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In Reframe Your Brain, Scott Adams, the contrarian genius behind Dilbert and author of the most influential personal success book of all time—How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big—gives you the complete operating system for lasting happiness.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Second Edition is essential for anyone who wants to find a unique path to personal victory—and make luck find you in whatever you do.

Scott Adams was one of the earliest public figures to predict Donald Trump’s election. The mainstream media regarded Trump as a lucky clown, but Adams—best known as “the guy who created Dilbert”—recognized a level of persuasion you only see once in a generation. We’re hardwired to respond to emotion, not reason, and Trump knew exactly which emotional buttons to push.

From the creator of Dilbert and author of Reframe Your Brain , the bestselling guidebook to spotting and avoiding loserthink is back—with new content to introduce the second edition. loserthink (noun): sneaky mental habits trapping victims in their own bubbles of reality If you’ve been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed a lot of dumb ideas floating around. “We know when history will repeat and when it won’t.” “We can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences.” “The simplest explanation is usually true.” Wrong, wrong, and dangerous!

God's Debris isn't a conventional book. It is written on three separate levels, by Scott Adams, better known as the creator of the Dilbert comic. What is less known about Adams is that he's a trained hypnotist. God's Debris is what happens when creativity and hypnosis intersect. On the surface, God's Debris is a simple fictional story of a delivery man who encounters an Avatar who knows literally everything.

Why do all modern managers do the same bizarre things? Are these methods taught in business schools? Do managers learn by watching more experienced managers? Is it the result of mentoring? None of the above! Every manager learns from the same source: Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook...

Ultramarathons don't leave much room for mistakes. Don't learn the hard way: Get a jump on training for an ultramarathon with Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning, a comprehensive handbook to running 30 to 100 miles and beyond, authored by one of the most experienced and recognized athletes in the sport.   

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A Twin Peaks podcast for beginners. Join hosts (and best friends from the age of 12) Adam and Steve as they watch Twin Peaks together and discuss each episode in turn. Adam is a long-time fan, while Steve has never seen it before, so expect rambly thoughts as they talk through theories, characters, behind-the-scenes trivia, VIBES, and coffee. Whether you're a super-fan or this is your first time watching, all are welcome at Welcome to Twin Peaks.

"Dilbert books should be (and often are) read aloud while importantoffice work is being put off, and luckily, the best reader of all, Adamshimself, has put his interpretive skills on tape." --Worth MagazineStep aside, Nostradamus. Here comes the real soothsayer, and he'sturning his eagle eye on...

The creator of Dilbert, the fastest-growing comic strip in the nation, takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy.These hilarious essays on incompetent bosses, rampant management fads, bewildering technological changes, and so much more, will make anyone who has ever worked in...

Nate has survived everything thrown his way: powerful professors, deadly trolls in the Forest of Dreams, and the cutthroat chaos of the Questing Games. Each time, he’s defied the odds, finding a way to triumph. But this is different. This is war. With Grishna missing, and dozens of other runics vanishing without a trace, Nate and his companions set out to uncover the truth. Their journey will lead them across the Realm, into the arms of unlikely allies, the jaws of buried secrets, and face-to-face with a power unlike any they’ve encountered before.

A slow day at the office takes a sharp turn when I uncover a strange gaming console that pulls me into another world. Now, I’m the chosen one destined to save a peaceful kingdom from ruin. My task? Find the scattered Golden Rings, rescue the missing Princess Lunessa, and defeat the powerful Legends who attack anyone in their path.

Scott Adams discusses the latest happenings in the world through a persuasion filter.

Welcome to Red Carpet Retirement™ with Adam Scott from WellAcre Wealth Management, LLC. In this podcast, we provide strategies and tools so those in the entertainment and creative industries can achieve greater financial and retirement security. We help make work optional so you only work when you want on the projects you love, with the people you like. Join us for this journey where we explore financial planning for creatives and business owners within the entertainment industry as Adam draws from years of expertise and guest experts to increase your certainty of a Red Carpet Retirement.

An ancient order of heretics known as the Shadebinders has been revived, and their dark influence has spread beyond the borders of Kaldan. In the aftermath of their mission to the festering depths of Shadowmine, Lux and Lia have discovered the site where the Shadebinders will strike next: the frigid mountains of Doram. Forced back into a tenuous alliance with Valandra, the trio will need all the help they can get before they make their way north. 

Join film fans Adam and Tom as they embark upon another cinematic adventure, this time watching, analysing, and critiquing the entire filmography of legendary director Steven Spielberg! Each episode will focus on a single film, with Adam and Tom going in chronological order from Amblin' all the way to The Fabelmans. Along the way they will explore the production, release, and context of each film and keep up with Spielberg's career as he develops from tenacious young filmmaker to one of the most successful, famous, and beloved directors of all time. We're gonna need a bigger podcast!

A podcast that dives deep into discographies - one artist per season. Hosts Adam, Steve, and Lucas go album by album, track by track, exploring how context shapes our experience of music, why fans become obsessed, and what music really is. With three hosts coming from wildly different levels of musical knowledge, expect sharp analysis, wild tangents, hot takes, and more information about the artists (and the hosts) than you ever asked for. Currently exploring the discography of Arctic Monkeys. Previous seasons featured Manic Street Preachers, Muse, Billie Eilish, Radiohead, Lauryn Hill, and ...

Join this classic group of armchair quarterbacks as they discuss the life of a sports fan for no reason.

When Adam found out he was going to be a dad, he called his best friend, Wes, to help conquer the most essential parental task: the bedtime story! Each week, they read a single page of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham to deem if it is appropriate for a newborn baby. They traverse complex thoughts such as the Hero's Journey, solipsism, and Sex and the City—until the book starts to gain a mind of its own! New episodes drop every Tuesday.