I'm AJ Hogue, the author of Effortless English.
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Lies, lies, lies. We live in the age of lies, in the empire of lies, to quote a famous phrase.
You know, we're living in Brave New World 1984, Animal Farm, the media—doesn't matter if it's television, any kind of larger corporate media, even much of the so -called alternative of media lies and deception lies and deception lies and deception our schools the entire school system the actual philosophy the the methods the theories the basis for our schools our deceptions lies.
So -called AI, artificial intelligence may have its uses, but the main ones, especially in the West are programmed with lies.
They just outright lie.
I did this myself. I checked it.
I checked a few of them.
I asked him, I did something very simple.
I asked him to summarize a book and give me the main points.
Jonathan Hughes recent book, in fact, right?
So I was looking to see, okay, well, what do they?
What do they say about Song of the Sun?
What's AI? You know, what's, what's the, what will they identify as the major theme?
So just curious, maybe I would get some new ideas compared to what I thought that the ideas were.
And I tried a few of the different AI models.
They all lied. They outright lied.
What do I mean by that?
What I mean is that they didn't know his book.
They had no idea what the story was so I said, summarize the story.
And they just gave me—they just—these A .I.
models, they all just generated, they all created completely fake stories that had nothing to do with his book at all, or any other book.
And I said, Song of the Sudden by Jonathan Hughes.
So when these things don't know the answer, they just lie and create things.
So just imagine someone who didn't know the book, who had not read the book, they might actually be fooled.
And this is just a small case, right?
And then of course I said, well, I I then asked the AI models, I cued them.
I prompted them as I did, is this a real book?
Did you read this? And then I said, oh, no, no, this is just a speculation.
Right, so in other words, just making it up.
So you can imagine, these AI models.
You gotta look at who's programming them and how their program they're programmed for lies.
When people post on social media you'll see people posting, you know, things from A .I., whether it's Grok which is the X one, or it doesn't matter which one it is, as if that's some kind of argument.
This is no argument at all.
People are so brainwashed by people, all of us really, because none of us have been able to avoid this completely.
So we have to be humble and realize that we ourselves are filled with a great many lies and deceptions.
But the heart of it comes from the fact that we're no longer focused on our direct lives, living in these virtual worlds of propaganda and media.
I mean, television was, probably still is, the number one mind control device.
The channel of lies and deceptions, in history, at least in recorded history that we know.
My parents' generation were programmed by that device, the television, and they never or broke out of it, most of them.
And now, you know, we can add lots of other things too.
And now we have the internet and social media and, you know, it doesn't...
Podcasts, of course radio was the old version of podcasts, which still exists.
Magazines. And now A .I.
is the newest one. But they're all just methods of deception.
And the problem is that modern people spend so much time and focus so much on these media devices.
I mean, just look around.
People are staring at their phones all the time.
Everywhere you go, I go to the playground with my kids.
I'm watching my kids and trying to play with them.
and all the other parents are ignoring their kids, sitting on a bench, staring at their damn phones.
They're just programming themselves with lies and propaganda nonstop.
And I used to think, I used to believe the lie that, oh well, if it's alternative media, then no, that's different.
But much of that alternative media is also just different forms of lies.
It's a web upon web, layer upon layer upon layer of lies, and the huge problem is, people no longer trust their direct experience, they believe the lies, they believe the media, the videos, the news, science, which is just corrupt corporate scientism, I believe people call it.
But it's just lies and deception, lies and deception, lies and deception.
And then, of course, there is the whole school system and the various textbooks and lies upon lies upon lies upon lies.
And increasingly, in many countries and many places, they're pushing extreme lies like the lies about even just basic biology, you know, extreme propaganda.
And people are so immersed in this, immersed means to be surrounded by, we usually use it with water, if you're immersed in water it means you're covered in the water, you're under the water.
So, immersed in lies, it means just surrounded, it means just people spending more hours in this propaganda world of Internet, social media, videos, television shows, the so -called news, newspapers, magazines, you know, media, media, media symbols, propaganda.
they spend more time in that world thinking about that world, focusing on that world, then their direct experience of their own eyes, of, you know, the under the Sun or the Moon and the stars, directly connecting with other people, not through some device, And, I've seen it so much where so many people, so many former friends, people who've really no longer friends anymore because they've become so trapped by the propaganda, they become angry when you don't follow it, when you don't believe it if you just question it.
don't even need to question it in an aggressive way, but if you just refuse to believe it, or you go another way, it threatens them, they're so programmed.
And it becomes hard to even have relationships of any kind with people who are, whose identity, their identity, who they are, who they think they are.
connected to some form of, you know, media programming.
I'll give you the simplest example in the United States would be, let's say, the two political parties, Republican or Democrat, and there are people who are, I'm a Democrat, and it's like you know a major part of their identity and they will just follow the party line it doesn't matter and what's so ridiculous is that party line I've seen it over my lifetime, is completely and totally changed.
You know, Democrats, let's say 20 years ago at least pretended to be against large companies.
At least pretended to be, you know, party of peace, not war.
They weren't really, but they at least pretended to, and they—outwardly.
And now, they're the complete opposite on all of this.
They'll support these big horrible companies doing terrible things, but as long as it's against the Republicans, well, then no and now now that's what you know it reminds me of 1984 because in 1984 Orwell described this, where the party in the books would just come would just immediately change something like they will tell them to believe one thing and then they'll just change their mind the party will just decide, oh now you're gonna believe the opposite, and everybody immediately in just one day or one week would instantly change from their old belief to the new belief, it didn't matter.
As long as the party, the propaganda told them, they would just switch and never even think about it.
And that's most people.
And it's the same for so -called Republicans, people who call themselves Republicans in the United States and I'm a Republican and ah!
Oh my god it's just exhausting and they'll just they really believe that the Republicans are fighting for good and truth but you dig in and they're just as corrupt and nasty and horrible and disgusting and it's all just lies when you actually look at what they do not what they say, not what the media says, not the speeches they give, not all their pretend, you know, outrage and what they actually do, is just corruption and lies, both sides.
But yet there are people who, you know, I'm a conservative.
I'm a Republican. I'm this, right?
People's entire identities wrapped up in the propaganda, and it's not just politics, right it can be other things too.
They're social. Social identities that people will follow again all connected to this propaganda.
People are lost in it.
And they cannot trust their own eyes.
They're own direct experience.
They'll believe what the media tells them about their health for example.
This is a very big one.
They'll believe whatever the media tells them, whichever media they happen to be following, instead of trusting what their body's telling them when they eat a certain way or do certain things or follow certain medical advice.
I mean, my God, my parents' generation was the worst about this.
They still are, those who are still alive.
Where they just trust doctors so blindly.
they just, if a doctor tells them they believe it, if they read about it themselves, independently, or if they don't even think to do that, they don't even think to try to figure things out themselves.
They don't even think to experiment with their own diet, supplements, herbs, anything like that.
They don't even think to do it, no, no, no, They just if the doctor tells them then that's the way it is and they'll just take whatever drugs whatever surgery Whatever the doctor tells them.
Oh, it's like the doctors are gods is a propaganda gods and anything else, they won't believe it and And I've seen so many times where you know people all the evidence is very clear that some medical thing some drug It doesn't matter if it's what it is is clearly unhealthy, has terrible side effects, is not effective, completely not effective.
And it's obvious, and there'll be many people who are more independent who are saying, look, look at the evidence, look at this, it's not healthy, don't do it, and the majority don't listen.
They just will keep doing it because the doctors say oh the propaganda, the authorities, and They have the title, doctor.
And then like maybe years later, maybe a decade later, 10 years later or more, oh then finally it comes out, oh, this actually, oh, this drug is poison and it's bad.
And then the doctors will say, oh, it's bad, don't do it.
And then everybody will believe it and follow it.
So, they just believe what they're told.
This is the role of modern education, meaning schools, is to make people into mindless followers.
To make them get lost in, focus on this sea, this ocean of media, of propaganda.
Because, indeed, what do people do in school?
In school, are you interacting with the real world?
In all these natural science experiments?
No, not maybe occasionally a lab here or there.
But mostly just reading science textbooks, it's just abstract media knowledge, right?
Meaning, because books are a media, too.
They're a form of media.
It's just symbols. There's no direct Uh, investigation of the world at all.
Just believe it, because the textbook says.
Just believe it, because you know, some scientist said it.
Well, maybe there are other scientists who say other things, but nope.
You just get the official version, and that's it.
And no one ever tries to figure anything out by themselves.
And that's the role of school.
Is to train people from a very young age when they're small children and have no way to really resist it.
Is just train them to mindlessly suck up whatever they're taught not by teachers or by textbooks or media.
And don't even try to rely on yourself.
Don't have any experiential knowledge.
Don't learn by doing.
Just learn by someone telling you.
And people don't even question any of it.
And then, once they're adults, if you question anything about the official story, people freak out.
I don't know, let's take an example, the dinosaurs, oh my god, all the propaganda about them.
Stupid dinosaurs, they pushed the dinosaur stuff on little kids so aggressively.
And now, with lots of experience in life, anytime I see something being pushed that aggressively, and especially on children, I immediately become suspicious.
Like, why are they pushing this?
Is this real? And then you start digging in to paleontology and some of the, you know, the actual real studies that all this dinosaur stuff is based on.
And there's just a lot of bullshit.
A ton of it, where they take a tiny amount of evidence and then they blow it up and, you know, they all of these pictures, and ideas, and models of these giant dinosaurs, and all this stuff.
And, okay there may be some evidence for some of it, but it is so extremely propagandized, and there's a lot of bullshit in there.
And there have been scientists, plenty of scientists, who have mentioned this, and called this out, and pointed it out.
But oh my god, it's like, now it's a religion.
question. You cannot question it.
Just questioning it.
If you just refuse to believe the official story, people freak out.
And that's why a lot of people are afraid to go against the official story in any way to question it at all.
They've learned in school after 12, 16 or more years that questioning the official story gets you ridiculed gets you attacked gets you bad grades etc etc etc and that's why you'll see this in language learning bring it back to us here you know the grammar translation method it's still the one use everywhere in the world in schools and textbooks in classrooms and they throw in a few little exercises here and there.
But it's still the number one method and it still doesn't work and still everywhere in the world.
You've got people studying, learning a language for four years, five years, six years, and after all that time they can't speak any of it.
They're completely useless for real communication.
Okay? That's your direct experience.
You can see with your own eyes you can have with your own experience.
You experienced it.
Many have. And yet, how many question it?
What's the answer? The answer for most people is they'll just try to keep doing more of that.
Oh, well, I'll just go to this language school where they do even more grammar, even more textbooks.
Maybe if I do five more years of grammar translation, maybe I'll finally get a decent result.
I Is it better than zero, nothing at all?
Yeah, probably because at least you're still, you know, you're gonna pick up some words and some vocab and some things.
Our brains are good at learning, but it's, what a gigantic waste of time.
And the amount of stress and difficulty and how many people, people just decide that it's their them.
This is part of the propaganda.
Most people don't question.
Maybe it's the method and the schools and the teachers are horrible and all this is garbage and these methods are, you know, crap, terrible.
Most people don't think that.
No, they just think that something's wrong with them.
I guess I'm not good at English.
I guess English is impossible.
English is just so super difficult.
I can't do it. I mean, after six years of doing this, most people will do around the world, you know, I'll say most, many will start learning as early as middle school and will continue through high school they get a good like in Japan they get a good six years of English if they go to university they get more and then they get out and they can can't even manage a basic conversation I mean it's it's insane six years of anything you should be able to do the basics hey maybe you're not a master but you should be able to just sit and chat with somebody without stress, I mean you is that just the most
basic level? And we see this again and again and again and again and again.
So what is the answer?
You know, we have to stop basing our lives in media.
Media, first of all there's a, there's levels of media and different quality that's again while I emphasize and while I focus on and I encourage you to focus mostly on classics and old books that have stood and been tested over a longer period of time, and found valuable.
It doesn't mean you'll agree with every classic, or that every classic is necessarily truly truthful, but you're far more likely to gain useful knowledge and wisdom and true thinking ability, and a quality education, when you focus on older classic books.
And at the other end, complete garbage is television.
Completely controlled by giant corporations there.
It's all deception.
It's all lies. You know, you can dig into who owns these corporations, ultimately.
but all television is designed to deceive you and program you in some way.
It doesn't matter if it's just the most silly comedy, it's still doing that.
Some do it more obviously and strongly, some programs less, but more subtly meaning maybe it's harder to see, but it's still there.
And all news, all news programs. It doesn't matter.
FOX News, BBC, CNN, it doesn't matter.
They're all lies. They're all deceptions.
You can't trust anything.
They just make stuff up now.
You know, I think that in the past, back when I was younger there, at least I believe, I think, they would at least lie about real events.
So something maybe had happened and they lied about it and they would deceive you.
Although, not even necessarily true I mean you take the Vietnam War right the war Vietnam the war in Vietnam with America fighting the North Vietnamese they just completely made up this called the Gulf of Tonkin incident they just made up a completely fake attack that North Vietnam attacked a ship an American ship a Navy ship and then they use that to sell the war to everybody and to send it then you know have a huge big increase in the troops and you know we all know the tragedy of that war but it was sold on a lie it did not happen North Vietnam did not attack the ship.
It didn't happen. You know, it's the same as they did with the Iraq war, with the weapons of mass destruction and all this.
It's lies, lies, lies.
Every single war, modern war, certainly in my lifetime, is just...
has been sold on complete and total lies.
And they do. They just make it up.
It doesn't even... they just...
they'll tell you stuff in the news that did not happen at all.
And they also tell you things that happened, but then they tell you lies about the details.
They tell you lies about why it happened.
They do this about history.
You cannot even trust history anymore in history textbooks or classrooms. I don't know if you ever could, but certainly now you can't because they're filled with a gigantic amount of lies, lies, lies.
All the narrative — all the stories about World War II — so full of lies.
World War I. Same thing.
Any war. It doesn't matter.
It's not just wars, either.
So this is why it can be very difficult to succeed in life and to be happy nowadays.
Because when you base your life and your decisions on lies, you are not going to get good results.
You are not going to get closer to happiness and great success.
This is why most people are fairly miserable and not successful at doing what they want to do.
This is why most people, like 99 .9 % of people, do not live the kind of life that they really want to live, that they know would be a good life, but most people are not doing that.
Most people are following along grinding away at the kind of life that was programmed into them, sold to them by all the lies and lies and lies and maybe you are.
I certainly was when I was younger.
Part of what keeps us in prison is our pride.
A big part of what keeps us unhappy, unsuccessful, imprisoned, deceived, is our pride.
Our pride. We want to think, not me, I haven't been deceived.
No, not me. I'm not following propaganda.
no no no I'm smarter than that I'm better than that and not me I'm not like all those other people right and then we have that pride and so we're not gonna admit any of this we don't want to admit it a lot of us don't or maybe we do it in a few areas but it's hard to admit I have to look back and say you know I look at myself in my 20s and my 30s for example even in my 40s?
I have to admit, oh my God, I swallowed so many lies in the area of relationships, you know, men and women.
We get non -stop lies about what makes a good relationship, how women and men should relate to each other.
If you're a man like I was, you know, a young man, you know, the messages you get from TV shows and movies and books and stories, especially anything new or modern, will teach you to act towards women in a way that will make you really unhappy.
It will make you completely unattractive to women.
But I believed all that, you know, they call it blue -pilled.
I was a blue -pilled idiot and I was absolutely miserable in my...
I'm going to call them romantic relationships with dating or whatever, was miserable.
And I was disrespected and treated like garbage.
And I was following along, trying to be the good guy, and doing things the way, you know, that the propaganda tells you how you're supposed to act.
So that's the one example.
But it's an important example because this area of relations between men and women is, you know, super -important for our happiness.
To be to get married and have children and have strong stable families is vitally important to our happiness.
So if you believe lies in this area and the propaganda and these, you know the kind of romantic propaganda you're gonna get from especially Hollywood and movies but but also you'll get it, of course you'll You can even get it from parents.
There's so many women who try to tell men how to act towards women, they give terrible advice.
Terrible advice. If you're a man, don't take advice from a woman on how to have good relationships with women.
I know it seems crazy, but really I trust you don't do it because the kind of advice that most women give to men, just be a nice guy, for example.
It's not going to work for you.
That's a good rest - That's a good way to be like a nice friend to a woman.
But it's not a way to be respected by women.
But you can see if you get this wrong, if you believe the lies, you believe the propaganda.
If you get lost in that, and most of us do, because who's going to teach us?
Right? Like I was completely lost in that.
This can become a source of absolute misery, terrible unhappiness in your life.
And this is also true for women.
So, you know, with women, you also get programmed, programmed, programmed.
And, of course, your programming is to act like a man and be the strong independent woman.
You don't need no man!
And, you know, even if you're tiny, 50, 52 kilograms, oh you could kick a man's ass.
You could fight a man, a normal sized man, and beat his, beat his ass and all this girl power stuff.
It's all lies, lies, lies.
It's just gonna make you miserable.
It does not make you an attractive woman.
It makes you quite the opposite to most men.
It's also lies. And if you ever try to find out, you can see on social media — women who find out, where they think they can smack a man, or hit a man — they believe the propaganda, and then they get beaten down, because the average woman is just much weaker physically than a man.
And that's the truth.
But they don't believe the truth.
They're so lost in the media, the propaganda.
It's all of us, okay?
It's all of us. Men, women, young and old.
But when you believe it and you make your decisions in life about this and your values and your identity you become more and more miserable and this is why when you look around you see the mass of people.
Most people are not very happy.
When they're young and they're energetic and they're healthy, relatively healthy, They tried to focus on pleasures and hedonism, you know, sex, drinking, partying, acting crazy, wow, woo, we're happy, we're happy.
No, they're not. They're not.
They're not happy. And you see the result, because then they get to age 30, age 40, age 50.
I look around at people my own age, and they just seem half dead and miserable.
because they have believed the lies in all of these areas.
And it's because they're so focused on media and they don't have the pride to admit, I've just been living the lies that were told to me and I've never really questioned it.
You have to be humble.
You have to be humble now too.
Like I realized too, I Well, there's still, okay, I realize I, like I said, like maybe even, you know, five, six, seven years ago, I thought, oh, the alternative media, oh, I'm getting the truth now.
And then now I've realized, oh, as another, lots of other lies just from a different way, a different angle.
That's depressing, isn't it?
You are the main character in the novel, 1984 by George Orwell.
You and I. Or, if you prefer, Brave New World or Animal Farm.
We're all the characters in those stories now.
And we have to admit that it is very very very tough to see through all the lies.
It's hard. So let's talk about the positive side.
How do you start to free yourself?
The easiest way, the simplest way is just stop consuming media, and this can be a hundred percent for quite a long time, right?
Stop watching television.
Throw your television away.
I don't have a television.
We don't have one in our house.
Like I said, the TV is probably the worst one.
It's the most controlled by large corporations and companies or governments and it's completely useless.
television is completely, totally, absolutely, useless.
It's negative. It's an evil device.
Throw it away. Get it out of your house.
Same with radio. You don't need to be listening to the radio.
I mean, who listens to radio anymore anyway?
Some people do, I guess, driving to work in their cars or something.
But, you know, just listen to effortless English, listen to my podcast, Listen to, uh, you know, practice English or listen to classical music or something, okay?
You don't– you don't need that.
So get rid of that, but even social media.
Get off social media.
It's useless! I'm doing this myself, you know?
I thought, oh well I need to be on some social media for my business, blah blah blah.
But then I just end up getting, you know, sucked in and reading more and more like on X on Twitter?
It's not helpful, it's not useful, it's just propaganda.
And then I can just feel like it just sucks away my attention from real life, the real world.
And then I gotta spend time thinking about all that propaganda and like, okay, wait, wait.
Is any of this really true?
Because it'll make you react.
The propaganda's designed...
Okay, it's designed to make you emotional, to get angry, to get upset.
Or the opposite sometimes.
And a lot of it on social media now is just bots.
It's actually just AI.
It's not a real person, or it's just some paid people in certain countries whose job is to post this propaganda.
You think you're arguing with some, you know, real person in your country and you're not it's just it's a program bot So get off of it, it's no good Facebook's useless You know, I post a couple thing whenever I do a new show I post a picture on Facebook and say I got a new show.
That's all I'm gonna do Okay, I don't want to be on Facebook reading a bunch of garbage I've never learned a single useful thing on Facebook.
Never. And that's one of the reasons we're making our own social site for Effortless English again.
One that we control completely, because you know, I just, the only thing I wanna do is connect with you.
Connect with Effortless English members.
People who are doing my courses and learning English I want to talk about positive topics and success and, you know, of course achieving success with English and in all other areas in life.
That's all I want to talk about is these positive, real life, real world topics and focus on that.
And if we have a group on Facebook, we can't do that because Facebook will keep pushing all this other junk.
We can't do it on X.
We can't do it on Gab.
Gab blocks countries, but they also are full of politics and propaganda, too.
And I'm just sick of all of that.
So, we're going to have our own social site and it's just going to be us.
It's just going to be Effortless English Members only, and that's the only thing I'm going to be on online.
I am going to be done with anything else.
I'm pretty much done already with all social media.
You'll see me post on Instagram, Facebook, and occasionally X where I, again, it's just an announcement.
All I'm doing is just letting people know that I have a new show or a new podcast, just so you can go check and download it.
That's it. I don't wanna do anything else.
I don't answer questions there.
I don't try to build any kind of social community there because I don't want to encourage being on those sites where you're gonna be exposed to all that propaganda.
So there will be no propaganda on our site.
None of that. And I think we're gonna quite strictly avoid politics.
as we did, as we have always done on our past sites, we're gonna just, no politics on the Effortless English site.
So we're not there for that.
And politics is an area that is just full of lies upon lies, upon lies, upon lies, upon lies.
Such that, you know, it's so ridiculous because people, you'll see this, I've seen this in the United States.
So I'll just talk about some, like I said, friends or former friends where they get, they've gotten, because of the propaganda, they've gotten all crazy about the war in Ukraine.
And if you question any of the official propaganda, which is not, which is such obvious lies in the West and the United States, Europe too, they go crazy and they make it this whole identity and they put the Ukrainian flag on there, on their profile pictures and they're all like militant and they're posting all this propaganda on their sites about Ukraine.
Whatever you think of Ukraine, why, what the hell, why does a person in the United States get so emotional and so focused on Ukraine because I guarantee you a few years ago they could hardly find it on a map and knew zero, zero, zero about Ukraine did not care about anything that was happening Ukraine, at all.
Have no clue about the history between Russia and Ukraine.
And no idea what led up to the war.
Nothing, completely ignorant.
It's just because the news started telling them, oh, if you're this good type of person, then you have to support Ukraine and put the flags on, and start doing all this stuff.
And they just eat up the propaganda.
So that they're so emotional, they're so much more concerned and focused on, and emotional about, the war on the other side of the world, that they know nothing about, than they are their own life.
If they put that much passion and energy and focus into getting healthy, for example, because many of these people are very unhealthy, or focusing on their relationships with their family members and improving their relationships with their family members, or developing a true and deep spiritual practice, or building a business of their own, or new skills for their career, their life would actually improve, but instead they're wasting so much. I mean, they're so, so much energy and passion and focus and time spent on this issue.
which for them, it's a non -issue.
It's just a propaganda.
It's just stuff on a screen.
They've never been to Ukraine, they don't know anything about it – nothing.
And I'm not taking sides in Ukraine versus Russia, okay?
It doesn't matter. The point is, Ukrainians should care about Ukraine.
Russians should care about the war, obviously.
They're directly involved.
But the propaganda is used to get you super focused on things happening on the other side of the world, which may or may not be tragic or important, but they're not related to you.
Meanwhile, the propaganda, because of all the emotion and energy and time spent, it completely distracts you from your life.
I mean, I know these people they have some of these people have miserable lives.
They wasted their lives.
They're miserably unhealthy.
I mean, fat, fat, fat, with all kinds of health problems, constantly complaining about health problems. They're miserable in their social lives.
They're miserable people.
Don't waste your time on this propaganda.
And the thing is too it changes.
So it's Ukraine now, and then in a couple of years it'll be something else.
Right you can always see you can see the hints of it sometimes in the media.
It might be China. Oh now China is suddenly the enemy for no freaking reason, right?
And it'll change it to something else.
They'll change it to something else.
It's all just propaganda to keep you focused on things that are not connected to your direct real life.
Turn all that off because the truth is, whatever the truth is in Ukraine or whatever is happening there, for example, there's nothing you can do about it.
Unless you're gonna go over there and fight for one side or the other, it doesn't matter what your opinion is, it doesn't matter how many flags you post on Facebook, it doesn't matter how many arguments you have a Facebook, zero effect does not matter.
The opinion of the average American on Facebook, for example, has zero effect on the outcome of that war.
None, so you're just wasting your time on something you have no power over, no influence upon, none.
It's ridiculous. I just find these people ridiculous, and it's the same if they're pro -Russian.
It's the same thing!
Well, go over there, fight for Russia then, but otherwise shut up and focus on your own miserable life.
Change your life. Do something here.
America is a disaster!
Maybe focus on making America better, instead of worrying about two countries on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, far, far away, and it's the same if you're all worked up about any other country.
Focus on you and your life and your family.
I mean, focus on what's closest to you is where you have the most power and influence.
The most influence you have, of course, is number one over yourself, your own mind, your own emotions and your own body.
and your own spiritual life.
That should be where you're focusing a huge amount of your time and efforts and energies and not wasting time on social media.
You should be reading books about health.
You should be reading books about nutrition.
You should be exercising and trying and experimenting with different diets and ways of eating and maybe supplements.
Maybe if you have health problems, you might need some extra stuff.
If you're already fairly healthy, then you won't.
You should be learning about ancestral, the old and most traditional ways of eating.
You should be learning how to cook, maybe getting into gardening and making some of your own foods.
You should be optimizing and improving your health as much as you can.
Because, health gives you energy and energy will benefit all areas of your life.
You should be focusing on philosophy and spirituality.
Right? These big questions about the meaning of life, the purpose of life.
These are not things you can just, you know, answer powerfully for yourself in one week.
It takes most people years and years and years.
And if you want to really be serious about it, we have the examples of so many of the great saints.
And that's a very high standard which most of us can't reach, but you can spend your whole life trying.
You should be focusing here.
Yourself there. Focus your efforts instead of an hour on facebook.
Spend an hour praying.
Spend an hour meditating.
It's been an hour reading scriptures and philosophy and commentaries on these by great saints.
That's a great use of your time that will have a strong, strong, strong effect upon you, your happiness, your success whatever that means.
And of course you can do this in many you should be reading books about money and finance and your career and expanding beyond whatever your career is.
We know with AI and many other things that the economic situation, the working situation everywhere in the is changing so fast now, and you need to get ahead of that because a lot of jobs are going to be lost. You need to be finding and working on new skills.
English is one, and that's great.
You of course should be spending hours and hours a day listening to English, reading English.
You can be reading about investing.
You should, you know, money has a strong effect.
In this material world we live in and in this society we live in now if you want any kind of Freedom you've got to have some level of financial freedom.
So instead of spending an hour on social media spend an hour Reading about saving investing Reducing your expenses personal finance on and on and on The area of relationships.
Again, instead of getting all crazy about something on social media, whatever the trend is, what some celebrity said or didn't say, any of that stupid stuff, or the news of stuff that's happening far away that you can't control at all, read about, learn about, watch videos was about relationships, right?
Between men and women or parental relationships, how to be a better parent.
You'll get, of course there are like 1000 different ideas on this topic, but when you read more and more and more and more and more, some of those ideas will connect with you.
They'll connect with your situation, you'll say, ah ha.
So yeah, maybe in the beginning, you might follow the conventional, the normal ways of thinking and doing things.
But then you might say, well, you know, actually I've been already doing this and it's, I'm not getting any results.
And that's the other thing you can, you should, you can and you should spend your time on and your focus on and your energy's on, experiments, trying things out, not just reading and sucking up stuff and believing it, don't just believe stuff because you read it, don't just believe stuff because someone else said it.
You've got to try it in your own life, experiment, try it and see the results and that's how you start figuring out truth.
or at least effectiveness and what actually is effective for you.
In this area of health, for example, you know, we all have a bit different bodies and different histories and we… So what worked for someone else might work for you but it might not.
You might find that like a, you know, carnivore diet, which is a popular one now.
Oh, that helps me! But you might try it, and then find out you feel terrible, or your health gets worse, or it works for a while and solves some problems but then creates new problems. You don't know until you try things.
And of course, same with the opposite type of diet.
It would be like a vegan diet, same thing, right?
You've got to make experiments and then see what happens.
So you should be focusing on these areas of your life where you have such power and real control or influence.
not on things far away, not on imaginary media propaganda stuff that you see on a screen.
And then, of course, the next area which I think Covey called your circle of influence would be the people and the environment that you are connected to every day or frequently.
So that would be your relationships with the people who are in your life, right?
If your parents are alive with your parents, with your brothers and or sisters, with your children, with your wife or husband, with friends, with co -workers.
Okay those relationships, the quality of those relationships, the happiness you have in relationships has a gigantic effect on the quality of your life and how happy you are in life.
So you should be working, working, working on those relationships constantly and it is not easy because there is the issue of the relationship and how to be good at communicating and relating to other people, but the more difficult one I find is yourself.
It's your own weaknesses, your own sins, your own problems, that cause you to do things in relationships that are not good.
Like I'll give you an example as a parent.
You know, I lose my patience with my kids, even though I know it's, you know, they'll do something and I know they're just being sweet, they're not trying to be bad, and then I'll get upset.
That might seem like a small thing.
I don't hit them or anything.
I don't scream nasty stuff at them, but I'll be, you know, I'll kind of raise my voice and get angry, stop doing that, ah, and then afterwards I always feel terrible and when I think about it later I always realize that as my weakness, that is my problem, that's my impatience, that's my lack of understanding, it's my lack of wisdom, it's my lack of teaching my children calmly and being a good coach and leader to them, many times they're doing things they've seen me do so it's me setting a bad example and then I get upset with them, right?
That's terrible. And then correcting those things in myself, I find, is a giant battle and it requires a lot of effort and a lot of praying and a lot of humility just to recognize, you know, these things in yourself.
And that will never end, right?
Because we're never gonna be perfect.
So to correct our relationships and to make them better always requires us to become much better people ourselves.
And that requires tons of physical, mental, and emotional energy.
It requires spiritual energy.
It requires focus and time and effort, which you will not have if you're spending hours a day watching TV, watching movies, playing on the internet, reading social media posts, all that stuff was gonna suck all that energy out of you.
And then you know again in this circle of influence, right, the people who are directly connected to you it's also your direct environment so let's just say your house or your apartment.
What's it like? Is it kind of, you know, is it nasty?
Is it dirty? Is it ugly?
Is it dark? Right, just changing that, like painting the inside of your apartment, decorating it more nicely, making a better effort to be cleaner and a little tidier, all those things could actually have a fairly strong effect on your mood each day and make you feel a little better, right?
Make your environment more beautiful, more positive.
You know for me the ultimate version of that was moving here to the countryside where you know we were still in a tiny little cabin but we're in this place with all these trees and grass is such a beautiful natural environment and with animals and plants and flowers trees everywhere we kind of live in the meadow of of forest, it's quiet, I mean, it's had a tremendously positive effect on our whole family.
And you may be living in a city, but you can still, even if you're an apartment in a city, you have control over that space that you're living in and you can make it more beautiful.
You know, you could turn your little apartment into like a temple or into like an art gallery or into you know whatever whatever for you lifts you up and makes you feel happier and lighter this is where we should focus our energies that's right and this is what all this mountain of propaganda and media is designed to take us away from that and that's why people are so miserable because they are spending most of their time when they're not just running around doing you know working at a job or something or just they're spending so much of their time their so -called free time just mindlessly consuming
media that is designed to suck out your energy distract you focus you on things you have no control over at all and make you less and less powerful take away all the power you have in your own life the You are powerful in your own life.
You're not powerful politically.
None of us are. Okay, the whole scam of democracy, I think democracy is actually quite negative.
I'm turned against democracy.
What democracy does is it convinces people that their opinion about the rich and the powerful and the rulers is really important and that they have to spend hours and hours and hours, you know, researching what these people are doing and getting all excited and upset and focused on what happens...
when actually you have zero power at all because, as you can see, they're going to do whatever they're going to do.
And, uh... you're taking away your real power.
Your real power lies in how you live your life and what you refuse to do.
You just refuse to do certain things.
You refuse to go along with whatever those rich and powerful people say, if they say, you've got to do this.
And you just say, you just decide you're not going to do it.
And you just won't do it.
That's power. That's where you have real power that they can't make you do it.
You're like, I'm going to homeschool.
I'm homeschooling. I don't really care what the laws are.
Right now we happen to be in a place that has great homeschooling laws, but we are going to homeschool period I will never send my kids to a school so I'm not gonna waste my time at what all the politicians say About homeschooling.
I don't care. Okay.
I already know who they're corrupt.
I already know. They hate homeschooling Doesn't matter what oh, what's what's the point of me getting all upset about?
you know, whatever somebody said yesterday or today or tomorrow.
So focusing on your life, okay?
This is not just about, you know, so -called success psychology.
It's not just me trying to motivate you.
It's, this is your life, this is the power, this is the power that God, that the universe has given you.
They've given you your life.
This is what you have to work with, you know.
we call this your karma or your dharma, right?
This is what, where you are the king of your own life.
And the more you focus on the lives of everybody else and the farther and farther away they are from you, and the more abstract, the more in the media, you suck away your power.
And they'll try to convince you that, No, no, no, you know, this is important.
It's very important for you to have an opinion about what's happening between Ukraine and Russia.
It's very important for you to have opinion about what's happening in the Middle East, it's very important for you to have an opinion.
It's not, unless you live in those places and are directly affected by it.
What is very important is that you focus on your own health, that you focus on your own learning, that you focus on your family, that you focus on your mind, on your emotional control, on your weaknesses, on your sins, on your pride.
Focus on yourself. And with time, you will build a life that's better and better and better and better and better.
And then what happens is actually you gain more influence as you as your life becomes better and better as you become a better person At all levels spiritual mental physical and emotional people will respect you more and you actually will have more influence with more people but It doesn't come from opinions.
Just having an opinion.
Everybody's got an opinion who cares and posting it online does nothing Alright, so this is a pep talk.
This is positive because you do have amazing power in your life.
Just focus it. Just don't let that power get taken away and distracted.
Focus it in like a laser on yourself and your immediate environment, right.
The people you are connected to every day.
Focus there and make that great and amazing inside yourself and your immediate surroundings.
That's power. That's real power and that's where real success and real happiness will come from, okay.
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