Scott Adams: In his own words
I know you prefer my written blog posts, but I’m recording the audiobook for Win Bigly all this week and only have time for some Periscope fun. This one is about leadership breaking out all over. If you want some optimism with your coffee, here it is. My periscope on Leadership…
Read MoreMy hypothesis is that the political side that is out of power is the one that hallucinates the most — and needs to — in order to keep their worldview intact. For example, when President Obama was in office, I saw all kinds of hallucinations on the right about his…
Read MoreSix months ago this week, I tweeted this message: As you might expect, anti-Trumper are saying the tweet didn’t age well. They are saying this on the same week that their side protested a free speech rally by throwing urine on cops. Okay, okay, I know what you are going…
Read MorePrior to President Trump’s inauguration, I predicted a coming story arc in three acts. Act one involved mass protests in the streets because Hillary Clinton’s campaign had successfully branded Trump as the next Hitler. Sure enough, we saw mass protests by anti-Trumpers who legitimately and honestly believed the country had…
Read MoreA funny thing happened after my conversation with Sam Harris [no longer available] on the topic of President Trump. An avalanche of anti-Trumpers descended on my Twitter account and insisted I become their moral leader – sort of like their Pope. I have not accepted the job, but I can see the…
Read MoreCongress just proved something that we all suspected: They are the wrong tool for fixing health care. The topic is too complicated, the politics are too corrosive, and the money interests are too strong. That’s why citizens will step in and fill the gap with their own proposals. I expect…
Read MoreOne of the most mind-boggling discoveries I made while becoming a professional humorist is that a large segment of the general public has no sense of humor. I mean that literally, in the same way that some people can’t tell the difference between good wine and bad, and some people…
Read MoreOur system of government has been amazingly robust for hundreds of years, but it fails when you have these two conditions: 1. An issue is too complicated for the public to understand. 2. Big companies are willing to distort the system for profits. That situation describes the healthcare debate going…
Read MoreI see a consensus forming that Russia attempted to influence our election with fake news and other social media shenanigans. But why? If you start with the assumption that Russia is an enemy of the United States, you probably assume they do bad things to us simply to weaken our…
Read MoreEx-FBI Director Comey released a statement [archive] ahead of his appearance before Congress, and it has heads spinning. I’ll tell you how things look through what I call the Persuasion Filter. There are several related stories swirling around the news that involve Russia, Trump, Trump’s campaign staff, and Comey. All together, the…
Read MoreWhat the heck is “climate denial”? Is that even a thing? I mentioned on Periscope the other day that I created a Sunday comic as a cognitive dissonance trap. I wanted to see if I could make an argument about the reliability of ECONOMIC models and dupe irrational people into…
Read MoreComedian Kathy Griffin got into some hot water for a staged photo of herself holding a realistic-looking severed head that looks like President Trump. I won’t reproduce the photo here. It is disturbing. People asked me what it all means in terms of persuasion, if anything. I’ll tell you. Disclosure:…
Read MorePresident Trump just gave ISIS its new name [archive]: Losers. (Short for Evil Losers). If you think that’s no big deal, you’re wrong. It’s a big deal. This is – literally – weapons-grade persuasion from the most powerful Master Persuader of our time. As I have taught you in this blog, President Trump’s…
Read MorePersonally, I enjoy watching Sean Spicer spar with the press. It’s good entertainment. But press briefings don’t make sense in 2017. And they certainly don’t make sense for a Trump presidency. I’ll tell you why. The role of press briefings is to create two complementary illusions. The first illusion is…
Read MoreWhen I am listening to advice from others, 99% of the time I exhibit a short attention span. The other 1% of the time the advice is worthy of a listen. In that rare case, I can listen all day. Given the situation I just described, would you say I…
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