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Back to episode — Episode 2271 Scott Adams - CWSA 10/24/23

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So I guess he's on a cruise somewhere. So I've been practicing meeting people and having conversations. It's amazing how rules-based all of this is and how easy it is after you learn them. Does that sound familiar? It's the Dale Carnegie thing I've been telling you forever. Yeah, what Dale Carnegie teaches you is that social interaction is rules-based. You just follow the rules. But if you didn't…

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nthusiastically take a hug. Even if they're not comfortable they'll still take a free hug because a free hug is like money. Like who gives free hugs?

So he's having this mind-blowing experience to find out that strangers, somebody you just met and just applied a little bit of your social skills to, so what they know about you is like 1%, but it was your good 1% that you put forward, they'll

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take a hug. It's like one of the greatest lessons in life that people will actually take a hug if you offer it to them. Like if you mean it, everybody likes a hug. All right, guy and guy not so much, but sometimes that too. I had a realization about January 6 that made everything come together. So January 6, as you know, Trump was accused of inciting an insurrection. Now let me ask you this. Imag…

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