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00:01:00.000 Oh, okay. So I always thought it was weird. When I was learning English, I was like,

00:01:05.120 why is it called Labor Day?

00:01:07.780 Were you thinking of babies?

00:01:09.280 Yes. I was like confused for a while. Still confused a little bit on certain things.

00:01:14.300 That's so funny. Good morning, everybody. It's Labor Day.

00:01:17.740 I think we should celebrate women who go through labor. It's a hard thing. And I think it's very

00:01:22.240 well-deserving in praise.

00:01:24.080 What about the men?

00:01:25.240 Yeah. Don't forget the men.

00:01:26.800 um well the men are hopefully with their women when they're going through labor but

00:01:32.060 oh all right owen you're gonna get canceled all right good morning you guys it's erica we're here

00:01:39.820 at the scott adams school it is monday september 7th what is happening and um of course we're here

00:01:49.120 where else will we be you guys and oh here goes my things just kicking in okay so um for those of you

00:01:56.000 on Locals, you got to see little Stella this morning. She's sitting next to me with the window

00:02:01.320 open and the sun. I missed it. I put a picture in the Locals chat. Here, I'll do it again for

00:02:06.860 you right now. Ready? Here's a full body image. Okay. So the people on Locals, come over, you

00:02:13.240 guys. Subscribe to Locals. That's like Stella Meow tattoo. Oh, there she is. There she is.

00:02:20.040 she's sweet so um did you guys have a good weekend thus far owen how how were your shows

00:02:27.320 over the weekend they were great um we had a good time on the after party and the sunday

00:02:31.940 simultaneous sip and then we had a great subscriber spaces we're covering the book

00:02:37.360 great scott which is written by doc hypnosis he goes by bowtied trance on x that's his handle

00:02:43.140 um if you're typing it in and uh great follow and i i quote post him frequently because he

00:02:49.320 he well i i repost his quote posts of me i guess i'll say because he comments on a lot of my stories

00:02:54.120 but um you know he's uh he he was there so we got the author of the book with us so it was really

00:03:01.860 cool to be able to like have him ask us questions that he wanted to get feedback on and um be able

00:03:07.960 to ask him questions and get opinions about all the different things and it's all about scott

00:03:11.720 it's all about Scott out I mean this was the whole point of the book was um to capture all

00:03:17.280 of his wisdom and persuasion techniques and hypnotist techniques and things but specifically

00:03:23.280 from his show not from his books so anything that was in his books like how to fail and win big and

00:03:30.940 all that he left all that out you know even though he often mentioned those things on his show he just

00:03:36.320 left that part out but he went through a whole bunch of his shows and identified all these things

00:03:40.320 that he did um and captured them all in a book just mostly for himself i think but he's like you

00:03:45.660 know that all the sippers would love this and so he really wrote the book for us all right and so

00:03:50.880 it's just kind of a really cool you know thing all sorts of things coming together and it was a lot

00:03:55.600 of fun and i think he might be back next week if you want to join us excellent you guys so take a

00:04:00.880 look at that and i want to say happy birthday crusher's dad 102 wow wow amazing happy birthday

00:04:07.940 happy birthday um marcella how's your weekend thus far very restful thank you very much good

00:04:14.520 girl okay time for the sip now what do we need to have the best day ever yeah you know you know

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00:04:55.500 Delicious. Oh, okay. Bye, Owen. Owen's been having a little problem with his camera or something.

00:05:03.780 like, okay, you guys, listen, we are going to do some rapid fire news today. And we have a nice

00:05:10.520 lengthy whiteboard with Scott Adams. I'm so excited about because we haven't seen enough of him. So

00:05:17.160 let me grab Owen. But first, you guys, look at how amazing this is. I might have to

00:05:22.920 lower the music. Let me do a do-si-do. Hold on. 0.90

00:05:28.020 I don't know what happened. I just, all of a sudden I was off the stream.

00:05:31.560 And there he went.

00:05:32.720 All right.

00:05:32.920 So, oh, and look at this.

00:05:34.860 Look at this ingenious person feeding their squirrels and being entertained. 0.95

00:05:43.740 I had to lower the music. 1.00

00:05:45.600 She puts the food in these little masks.

00:05:52.660 I'm obsessed with this.

00:05:54.100 You guys, I feed my squirrels and chipmunks like every day.

00:05:57.440 And I'm like, oh, I should get more creative.

00:05:59.720 so oh my god is that the best

00:06:02.720 I can hear Andy Wang now

00:06:06.100 calling them like rats

00:06:07.880 and all this other stuff

00:06:09.080 you gotta up your game Erica

00:06:10.740 I really do I really do

00:06:12.880 because I've decided that squirrels

00:06:15.320 are my new favorite animal

00:06:16.280 yep I said it

00:06:17.620 oh cats are gonna have an issue

00:06:20.160 I mean I shouldn't say favorite

00:06:22.160 cutest they are so

00:06:24.500 cute

00:06:25.720 as far as outdoor rodents go

00:06:28.020 I think they're the best

00:06:29.720 What about the chipmunks?

00:06:30.680 They're cute, too.

00:06:31.400 Anyway.

00:06:32.500 But what do you think?

00:06:33.580 I thought you just said squirrels were your favorite.

00:06:35.280 I love all animals.

00:06:37.080 I do, too.

00:06:37.780 But I think squirrels are the cutest, for sure.

00:06:40.300 I don't see chipmunks very often around where I live.

00:06:42.800 Oh.

00:06:43.880 You know what?

00:06:44.560 While Owen's doing the news, not to distract,

00:06:46.840 I'm going to drop some pictures of my chipmunks and squirrels in the chat on Locals.

00:06:52.260 But, Owen, all right.

00:06:54.140 Rapid fire us.

00:06:55.140 We only have about 15 minutes before we get to Scott. 0.99

00:06:58.600 And and so you're going to help us not be suckers and losers. 0.79

00:07:01.820 And you're going to teach us some things that happened over the weekend that we need to know. 0.95

00:07:05.900 All right. Well, there's apparently Canada is trying to mess with our elections. 0.97

00:07:11.640 They apparently have come out right out and said that they're putting tariffs on our seafood to try and swing the main election to keep Susan Collins from winning.

00:07:20.720 so they apparently half of our lobsters in maine go to canada and they're putting a big tariff on

00:07:26.600 it and a bunch of other seafood so that they're they're literally hoping it's just going to swing

00:07:31.340 the election i'll buy more lobsters if it helps yeah well i mean maybe we should i mean i don't

00:07:37.460 know but um yeah it's kind of blatant though it's like they don't even hide it you know they're

00:07:42.060 basically saying explicitly like they're trying to put political pressure on the midterms with this

00:07:47.540 so um would you say it's fair to say that we're in a war with canada

00:07:54.520 uh politically yes i would say so yeah i mean you know depends on how you define war again but

00:08:01.500 if you take the more expansive view which includes economic war and information war and all the other

00:08:06.560 things then i would say sure yeah we are yeah you know you could call it a trade war if you want but

00:08:10.820 i think it's more than just trade yep okay well you know canada you're a mess did you see the

00:08:18.360 the post of uh of trump he made a post of the i guess prime minister of canada and and they were

00:08:25.920 like playing hockey him trump and then the the whatever he is carney was in his own and it said

00:08:33.640 governor over him so i don't consider a war if it's you're defending against something small

00:08:41.380 but anyways yeah some experts are considering it a war so i'm just like oh boy i mean please 0.97

00:08:48.080 no more foolish canada yeah they are foolish and by the way the pictures on locals of your 0.98

00:08:55.040 squirrels you guys are amazing thank you um all right owen so canada is still obnoxious and car 0.99

00:09:02.260 knees upset because we're memeing him we're we're doing memes of him and he doesn't like it so

00:09:07.540 so meme away what lake lake america and yeah yeah it's kind of fun to watch did you see the the the

00:09:16.420 new america new mexico new america now it's going to be new america i mean trump just has to say

00:09:24.300 anything and people lose their minds so he wants to switch new mexico to new america yeah i i would

00:09:31.560 point out that like i think he does this literally to just pull people's chains and to get them

00:09:37.440 focused on those things while he is doing everything else he wants to get done because

00:09:40.920 if you're focused on that and you're outraged about that and you're posting about that

00:09:44.180 you're not posting about whatever else is happening in the background and so whatever

00:09:48.500 else trump wants to get done without too much scrutiny it's just getting done so whether it's

00:09:53.820 h1bs or whatever else he's doing you know people aren't talking about that stuff just rename

00:09:58.600 everything yeah so i like the name new america it sounds good but like okay i i kind of just think

00:10:07.540 it's already america how is it new america like what that doesn't make any sense old mexico

00:10:14.900 i always thought it was weird that there was a state in america named new mexico right that's

00:10:22.600 just my thought as a foreigner new england and new hampshire and like we have a lot of those

00:10:27.900 where it's basically the new version of some other country or place derived from england as a

00:10:34.220 customs and all that but that part of america derived from mexico we took it

00:10:39.500 yeah so when you take something you can rename it right but we named it new anyway it's fine i

00:10:46.140 i think it's fun i love seeing it i love seeing people's head blown off and all that you know

00:10:50.380 just like blowing up because they're not able to handle it i think we purchased it though didn't

00:10:56.380 we yeah some of it we purchased some of it we took i mean manifest destiny you know eventually

00:11:02.680 we'll probably have all of mexico we'll see and we bought new jersey too so there you go somebody

00:11:08.580 actually paid for this um and now we're paying for it trust me um have you ever been to jersey

00:11:15.080 the original jersey no i haven't i don't even know where that is it's actually in england i think this

00:11:20.760 is also jersey just so you know okay if you live here you're in jersey all right all right well so

00:11:27.180 there's next story a customs immigration i guess an immigration officer uscis whatever that is

00:11:32.880 immigration service he was caught uh taking bribes imagine that um he took nearly a million

00:11:40.140 dollars to approve immigration applications from africans uh the guy's name is lookman

00:11:46.100 Owolabi Ghaniyu

00:11:48.420 and he apparently had a

00:11:50.700 partner in crime named

00:11:51.880 Adeni Akim Samoye

00:11:54.900 I'm probably doing just as bad as

00:11:56.740 Scott at pronouncing those

00:11:58.140 but apparently between

00:12:00.040 2019 and 2026 they took in like

00:12:02.640 a million dollars

00:12:03.620 How did they catch him?

00:12:06.680 Does it say?

00:12:07.940 Well I don't know exactly how they caught him. They did say that

00:12:10.600 this Ghaniyu guy resigned

00:12:12.400 quoting personal reasons

00:12:14.120 so maybe they were wondering why he quit I don't know but I know it they they said it was through

00:12:19.920 like Venmo and you know some of the like cash app and stuff like that so I'm guessing they

00:12:24.560 tracked down the money duh I mean but his salary was 68 000 and he took like a million in bribes

00:12:32.880 so I you know probably caught somebody's notice I think we need to vet people a lot better in

00:12:40.180 these probably signs that he was becoming a millionaire yeah the maserati he pulled up in

00:12:46.280 or something yeah they were arrested september 2nd they're going to face up to five years in prison

00:12:51.620 and five years that's it uh that's what it says for conspiracy to receive illegal gratuities by

00:12:58.140 a public official so i don't know maybe there's some different law standard they give to public

00:13:04.120 officials that makes it easier on them i don't know okay i wouldn't be surprised but at least

00:13:09.440 they'll be going away and i'm guessing they'll have to give the money back i'm not really sure

00:13:12.460 how that works but it doesn't really talk about that all right well if he goes to jail i mean i

00:13:17.720 five years marcella to me that's like life in prison the way we do things here so that's going

00:13:22.520 to be good at least five years instead of he just got a slap on the wrist and he won't do it again

00:13:28.040 okay owen go ahead all right so asylum um apparently is not going well for people now

00:13:35.560 9 out of 10 asylum cases are denied

00:13:38.240 Only 771 people were actually granted asylum in June

00:13:43.200 Less than a quarter of the total from three years ago

00:13:47.140 And 94% were denied

00:13:50.160 So basically, everybody's getting sent back

00:13:53.720 And grants fell even as the number of asylum decisions grew 1.00

00:13:59.000 And it looks like it's just a good trend 1.00

00:14:02.620 So I'm hoping that'll continue

00:14:03.920 and people realize that you can't just you know apply for asylum and get it um that you're most

00:14:10.080 likely not gonna even get anything so you may as well not try that's my hope right okay well that's

00:14:16.400 something it still seems like a lot to me but what do i know so 771 in a month that seems like a lot

00:14:22.160 yeah that's a lot yeah well i don't know maybe they were all from south africa well i want i'm

00:14:28.880 just like yeah where are they from and like what was the story and why didn't they stop somewhere

00:14:33.280 closer in other country yeah yeah i mean i know i know trump did make some special thing for

00:14:38.780 south africa to let the farmers come here and all that but um i don't know if that was the

00:14:44.460 ones that's in the 771 but marcel we should handle this stuff we'd be like absolutely yeah

00:14:50.720 like it's that would be fun if we could volunteer to just like adjudicate reality show yeah like

00:14:57.200 let us be like guest be apprentice but asylum style like a judge judy sort of show and just

00:15:03.620 be like nope sorry you're going back it would have to make sense no but it's like i'm sending

00:15:09.300 you to el salvador countries between between here and there well salvador is not bad anymore so

00:15:14.660 send me back send me back um yeah i'm with you marcella there's way too many countries that they

00:15:21.720 pass over that's the thing even south africa i understand you know but it's like there's so many

00:15:26.920 other countries here South Africa. Yeah. All right. Go ahead, Ellen. So Homeland Security

00:15:35.020 Secretary Mark Gwain-Mullen, he's kind of questioning why these sanctuary cities are

00:15:39.260 still getting federal airport money when they're not playing by the rules. So it looks like they

00:15:44.720 are looking at various ways to maybe take away some money from the sanctuary cities. And I'm all

00:15:49.540 for it. Yeah. I think we should use the leverage we have. I think it's been a strong precedent

00:15:54.480 with past administrations where there's lots of things, lots of strings attached to the money

00:16:00.060 that says you got to do all the stuff we tell you to do. Otherwise, we're not going to give you the

00:16:03.520 money. Now, if I could do away with all this federal money and control, I'd much rather have

00:16:08.440 that. But while we have this system, I'd rather use the power that we have. Yeah. But do we?

00:16:17.180 Well, I think the history has been that a lot of times Republicans don't. And I think I'm kind

00:16:22.080 of applauding this, that they're actually using the power they have. So I want to have them keep

00:16:26.700 going. And I think, you know, if anything, it'll either result in doing away with that power,

00:16:33.160 because they realize, hey, whenever a Republican gets in now, we're going to have all these bad

00:16:36.680 things happen. And we're going to have to change what we do. Or they're going to realize we should

00:16:40.520 give the power back to the states. And, you know, personally, that might not benefit me because

00:16:44.920 where I live. But, you know, I'd still probably be okay with it just to say, let the states decide

00:16:51.180 and not have all this federal control and, you know, money going back and forth to have that

00:16:56.700 control. Cause that seems to be really what it is. It's like we, they take a bunch of taxes into

00:17:01.200 the federal government and then they give it back to the States, but they also say, okay,

00:17:05.640 you only get it if you do all these things for us. Right. Right. I don't know. I, sometimes I'm

00:17:12.720 like for, I'm for small government and for everybody leaving us alone, period. But sometimes

00:17:20.060 I'm just like the states, depending on what state you live in, right? What you're going to get. And

00:17:25.540 then it's like, well, people are like, well, you can move. I'm like, I can't move like every four

00:17:28.780 years, depending on, you know, like, what are you nuts? You can't just move. So anyway, it's hard.

00:17:38.820 Actually, if you own a business in that state. Yeah. And your whole life's here, but I don't

00:17:44.160 know. I want everyone to stop treading on me. Okay. So I've got a couple of fake news stories.

00:17:48.680 one is this amy acton thing i don't know if you've seen that where there's this accusation that

00:17:53.240 someone tried to kill her um but i have an update the gateway pundit amy acton who is amy acton it's

00:18:01.240 a democrat politician i don't know but um no wonder i don't know it's uh it's ohio um and

00:18:09.080 so apparently someone like charged forward and shoved through the crowd but and and the person

00:18:15.240 had guns but they were holstered they never came out they didn't find him until after they arrested

00:18:20.120 the guy but the the story that amy acton sold was that it was an assassination attempt so it's total

00:18:26.200 fake news it's like did they know for sure if it could have been you know no because i think the

00:18:32.360 person was literally just like trying to shove to get a better position and he might have been a

00:18:36.880 heckler but like there's no indication that there was any violence intended are you allowed in ohio

00:18:41.580 to Carrie?

00:18:43.260 Yeah, he had a permit. It was all legal.

00:18:45.700 It was all legal.

00:18:48.000 So there's some

00:18:49.500 fake news for you. If you see that Amy Acton

00:18:51.420 story floating around, you can correct it

00:18:53.300 and say it wasn't what people say

00:18:55.360 it is.

00:18:57.200 She's trying to frame it as, oh, someone tried

00:18:59.360 to kill me.

00:19:00.460 Is this the drunk-sounding lady? 1.00

00:19:05.340 Amy Acton in Ohio? We'll play her 1.00

00:19:07.360 tomorrow. Don't they all sound like that?

00:19:08.720 I mean, this woman. 1.00

00:19:09.680 oh scott is she the one with crazy eyes it'd be like yes she's like we also have the the u.n

00:19:17.360 that's saying he's claiming that 14 000 babies in gaza are going to die in 48 hours if they don't do

00:19:22.960 something who is claiming that there's a u.n official tom fletcher he's the under secretary

00:19:30.080 for humanitarian affairs he said on bbc radio that 14 000 babies were going to die in the next 48

00:19:34.880 hours unless we can reach them sounds pretty bad but then does he know unicef apparently estimates

00:19:41.460 there's only 20 000 babies in all of gaza and apparently the finding that he's referring to

00:19:47.020 is that 14 000 malnutrition cases might occur among one million children over the next year

00:19:53.180 if aid did not arrive so complete fake news he's just trying to make it seem like a genocide in

00:20:00.940 gaza and it's not anything like that all right i don't even know what to say about it no just

00:20:09.320 pointing out the fake they don't die so there you go all right well i know it's it's uh 20 after and

00:20:14.620 you wanted to get to scott look at you owen just boom i like it thank you that was fun let's do

00:20:21.520 this again tomorrow no okay so we have a nice long clip you guys get your coffee ready we're

00:20:29.280 going to take little notes. We're going to listen. I've got my little ear things in. I'll have Scott

00:20:34.400 delivered right into my ears here. And then on the other side, we'll come back and talk. Okay. So

00:20:39.680 what time is it now? 1020. We'll see you in 27 or so minutes. Let's go. Enjoy.

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00:21:48.100 Sort of a dismal year,

00:21:49.660 according to everybody who gets polled on the subject,

00:21:54.640 you might be wondering what would be an optimistic, useful way to go into 2022.

00:22:01.740 How can we reboot our minds and get us in the right frame

00:22:06.900 to really take on the challenges of the coming year?

00:22:12.120 And I'm going to help you do that.

00:22:13.740 and I'm going to use a little thing I like to call the whiteboard and let me tell you where

00:22:24.900 this all started. Some of you know I keep complaining that I continuously have the

00:22:31.760 same type of problem no matter where I live or what house which is a continuous stream of

00:22:38.620 no pun intended, water-related problems.

00:22:42.240 Now, they don't seem to be related to construction,

00:22:45.600 and they're not any kind of common thing that's happening.

00:22:49.020 For example, the town's connection to me had a leak.

00:22:53.640 It wasn't my fault. The town fixed it.

00:22:56.540 An old pump that was 30 years old

00:22:59.040 gave up its useful life in a well and just broke.

00:23:04.320 So there are a whole number of things that don't have anything in common.

00:23:07.660 And I was thinking to myself, how could it possibly be in this reality that I have this same problem for decades, just nonstop, wherever I live?

00:23:21.060 It's like one after another.

00:23:22.940 And other people have other themes.

00:23:25.760 I'm going to call it a theme.

00:23:27.880 So I have this water leak theme that follows me wherever I go.

00:23:31.580 Other people have a theme of certain relationship patterns they run into

00:23:37.460 or certain specific kinds of bad luck.

00:23:41.400 And I don't have any of that.

00:23:43.460 So they don't have any of my water theme.

00:23:46.940 I don't have any of their theme.

00:23:48.940 And what would explain that?

00:23:51.260 And I'm going to give you a few views of the world that explain that.

00:23:56.320 You get to pick which one you like.

00:23:58.000 And one of the lessons here is that they all work.

00:24:04.400 Are you ready for this?

00:24:05.800 All right.

00:24:07.040 So here are some different views of the world.

00:24:10.140 And as you're going into 2022, if you're aware of them, you'll be better equipped because you can pick the one that works best.

00:24:19.160 Now, this starts with the assumption that the human brain is not evolved or designed, whichever you prefer.

00:24:28.000 to understand reality there's no reason to believe it would be in fact if reality were as big as a

00:24:34.800 beach ball what would make us think that we understand more than let's say a bb-sized

00:24:42.240 percentage of it there's no reason to think that and in fact when we look at our own past we see

00:24:48.560 how much smarter we get all the time there's no reason to think we sort of reached the the pinnacle

00:24:54.480 of our smartness. And there's no reason to think that when we do, we'll have anywhere near an

00:25:01.940 accurate idea of this thing we call reality. Not really much chance of that at all. And in fact,

00:25:08.580 we all walk around in different realities, if you consider just the major religions.

00:25:14.700 If somebody is walking around in a, let's say, Islamic reality, meaning that their view of the 0.93

00:25:20.820 reality they're in contains a certain kind of a god and situation that's very different than the

00:25:27.660 atheist or the Christian or the Buddhist. These are very different realities because what you

00:25:33.940 feel and think about your reality is your reality for all practical purposes. So here are a few,

00:25:40.560 here's just a tour of the realities that you see all the time. We'll say one is the prayer reality

00:25:48.120 or the God reality, whatever you like.

00:25:51.200 It's the idea that you might be able to guide reality

00:25:54.680 or guide your future, if you will, by praying

00:25:58.580 or, more generally, by adhering to certain religious practices.

00:26:05.200 Now, do people who do this seem to have a good outcome?

00:26:09.860 Actually, they do.

00:26:11.180 It turns out there's a pretty high correlation

00:26:13.100 between believing that the prayer God model

00:26:17.820 is the correct view of the world,

00:26:20.820 these people do seem to have better outcomes.

00:26:24.720 Now, it could be correlation.

00:26:26.860 It could be causation.

00:26:28.920 We're not going to talk about that yet.

00:26:30.920 It's just a different view of the world.

00:26:33.500 Then there's the just physics crowd,

00:26:36.000 the people who say it's just the laws of physics.

00:26:39.220 Stuff is bumping into other stuff.

00:26:41.100 It doesn't have much to do with anything else.

00:26:43.680 And then there's what I call the Dr. Richard Wiseman view of things, which I learned a few years ago.

00:26:56.140 So Dr. Richard Wiseman did some trials, some tests on people, and determined, or at least this is his hypothesis,

00:27:05.320 is that the people who could be trained to expect luck actually noticed more opportunities.

00:27:14.560 So expecting luck tunes your brain to spot luck.

00:27:19.300 Now, I'm shortening and summarizing and paraphrasing his body of work,

00:27:24.780 so I may be missing some nuance.

00:27:27.340 But the basic idea is that you can tune your brain to notice things.

00:27:32.440 Now, is that a radical idea?

00:27:35.020 Did you really need to do any science

00:27:36.980 to know that you can tune your brain to notice things?

00:27:40.140 Let me ask you this.

00:27:41.020 Have you ever had a situation where a friend of yours got a certain car, or just somebody you know, and because they got that car, you started noticing that model car everywhere, right?

00:27:56.360 You've all had the experience.

00:27:58.160 Simply the very experience of just having somebody close to you get a certain model of vehicle that's a little uncommon completely tunes your brain and instantly to notice them everywhere.

00:28:10.400 So is it any accident that the people who expect luck,

00:28:16.880 in other words, the optimists,

00:28:18.620 if they expect luck, is it any coincidence that they notice it?

00:28:23.560 No.

00:28:24.540 Because we know in a variety of ways

00:28:26.940 you can tune your brain to notice the things that you want it to notice.

00:28:32.080 Now you can just put a focus on things.

00:28:34.700 Whatever you're talking about focusing on,

00:28:36.940 that's what you notice.

00:28:38.080 All right?

00:28:39.200 So that's one view of the world.

00:28:42.120 Now, you've also heard of affirmations,

00:28:44.100 the idea that you could somehow steer your fate

00:28:47.080 in some magical way that's hard to explain

00:28:49.380 by just repeating something such as,

00:28:53.080 I, Scott Adams, will be a number one best-selling author,

00:28:56.820 which is one I actually did

00:28:58.060 before I became a number one best-selling author.

00:29:02.320 Coincidence or causation.

00:29:04.900 We're not talking about that.

00:29:06.640 So that's not the topic yet.

00:29:08.820 It's just one way to see the world.

00:29:10.660 Does it work?

00:29:11.860 Hard to know.

00:29:13.360 I don't know if there's any way to know.

00:29:15.200 But I can tell you that people have the sensation that it works.

00:29:19.580 In other words, their subjective reality, and this would include me,

00:29:23.900 my subjective reality is that it works.

00:29:26.840 Could I prove it?

00:29:27.960 I doubt it.

00:29:29.240 Would any science support it?

00:29:31.460 I don't know.

00:29:31.940 So maybe not beyond the Weisman idea of tuning your brain to notice things.

00:29:39.000 Now you've heard of the law of attraction, similar thing to affirmations,

00:29:42.340 the power of positive thinking.

00:29:44.360 The power of positive thinking, huge best-selling book from years ago.

00:29:49.520 The idea that you could just think positively and somehow that would translate it to the real world

00:29:55.620 through people responding to you or maybe something else.

00:30:00.060 and somehow you could get a better outcome just by positivity.

00:30:05.120 Now, those things always existed in the realm of magical thinking.

00:30:10.760 Can we agree?

00:30:12.320 If you talk to a skeptic, if you talk to the just physics people,

00:30:16.560 they'd say, there's no mechanism for any of that to work.

00:30:20.980 There's sort of an air gap.

00:30:22.860 There's no physics that gets the stuff out of your head

00:30:26.060 and into the real world.

00:30:27.240 Or is there?

00:30:31.780 Enter the simulation theory.

00:30:34.200 Elon Musk being a famous proponent of it.

00:30:37.780 I'm another one, less famous,

00:30:40.040 but just as enthusiastic about the idea that we live in a simulation.

00:30:45.320 Now, we would not know the nature of the simulation,

00:30:49.060 but we would have reason to believe

00:30:51.340 that if you change your perceptions,

00:30:55.560 focus them, change your filters,

00:30:58.440 change what matters to you, change what you expect,

00:31:01.740 change your intentions, all words around the same things,

00:31:05.740 change your prayers, change your expectations.

00:31:08.500 If you were to do those things,

00:31:11.120 could they influence the simulation?

00:31:15.700 Or would it just look like it was happening?

00:31:19.040 Don't know.

00:31:20.800 It's not the question right now.

00:31:24.560 So the idea, simply as a competing idea for how to describe reality,

00:31:31.860 is that if you expect luck, it's not just that you notice it.

00:31:37.440 That's a different idea.

00:31:39.980 In this model, expecting luck via affirmations,

00:31:45.420 which would be a part of positivity, generally speaking,

00:31:49.720 the law of attraction, the power of positive thinking,

00:31:51.920 that all of these are ways to focus expectations,

00:31:57.240 or you could call it intentions.

00:32:00.940 And once you focus them, you get your luck.

00:32:04.860 But, back to my original point,

00:32:08.480 why is it that people have themes in their life?

00:32:12.400 Why do I always have leaks, water problems,

00:32:16.940 wherever I live, all the time?

00:32:20.480 But other people don't.

00:32:21.920 And why do they have problems that repeat and repeat and repeat

00:32:25.280 for reasons that you can't see any causation?

00:32:30.000 Well, one thing that those things have in common is

00:32:32.740 everywhere I go, I expect water leaks if I own it.

00:32:41.680 Before the first water leak I ever had,

00:32:45.240 the first time I owned a property,

00:32:48.000 because I'd had some rentals, I had some water leaks,

00:32:50.280 when I was a renter.

00:32:53.300 And when I bought one, I thought,

00:32:54.580 man, what would be the biggest problem

00:32:56.760 I could possibly have?

00:32:58.540 And then I had it.

00:33:00.360 And then the next time, I think,

00:33:02.440 God, I know, I'd hate to have that twice

00:33:05.600 because how bad would that be

00:33:07.120 to have the biggest problem in the world twice?

00:33:10.220 And then I did.

00:33:12.320 So one way to explain all of this

00:33:16.140 is that whether you're putting negative

00:33:18.740 or positive expectations into the universe

00:33:22.500 or just into your mind

00:33:24.520 or just into your subjective experience

00:33:27.220 that you're going to get what you put out

00:33:30.320 and that there's a direct correlation

00:33:33.100 between whether you're thinking positively

00:33:37.100 and how your experience is

00:33:39.140 and whether you're thinking negatively.

00:33:42.160 So the only thing I would put out there

00:33:44.060 is don't get locked into

00:33:45.940 imagining there's only one filter on the world.

00:33:49.560 You can reframe your experience

00:33:51.720 to the one that predicts best

00:33:53.960 or gives you the best life.

00:33:56.460 If, for example, you're one of the people

00:33:58.680 who has been praying and you're quite happy with it

00:34:02.220 and it seems to be giving you good results,

00:34:05.580 maybe it is.

00:34:06.820 Maybe that's exactly what's happening.

00:34:09.380 Keep doing that.

00:34:10.900 That's working.

00:34:12.660 But if you would rather have, let's say,

00:34:17.180 something more like a scientific-y explanation

00:34:19.900 of why your positivity seems to be helping,

00:34:23.520 you could use Dr. Wiseman's idea

00:34:25.900 that you're simply tuning your brain in a very ordinary way,

00:34:29.860 that we can all demonstrate 100 different ways is easy to do.

00:34:33.920 And of course, you're going to see more luck opportunities.

00:34:38.120 So why wouldn't that cause you more luck?

00:34:40.000 But if you want to get a little bit more, let's say, speculative, if you wanted to be a little bit more optimistic, if you wanted to see if you could make 2022 off the hook, you're not limited to all of these worldviews.

00:35:05.760 you could take the world view

00:35:07.380 that you can put your intention out there

00:35:11.180 and it will change your actual environment.

00:35:18.240 Now, if we are nothing but a physical world,

00:35:22.180 just like the scientists say,

00:35:24.680 that's not going to work,

00:35:27.360 except in the limited way that you'll notice more opportunities,

00:35:31.760 which could be very good.

00:35:33.440 Don't want to minimize that.

00:35:34.640 But it won't work like magic, right?

00:35:38.560 However, if we live in a simulation,

00:35:42.580 and the argument for the simulation is

00:35:44.620 that if anybody builds one,

00:35:47.120 they're not going to stop at one.

00:35:49.240 So there should be far more simulations

00:35:51.580 who believe they're real

00:35:53.400 than real original species.

00:35:55.900 So the odds are far and away

00:35:59.220 that this model is true.

00:36:02.460 And if it's true,

00:36:03.520 it would explain why our intentions that we put into it

00:36:08.680 are exactly what we get out.

00:36:11.300 You want to hear another one?

00:36:13.580 What was the biggest fear about the mandates

00:36:17.820 and restrictions of COVID in 2021?

00:36:22.280 What did we obsess on?

00:36:25.520 Is the government going to increase our mandates?

00:36:29.680 Is the virus going to mutate?

00:36:31.420 exactly what happened in the world

00:36:34.780 were all the intentions we put into it.

00:36:39.160 Could it be that they were just good ideas

00:36:41.980 and therefore there's nothing magical about it?

00:36:45.120 They were just good ideas.

00:36:46.600 Of course you worry about the variant.

00:36:49.460 Of course you worry about government taking too much control.

00:36:54.160 But ask yourself,

00:36:55.220 is it a coincidence we got what all of us put into it

00:36:59.900 in terms of our worst fears and expectations.

00:37:05.120 I would just want you to be open to the possibility

00:37:09.680 that we can intend ourselves a 2022 that's just crazy good.

00:37:18.880 It won't be for everybody. It doesn't work that way.

00:37:22.380 But I think we have come to the point in civilization

00:37:28.080 where we've seen so many things

00:37:30.660 that we thought were absolutely, probably true

00:37:32.980 turn out not to be true.

00:37:36.520 We've seen Yanni and Laurel.

00:37:39.500 We've seen in a million different ways,

00:37:41.480 a lot of it started with the Trump experience,

00:37:44.420 that there's no such thing as a fact anymore.

00:37:48.120 There's no such thing as confidence in science.

00:37:51.180 There's no data we trust.

00:37:53.000 Even when we have the same data, we interpret it differently.

00:37:55.940 We understand at a far deeper level right now that we're living in a deeply, deeply subjective experience in a way that we never really fully appreciated.

00:38:09.220 Yes, everybody knew they were having their own little experience, but not at the level we understand it today.

00:38:16.680 It's completely different.

00:38:18.140 And that's when you open yourselves up to the possibility

00:38:23.500 that you're putting your intentions into reality,

00:38:28.300 whether that reality is imagined,

00:38:31.860 and it's the one you're going to experience,

00:38:34.060 or real, if that even means anything.

00:38:37.280 I'm not sure it matters.

00:38:39.140 It might also not matter if it's causal.

00:38:44.100 it might be just good enough

00:38:48.040 that your experience seems to benefit from it.

00:38:52.480 So even causation may not mean the same thing

00:38:55.420 if you're in the simulation.

00:38:58.180 And the simulation does explain almost,

00:39:03.020 or really, I think, everything that we experience.

00:39:05.960 Does it make it true?

00:39:08.240 Doesn't matter.

00:39:09.720 Because we don't have access to truth.

00:39:11.840 If we could check it,

00:39:14.100 That'd be great, because I'd want to check it, too.

00:39:17.720 But you can't check it.

00:39:19.140 You can't check any of these.

00:39:20.760 You can be really sure, and you can call your preference,

00:39:25.260 and you can live with it, and you can make it work.

00:39:27.440 These are all good methods, by the way.

00:39:29.540 I wouldn't say that one is worse than the others.

00:39:31.700 The only one that's limited is the physics-only people.

00:39:37.540 They do at least take off the table

00:39:40.460 the possibility that there's something about reality

00:39:43.760 that they don't understand and could be useful.

00:39:48.860 I think that the physics-only people take that option off the table.

00:39:55.020 And one imagines that that could cause a difference in their outcomes.

00:39:59.980 And so one thing that you could do to test this

00:40:02.760 is you could find the people who say,

00:40:05.940 no, there's nothing to the world but cause and effect

00:40:08.360 where nothing but particles bumping into each other.

00:40:11.260 And then see how they do.

00:40:13.760 Compare them to the people who maybe are just as smart,

00:40:17.700 let's say just as well-trained in engineering or science,

00:40:21.700 but in addition to having that view,

00:40:24.500 are open to the simulation

00:40:27.160 and with it the fact that your intentions

00:40:31.420 can change your experience.

00:40:34.620 Just compare those two groups,

00:40:37.060 the people who think there's nothing else but particles bumping

00:40:39.800 and the people who think their intentions

00:40:41.840 and their positivity can change their experience

00:40:44.260 and then just measure their outcomes after 20 years.

00:40:49.600 And that, ladies and gentlemen,

00:40:54.800 is your positive message for the end of 2021

00:40:58.440 and the beginning of 2022.

00:41:00.220 To summarize, don't assume

00:41:03.420 that you can't make your reality better.

00:41:07.000 If not in some real sense,

00:41:10.100 certainly in a subjective sense.

00:41:14.620 Remember, you are not the result of other people's actions.

00:41:20.900 You're not the victim of them.

00:41:22.960 You're the author of your reality.

00:41:26.640 If somebody does something that makes you really mad,

00:41:30.260 you have the option of not being mad.

00:41:35.920 It doesn't feel like it, does it?

00:41:38.760 But you do.

00:41:40.100 And the more times you remind yourself that that horrible feeling you're having

00:41:46.380 is actually not the only feeling you could be having under exactly the same situation.

00:41:54.840 You just have to remind yourself that there's not one way to see the world.

00:42:00.660 You're not stuck in a physical world if you don't want to be.

00:42:04.320 You can manage your intentions by just managing what I call your shelf space, which is the amount of time you focus on good things versus bad things.

00:42:17.200 If you focus on all the bad, you might attract it.

00:42:22.420 That's one theory.

00:42:23.580 I'm not saying that's true.

00:42:25.420 Or you might focus on it more, and that's going to cause your brain to be rewired to notice more of it.

00:42:32.380 So, if you spend your time consuming negative content, you should expect to have a less good experience.

00:42:41.800 If tonight you were thinking, I think I'll watch a nice crime drama in which bad things happen to people,

00:42:49.580 don't expect good things to happen to you at the same rate as people who decided that a good form of entertainment would be comedy or music, for example.

00:43:00.560 Just assume that everything that's going in is changing your filters.

00:43:05.460 And it's going to change your filters for you if you don't do the changing yourself.

00:43:10.360 So if you just see yourself as a tuning device that can either be tuned randomly or can be tuned intentionally, tune it intentionally.

00:43:22.980 That's the idea of talent stacks, is to intentionally tune your talents so you can do a variety of things.

00:43:32.220 And this is a technique for tuning your brain to be more efficient.

00:43:37.640 So when I talk about being the author of the simulation, you being the author of your subjective experience, this is what I mean.

00:43:46.520 tuning the brain to be more receptive to the good stuff

00:43:51.520 and less receptive to the bad stuff.

00:43:54.060 And it doesn't require anything harder

00:43:56.780 than how much time you spend thinking about each.

00:44:01.640 Now you say to yourself,

00:44:03.020 but Scott, I can't control my thoughts.

00:44:06.400 Yes, you can.

00:44:07.600 You can control your thoughts.

00:44:09.400 But you have to do it indirectly.

00:44:11.940 Here's how I controlled my thoughts yesterday.

00:44:14.140 feeling like I was having a lot of bad luck

00:44:18.480 and everything was sort of going against me.

00:44:21.640 Then I realized that it had been raining for days

00:44:24.060 and I'd been trapped indoors with construction noise

00:44:27.340 for eight hours a day.

00:44:29.800 And so the first time that the sun came out,

00:44:32.020 I walked outside and within one block of my home

00:44:35.940 realized I didn't have any problems.

00:44:39.540 And it was just sunshine.

00:44:40.480 I retuned my brain by bringing my body outside.

00:44:46.440 You could also retune your brain by exercise.

00:44:50.320 It's indirect, but it works every time.

00:44:54.400 If you're having...

00:44:55.920 Let me give you the best reframe you've ever had.

00:44:59.680 You ready?

00:45:01.700 Here's one to take into the next year.

00:45:04.760 When you have stress,

00:45:06.340 The common way to think of that is as a problem, almost like a health problem.

00:45:12.700 Well, really, it is a health problem.

00:45:14.560 And something that's this horrible thing.

00:45:19.340 Do you know what I think of when I have stress?

00:45:22.640 I think, today's the day I'm really going to exercise well.

00:45:27.980 Stress is your body's way of telling you you haven't exercised enough today.

00:45:34.060 Now, is that oversimplifying?

00:45:35.620 Yes, that's what a frame does.

00:45:37.680 It's an oversimplification that's useful.

00:45:40.560 It's something you tell yourself

00:45:42.620 to put yourself in a completely different frame of mind.

00:45:47.060 Stress, after work, you come home full of stress,

00:45:51.620 how far are you going to run that day if you're a runner

00:45:54.300 or bike or whatever it is you do?

00:45:56.320 How much are you going to lift?

00:45:57.880 More, right?

00:45:59.780 And will it work?

00:46:01.460 Will it burn your stress off?

00:46:03.960 Yeah, every time.

00:46:05.400 It works every time.

00:46:07.320 So reframe your stress as haven't worked out enough.

00:46:11.620 How about if you can't sleep?

00:46:14.040 Have trouble sleeping?

00:46:15.960 I'll reframe that too.

00:46:17.580 You didn't work out enough.

00:46:19.640 Or you didn't work enough.

00:46:22.360 You don't have a problem sleeping.

00:46:24.180 You have a problem of not working hard enough.

00:46:27.180 Or working out hard enough.

00:46:29.800 Do you have a problem with eating?

00:46:34.760 No, you don't. You have a problem with your system.

00:46:38.780 Your system for diet is defective.

00:46:42.520 You don't have a problem with eating.

00:46:44.280 You don't love food too much.

00:46:46.360 It's true you love food.

00:46:48.460 But if you reframe it as, wait a minute,

00:46:50.840 my system for getting food into me is defective,

00:46:54.720 so what do I do to change the system?

00:46:57.500 You could read my book, How to Fail Almost Everything,

00:46:59.500 and still went big for more about that.

00:47:01.380 so in as 2022 comes at us it is time to take ourselves out of negativity mode because the

00:47:11.320 pandemic has done that to us we did it to ourselves and i think i'm one of the biggest

00:47:16.660 problems because i talk about the pandemic a lot you've seen a lot of people say scott scott

00:47:21.860 if you stop talking about it it will cease to be a problem and my rational brain says

00:47:29.060 that's not how it works.

00:47:32.440 Problems don't go away because you stop talking about them.

00:47:36.600 But that's not the only part of my brain.

00:47:39.720 There's also this part.

00:47:42.200 And part of it says, what if we stop talking about it?

00:47:47.120 What if we filled the shelf space?

00:47:51.600 What if we made everything else our priority for a while?

00:47:58.000 Would it go away?

00:47:59.060 At least in our subjective experience, it would.

00:48:04.060 I mean, you'd still have to remember to wear a mask

00:48:06.120 until they tell you that you're okay, whatever.

00:48:09.620 But your subjective experience would improve right away,

00:48:13.420 and maybe you can't rule it out.

00:48:18.240 You might change the world.

00:48:22.420 And so I leave you with this optimistic message for 2022.

00:48:27.520 I do actually believe that 2022 is going to be off the hook.

00:48:31.900 Like, really, really fun.

00:48:34.100 And, of course, we'll have our tragedies.

00:48:36.580 Of course, we'll have our challenges.

00:48:38.820 Those come along with the game.

00:48:40.940 But we're coming off two bad years, and we've got some energy to burn.

00:48:46.400 And we're ready to go.

00:48:48.880 So, Happy New Year to all of you.

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00:49:51.040 oh i love that who did not need that today i mean i could have used that any day and i will use it

00:50:02.960 every day moving forward that was such a good reminder and i was taking notes and remembering

00:50:09.440 and it's just also true and i find myself saying to friends constantly you know ask different

00:50:16.960 questions to the universe. Like, like Scott said, you know, oh, how bad would it be to have a water

00:50:23.140 leak? And then the universe is like, oh, here, I'll show you. Here's your water leak. But if you

00:50:27.960 said like, how great would it be that I'm never going to have water leaks, then maybe you're not

00:50:33.640 going to have them, but what you think about you bring about. So, um, Marcella, I'll come to you

00:50:38.280 first. I mean, such good reminders for everybody on this planet, right? Yeah. I miss him so much

00:50:45.620 when you when you hear him um yeah 2022 was off the hook too so um i just um try a little i try a

00:50:56.860 little of everything that he put on that board uh expect luck pray affirmations maybe not all at

00:51:03.960 once you guys but because your brain's gonna get scattered but um i'm a believer of the simulation

00:51:10.000 so that that kind of takes it off uh different but you know if you believe in in something else

00:51:16.900 then you can believe in that uh but i think it's what you bring in um the world is a mirror

00:51:23.220 and we're there and whatever we show it is what comes to us what reflects back to us that's

00:51:29.880 what i'm what i believe yeah oh and your first thoughts yeah i think um what i would maybe add

00:51:37.100 to what scott was saying is that all these different perspectives or filters that he gave

00:51:41.820 us there they're not really mutually exclusive i mean with the exception of maybe the physics only

00:51:48.080 which is by nature you know excluding everything else um believing in god and praying and also

00:51:55.120 maybe believing in the simulation or also believing in affirmations or also you know like you can do

00:51:59.900 all that at once in my opinion and i do think it might help to your point marcella to not try to

00:52:06.680 like adopt all of them at once, because you're going to be trying to be like, okay, I should

00:52:10.760 pray and I should do affirmations and I should think about the simulation and I should expect

00:52:15.020 luck. And like, it's going to be difficult to follow. So focus on one thing. But I think,

00:52:20.560 you know, that that's the main thing. And maybe that's another point is just focus is, is maybe

00:52:26.660 an underlying message there that he didn't really talk about where it's like, if you do an

00:52:31.400 affirmation, you should focus on one thing at a time. You shouldn't do like 50 different

00:52:36.100 affirmations because the whole point of it is to focus your brain in one direction and so you

00:52:42.820 should try and focus on that one thing that you want to happen and you know maybe you could do

00:52:48.680 two or three I mean you're welcome to experiment I'm not an expert at all this stuff but like I

00:52:54.020 just think the mechanism as we understand it is more about focusing you in a in a single direction

00:53:01.260 so that you do notice opportunities or you do notice ways that you're more lucky or that you

00:53:07.780 are changing the way you feel about something or whatever it is. But the more effort you put in

00:53:12.380 that one direction, the farther you're going to go. And if you try and go in all kinds of directions

00:53:15.740 at once, you might just stand still. So I think that's, you know, another thing is just to pick

00:53:22.420 one filter and pick one thing to focus on at a time, at least. It doesn't mean you have to do

00:53:27.120 that one thing forever but you know if you do make progress in one area maybe you switch to

00:53:32.380 another area but i think at least don't pick too many things to focus on at once and i'm guilty of

00:53:38.260 that myself i probably have 150 projects going on right now that i have you know that i'm like

00:53:43.660 juggling all these different things partly because of all this ai stuff i'm doing but it's like okay

00:53:47.580 i gotta get this computer set up and i've gotta get my software factory done and i gotta get my

00:53:53.660 product built. But I would say I'm probably guilty of saying maybe it'd be better for me to focus on

00:53:59.680 just one thing, get that done, move on to the next thing. And I can't always do that because

00:54:05.400 I have all kinds of things coming at me from work where people expect me to do things by a certain

00:54:09.160 time and I can't just do one at a time all the time. But as long as you prioritize, you should

00:54:14.780 be able to say, okay, all that other stuff can wait. Let me focus on this one thing and get it

00:54:19.160 on. I, um, I was laughing when Scott's saying about watching these crime drama things. Like,

00:54:26.820 I mean, the world is full of these and we talk about them all the time, like recently with the

00:54:33.020 Lindsay Clancy. And it's so true. Uh, you know, I don't like to really watch things that are

00:54:40.280 negative and I'm a full believer. I think my mom probably taught me this when I was a kid that,

00:54:45.600 you know, what you think about, you bring about. And then of course I learned that from every

00:54:49.740 mentor, um, I read and studied, you know, up until now. And the same goes with, you know,

00:54:57.560 when you're feeling down, like Scott's saying, you have to author yourself. So you have to get

00:55:02.240 yourself out of whatever it is you're thinking. And yeah, you can do it yourself because it's so

00:55:07.620 easy to wallow. I think it's just easy because like, I don't know, like, it's just like this,

00:55:13.840 like pity feeling and I'm bummed and I'm sad and I'm just going to stay here. But I think you can

00:55:19.080 make it equally as easy to get out of it. And I, I try doing that now. So if I start to feel down,

00:55:25.340 I'll try as fast as I can to be like, no, no, we're not staying here, Erica. We're moving on.

00:55:31.380 Like this, you know, this isn't happening to you right now. It's something that happened.

00:55:37.500 It has nothing to do with you. It's none of your business. I always say certain mantras to myself,

00:55:43.340 like your opinion of me is not a permanent reality. So somebody comes at me, I'm like,

00:55:48.460 your opinion of me is not a permanent reality. Like that's your opinion of me. It has nothing

00:55:52.740 to do with my reality or the truth. And I let it go. And, um, and I give myself permission,

00:55:58.740 just let, let shit go and like author the rest of your day and yourself. And I'm not saying it's 0.98

00:56:03.920 easy, but if you continually switch your mindset to something like that, as fast as you can,

00:56:10.500 it becomes easier. And then eventually you spend a lot less time in the negative places and you

00:56:17.300 move through them quickly because like, I'm not going to be a victim. I, I have full agency of

00:56:22.900 my thoughts and what I want to do, just like every single person here listening does. So you can make

00:56:27.980 a decision. Am I staying here or am I going to go with the positive affirmations? Am I going to go

00:56:33.460 with the better self-talk? Am I going to get outside of the little zone I'm in and go outside?

00:56:39.220 like he said, or put on like a great inspiring podcast and clean out a drawer while you're

00:56:45.420 listening to something positive. So we all can do it. We just have to remember to do it.

00:56:51.380 Did you listen to the meditation that I sent to my subscribers?

00:56:55.420 No.

00:56:56.060 Oh, you should check that out.

00:56:57.400 I will. Yeah. Okay.

00:56:59.000 Anyway, a little bit related to what you're saying, but I agree with everything you're

00:57:02.560 saying. I think, you know, I think it's tied to like feelings of shame and guilt and embarrassment

00:57:08.600 and things like that, that make you have that reaction. Like, Oh, you know, someone criticized

00:57:13.940 me. I should feel bad now. And, and I think it's part of stoicism and part of other things that

00:57:19.760 I've worked on to just not let that stuff bother you, but it takes practice. It's not something

00:57:25.560 you can just instantly do. But I do think Scott's method might even be better than a lot of other

00:57:30.840 methods in terms of just saying, fill your mind with other stuff. Like you can't get out of that

00:57:36.900 by thinking about it or ruminating about it.

00:57:39.020 You have to not think about it.

00:57:40.880 And the only way to not think about it

00:57:42.640 is to think about something else.

00:57:45.020 And so whether it's get out

00:57:46.260 or whether it's let me go think about positive things

00:57:49.800 or let me show some gratitude or whatever it is.

00:57:52.140 Go help somebody, do something useful.

00:57:54.560 Yeah.

00:57:54.720 And I think once you get into that mode

00:57:56.580 and it might even tie into Jocko Willink,

00:57:58.820 which I know you're a big fan of, Marcella,

00:58:00.380 with extreme ownership.

00:58:01.380 Like if you take ownership and you say,

00:58:02.940 I'm going to make this happen

00:58:04.320 and I'm going to, you know, be super accountable for what I do, but I'm going to not worry about

00:58:08.900 what anyone else is doing. Then it puts you in this empowering position where he's like,

00:58:14.640 you can make things happen, but you also don't even focus or think about what anyone else thinks

00:58:18.660 of you because it's irrelevant. Exactly. And so I think it, a lot of different methods. And again,

00:58:24.120 like Scott said, you can just pick what works for you. You know, one of these methods might

00:58:27.480 work better for you than others. And I do think it's funny how at the end, he just like solved

00:58:32.300 all your problems with diet, exercise, and sleep just like at the end. Like, oh, well,

00:58:36.740 if you have a problem with sleep, do this. If you have exercise problems, do that. If you have diet

00:58:40.220 problems, do that. But I will say I wanted to tie that in that a lot of times if you are having

00:58:48.540 emotional or mental or whatever challenges, the physical stuff can help solve it. If you just do

00:58:57.320 some exercise, I mean, I have a couple of stories that I'm looking at in my feed right now. I don't

00:59:01.000 think i posted them yet but one of them says aerobic exercise is linked to improve executive

00:59:05.300 function after menopause so i guess this was a study about women there's another one that says

00:59:09.740 a single workout may help protect memory after a short night's sleep like just getting enough sleep

00:59:15.220 might be good but if you don't exercise might actually help you solve some of these things

00:59:19.920 and so whatever capacity you could do you guys not everybody running and stuff but yeah what i

00:59:25.080 wanted to point out like owen said is the last few minutes of of the of what we showed the video

00:59:30.900 was extremely important is to create a system to have a system um and scott lived by that like he

00:59:39.780 had a complete system of everything when he got up when he went through this well it was crazy but

00:59:44.660 um for all of us um control your mind right like if somebody tells you something do not let it get

00:59:53.000 to you and also like create a system for yourself not only a physical system for what you eat but

01:00:00.260 a mental one, like how you're going to react to things, what you're going to do. So system

01:00:07.260 thinking is really important. I totally agree. And, um, you know, so this is how you guys pick

01:00:14.020 up, reframe your brain if you haven't yet, because you can see that this was like that talk he gave

01:00:19.620 was like the start of this coming to fruition. Um, it just teaches you how to change your mindset,

01:00:26.040 reframe things, replace a negative thought with a positive thought. It's just practice. That's all

01:00:32.140 it is. It's just practice. See, there's Marcella's. And I think that's all you have to do. So

01:00:38.060 the next time when like that, that tinge comes over you and you're just like, oh my God, I can't

01:00:44.420 believe that person said this, or I can't believe like I wasn't invited to this thing or whatever.

01:00:49.820 It's like, honestly, I mean, I'm going to say like, don't worry about it. Like it's none of

01:00:55.320 your business. It really has nothing to do with you. It has to do with the other people, not you.

01:01:01.140 And don't waste your shelf space. Like Scott said, like keeping those things there and

01:01:06.080 wondering about them because talking about it and, and ruminating on something doesn't change

01:01:12.380 the situation at all, but getting out of your own way will. And I know this might sound funny too,

01:01:18.780 but i did the um tony robbins oh god what was it called it was like a a few day thing walking on

01:01:27.360 fire unleash the power within that's what it was but one thing that he would do because like is he

01:01:32.440 there oh yeah yeah yeah but his sessions would go like you know 15 hours a day and you know like at

01:01:40.700 midnight we're walking on fire it's crazy but it's um did you do that i did i did no burn and

01:01:48.640 nothing it didn't burn or anything no because you can't i'll tell you what your mind is so

01:01:55.280 powerful either way like we always talk about and when i first got there the first this is like in

01:02:00.740 2005 when i first got there that day i was like well i'm not going to do the fire walk because

01:02:06.380 you watch the fire burning outside all day they're burning these mounds of wood and then you see the

01:02:12.300 lane they like make these lanes and you're going to walk out the burning coals and whatever and

01:02:16.960 I'm like, oh hell no, I'm not doing that. By the time it was midnight and we had like talked and

01:02:23.040 done exercises and lessons and this and that, I was like, get me on the fire. Like I couldn't get

01:02:30.480 to it fast enough. It was so bizarre. And you're in such a state and you're controlling every

01:02:37.460 freaking thought you have in order to do that and not burn yourself. If I was walking across it and 0.94

01:02:43.120 I all of a sudden was like, Oh, I'm standing on hot coals. I would have burnt the crap out of 0.86

01:02:48.040 myself, but I was so in my mindset of what I was doing. And in that moment that it literally felt

01:02:55.060 like I was walking on like baby powder. And yes, some people got burned. Some people got burned

01:03:00.020 as it can happen. But you know, the other thing I learned there that I wanted to say to you guys

01:03:05.100 is this might sound so stupid, but a really good way to change your state is he would be like, 0.93

01:03:11.040 okay, if you're feeling tired or you're dwelling on something, do five jumping jacks. Literally 0.99

01:03:19.700 five jumping jacks. You can't do five jumping jacks and not be different after you do them.

01:03:26.520 And I laugh while I'm doing them because I feel so stupid but funny. And it just changes your 0.98

01:03:32.060 state. So start with that. If you guys are like, I can't exercise. I don't have time. Five jumping

01:03:37.600 jacks. And then, and then pushups. And if you're Marcella, 10 pushups. So I think changing your

01:03:45.500 state of mind is the way to go. Um, Marcella, if you, if you feel like a little negative influence

01:03:51.520 come over you, what's your system? Like if you have, if you're like at work and it has to be

01:03:55.720 quick, what do you do? Oh my gosh. That's like all the time, right? Because I'm dealing with

01:04:01.820 problems i just stop myself i i count i count before i react and inside my brain not out loud

01:04:11.340 they're like why is she counting um but a lot of the times i go back to what scott would tell me

01:04:17.500 i guess uh author yourself control yourself you know like i hear him in my head saying these

01:04:25.260 things maybe because um or and ran so or jocko jocko i always hear him um in my head saying good

01:04:35.260 and i'm that's good like people are people like i mean you saw lindsey clancy's attorney the way

01:04:42.780 that he acts and you guys were all like oh my god what is he doing is he really talking to the judge

01:04:47.660 like that i have men like that and women treat me like that at all times in court not off not always

01:04:57.100 but there's always somebody like that attorney um i just you know i had to deal with an attorney

01:05:03.580 just like him uh for a case for several months where i had to do 50 depositions and they were

01:05:12.140 really difficult and i just you know what i laughed and i just use laughter as you guys

01:05:19.100 can tell i always i'm always laughing so i just don't let it get to me by using humor as well

01:05:25.420 which i think i've used you know in el salvador when there was war we used like we just hung out

01:05:32.540 and laughed and danced and something else like that takes it away from what is happening um don't

01:05:40.780 let it because if you show that it got to you then they keep doing it but if you but if you

01:05:47.020 don't especially now in a in a trial or in um attorney work i don't let it get to me i know

01:05:54.220 it's time so yeah i was i was being relaxed because of the holiday but um also guys if

01:06:00.620 working out is hard or jumping jacks or exercise another thing i like to do and i have a mirror

01:06:06.860 right here on my desk. I've had that mirror there for so long because of different careers and

01:06:13.340 things that I was doing. I think it's important to see what your expression is. Sometimes if I

01:06:17.860 was on a call with an important call, I would be like, oh, how's my energy matching up? And I would

01:06:24.100 look in the mirror and I'd be like, oh, let me smile while I'm on the phone. I transfer the smile

01:06:28.060 to the phone call. But a really good thing to do is make the most stupid faces you can make in a 1.00

01:06:33.740 mirror, like watch yourself, make it like go into the bathroom at work or, you know, wherever you 1.00

01:06:38.420 are, or like use your phone, your camera and just, I'm not going to do it, but just make the dumbest, 0.98

01:06:42.860 most ridiculous faces for like 30 seconds and like really use your facial muscles. And after 0.99

01:06:49.620 it like literally changes your brain wiring where you're like, Oh my God, like that was like fun and

01:06:54.520 silly and your energy shifts. And Owen does it all the time. You just can't see them.

01:06:58.500 Of course. Just make sure you're, make sure you're meeting cameras off before you do.

01:07:03.740 Yeah, you don't want to be like tubing on there, making faces.

01:07:07.920 What's your go-to, Owen, when you're in a-

01:07:10.440 Making faces wasn't the problem there, Erica.

01:07:12.840 I know, but make sure your camera's off was the lesson.

01:07:16.080 See, humor's making me laugh.

01:07:18.100 Okay, go ahead.

01:07:19.080 So, Owen, if something comes over you and you're like at work or dealing, but even with your kids or something, you're like, I don't want to react.

01:07:25.300 I need to get out of this mindset.

01:07:26.600 What do you do?

01:07:26.940 I mean, it's rare because I, like, what I really do if I'm facing a challenge at work is usually just remember how much worse I've had it in the past.

01:07:38.120 Like, I've had really difficult clients.

01:07:41.820 Like, the one I usually point to is I had a client where almost everybody I was dealing with was a Harvard MBA.

01:07:48.280 And the culture of the client was a challenging culture.

01:07:51.300 So they were required. If they disagreed with anything, they were required to speak up and challenge you. And when I got to this client, they told me, you need to answer every challenge. That's how we do things here. And so I was walking into this like combative, you know, like Harvard MBA, like everybody thinks they know better than everybody else. And I had to beat them all. And I did. I successfully did that.

01:08:17.260 I got physically did you I when I brought people on my team I had to screen them so that they

01:08:22.420 wouldn't break down in tears because they would a lot of the time if they if I didn't make sure

01:08:27.300 it was the right type of person and like so after having been through that nothing phases me and

01:08:35.060 like I you know I'll have some challenge and people on my team will be like oh this is so

01:08:38.480 hard I'm like yeah this is nothing so that's good you just remember like this is nothing compared

01:08:43.640 to what that was yeah i mean i i just feel like every client is a dream now it's like you know

01:08:49.000 this is they're nice compared to that and that even includes somebody who called me an mfr on a

01:08:54.840 group phone call like i it didn't phase me at all like it just didn't bother me right i get that and

01:09:01.400 i also think that comes with age a little bit too luckily you know i i think so anyway i honestly

01:09:08.200 just don't care. I mean, if it's something like completely, if it's like inappropriate,

01:09:13.980 disrespectful, like if you walked into my house and called me a name, I'd be like, well,

01:09:18.700 it's time to go and you're leaving. I wouldn't be affected by the name they called me, but

01:09:24.180 there's a time and place. But calling someone a name or whatever is only a reflection on you,

01:09:31.560 not the person you're saying it to. So I definitely want to hear from you guys. If

01:09:36.840 anyone tries like the face making thing and get your hands of mush your face together when it's

01:09:42.840 the wife or the husband what do you guys do the same thing same advice is right then and there

01:09:49.800 like just start laughing and make i mean it could just be for your be like hang on a minute and like

01:09:56.740 get your phone and put your camera on and just go to town making faces and laughing and by the way

01:10:01.680 that will change them also because it's such a disruption of like what the pattern would be that

01:10:07.160 they're like oh my god like what are you doing and now all of it's changed so you can change other

01:10:12.500 people too if you're standing in front of them by just doing something they wouldn't expect

01:10:16.180 but make it something like funny and fun not mean or you could literally start doing jumping jacks

01:10:23.020 someone's pissing you off and it's slightly you're in an appropriate place doing jumping jacks start

01:10:28.820 doing your jumping jacks and they'll be like what are you doing just be like i'm just changing my

01:10:32.480 my mindset right now just give me a second and they'll be like okay oh and i have a question

01:10:37.760 for you the mbas that are from harvard they keep mentioning they're from harvard because i have the

01:10:43.500 same thing with lawyers that are from harvard like there's it takes two minutes or one minute

01:10:48.560 to hear they're from harvard i mean i get that more internally at these consulting firms i work

01:10:53.920 for especially because they're like you know they're not like they're not mckinsey which is

01:10:59.280 considered like the ultimate best and so a lot of these people have these like inferiority complexes

01:11:04.200 where they're trying to convince you that they are that good and so they'll throw out oh i went

01:11:08.940 to stanford for my mba where did you go and like you know they're like throwing around their

01:11:13.020 credentials and stuff and it's it was so funny to me when people would do that because i'd be like

01:11:17.780 you know first of all like i'm at your level or even above your level and i'm performing better

01:11:22.260 than you I don't say that but that I think they know that and then you know my answer to them is

01:11:28.780 I don't have an MBA like I never got one and I think it just throws them for a loop because

01:11:34.800 they're expecting me to have some answer that they can compare to themselves and I'm like yeah

01:11:40.260 no I don't need that like you know it I have plenty of experience far beyond what an MBA would

01:11:46.140 teach me and um so I don't need that but it's I think it's just kind of funny to me when people

01:11:51.800 do that? Because to me, that's a sign of insecurity. That's a sign that they're trying to convince you

01:11:58.040 that they are something that isn't going to be obvious otherwise. Like, you know, if their

01:12:03.720 behavior showed that they were super smart and super competent, they wouldn't need to say that.

01:12:08.320 And they wouldn't say that, right? They would just let their actions and words speak for themselves.

01:12:13.780 And that's what I see with super competent people. They're really super competent and

01:12:17.720 really super smart people they never talk about their credentials you don't see elon musk saying

01:12:23.420 this is where i got the same thing with money i i worked for a billionaire i didn't know he was a

01:12:28.240 billionaire in for a while until they were like oh yeah we have a plane we're gonna go to hawaii on

01:12:34.520 our i was like what and then i looked him up and and it turns out he's a billionaire so i was like

01:12:39.680 Oh, I had no idea.

01:12:40.840 Was he weird?

01:12:43.300 No, they were just, like, very, like, normal.

01:12:47.420 Okay.

01:12:47.860 Very normal.

01:12:48.340 I've only met one billionaire person that was, like, a family friend, and he was very weird.

01:12:54.700 I know normal billionaires.

01:12:57.000 Yeah?

01:12:57.780 Okay.

01:12:58.380 Yeah, and I know eccentric, too, but, yeah.

01:13:02.040 Mm-hmm.

01:13:03.460 I just, in my mind, I think of billionaires as kind of a different breed where they're not, like, normal people.

01:13:08.980 Yeah.

01:13:09.260 Yeah.

01:13:09.680 but maybe that's my own millionaires i mean that's my own issue i don't know

01:13:14.040 depending yeah i'm i'm sure that the the that he was like a bit strange but like what i meant

01:13:21.520 this his family was all nor like they didn't they didn't bring brands and all sorts of things they

01:13:28.140 were just wearing jeans shirts you know just like very very think about like david sacks and those

01:13:34.440 guys i mean yeah yeah like they you know you don't feel a billion dollars isn't what it used

01:13:41.840 to be you know what i mean so now people are it's just not i mean like a million dollars

01:13:46.660 i mean billionaires are the new million multi-millionaires so it's just uh it's just

01:13:54.400 weird they don't flaunt their money that's all i'm saying they don't flaunt their money no it's

01:13:58.120 not about flaunting money and the person i knew didn't do that either oh well he did do that but

01:14:03.080 not to me but like he would have like really fancy parties and you know like just things you

01:14:10.260 couldn't believe that someone would do and I think he mostly did it for his friends but like every

01:14:14.460 year he would have this birthday party and it would be like this really extravagant thing with

01:14:19.620 like celebrities there and like you know just weird stuff going on and every year it was a

01:14:24.460 different theme and like so but I think you know I'm sure it was because he thought it was fun but

01:14:30.000 i think it was more like for his guests right like it wasn't for him it was like i'm gonna give

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01:16:26.160 Yeah. Oh, yeah.

01:16:27.620 Like it was, you know, very dedicated private thing.

01:16:31.100 And, you know, that's the type of thing he would do.

01:16:35.240 And, you know, that's just one example.

01:16:37.420 Like every year it would be something completely different.

01:16:39.080 And all year they'd be planning the next party.

01:16:41.200 So like it was an ongoing thing.

01:16:43.400 But I just, you know, I guess it formed my impression of what a billionaire is like because

01:16:48.040 I've only met one.

01:16:49.560 And I, you know, having talked to him personally, I also just thought his views were kind of

01:16:53.420 off what I would have expected of a normal person.

01:16:55.740 But I don't want to get into that.

01:16:57.560 But I'll be a normal billionaire, you guys.

01:16:59.520 I'll be normal.

01:17:00.500 OK.

01:17:00.860 Yeah.

01:17:01.460 Well, you got to work on your affirmations.

01:17:04.580 Yes.

01:17:04.960 Work on all of it.

01:17:05.820 And I also want to say that recently, well, not recently, but in my life, but in the last

01:17:12.780 year, I've experienced so much loss, meaning deaths of people close to me. And I will tell

01:17:21.840 you what Scott said, that it seems like the people that believe in God and religion have better

01:17:28.500 outcomes dealing with it. And I have seen that to be true. I've watched the people grieving and

01:17:35.880 the ones that had a very strong faith really seemed to not necessarily accept it, but get

01:17:43.880 through the grief of it better. And that was comforting for me to see. And the people that I

01:17:52.580 know completely don't have any belief in anything really, really struggle a lot more. And that's

01:18:01.020 just a, an observation that I had, but, um, and the other thing was expecting luck. I know people

01:18:09.100 that expect luck. And the thing about expecting luck is like, look for it, you guys. So if you're

01:18:15.120 like, Oh, like I'm going to expect a really good, I mean, just say it like, I'm going to expect a

01:18:19.220 really good outcome from this situation. Like I can't wait, but then pay attention, like pay

01:18:24.300 attention for the luck. You know, it's like where the opportunity and the luck meet together. You

01:18:29.180 have to be aware of the opportunities in front of you. So like, just say, I know this is going

01:18:34.560 to be a great outcome. I have a great mindset about this. Nothing's going to get in my way

01:18:39.220 and then pay attention and follow the things that the universe will put in front of you.

01:18:46.080 Because if you have that mindset, the universe will be like, Oh yeah. Are you expecting good

01:18:50.460 luck? Okay. Let me put some crumbs in front of you and you just have to be there to pick them up

01:18:54.340 and it'll all come together. So when people write an affirmation, like Scott would say,

01:18:59.960 I'm going to be a famous cartoonist, et cetera, you have to take action. It's not going to show

01:19:06.600 up at your door, but you have to pay attention, like how he paid attention to the phone number

01:19:13.100 at the end of that TV show that one day and got in touch with that company that then led to

01:19:19.060 everything for him. So pay attention when you're expecting good luck or you're going to miss it.

01:19:24.860 So it's not like it just gets handed to you on a platter. And also keep going. Let's just say

01:19:30.920 that idea didn't hit. Just keep trying to do different things. You failed a thousand times,

01:19:37.520 but you could potentially make it one of the times. Because I know a lot of Silicon Valley

01:19:43.760 people that I know have tried to do businesses here and there and things haven't gone well.

01:19:49.060 but they keep trying and some have succeeded. So it's just keep trying too.

01:19:54.840 Yeah. So if it's like, it didn't hit, then say the word yet, yet. Cause I'm not, I'm not done.

01:20:01.160 I'm not stopping. Like you don't stop until you get there. And of course, like readjust. And you

01:20:06.700 know, in, when I used to do yoga, you know, they had a, a mantra, I think it's for lots of things,

01:20:11.720 but it's like fall down seven, get up eight. So if you fall down seven times, you get up eight

01:20:17.760 times like it just it doesn't stop so i like that you guys fall down seven get up eight okay

01:20:24.860 fall down eight though stay down fall down eight get up nine owen all right just try not to fall

01:20:32.720 you guys if you have to but you'll learn from those falls like what what happened and in yoga

01:20:39.180 when you fall it's because you're not paying attention fall down nine get better shoes fall

01:20:47.760 Yes, Andy, I did yoga. All right, you guys. So thanks for staying with us longer today. And

01:20:55.380 thanks, Marcella and Owen for staying longer. I think I'm going to go out on the boat today.

01:21:00.220 Isn't that what I'm supposed to do on a beautiful Labor Day?

01:21:02.740 We are.

01:21:03.680 Yeah, let's go. We have a meeting on the boat after this. Yes, Beverly, it does hurt to fall

01:21:09.260 down. I'm with you. Yikes. Oh my gosh. So I'm going to get on the boat and do jumping jacks.

01:21:15.960 i don't know about you guys i hope it's something useful and fun maybe you guys can type it in the

01:21:21.080 chat what you guys are gonna do yeah tell us what you're doing if it's illegal then don't tell us

01:21:25.880 oh unless marcella's not here and then it won't matter

01:21:31.320 marcella keeps us straight oh my gosh owen what are you doing

01:21:35.960 working i'm working on my world domination plan with my ai bot army didn't just just remember

01:21:40.840 work on the side.

01:21:42.560 Owen's playing army with his box.

01:21:45.620 I love it.

01:21:46.180 If you've ever read the book Demon,

01:21:48.240 D-A-E-M-O-N,

01:21:49.900 and then there's a sequel to it called Freedom, 0.96

01:21:52.540 that's the plan.

01:21:54.700 Who's the author?

01:21:56.280 Daniel Suarez.

01:21:58.440 Okay.

01:21:59.460 It was written before AI was what it is now,

01:22:02.260 but if you read that book,

01:22:05.300 you can see where the future's headed.

01:22:07.440 Uh-oh.

01:22:08.680 Oh, I'm going to read it now.

01:22:10.180 i'm gonna wait for this surprise i don't want to spoil it but you'll see don't spoil it um i'm

01:22:17.820 looking what everyone's doing oh sjv's gonna work on his napping cleaning high class hoarder

01:22:25.320 house love that oh you guys a lot of people want to declutter this is a good time to do it too

01:22:31.360 weed eater out is it a holiday in cambodia no i mean i don't know every day is a holiday

01:22:39.660 in Cambodia. Oh, on the motorcycle, on a coffee break for the sip pool. Oh, Jim Wyman's working.

01:22:49.040 Yes, Andy, you can repost that video wherever you want. It's not my video,

01:22:52.520 so do whatever you want with it. What video? The meditation video. Oh, oh. I just, I found a video

01:23:00.000 and I posted it to my subscribers and Andy was asking for permission to post it somewhere else.

01:23:04.020 oh nice andy another attorney over there um oh eat grilled meat i like the sound of that i don't

01:23:11.180 know what a weed eater is a weed eater yeah that's what he's saying chunks is going after

01:23:17.560 me for not knowing that a weed whacker that's what i was thinking maybe that's what it is

01:23:24.080 does anyone remember the throwback to i'm just gonna say it the right way dock and dine with

01:23:30.720 my typos because you guys did not let me forget that one for a long time. Your car is a workbench

01:23:38.580 in your garage. Declutter. Annie's decluttering. Chunks remembers. Let's see. Oh, a chainsaw oil

01:23:47.420 to arrive. Okay. Having hoagies all day. Oh, today. Going to the pool. Working for hours,

01:23:57.920 Just then cooking teppanyaki later.

01:24:02.400 I don't know what it is.

01:24:03.440 I'm sorry.

01:24:04.140 Oh, that's the Japanese thing where they do the show. 1.00

01:24:06.800 They cut everything. 1.00

01:24:10.280 You've ever been to that?

01:24:11.700 Where they do a show in front of you and do the food?

01:24:15.780 Oh, like a...

01:24:16.740 The Japanese teppanyaki.

01:24:18.620 Yeah, what's that called?

01:24:20.040 That's called teppanyaki.

01:24:22.080 Wait, isn't it called like hibachi something?

01:24:26.020 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:24:26.820 that i think that's yeah that's what it is i think um all right owen's gonna work with

01:24:33.860 this going for a boat ride to catalina let's go beverly is putting away her white shoes

01:24:42.260 come on beverly you can wear white all year now bird foot were you exercising is that what you

01:24:47.700 need us to say let's see barbecue for lunch oh you guys i love it walking and playing with your dog

01:24:55.620 a weed eater is what normal people call a weed whacker okay yep okay so you were right marcella

01:25:02.980 yeah cigars back porch coffee patty is a subscriber to you owen i think she's saying i

01:25:11.060 couldn't find the video that you posted it should be there i know some people saw it

01:25:16.420 it's on your i just i posted it on sunday and and it i just said here's a sunday meditation

01:25:22.420 that we all need okay so we'll we'll all repost it you guys so if you didn't see it just look for us

01:25:30.020 jim wyman that's um private information i can't say what does he say he wants to know where i am

01:25:38.180 about oh let's accept your exact coordinates please erica hey everybody change your fire

01:25:46.180 alarm batteries today like let's just all do it together um cooking working on the clanker

01:25:51.620 chronicles tonight nice mar okay i like it all right so um you guys thanks so much i i will

01:26:00.340 actually do a um an akira song now there's somebody who is it i can't remember your name

01:26:07.300 it's either is it on who is it on locals every time i play akira they're like oh akira i'm

01:26:12.900 leaving like okay we know just leave but we love akira it's an airport they must announce

01:26:19.540 exactly it's like i'm leaving right now um but anyway i'm reading your comments you guys i just

01:26:28.040 can't end the stream i'm so interested if you were on call for christmas should you have to

01:26:35.440 burn pto for that day if you only want to spend the day um listen if you're on call for christmas

01:26:44.200 it must be important what you do i know i feel like you have an important job you could be a

01:26:50.140 bartender what if someone needs a drink i mean and good for you if you like spending time with

01:26:56.680 your family on christmas i mean that sincerely i have so many friends that are just like you know

01:27:02.320 adults whatever and they're like oh i gotta like go to the aunt's house and this and that so

01:27:07.420 yes metal seer i will think of you while i'm on the boat and we love akira 20 hour drive

01:27:14.160 you think of us when you're there i always think of you guys always all of you every single one of

01:27:21.600 you all right owen um have fun with the army thank you i appreciate it i hope you get them

01:27:29.180 all in line it's been building throughout the entire show yay you're welcome crusher happy

01:27:36.320 Labor Day to you too. Dr. Von Hardy, thanks for the thumbnail today. That was a special Labor

01:27:41.100 Day thumbnail by Dr. Von Hardy. PhD, by the way, PhD from Arizona. Thank you. Let's see. Too hot

01:27:51.120 to go outside. Good luck, Owen. Christmas trip, please. What does that mean, Mary Kay? We're all

01:27:55.880 going on a trip together? Goldie. All right, guys. So I'll get into the Akira song. I'm sure

01:28:01.940 laurie needs to go out and stella's probably looking for her it was raining yesterday so i

01:28:07.340 don't know i don't know she doesn't like the rain what's it doing raining don't know it's better

01:28:14.600 than fire so all right do you guys want an akira video or a song while still looking at our beautiful

01:28:23.760 faces um let's see pleasant show thanks metal seer all right let's go you guys um oh why don't

01:28:33.720 we do author yourself since that's what scott was talking about today i think that's perfect

01:28:39.400 where is it where is it oh i might even have the video oh the video's nice oh i might not

01:28:47.360 have uploaded it yet next time. All right. So let me find author yourself. And if you

01:28:53.540 have to go, we'll miss you. See, not all the songs come in. I don't know why.

01:29:00.260 All right. So we're going to do, do something. Let's do something. All right, you guys,

01:29:07.840 we will see you tomorrow with a regular show. And hopefully everyone put it out in the universe

01:29:14.700 that walter does make it on wednesday because we don't get him too often but um that's the plan stan

01:29:20.700 okay let's go do something but first let's say thank you to scott and shelly for allowing this

01:29:25.900 show to continue thank you to every single one of you that show up here whether in the replay

01:29:30.700 or in the live show we love you guys so much we have such a good time you really lift our spirits

01:29:36.700 and let's have a closing sip i mean an amazing whiteboard from scott today we all needed that

01:29:42.700 So let's have a closing sip, um, uh, and be useful and a special sip to our beloved

01:29:49.820 Scott, to Scott, to Scott.

01:29:53.800 And now do something by Akira, the Dawn, meaningwave.com.

01:30:08.120 Have you heard the phrase freedom is just another word for nothing?

01:30:12.700 left to lose. You've heard that, right? Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

01:30:24.200 How about that college class you were going to sign up for? How about that sport you wanted

01:30:28.800 to get involved in? How about that motorcycle you wanted? Too dangerous, right? You're free.

01:30:34.200 Every one of you who is depressed and anxious, you're free.

01:30:45.240 You're free.

01:30:47.460 Because nothing you do will be worse than the way you feel right now.

01:30:52.880 Do something.

01:30:54.160 Do something dangerous.

01:30:57.040 Psychologically dangerous.

01:30:58.780 Take a chance.

01:30:59.640 Put yourself out there.

01:31:00.900 Flame out. 1.00

01:31:01.440 Get killed. 1.00

01:31:02.700 Just get smashed. 1.00

01:31:04.200 If you want to meet people, here's the best way to do it.

01:31:29.580 You have to join activities.

01:31:32.220 there is no other way to meet people and inform lasting friendships hear this clearly

01:31:40.540 there's no other way to do it you have to join an activity a club a sport a gym

01:31:49.340 an organization a political movement nothing else all right you can't just make a friend

01:31:56.700 like good luck you could try but i don't think i've ever seen it work

01:32:02.680 hiya you know baba hearing good things about you i think we could be friends

01:32:08.580 do something do something enjoy the thing make a sport form a club of your own

01:32:18.680 just go do it you're free freedom is just another word

01:32:26.700 but nothing left to lose, you're free, do something, do something, freedom's just another word,

01:32:36.080 but nothing left to lose, you're free, do something, do something, why would you not form a club

01:32:45.000 of your own, because you're afraid nobody would come, right, what's the difference, you're as good

01:32:51.580 is dead you're depressed you're anxious you hate your life you're thinking about putting a

01:32:56.380 i can't say that here but you're thinking about maybe life isn't worth it you're free

01:33:04.700 you're absolutely free go have some fun

01:33:12.460 freedom is just another word for nothing less

01:33:15.260 You're free

01:33:17.500 Do something

01:33:19.900 Freedom's just another word

01:33:23.360 Nothing left to live

01:33:25.280 You're free

01:33:27.140 Do something

01:33:29.160 Do something

01:33:45.260 now i gotta tell you i've used this technique a number of times and man does it work

01:33:55.120 it really works you're free just remember that people criticizing you are narcissists

01:34:00.960 they are broken don't let it break you you've got some techniques now and i think you're gonna

01:34:09.180 be a lot better go get yourself some friends and you'll find your mental health problems

01:34:13.040 feel a lot better. Go get involved in something. Join a group. Form a group. Be the boss.

01:34:19.640 That is your advice for the day, and I will talk to you.

01:34:28.040 Aw, can't get enough of it. Can't get enough of it. You guys, amazing photos in the chat.

01:34:34.300 Thanks for posting all those pictures of Scott and anything Scott-related and your pets.

01:34:38.820 Owen has mastered my dance moves. That's why Owen, everyone's like, Oh, and so stoic.

01:34:48.140 He's a great dancer. How does he keep a straight face? I'm working on that too. That's one of my

01:34:52.280 150 projects is to get some motion in here, but we'll see. We'll see how well it works.

01:34:57.140 Yes. You guys here, you have the opportunity right now. You just heard it from Owen. He's

01:35:00.900 working on it. He knows, he knows. I am. It's just going to take some time.

01:35:06.080 Oh my gosh. All right. So you guys have the best day. Thanks Owen and Marcella for everything.

01:35:11.880 Say goodbye so we don't hang up on you and we'll see you in the morning, everybody.

01:35:18.100 Owen never flinched. Nope. Just like when he's waterboarding. I mean, surfboarding.

01:35:26.480 Bye guys. Bye everyone. Love you back.

01:35:33.560 Love you back. Bye everybody.

01:35:36.080 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 07, 2026

The Scott Adams School - 09⧸07⧸26 Labor Day With The Home Team

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