/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17078728]

Scott Adams shares his must-read book list for life skills. Thoughts?
>For Life Skills Degree
>Order to read (preferred reading order)
1 Influence
2 Pre-suasion
3 The Power of Habit
4 Impossible to Ignore
5 How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
6 Win Bigly
7 Loserthink
8 Apocalypse Never
>Save the Cat (optional for screen writers mindset)
>Additional Possible Books in order (Scott Adams mentioned a few days later)
9 False Alarm Bjorn Lomborg
10 Half-Life Facts
11 How to Change Your Mind

[Anonymous No.17079045]

I've read 1-3, 5-6. They were all pretty interesting and useful. Nothing groundbreaking but if you're a complete fuck up it'll probably help.

[Anonymous No.17079051]

>>17078728
can he just tell me which pages to read to land a 10/10 granddaughter gf

[Anonymous No.17079347]

>>17078728
>Caring about Scott Adams' opinion about anything.
He's a retard.

[Anonymous No.17079352]

Overrated midwit.
Jesus, even the spergy PUA crowd has been reading Cialdini's book (a good one) for 15+ years or more.

[Anonymous No.17079358]

Overrated midwit.
Jesus, even the spergy PUA crowd has been reading Cialdini's book (a good one) for 15+ years.

[Anonymous No.17079447]

Scott Adams may have some interesting ideas that piss off fags but his books are quite well written—plainly logical and lack any pretentiousness

[Anonymous No.17079475]

>>17079447
Yes, HTF@AE is great. A lot of stuff I already knew intuitively though.
Win Bigly isn't as good as his best blog articles though.

[Anonymous No.17079483]

>>17078728
Extremely basic pop psychology books. 3/11 (27%) are books that he wrote, and is therefore shilling. I consider this list embarrassing and I wouldnt share it with anyone.

[Anonymous No.17079525]

>>17079347
>>17079358
He's 130 IQ and a fedora optimist.
He tends to reach some correct conclusions, but extremely slowly.

He was touting the "Bill Gates is just a rich man who wants to help and is only distrusted because of microsoft in the 90s" line for months before finally conceding.

[Anonymous No.17079536]

>>17079525
130 is an extremely favorable assessment

[Anonymous No.17079565]

>>17079525
What's wrong with Bill Gates, of all people? He's the most generous philanthropist in history, most of it to combat objectively bad things like disease. I honestly don't know why people hate him so much.

[Anonymous No.17079592]

>>17079565
Who elected him to set public health policy?

[Anonymous No.17079599]

>>17079592
What public health policy is he setting?
Again, I don't know that much about Bill Gates, so I could be wrong. All I know is the philanthropy.

[Anonymous No.17079617]

>>17079592
FB schizo

[Anonymous No.17079641]

>>17079536
It is. It is also borderline between midwit and highly intelligent. Midwit is not determined solely by IQ however.

[Anonymous No.17079679]

>>17079565
He's a CIA-connected nerd-sociopath who wants to save the world by reducing the world population. Microsoft is spyware and Bill had no qualms about destroying the quality of Windows in exchange for cheap non-american programmers.

[Anonymous No.17079687]

>>17079592
>>17079599
has bill gates actually done anything at all? he gets all these paranoid people to think he's actually involved in some way, but the only person with tech money who gave away any significant amount this year was mackenzie scott, by complaining that bill gates is doing too much you are actually letting him get away with doing nothing, ironically

[Anonymous No.17079700]

>>17079599
>>17079617
>>17079687
Hey man, how's it going? Gates Foundation pay per post?

[Anonymous No.17079716]

>>17079565
>What's wrong with Bill Gates, of all people? >He's the most generous philanthropist in history, most of it to combat objectively bad things like disease. I honestly don't know why people hate him so much.
Scott Adams thinks exactly like this, yet was persuaded otherwise. Learn from other people's mistakes.

[Anonymous No.17079753]

>>17079679
>CIA connected
Please don't put me on a watchlist, CIA. I love everything you're doing destabilizing governments in the Middle East.
>who wants to save the world by reducing the world population
On what grounds do you make this statement? Has he said this? Why would he be using billions of dollars fighting AIDS if he wanted to decrease the world population?
>microsoft is spyware
>cheap non-American programmers
Bill Gates left Microsoft in 2014. What did he do prior to 2014 that was so bad?
>>17079700
I'm literally just asking why. I'm not even making arguments against it; you could be right; I don't know.
>>17079716
I don't have much respect for Scott Adams, to be honest, so I don't really care what he thinks.

[Anonymous No.17079759]

>>17079679
Also I forgot to mention, he's behind the 5G towers that are giving us coronavirus and putting the voices in my head.

[Anonymous No.17079761]

>>17079753
Also, whoever >>17079592 is didn't answer my question. What public policy is Bill Gates setting?

[Anonymous No.17079763]

>>17079753
>Has he said this?
You're on the internet dude. A search engine is pixels away. Stop playing dumb.

[Anonymous No.17079775]

>>17079763
Just looked it up; this was the first result:
http://www.mythdetector.ge/en/myth/does-bill-gates-promise-us-depopulation-and-chipping
Seems like he was talking about population growth, not population. They're clearly different.

[Anonymous No.17079800]

>>17079775
The foundation should hire better shills.

[Anonymous No.17079801]

>>17079700
you're awfully paranoid

[Anonymous No.17079811]

>>17079800
You told me to do a Google search, and then I did a Google search, and now you're complaining that I got the wrong result in my Google search.
I feel like I'm going insane. What do you want me to do? This seems very esoteric.

[Anonymous No.17079871]

>>17079753
>Has he said this?
Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BobKXkrt8M

>Why would he be using billions of dollars fighting AIDS if he wanted to decrease the world population?

He is sterilizing Africans and Indians with his so-called "medicine" and using them as guinea pigs:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/government-corruption/gates-globalist-vaccine-agenda-a-win-win-for-pharma-and-mandatory-vaccination/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/mass-sterilization-kenyan-doctors-find-anti-fertility-agent-un-tetanus-vaccine-2/5678295
https://www.naturalnews.com/052265_vaccine_experiments_Bill_Gates_India.html

>The Supreme Courts of India are currently conducting an extensive investigation into the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's devious actions abroad, which mainly involve testing deadly vaccines on poor, and oftentimes illiterate, children in developing nations without informed consent. According to Health Impact News, the case focuses specifically on illicit human experimentation that occurred with the two available vaccines for HPV, Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline) and Gardasil (Merck & Co.).

[Anonymous No.17079872]

>>17079811
someone here is going insane but i don't think it's you

[Anonymous No.17079899]

>>17079775
>population growth
>if we do a good a really good job on vaccines...reproductive health services, we could lower that by 10%-15%
In other words, the vaccine reduces population growth by making people sterile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BobKXkrt8M

[Anonymous No.17079923]

>>17079871
>Video
Clearly, he's referring to population growth rather than population. Population growth tends to be lower in rich nations than poor nations as well as nations with lower infant mortality. I think that's what he's saying (that's what it sounds like to me, anyway).
>articles
This is actually a good argument, although for a much less extreme statement than you're saying. I think it's clear from these that Gates doesn't know what he's doing and that he should be working with people who know more about which vaccines to use and how to use them. However, it doesn't make sense (to me) to move from "Gates is incompetent" to "Gates is trying to sterilize people." I say this because I think you might be right that Gates might be an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing, and it might be good to get that information out so that people (including Gates) recognize that The Gates Foundation might need restructuring.
In my eyes, always bet on human incompetence over evil.

[Anonymous No.17079937]

>>17079923
>In my eyes, always bet on human incompetence over evil.
ngmi

[Anonymous No.17079943]

>>17079923
>Clearly, he's referring to population growth rather than population.
I addressed that here >>17079899

[Anonymous No.17079948]

>>17079937
Well, I just don't see grounds to say Gates intended this. It seems to me like these were untested, meaning he literally had no clue what they would cause. That's pretty shitty, and he should definitely pay for it, but it seems to imply it was accidental.

[Anonymous No.17079963]

>>17079948
Why did he mention vaccines among the things that would reduce population growth?

[Anonymous No.17079973]

>>17079948
>I just don't see
>it seems to me
>but it seems to
ngmi

[Anonymous No.17079980]

>>17079943
Ah, yes. There are two alternatives:
1. He's saying vaccines sterilize people
2. He's saying that lowering infant mortality and increasing economic growth cause a decrease in population growth.
He was talking about economic development and infant mortality prior to saying "population growth" in all these examples, so I think (2) makes more sense than (1) based on that alone. Secondly, I don't think vaccines in general sterilize people. Your articles don't point to that, and I haven't seen any evidence for it. This claim is unrelated to the articles you're sourcing.
I would love to see some grounds for it.

[Anonymous No.17079992]

>>17079973
We can only make educated guesses about other people's intentions. Factual claims wouldn't make sense.
>>17079963

[Anonymous No.17079996]

>>17079992
I meant:
>>17079963
See: >>17079980

[Anonymous No.17080077]

>>17079980
In the global vaccination machine's own words:

>Since 2012, individual case reports have linked vaccination against HPV with primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), defined as dysfunction or depletion of ovarian follicles, menopausal symptoms and reduced fertility before the age of 40. A systematic review of the literature on HPV vaccines and infertility was conducted, in which 608 articles were identified.

>After exclusion of duplicates and irrelevant studies, 9 articles were retained for the review
I.e. after cherry-picking the data (Who and what define what is irrelevant? By what metric? 608 to 9? Does that sound credible to you?)

>The details of the studies were reported to the Committee, which reviewed the evidence in the 9 articles (case reports, passive surveillance and epidemiological studies) and concluded that, although the safety of HPV vaccine has received considerable media attention, the evidence does not suggest a causal relationship between HPV vaccination and infertility.
"Does not suggest" = not reassuring at all.

https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/human-papilloma-virus-vaccines-and-infertility


From anti-vaccine sources:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/ex-pfizer-exec-demands-eu-halt-covid-19-vaccine-studies-over-indefinite-infertility-and

https://www.naturalnews.com/047736_vaccines_sterilization_depopulation.html

Doctor's petition:
https://archive.is/nEWGU

>The doctors specifically highlight several vaccine candidates that help the patient create antibodies against spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2.

>The issue is, the protein responsible for the development of a placenta in women, Syncytin-1, also takes the form of spike proteins of SARS viruses.

>“There is no indication whether antibodies against spike proteins of SARS viruses would also act like anti-Syncytin-1 antibodies,” says the petition. “However, if this were to be the case this would then also prevent the formation of a placenta which would result in vaccinated women essentially becoming infertile

https://www.infowars.com/posts/doctors-raise-alarm-over-covid-vaccine-linked-to-infertility/

[Anonymous No.17080117]

Given my take on him before: He sees himself as a persuasion expert, "trained hypnotist," etc. His videos are pure cringe, though -- a bald manlet who looks like a corpse, with an annoying voice, zero charisma, and awkward attempts at showmanship.
His tweets evince very little insight. You can always tell who's read their first pop book on social psych, cognitive biases, etc., by how exuberantly they talk about very basic shit like cognitive dissonance.

[Anonymous No.17080133]

>>17080117
Mate, you simply dont grasp the sublime elegance of the persuasive factor of the simultaneous sip. Dont you realize that synchronizing positive sensory experiences increases social bonds? Haha. Now let me hold a piece of paper to my chin and mockingly characterize you while laughing at my own jokes, as is the persuasive thing to do.

[Anonymous No.17080270]

>>17079599
>>17079687
>>17079811

Long, but worth a read:

https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php

tl;dr?mGates Foundation buys influence with media outlets it supports financially.

[Anonymous No.17080300]

>>17079592
Capitalist Westerners did

[Anonymous No.17080327]

>>17079565
He wanted to shoot missiles full of dust into the atmosphere to block the sun for starters.

[Anonymous No.17080354]

>>17080270
well of course, but "buying influence with media outlets" is a big difference from "trying to depopulate the world with killer vaccines" or what the anti-gates nuts think, but that's my point, the places play up gates like he's actually doing something, when he mostly doesn't do shit, read this shit if you haven't

[Anonymous No.17080539]

>>17080327
source

[Anonymous No.17080567]

>>17078728
>life skills degree
When I was in high school life skills was the class that the retarded people were in (as well as other classes that a retard could somewhat function in, depending on how retarded they were) so to me a life skills degree just sounds like what the retards probably got when they graduated. Never read Adams, I'm not even making fun of him, I just thought it was a funny thing.

[Anonymous No.17080694]

>>17080077
This is one of the funniest posts I've ever seen and suggests you have no scientific literacy at all. "Does not suggest" means, "no research shows it," you fucking retard. Why don't you just kill yourself if you're this fucking stupid? Like, I actually think it would increase the world iq by something like 10 points if you fucking died.
Like, honestly, this is such a bad argument that it seems like a joke.

[Anonymous No.17080852]

>>17080694
>"Does not suggest" means, "no research shows it,"
It does not mean that, midwit. It means "the research we have cherry-picked doesn't have an undeniably high correlation that we can't hide".

You write like a 13 year old girl btw

[Anonymous No.17080856]

>>17080694
He's big on teaching life skills to black children so it's not far off.

[Anonymous No.17080861]

>>17080567
He's big on teaching life skills to black children so it's not far off.

[Anonymous No.17080899]

>>17080852
Holy shit. You're doubling down.
No. Read studies more often and you'll understand the way they're written. Whenever research doesn't say "x happens," it's phrased, "research does not suggest x happens." How do you want them to phrase it? "This absolutely isn't true," that's just not how studies are written.
As for your statement what that means, that's silly. you quoted a study that specifically said you were wrong. Please become smarter before you post again.
You have still yet to show a single study that says it causes that. You have shown a meta-study that shows it doesn't.

[Anonymous No.17080908]

>>17079565
Holy fuck you faggots can't be real.
Go back. I don't give a fuck that you're banned from your sub just leave

[Anonymous No.17080926]

>>17079679
if english is your first language then you are on team cia

[Anonymous No.17080965]

>>17078728
He's a completely out of touch boomer. In how to fail he talks about how he got a job because he wore a suit on a plane when he was 20 and talked to a businessman. Then got a high tier position at a bank because he wrote a letter to the vice President with a list of how to improve things.

[Anonymous No.17080975]

>>17080965
If you have an MBA from Berkeley I guess that could work still

[Anonymous No.17080989]

>>17080899
Fuck off and go midwitsplain elsewhere.
Your precious studies are less reliable than a coin toss:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778

>More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.

>Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
>https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

[Anonymous No.17081053]

>>17080989
Oh, no, the replication crisis. I actually know a bit about this one, so this is kind of sad. This is a complaint about certain kinds of studies that can't be reproduced for one reason or another (certain kinds of medicine, etc.). Therefore, they tend to be inaccurate. However, in this case, luckily for us, you have provided a case of a metastudy which specifically focused on reproducing a particular kind of study and succeeded. Good job.
In general, however, the replication crisis is less extreme than it's made out to be. Usually, methodologies are written vaguely, which leads to a higher percentage being considered "impossible to judge" or even wrong than is actually true. When the original author is actually consulted about their methodology, it goes from about 2/3rds reproducible to 91%, meaning that they are, in fact, reproducible, they just aren't seen that way because of badly written methodolgies.
Now, let's assume you're right about this (you're not and don't really know what you're talking about, but let's assume). We would therefore have to throw out every single fact gathered by scientific studies. That's fine, but what are we left with? All that we're left with is anecdotal research. I know, anecdotally, that I both was vaccinated and have children. I know many people who were vaccinated and can have children. I would need positive evidence for your belief, as it goes directly against my personal experience, which you still haven't provided. This argument misses the forest in favor of the trees and gives up any possible basis for your claim.
Source on this 2/3rds/91% number:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691612460688

[Anonymous No.17081061]

>>17079565
Makes you wonder what the media isn't telling you.

[Anonymous No.17081072]

>>17079565
What’s wrong with the hereditary oligarchs who are either grossly negligent or actively involved in crafting in the state of society and therefore unimaginably evil?

[Anonymous No.17081093]

>>17080965
He's a fucking weirdo.
Every few chapters there's an intermission on his weirdo fucking voice problem.
Yeah, I know spasmodic dysphonia is a legit medical condition, but he's still a fucking weirdo.
It's a condition a fucking weirdo would get, and it's a condition a fucking weirdo would harp on about.

[Anonymous No.17081094]

>needing to read ELEVEN books to turn your life around
Holy shit at that point you are better of just becoming an hero.

[Anonymous No.17081129]

>>17081094
Based average /lit/ "reader"

[Anonymous No.17081145]

>>17080077
Fuck Gatws forbherding wealth from the working class. This shit is straight conspiracy though and you backed it up with fucking infowars you mong.

Vaccines have eradicated disease in Africa and it seems like by every metri that sterility is a rare a d sporadic event. In fact, other environmental causes of sterility seem more corrleative. Cobalt and heavy metal residue from doing manula mine work from age 6 onward for one should be obvious example.

I think you live in a false reality.

[Anonymous No.17081183]

>>17081145
>Vaccines have eradicated disease in Africa
Good joke. They didn't even eradicate it here.

[Anonymous No.17081190]

>>17081145

[Anonymous No.17081196]

>>17081183
Seems pretty significant given the immense rise in population

[Anonymous No.17081241]

>>17081196
Forgot part 2:
>However, even this astonishing reduction in measles mortality doesn't fully account for the reduction in risk, because the population of the USA was much larger in 1962 than in 1909. 186,537,737 in 1962 versus 92,228,496 in 1909, to be precise. So, the risk of measles mortality was 1 in 11,010 in 1909 versus 1 in 457,200 in 1962.

>In other words, 97.6 percent of the population-corrected decline in measles mortality took place prior to the introduction of measles vaccination. And this was despite the fact that 90 percent of the population was infected with measles at one point or another.

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/02/measles-actual-risks.html

[Anonymous No.17081242]

>>17081190
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-bells-palsy-photo-idUSKBN28O2WD

[Anonymous No.17081288]

seems like despite people thinking he's dumb, they don't assume he has any ulterior motive outside of himself

[Anonymous No.17081306]

>>17079525
Scott Adams is the very definition of a high-IQ idiot.

[Anonymous No.17081385]

>>17081242
>VERDICT Partly false.

[Anonymous No.17081486]

>>17080300
this. every purchase of windows software is a vote for bill gates

[Anonymous No.17081550]

>>17081486
most purchases of windows probably came from the government by way of schools and bureaucratic offices n shit

[Anonymous No.17082435]

>>17081306
How is he an idiot?

[Anonymous No.17082981]

>>17079525
>He's 130 IQ
Source?

[Anonymous No.17083014]

If you've read one of these books on persuasion you've pretty much read them all because there's no real innovation going on. It gives the books a "self help" NY times best seller feel where authors are just trying to cash in. This is all you need:

-The Persuaders by James Garvey, which is more of a history book.
-Methods of Persuasion by Nick Kolenda, for general verbal persuasion.
-Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth, for writing or speeches.

[Anonymous No.17083036]

>>17083014
>i'm gonna perswaaaade

[Anonymous No.17083090]

>>17079525
Someone should come up with a Langan award for the person each year who best demonstrates the uselessness of IQ.

[Anonymous No.17084548]

bump

[Anonymous No.17085736]

bump

[Anonymous No.17085993]

>>17079871
>He is sterilizing Africans and Indians with his so-called "medicine" and using them as guinea pigs
Extraordinarily based. I was against Billy G until learning that.