{"id":46664,"date":"2023-09-13T10:57:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T00:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46664"},"modified":"2023-09-13T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T00:58:28","slug":"the-system-wants-you-to-believe-in-these-6-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46664","title":{"rendered":"The System Wants You To Believe In These 6 Lies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-46665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Crowd_Staring_At_Phones-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd Staring At Phones\" width=\"819\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Crowd_Staring_At_Phones-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Crowd_Staring_At_Phones-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Crowd_Staring_At_Phones.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brenton Johannsen writes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The System Wants You To Believe In These 6 Lies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. News<br \/>\nThe news is there to hack your attention. Not to keep you informed.<br \/>\nThey want you to:<br \/>\n\u2022 Be Distracted<br \/>\n\u2022 Believe their lies<br \/>\n\u2022 Stay under their control<br \/>\nObserve with your mind not your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>2. Failure<br \/>\n&#8220;You should avoid failure there is one correct answer.&#8221;<br \/>\nWrong.<br \/>\nMake mistakes so you can:<br \/>\n\u2022 Grow<br \/>\n\u2022 Learn<br \/>\n\u2022 Strengthen your skills<br \/>\nNobody is born perfect. Embrace failure and see it as an opportunity to grow.<\/p>\n<p>3. Work hard<br \/>\nYou should work smart, not hard.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t get me wrong, it will still get hard sometimes, but they want you to trade your time for money your whole life.<br \/>\n1 Minute of your life is worth more than all money combined.<br \/>\nStop valuing it more than your time.<\/p>\n<p>4. Money<br \/>\nUntil 1971, money was tied to gold, which gave money value.<br \/>\nNowadays, money is tied to nothing. Money is basically worthless.<br \/>\nLearn how:<br \/>\n\u2022 To create money with no money<br \/>\n\u2022 To make money work for you<br \/>\n\u2022 Money works<br \/>\nor you will work your entire life for it.<\/p>\n<p>5. Consumerism<br \/>\nMany people think fulfillment lies in materialistic things.<br \/>\nIt lies in:<br \/>\n\u2022 Personal growth<br \/>\n\u2022 Relationships<br \/>\n\u2022 Self-love<br \/>\nand in contributing to something greater than ourselves.<br \/>\nYou won&#8217;t find fulfillment anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>6. Change is impossible<br \/>\n\u201cLife is the way it is\u201d<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a lie. Life is what you make out of it.<br \/>\nBefore you can live the life you want, you must become a person.<br \/>\nChange how you:<br \/>\n\u2022 Think<br \/>\n\u2022 Feel<br \/>\n\u2022 Act<br \/>\nand you can become almost anybody.<\/p>\n<p>(Tom: Much truth in there!<\/p>\n<p>The news is actually more evil than that. It also has the purpose of driving a person down tone, enturbulating them, making them less causative and more effect.<\/p>\n<p>Money is merely an idea backed by confidence. It is the idea that you can exchange a worthless piece of paper\/plastic\/metal\/digital numbers for valuable goods and services and the receiver of same can do likewise. As soon as a person no longer has confidence that the money can be exchanged, it loses its value.<\/p>\n<p>That happened with me some time ago so I keep most of my value in hard assets and very little cash. It&#8217;s one of the reasons why Bill Gates is now the largest individual holder of land in the US.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenton Johannsen writes: The System Wants You To Believe In These 6 Lies&#8230; 1. News The news is there to hack your attention. Not to keep you informed. They want you to: \u2022 Be Distracted \u2022 Believe their lies \u2022 Stay under their control Observe with your mind not your eyes. 2. Failure &#8220;You should &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The System Wants You To Believe In These 6 Lies&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46667,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46664\/revisions\/46667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}