Back to episode — Episode 905 Scott Adams - Swaddle in Place. Come Learn a Useful Trick With Me.
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g the Surgeon General, who's African American, then he used some language to refer to grandpa and grandma. He was using some culturally relevant language and she called him out for it because it sounded racist. And then this poor black guy who's the Surgeon General of the United States has to explain on camera to the designated race war starter in the audience. This poor, you know he's reached may…
← Previous segment →at's what we love about him. He never backs away from the show. So he goes into the show and then you've got the president doing a show and Acosta doing a show and it's news for the day. I kind of like it. Now you also need real reporters and stuff and a lot of things that Acosta says are so ridiculous they make your head explode. But in the context of the show he's a good character. You know what I mean? If you were going to cast this as a movie he'd be a great character. So in terms of my enjoyment of watching the whole movie, as it were, I like Jim Acosta. He's a good addition to the movie if not your sense of information.
All right I'm going to teach you the most valuable thing you've ever learned and I'd like to save this for the end because only the people who really, really care are here. You ready? I'm going to give you a little life hack that really could fundamentally change your life. It's such a little thing and it can really change things. And it goes like this.
I learned years ago that touch, you know the act of touching somebody or something, is a skill. You think it might not be and you think you're all right, you know you'd be like somebody who's a trained massage therapist wouldn't know how to touch people correctly. And maybe if you're just randomly touching something you wouldn't do it so well. No that's all I'm talking about. That's part of it. So yes there is some technique about learning where to touch people and how hard and everything that will make you feel better but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about intention.
If you were to have, say you're walking through the underbrush and some of the underbrush was rubbing against parts of your body including your naughty bits, would that excite you? Probably not. Because even though there was some sense of something touching you and your naughty parts it probably would
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not even register as anything exciting because there's no intention involved. But the bush has no intention. Absent intention, touch loses all of its power. This is the thing that will change your life. I learned this because I couldn't understand why some people can touch you and it feels great. Well you know let's say in the context of dating or whatever. And other people can touch you and it d…
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