Scott Adams Uses Social Media Critics to Practice Testing Counterarguments
Scott Adams · #70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink · Nov 26, 2019 · at 22:23
Scott Adams explains why he regularly engages with and responds to hostile critics on Twitter.
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“I literally use them for practice because if somebody makes a certain kind of criticism, I can often count on other people in the future making a similar one. So I see if I can shut it down with a comment. I see if there's some fact that would change the mind.”
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