Scott Adams: In his own words
In my experience on this planet, anything that is both important and corruptible (without detection) is already corrupted. Athletes are using performance-enhancing drugs, politicians are using dirty tricks, hedge funds are using insider information, and so on. It’s a universal truth. I doubt you could find anything in our world…
Read MoreRegular readers of this blog might remember that I broke up with my government in 2013 after they were involved in torturing both of my parents to death. (See last paragraph of this post.) Today is payback. Now you know my motivation. It’s personal. If polls hold, Iowa is going to fire the government…
Read MoreThis post will make more sense to the people familiar with the systems-versus-goals idea in my book. One of the most powerful systems I have seen involves layering one modest skill on top of another until the effect is something special. For example, I combined the following modest skills into a…
Read MoreIn the United Kingdom, opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn – evidently a Master Persuader himself – made this clever offer to Donald Trump. “I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems…
Read MoreIf your company firewall is being stubborn, see the image on Twitter here.
Read MoreWhether you love Trump or hate him, you probably wonder why he never apologizes and never changes his story, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that he should. Trump seems otherwise intelligent – he graduated from an Ivy League school and built a business empire. So what the hell…
Read MoreIf you have been following the Master Persuader series in this blog, you know that the influence stack goes like this: Identity beats analogy Analogy beats reason Reason beats nothing Most of the candidates are trying to make an appeal to reason, and failing, because reason beats nothing. Rand Paul…
Read MoreHave you ever been listening to Donald Trump speaking, or reading one of his quotes, and found yourself laughing out loud? Maybe you think he has a good sense of humor and he says funny stuff. Maybe you think he is so shocking that you laugh out of social horror….
Read MoreHere’s a headline on Politico today, followed by a snippet from my post a day earlier. Check the dates and tell me where you “saw it first.” The Master Persuader scorecard keeps improving. Is it 12-for-12? If you want to read about the future, this blog is the only place to do it. But if…
Read MoreBy an accident of birth, I fall into the White Guy category. To keep this on a positive note, let’s call it my brand. And that means that if other people with my outward characteristics do dumb-ass things, it reflects on my brand. One of the dumb-ass things my people…
Read MoreToday I step aside to let a better communicator do her thing. See this provocative opinion by Janet L. Factor. It is too early to call The Turn on our collective thinking about the motivation of radical Islamic terrorists, but it might happen soon. Keep in mind that Trump’s suggestion is to halt muslim…
Read MoreI can think of several ways a future President Trump could get Mexico to pay for (some) of the wall. In a prior post, I talked about turning the border into a tourist opportunity that creates enough money to pay for the wall, but that’s the hard way. The easy way goes…
Read MoreI predicted toward the bottom of this post that Trump was setting up the country for a “mom versus dad” showdown with Clinton – at least in our irrational minds. When election day comes, if the country needs a hug, mom wins. But if there’s a noise downstairs, you probably want dad to…
Read MoreWarning: This post involves real hypnosis on the reader, and it is intended for adults only. Do NOT read further unless you have already read parts 1-3. Part 1 Part 2 (I can’t link to it for some reason. Just scroll up from #1.) Part 3 — Let’s begin by reviewing what we know. You…
Read MoreWarning: Do NOT read further unless you have already read Part 1. This post involves real hypnosis on the reader, and it is intended for adults only. — Today I will address those of you who are turned OFF by this blog series. In hypnosis class we learned that some personality types have a…
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