Always reminds me of this line:

Don’t waste time, or time will waste you.

The top 10 strategies of mass manipulation:

1) Distraction:
In order to manipulate people, one of the most powerful weapons is distraction. Shifting your attention to less important or insignificant news actually allows you to divert your interest from much more vital issues which, in this case, take a back seat.

2) Problem and solution:
Showing a certain topic as a problem allows you to create a solution that is often unpopular and has already been decided a priori.

3) Graduality:
In some cases, in order to manipulate the masses, it is necessary to do it gradually. In the case of the elimination of certain basic rights, for example, it is better to eliminate them in small doses so as not to provoke protests from citizens.

4) Delay:
In this case, some reform takes place, ensuring that in the short term, although negative for citizens, it will be positive for all. In this way, people are less likely to protest, waiting for the benefits. When it turns out that these benefits were false, it will already be too late and people will have become accustomed to change.

5) Infantilising the public:
In advertisements and political speeches, people often tend to talk to the audience as if they were children. In this way, the critical faculties of people who are more likely to accept the message are eliminated.

6) Using emotions:
Messages that try to manipulate the masses do not invite reflection but, on the contrary, are based on emotions. In this way, rather than rationality, we focus on the subconscious of the recipients who may perceive the general message but not all the details, thus neutralising the critical aspect.

7) Keeping the audience ignorant:
An ignorant public is the best ally of mass manipulation. For this reason, the deterioration of the education system is a very powerful weapon for controlling citizens.

8) A willing public:
The media are used to showing how superficial, ignorant and vulgar fashions and trends are. In this way, citizens are made to get used to mediocrity.

9) Reinforcing the feeling of guilt:
This strategy of mass manipulation tends to make people believe that all their problems come from themselves. Instead of rebelling against the system, citizens will therefore think that they are directly responsible for what is happening.

10) Knowing the human being
The system has a vast knowledge of the human being, thanks to the progress made, and therefore manages to have greater control over the citizens.

truly we create our own hells

It is grating being around people with persistently negative mentalities once you become aware of it

To these people, everything has a reason for why it won’t work, Everything has a high possibility of going wrong

The worst assumptions of your mind never comes to pass - and if something goes ‘wrong’ (which is a value judgement based on your perspective anyway) then you will deal with it IF it comes to it. There is zero point wasting time on entertaining these negative ‘ghost’ events that will not even happen.

be around the right people and you learn and progress effortlessly through osmosis
Be around the wrong people and you become dragged down simply by being around them

It is imperative to curate an environment of positive mental programming, from other people, music, tv shows, movies, social media, etc.
All must be conducive to success and happiness.

Thought is the coin of heaven, Money is it’s earthly symbol

You must invest your thoughts as you do your money:

⁃ Invest = positive thoughts and assumptions of success
⁃ Spent frivolously = negative thoughts and wastes of time

Every moment must be invested wisely rather than spent.

The present moment does not fade into the past - It advances into the future to meet us, depending on how we chose to use it.

If we spend our days thinking of the bad things, of why everything is bad, then that version of reality will be coming round the corner to greet us.
Similarly you can picture the perfect vision of how you want life to be and how it WILL Be, in every way.

If God is the consciousness of your mind, then everything is possible through how we choose (as we have free will) to use that consciousness.
Our power as humans is to create whatever version of reality is pictured in our minds eye.

We stumble through life when we don’t have this knowledge. We think negatively then our minds express this onto the world and we think we are a victim of life instead of realising we are experiencing what we have previously pictured.

You can be a victim of circumstance like everyone else, Or do whatever it takes to learn the tools to create your reality - then use them.

I'll let this poll run for 30min total.

If you ever want to lie, you need to make sure that nothing you are saying can be verified.

If one or more parameters can reasonably be doubted, then you already got caught.

It is important to keep in mind that lying is a tool and should not shape the way you see reality.

With that in mind, if you need to lie and want to get away with it,

Make sure no one else knows the truth.

Relying on people backing your fictive story will not sooner or later fireback on you.

Dont make anyone else part of your lie

Dont give anyone the power to expose you

Now, how can a lie be believable?

Use someone else's real life story.

Instead of making it up all from scratch, tell a real scenario with real details, which comes from your memories rather than you imagination

Why?

To not contradict yourself.

The more often you lie, the less likely you are to remember all the lies you said.

Keep that to a minimum.

Better, tell many people the same lie so you:

-Practice your fictive story
-Get backed without exposing your secret

Disclaimer:

This is to use when you NEED to lie about a specific situation

If you NEED to lie just to feed your ego, sorry to say but you need a doctor.

Use lies but don't become a liar, you will only lie to yourself and lose discernment between reality and your imagination.

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Deep dive into emotional regulation tomorrow. Nothing I've ever posted before. Heavy shit.

Post on Emotional regulation coming.

Edit:

Post is going to be too long.

I'm going to make it a pdf and send it on here when ready.

Friendship is one of those things for which you don't pay upfront.

In fact, it's something you only pay for once you lose it.

The problem is, you don't have sole ownership over it.

Sometimes you pay for it even before you realize that you lost it.

I'm taking time with this because I want to be really specific on the information I'll be sharing with you. Will take a few more days to be done; but I'll be sharing other stuff in the meanwhile.

Cheers and love Basedonians

The problem with most people is that they expect the world to be soft and kind to them.

I don't know if it's pure delusional thinking or an idiotic yet hopeful way of seeing things.

Truth is, everyone experiences life from different perspectives and events, everyone is sucked up in their own reality.

As such, expecting people to always be there for you, to understand and empathize with your version of reality is simply needy and entitled.

Nobody has the obligation to do that.

Something many people forget is that everything is a trade.

It might not involve money or anything material, but everything gets paid for.

See the guy that helps you out without asking for anything?

He has a price in mind; he expects something back from you.

Maybe he doesn't have the courage to ask for it; maybe it's something he can't ask for; but he does have it in mind.

But here is the good side of this all:

What people expect back is obvious in most cases.

Here is where integrity lies, here is how you can be fair and just.

Do not get something from someone you're not ready to pay back.

Do not consider anything free; deal with this fact as a simple truth, not as a sad side of humans nature.

If you're going to take something from someone (time), make sure you know what they want in return and make sure you can pay them back.

That's how you become a good person.

Someone that goes to bed every night knowing that they're not taking advantage of anyone else yet take care of themselves properly.

How to become nobody:

>This is probably not what you expect but let's go.

I don't think there is anything easier than becoming a nobody.

If you simply follow the below mentioned instructions, you can easily achieve that in no time.

First:

Ditch everything that makes you standout.
Make sure all your opinions are borrowed and fit within a specific stereotype.

Second:

Forget about thinking out of the box.
Stay within the framework of what has been tried and proven many times.
Just do what works.
Take zero risks; copy.

Third:

Work on your agreeableness.
Say yes to people more often, don't resist much, accept their influence.
Let them have the final say, follow the lead.

Fourth:

There is no fourth.
This is a list of things you shouldn't do.

Do exactly the opposite of the first 3 points; stop being a sheep.

If you want to be nobody, then you either have zero ambition or zero personality: get yourself some.

You think it's cool to be a nobody, but faceless is exactly what everyone is.

In a world of nobodies, become somebody by simply thinking for yourself and avoiding labels.

See yourself as a free soul; not one among many.

It takes a weight out of your shoulders, a stress out of your mind, when you accept that people's behavior towards you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

Things are rarely personal and you should avoid taking them as such.

Let people be whatever they are.

Just don't be like them, don't let your subconscious and insecurities drive you.