Your intelligence doesn’t protect you from being influenced, being conditioned
You can be intelligent and still be naive
You can refute the silly arguments with your sharp mind — but you can’t refute emotions
And intelligence is slave to emotions
Intelligence is slave to emotions
You think you are rational rather than emotional and you deal with your emotions coolly
What you don’t understand is that there are deeper emotions than what you are overtly experiencing moment-to-moment
There are emotions which are buried deep within
Emotions which has been internalised — just like beliefs
To those emotions your intelligence is slave
And then, when you come upon some influence, some conditioning — it doesn’t matter how stupid it is,
If it influences your emotions — than it influences you
And your intelligence will serve to rationalize it for you — rather then to refute it
This is why marketing works
Sure — many are stupid
But are they that stupid? That naive?
And are you really so rational?
Think of all your decisions which weren’t perhaps so prudent — yet you made them anyway
And they weren’t “spur of the moment” kind of decisions — when you made them, you weren’t emotionally unbalanced, you thought you were being rational
Only deep within you knew it was nonsense
And only later, from the time’s perspective — you see it was nonsense
And you still won’t ask yourself — how was it possible that you made that stupid decision
Well — you were serving your deep emotions, which were installed to realize your deep programming
We are not rational
Start there
How do you become protect yourself from this influence and conditioning? And how do you cleanse this deep programming within and the deep emotions which realize it?
Obviously you must take it upon yourself to be much more conscious EVERY DAY
WRITE YOUR WORD IN STONE, BE ACCOUNTABLE — because otherwise you’ll always rationalize and delude yourself in regards to what you said you would and what you actually did
And with this foundation — TAKE ACTION
ONLY ACTION CAN LIBERATE YOU
Because your mind lies
Your deep emotions are not your friends
But only ACTION can confront you with reality
And
Only reality can save you
Once you find reality — ONLY THEN will the nonsense and conditioning and stupid influence be unable to reach you
Your intelligence is unable to dispel the delusion and lies — because it serves your emotions. It will make it what you WANT to believe,
But reality — reality can save you
Because reality is implacable
Reality doesn’t care about your emotions
When you have this intimate contact with reality — which is brought about by taking action, IMPROVING YOUR LIFE EVERY DAY, in tight feedback loops, getting tangible real-world-outcomes…
Then no stupid outside influence will be able to sway you
Because it will be matched against reality — rather than what you, and your deep conditioning and emotions, would like to be,
And it can’t survive the reality — not if it itself is true
Reality will instantly reveal it’s true nature
There will be nothing to think about or rationalize
You will see it for what it is
Everything you truly learned about the world — via your own experience — all that will protect you from the nonsense — where your mind wouldn’t,
And if that’s not enough…
then you’ll test it
Then you’ll know what to do — you’ll immediately test it
Because you’re a man that tests everything
If you’re an action taker who gets real-results every day, who is interested in reality — then this will be the most natural thing for you to do
You’ll ask — HOW CAN I IMPLEMENT IT? HOW CAN I MAKE USE OF IT? HOW DOES IT BENEFIT MY LIFE TODAY?
You will try it, you will test it
And it’s true nature will be revealed
This is the only way to live
This is the only cure for nonsense of this world
Your intelligence won’t help you, don’t count on it
Observe it in others — observe every brilliant man who really isn’t brilliant, whose so pliable and impressionable and ultimately at the mercy of the influence which betides him
It takes more to free oneself
You have to start taking your own action, making your own mistakes, living your own life
Let intelligence and emotion start serving what you do — rather than do what your arbitrary programming wants you to do
Please free yourself
Please be simple, do something awesome, and see what is truly possible