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Back to episode — Episode 2858 CWSA 06/03/25

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imultaneous sip. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take a chance on making this experience even better, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tankard, a gel or stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid.…

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e, the dopamine, the endorphin, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

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Yep. Yeah, that was it. That made everything better.

I wonder if there's any science that would support the idea that coffee makes you healthier. Oh yeah. According to CNN, there's a new study that says you can reach an older age if women especially who drank one to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day in their 50s were more likely to reach older age. So, got that? If you drink your coffee, ladies, you'll live to an older age.

Now, in a related story, according to Science magazine, repetitive negative thinking is linked to cognitive decline. So if you have bad thoughts and you just keep having bad thoughts, your brain will corrode. So put it all together. Every morning you should get up before anybody's up, have your cup of coffee, and then think positive thoughts, and your brain will be healthy, and you'll live forever. Yep.

As for the ladies, sip your coffee, have positive thoughts. And did you know that having consistent negative thoughts is also implicated in other major mental health diseases such as anxiety and depression? So if you ever said to yourself, I think there's an upside to having continuous negative thoughts, turns out there's no upside. You should do whatever it takes to have continuous positive thoughts.

Now, can you do that? Well, I feel like yo

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u could. You know, even though there are some people who have legitimate mental problems that would cause them to have repetitive negative thoughts, doesn't it make sense that you could force yourself even for 10 seconds to think something positive? And if you could do it for 10 seconds, do you think you could do it for 20 seconds? Like if you just started small, I feel like most people if they re…

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