Back to episode — Episode 853 Scott Adams - Simultaneous Sipping, #Coronavirus, The Nursing Home Pillow Fight
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rd, chalice or stein, a canteen, a coffee mug or vessel. Whatever you like. 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 will make everything better, including the coronavirus. We're gonna get this thing. Oh yeah, we're gonna get it. And when I say "get it," I mean beat it, not necessarily get it, alth…
← Previous segment →know I talk about systems being better than goals. My goal is to stay alive. My goal is not just to stay alive for myself but to not be a burden on the healthcare system. And if I can take myself out of that equation, there's one more ventilator for somebody else.
It's in my system. There's a nice long walk every day, mild exercise, light weights, eat right, really clean. You know, I just took sugar completely out of my diet. I'm eating clean, clean, clean. I'm sleeping right. And I'm taking time off from social media now. I do, because it's important to stay connected. I'm not taking an entire day off anytime, but I find, and you might find this too, that there are periods in the day where I just have to not look at anything for an hour. I just have to exist in my space without the outside world intruding on my thoughts, just for an hour, a few times a day. Keep your stress down. I'm helping. Doing it right now. You feel more relaxed listening to me? You know you do. Do you think it's intentional? Of course it is. I do this intentionally to make you more relaxed, and I guarantee that most of you are a little bit more relaxed when you listen to me. It's not an accident. There is technique everywhere in the world, and sometimes you don't recognize it.
All right, the stock market is doing a stock market thing of trying to scare us because it always does that. I'm not worried whatsoever about a generally falling stock market. Do you know what really, really bothers me? When the st
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ock market is going up and I'm not in it. Really bothers me when the entire stock market goes down. My share of the world, if you will, stays about the same. And when it goes back up, my share of the world will go up with the share of the world because I'm broadly diversified. Yeah, the world has to do well for me to do well. There's no exception to that. So I'm not worried at all about the stock…
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