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#70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink
- ▶ 1:00 Shane Parrish Today, I'm speaking with Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of Loser Thing.
- ▶ 22:56 Shane Parrish You've done a lot of work on persuasion, and we're going to get to loser think in a second here, but when it comes to persuasion, when did you start studying it?
- ▶ 29:18 Scott Adams That, that's what my book Loser Think is mostly about. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:50 Shane Parrish And then, so what, what are the skills that we, we can take away from that in terms of avoiding what you call loser think? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:04 Shane Parrish In the book, you sort of go into Occam's razor a little bit in a way that a lot of people don't go into the nuances of it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:33 Shane Parrish And so after writing Loser Think, I'm curious as to how you think differently through problems or make decisions differently. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:00 Scott Adams Yeah, I recommend in LoserThink that you work on somebody's confidence about their opinion, because often you can't directly talk them out of it.