{"id":142744,"date":"2022-01-11T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=142744"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:46:32","slug":"when-you-become-a-guru-1-12-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=142744","title":{"rendered":"When you become a guru&#8230; (1-12-22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_cgobpWGvio\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* How do you keep offering insights? You&#8217;ll feel tempted to get out of your lane and to leave the areas where you have genuine expertise. You&#8217;ll feel compelled to relay conspiracy theories. How else do you maintain your conviction that you are one of the rare people who truly sees reality?<\/p>\n<p>I love the podcast Decoding the Gurus. <A HREF=\"https:\/\/decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm\/episode\/scott-adams-chris-and-matt-go-to-hell\">I agree with their analysis of Scott Adams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I said Scott Adams offers more unique insights per minute than anyone else I knew who broadcasts on Youtube every day (I don&#8217;t think I knew anyone at the time who was delivering social commentary on Youtube every day). <\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, I think Scott had useful things to say in 2015 and 2016 about the rise of Donald Trump, but his show has gone downhill in the past two years. <\/p>\n<p>Email: &#8220;I thank you for your videos that mention quality of life in Australia. I have immense trouble figuring out where I should live. I really do, it causes much pain and consternation. Your comments help. I wish I still had the innocence and openness you have in talking to strangers. I tend to be quite misanthropic, when I see these strangers it crosses my mind seventy percent of them are pro abortion or insert other negative thought here. I know that is not a good way to be I will probably be in Australia for rest of my life and your appreciation of things I ignore about it is helpful it is a salve to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Many people who buy into the great replacement, it becomes their magic key, and they interpret covid restrictions as though elites are trying to kill us. &#8220;They want us dead!&#8221; Much of the low-brow AR has become anti-vaxx.<\/p>\n<p>* There&#8217;s no connection between how people sound and how they are. Some people sound depressed and lacking in confidence and yet they&#8217;ve built a great lives. Some people, like me, can sound like they know what they&#8217;re doing but not so much. I can make a great first impression, it&#8217;s just when people get to know me. I&#8217;ve rarely had friends less competent than me, nor GFs worse than me at reading social cues.<\/p>\n<p>* What&#8217;s the underlying tension that drives your addictions? For me it is my frustration with how my life is turning out.. I have been behind in social skills from the time I started school in 2nd grade. I know some other kids who started school late experienced same thing.<\/p>\n<p>* My first reflex when something doesn&#8217;t go my way is to throw out the f-bomb. Is this bad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* How do you keep offering insights? You&#8217;ll feel tempted to get out of your lane and to leave the areas where you have genuine expertise. You&#8217;ll feel compelled to relay conspiracy theories. How else do you maintain your conviction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=142744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142745,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142744\/revisions\/142745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}