Back to episode — Episode 1137 Scott Adams - Black Strategy Matters, Antifa Wants Trump to Win, Seattle Solves Racism
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I would say that strikes me as offensive even though I agree with the thought. The thought I agree with completely that people have to take responsibility for themselves even if somebody else caused the problem. So I agree with the thought but here's how I would have said it better. Instead of saying Black behavior matters I would have said Black strategy matters. In fact if somebody asked me if…
← Previous segment →do whatever I can to make it easy for you to change. In other words I'll do something different even though it's not my fault. It might not even be my responsibility. But if you want to be productive both sides every time have to say I'm going to do something different. You need to do something different too. But we have to start with that assumption. As soon as you say you need to do something different and I don't that's the end of the story. You can just walk away. Stop.
I want to tell you a story about that but I can't for privacy reasons. But I have been in that situation shall I say in the past where it was expected that I would only change and the other person would not. And that can never work. Can't work. Never negotiate with yourself.
All right millions of acres have burned in California but my air quality is good at the moment so still keeping an eye on that.
All right that's all I got for today. All divorced men have been there buddy. All right I guess you knew what I was talking about didn't you? I didn't disguise that well at all did I? I'm gonna tell you the story. All right I'm gonna hope that my ex-wife will be okay with this because I don't want to do anything that's too personal here. But toward the end of my marriage we did what married people do if they're having trouble. We went to a counselor. And I wanted to make sure that I got the best outcome from a marriage counselor so I said you pick the marriage counselor. So this will be my deal. In order for me to feel like you got the best shot I want you alone to decide who the marriage counselor is. Because I was so confident that my point of view would be well represented no matter who the marriage counselor was it really didn't matter who it was. So my ex-wife picked a woman as the marriage counselor in which I said all right this is perfect because if a woman agrees with anything I say it's going to carry a little more weight I think with my ex-wife. So I thought this is perfect. You picked a marriage counselor and it's a woman. This is ideal because I'm pretty persuasive right? Have you ever met me? I'm kind of persuasive. So I thought this is a perfect setup. I could not have asked for a better situation. I think it was on probably da
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y one when the marriage counselor told me this was the rule that I had to change but my ex-wife did not need to change in any way whatsoever. How do you think it turned out? I argued like a wounded dog. I argued okay we got to change that right? We can't even talk about any details about what any issues are. We have to change that assumption because if we go into it with the assumption that I'm t…
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