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In 2010, Netflix was supposed to kill streaming piracy.

Instead, it became cable 2.0—fragmented, overpriced, and annoying.

Now piracy is back…bigger than ever... and here to stay...

Here's the psychological flaw that broke streaming: 🧵 Netflix promised unlimited content for $8/month.

For a few years, it worked. Why bother pirating when everything was in one place? Then… the streaming wars began...

In 1954, a psychologist took 22 normal boys to summer camp.

In just days, these 11-year-olds were stealing, burning flags, and raiding each other's cabins.

What went wrong?

Welcome to the Robber Cave Experiment and the dark side of psychology: 🧵 Born in 1906 in the Ottoman Empire, Muzafer Sherif was no ordinary scientist.

He studied at Harvard in the 1920s, became anti-fascist in the 1930s, and got in trouble for being a communist in Turkey in the 1940s.

He had a big question in mind:

In 1913, Carl Jung had visions so terrifying that he thought he was going insane.

Blood floods. Millions dead. Europe destroyed.

One year later, WWI began.

Here was what he saw that night—and why he wasn't the only one: 🧵 October 1913.

Jung was traveling by train when a horrific vision struck: A monstrous flood covering all of Europe. Thousands of corpses floating in yellow waves.

He gripped his seat, thinking: "I'm losing my mind."

Then August 1914 happened.

This man could read your mind in 30 seconds.

The FBI hired him.
Doctors called him impossible.

Yet most people have never heard of Milton Erickson.

Here's how he decoded humans like no one else: 🧵
His story is like no other...

Polio left him unable to move anything but his eyes. For months, he could only watch.

That's when he noticed something that would change psychology forever...

Psychiatrists don't want you to know this...

But a social worker with no medical degree healed "incurable" families in weeks.

Virginia Satir's banned methods exposed why 90% of therapy fails.

Her banned method exposed psychiatry's $300 billion lie: 🧵
Virginia Satir grew up poor in rural Wisconsin.

Her parents barely spoke.
Family dinners were silent.

By age 5, she made a decision:

"I'll become a detective of parents."

She had no idea she'd change therapy forever...

Most people spend their whole lives trying to "find themselves."

Nietzsche said that's the biggest lie psychology ever sold you 150 years ago.

You're not lost. You're just refusing to find your true self.

Here's how to CREATE yourself instead: 🧵
In 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche collapsed in Turin, Italy.

He'd seen a horse being whipped and threw his arms around it, sobbing.

They found him days later, completely insane, writing letters signed "The Crucified."

But before his mind shattered, he left us a terrifying truth...

Every "problem adult" I've met has the same invisible wound.

• They're not spoiled.
• They're not immature.
• They're not manipulative.

They're emotionally starving—and most people have no idea.

I've found a Harvard study that reveals the heartbreaking reality:🧵 Think about a hungry child.

They're restless, demanding, can't focus on anything meaningful.

They'll chase after any stranger with food, crave distractions, and their behavior completely falls apart.

Now think about your "difficult" child...

They say therapy fixes broken people.

But Gregory Bateson proved "mentally ill" people aren't broken...

They are psychological traps and wired by their families with invisible codes.

Once you see it. You can't unsee it... 🧵 Born in 1904, Gregory Bateson was a Cambridge-educated anthropologist who refused to think inside academic boxes.

While others studied isolated subjects, Bateson saw connections everywhere.

His father was a famous geneticist, but Gregory chose a different path...

Alan Watts spent 30 years studying human consciousness.

His conclusion? 99% of people are imprisoned by 2 mental illusions.

They destroy happiness, energy, and purpose faster than trauma or depression ever could.

Here's why you'll never be happy—how to break free:🧵
Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spent 30 years translating Eastern wisdom for Western minds.

He wrote 25 books and gave 400+ talks on one core message:

We're all living in a mental prison of our own making.

There's a mental model mastered by every geniuses, peak performers and millionaires:

It's called High Agency Thinking

It rewires how your brain solves problems, absorbs information, and processes reality.

99% never heard of it. 1% are using it to bend reality (legally)... 🧵 @george__mack High agency people operate with a fundamentally different mindset.

While others accept limitations, they ask: "How can I make this work?"
@george__mack calls this "bending reality to your will."

He wrote: ↓

Could psychiatrists actually cure schizophrenia?

Doctors said these 12 schizophrenic women would never leave the asylum.

In 1954, he created a room where 12 schizophrenic women could cook, sew, and talk.

What he found next exposed the secret side of psychology…🧵 Glasgow, 1954.

R.D. Laing stepped into Gartnavel Mental Hospital's female ward and froze.

60 women. Vacant stares. Some rocking in corners for decades.

The "treatments"? Electric shocks. Insulin comas. Ice picks through eye sockets.

But Laing noticed what others missed...

This psychiatrist created a therapy so powerful, it could unlock decades of buried emotions in a single session.

He can your father's rage in your jaw.
Or your mother's abandonment in your chest.

Here's how he reads your childhood in 30 seconds... .Born 1910, NYC. Lawyer with 2 law degrees, Alexander Lowen felt
disconnected from his body & emotions.

At 32 (1942), he made a life-changing choice:

Became a patient of Wilhelm Reich, who believed the body held the key to psychological healing.

"Passion is a lie," says Robert Greene.

That's his discovery after studying geniuses like Mozart, Jobs, and Einstein... for decades.

He found ONE pattern in every master he mastered early on:

"The Voice"

Here's what history's masters knew that we forgot:🧵 Greene spent 10 years researching "Mastery," interviewing everyone from tech billionaires to artists.

His finding? Not one master followed their "passion."

Instead, they all discovered something more profound—a voice from childhood that never left them.

Let me explain:

The most powerful metaphor on the human mind:

Plato's Chariot.

It's why 97% of people fail their diets, abandon their dreams, and are always depressed in life.

So, I started exploring its psychological powers...

What I learned blew me away: 🧵 In 360 BC, philosopher Plato described the human soul as a charioteer trying to control 2 horses:

One noble white horse
= Our values, virtues, and higher aspirations.

One wild black horse
= Our impulses, desires, and base instincts.

Chess Grandmasters are some of the smartest people alive.

There's one framework they're taught early on...

Higher-order thinking (sharpen your decision-making, learn faster, and unlock genius thinking): 🧵
When GM Garry Kasparov first learned chess, his coach didn't teach him moves.

Instead, he taught him to "think about thinking."

Before each move, he had to verbalize his thought process, explaining WHY he considered certain moves.

In 2009, Stephen Hawking threw a party for time travelers.

The physicist provided exact GPS coordinates and time...

Then waited with his champagne...

This is what happened next and the world's smartest man honest confession about time travelling: 🧵
Hawking's experiment was simple but brilliant...

If time travelers existed in our future,
they could see his invitation and travel back.

The party: June 28, 2009.
Location: University of Cambridge.

Hawking himself prepared champagne and waited.

Could anyone become cruel and evil?

Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo wanted to find the answer...

In 1971, he built a prison in Stanford's basement and splitted 24 students into guards and prisoners.

What he found next exposed the dark side of psychology…🧵
Zimbardo was a young psychology professor at Stanford in the early 1970s.

He had a strange hypothesis:

Could psychiatrists tell if someone was actually insane?

Stanford psychologist David Rosenhan wanted to find the answer...

In 1973, he sent 8 perfectly normal people to mental hospitals across the US.

What he found next exposed the secret side of psychology…🧵
David Rosenhan, a Stanford psychologist, designed a bold experiment to find out.

He recruited 8 normal people willing to get themselves committed:

• 1 painter
• 1 housewife
• 1 pediatrician
• 1 psychiatrist
• 3 psychologists
• Rosenhan himself

Their mission?

This is Laszlo Polgar.

He's the psychologist who turned his 3 daughters into chess grandmasters at 15.

He had ZERO chess skills, but his daughters defeated prime Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, and Viktor Korchnoi.

Welcome to the first-ever Genius Factory: 🧵 In 1960s Communist Hungary, Laszlo Polgar had a radical theory:

Geniuses aren't born, they're made.

The establishment laughed. His peers called him crazy. So he decided to prove his theory with his own children...

In 1968, Dr. John Calhoun built the perfect utopia with unlimited shelter, food, entertainment, and zero predators.

By day 315, it was a living hell.

Welcome to Universe 25 social experiment and its chilling similarities to modern Western society: 🧵 John B. Calhoun had watched rodent utopias fail since the 1940s.

His most shocking failure:

A population of 200 in the space of 5,000.

The National Institute of Mental Health wanted answers.

They funded his most ambitious experiment yet.

In 1954, psychiatrist Oscar Janiger believed we all had untapped creative and hidden potential.

But unlocking it required one of the most controversial molecules in history... LSD psychedelic

Here's the full story—and what he discovered next: 🧵 Dr. Oscar Janiger, a respected Los Angeles psychiatrist, had a radical question:

Could LSD-25, a compound synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, offer insight into the mysteries of human consciousness?

What he found would change the field of psychology forever...