a. Confusion
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"Smart men don't tell you how smart they are. Rich men don't tell you how rich they are. Tough men don't tell you how tough they are. Honest men don't tell you how honest they are. Con men do." - Unknown
"Always trust everyone to be themselves. But trust in the fact that you can see them well. It takes too much energy to not trust someone. Trust them to be them. Trust a snake to bite you. Trust a liar to lie to you. Trust a thief to steal from you. Like trust them to be them. But know that when you see them." - DMX
The world today is confusing. The rate of change in technology, politics, and culture is accelerating. Sometimes, things happen so fast we lose track of what’s going on. Inversion will revisit every concept, narrative, and truth taught from birth and invert it. That is, take what we were told and try to look at it as though the opposite were true (because it is a lot of the time).
"Inversion is an essential skill for leading a logical and rational life. It allows you to step outside your normal thought patterns and see situations from a different angle. Whatever problem you are facing, always consider the opposite side of things." - James Clear
What is truth? How do you know? A lie is not a lie if you believe it. Is it possible everything we think is a lie? The government lies, and it lies often. Auditors say you wonder what else might be wrong when you find a mistake. Like the cockroach, if you see one, there are likely many more you can't see. Our world is so infested, plagued, and polluted by lies that we need to start over with the handful of things we know are true and build our way back from there.
"Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out. You want to be fooled."- The Prestige
"He who decides a matter before he hears it out is a fool." - Unknown
"Intuition - When you don't know how you know... But you know you know... And you know you knew, and that's all you needed to know..." - Unknown
”I mean, think about it, Truman. If everyone was in on it, I’d have to be in on it too.” - The Truman Show
We live in a real-life version of the ‘Liar Liar’ movie.
b. Awareness
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“There are two kinds of people in the world:
those who can extrapolate from incomplete data..." - Unknown
"A mind is like a parachute... If it doesn't open, you're f*cked" - Unknown
"In Vegas when someone wins 1,000 hands in a row it's obvious they're cheating." - Unknown
"When shit is happening underneath your nose, evidence has a way of coming to you. Don't ignore it." - Unknown
"If it doesn't make any sense, don't believe it." - Jeffrey Skilling, ex-Enron CEO
"It's easier to believe you haven't been lied to because that doesn't require change." - Unknown
"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know." - Noam Chomsky
“If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” - Lawrence J. Peter
“There is only one incurable sickness - ignorance. If a patient does not know he is sick, he cannot submit to a cure." - Igawa/Bill Cooper