Preemptive illogic?

"You will never really be a success, you know that? You believe anything you hear. Like, for example, you believe logic works." By now, you know that there is a friend of mine doing a free psychiatric evaluation of me. Though he was not exactly doing a miraculous act of prescience, a la Nostradamus, in predicting my future success, considering that I am already in my mid-fifties and have