Ten things to know about @ScottAdamsSays. (1/11) 1. He created a...
Joel Pollak@joelpollak
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Ten things to know about @ScottAdamsSays. (1/11)
1. He created a method of "authoring" reality. Is it real? Who knows. The important thing is that it helps you create better outcomes, which is the ultimate measure of any "frame," "filter," or "system" for guiding one's own life.
1. He created a method of "authoring" reality. Is it real? Who knows. The important thing is that it helps you create better outcomes, which is the ultimate measure of any "frame," "filter," or "system" for guiding one's own life.
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2. Scott had a profound effect on international affairs as well as domestic politics. For example, his ideas were crucial in resolving the crisis with North Korea in President Trump's first term. He also had an impact on policy toward China and diplomacy in the Middle East. (2/11)
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3. Scott was incredibly generous. He wasn't into performative philanthropy. Instead, he devoted time and money directly to friends and family and did what he could to help fans, too. His motto was: "Be useful." He embodied Tocqueville's "self-interest properly understood." (3/11)
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4. Scott was an unpredictable thinker, whose opinion you could almost never guess. He was a skeptic who became a believer -- in a political and theological sense -- but never lost his critical edge. It made his perspective incredibly valuable, and also highly entertaining. (4/11)
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5. Scott believed in love, and family, and especially parenthood, even though he observed that love and relationships were the one area of his life in which he had not enjoyed profound success. Despite heartbreak and disappointment, Scott was surrounded by love in the end. (5/11)
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6. The genius of "Dilbert" was the observation that large organizations are generally stupid and inefficient, and that managers are promoted because of their incompetence, not despite it. What makes capitalism work is how it deals with failure, not how it achieves success. (6/11)
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7. The genius of "Win Bigly" and Scott's political writing was the observation that ordinary people could learn the same basic techniques that leaders like Donald Trump — whether you liked him or not — had used to take control of their own lives, and the world around them. (7/11)
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8. There were people who loved Scott before he became famous — leading to some of the most interesting discoveries in the biography — and people who still loved him after he was "canceled." Scott was beloved for who he was, not just admired for fame, fortune, or influence. (8/11)
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9. There were things about Scott that were quintessentially American, and which place him in a tradition of writers, thinkers, and critics going back to the Era of Good Feelings. He wanted to help black Americans in particular, and did, though he was eventually "canceled." (9/11)
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10. Scott believed there was a "Prime Influencer" — an ordinary person whose words and deeds had an impact in shaping the entire world, often quietly and behind the scenes. Scott also hinted at who it was.
To find out more, you'll have to read the biography in November. (11/11)
To find out more, you'll have to read the biography in November. (11/11)