Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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t experience where you know something bad is going to happen and it's only going to be a quarter of a second but that quarter of a second seems to just stop in time in your memory? So as I'm flying through the air I have to do triage: which part of my body I want to sacrifice? I'm thinking arm, no, don't want a broken arm. Leg, knee, no, no, bad news. Head, got a helmet but still you don't want t…

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s. I'm like no, no, no, no, no. And I came up with one body part that I thought I could get by with and it was this fat part of my back toward the top, you know, just past the shoulder blade where there's like a little bit of muscle here, a little bit of padding. I managed to spin in the air just fast enough to tuck and roll, hitting that back part of my back first. And I gotta say it was quite a crash, but I managed to pop up uninjured.

Now that's not even the weird part. Here's the part I didn't tell you last night in the man cave. So have you had this situation where there's something that never happens and then it's everywhere and you don't know, did you cause that or was it always just there or you didn't notice it? So today I'm looking through the news to get my little news stories for the show and there's a story about Simon Cowell, who happens to be just about my age, like pretty close, and how he got seriously injured falling off his e-bike. Now I've only fallen off my e-bike once, just once. And then I turn around and there's like a major story about a guy my age falling off an e-bike. What are the odds of that? Did I make that happen? See, this is why I believe I live i

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n the simulation. One explanation is oh it's just a coincidence. The other explanation is well stories about bike accidents were always out there, you just didn't notice until you were primed for it. Or number three, I caused it to happen. Not only did I cause the accident but I caused the news story about the topic. So that's how I experience life. Like I just caused it. I don't know if it's true…

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