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Oct. 28, 2019 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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Episode 707 Scott Adams: Al-Baghdadi’s Destroyed Compound and California, Basically the Same
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You know the best advice I ever got on these periscopes?
Are the people who said, Scott, move the camera back.
Further. Further.
It's like when you watch movie stars from, let's say, movie stars who are not in their prime anymore, and they just add the gauze, you know, the effects, so you can't see the wrinkles and stuff.
Well, that works for me too.
Every year I'm just going to move the camera a little bit further away.
I'll never stop doing this.
I'll just get so small as I move the camera further and further away that you just can't see me, and then I'll just be gone.
Well, I know why you're here.
Is it because of the World Series?
No, it's not.
Is it because of the killing of al-Baghdadi?
Well, not entirely.
You're here for the Simultaneous Sip.
You're here for Coffee with Scott Adams, and why wouldn't you?
Because you're smart, you're with it, you're aggressive, and you've got it all going on.
I would say you're more confident and better looking than even yesterday.
And yesterday was pretty good.
So, if you'd like to enjoy the simultaneous hip, it doesn't take much.
No, not much at all.
All you need...
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Go! Yeah, it does get better every time.
It's not your imagination.
It's actually designed to be better every time.
It builds on itself. So how about that?
So let's talk about some things in the news.
There's a lot of tragedy going around.
One of them is California.
So California has sort of turned into that prank.
Have you ever heard the prank Where you take a paper bag and you fill it with feces, and then you put it on somebody's porch, and you set it on fire, and you ring the doorbell, and then the person comes out and they say, ah, there's a fire on my porch, and they start stomping out the fire, but they're stomping out a bag of poop.
Well, California's turned into that prank.
We're on fire, and people are pooping everywhere.
Now, there is some chance that the fire will burn some of the poop.
But as someone pointed out recently, ironically, the national symbol for California is a bear.
It's a bear. And we actually have a confirmed answer to the age-old question.
Does a bear shed in the woods?
Not in California. No way.
The woods are on fire.
In California, even the bears are shitting on the sidewalk.
It's the only place that isn't on fire.
And of course, they don't like to go where there's no light, so that limits their options too.
So I've, as you know, the whole state is either in a blackout or on fire.
And even if you're not directly affected, as my house, just by amazing luck, my house is in this narrow corridor.
Where I'm actually technically in the blackout zone, but my specific address isn't quite there yet.
So I have electricity so far.
I've taken, Christine and I have taken in some people who don't have electricity.
I think a lot of Californians are going to be taking in people.
So we've got a couple of new residents in my house.
For as long as it takes, until they get some electricity where they live.
I put in an order, not an order, but a request for information from Tesla.
To see about their wall battery thing.
So they have a product, if you didn't know, Tesla makes a big battery for your home that you can charge up with your solar.
And then it will run, they say, for seven days if you have a power outage.
It will run for seven days without having to be recharged.
Now, my expectation is that I won't even get a call back.
Because I have to think, there are a lot of people calling Tesla this week and saying, Tesla, hello.
I don't have any electricity.
I don't like it.
I would like to get one of your batteries so that the next time this happens, i.e.
next year, because it's going to happen again, I would like to have a battery.
So I'm probably one of...
A lot of people who called Tesla recently or emailed them and said some version of, can you give me some information on your battery?
I don't expect that I will hear from them, actually.
However, if I had a way to directly, this is not, I'm not giving you investment advice.
Never take investment advice from a cartoonist.
Just remember that.
And I haven't looked into this, but if there's any pure way to invest in those Tesla home batteries, I would think this would be the time to do it, because I can't imagine that they have any left in stock.
They must be making those things as quickly as they can place them, because there's got to be a lot of people like me who just said, maybe now's the time.
Maybe now. So we'll see.
You saw that President Trump went to the World Series yesterday, and because people can find anything to complain about, they complained that he must be a bad father because he didn't take Barron to the game.
To which I said, that sounds like someone who's never met a teenager.
Do you know what teenagers don't want to do?
Go to a game with their parents.
It's literally the last thing they'd ever want to do.
Hey, I'd like to spend my night with my parents, said no teenager ever.
So that's pretty funny that anybody thinks that Baron would have wanted to do that.
I doubt it.
So anyway, I stole the joke about the bear shooting in the woods from...
Don or Dan? Don McDaniel, who may or may not be watching this.
If you are, good joke, Don.
Thank you. So I asked you yesterday if you would give Matt Gaetz, Congressman Matt Gaetz, a follow on Twitter to get his attention so that...
I could coax him to appear as a guest on this Periscope.
And we did manage to get him several thousand new followers.
I don't know how many. I was trying for 10,000.
I think we had several thousand as of yesterday and still rising.
But he did respond.
And he said yes.
So I've got a message in to him to see if we can get a real schedule together.
Did you notice that he was at the World Series with President Trump and Melania?
So he has some good access.
So I'll try to schedule him.
I'll let you know in advance.
And that will be a lot of fun.
All right. Let's talk about El Baghdadi.
He used to be called Baghdadi, but I like to call him Baghdadi, because it's funnier.
I saw somebody on Twitter say that Trump is such a badass that not only did he kill Baghdadi, but then he shit-talked him in public after that.
That's like the ultimate badass, right?
He kills him, and then he goes and he trash-talks him in public.
To which I said, no, nope, it's better than that.
It's better than that.
He didn't just kill him.
The last thing that he made Baghdadi do before he died was kill his own children.
Three of them. Now, you think it's bad that Trump didn't take Barron to the World Series?
Well, I think Baghdadi might not be father of the year either.
So that's how bad of a badass Trump is.
He didn't just kill him.
He made him kill his own children in the process.
And then he trash-talked him.
So that's a pretty complete victory.
New York Times is reporting that the Syria withdrawal almost ruined the Baghdadi operation.
So, in their telling of the story, the operation was a success despite Trump, not because of him.
That the biggest obstacle to success was Trump himself.
So that's the New York Times version of the story.
Okay. This is a perfect example of the type of story that you shouldn't take too seriously.
Because there were a lot of variables.
And the basic part of it might be true.
It might be true that we had a bead on this guy, and it might be true that if we brought our assets out in a too hasty way that we would lose it.
And it might be true that we decided to act while the acting was good.
That might all be true.
But it doesn't make any mistake that Trump was trying to pull out.
Because obviously the decision to pull out was independent of the decision or the question about Baghdadi.
Whether he lived or died, we preferred that he died.
But the withdrawal was going to happen anyway.
It had to happen somewhere.
Now what we don't know, if there was anything about the withdrawal which made it any easier to get Baghdadi.
We know from the New York Times reporting that there was some thought that we lost an opportunity for an easier way to get him.
You know, if he were moving his locations, we'd get him when he's on the move.
So there was some thought that we had to do it the hard way because of Trump's pulling out of Syria.
But who knows how long Baghdadi would have stayed there.
Who knows? Who knows if our pulling out caused some extra, let's say, extra intelligence sources to come forward?
We don't know. So there's a lot we don't know about that.
But I just think that as a general rule, it's always fair to give the Commander-in-Chief the win for a win.
A win's a win. You know, I gave Obama full credit for getting Bin Laden.
I give the same treatment to Trump.
Full credit for getting Baghdadi.
Now, a few months from here, you know, once we're past the sort of the political interpretation of everything, I would like to point out an interesting dog that did not bark effect.
Now, you're going to have to fact check me on this.
So fact check me hard on this.
I could be wrong. But I'm going to make an observation based on just my personal experience.
It seems to me that the only entity, person, or organization who is not taking credit for killing Baghdadi is the people who did it.
Am I wrong? The US military...
I think, if you don't count what Trump himself says, but the actual military, I don't know if they've taken credit.
They've certainly described what they did.
But isn't it unusual, and to their everlasting credit, that our military is the only ones who didn't feel the need to try to take credit?
That's professional.
That is sort of professional.
Not sort of. That's very professional.
So it's impressive in its lack.
You could easily imagine some other personalities, some other people trying to take credit and saying, well, it wasn't the president.
We were the ones on the ground.
We were the ones who almost got shot.
And they didn't. Now, of course, the president did a very good job of making sure that we understood what risk they were at, how brave they were, how capable they were, and all that.
But I just think it's notable that the people who were the heroes, are the heroes, didn't say anything.
I mean, that's exactly what you'd want.
It's the best possible solution or situation.
I've got a question for you.
Let me just put this idea into the universe.
All right? I don't think you've heard this idea before.
I'm just going to put it out there.
Purple hearts for the dogs.
Yes or no? Should the dogs, who were injured, badly apparently, I don't know how many dogs, but more than one, I think, was injured but lived, would you like to see a Purple Heart ceremony for the dogs?
Because what's interesting about the dogs is that they have this symbiotic relationship with the actual soldiers, So much so that the soldiers won't leave them behind.
They don't even leave the dog behind.
I mean, it couldn't have been easy.
I was trying to imagine how hard it would be under the situation they were in to rescue a wounded dog, get it cared for and transported all the way back and all that.
That couldn't have been easy.
So there were some military people who really took a risk and put some real effort into protecting the dogs and making sure that they came home.
So I'll just put that out there.
Purple heart for the dogs?
Yes or no? Now, I wouldn't want to diminish...
I don't want to diminish what it means to human beings to get a purple heart because it's obviously one of the...
It's one of the more important recognitions you could get because you've given almost as much as you could give, short of your life, if you get wounded.
But I think these particular dogs, we don't even think of them as dogs.
They're basically just part of the military at this point.
So I guess my respect for the military dogs is so high.
That I don't see it as an insult that they could win an award that a human could win in this specific case.
In any other case, I'd feel differently.
All right, so it looks like a lot of people were on board with that.
Let's talk about the Washington Post, who you probably have all seen the story.
Washington Post's first headline description of Baghdadi after he was killed was that he was an austere religious...
Religious scholar.
He was an austere religious scholar.
Okay, so people complained and said, you know, if you happen to be the biggest rapist, murderer, terrorist in the world, maybe you don't lead with austere religious scholar.
Maybe you lead with rapist, murderer, beheader, terrorist.
So the Washington Post heard the complaints, and they adjusted accordingly.
And in a statement from one of their executives, in a tweet, Christine Karate Kelly said, regarding our al-Baghdadi obituary, the headline should never have read that way, and we changed it quickly.
So what is our opinion of this?
Well, obviously...
People have an opinion about how fair or unbiased the reporting is, and it almost seems as if they just couldn't give Trump the win, so they had to soften it somehow.
But they did respond to people pointing it out and they did change it.
So, under the 48-hour rule, under the 48-hour rule, do we forgive them?
Is the apology accepted?
Well, no.
Because there's no apology.
Let me read it again. This is not apology.
They said the headline should never have read that way, and we changed it quickly.
That's not an apology, right?
So, there's no apology to accept, but there is a clarification.
And the clarification is that it was a mistake and that we changed it quickly.
Now, there's a lot to be desired in this response.
I would call this a deeply imperfect response, and primarily because it doesn't address what it did to trust, what it did to the customer.
There's a victim here.
There's a victim, which is trust in the media, the readers and how they reacted to it, and they're not addressed.
So a proper apology, and this isn't an apology, it's not an attempt at one, but it would address the victims, if you will.
Who is inconvenienced?
Who was offended? Who thought a line had been crossed?
But they don't do that.
They just say, shouldn't have happened, we changed it.
I'm going to give them a pass on that.
Because they did address it and changed it.
And there are two things you're looking for.
One is an apology, when that makes sense.
And the other is, did you fix it?
Did you do something about it?
And they did do something about it.
I would say this is the weakest way you could respond to a mistake and actually still say that you did something.
But I'm going to accept it.
So I accept it as a clarification that they did not believe that that was...
In their own opinion, they didn't do good work.
And so they improved it.
People sometimes don't do good work.
I would rather judge them by the fact that they improved it, and that's the standard I would want to be judged by.
So clearly I have made mistakes, will make mistakes, plenty of them, and I would like to be judged by the same standard.
Did I fix it?
If I fixed it, that's how I'd like you to judge me.
And I will do the same for her.
Let's talk about this Katie Hill story.
Congress person, Democratic politician in California.
She got in trouble for...
Well, the only thing that got her in trouble ultimately was that she slept with a subordinate on her staff.
And that's a no-no, so she resigned.
Mike Cernovich was asking on Twitter whether he should consider running for that seat.
To which I said, hell yeah.
I mean, assuming he wants to do that.
I don't know why anybody would want that job, but if he wanted to, he'd be great.
Can you imagine Congress with Mike Cernovich in it?
Come on. That would be the best thing ever.
You would never stop having fun.
So yes, I say the only thing that Congress seriously needs right now is a good shot on Mike Cernovich.
But, Mike, if you're listening, I don't know why anybody would want that life.
But if you do, I'm a backer.
So I'll help you.
So here's my opinion on the Katie Hill thing.
I totally understand...
Why sleeping with a subordinate has to be against the rules.
I get that.
I get that. But I feel as if that standard had always existed, and I think we could agree that In some sense, the standard has always existed, but was kind of ignored.
It's sort of the Me Too movement that makes us actually consider that a serious thing, more serious than it has been considered in the past.
So lots of places have always taken it seriously, but as a society, we're just sort of catching up to the idea that maybe you should just never do it.
How about never?
Never is the right answer.
But here's the problem.
If you had to guess, how many people do you think are happily married or happily in a relationship that started with one of them being the boss?
Isn't that one of the most common ways that people get together?
And would you want to lose that?
I mean, if you look at the number of people who apparently thought that was their best Their best way to build a life, I mean, it was people making their own decisions.
Now, I'm not talking about any kind of coercive situation.
So I think we'll all agree that if anybody felt directly or indirectly any coercion, well, that's completely bad.
So there's no argument about that.
But how many babies are you throwing out with the bathwater, in this case, baby being literal?
Because I'll bet there are literally, if I had to guess, I would say millions of babies have been born in this country to a couple in which they met when one was a subordinate and one was the boss.
Probably millions. And they don't seem to be victims.
They're probably pretty happy with their little baby.
So I wonder, is there no way to keep the good part?
The people who just said, well, this person was my boss, but it's not my fault that I'm attracted, so I acted on it, something like that.
There's got to be a way. I don't know.
I would rather live in a world in which people had a path to that.
It could be...
I'm just brainstorming here.
Imagine if you will. You don't want to go to human resources because that starts a problem.
So you might want to keep it to yourself.
But could you imagine...
And again, this is not a real idea.
I'm just brainstorming here.
Could there be any kind of private, anonymous...
Place you could go to to sort of register.
To just sort of register.
And just register out of the public eye.
And both of you come in there and the subordinate says, in direct language, there's no coercion to this.
I'm totally on board with this.
I really like my boss.
I like to keep doing this.
And then just sort of register it.
And then if nobody gives you a problem for having a relationship or nobody notices, well, you just go on with your business.
But let's say you get called into HR and they say, um...
Not good. You're with a subordinate.
At that point only, you go to your registration place and you say, ah, we anticipated this.
I've got a signed statement from the subordinate saying he or she is totally on board with this.
It's all voluntary. Here's a video so you can see that they're not being forced to write it.
There must be some way to solve that.
I don't know if anything that I just suggested is practical.
But I feel like we'd be losing a lot if you take away the ability for people to be attracted to subordinates and vice versa.
I mean, that's just the way people meet.
All right. I thought it was interesting that apparently the military also killed the ISIS official spokesperson.
So he killed the head guy, And then, just before Trump brands this guy as a whimpering dog who died as a coward in a tunnel, the person who would most likely contradict that statement was the ISIS spokesperson, and that person got killed too.
So, it looks like killing the spokesperson was really well-timed, because the last thing you want is for them to have a spokesperson now.
Somebody asked me about When it would be a problem for Adam Schiff that he's on record as having visited Democrat donor Ed Buck a number of times.
Now Ed Buck is accused of and in jail for apparently he's accused of murdering a few young men with overdoses who he planned to have sex with or did have sex with and Adam Schiff apparently visits Ed Buck and leaves alive every time.
And I was thinking, how insulting is it to Adam Schiff that he's so unattractive that Ed Buck lets him live?
That's pretty ugly.
I think that's got to sting.
So enough about that.
All right. Martha Raddatz, the host of ABC News, was talking to Adam Schiff, and she called him on his accusations about Trump, and she said, you have no evidence of that yet whatsoever, however. So people said, hey, yay, ABC News is challenging Adam Schiff for making statements that he can't back up.
So your first impression is, oh, let's just step in the right direction.
Because you want ABC News to be challenging Adam Schiff, not just sort of allowing him to speak and then moving on.
But here's what I notice.
You see that they inject that word yet?
So she says, you have no evidence of that yet.
Yet? What do you mean yet?
Wouldn't that apply to all of us all the time?
Hey there, let's see, I'll pick one of you out.
How about Serendipity 3021?
Hey, Serendipity. You know, you've been accused of being a cannibal and eating children, but there's no evidence.
There's no evidence yet.
Yet. Maybe Adam Schiff is a mass murderer, but there's no evidence of that.
There's no evidence of that yet.
Yet. And maybe President Trump is just in it for the money, but there's no evidence of that.
Yet. Yet.
It's coming. Yet.
Alright, so every time you see yet from a news person or a pundit, you should say to yourself, uh, that is manipulation.
That is not, that's not a simple statement of observation.
The observation is there's no evidence, there's no evidence of that, you know, that we can see.
That would be a fair statement.
There's no evidence yet It's not an unbiased statement.
That's the most biased statement you can ever make.
Joe Biden is very healthy.
There's no indication that he's got major health problems.
Yet. Yet.
See how that works. So it looks like Joe Biden is going to be starved out of the race.
I think everybody agrees at this point that the donors are basically just going to starve him out by not donating.
So it looks like that's going to happen.
Bill Maher had a very funny little monologue thing from his show on Friday.
I tweeted that around.
You can see it in my Twitter feed.
And he's pointing out humorously and accurately That if the Democrats want to beat Donald Trump, all they really need to do is not act crazier than him.
And then he goes through the examples of how they're not pulling it off.
And it's pretty devastating because he's unambiguously rooting for that team.
And they, of course, are great haters of the president.
And still, with all those candidates, they can't find one who can get any kind of momentum and is also not crazier than Trump.
Imagine being a Democrat and you really, really want to win one.
I mean, you want to win so badly.
Man, do you want to win.
And the people who are leading in the polls are unambiguously crazier than Trump.
It's the only thing they're trying to fix.
You had one job, Democrats.
Find somebody who's not as crazy as Trump, you know, per your view of the world.
You had one job.
Just find anybody.
Just anybody.
Your neighbor, your mechanic, somebody you work for.
Can you find somebody in the country to run who's not obviously crazier than Trump?
Apparently they can't do that.
Now, they do have some non-crazy candidates, but they're so low in the polling that it's going to take a while for them to be relevant, if ever.
All right. Let's talk more about the World Series.
So the reporting is that Trump got booed at the World Series.
And I don't doubt that that's true, but when I listen to the video, and listen to the audio on the video, I just heard noise.
I don't know. Did it sound like massive booing to you?
It sounded more like just some combination of some people were happy, some weren't.
Yeah, I guess some people were chanting, lock them up.
But it didn't really come through on the video and the audio, so I wonder...
I wonder if that was even important.
Now, I would expect that every president would get some combination of boos and cheers, so there's nothing in that.
Apparently, Trump decided not to throw the first pitch, which is a change in tradition.
It wouldn't be the first time he's changed tradition.
Was that a good idea?
Was it a good idea for Trump to refuse to throw out the first pitch?
Yes, that was a good decision.
If you're over 70, and somebody asks you to do something in the sporting realm in front of a big stadium of people, don't do it.
Don't do it.
If you're over 70, do not participate in any element of a sporting competition.
Now, if you're Andrew Yang, You can go shoot some baskets in the gym and show the video to the whole world.
Turns out Andrew Yang is pretty good at basketball, pretty good athlete.
He's got a good jump shot, probably other good skills as well.
But if you're 70 plus, do not accept the invitation to do a sport-related thing in front of the world.
So, the fact that Trump turned that down, I think, is a credit to his good judgment.
That was the right decision. Have you noticed that the list of people that Trump has defeated keeps getting longer?
So it started with the 16 or so GOP folks running for president.
He defeated the entire field.
But part of that field was the entire Bush dynasty.
So Trump destroyed the Bush dynasty.
And then he moved on and he destroyed the Clinton dynasty.
He took out the strongest field of Republicans that have ever been fielded.
Took out two dynasties.
And just defeated ISIS. And do you know what the critics say?
Lucky. Lucky.
How many armies, terrorists, dynasties, and political operators do you have to defeat before it doesn't look like an accident anymore?
Like, at what point does it not look like an odd series of events?
All right. Let's see what else we got going on here.
I was asked on Twitter to talk about my daily routine in the context of maybe some advice or how to do things efficiently or have a system.
And so I thought I'd do that.
I'll tell you a little bit about my daily routine with the understanding that the whole point of it is that if there's anything I do that would be useful for you, you could pick it up.
It goes like this.
So the first thing is, I was giving this talk to a young person I was mentoring the other day.
Now, it's a young person who likes to...
who's going to school, But on weekends, likes to stay up all night with friends.
Literally all night.
And then on Sunday, tries to get to bed on time and tries to get up on time for school.
And I explained to her, I said...
That sleep is one of the most important things for everything from fitness.
It helps your diet because when you're hungry, when you're sleepy, you feel hungry and you overeat.
So I said sleeping will help your mental ability, your fitness, it'll help your diet, it'll help your looks, your appearance.
But most importantly, you need like a system so that you can get enough sleep.
And if you don't get that right, you don't get anything right.
I was pointing out that if it were the summer and you were staying up all night, it wouldn't make that much difference.
It's just summer. You don't have to get up to go to work, don't have to get up to go to school.
But during the school year, if you're trying to keep a normal schedule for five days, and then on the weekend you're trying to stay up all night, because you can't, hey, no school tomorrow, that you are absolutely sabotaging your health, In all kinds of ways, you're sabotaging your schoolwork, your health, your brain, your fitness, your appearance, and your future.
It's that bad. Your entire future is at risk because you stay up on weekends with your friends.
That's it. It's that important.
Sorry. By the way, my sniffliness is that problem with my polyps in my head.
I'm still working with that. So, the first thing I would say is that getting to sleep on time and getting up at at least a similar time every day is essential to productivity and a happy life.
When I see people who mess with their sleep schedule, I'll tell you how I interpret it.
Here's how I interpret it.
Not even trying to succeed.
Not even trying.
If you're not... Sleeping right and eating right and working on your fitness, even if you're not doing it perfectly well, but if you're not at least working on those things, you're not even trying.
So it's hard for me to give advice on, let's say, career or anything else if somebody isn't even trying on sleep.
Exercise and food.
You got to be trying on those three things or nothing else.
I don't even want to give you advice.
You got to get that stuff right first.
Then you've got a base to work with.
But don't ask me for advice on anything if you're not getting sleep.
Get some sleep. We'll talk later.
Okay? So the first part of the question of my daily routine is that I go to sleep reasonably early.
And I wake up without, these days, without an alarm clock whenever my body says to.
Last night, I was busy yesterday and I didn't get to exercise.
And I have trouble sleeping if I haven't exercised that day.
So about 2 a.m.
I was awake and I knew that I was awake for the day.
And so I just got up and went to work.
So I started to work today at 2 a.m.
That's not unheard of.
During a year, that'll happen maybe a dozen times over the course of a year.
Usually it's closer to 4 or 5 a.m., And I get up and the question about my daily schedule I think had to do with the sub-question was whether I do certain tasks at certain times to match my energy.
And the answer is yes. In the morning I am creative and I can focus.
And so I keep those tasks which require creativity and focus for the morning and I try to make my morning as large as possible because it's my money maker.
The morning is when I make money.
The rest of the day is for other stuff, you know, maintenance and fixing stuff and travel and family and all that.
So I usually get up and prepare for the Periscope, read the news, do some Twitter, answer some emails, drink some coffee, and I absolutely love that time of day.
This is my favorite time of day.
You catch me at exactly...
Exactly the time that I'm most mentally active, most friendly, most everything.
So good for you.
You wouldn't want to talk to me in the afternoon.
Then, so that's the main thing I do.
I wake up, do my periscopes.
Then I reassess what I've got to do if it's a cartooning day.
These days I don't do cartooning every day.
I batch it up.
I used to do a little cartooning every day, so I didn't have to do too much in a day.
These days I might write all my cartoons for the week on one day.
And then other days, depending on my schedule and what else is going on, I will do some drawing.
Now, I do the drawing whenever my energy and my body are ready for it.
Because right now I'm amped up on coffee and my energy is too high.
So if I sat down and tried to draw right now, I would hate it.
Because my body and my brain would be saying,''Go do something more active.
Drawing is boring. Use your brain.
Use your body.'' So I like to do drawing when I'm tired, especially if I've been exercising.
And then my brain says, I like to sit in this chair for a while.
Do you have anything to do? Well, I'll draw something.
I don't want to use my brain anyway.
So that's the basic bones of it, is that I put my creativity and my energy into one part of my day, when the energy is exactly right for that.
And then I do the things that don't require thinking during the times of day, When my body isn't so good at thinking anyway.
All right. What's the best...
I'm not going to read that question.
What about eating?
So, here's a weird thing.
I've almost given up on meals...
At one point, there was a thought that you should eat five small meals or something a day.
And I used to have a big dinner.
But if you have several people in your life, nobody wants to eat the same food at the same time.
And in the modern world, you don't need to.
So everybody can do whatever they want, whatever they want.
So I find that I just snack...
All day long. So I eat a protein bar when I wake up.
I'll have a banana later, maybe an avocado.
And during the day, I stick to things which are unambiguously good for me.
I don't do any unhealthy eating in the morning.
And I stay away from carbs like crazy.
Carbs will put me to sleep within an hour.
So if I avoid carbs, I have more energy, and that's good.
All right. Somebody asked me if I still had my sense of smell and taste.
Some of you knew my story that for 10 years I couldn't smell or taste anything.
And then I found out there was some polyp problem in my Eustachian tubes.
I treated it temporarily and my smell and taste came back completely.
But it didn't last.
So after a week or so of having my smell and taste...
The polyps apparently went back to their original condition, and I cannot smell or taste anything again.
And I don't have a plan for fixing that.
I did get my hearing back though, so my hearing is all back.
Now, those of you who are saying, my God, I feel sorry for you, you actually don't need to.
Because there was a funny thing that happened, which was when I could taste and smell everything, I was not happier.
I was not happier.
Because there are more bad smells than good.
And I even discovered that some of the main foods I eat...
I don't like. I mentioned sushi.
I'd only learned to eat sushi after I'd lost my sense of smell and taste, but there's sort of a fake smell and taste that your brain provides for you.
So you think you taste it, and you don't think you smell it, but you think you taste it.
It's just that you don't.
So maybe I can go back to eating sushi now that I can't smell it anymore.
All right. That's all I've got for now.
Yeah, I could get lasers to laser the polyps, but it doesn't last.
So, all right. That's all for now.
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