Loserthink Quotes

“There are three important things to know about human beings in order to understand why we do the things we do. Humans use pattern recognition to understand their world. Humans are very bad at pattern recognition. And they don’t know it.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“The prediction models are more about persuasion than science.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“One thing I can say with complete certainty is that it is a bad idea to trust the majority of experts in any domain in which both complexity and large amounts of money are involved.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“mocking people for lying probably helps to reduce future lies and make the world a better place, whereas mocking people for things they can’t change is just being a jerk.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“If bad memories are keeping you from being happy, try crowding out the destructive memories with new and interesting thoughts. Stay busy, in mind and body, and time is on your side.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Whenever you have money, reputations, power, ego, and complexity in play, it is irrational to assume you are seeing objective science.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“If something is legal and profitable, it will happen, a lot.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“If you think more privacy is always better, that is a case of loserthink. Every situation is different. Sometimes privacy is the problem that prevents the solution.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Kanye’s message was that focusing on the past creates a sort of mental prison that limits your options. In the simplest form, if a white male in America has ten ways to succeed and an African-American only has eight, it isn’t productive to focus on the difference. It is more productive to pick a path to success and take it.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Put yourself in potentially embarrassing situations on a regular basis just to maintain practice. If you get embarrassed as planned, watch how one year later you are still alive.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“The secret to thwarting couch lock of any sort is to stop imagining everything you need to do, and start imagining the smallest step that you can do without much real effort.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“If you can’t imagine any other explanation for a set of facts, it might be because you are bad at imagining things.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“The thoughts you allow into your head are the code that programs your mind and body.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“The business model of the press manipulated our brains until our emotions overwhelmed whatever traces of rationality we started with.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking. From that point through today, the business model of the press changed from presenting information to manipulating brains.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“The Twenty-Year Rule Let’s stop blaming each other for things that happened more than twenty years ago. Humans change a lot in two decades. If we are lucky enough to mature and learn over time, we become better versions of our younger selves—wiser, less selfish, and more useful. In olden times—let’s say, before the Internet—your mistakes of youth would go unrecorded. The Twenty-Year Rule applied by default in most cases, because no one had an efficient way to check up on your behavior that far back. Now we have social media that creates a total slideshow of every dumbass thing you ever thought or did in your entire life. It turns out that most of us were worse people when we were younger. You wouldn’t want to know the teenage me. But I’d like to think I’ve improved since then. I’ll agree to judge you by your most recent twenty years on this planet if you will extend me the same courtesy.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Your favorite news source is almost certainly doing as much brainwashing as informing, but you probably think that sort of thing only happens to the sad bastards who make the mistake of consuming the wrong news sources.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Confirmation bias looks exactly like knowledge gained from doing your own research.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Persistent negativity is a harsh mental prison. Humans need optimism and hope to fuel progress. If all you see is the negative, while those around you seem to be experiencing optimism, that’s a signal you might be in a mental prison.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Thanks to the miracle of technology, I can feel angst about every problem in the known universe, so long as those problems can be described in words or pictures.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Focusing on the past when the present offers sufficient paths to success is loserthink. It is better to focus on your own systems for success, and when you succeed, watch how winning fixes most problems.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“one of the most common explanations for anything in life is something you didn’t imagine.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“we come to understand how easy it is to be confident in our opinions and yet spectacularly wrong.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“the accuracy of our opinions is deeply influenced by our ability to imagine alternate explanations for events.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“Mental prison: The illusions and unproductive thinking that limit our ability to see the world clearly and act upon it rationally.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“nutrition science wasn’t science at all. It was some unholy marriage of industry influence, junk science, and government.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

“If your cave-dwelling ancestors were enamored with the beauty of the scenery instead of, let’s say, the herd of carnivorous dinosaurs stampeding their way, they would not have survived to create the miracle that is you.”
― Scott Adams, Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America