:29:13.880 your brain.
00:29:14.320 It's the part
00:29:15.600 that influences
00:29:16.340 you most.
00:29:17.640 And so, one
00:29:19.840 more look at the
00:29:20.480 full board there.
00:29:21.780 And so, the
00:29:22.360 idea is that
00:29:24.580 these buttons are
00:29:27.120 the important
00:29:27.780 ones.
00:29:28.440 Visualization, if
00:29:29.740 there's one there
00:29:30.400 that just stands
00:29:31.180 out as being the
00:29:32.680 one that you
00:29:33.140 should sort of
00:29:34.020 focus on the
00:29:34.780 most, visualization
00:29:36.340 would be a good
00:29:37.180 one.
00:29:37.340 user interface.
00:29:42.860 I can tell you
00:29:44.180 that almost
00:29:45.180 every day, I
00:29:46.900 get a message
00:29:47.580 from somebody
00:29:48.120 who read this
00:29:48.720 book, which
00:29:49.600 was the
00:29:49.960 beginning of
00:29:51.100 this.
00:29:51.760 I had to
00:29:52.440 hide what
00:29:54.420 this was in a
00:29:55.640 practical book,
00:29:56.700 because the
00:29:57.660 world wasn't
00:29:58.280 ready to believe
00:29:59.260 the facts don't
00:30:00.860 matter.
00:30:01.720 And the world
00:30:02.440 wasn't ready to
00:30:03.300 believe that you
00:30:04.620 could author your
00:30:05.520 own reality.
00:30:06.900 So, I played it
00:30:07.580 a little safe in
00:30:08.320 this one, because
00:30:09.160 the world wasn't
00:30:09.920 ready.
00:30:10.580 But if you want
00:30:11.120 to learn about
00:30:11.640 most of these
00:30:12.380 things, they're
00:30:13.700 in there.
00:30:14.160 And then, in
00:30:14.580 Witt and Bigley,
00:30:15.580 because President
00:30:17.000 Trump had ripped
00:30:17.860 apart the nature
00:30:18.600 of the universe,
00:30:20.200 it allowed me to
00:30:21.100 say, now you
00:30:22.420 see it, right?
00:30:23.900 Facts don't
00:30:24.600 matter.
00:30:25.760 Now you see it,
00:30:26.760 that there are
00:30:27.600 just separate
00:30:28.060 worlds and
00:30:28.720 bubbles, and we
00:30:29.820 can live in our
00:30:30.420 bubble, and we'll
00:30:31.040 never know the
00:30:31.580 difference.
00:30:32.620 And then, of
00:30:33.100 course, loser
00:30:33.600 think, tried to
00:30:35.120 just, well, teach
00:30:38.020 you to think
00:30:38.440 better, because
00:30:39.080 that's always
00:30:40.420 going to be
00:30:40.760 useful.
00:30:41.320 You'll be more
00:30:41.940 effective, and
00:30:42.540 you'll have a
00:30:42.900 better handle on
00:30:44.200 the user interface
00:30:45.180 of reality if you
00:30:45.980 can think and
00:30:47.100 argue better.
00:30:49.100 So, this is my
00:30:50.760 lesson.
00:30:51.380 I'm going to
00:30:51.700 keep it on one
00:30:52.920 topic.
00:30:54.900 I hope this was
00:30:55.920 useful.
00:30:56.520 Maybe you could
00:30:57.020 tell me in the
00:30:57.540 comments if you've
00:30:58.820 got something out
00:30:59.420 of this.
00:31:00.400 This is the sort
00:31:01.500 of lesson that
00:31:03.220 might not change
00:31:04.840 you tonight, but
00:31:06.900 it's never going
00:31:07.600 to leave you.
00:31:09.300 Once you've seen
00:31:10.320 it, you can't
00:31:12.060 unsee it.
00:31:13.340 You're all
00:31:14.040 changed.
00:31:15.080 You don't know
00:31:15.640 it yet.
00:31:16.580 And this will
00:31:17.080 become sort of
00:31:17.880 a, let's say,
00:31:19.220 a framework that
00:31:20.220 you now have
00:31:20.800 added to your
00:31:21.660 mental map.
00:31:23.000 And now when
00:31:23.820 you see things
00:31:24.560 that fit that
00:31:25.400 framework, it
00:31:26.680 will get stronger
00:31:27.600 over time.
00:31:28.920 And so you'll
00:31:29.720 see that this
00:31:30.340 view of the
00:31:30.820 world will take
00:31:33.000 root, and
00:31:34.260 then every
00:31:34.660 time you
00:31:35.040 compare it to
00:31:35.800 the old way
00:31:36.380 you saw, you're
00:31:37.880 going to say
00:31:38.200 to yourself,
00:31:39.040 wow, is that
00:31:40.320 a coincidence?
00:31:41.720 Because this
00:31:42.380 new way of
00:31:42.980 looking at the
00:31:43.440 world just
00:31:44.160 feels like it
00:31:45.020 predicts better.
00:31:46.380 But I'll
00:31:46.700 keep an eye
00:31:47.200 on it.
00:31:47.920 So this will
00:31:48.540 get stronger
00:31:49.160 and stronger
00:31:49.760 over time,
00:31:51.160 and maybe
00:31:51.960 never stop
00:31:53.300 getting stronger.
00:31:55.700 Well, we're
00:31:56.300 getting good
00:31:56.720 comments, so I
00:31:58.180 think that maybe
00:31:59.640 we did our
00:32:00.120 job here.
00:32:00.620 and feel
00:32:03.640 free to refer
00:32:04.320 back to this
00:32:04.980 often, and I
00:32:05.960 think you've
00:32:06.360 got everything
00:32:06.840 you need now
00:32:07.460 to author
00:32:08.880 your own
00:32:09.940 life.
00:32:10.600 You're no
00:32:11.060 longer a
00:32:11.660 victim of
00:32:12.340 reality.
00:32:13.420 You are no
00:32:14.020 longer the
00:32:15.200 subject of
00:32:15.900 reality.
00:32:16.740 You're now an
00:32:17.380 author.
00:32:18.640 Some of you
00:32:19.340 were already
00:32:19.840 authors, and
00:32:22.060 now you're
00:32:22.420 better authors.
00:32:23.480 And those of
00:32:24.040 you who didn't
00:32:24.500 know you could
00:32:25.000 be an author
00:32:25.540 of your
00:32:26.460 reality, well,
00:32:27.720 you just found
00:32:28.240 out.
00:32:28.520 And I
00:32:29.580 will leave
00:32:29.900 you on
00:32:30.180 that, and
00:32:30.980 you're going
00:32:31.200 to have a
00:32:31.660 terrific night
00:32:32.440 tonight, and
00:32:33.560 the rest of
00:32:34.060 your life, it's
00:32:35.460 looking good.
00:32:36.040 Thank you.