Sitting here on a deserted beach in a typically popular beach town, ripping some American Spirits & thinking about fear.
This towns been decimated this year. I think around 1/3 of businesses closed for good and that # is growing.
All because of our collective response to fear
We’re designed with an acute fear response. This response used to serve as a mechanism to fight off Sabre tooth tigers and warring tribes.
Unfortunately, now it just serves to bend the masses to whatever manufactured trauma the elite want to inflict
I’ve talked w/ as many people as I could find. Subtly getting their take on the situation.
Even your biggest right wing people here succumb to the notion that they may die w/o a mask and brag about getting tested w/ absolutely no symptoms
It makes me sad.
To witness people so paralyzed with fear.
To see businesses that’ve existed for 10, 20, or 30 years go under.
And no one blames those actually responsible.
The streets are littered with homeless, who’re still ticketed if in a group.
Shops are boarded up.
Otherwise the streets are empty.
We live in such a safe society that any risk to our being, no matter how small, sends the average person into a frenzy.
We weren’t designed to be like this, but here we are.
My ask of you is this:
Whatever you fear in your life, compare that to being attacked by a vicious wild animal, or a tribe full of barbarians looking to kill & rape everyone in their path
Whether it be interviewing for that job, starting that business, talking to that girl you like, or whatever else.
Know that your aversion to the task is based on the idea that you or everyone you know would be killed.
You’re responding to your fears as you were designed to.
But the fears you face right now are nowhere near the fears you were designed to face.
Stay hard my brothers
Lmao I kid you not, as I’m writing this, a couple of cops rolled up to me asking what I’m doing.
Literally not another human within hundreds of yards of me.
Absolute insanity.
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Lotta you out there are looking to improve your social & cold reading skills. Analyzing strangers on the spot.
Using the Barnum Effect is IMO the easiest way to instantly improve your cold reading.
I’ll dive into how to use it below
I’ve been fascinated with the human mind for as long as I can remember. Maybe this stemmed from being extremely introverted. Maybe from just the fascination of how things worked.
But I’ve been studying how people think of themselves & how to apply that to interactions for years
I had been considering writing a thread on this for a bit.
And brother @YousXP brought this up the other day which inspired me to put some info out there.
He was talking about astrology and the Barnum effect, which is a phenomenal example.
Sure, many of you know what “The Hero’s Journey” is. Entertained by countless stories of that nature.
But you can take the principles from it to create an extraordinary life for yourself. Face your demons. Become your own hero. Conquer.
What is The Hero’s Journey?
For the unaware, it’s a common narrative template used across many stories thruout humanity. It uses relatively similar aspects across different story arcs.
Normally falling into 3 distinct phases:
- Departure
- Initiation/Revelation
- Return
There’s many specific steps to The Hero’s Journey, but they generally fall into one of those 3 phases.
This’s meant to be applicable, not a lecture on literary structure.
If you want you can google Joesph Campbell’s 17 stages, but my goal is for you to focus on applicability
Well I opened up Facebook for 25 seconds and stumbled across this gem....
And cuz I’m fascinated by how ridiculous the average person’s thought process is, I read the whole thing
My thoughts below....
I honestly expected this to be satire. Thinking there’s no way someone’s gonna sell people on “eating chips and whipped cream on the couch” is good for you.
Sadly, the title was not clickbait & reflects exactly what it says
Now we have, what the nerds like to call these days, a “Medical Expert”, telling us that we should pay JUST AS MUCH attention to hedonism as our self-control....
Further reason to shun most mainstream “experts” (if you needed any more after these past months)