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Back to episode — Episode 3015 CWSA 11/11/25

Good morning, everybody. I've got to fix my lighting. I look like a head that's just sort of drifting. By the way, if anybody can tell me how on my Apple laptop to turn off the screen saver so it doesn't turn off in the middle of my live stream, boy, would I appreciate it. I can search for screen. I can look for display. I can look for power. I can look for auto off. I can search all over that damn computer, but I will not find the simplest command. How do I turn the screen saver off? So if anybody knows how to do that, please let me know.

All right, we've got a show to do. And let's see. Let me jump in here and look at what you're looking at. Well, apparently that's not an option either. I think everything in my computer world failed today at the same time. My printer wasn't connected. My computer was random. Really? No, this isn't working either. The simplest thing. There we go. The simplest thing is working now.

All right, that's enough of me complaining. You want to show and you shall not lock screen. So you think lock. Well, I'll search for lock next time.

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 of elevating this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with our tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a coffee mug or a glass, a tankard, a stein, a canteen, a sugar flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. The simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go.

Fantastic. Best sip I've ever had. Well, we'll get back to that.

Would you like to start with a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain? Full of over 200 frames. Reframes. Any one of them could change your life. You never know.

All right. Here's one. Oh, here's the deathbed reframe. This one's kind of useful. Do you ever have this big old problem? You're like, "Ah, this problem is plaguing me. I can't get it out of my mind." All you do if you've got a problem you can't get out of your head is, instead of saying that my stress and anxiety are being caused

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by the things in my life, ask yourself how many of those things you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. And the answer is none of them. Once you realize that you won't care about any of them on your deathbed, it turns out it makes it easier to not worry about them today. So this is one you just have to try. You literally just imagine yourself at the end of your life and you know your loved one…

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