Back to episode — Episode 2900 CWSA 07/17/25
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. Will not be defeated. Oh, Jean, stay awake. 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 try desperately — oh, my phone fell over — to elevate this experience to levels that no one can understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a…
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Exactly. So good. So, so good.
Well, let's check the world of science to see if we can save them any money. Oh yeah, here's one. According to Cornell University, Sarah Magnus Sharp is writing that they did some studies and found out that the secret to keeping your New Year's resolution is that you have to like the process as much as the goal. Like the process as much as the goal. Huh? Does that sound familiar at all? Yes. If you don't like the system, you're not going to get to the goal.
A perfect example of that is exercise. If you choose an exercise that you hate, you're not going to get in shape. Not a chance. But let's say you follow the disgraced cartoonist's advice and you find some exercise that you enjoy and you reward yourself for it. I used to like going to the gym because I liked the social element of it and I would give myself a healthy snack when I was done and I was addicted to the process. So yes, the reason that some people achieve their goals is that they enjoy the process. The atomic habits guy wrote about this. Well, yes, the atomic habits guy wrote about a few t
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hings that I also wrote about first, which he admits. He does give me credit for stuff in his book. Anyway, let's see if science has any more surprises for us. Oh, here Eric Dolan is writing about there were psychedelic retreats for people with PTSD. And they found that if they did psychedelics it helped them with their PTSD. Now, does that story sound familiar? At least once a week there's a new…
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