Scott Adams: The Advice I Still Think About

Today on the James Altucher Show. My boss literally told me in these words quite directly, I can't promote you because you're male because we have a very balanced senior management. We don't have any diversity in management. Like, I don't publish unless I'm scared. Yeah. Or embarrassed. The first time I got that big check, the one that you say, you know, I could stop working right now if I wanted to. I mean, if I wanted to, I could. Just I'd be done. It actually is a terrible feeling. As soon as it happened, my life purpose evaporated. You know, I wasn't married, didn't have a family at the time. I suddenly lost my entire reason for waking up. So it was actually a sad, depressing, disorienting thing. If you did a thousand things and every one of them had a 10% chance of working, you're pretty close to a guarantee that something's gonna work. So I like to think of life as like a strange kind of, casino with a slot machine that instead of a slot machine that takes your money every time you lose, it's free. You just pull all day long. Alright? This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host. This is the James Altucher Show. You know, I've known Scott Adams for probably twelve or thirteen years. He was one of the first guests on this podcast, and, you know, he's the creator of Dilbert, which was my favorite cartoon strip for for decades. But then, you know, starting around 2013, he started writing about his life and his opinions and his approach to life and what made him a success. Like, his the first book he did in this genre was how to fail at almost everything and still win big. He also wrote another book, which was very influential called Win Bigley, persuasion in a world where facts don't matter. Both of these books are must reads. Like, Win Bigley is the best book ever about real world persuasion, and Scott Adams himself was kind of an I don't I wanna say he's an amateur hip hypnotist, but really more like a a professional in terms of how he used hypnotism techniques for persuasion and how to fail at almost everything and still win big. This comes from the very first podcast I had with him, how his story of how Dilbert became a $100,000,000 success. He was failing constantly. And the story of its of the success of Dilbert, which he tells in this episode we're gonna show you now, is just amazing. And I I have to say, Scott Adams has more recently become known for his his political musings, and he had a daily podcast coffee with Scott Adams, which I regularly listen to. I would say over the past decade or thirteen years, twelve years, he has not only become, like, a great friend and even somewhat of a a mentor to me. …