th my good news. In 2006-ish I lost my voice, most of you know this story, to something called spasmodic dysphonia. Which meant that I could make noise in my mouth but I couldn't form proper consonants and sentences without my vocal cords clenching and making it incomprehensible.

So I was told that that was a permanent problem and that there was no cure. And therefore the rest of my life I would not be able to have a conversation in a normal way, wouldn't be able to talk on the phone for the rest of my life. So that was what the diagnosis was. I however do not like being told that I can't do something. And so as has been my lifelong habit I started something called affirmations. Which is when you repeat to yourself or you write down fifteen times a day something in particular, some goal that you want.

Now I also warn against goals. So I like to keep the goals either general if it's something like money, so you can make as much as you want. You don't want to be too specific about that. But if it's something as specific as you've got a specific health problem, well then be specific. You want your specific health problem to be specifically fixed.

So for three years every time I drove my car by myself, which was a lot, you know I'd be driving around locally going to the gym or whatever, I would repeat aloud even though I couldn't form actual clear sentences, I would repeat aloud, "I, Scott Adams, will speak perfectly." Now what's interesting about this affirmation is that I never spoke perfectly before I had the medical problem. I had that approximate, you know, kind of a bad nasally voice. And obviously still not perfect.

But I repeated that for years and eventually I did find a rare surgical, fairly new procedure that fixed it. And then it took years to rehab it after it was surgically fixed. It took years of practice to get it up to actual usable strength. Where I'm going with this is that yesterday my audiobook, the audiobook version of "Loserthink," the book, my latest book, is sitting at number one in its category. And it's the audiobook that I produced.

So not only did I get my voice back from an incurable problem but I've also helped a lot of other people get cured of the same problem because I'm part of the outreach. You know I make sure that I use the spasmodic dysphonia words in my tweets every now and then so people can find me, find how I solved it, and then they can find their way to the same solution. So I've probably, I don't know, I may have cured personally