Back to episode — Episode 2269 Scott Adams - CWSA 10/22/23
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bvious to me that I would never sell that many books. But the advance was so good that of course I said yes. It was their risk to take. So I took their money. They took the risk. And do you think that they sold enough books to justify the advance? Probably not. Probably one or two of the books yes, but probably the entire five-book catalog, probably not. But they said directly at one point that th…
← Previous segment →s the most universal thing that everybody thinks about everybody. But here's the one that's really the tell: you should seek help. Once a person believes that the other person's point of view is so crazy that they completely give up on debating it, there are one or two possibilities. They're talking to somebody who actually is just crazy and they're in their own little world, or the person who's talking is the one who's brainwashed. And when presented with a go
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od argument or new facts that counter their opinion, they immediately go to the badness of the person. So here's the tell. If they start with facts but end up with seek help, you don't believe facts, they're probably brainwashed. But it doesn't eliminate the possibility that the person they're talking about is brainwashed. So it's a little tricky. But certainly if somebody has, if you've retreate…
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