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"I haven't and won't read it, but Scott Adams's new book seems to be a manual for how to argue with people who don't share your opinions, a skill his fans definitely need."

"I bet it also provides coping mechanisms for those who have been shunned for supporting the President."

Ha ha, I love reading 1-star reviews for books I'm reading, which in this case is "Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America."

I was just listening to the audiobook, wanted to do a post about one thing I just heard, needed to get an Amazon link, and just could not resist clicking into the 1-star material.

Anyway... here's the quote from the book that I wanted to share:

I often observe people who desperately want to win political arguments but can’t escape from their own ego jails. People want to be 100 percent right while painting their debate opponent as 100 percent wrong. Sometimes that leads to absurd positions that defy both reason and facts. The need to be right (driven by ego) crowds out the opportunity to be persuasive, which is the whole point of debate. Choosing ego over effectiveness is classic loserthink.

Adams has an idiosyncratic way of talking about "ego":

The productive way to think of your ego is to consider it a tool, as opposed to a reflection of who you are on some core level. If you think your ego is a tool, you can choose to dial it up when needed and dial it down when it would be an obstacle.

Notice how the subject is not what ego actually is or anything deep or real at all. It's just: On the assumption that you want to be successful, here's how think about ego. Cogitating about who you are on some core level is for losers. The question is what works.

I'm looking at all this from a cool distance. I don't desperately want to win political arguments myself. I don't like argument, I don't like politics, and I never feel at all desperate when talking about politics, and I feel no temptation to characterize myself as 100% right and others as 100% wrong. If anything, I have work up from a natural inclination to say that everyone is sort of right and sort of wrong and that at heart we don't even disagree at all. That's not loserthink in Scott's book, but I'm pretty sure it's also not winnerthink.

The word "winnerthink" doesn't appear in the book. In fact, the word "winner" only appears twice. Scott's last book was about winning. From that book, "Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter":

Brand yourself as a winner. If people expect you to win, they will be biased toward making it happen.

Oddly enough, these Scott Adams quotes are making me think of literature's biggest loser, Hamlet: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

I took that out of context. Like many lines from Shakespeare, it's remembered as a free-standing aphorism, but I went into the text, somewhere in Act 2, Scene 2, here's the relevant part:

HAMLET: What's the news?

ROSENCRANTZ: None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest
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HAMLET: Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true.

Ha ha. Fake news!

HAMLET: Let me question more in particular: what have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, that she sends you to prison hither?

GUILDENSTERN: Prison, my lord!

HAMLET: Denmark's a prison.

ROSENCRANTZ: Then is the world one.

HAMLET: A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.

ROSENCRANTZ: We think not so, my lord.

HAMLET: Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.

That made me think about Trump's slogan, "Make America Great Again." If Denmark was a prison to Hamlet because that's the way he thought about it, each of us has the power to make America great if we only think of it as great. It's harder to make America great again, because that's a 2-step process. First, you've got to believe that it was once great, and that can be hard when they're teaching you in school that the world is a fiendish place in which many confines, wards and dungeons, American being one o' the worst.

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