RE: #SharkSchool Lesson 2: Develop A Taste For Other People's Blood
Highjacking my own top comment to save you from the shitstorm of a comment chain below.
One thing you guys will come to understand eventually is that if you are in the public eye, you will eventually get people who say you are complete garbage.
It's easy to pick on Britney Spears, Justin Beiber, Kim Kardashian or Donald Trump because they're the ones in the spotlight. They're out there every day doing their thing and being public figures. Aside from Donald Trump, none of them are openly abraisive towards other groups of people.
That's one of the reasons why I have a massive amount of respect for The Donald. I don't agree with everything he says, but I respect the fact that he's got the balls to get up in front of literally the entire world and give his opinion without giving a second thought to the millions of people who will inevitably disagree with him.
The conservative opinion will never be a popular one. Most people do not want to hear that their success depends on their own life choices. They do not want to hear that their station in life is a result of their own thoughts. They want someone else to blame for their lack of success.
Regardless of whether or not that statement is "true," once you make the decision to believe that it is, then you have a chance to actually improve your life situation. If you don't believe that, then any success will be short lived and probably just a result of pure luck.
It doesn't matter where you go or what community you're a part of, as soon as you start to take a little pride in yourself and say, "Yeah, I'm actually pretty awesome," people will be standing right there waiting to pop your balloon.
Truth be told, I think it just comes from jealousy. They don't like the attention you receive as a result of your openness with your opinion, unpopular as it may be. It's just like the hatred towards Trump. If you notice the news, it's all about, "Trump said this politically incorrect thing."
What they fail to mention is that what he says are all things that many people have thought before. Trump isn't saying anything revolutionary, he's just making insensitive comments without thinking. The people who are deeply entrenched in "playing the game" of being socially appropriate can't stand this.
They see it and it clashes with their reality. It threatens the image that they've built for themselves, that's built completely on the premise that authenticity should be shelved in favor of not hurting anyone's feelings. Can't say I agree with that sentiment nor do I respect it.
The truth hurts. But the truth is it's own defense. And only through examining the truth in yourself and the rest of the world will you be able to resonate with people and elicit from them an authentic response. You want to wake people up from the game they're playing, from the trance they walk around in on a daily basis.
If you can manage to do that, people will give you a chance. They'll be so thankful that there's someone out there who says that you actually don't have to put in all this work to play the game, that you can be a more authentic version of yourself and still get what you want.
Good luck.
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Agreed. I actually like your posts. Agree with many points. In most recent one (S#4), as of this time, point 7 was exactly correct.
``Henry Ford didn't give us faster horses . . . '' Alan Kay would strongly agree with this.
You posts are fun to read because they have a Voice as writers say. If you write with a recognizable Voice you'll likely go far and there you will stay.
``Truth is it's own defense . . .'' It needs the assist of Organization sometimes, but basically that is true.
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(I still don't like using bid bots for each post. In the broader world you don't have to advertise every single unit of good that you move. That would lose income. Economists call that the Winner's Curse for first price auctions.)