Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 991 Scott Adams： Taking Your Questions and Making Your Fears Disappear

00:00:00.000 As we look down on the sleeping dog and the curtains come down on another wonderful day in the age of coronavirus,

00:00:18.120 you're wondering, what could make this day end in the perfect way?

00:00:23.580 Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And it turns out that you came to the right place. 0.92

00:00:31.200 You don't have to let sleeping dogs lie. No, you don't.

00:00:39.120 Because it's time for the best time of the night. The time you've all been waiting for.

00:00:46.440 The time when I will be taking your questions in a moment, and I will listen to your greatest fears, and then I will make them disappear.

00:00:57.560 So think about what it is that's making you anxious. What is it you're worried about, about the future?

00:01:04.840 In a moment, I'll let you call in, and I will remove your fears in front of the crowd.

00:01:11.160 Yeah, it's easy.

00:01:12.240 But first, let me catch you up on a few things.

00:01:19.400 So the Joe Biden gaffe, I guess I call it a gaffe, in which he says, 0.64

00:01:28.940 if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. 0.99

00:01:33.420 So I guess the hashtag, you ain't black, has been trending, and hashtag, Joe Biden's a racist. 0.99

00:01:41.680 It's trending. 0.97

00:01:43.720 Now, what's funny about this is that there's just nothing here.

00:01:48.300 There's just literally nothing to this story.

00:01:50.620 It's just Joe Biden tried to be casual, and obviously Joe Biden was thinking that when he said it, that the actual meaning was, of course, I'm the best person for the black community, which is what he meant to say.

00:02:09.760 Clearly, that's what he meant.

00:02:12.940 But, of course, the pro-Trump people have turned that into, well, it definitely means what he means, what he's thinking, what he's thinking, because I can read his mind.

00:02:26.120 What he's really thinking is that, you know, basically he owns your vote.

00:02:31.920 And, of course, he didn't say anything like that, nor would he say anything like that, and it doesn't make any sense.

00:02:39.600 But everybody's pretty darn sure that's what he meant. 0.93

00:02:43.100 So watching the conservatives just use the left's playbook to just manufacture this ridiculous, it's just ridiculous, because there's nobody in the world who thinks Joe Biden's racist. 0.93

00:02:55.780 I mean, not really. 0.90

00:02:56.620 And, shall we mean the God, I don't know if he's weighed in on it, but I would care about his opinion, because he was there.

00:03:09.020 I'm not sure I care about my opinion about it, or anybody else's.

00:03:12.860 I heard somebody say that if you're not black, you know, it's not up to you to say that Biden did or did not insult anybody, or should or should not have said anything differently, or, you know, needs to apologize, or doesn't need to apologize.

00:03:28.960 And I thought to myself, yeah, that's a pretty good standard.

00:03:32.860 I will accept that standard and watch purely as a spectator.

00:03:38.880 I'm out.

00:03:40.480 Joe, you've got to work this one out yourself.

00:03:42.860 So he had to apologize.

00:03:46.440 But it is a lot of fun watching the politics of it all.

00:03:52.080 Do you ever wonder when they discover some ancient ruins that they have to dig down to?

00:03:58.860 Do you ever wonder how it all got covered up with sand in the first place?

00:04:03.280 Who builds a whole ancient city?

00:04:06.160 And then, do they not sweep?

00:04:08.880 Is it they're just bad at housekeeping, and they just don't notice, and after a few hundred years, it just builds up, and then their house is gone?

00:04:17.340 You know, you should have dusted.

00:04:19.760 Or did they all leave town for a thousand years, and they get covered with sand, and then they come back and build a city on top of the sand?

00:04:27.900 And I always wonder about that.

00:04:29.820 It has nothing to do with anything.

00:04:30.940 It was, you know, I wonder who built the pyramids, too.

00:04:34.320 So it turns out that remdesivir doesn't save any lives, so it doesn't change the mortality rate.

00:04:44.580 But it seems to reduce the virus a bit, not enough to make any difference by itself.

00:04:51.640 So remdesivir doesn't make much difference by itself.

00:04:56.560 So they're going to test it with other things.

00:04:59.900 Now, let me ask you this.

00:05:02.840 This will just be a test of how cynical you are.

00:05:07.040 If remdesivir doesn't work by itself, and remdesivir is like $1,000, you know, per patient, right?

00:05:13.600 It's a real expensive drug.

00:05:14.880 And they test it, and they find out they do get a good result with some inexpensive drug.

00:05:22.040 They're talking about, I think, I don't know, some other kind of drug.

00:05:27.140 So they put it with an inexpensive drug, and then let's say the two of them produce a good result.

00:05:33.400 What are they going to do?

00:05:35.320 I think they're going to pair them and charge $1,000 for the remdesivir, and whatever the other drug is that's cheap, you know, $1.50,

00:05:43.040 and say, you better take the two of these.

00:05:46.760 Do you think that after they test the remdesivir with whatever the other drug is, that they'll keep going and say,

00:05:54.960 all right, now we have to test it with just the other drug without the remdesivir?

00:06:00.600 Do you think they're going to do that test?

00:06:02.440 Or are they just going to say, well, all we know is that when you use them together, it works.

00:06:07.860 That's all we tested.

00:06:09.520 So you can take your chances.

00:06:11.260 But all we've tested is the two of them together.

00:06:15.080 So I'd shell out the $1,000 if I were you.

00:06:19.680 It's all we know.

00:06:22.640 So that story is funny.

00:06:26.780 Yeah, it'd be funny if somebody says Viagra.

00:06:30.220 It would be funny if it – all right, you're ahead of me.

00:06:34.360 Somebody – you stepped all over my great joke.

00:06:36.900 It was coming, but apparently everybody in the comments had the same punchline as I did,

00:06:41.920 which is, and that other drug that works with remdesivir is hydroxychloroquine.

00:06:48.280 So anyway, CNN and everybody continues to act as though the hydroxychloroquine when given to people who only have a few days left to live makes things worse.

00:07:03.260 And I'm thinking probably everything does at that point.

00:07:05.680 All right, I'm going to take some questions.

00:07:10.540 But specifically, I'm going to take some questions about what's bothering you.

00:07:16.180 What kind of big worries do you have for the future?

00:07:20.200 It doesn't have to be immediate future.

00:07:22.220 It could be the long-term future.

00:07:23.600 And I will give you the positive spin on whatever it is that's bothering you.

00:07:29.800 All right, let's see who wants to play along.

00:07:34.520 We will take Roe. 0.96

00:07:37.360 Is that an actual name?

00:07:40.500 Roe, are you there?

00:07:43.980 Hello, Roe.

00:07:48.300 I can.

00:07:49.320 Do you have a concern which you would like me to erase from your mind?

00:07:54.960 I do.

00:07:55.780 It was a tweet that I saw from Katie Hopkins, and she was saying that all of our statistics and death rates and models were hoaxes,

00:08:09.560 and we were being programmed to live a new way of life.

00:08:14.160 And I hadn't thought that I'd say the way of the conspiracy, but for some reason, I got off work, and it hit me, and I was like,

00:08:20.680 oh, my God, we're not using money.

00:08:22.940 We have to schedule it at the DMV, and you can't just walk in anymore.

00:08:27.960 Well, who would be benefiting from this?

00:08:32.620 Globalists.

00:08:34.300 I don't think anybody's benefiting, are they?

00:08:36.520 How would a globalist benefit from this?

00:08:39.300 Well, I guess –

00:08:41.160 Oops, got cut off.

00:08:43.060 Well, let me finish the answer.

00:08:47.060 I would not worry about the grand scheme to change the way everybody's living.

00:08:55.220 I don't think that's a thing.

00:08:57.380 So there's no evidence for it other than people who like to talk about grand schemes.

00:09:02.300 So I would not imagine that anybody's sitting behind a closed door saying,

00:09:07.780 you know, if we can just convince them to door dash, then we've got something.

00:09:13.720 I don't even know how that works.

00:09:15.820 If we can just convince them to work from home a little bit, how does that work?

00:09:22.420 Somebody says control.

00:09:24.220 Nobody wants control just for control.

00:09:26.500 People want control to get them things.

00:09:30.180 You don't want control just to control it.

00:09:32.340 Who wants to control the DMV?

00:09:35.080 Nobody.

00:09:36.500 All right.

00:09:37.800 Let's see if somebody else has a concern that I can erase for them.

00:09:42.180 Well, I think David looks like he has a concern.

00:09:49.620 David, are you there?

00:09:52.820 David, David, hello.

00:09:56.120 Hey, Scott.

00:09:56.900 How are you?

00:09:57.640 Good.

00:09:58.120 How are you?

00:09:58.780 Do you have a concern for me, a worry that I can erase for you?

00:10:02.860 Well, actually, yes.

00:10:08.020 So I am in sales for a living, and I'm hoping you're good with personal things as well, correct?

00:10:16.280 Sure.

00:10:16.920 You name it.

00:10:18.180 Okay.

00:10:18.740 So I'm in sales for a living, and it baffles me how in the majority of my life, I'm very confident,

00:10:26.340 and in certain ways, I can approach people with no challenge whatsoever.

00:10:30.000 But when it comes to certain sales calls, I find myself crippled with fear and can't get any sort of real rationalization as to why.

00:10:40.240 And do you know what kind of calls make it different?

00:10:44.440 Why is it different sometimes?

00:10:50.280 That's a good question.

00:10:53.200 Is there no obvious reason?

00:10:55.540 It's just some days you have it and some days you don't?

00:10:57.540 No, I mean, with things primarily related to work is when I see the fear comes up more often.

00:11:08.880 If it's things that don't matter.

00:11:17.820 You know, how old are you?

00:11:23.160 31.

00:11:23.640 31.

00:11:24.280 31.

00:11:24.560 31.

00:11:25.000 So, yes, I imagined you young because part of the solution to this is just experiencing a lot and realizing that none of it hurt you.

00:11:35.840 So the only solution to be able to do this is to put yourself in increasingly embarrassing situations and to learn that they don't really hurt.

00:11:44.960 And I don't think there's any other way to do it.

00:11:47.480 Now, the ways that people do it is they sign up for, let's say, the Toastmasters or the Dale Carnegie course, or you could just approach strangers and actually just practice.

00:11:59.260 Now, I gave some advice the other day that I was laughing after I gave it, which is it's always good to match your emotional and energy state to the task.

00:12:10.280 Now, part of the problem might be that if you're all wound up about a meeting or a sale, you're in exactly the wrong frame of mind to take a risk because you're just too wound up to take a risk.

00:12:24.100 But there are probably times when you think, I've had such a bad day, I just had a fight with my girlfriend, wife, whatever, you know, five things went wrong, I couldn't find my pants.

00:12:35.380 There's nothing that could ruin this day because it's already so ruined.

00:12:39.420 It's a plea right off.

00:12:40.900 And then you say to yourself, I might as well try that thing I was going to try.

00:12:45.440 Just, hey, let me do something to wake myself up today.

00:12:48.840 Okay, so I would think expansively about which state of energy can get you not afraid.

00:12:58.380 Now, I find in my life that the same situation can be, say, tense making if I'm in a certain frame of mind, but no problem at all if I'm, like, really angry, you know.

00:13:10.400 So sometimes, you know, it's just a case of changing your state until you find one that fits the situation.

00:13:16.900 And then if you've gone through enough of these situations, then they don't present the same issue.

00:13:23.500 Now, let me ask you this.

00:13:24.820 What do you imagine could go wrong?

00:13:26.620 What's the worst case?

00:13:30.600 They say no.

00:13:32.880 And why is that bad?

00:13:34.260 Because you know that nine out of ten calls are going to be a no.

00:13:39.940 Here's how to look at it.

00:13:41.120 Intellectually, I grasp that there is no problem with that.

00:13:43.600 But right there with my finger on the phone, it changes things.

00:13:48.980 Yeah.

00:13:49.260 Have you read my book, Had It Failed Almost Everything and Still Win Big?

00:13:53.760 I have, actually.

00:13:55.260 So I would try reframing your situation as trying to guess something out of every call.

00:14:01.560 It doesn't mean that you get a sale out of it, but you get tougher.

00:14:05.040 You get a practice.

00:14:06.480 You try a new trick.

00:14:07.820 You're like, I'll try this.

00:14:09.040 I'll try that.

00:14:10.160 You're keeping track.

00:14:11.120 Maybe you're keeping a scoreboard.

00:14:13.300 You say, all right, I got one out of 18 yesterday.

00:14:17.440 I'm going to get one out of 17 today.

00:14:19.620 But I think you can reframe it as almost a sport, and it's not personal.

00:14:24.940 Because none of these people know you.

00:14:27.020 They don't know you, right?

00:14:28.440 These are basically strangers you're talking about?

00:14:32.180 It's a mixture.

00:14:33.700 Oh, well, there may be people who just haven't said yes yet.

00:14:37.280 So, you know, sales is sort of about wearing people down after a while, isn't it?

00:14:43.780 I mean, you don't say it that way.

00:14:45.820 But here's a – let me tell you a sales story.

00:14:49.740 It's my favorite sales story.

00:14:51.540 I had a neighbor who had gotten rich, and I had asked him about the story of his life.

00:14:56.500 And one of his first jobs was selling salt to grocery stores.

00:15:00.280 And I laughed, and I said, how do you sell salt?

00:15:03.040 It's all the same.

00:15:04.180 Like, what's your competitive advantage?

00:15:06.380 And he told me this story, that one day, one of his grocery stores was going to be reorganizing his shelves.

00:15:12.080 And he said, you know, you'd have to be closed all day on the weekend.

00:15:14.880 And, you know, he's going to be working all weekend reorganizing his shelves.

00:15:18.440 So the salt salesman, without being asked, just showed up on Saturday and said, well, I'm here to help you reorganize your shelves.

00:15:26.700 And the guy's like, really?

00:15:28.000 Really? Why?

00:15:29.580 He goes, had Saturday off.

00:15:31.920 I thought I'd help you reorganize your shelves.

00:15:34.640 Didn't even ask him about buying salt.

00:15:37.660 Just helped him all day, went home, and the next time the guy did a salt order.

00:15:42.340 Who did he buy it from?

00:15:43.740 So basically, he built a relationship, and then he just waited.

00:15:47.880 And, you know, it wasn't the only relationship he was building.

00:15:50.500 He was building relationships all over and waiting for them to bloom over time.

00:15:55.720 So he understood it as kind of a numbers game and a question of what he was going to give them.

00:16:02.520 So maybe one way to think of it is when you're calling people, say to yourself, all right, what am I doing for them?

00:16:07.540 And if you can be honest about that and say, all right, I can really help these people.

00:16:13.360 I can help them save money.

00:16:15.220 I can help them do a thing they couldn't do before.

00:16:17.960 I can help them.

00:16:19.140 I don't know what product it is.

00:16:20.840 But, you know, I suppose if you don't believe in your product, it would be harder.

00:16:24.460 But if you believe in your product, then you would also believe that they could be better off.

00:16:31.260 And so think in terms of what you could give them.

00:16:34.060 Yeah, so you know the process of reciprocity.

00:16:36.460 Somebody in the comments is saying that the salt salesman basically gave something for nothing

00:16:42.660 and then just stood around until it paid off.

00:16:45.240 So that is my advice.

00:16:48.640 And now watch this.

00:16:50.240 Now that you've heard this reframing, the next time you're going to do this,

00:16:54.420 you're going to think to yourself, wait a minute, I can think of this as a scary thing in which I could get rejected

00:16:59.920 or I could think of this as a process in which I come out ahead every single time

00:17:05.500 because that's literally what's going to happen.

00:17:08.200 Every call you make, whether it works or doesn't work, makes it easier to make a call because it didn't hurt.

00:17:13.600 You know, you were afraid, the call's over, your body feels the same, you're breathing the same, your day's the same.

00:17:23.680 All you did is get one closer to a yes.

00:17:26.320 So everyone that's a no is one closer to a yes.

00:17:29.400 Watch how well that works.

00:17:31.180 All right, thanks for the call.

00:17:32.820 Thanks, Scott.

00:17:35.380 All right.

00:17:37.320 Let's see who else needs a problem solved.

00:17:39.560 Possibly Mike Burt.

00:17:47.920 Mike Burt, are you there?

00:17:51.920 Good.

00:17:52.780 Do you have a problem, a worry, a concern, a fear that I can make disappear?

00:17:59.260 Here's the thing.

00:18:03.400 I'm from Canada and with this China virus problem, our prime minister, our leading party is seizing power

00:18:14.600 and it's a very, very concerning issue because we don't really have a credible opposition party

00:18:20.760 to run against him because he just refuses to even participate in the parliamentary process.

00:18:28.300 Now, what we need is help to train our politicians to defeat this guy.

00:18:39.180 We don't have anybody like that.

00:18:41.100 Well, you know, but are you really worried about that or is it just a preference?

00:18:46.080 I mean, really, is your life that much different depending on what political party is in office?

00:18:53.520 Well, if they're allowing our national police to throw together a sweeping gun ban without any legislative process,

00:19:01.780 it becomes a problem.

00:19:02.740 Yes.

00:19:03.000 So this is going to be a very big problem coming in the near future.

00:19:09.280 Well, suppose everything went the way you don't want it to go.

00:19:13.800 How would it affect you personally?

00:19:16.600 We look a lot like China.

00:19:19.460 Well, that's kind of extreme.

00:19:21.100 Don't you think you would just look like Canada but with fewer guns?

00:19:26.080 No.

00:19:26.560 If our legislative process is no longer a thing and they're circumventing and dictating what can be allowed in the process,

00:19:36.680 then it's not really the process anymore.

00:19:39.080 Oh, well, you know, the slippery slope is usually something you don't need to worry about.

00:19:43.860 So typically things go until they have a reason to stop.

00:19:47.860 And right now if something's going in that direction, it's because it doesn't have a reason to stop.

00:19:52.440 But everybody in Canada has a reason not to become China, 0.98

00:19:57.560 whereas it's not true that everybody in Canada has some concern about guns.

00:20:02.760 That's the same as everybody else's.

00:20:04.660 So you could pretty much count on the sliding to stop once everybody's on the same side,

00:20:10.600 which is, oh, no, we don't want to be a dictatorship with no rules.

00:20:13.400 We just want to clean up a few things that were our preferences but maybe not other people's preferences.

00:20:18.960 So you could well lose some basic rights.

00:20:23.440 Yes.

00:20:26.600 I'm getting massive comments about my nose whistling.

00:20:30.080 So my nose isn't whistling, but you are hearing a whistle.

00:20:33.440 It's not my nose, though.

00:20:34.900 It's actually coming out of my mouth.

00:20:36.980 Don't know why.

00:20:38.160 Actually, I do know why, but it's a long story.

00:20:42.280 So now that we've cleared that up,

00:20:44.320 I would say I don't know a whole lot about the Canadian political process,

00:20:48.480 so I can't add too much into details.

00:20:50.080 But I will tell you that I can't think of any reason there was any year of my life that I was less happy because of who was in power,

00:20:59.520 and I doubt that that will happen in Canada,

00:21:02.620 and I wouldn't worry about the slippery slope because it will stop when it needs to stop,

00:21:07.960 maybe a little bit after it needed to stop, but not full China.

00:21:11.800 So thanks for the call.

00:21:12.620 Yeah, no problem.

00:21:15.300 All right.

00:21:15.820 I don't think I talked him out of that, out of his fear.

00:21:19.440 I need to win.

00:21:22.000 All right.

00:21:23.080 Robert is coming in, and Robert.

00:21:27.480 Robert, are you there?

00:21:30.360 Robert, I know you're there.

00:21:32.820 Robert's not there.

00:21:33.580 All right.

00:21:36.540 Let's try Tyler.

00:21:38.940 Tyler.

00:21:42.060 Tyler, are you there?

00:21:46.540 Do you have any kind of worry or fear that I could make disappear?

00:21:51.360 Well, if you have any questions about Canada, you can ask me because I actually live up here.

00:21:55.020 But I did want to ask you something else, and that was you once talked about something called a humility fetish

00:22:01.540 that the anti-Trumpers have, and I just noticed that there are a lot of people, say, on my Facebook

00:22:09.800 and on my social media, family members, and I don't think it has anything to do about politics when it comes to Trump.

00:22:17.220 There's something about him that they just cannot get over,

00:22:21.620 and I was wondering if you could comment on that because it's almost like I hate to use the word trigger

00:22:28.220 because it's being overused, I think, but there is something that just drives them into irrational behavior

00:22:35.100 that I've never really seen before.

00:22:37.660 Well, I have opined that Trump comes across as a bully, and if you have been bullied in your life,

00:22:45.760 that's all you can see, and everything is all about that, 0.99

00:22:49.320 and everything sort of emanates from we hate him because he's a bully, 0.71

00:22:53.880 and then we'll find all the other reasons if we look for him,

00:22:57.080 whereas people who have not been bullied or were the bullies themselves

00:23:00.960 look at him as just a harmless and entertaining person

00:23:05.520 who may or may not have the skills that they're looking for.

00:23:09.600 So I think that's the biggest difference,

00:23:12.000 whether you've been abused by somebody that he reminds you of.

00:23:15.740 Does that ring true?

00:23:17.400 Yeah, that could be.

00:23:20.060 As I say, it doesn't seem to be about anything he's done.

00:23:24.000 It just seems to be strictly his personality. 0.99

00:23:27.560 These aren't people who I consider stupid either. 0.99

00:23:31.000 They're like really smart people who have just been driven into this insane hatred. 0.97

00:23:36.700 Yeah, you know, anybody who's cocky has as many admirers as they have haters.

00:23:45.720 You remember when Muhammad Ali was, you know, you're probably too young,

00:23:50.680 but he was famous for being, you know, bragging and being cocky,

00:23:54.040 and there are a number of athletes who have made a name the same way,

00:23:57.280 and, of course, people become super polarized.

00:24:00.880 People believe that, you know, this is somehow their genuine self.

00:24:05.060 They're not just putting on an act for the cameras.

00:24:08.920 So, yeah, people just hate any kind of confidence or arrogance or cockiness.

00:24:13.860 I don't think there's much of a mystery to that because Trump has a lot of those things,

00:24:19.460 plus he's rich, plus he insults people.

00:24:23.140 He gives people a lot of reasons to get worked up.

00:24:26.440 I do have one more thing for you, Scott.

00:24:28.540 Yeah, go ahead.

00:24:28.920 On the affirmations, I just took a chance on the affirmations.

00:24:35.260 This was a couple months ago.

00:24:37.180 And someone who I hadn't heard from in a long time, I just picked them kind of randomly.

00:24:41.320 It's kind of an old friend of mine.

00:24:42.900 And I wrote down for a couple days, this person will text me.

00:24:47.320 This person will text me over and over again.

00:24:49.940 So a couple months go by, and I basically forget about it.

00:24:55.420 And I kid you not, Scott, I'm at the gym.

00:24:58.100 I'm just about to close my locker.

00:25:00.380 And guess who I get a text from?

00:25:02.660 And I haven't heard from this person for a long time.

00:25:07.000 All right.

00:25:07.380 You have to tell me how long.

00:25:08.740 Are we talking years?

00:25:10.140 You haven't heard from them?

00:25:10.720 I would say years.

00:25:12.100 I went to university with them.

00:25:14.160 And so that was probably about four or five years ago that I graduated.

00:25:19.400 So this is a person who I'm not in contact with very often.

00:25:24.260 Yeah, it's funny because the very first time that somebody told me

00:25:27.640 about affirmations, it was exactly that story.

00:25:30.320 Without the texting, it was a phone call.

00:25:32.600 And it was that somebody got somebody to call them out of the blue that they

00:25:38.000 wanted to call that they hadn't heard from in years and years and years,

00:25:41.680 and then the phone rang.

00:25:43.120 So that was the very first story I heard.

00:25:45.360 Now, of course, as the people in the comments are saying,

00:25:48.500 coincidence is coincidence, and there are going to be coincidences.

00:25:51.880 So as I was advised the first time I tried affirmations, and it worked out so well,

00:25:59.560 and then I said, well, it's probably just a coincidence.

00:26:01.940 You almost have to try something that just couldn't happen on its own,

00:26:05.920 and it has to be more than one thing, or you're not going to know anything.

00:26:09.080 Well, that's why I picked this person, because I didn't want to pick a person

00:26:13.340 who I am in normal contact with.

00:26:15.960 I wanted to pick someone who, you know, the odds of them getting in contact with me

00:26:19.900 weren't zero, but they weren't 80% either.

00:26:23.860 I wanted it to be someone who, you know, would be less than 50-50.

00:26:29.020 Yeah, you only had one affirmation, right?

00:26:31.520 It was the only one you were doing?

00:26:33.160 Yes, and I didn't say it over and over.

00:26:36.520 I kind of just wrote it down, and I did that for, I'd say, three or four days.

00:26:41.480 All right, so now... 0.99

00:26:42.660 When that text came in, I was just like, damn it, Scott, damn it. 0.99

00:26:46.300 You were the first person I thought of. 0.99

00:26:50.020 That's how I get you.

00:26:51.380 So now are you going to try it on something else?

00:26:54.780 Maybe raise your sights from getting a text to getting something better?

00:26:58.960 Well, I'll tell you, before I even heard you talk about this,

00:27:03.180 I got this idea from Jim Carrey in an interview.

00:27:06.240 He was talking about how he wrote a check to himself.

00:27:09.460 Right, a million dollars.

00:27:11.260 Right, a million dollars.

00:27:12.540 Obviously, mine wasn't a million dollars, but it was an amount I wanted in my bank account.

00:27:18.800 So I literally took a screenshot of my online bank account, and I wrote the number.

00:27:23.600 And it was a reasonable number, you know, it wasn't crazy.

00:27:28.840 And of course, I've far surpassed that now.

00:27:33.320 Nice.

00:27:33.720 I don't want to sound too cocky.

00:27:37.900 No, people hate you. 0.87

00:27:39.540 People hate you.

00:27:40.940 Yeah, have you watched the Michael Jordan documentary?

00:27:42.820 I mean, there's a little bit of that at play there, too.

00:27:45.280 I found him to be quite cocky.

00:27:47.640 No, but that's a good suggestion.

00:27:50.000 I kept meaning to watch that, so I'm glad you reminded me.

00:27:52.620 All right, so thanks for the call.

00:27:54.860 Okay, thank you, Scott.

00:27:56.240 Thank you.

00:27:56.640 All right, take care.

00:27:59.580 All right, I'm going to wind it down for tonight.

00:28:04.720 I hope some of you had similar kinds of problems, and maybe some of that helped you.

00:28:10.300 I don't know.

00:28:11.680 And in the meantime, I will see you right early in the morning.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 23, 2020

Episode 991 Scott Adams： Taking Your Questions and Making Your Fears Disappear

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