The first goal he set was to have an encounter with a woman out of his league.

Funnily enough, his first affirmation came true. Despite the many coincidences he experienced in order to meet this woman, it came true.

But this was just a huge coincidence right?

Surely enough perhaps it wasn’t the affirmation influencing him. He was probably more attractive than he thought he was, or the woman had low self-esteem or the million of other things that could’ve led to this happening.

But now he was intrigued.

Scott then went on to try more unrealistic affirmations. His next one was to ‘get rich in the stock market’. Which was highly unrealistic for someone who had no money to invest especially with no stock brokerage account.

Nevertheless, the started the affirmation and a week later, he woke up in the middle of the night with the idea that he should invest in Chrysler. Now, Chrysler at the time was on the verge of bankruptcy. As Scott was trying to open his account, the stock started rising.

After seeing the rise, he thought that was as far as it was going to rise so he didn’t invest. Chrysler miraculously turned around and made a come back and was one of the leading stocks of the year.

Now, his affirmation was kind of right, but he didn’t invest so he wanted to try again. He tried one more stock called Ask Computer. As soon as he invested in Ask Computer it went up by 10% in a week, so he sold the stock. And as soon as he sold it, the stock rose to the moon!

The confusing lesson he took from the story was that the affirmation sort of worked, but that he just didn’t stick with the stock long enough.

So he set a bigger goal. At the time, Scott was trying to apply to business schools and had to take the GMAT. At the time his test scores came out at around 77. Daring greatly, he made a bet with someone else who was preparing for the exam that he was going to beat her (she was scoring better than him).

So he paired this with affirmations. He visualised himself getting the paper back and found that he was going to get 94.

And… low and behold, he got exactly 94.

Obviously shocked, he went to his apartment in San Francisco and stared into blank space for hours in awe. He then did the next affirmation over a few years of one of the biggest goals he has set yet.

I, Scott Adams, will become a syndicated cartoonist.

And we now know the famous Dilbert.