“Loserthink isn’t about being dumb, and it isn’t about being under informed. Loserthink is about unproductive ways of thinking.”
Warning, this is a total plug for Scott Adams book Loserthink, so if you are not interested, or already have it and are "aware", then no need to go further.
I find a lot of times that people who are disagreeing are talking past each other, and reference things that they think the other person is "thinking" to inform their response. But how many times has someone responded to you, totally misconstruing your intentions? Or vilified you for something you never considered?
Unfortunately I think this happens a lot in today's society, and it starts with a dishonest media (on BOTH sides) knowing what outrages their base, and assigning opinions to the opposite side that are totally false! But they get the traffic, the clicks, and the advertising money, so perversely, they are incentivized to keep doing it.
So we as Nomads need to be able to recognize this and rise above it. The battle isn't left vs right or liberal vs conservative or vaxxed vs unvaxxed, its integrity vs dishonesty. It means we need to purge our desire to assign motives to the actions of others.
This all falls under what Scott Adams calls in his book, Loserthink, "The Mind Reading Illusion". He says that we are terrible at reading other people’s minds. But the illusion fools us into thinking we are good at it. So, we routinely mischaracterize what others are trying to say to us and what their intent is. “If your opinion depends on reliably knowing another person’s inner thoughts,” Adams writes in his classic style, “you might be experiencing loserthink.”
When it happens to us, we are essentially being penalized for what others “think we are thinking.” His fix is to ask people to provide a specific position of yours that they think you believe. Then, one-by-one, run through the list of the things they have imagined about you. And let them know you don’t stand for any of those things. Eventually, they might realize their folly. Adams suggests that we observe what people do and how they act, rather than trying to deduce their intent because we are not good at this.
Interested in the full book? Its on our Nomad reading list here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/166540.Nomad_Reading_List
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Also to back this up is a good article from Glen Greenwald about how our capacity to reason diminishes during the highly charged climate surrounding a war and war propaganda from BOTH sides.
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Michael Saylor shared something recently that may have gone unnoticed by most.... he said it in an interview with Tom Bilyeu recently.... here is the clip:
https://x.com/TheBTCTherapist/status/1869507247526793481
MICHAEL SAYLOR: The first nation to print their own currency to buy Bitcoin wins.
Paul from invest answers then also put together the fact that MSTR is applying to issue more stock to buy more BTC.... is that the same thing? Basically, people will be using fiat to buy stock that will be used to purchase BTC. But the BTC supply is limited.... so get your MSTR (or your BTC) soon! (NOT financial advice....)
But this is not what Satoshi's original 2008 whitepaper (https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper) had in mind when it developed Bitcoin, it was suppose to be a peer to peer cashless transaction system, right?
Roger Ver thinks so, and wrote a book about it called Hijacking Bitcoin. This video is a summary of that book ...
Why Doug Casey and Anton Wahlman are wrong about the upcoming election.
Let start by reading and listening to what they have to say:
https://antonwahlman.substack.com/p/america-is-now-a-socialist-country
After reading the blog post on Hersey and Liberty, and as we see in the video from Doug Casey on why they think America is doomed to vote in "Commie-La", I think they have missed the bigger picture on the American electorate and what is driving the upcoming election.
Going through history, the three things that are the biggest motivations for the motivation to "Throw the bums out" are;
1. It's the Economy, stupid
2. How safe am I now?
3. Foreign Wars
Maybe the 2nd and 3rd reasons are intertwined, but this is the main three. And Commie-La, as much as she may try to run against the current administration, people know, she is part of the machine in power. With all three of these big picture items against her, the chances she pulls this off are extremely low.
Doug and Anton are reacting to a ...
I liked this article on Substack, and of particular interest is the video from Richard Nixon. Oh if we could only go back and know then what we know now.
https://antonwahlman.substack.com/p/putin-to-tucker-nato-provoked-the
