Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Looks for areas in life where you can stack your talents 
  • For example, with Dilbert, Scott combined his business background (his personal experience in the workforce, his MBA, and his degree in economics) with his artistic abilities 
• Humans are irrational creatures – remember this as you go about life
  • We make decisions for reasons we don’t understand, and then we rationalize the decisions to ourselves after the fact 
• “Most of what we regard as fact is some kind of sheltered truth” – Scott Adams
• Become aware of your blind spots by exposing yourself to concepts from a variety of different fields (psychology, history, economics, etc.)
  • This way, with whatever you come across in life, you’re able to view it through many different filters
• How to disagree with someone:
  • Technique #1:
    • First, state what you do agree on
    • Then, slowly introduce the disagreements (by introducing what you agree on first, the other person is primed to think: “Okay, this person agrees with me on a bunch of stuff, so maybe I should take him/her seriously”
  • Technique #2:
    • Put your disagreements in the form of questions, rather than statements
      • For example, you might ask the person you’re disagreeing with: “What would it look like if your idea played out for the next 10 years?”

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