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July 7, 2019 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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Episode 590 Scott Adams: The Periscope That Will Forever Change the Way You See Reality
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Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum come on in here today This will be a very special periscope.
Probably the most special one you'll ever see.
Today, anyway.
And you know we can't have the full enjoyment Of this periscope until we've done, you know, you know what we have to do first.
It's called the simultaneous sip, and the only way you can do it is if you've got a cup or a mug or a glass, possibly a tankard, a stein, or a chalice.
You might have a thermos or a flask, a vessel of some kind.
Maybe you filled it with your favorite liquid.
Maybe it's coffee. But in any event, you're ready now to join me for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip.
Join me. If you're complaining about the volume today, nothing's going to change.
Except that you might get blocked for interrupting my periscope.
That's the only thing that might change.
So, I promise you that today is the Periscope that's going to change the way you look at the reality, your reality, forever.
So let's do that.
You know, what would seem like it...
All right, let me warn you again that whoever tells me my sound is bad, I'm going to start blocking you.
I'm not going to talk about it anymore.
I'm just going to block the people who say that, okay?
Because I can't change it.
It's exactly the same as every other time.
Nothing's different. Okay.
NBC has a story about Nick Bostrom's idea of the simulation.
The idea that this reality could have been programmed by some other type of creature.
And the idea is that maybe it was some human beings who created us as a simulation, maybe some other kind of alien, but it's the general idea that we're a simulation.
And I want to start with that.
We've talked about this a number of times, so I don't have to go into any detail about that.
But the first thing I'd point out is that it's in NBC, and the number of people who are speaking of the simulation as a legitimate way to look at the world is increasing.
Would you agree? There are more and more people who are taking seriously, as I do, the idea that we are a simulated reality, actually programmed.
Now, if we are, if we're a simulated reality, there are some things that you would expect to see.
One of those things you would expect is that not everybody in the simulation is real, Or based on real people?
Because my guess is that if we created a simulation, we would, let's say if we were to do it today, if the people you see around you were to program a simulation of their own, that simulation would probably, because we have big egos, take on the personalities of the people creating the simulation.
So there may be some people in the simulation who were based on some alien who was the author.
And it would also stand to reason that those programmers would give some people a little extra resources, a little extra free will, if you will, a little extra ability to navigate the simulation.
And I would suggest that there are a number of people who are alive today who have been spending much of their life looking for what I'll call the user interface for the simulation.
Or to put it in more ordinary terms, people alive today We're looking for the levers to make life work best.
What are the buttons you can push in this thing we call life to get the best result?
Now, if it's true that there are some people who have been spending their life figuring out the user interface, and I'm going to talk about those people in a little bit, that you would imagine that those people could get results That would look unbelievable to the rest of you.
In other words, if it's true that there are people who can author their own lives, they figured out where the buttons are, where the levers are, where the user interface has all of its hidden menus, you would see them doing things that just don't even seem possible.
Is that true? Let's talk about the news.
Hold that thought.
Let's talk about the news.
In the news, the Taliban have decided to talk peace.
Now, we don't know if that'll work out yet, but let me say it again.
The Taliban decided to talk peace.
It's a pretty big deal that they even decided to have the conversation, because you don't really have the conversation unless you think something good is going to come of it, or you want something good to come of it.
So, President Trump seems to be president, coincidentally, at exactly the time that the Afghan people seem to want to talk.
Could it be because President Trump pushed the right buttons?
Maybe. Or maybe it's just luck.
Here's something else in the news.
Iran has decided it will go beyond the limit of 3.67% enrichment of uranium to a new percentage that is, quote, based on our needs, government spokesman said.
Now, does that sound like good news or bad news?
Well, depends how you look at it.
You would think it's bad news if you said, my God, they're heading toward a nuclear weapon.
But that's not exactly what I'm seeing.
What I'm seeing is in Iran, That is making a lot of moves, but all of the moves are measured.
All of the moves are roughly proportionate, and they are getting in return proportionate or proportional responses.
So they took out an unmanned drone, didn't kill anybody.
They put a few bombs on some ships in ways that they knew wouldn't sink the ships.
They said they'll enrich some uranium, but they're not saying I'm going to take it from here to bomb quality.
They're saying we're going to take it up a little, which probably has more to do with their desire to negotiate.
So what we're seeing is an Iran who clearly is showing some activity that all suggests, number one, they're reasonable people who make reasonable responses.
Now, they have a different set of objectives in this world, but the way they respond seems rational.
That's the most important thing, isn't it?
Because if you're going to deal with somebody who's irrational, there's nothing you can do.
But if you're dealing with somebody who's clearly rational, and they prove it over and over again, as the Iranians are, then you probably have some path that may not have been clear yet.
But it may be becoming clear.
And I think that, especially with Jared Kushner's peace and prosperity plan, I think the people in the Middle East more generally are starting to see that the main obstacle to everything in the Middle East, just everything, is Iran.
That Iran is the thing That's really the only big problem left over there.
And if you were to solve that and get Iran to be a productive player over there, almost everything else would work out.
Not immediately, but over time.
You'd have prosperity, you'd have peace, you'd have anything you wanted.
So it seems to me that although it looks like a dangerous time, because Iran is responding in ways that are scary, their responses are so...
Measured and so rational that it does signal something good is about to happen.
Not right away. We might need to have some more pain before we get there.
But I think it's heading in the right direction.
Let's talk about, and again, it looks like President Trump, maybe, just coincidentally, the president when all this good stuff's happening.
Apparently, in a new poll, the President's popularity has reached a new high.
Likewise, as somebody mentioned in the comments, North Korea is suddenly...
We'll block that person.
Suddenly, North Korea is being very friendly.
And that looks good.
And coincidentally, President Trump is in charge.
Now, some more news.
Did you notice that Antifa protested in D.C.? I have to say that the D.C. police failed, just failed horribly in that situation.
Now, I want to be clear in my thoughts here.
The D.C. police officers were certainly under the orders of their bosses to handle things the way they did.
So the actual police officers on the street, as far as I can tell, did an amazing job.
Did a really, really good job.
I want to be clear about that.
The actual officers who were on the street, I mean, they looked like they really, really did a good job of containing it, given the rules that they had to work with.
But here's the problem. They were working with the wrong rules.
Apparently there is a law that says you can't wear a mask in public the way the Antifa people were.
Apparently the police had decided at a higher level, I'm just speculating here based on what we've seen, that they didn't want to cause trouble by unmasking them.
That might have been too much of a provocation, could have caused trouble.
I believe that that is incorrect.
I believe they only had to unmask a few on camera.
You don't have to unmask them all.
You only have to unmask a few.
Because if every time you go to an Antifa deal, the police say, look, there are 50 of you wearing masks, but you too come over here.
and they just unmask them.
You wouldn't have to unmask them all, because the next time people are going to say, "Uh, two out of 50, that's starting to get dangerous." "Zero out of 50 unmasked is not dangerous." "Two out of 50 caught on camera," "Well, that's a little bit dangerous." All right?
So where the DC police completely failed, and I'm going to say just the management, again, the actual people on the streets, great job.
I think everybody would agree with that, right?
When you say great job, given the rules that they were working with, but I think the bosses need to change the instructions.
I think they need to say police, Take off a few masks.
Just a few. Make sure it's polite.
Make sure it's civilized.
And just unmask a few people.
And we'll just take it from there.
All right. I have a theory that when Antifa was first making noise, you know, especially around election time in 2016, that they were probably helping The Democrats.
In other words, they were amplifying a message that the Democrats wanted to amplify, which is President Trump or candidate Trump is an evil, terrible guy.
But it seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, does it not feel at this point that every time Antifa goes to the streets, they make Democrats look less legitimate?
It seems to me that every time they show up and the other side doesn't respond violently, they're absolutely shooting their team in the foot.
Now, if they could provoke the Proud Boys or conservatives or Republicans or Trump supporters, whoever, if they could provoke anybody to fight back, well, they might win.
That might be a winning strategy.
But so far, they're not getting much fight back.
And when they do, it's clearly legitimate.
So it looks to me that Antifa is now the Achilles heel of the Democrats.
Antifa is their accessory.
Antifa is their earrings.
Antifa is the car they have to drive.
When you think of the Democrats, you can't think of them anymore without seeing these masked men in masks beating people over the head.
They have become the Democrats' brand because the Democrats have not been sufficiently, let's say, out front in condemning them.
Now, you might recognize what I'm saying as the same problem that conservatives and Republicans have, which is every time something like Charlottesville happens, that's a huge blow to the brand, because the other team can brand you with their activities, even if you have nothing to do with it.
You just happen to be a Republican, the people marching are identified with the right, and the next thing you know, you're identified with a group you have nothing to do with.
Antifa is doing to the Democrats what the neo-Nazis did to the Republicans.
Again, the normal Democrat has nothing to do with Antifa.
The normal Republican has nothing to do with any kind of right-wing racists.
They're completely different.
But in our national view of things, they seem to be conflated.
So where I used to say Antifa needs to be stopped, I don't really say that anymore.
Because Antifa has overstayed their welcome.
They've jumped the shark, so to speak.
And now every time you see Antifa, you should say to yourself, well, bad for Democrats.
Just stay out of the way.
So I would encourage everybody who is You know, associated with the right or with Trump in any way to don't engage.
Make sure that the only pictures are them showing up in masks with clubs.
By the way, they all had clubs.
Did you notice that? The Antifa were carrying flags, but the flags were just an excuse for the stick, just the club.
They were clearly weapons.
So these were masked people wearing weapons, That they brought to her people and the D.C. police, obviously operating on instructions from their bosses, let them walk around with their weapons in public with masks on.
To their credit, apparently they did a good enough job of keeping them separated from the folks at the free speech rally.
But I would say at this point, every Antifa rally is now a victory for Trump supporters if you stay out of the way.
Just stay out of the way and let it play out.
It's the best thing that could ever happen to you.
All right. In other big news, you've seen the story about Epstein.
So Epstein, the billionaire, who was accused of, credibly accused of, of course, of having lots of sex with underage girls, and he worked out some kind of great plea deal where he served a little bit of sort of like jail, but now it's over.
And he's been arrested again, and as I understand the story, Mike Cernovich is the reason.
So Mike Cernovich, apparently...
I don't know the legal terms, but he got the...
Some of the information is going to be released on the...
I guess the...
Some part of the legal proceedings.
And that triggered the re-arrest of Epstein.
So Mike Cernovich...
Cause that to happen.
Now, I was reading The Daily Beast had a story about it, and I thought, oh, let's see if The Daily Beast is nice to Mike Surtovich, because I don't think that they're friends.
And so I read the entire story, and his name isn't in it.
The Daily Beast does this story without mentioning Mike Surtovich.
How do you not mention it? He's the one who caused the whole thing.
So that has to be watched.
You have to watch how he is ignored because he doesn't make sense in their story.
He's their enemy.
He's the bad guy to the people on the left.
And so they can't reconcile that he may have done one of the best things that's ever been done.
You know, in recent years.
We'll see how far it goes because we don't know what other names are going to come out of this, but we expect that there'll be some stuff coming out of this.
So that's interesting.
Now, what's most interesting about this is that most of you know Mike Cernovich is also associated with the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, the idea that there's a massive What are the odds?
That the person most associated with a pedophile ring conspiracy theory would coincidentally be the person who broke a real pedophile ring that was operating apparently at the highest levels.
What are the odds that that would be the same person?
Well, remember I started telling you about that we might be in a simulation.
Remember I told you that it seems like there are some people who are authors of the simulation.
Their life, their life arc seems to resemble a movie.
Who else can you say would go into that category that Mike Cernovich went into?
I think he referred to himself on his Periscope yesterday, which was amazing, by the way.
You really needed to be there to watch his Periscope yesterday when he had learned the news about his success with the Epstein thing.
It was sort of a moment in history.
It was a key moment in the simulation, if you will.
So watching that live was actually quite exciting.
So I tuned into that for a while yesterday.
But what you saw is Mike Cernovich Who has, by his own description, gone out, and I'll put my own words on it, but he tells you this all the time.
He has set out to learn the user interface for reality.
He wrote a book, you know, Guerrilla Mindset, which talks about how to orient your mind for success.
He's a student of this stuff.
I know he's studied Tony Robbins, studied Norman Vincent Peale, for example, and others.
Mike Cernovich has found the user interface for reality.
That's why he has a zillion Twitter followers.
That's why he's changing the United States Just sitting at home.
I mean, he doesn't always sit at home, but he can sit at home with his Periscope and his Twitter and his email, and he can change the world.
And he did. When you look at President Trump's arc, you see that, first of all, if you didn't know, his pastor when he was a kid was Norman Vincent Peale.
The very same inspirational person who I just mentioned that Mike Cernovich was inspired by and I was and lots of other people.
And you see that Trump apparently doesn't have a sense of what he can't do.
He doesn't have some sense that there's something in this simulation that's not available to him.
He treats the world like everything is available to him and he's the author of the simulation.
Is it working? Clearly it is.
He treats the world like he has complete control over it.
And although in any, you know, short-term way, you can see that that's not true, but over the larger arc of his story, it's very much true.
You've rarely seen anybody get as much as he wants out of life as President Trump.
And it looks like he's just getting started.
It looks like the good stuff is still ahead of us.
So I would suggest that there are a number of people who have followed the same trail.
And if you go back further, there's actually an origin for this way of thinking.
And it came from Dale Carnegie.
Dale Carnegie, back in the 1800s, I guess, was the richest person in the country, maybe the world, I don't know.
But he was very rich.
And He got this author, Napoleon Hill.
He talked him into interviewing other rich people to find out what it was that rich people were doing that made them successful and other people were not doing.
Right. Napoleon Hill wrote Think and Grow Rich.
That was his big bestseller.
So he interviewed rich people to try to figure out what they had in common.
And then learning from Napoleon Hill was Norman Vincent Peale.
And learning from Norman Vincent Peale was a lot of people.
Including President Trump, including me, including, I'll bet, Tony Robbins, I've never asked him, but I'll bet.
And I'll bet, and Mike Cirovich, etc.
Here are some people that I've identified as having put in the time to try to learn the interface for reality.
These are people who seem to be able to actually change the simulation at will.
People who have figured out where the buttons are to get whatever they want.
And if you look at their lives, they seem to be accumulating everything they want.
So here's some people you should follow.
I mentioned Mike Cernovich.
James Altucher, you should follow.
He knows the user interface for life.
Read his work and follow him.
Tim Ferriss. Another one went out and systematically absorbed as much as he could about how other people figure out the user interface for life until he had their knowledge.
And now, Tim Ferriss can move the world.
He actually has that power.
Joe Rogan.
I don't know if Joe Rogan set out to do this or it just was a coincidence of the career he developed that allowed him to talk to lots of people who have different parts of the answer.
But clearly Joe Rogan is somebody who has spent time trying to figure out what works and what doesn't work in every realm from fitness and nutrition to your career to you name it.
I don't know that Joe Rogan ever set out to do that, but that's where he is.
Jordan Peterson, of course.
Jordan Peterson probably got there through an academic path, studying everything he could about everything from psychology to biology, until when you listen to Jordan Peterson talk about how to live your life, it's quite clear he has figured out the user interface.
And people who follow his advice will tell you universally, oh yeah, this works.
Naval Ravikant.
I hope all of you have heard his name.
You should be following him on Twitter at Naval, N-A-V-A-L. Naval does not write books, even though every publisher in the world would beg him to do so.
If he ever wrote a book, it would be the best bestseller that was ever written.
Literally, it's possible.
It's hard to know for sure, but If Naval ever wrote a book, it probably would be in a top ten of all-time books and maybe number one.
It might be the biggest book in the world if he ever wrote one, but he doesn't want to.
He doesn't want to sell what he has to offer, which is interesting because it also makes it more valuable.
There's something about scarcity that makes it valuable.
Naval He has spent quite a lifetime figuring out what works and the user interface for life, and he's figured it out.
By all objective measures, it seems that Naval can move the world whenever he wants to.
He can actually change the whole world in small ways, in little corners, but he can actually walk up to the world and just nudge it now.
You can't do that. You don't know how to do that.
Naval can walk up to any corner of the world and just push it.
You can't do that.
Here's another one. Mark Benioff.
Founder of Salesforce and billionaire philanthropist.
I don't know how much he's done publicly that you could read, etc., but I will tell you I spent some time talking to him, and it's obvious when you talk to him, he has figured out the user interface.
And I would suggest, and by the way, I'm going to put myself modestly in this camp.
People who have spent a lifetime reading and studying and trying to figure out how life works.
You know, what are the few things you can do to make something work?
So if you read my books, How to Failed Almost Everything and Still Win Big, you'll learn the basic framework for how I think life works best, where the buttons are.
If you read Win Bigly, my book about persuasion, you'll understand the limits of our rational minds.
And without that, it's hard to understand how your world works.
And my upcoming book, Loser Think, which will be available in November, will tell you some of the greatest mental traps that you should avoid that almost everybody you see online is falling into.
Thank you.
So my only point is that if you were to pay attention to these people who have gone before, and I'll mention them again, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, Donald Trump, Trump, you want to read, you know, The Art of the Deal, and even though he wasn't literally the author, it does capture a big part of his philosophy.
Mike Cernovich, James L. Tusher, Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, anything in a TED talk, Naval, Ravikant, Mark Benioff.
That's not the full list.
But those are people who have figured out how stuff works.
And if you read those people, you will learn.
Now, let me say something that I've been saving this up a little bit.
But once you learn the interface for life, the biggest surprise is that things you thought were important are unimportant, and things you thought were unimportant are completely important.
And Trump displays that in a way you've never seen before.
Let me give you an example. When Trump started communicating in a way that he was running for president, meaning that when he started talking as a candidate, what did people say about him?
They said that he was being too simplistic, he repeated himself, and he was leaving out all the details.
Now we know that was exactly the right way to communicate because he connected with people that way.
He understood what they wanted and he fed it back to them in clear, simple, repeatable language.
The people who do not understand the user interface for the universe said, hey, this guy must have a fourth grade education because we don't see people do this.
We see people trying to pretend to be smart by using big words and trying to talk about concepts.
Why is he not doing that?
The reason is that he knows it doesn't work.
The thing you thought was most important, sounding like a president using big words, being intellectual, trying to be respected by everybody, he knew that wasn't important.
He did know that connecting with the voters at a very basic level was very important.
So he did what was important.
Was it luck?
Well, his critics would say so.
They'd say, well, he blundered into it.
But look how many other things he does.
That are along the same lines.
First of all, who understood more than President Trump that the facts didn't matter to our decisions?
The facts, of course, matter to the outcomes.
And if you have a choice of using good facts or bad facts for making your decisions, use good facts.
But who understood that the voters just weren't concerned with facts?
Who understood that the way to run a country is to ignore the facts in terms of the details, but to be directionally, let's say directionally ethical?
Directionally true. So if he's exaggerating about the danger of something, but he's also doing it to get something done, well, that's directionally ethical, because everybody wanted to get something done.
And if using some language and some facts that are a little bit exaggerated or off is how you get there, then the president understood that those details were not important.
But getting there was very important.
He understands this like nobody ever has.
How about President Trump making friends with dictators?
Almost everybody who thought they were smart said, you can't do that.
Don't do that. But I guarantee you that after Trump's administration is over, that all other leaders will be compared to that because it's so obvious that it was a good idea.
So long as you're also willing to put sanctions on him, so long as you're also willing to be tough, and this president clearly is.
He clearly is willing to be tough at the same time he's being personally friendly.
So, the world said, It's not important, and in fact, it's counterproductive to be friends with these dictators.
Trump said, no, actually, that might be the only thing that matters.
And it looks like, if you take North Korea as an example, and maybe even with President Xi in China, the personal relationship might be the only thing that matters.
It might be. It could be the only thing that makes everything else work.
The President understood that.
Everybody told President Trump, all the smart people did, that you can't run the country on Twitter.
People said, well, okay, it did work during your campaign, but once you become president, you're not going to be tweeting, are you?
Don't tweet as president.
You can't do that.
What did the president do?
Tweeted. Tweeted like crazy.
And maybe he has proven that you can run the world, or at least the country, by tweeting.
He does it over and over again.
You can see that he's completely cut through the middle people.
He doesn't have his advisors cutting him off at the knees.
He doesn't have anybody changing his message from what he wants it to be.
He can go right to the people.
History will record That he was completely right in his instinct that this tweeting was not just important, but really important.
Like critical, essential, it's one of the buttons to the user interface for reality.
And he saw it, and other people didn't.
People said, you can't use these insulting nicknames.
This is no way to be.
This is grade school. Trump realized that those insulting nicknames were the user interface, that he could actually change the way we saw people and the world by pushing those buttons.
So what Trump could see was these buttons that said nicknames, and everybody else said, don't push those buttons.
You can't push those buttons.
That would be the wrong thing to do.
And Trump looked at them and said, watch this.
Click. Hey, it worked.
Well, don't do it again. It'll never work again.
Sure, you got lucky with low-energy jet, but you're never going to be able to do that again.
And Trump said, watch this.
Bonk. He pushed another button.
And he just keeps pushing them.
And people keep saying, I don't see any buttons.
Or they say, don't push those buttons.
Or that's not important.
Or that's the wrong direction.
But he knew it was important.
Here's another one. If you are an economist, there's sort of a truism that if you can get jobs right, in other words, unemployment, if you get that working right, almost everything else works out.
People will invest more, you know, almost everything works out.
You'll have a lower deficit, etc.
President Trump made it crystal clear that he had one objective, which was to get everybody working.
That laser focus on the most important lever in the user interface was a little bit unique to President Trump.
Nobody has ever been more identified with that one variable, jobs, than this president.
Why is that important?
Because it's the most important variable.
Why did we have to wait for Trump to To tell us what economists already know, which is that's the most important variable.
And how you feel about that variable is what makes that variable change.
So I told you about the new CEO move when Trump and Pence were first elected, but before they were even sworn in the few months between the election and inauguration.
They were out there talking to Carrier and talking to Ford about keeping jobs.
They created a first impression that it was their top priority and it remains looking like their top priority.
Defense is always the top priority, but we don't think of it that way.
Because once defense is working well, you have the luxury of thinking about other things and that's where we are right now.
And even though the Carrier and Ford story did not turn into a great number of jobs, I don't know if anything successful happened at all, he knew that making that first impression and going out of his way to work on it before he was even in office set the stage.
He knew that was important and he was right.
He also knew, Trump did, That energy is more important than almost anything.
More important than experience.
More important than facts.
He knew that. Do you know who else knows that?
AOC. She uses energy instead of facts.
And it works.
Now, don't get mad at me.
I'm just talking about her skill level.
You don't have to like her policies.
The other thing that President Trump understands, like nobody ever understood, because he was actually criticized for this, they would say things such as, he's running it like it's a reality show.
He talks about people he hires as if they came from central casting.
And people are saying, stop it, stop it.
You're a president.
You're not a reality TV show star.
And I would watch it, and I would say...
Is Trump the only one who understands how important the show is?
The show. He isn't just the leader.
He's putting on a show.
And the show that he puts on tells us who he is, tells us how we should act, tells the world who we are, tells the world what to watch out for, tells the world what they need to do to get right with the United States.
He understands that politics...
It's about being smart and wise and looking at the details.
It's about the show.
And if you get the show right, everything else works well.
Who puts on a better show than the president?
Well, you just watched the 4th of July, right?
The man knows how to put on a show.
When he does his rallies, he puts on a show.
When he gives a press conference, he puts on a show.
When he tweets, he puts on a show.
He's all about the show.
And after his administration, the smart people will grudgingly understand that if the next president can't put on a show, they don't have all the tools.
You're going to look at half a toolbox.
Whoever comes in after Trump, in all likelihood, unless they've borrowed his technique, in all likelihood, it's going to look like a president who doesn't have enough tools.
So... Look at the fact that President Trump just achieved, according to polls, his highest approval level ever.
He's at his highest approval level ever.
He seems to have defeated at least the territorial ambitions of ISIS. The economy looks like it's doing really well.
China seems to be on notice that they can't push us around anymore.
We've got trade deals that are going to be finalized.
We may have peace in the Middle East.
North Korea looks like it's heading in a productive direction.
This president, unlike other politicians, knows where the user interface is to the simulation.
And you watch it every day.
You see him being unbothered by things that you know should bother him.
And he's just unbothered.
Because he can tell the difference between things that matter and things that don't in a way that's special.
And I don't think it's an accident.
At all, that things are going well.
The reason that I was an early supporter and predictor of Trump's success, the reason that I could see it early is exactly the same reason Mike Cernovich could see it early.
We have the same skill set, we have the same understanding of where the buttons are to the user interface, and both Mike and I could see very early on in the process Oh my goodness.
It's a politician who knows where the buttons are.
It's the first time. You've never seen it before.
First time. And the next one might not know where the buttons are.
Look at Joe Biden.
Do you think that Joe Biden knows the user interface to the simulation?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
So now, let me give you some closing thoughts to keep you motivated.
It is my experience that the people who follow the people that I've mentioned, who have gone before, and by trial and error and through their own study, have figured out how the user interface to reality works.
If you study their work, it will get you there faster.
And you can get to a point where it feels as if you are moving reality.
How many of you have watched me, those of you who have been watching for a while, I want to see this in the comments.
How many of you have watched me walk up to reality and push it?
And just nudge it in my direction?
I just want to see in the comments, how many of you have watched me do that right in front of you?
So watch the comments.
So, I've called my shots.
I make my predictions.
I show you my work.
I tell you the roots of all my work.
It's not things I invented.
These are things that I've acquired from those who have gone before.
It's learnable.
It's completely learnable.
And you can know that because you can see the people who have learned it.
I've named a bunch of them.
Some get there in their own path.
Some are influenced by other people.
Most, I think, are influenced by other people plus their own study.
But let me tell you another thing that you don't know.
You've seen all the things that I've influenced publicly.
Do you believe that all of my influence is public?
No. Of course not.
Because there are some things that just don't work if you're doing them publicly.
I would suggest that there are possibly...
20 people in the world who, if they worked on the same team, could change almost anything.
And, you know, some of the people I mentioned are those types of people, there are others, but there are probably 20 people in the country who could move the country in any direction they wanted.
And it would work more effectively if they teamed up and they were on the same side.
But you can start to see who these people are.
You can also see that it's learnable.
One of the reasons that I'm fascinated watching Ali Alexander's career come together is that you can tell that Ali is a seeker.
In other words, he's on this path.
He is learning from people who got there quicker, or didn't get there quicker, but they got there before, usually because they're older.
And he's picking up technique.
And you watch his power grow.
If you haven't watched this, it's really amazing.
Somebody says, the Bitcoin kid.
Yeah, Eric Finman. Eric Finman is someone who's on this path.
Eric Finman, already at age 19, can already walk up to reality and push it.
And he is a student, and I know this because I know him, he is a student of the user interface.
He's figuring out little by little how stuff works, plus he's a genius, so he's figuring out stuff on his own as well.
But if you were to follow young people who can, you know, move the world, well, that's a couple of them right there.
I'm going to leave you with one thought that I just want you to grapple with.
It's sort of tangentially related to this topic.
But I'm just going to give you this one thought and just listen to the sentence.
I'm going to say it twice.
Because the first time you hear it, you're going to say, I want to hear that again.
So I'll say it twice.
Here it is. God is what's left after you take everything away.
I'm going to say it again.
God is what's left after you take everything away.
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