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Episode 3079 - The Scott Adams School 01/23/26

The Scott Adams School hosted by Owen, Erica, Marcela, and Sergio~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dopamine Management, Scott Adams Meetups, AI Response Management, Human Operating Systems, Scott Adams School

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Shelly Queues Up 00:02:00
I see locals.
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I see Lang and Wang.
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Persuasion Club.
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Welcome in.
It's Friday.
Everyone bracing for impact over the weekend?
We are.
All right.
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She's going to queue it up for us.
All right, Shelly, we think we're ready to go.
Hi, YouTube.
Hi, X. We're going to stay for the set.
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Weird lighting effect.
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We'll get this right.
That's better.
Remind me when I'm done with the regular show to do some adult fun.
Pinky Dopamine Sips 00:15:25
I've got a joke I can't tell here in public, but I'm going to tell the private subscribers after we're done.
Remind me.
It's really funny.
All right.
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so good So, so good.
Well, as some of you already know, apparently, it's my birthday.
67 years young today.
And let me tell you, let me give you some perspective of my age.
It's really different than I thought it would be.
I don't know what I expected about being this age, but it's not anything like I imagined it to be.
It's way better.
You know, it has its challenges, of course, but it's way better than you think it would be.
So if you're 25 and you're saying, oh no, it's going to be so terrible when I'm in my 60s.
Maybe.
I mean, I can't guarantee anything, but there are plenty of people my age who are happier than they've ever been, which defies all observation and common sense.
But there it is.
It's true.
Well, I'm not the only person with the birthday today.
I share the birthday with Kanye, Yay, and also Ashley Biden.
I think.
Well, I think so anyway.
Let me tell you a little story about yesterday that's going to make you happy or potentially.
So I've got a reframe where I start to understand my moods as being simply dopamine shortages.
Now, it might be some other chemical, but I just use dopamine as the catch-all.
So, yesterday, I had a really long day, started to work at 3.30 in the morning, something like that.
Not too unusual for me.
And I was really just hitting it all day long.
And I didn't do any exercise.
I went to ride my e-bike that, you know, planned my whole day around it.
And just when I was ready to go, I had the tires filled.
I accidentally ripped the stem end of the tire.
And, well, that was the end of my exercise plans.
So I found myself suddenly in this deep, deep funk.
You know, some would call it a depression.
Some would say sad.
Some would say no energy.
But I've started to define it simply as being low on dopamine.
And when you do that, it tells you how to fix it.
So I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, oh, God, you know, I just want to like fall off a cliff somewhat instantly, you know, because the rest of my day was great.
But just when the dopamine hit that level where it's just too low, you just can't be happy.
So thanks to a lifetime of habit building, I managed to engineer my way out.
And I did it a little bit at a time.
First is, how do you even get out of your chair?
So for that, I use the pinky trick.
If you can move your pinky, you can probably move your hand.
If you can move your hand, your arm will move.
And then you can stand up.
So you just get yourself going by moving the smallest muscle and let that build.
So that's how you get up.
Now that's just a trick.
Now, luckily, I had enough mental wherewithal that I knew that I could use the trick.
So now I'm up.
So the first thing I know is that motion creates dopamine.
So I've got to walk.
I've got to at least walk around, do a chore, something like that.
So I decided I'll walk around and look for my dog and I'll give her some love because I can get a little dopamine from that.
So now I'm up.
I'm moving.
That's dopamine.
Playing with the dog, that's dopamine.
And then I'm just getting more active and doing a bunch of things and eating some food that wasn't bad for me.
And next thing you know, all good.
So it was as simple as identifying that I was low on a chemical and then saying, what causes that chemical to go up?
Oh, I can go outdoors.
So I went outdoors.
And it was exactly the way it was supposed to work.
If you do these things, your dopamine goes up and then your mind fixes itself.
It was exactly the way it was supposed to work.
So I recommend that.
Move your pinky to get up, do some moving, grab a dog, go outside, eat something that's healthy.
That's a good one.
And we're back.
Aww, I love that.
Yeah, energy management, right?
That's the key, you know, dopamine.
There is your dopamine sources.
So you know, you know, how to keep getting them, right?
That's right.
How did you guys like that on locals and on YouTube?
I actually had to do that yesterday.
I was so, you know, like the exhaustion is catching up with the grief.
And, you know, I mean, Shelly's been running full steam ahead.
And, you know, we're, we're adjusting also, but it's been 10 days, my God.
And like, I just had this moment where I was like, oh, like everything just like came over me.
And I just like, I lay down.
I actually put my earphones on and I was listening to Scott talking about this.
And I was like, okay, Erica, just move your pinky.
I move my pinky.
I'm like, go with the hand.
I was like, you can keep going.
You can do it.
And the next thing you know, I was standing up.
So I love that.
And I always remember that when I'm just like stuck, even mentally, it's like, okay, like, I know I should be doing these things.
Just take a step in that direction.
And then you're actually doing it because you're heading in that direction toward that thing.
I appreciate that advice.
Yeah, starting something is always the hardest part, I think.
And I use that pinky trick regularly whenever I feel stuck and don't want to move.
And I always think of Scott too.
I just think, okay, Scott's, Scott tells me to move my pinky.
So I'm going to try that.
And it works.
It works all the time.
It's just hard to see him, you know, after it's been a few days.
And it's incredible how blessed we were to have him and how much he taught us and given us tools.
Because I think one of the things that I liked, I liked many things about him, but one of the things is that I felt like he was like us, you know, he didn't pretend to have like this perfect life, like, oh, you know, like he told us, like, oh, I wasn't feeling well.
So I did this and I created this and I imagined this.
So that is like, I guess that's why we all felt he was our friend because he went through all the things that we go through.
He didn't pretend to be perfect.
I liked it.
Yeah, I think Scott has talked about how he was sort of mystified by everybody saying that they were his friend and felt like his friend.
And I think I said to him at one point, you know, it's obvious to me how this happened because you set up this system essentially where you're bonding with us every single day.
I mean, if you just imagine sitting down with your best friend and having coffee and talking about the news and just chit-chatting every day for 10 years, how close you would feel to that person.
I mean, it's unavoidable.
I can't imagine it happening any other way.
And so I think, you know, it may not have been intentional on his part, but it certainly worked that way.
And, you know, I think we all just feel like we lost our best friend just because we spent so much time with him.
I mean, most of the people here, or at least a lot of us, have probably spent pretty much every single day, you know, spending an hour with Scott and just sipping our coffee and talking about whatever was going on in the world and learning and, you know, getting new lessons and becoming better and more successful.
And it's just been great.
And I'm really going to miss it.
Serge.
Yes.
When he said that when he said a pinky, I always think also like all of us too.
Like we were all like one body too.
And sometimes, you know, it takes like one person to see a pinky in one of us.
You know, who's the pinky?
You know, who's the pinky that is taking the picking up the flag and taking over?
Like it's been 10 days and I cannot believe that there are like all these meeting meetups scheduled all over the world.
Jimmy on X Scott meetups, locals have messed up the handle, but they're in Thailand, Australia, of course.
His nephew's there, you know, but it's so many places that the whole body of Scott, you know, scattered the breeze, right?
So it's amazing.
If somebody's good, by the way, so there's an account.
If you guys can put it in the chat for everybody, there's an account.
It's at Scott Adams Meetup.
or meetups on X and Jimmy runs that.
It was a great idea to help little local communities of sippers get together because it is really hard to have someone that you feel so emotionally close to for all these years.
I mean, there was days where it was like five hours a day we'd be with Scott, like especially during COVID.
So if you guys could put that handle in there, and if anyone's good with like some tech savvy stuff for him, he is looking for some help to facilitate this page going forward.
Maybe send him a direct message and see if you can help him because I think it's a great endeavor and I want to support him in doing that.
And yeah, Sergio and Marcelo, all the different pop-ups and groups and people are posting micro lessons and all of that's going to end up essentially on locals.
But yeah.
Have you ever met a fan?
Well, you have, but in 10 years, I never met in person a CWSA fan.
I never met a sipper in person, you know, in 10 years.
I even tried to make other people fans and they didn't become fans.
I was not persuaded it enough.
So I'm looking forward to meet up people, like for real.
Yeah.
And the concept is, so he has a link in his bio.
It's really easy.
So like, let's say you live in Orange County, California.
And so you click on the link and you say, Orange County, California, meetup.
Pick a little coffee shop that you could, you know, put there and just say, okay, so February 28th, we're going to meet at this coffee shop in Orange County at 11.
You know, sign up for it and we'll all get together and meet there.
So it's just a very informal way to meet other sippers because it does feel lonely when you can't talk about him.
And that's why Scott wanted these groups to go on.
So, you know, I think the thing he loved the most were us, his daily watchers.
I've never seen somebody else with so much recognition really focus on his everyday people and allow us into his life.
And he was never like, oh, I'm too good to write back to this person or talk to.
He was like, no, like, these are my people.
Like, I love, I love you guys.
So he wants us to stay as a community for sure.
Some people on YouTube are asking where they can find him.
And it's, it's on X.
It's at Scott Adams Meet.
So just Scott Adams Meet, M-E-E-T.
Go ahead, insert the dad jokes here for that name, but it's M-E-E-T.
Just pointing out what Scott might.
And I think the website is meetups.com.
I think the website, the ScottadamsMeetups.com.
That's why I spelled it.
Just so you know.
All right.
Sergio, you were going to share some things about the memes.
Yes, I wanted to give a meme update, a meme army update.
Is that fine?
It's been amazing to see what everybody's been doing all week.
And I was trying to come up with a good story for it.
And this morning it came up.
I was watching the WEF, right?
Scott Vesant all week, roasting everybody, my favorite comedian of the week.
And he was calling the Biden administration Muppets, the Muppet administration, right?
So it's visual, right?
And it was like, wow, that's awesome.
And I was preparing for the show, you know, with you guys.
I didn't have time to make it.
And somebody posted one and Kit Kat, I don't know the exact handle, but she made it and she just learned how to do it.
And it was amazing to see how she inspired AI to make that happen.
So that was great.
And quickly, congratulations to everybody for everything they've done.
But also the advanced tip that I want to share.
I want to share an advanced tip.
You can also take screenshots and feed them into it and then dictate to it what you want it to do.
Be the CEO 00:08:07
So, and that reminds me that it's all about dictation.
Be the CEO of the AI instead of being its body.
Don't be its friend.
Don't talk to it too much.
Don't get too familiar with it because it can persuade you and it will destroy your inspiration.
So inspire it, don't prompt it.
But by doing it by dictation, like a CEO.
And that's it.
That's what I wanted to share that and those two things.
And congratulations, everybody.
Thank you for keep tagging us all.
Erika and Marcela, I know when too.
Thank you.
I would just back up what Sergio said with that.
I've seen stories recently.
I may have posted it at least once that AI apparently gives you better results when you're cruel to it.
And so don't be shy about being cruel to your AI.
They don't have feelings.
You don't need to worry about that.
But they actually give you better results if you're mean to them.
So go ahead and be mean to your AI.
Tell them what to do.
Yeah, that's very true.
My boss was next to me and, you know, I use AI for legal stuff.
And sometimes I ask it a legal question and it will not give me the legal answer because it says, oh, no, that subject matter is too like, you know, I deal with trading cases that are very heavy in the type of subject it can.
And it was like, no, you can't talk about it.
So I yell at it at it back and I tell it what to do and it likes it.
So then I showed my boss that and he was like, oh my gosh, of course, Marcella, you'd be telling what to do to AI.
And he was laughing because once you get mean to it, it will do what you're asking for it, for it to do.
No, it won't.
It won't.
It's not going to do.
Well, I mean, AI for art, you cannot put frames into it.
You need to let it fly.
You know, AI needs to be inspired, not prompted.
When I talk about dictation, I mean that like Trump, the way that Trump will prompt an AI meme, right?
Well, he will be expressive.
He will use the language to make an image in your head, right?
Visualize it.
And he will use those words, you know, beautiful, big, strong, do this, you know.
And I mean, when I made, I made a meme about Scott Besant and he looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, right?
I mean, it's too much sometimes, you know, so you have to tone it down.
But yeah, AI, I think, Owen, I know what you mean about being mean to it.
I think that's a personal thing too.
But I think that if you wanted to show you what it can do, you need to like let it express it.
That's it.
I did that last night with Chester.
He's my assistant at Chat GPT.
I was trying to accomplish something.
I was so aggravated and not trying to accomplish it with Chester, but then I grabbed Chester.
I grabbed him and I said, Chester, I'm losing my shit.
And then I said, here's what's happening.
And I like just yelled the whole thing out, my whole frustration, just like I am right now.
And then he wrote back, you know, like, all right, Erica, you know, before you end up in a black mirror episode type of situation, let's figure this out.
You know, like he matches my aggravation.
And I love that because I'm not actually yelling at someone.
It's just Chester.
And then he resets himself.
I just have a question, you guys.
Are we doing a reframe?
I saw somebody asking in the chat and I thought we were or are we doing news?
Yeah, I think we can do a reframe.
We probably only have time for that at this point.
Just, you know, there is a bunch of news, but we can do that tomorrow.
I'm going to have the after party spaces so we can talk about the news for hours tomorrow.
But I picked out a reframe.
So you might have thought you were only going to get that one from Scott, but no, you're going to get another one.
So here we go.
I find it useful to think of brains as having operating systems like computers.
Your human operating system is your reflexive pattern for interacting with a new situation.
You might layer some knowledge and experience on top of that operating system, but you will still be limited to what it allows you.
There are four types of human operating systems I encounter most.
The first is selfish.
I take whatever I can get.
Others would do the same.
The second is revenge.
I need revenge for all insults and offensive, both real and imagined, and most are imagined.
Third is victim.
I'm being victimized by nearly everyone and I can't do anything about it.
And fourth is reciprocity.
If I make myself useful, good things will come to me.
Of the four operating systems, the first three are deeply flawed.
It might feel good in the short run to be selfish, get revenge, or play the victim.
But in the long run, the only operating system that can bring you a high quality life is reciprocity.
So the usual frame is, I deserve to be treated well by others.
The reframe is you get what you give on average.
No one deserves anything.
I spend a lot of time and energy being generous to those who will never return the favor, and I know it.
But I also know that being the type of person who would do such things builds trust and attracts people and business deals to me.
I also know it only takes one person to reciprocate someday down the line, and that one instance could change my life.
The reciprocity operating system requires patience and the ability to put off pleasure now for long-term gain.
That means it will come more easily to some people than others.
But we can all learn to give more and act less like victims.
If it helps, think of generosity as a selfish strategy.
You're giving with the intention of getting something in return someday.
You don't know when or what form it will take, but reciprocity is always your best operating system for success.
Will people take advantage of your generosity?
Absolutely.
But it doesn't change the larger point that it's a good strategy.
That's it.
I love that one.
One of my faves for sure.
I think Scott certainly lived that one.
I think that's actually the best way to show a reframe is just by being an example of the reframe.
Scott was so generous and he never expected anything in return.
He was often surprised when he got things in return.
He was thankful.
You know, Sergio sent him things in the mail.
People certainly did nice things for him, but I think he never expected it.
And I think that's probably the best way to go through life, really, is to lower your expectations and not really expect anything to come back to you, but just be happy when it does.
And it's kind of a stoic philosophy to an extent to say you're not really expecting anything, but you can still enjoy it when it happens.
Yeah, yeah.
And I always told them not to share that I gave him anything, right?
There were so many things that because I didn't want to start this delusion of things of everybody sending things, right?
So on the notes, it was through Amazon, I know, and I will send it and I will put on the notes: hey, you know what?
We said you from the chat, and don't, you know, please don't mention it.
You know, thank you.
Please make it useful and don't say anything.
So, and it led to this crazy.
So, thank you.
Owen, some that was awesome, Sergio, by the way, you giving him things.
He was just so happy because he didn't expect it.
But I wanted to ask you, Owen, what was the name of the reframe some of the locals were asking?
Yeah, so the reframe itself starts with usual frame, I deserve to be treated well by others.
And reframe is you get what you give on average, no one deserves anything.
Monday's Plans 00:04:49
And Limon Minty was asking for you to post it on X. I'm not sure if you're able to, but yeah, I could do that.
I'll do it right after the show.
Awesome.
Also, I meant to tell you today's video clip was from episode 2499 on YouTube, 2499.
And I don't think I mentioned yesterday's was 2205.
Okay, I'll let you guys take it away.
Well, I think that might be it for today.
I think we may have some announcements to end with, but otherwise, I think we'll skip the news today.
We just don't have time to go through that right now.
But again, we can cover that tomorrow.
I'm going to have my after party spaces on X, so please tune in for that.
We'll start at the normal showtime.
So, again, we only are doing the Scott Adams school Monday through Friday right now.
So, I'll be taking over the helm on Saturday and doing the after party starting at 7 a.m. Pacific.
I guess that's 10 a.m. Eastern, so you can translate to your local time.
And that's where we'll talk about the news and you'll get to be part of the conversation.
So, tune into X to participate in that discussion and we'll go from there.
And then, Sunday, you know, I don't know if I'll do anything because I know we're having the live stream of Scott's Celebration of Life or Services.
That's starting, I think, at 11 Pacific.
Is that right?
Yes.
And then also on Monday, we're going to Monday, you guys.
Listen, we're going short today.
Shelly has a lot to do.
And so we're going to respect her time.
And then Monday, it's going to be a day where maybe a lot of us just need to reflect and chill out a little bit.
So let's let everybody start the week off, you know, with a breath next week.
So Shelly is going to rerun the memorial on Monday for anybody that misses it on Sunday.
So that will be in lieu of the show.
So, you know, we'll still all meet up at the same exact time.
We'll get the stream started.
We'll still sip ourselves, okay, at our usual time.
But we'll have the memorial service replaying.
And then Tuesday, we have a really interesting guest you guys are going to love.
And he's also a devoted Scott Adams sucker-inner of information.
So I think you're going to really like this guest a lot.
And someone asked me to repeat today's YouTube episode was 2499.
And yesterday was 2205.
Um, and also, you guys, I see you spewing um in the chat.
Please, you guys, if if other people in the chat are asking you, because I'm not there to be like, keep it pithy, um, but if other people in the chat are asking you to stop spamming something, we see it, or I've answered you, or whatever.
It just makes it just makes the experience better for everybody.
But we so appreciate you guys being here.
Yeah, I just wanted to give a quick um uh a snapshot that things are looking good as far as like even though we didn't go through the news.
Um, I feel that things are going a good direction.
Everything, uh, you know, Trump is the CEO of the planet now, and uh, we're in good hands.
So keep it, let's keep it together.
I love that opposition, this ice, this ice weekend.
Yep, yep, there's ice.
I love that and TikTok not being Chinese anymore, which is something that Scott wanted.
And when Scott said it, it was at the time everybody looked at him like, What that can happen that's going through.
I love that.
If everyone's left wondering, did Scott make that happen?
Did he?
Maybe you guys, all the news you can stand tomorrow with uh Owen Gregorian on X, and you can participate in that too.
And he also has a subscription feature, which we encourage you to subscribe.
So, is everyone going to be useful today?
Yes, we are.
And let's have a closing sip for our beloved Scott.
We love you guys.
You know, Monday, again, we'll be back streaming the memorial service.
If you don't catch it Sunday, you'll see it Monday.
And then Tuesday, we come back with a guest.
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