Back to episode — Episode 2214 Scott Adams - Science & Coin-Flipping In Tense Battle For Legitimacy & All News Is Fake
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eople are lucky, some people are not, and that's the end of the story. But that's sort of a loser's frame. The truth is that you can make your luck happen by going where there's more of it. So that's your first little lesson. And as Sam Altman says, although he talks about increasing your superlinearly surface area, I just say go where there's more stuff happening. That's the dumb guy's version, m…
← Previous segment →And then she says, "Let's go to this one." And you say to yourself, "Wow, that worked pretty well."
Now you get in the car. If any of you are married, you can back me on this. So she's chosen one of the two choices. You get in the car, and then she says, right after you start the car, "But you know, we have eaten at that last place kind of recently. Yeah, you know, it'd be even better than the two choices you gave me would be this third place I've been thinking about."
And then you go for the close. You're the guy. You've given two choices. She said yes to one, and then she's doing an audible in the car. Here's the closer: "Yes, that would be great. I love it." Boom. Problem solved. Woman says he took charge, and yeah, she's still got to eat exactly where she wanted to eat.
Now I've already heard from people who have tried it, and it totally works. Right now, remember this story and put it aside. Hold on. Let's go back to the other story. Now I'm going to insert a third story between the two stories, and then I'm going to connect them together.
I swear this happened. This really happened. This is a real, real thing. As I was reading the part of my own book about how to decide where to eat, my stepdaughter comes walking down the hall, and we had made plans earlier to go out to lunch but I hadn't picked a place. She walks directly up to me as I'm reading the section, and she says, "We could eat at Pastas or the Railroad Cafe. Now it's up
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to you." To connect the two stories: Apparently she's been listening to me. Apparently she paid attention. So what did I say? I said, "Pastas." And then we drove to Pastas and had a perfectly great lunch. So that's your reframe of the day. This one is the most trivial one in the sense that it's just getting rid of a little frustration, but the book is full of ways to change your mental and physi…
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