TL;DR


The Loaded Gun of Value

Just like the loaded gun analogy, this teaching is the exact opposite. Expect to learn something from anyone, even if at first you see no value to be had. Just like treating all guns as if they are loaded, treat any new info or person as valuable, even if you can't see it yet.


 

"Great men don't grow into harsh critics, they become mentors to younger men." - /u/MentORPHEUS

 

Yesterday there was a post made by /u/IamGale called ”How to Make Fuck You Money”.

 

The top comment with 287 upvotes was;


The audacity of a 22 year old self proclaimed 'psych & marketing guy' making fuck me money to make a post like this about making fuck you money is a new level of retardation.


 

For the past couple weeks If you’ve been following my posts or comments I’ve been lining out a lot of innate weaknesses of human nature. Weaknesses we all have, things we all share, and I've been helping some of you to stifle and overcome them. I’ve made detailed comments like, ”Reveling In Discomfort”, teaching guys how their fight or flight activates, how to control anxiety, how to not attach yourself to an identity or label and the pitfalls that come with that and everything in between.

Most of my writing lately comes from introspectively analyzing this sub. I notice correlations in the readers and try to help them understand the pro’s and con’s of their logic praxis. I then dissect and try to understand their line of thought and correlate it to how I think and my logic praxis. Once I gather enough info I see the strengths and weaknesses of not only them, but myself. This sub has taught me more about myself in the past few weeks than the past 10 years of introspection of myself(I’ve been doing self improvement a long fucking time).

 

Why do I do all this? Because I understand;

 

You Can Learn Something From Anyone

 


What I Learned From a Racist

I talked to a European racist for 3 hours a week or two ago. While most people attacked and dismissed him I was intrigued. I want to figure out why he thinks the way he does? What made him this way? What was his background? Could he have merit to his beliefs? Could he be right? I want to dissect his internal monologue and figure out where he derives his beliefs and ideals.

Why? Because I know i can learn something from anyone if I look long enough. He eventually showed me a glimpse of the thought process behind a bigot. His first comments where as you'd except from a racist; brash, short and not very detailed or explanatory, just half baked assertions. My knee jerk reaction was to say, "You're a fucking Idiot" but I consciously stopped myself. I remembered I might be able to learn something from him.

 

I had no idea what I'd learn but I started looking none the less.

 

When i learn about someone I can use that knowledge. When i see a similar thought process again, my mind will correlate it and I’ll know how to effectively understand them, reason with them, meditate with them, use them or utterly wreck them if needed.

 

”Know yourself and know your enemy”- Sun Tzu.

 

His weakness ended up being using outdated science to justify his fringe beliefs. Now, If I run into another bigot, all I have to do is root out his shaky foundation and utterly destroy him with it. If you want to look at it like a video game, I gained experience and knowledge on how to handle a bigot.

I should note that going into the conversation I had no preconceived notions of what I would find. Basic outcome independence. If he had given me scientific proof that backed his claims then I would have revised my own personal beliefs and idea's behind the topics at hand. But that isn't an outcome that happened.

While he didn't teach me anything directly. I actually learned a lot by him challenging me and my beliefs. I had to double down and research my beliefs. This, in itself was valuable. I can also use this knowledge in the future if ever needed.

People that you disagree with can help you grow, they will probably help you more than those in agreement with you. The word "sycophant" has a negative connotation for a reason. The mere fact that he challenged me forced some personal growth.

 


 

I’ve been watching /u/IamGale for the past two weeks also, I’ve addressed this post with him before hand.

Every post he makes I see correlations, every piece of information he gives me Is knowledge that can be used in vastly different ways. From the 48 laws, ”the more you say, the more can be used against you”.

Now I have no ill-intent or malicious plans for Gale, I'll actually be talking with him later today on skype to help him out. He’s merely my sticking point, aka guinea pig for this topic today.

 

My Correlation Praxis

For anyone that doesn't know, a praxis is an accepted practice or belief. This is my somewhat chronological method of analysis with any situations, problem, person or environment.

 

The correlations I see in gale;

 

  • Inexperienced in writing to a specific audience. It shows through in his copy/paste style format. His marketing 101 techniques he used in his intro.

  • Hustler. He posts a new topic every day, shows he’s dedicated to what he likes. He even makes a post about hustling and he’s dead on with it.

  • He covers vastly different topics each post. This shows fascination, intrigue, willingness to learn.

  • Young. Shows through in his writing and eventually he states his age.

  • Shows discipline, understanding, mediator. Can receive criticism without taking offense. Impressive for a 22 year old.

 

I can seriously relate to IamGale, I see a young version of me in a lot of ways.

But lets now look at TRP as a whole and what correlations I see;

 

  • Enjoys a bit of humility, self depreciating humor, satirical humor. I can use this.

  • Most readers are fairly self aware. They’ll see right through bullshit and call it as it is. TRP is not for the thin skinned. They won’t take well being played as fools.

  • They like pragmatic advice. Applicable advice. Shit that works and can be proven. They don’t care about feelings, emotions or morals. Show me the HoeFax or GTFO.

  • They will be more acceptable to renown posters(Endorsed guys) than random new guys.(Social hierarchy 101)

 

Now, combine these two completely separate observations together and you’ll easily see something I can sell to someone.

Who’s that someone? IamGale of course. I contacted him and lined this exactly out for him. If I wanted to I could charge him for it. This is the basics of consulting. Identifying weaknesses, correlations to clients and their targets and helping them achieve their goals.

Im seeing things he isn’t. I can be his adviser and help him. I now just need to have an effective pitch. His faults are;

 

  • he doesn’t know his enemy(figure of speech here, you dense fuckers). Enemy as in his audience.

  • He failed to see that his copy/paste ”10 things to Make you Awesome” and advertising 101 won’t work here.

  • TRP isn’t run of the mill masses that will blindly believe everything they read. They will fine tooth comb every one of his posts.

  • He didn’t see they like pragmatic advice over theatrical advice.

  • He didn’t correlate that his age might negatively affect him when writing an article like, ”How to Make Fuck You Money”. An article about millionaires and how to make millions won’t be well received by being written from a 22 year old that sounds like he’s trying to give you a sales pitch.

  • He shows a lot of eagerness and willingness to learn, but he doesn't seem mindful of it. This can cause you to jump the gun and not think things through. Probably thee most common trait i see in the young and eager. Ever been told to slow down or pace yourself? If you've heard that before you suffer from this.

  • All these observations together can then be used to deduct that he doesn't realize the importance of renown in a community. He's acting like an endorsed member without first earning the endorsement. He's the new guy on the block that's overstepping himself.

 


 

But now it’s time to help you, time to be the TRP audience’s adviser. Let’s get back to IamGale's post, but first lets put some context in.

 

IamGale's post contained 2182 words which comes out to about 8 pages on standard 11x8.5 paper. He had 35 different cites all of which where links to highly successful people. The post itself was a mash of a bunch of different careers and processes to making money. Different industries, careers, methods and practices where used as examples. However the post itself was half baked. Wasn't formated well for the delivery he was posting. He didn't really address his thought process or reasoning behind "why" he was posting or it's importance to the reader. Which is bad as the reader is left to make his own interpretation of the value and importance of the post. And readers will have drastically different interpretations when you fail at this.

 

Now onto this quote;

 


The audacity of a 22 year old self proclaimed 'psych & marketing guy' making fuck me money to make a post like this about making fuck you money is a new level of retardation.


 

This comment had 287 upvotes. 287 people that I’m seeing I can help with something. What correlations do I see here? How can I help and advise here?

 

Everyone that upvoted this comment doesn’t understand that,

You Can Learn Something From Anyone

At face value, /u/IamGale didn’t have a great format or direction for his post. But you know what his post has a shit ton of? 35 cites to a ton of extremely successful individuals that everyone here could learn a fuck ton from. 35 cites that he personally scoured the internet for. 35 cites that he's probably all read and see's some value in, which he thought would be useful or beneficial to the members of this sub.

Most of you attack him for the face value of his post without seeing that he’s basically spend a ton of time collecting a ton of resources for you. He’s the intern you send out to go find a bunch of shit that you can use. You give the intern a problem, in this case he thought you guys should learn about highly successful men, and then presented it all to you. Some of you got it, some of you didn’t.

I’ll personally back his post just from the sheer amount of cites he linked and I’m going to personally read through every one of them. His post before this one was about Neil Patel and his 12 month venture into a brand new blog which he is using as a case study. I’ve read every single one of them and have learned a lot from them. I’m going to continue reading and learning from Neil Patel because he has shit I can use.

 

TRP 101, "Use what fits you and discard the rest".

 

Most of you might not find his cites useful. But just like the racist, I didn't know if I'd be wasting my time or actually learn something. Just because you don't see an initial value, doesn't mean its not there. And it terms of a forum, down voting it deprives that possibility to someone that might find it useful.

Now, here is why most people focus on face value and why IamGale got ripped apart.

 

There is an innate design of humanity to focus on the worst possible outcome. I’m sure there is a name for it in some psych book but the point is, if you are human, you like negativity. There is a reason the Colosseum is one of the 8th wonders of the ancient world. There is a reason UFC is one of the tops sports in the world right now. There is a reason every time you get on facebook, it’s mostly a bunch of people bitching about how hard their life is. There is a reason this correlation is shown throughout all of human history. There is a reason IamGale’s post was received negatively.

Human’s will focus on the most negative thing they can find

When you look at it through evolution's point of view, this is a perfect design. 100,000 if you didn't spot and focus on a negative stimuli like say, a fucking lion, guess what, those ancestors don't have any offspring today. But this psychological relic is from a bygone era. It wasn't designed for higher cognitive thought. It was design to keep you alive, not to be used when you are verbalizing random words together to form a sentence to some other random person. (Cognitive thought only evolved 50,000 years ago. Our much older subsystems from millions of years of evolution still have some integration and bug-fixing to go through)

Now that you know this. You can stop yourself from attacking things at face value. Gale can be conscious of these pitfalls when writing to the masses and learn that they will tear apart any of his post whenever they can spot a weakness, because it's human nature to focus on the most negative aspect.

Now you the reader can literally learn anything from anyone, even a racist. All you have to do is be conscious of your knee jerk reaction and your evolutionary design to do so. you can find value in almost anything. Sometimes it’s a waste of time, but not if you think abstractly enough about it. I could learn something from a 4 year old if I wanted to and spent enough time on it.

 

 


A lot of my writings are to teach you about your past evolutionary design and how it can help or hinder your personal progression. Some of these psychological designs are useful, but like this one, it can be detrimental for self actualizing and learning.


 

Lessons Learned

 

Human’s will focus on the most negative thing they can find

 

You can Learn something from anyone

 

Combine these two teachings and you can quickly open yourself up to new ideas and apply them in abstract ways for the benefit of yourself or others

 

 

I do this every day. My job was built around identifying completely unrelated things and applying them in abstract ways to produce a superior outcome or process. This is the basic building blocks of invention. Take two completely separate things and combine them. If you want to be more creative, this is where I'd start.

 

Curiosity drives growth. If you lose your curiosity, if you can't be intrigued by those you don't understand, it will stunt your growth. I can teach you that you can learn something from anyone, but it's up to you to apply some self discipline on your knee jerk reactions. To use your head and apply some abstract thought and unconventional methods to make it worth something valuable. It might end up being valuable to you, or someone else. If it's someone else then you can probably make money from it.

 

I could have easily deducted nothing from the Racist even after 3 hours of talking to him, dismissed it as a wast of time. I could have easily given into my knee jerk reaction and taken his comment at face value, just like those in IamGale's post. But I remembered i might learn something. Instead of letting my emotions drive my response I let my curiosity do the talking. I detached myself from the conversation. Then I learned what I needed from the racist. Now I can remember that conversation and use it in the future.

Him challenging me also allowed me to grow and gain more knowledge. Just because someone isn't overtly giving you something(overt as in knowledge, a produce or service) you can still covertly grow just via them challenging you.

(Take a look at SJW's for an example of when you refuse to be challenged and what type of person that line of though produces)

 

The Loaded Gun of Value

Just like the loaded gun analogy, this teaching is the exact opposite. Expect to learn something from anyone, even if at first they don't pose much value. Just like treating the gun as if it is loaded, even if it's not, treat the new info as valuable, even if you can't see it yet.