Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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oing to have dodo barbecue and there's no dodos so my life is ruined because of the animals that have gone extinct? Now I'm not in favor of animals going extinct. If you could stop it that'd be great. But I just want to point out you have not missed any animals. There's not a single animal that you've said to yourself, "If only those specific animals were still here." You know that bird with the f…

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acist or whatever they want to call me, the more money I make. And the funniest thing about this was Mike Cernovich's reaction. So many of you know Mike Cernovich from Twitter and you see one of the bigger accounts. He's over a million. And he's most famous on Twitter for being the most aggressive blocker of trolls. And he commented, you know, "Damn it I have to unblock 25,000 people now so they can help mine me money on Twitter." And he coined the term using the trolls to mine money on Twitter. I love that. I love that term.

So let me remind you that the number one factor in success is just pure luck. So Cernovich decides to make that sort of almost a brand that he blocks people and that it turns out that maybe he could have made a lot more money if he didn't. He'll do fine either way because he gets a lot of engagement but I thought that was funny.

I'm going to contrast this to you just because it's funny. On Twitter someone asked me if I had been doing affirmations about creating a new source of cash flow because this just snuck up on me. I wasn't expecting it. Just one day apparently I'm eligible for money that I wasn't expecting. And the answer is yes. I only have one affirmation going and the affirmation is that a magical source of cash flow would open up, one that I was not aware of. And that happened yesterday. How often does that ever happen to you? Have you ever had an unexpected source of cash flow open up? This never happened to me. I mean not like that. So yes that was actually my affirmation, that specific thing, and it just appeared.

Now let me give you a little background. I don't believe affirmations are magic and I don't believe I necessarily authored my environment because it seems to have affected other people too. I doubt I did that. But it is the weird coincidences which appear to have when you're doing an affirmation is just mind-boggling. I've been doing it all my life and one coincidence after another will just plop into your lap when you

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're doing affirmations. I don't know why. It could be because reality is subjective. It could be that you literally just imagine a different path in your reality that is no more or less real than the one you were on before. So maybe it's just that. Maybe all possibilities exist in a steady state like every path exists and the only thing that's moving is your consciousness weaving through the vario…

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