SEX SELLS
KNOWLEDGE SELLS BETTER
Hello, Busyminds here. Welcome to a great week. I love the excitement that productivity brings. And nothing brings productivity and creativity like following your curiosity. It is great to learn, and just quietly follow where the ideas take you.
Enjoy some great insights I have to share with you.
THE TRUE NATURE OF IDEAS
If your idea is perfect from the very start, it is a bad idea.
Ideas are like babies. They are conceived as zygotes. They develop to become embryos and foetuses. Then you give birth to them. The birthing stage is the beginning of execution. And they are still not fully developed, they are merely infants. They must go on to grow and develop until maturity. The growth takes time.
Any idea that is mature from the very beginning, is a terrible idea.
Be patient with your ideas. Let them evolve. Think, talk, and create.
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
The wrong questions will frustrate your research.
If you are looking to pursue a topic in a specific direction, you must ask the right questions.
Questions are like magic tricks. Your opponent, or whoever you are making an exchange with is like a magician. The greatest trick in performative magic is misdirection. The magician makes you look and focus on what he wants you to see so that you won't see where the real trick is happening. You should see Now You See Me 1&2 for better context.
By asking you a wrong question, your opponent can make you start battling a topic you don't want to engage with. You might get frustrated. And at the end, you would not have delivered your point effectively. Learn about logical fallacies for more understanding.
If you want to reach a healthy conclusion, learn to spot, ask and answer the right questions. Don't fall for the trick.
SEX SELLS BUT KNOWLEDGE SELLS BETTER
The adult movie industry is a billion-dollar industry. There is a reason why.
You might have heard the statement "sex sells." It is very true. If it weren't true, body cream models won't be half-nude all the time on television ads. So sex sells. But knowledge sells better.
Sex sells because it combines the crude knowledge of the human body, stimulation, and the promise of pleasure. But overall, it sells because it promises the secret of satisfaction to its audience. Erotic novels, adult movies, and personal adult content vendor websites all thrive on the basis of selling knowledge. They sell the knowledge of how to reach sexual satisfaction. So, sex sells because the audience wants to KNOW more about sex. But bro, get knowledge.
No matter what happens, there are no limits to knowledge. Keep learning. Only that way will you keep advancing at a good pace. Knowledge will always be in demand. Get yourself on the knowledge market now.
EVOLUTION POINT
In my most recent podcast, I spoke about my new project; Evolution Point.
I know the challenges I faced when i started pursuing my interest in human nature and philosophy. I fantasized about the resources I wanted. I wanted where I could get feedback for my essays and where I could get intellectually stimulating discussions. But I decides that if they were not available, I would take it upon me to create one for people like me who live in intellectual isolation.
Part of my pain included the fact that thorough essays and debates were being replaced with vague, oversimplified opinions on places like Twitter and Facebook. Curious people know that it takes time and rigor for ideas to evolve. I hate shallow arguments and I am innovating against it.
With Evolution Point, you will get a consistent, creative, curious, and rigorous community where you can publish essays in sufficient detail about topics that interest you. There will be fellow passionate people who will review your essays and write essays to debate your essays. There will be opportunities for Socratic kinds of dialogue and the free exchange of original ideas. You will become a pro at writing, speaking, and debating. I can't wait!
In summary, if you are a curious person, with a burning desire to write, debate, lecture on, and pursue your interests, Evolution Point is the place you have to be.
We are starting with a fifteen-man cohort. Send me a mail to show your interest and get admitted into this community of intellectually curious individuals. We are going back to the root of knowledge but we will innovate forward. Send me a mail now!
Listen to my recent podcast;
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Till next time, this is Busyminds.
> "Sex sells, knowledge sells better"
Cus porn is easy and bed skills are hard. Same goes for "insight porn" vs reflective functional coaching.
"Luxury ideas" are seen as a kind of virtue signal. The desire to look good is an important element, but pure aestheticism is hollow marketing/kayfabe. "call for action" and "demands for respect/prestige" are often core themes, and with them an absence of planning and execution. McCloud's dissection of comical filler can be transposed to junk media as well as the absence of thought structure and clear terminology. https://aniv.substack.com/p/stop-reading-to-virtue-signal https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-clear-pill-part-2-of-5-a-theory-of-pervasive-error/ https://understandingcomicsuwmadison.wordpress.com/about/what-is-art/
A quick tell for someone who is an "ideological coomer" is that they prefer smart-looking ideas that are utopian and very palatable. There is no acquired taste, and is more likely than not mass-manufactured through main stream media. The people speaking are either celebrity experts, or blind iconoclastic entertainers. Good ideas should not just burn your nose before it burns your mouth (like genuine wasabi). https://www.samstack.io/p/beware-interesting-ideas https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/if-a-thinker-appeals-to-a-broad-audience
A slower but clear sign of the same ill is the inability to write, articulate, and synthesize new things. A classical fast-track of testing this is through the Ideological Turing Test and Chesterton's Fence. More simply, the ability to declare "erroneous demand of X is often caused by unknown or anticipated desire Y", to know how the other person thinks. https://aniv.substack.com/p/how-does-one-consume-content-effectively https://archive.ph/2pd5u https://tammylenski.com/ideological-turing-test-for-conflict/ https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
Example through Andrew Tate: just because he makes money, he won't expose his formula, only the mental image of the formula through generic self-help advice. Constantly insist on being "the Top G" and flexing pseudo-assets like cars as signs of wealth. Thinks he is Morpheus (the chill wise teacher) but literally looks like Cypher (the bald-n-mustached hedonic back-stabber).
Quick tell wise, claims that there is a way to "scaping the matrix" through a paid service of explaining sales techniques (freedom of money is not freedom from money), and reinforces through posturing and confidence. Slower observation wise, he cannot articulate perspectives of the ones that are opposed to him, and give them blanket labels of promiscuous feminists and weak men instead. Paradoxically men that are disenfranchised are more likely to be in support of his antics unironically and naively.
The direct counter-example of this is the right-wing Curtis Yarvin against Effective Altruism (the collective) and the "rationalism" movement, and left-wing Slavoj Zizek again Jordan Peterson's IDW bandwagon. In both cases the premise revolves around "I understand your intention, but my idea/plan is better than yours" win-win situation, rather than playing "I am right, you are wrong" zero-sum games.