f that already? All right. Well, I thought that would catch on with everybody.

Let's talk about all the news. Well, if you are subscribing to Dilbert Reborn, you would be seeing that the boss is hiring a batshit crazy woman to work in the office, and the staff is wondering why he didn't notice. And the boss says he's bad at reading faces anyway. You'd see that if you were a subscriber on either X or the Locals platform.

The other day I was looking through some boxes, just trying to organize some of my old stuff, and I found my hypnosis diploma. It was 1981. The Clont School of Hypnosis, if you want the French pronunciation, the Clont School of Hypnosis in San Francisco. Doesn't exist anymore, but it did. A number of people had questions about that because I posted the diploma.

I saw that James Pison said to me, he said, "Hypnosis, in quotes, as the masses define it isn't real, Scott. Sorry to burst your bubble. Suggestibility is the actual and closest thing to hypnosis that is currently measurable and actionable by science. But keep on keeping with your master juju voodoo science." Excellent. Have I ever told you that if anybody could figure out what hypnosis can actually do, you would kill us all? So I want more of this. I want more of James saying your powers are not real. Yeah, it's completely safe to listen to everything you say. You could not possibly hypnotize me.

A number of other people piled in and said, "Scott, my mind is far too strong to be hypnotized." To which I say, excellent. So what you're saying is you wouldn't know if you were being hypnotized because your mind's too strong. You can't even conceive of it. Yeah. If you think you can't be hypnotized, there's a good chance you already were.

Anyway, one of the things I was asked is how long after I took my hypnosis class did my career take a change for the better. And the answer is 1981 is when I got the diploma. 1988 is when I submitted Dilbert comics for syndication. So six years later. But the point I wanted to make is that hypnosis skills grow over time because what you do is you combine it with other things you pick up about persuasion and influence. And it all becomes one big larger bag of tricks. So just getting your hypnosis degree does not give you a superpower right away. But if you check back 20 years later, that person is almost certainly going to be doing well. So it's something that builds over time.

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