How To Deal With Cognitive Dissonance

effyouasshole · 2019-04-06T20:30:54+00:00

Try running an experiment: pull beta-male shit on a bunch of women and see how successful you are. Then run real game on another set and compare. You'll quickly see how much more successful real game is on women, which will be very strong motivation to not revert back.

Or don't. Because the more chumps there are in this world, the better for me. The reason I clean up so well is because most guys are utter shit.

dneat · 2019-04-07T00:44:38+00:00

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.” ― Aristotle

cognitive dissonance is a symptom of being alive...

how to deal with it? let go. dis-identify with the incessant stream of thoughts. realize, statistically speaking, you're going to be here for another 60 years - we might as well make the experience as easy going as possible - we create most of our suffering with the gray matter in our head.

Project_Zero_Betas · 2019-04-06T21:12:10+00:00

I either act RP, but then second guess myself and revert to BP, or I'm so caught up with what to say/do that I freeze up.

When you're faced with such a scenario, ask yourself "Should I give the alpha response or beta response?" Internalize this dialogue often and your BPness will eventually wash away to superior logic, if you're consistent enough.

epushepepu · 2019-04-06T23:12:40+00:00

I mean, for me, its almost like I re-discover TRP every few weeks rn. I get my heart broken in some way, I swear off women, social activities and just say I'm going to focus on my life, and the cycle repeats. You can also tell yourself you're TRP, you read the sidebar, you read the posts, you think about y'know men's rights and whatever, but you're still living your life like a loser, holding onto BP assumptions, holding onto a concept of the world, that frankly, doesn't exist.

So, firstly, its a process. Beating yourself up without learning lessons from it is just wasted time. Secondly, particular knowledge will make more sense to you, your ability to receive it will be better through experiences. Life is for the living, not on the internet. Thirdly, in terms of practical steps, reading GLO's posts is always an entertaining, and much needed wake up call to the difference between the blue pill world and the red pilled reality. As comforting as the BP world is, there is really very little going back. The matrix analogy has its limitations, but I personally also use it as a visualization exercise, visualizing actually eating "the red pill" and then choking on it if I can't believe it or waking up from the programmed incubator I was in. The world really isn't the same once you let yourself swallow it, and its not just about women or anything, I find its its own comfort to understand the world, and what makes it tick. It'll take some time to get comfortable with it, some hard time, but once you are its like "it all makes sense now" and you're ok with it, you're just using it to further your goals.

Abnull · 2019-04-07T03:42:58+00:00

Being red pilled isn't an action. You can't act red pilled. Self respect is what you're looking for.

You need to respect yourself, and respect your time. Give each second of your time the respect it deserves. It's your time. Are you going to waste it? Are you going to use it on people who don't consider your time important? People who waste it?

The red pill is a round about way for analytical guys to find their way through a bunch of lies. It doesn't have to be that hard. What do you really deeply want? And do you respect your time enough to use it towards your goals? It's that simple.

Everything else is just experience, or lack there of.

rockyp32 · 2019-04-07T00:50:26+00:00

Yeah this happened to me yesterday I couldn’t decide how to respond so I freeze and just battle in my head the whole time

Title	How To Deal With Cognitive Dissonance
Author	mrbasic-
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Date	April 6, 2019 8:20 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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