Bad Sources And The Spread of Disinformation

posted by Michael Thomas August 13, 2014

In additional to the many sites who traditionally post distorted, untrue, or inexcusably slanted articles from the likes of Infowars and Before It’s News, there has been a rise of “truth” oriented websites that are actually profit-based machines with no regard for the truth or progress. I like to call them the “collective-evolution axis of disinformation”.

One thing many seem to share in common is that they share articles from collective-evolution. I first stumbled across them about a year ago when I read an article by the creator, Joe Martino, in which he claimed there was no environmental crisis, climate change was a  big hoax, and that aliens are on their way to save us; suggesting there is no need to do anything. This is a conclusion which I oppose on scientific and logical grounds. I wrote to him to discuss what I saw as his hugely irresponsible position, only to get a truly insulting and condescending response ending with the suggestion that I should merely “do my research.” This phrase somehow appears to be a catch-phrase used by anyone making a pseudoscientific or unsupported argument.

The most prominent of these pages right now is probably The Mind Unleashed (with over 5 million likes), which first came to my attention when they were misinterpreting a study by one of my own professors, Dr.Olaf Kruse. His actual study found that unicellular algae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) can use exoenzymes to degrade the cellulose of other plant cells when photosynthetic energy is insufficient. After simply quoting the study’s abstract, the article suddenly jumps to citing an “Energy Healer” who proclaims “This is exactly why there are certain people who feel uncomfortable in specific group settings where there is a mix of energy and emotions,”.

This type of interpretation is wildly unconnected to the study. The study in no way supports the main premise of the article in any way, and in this context it is not even irrational to question the sanity of someone who makes such a comment when being confronted with the results of the study. This article, which rambles on with such meaningless pseudoscientific statements, got more than 900 initial shares when they posted it. Contrast this with about 300 shares on my “6 thing everyone should know about Ebola” text, which garnered dozens of dissonant comments from people that hadn’t even read the text, falsely interpreting a study that was discussed thoroughly within the text.

This type of pseudoscience is widespread, and in fact has led to us breaking existing share deals with other pages; most websites do not check the sources being cited in the articles they are referring to, and a chain of increasing misunderstanding ensues. This leads to outlandish and simply wrong statements being passed off as science to tens of thousands of people.

In even worse cases (like Before It’s News and WorldTruth.tv), they are publishing what they basically know to be outright lies. We have notified writers, such as Leah Lynz from Before It’s News and Eddie Levin from WorldTruth.tv, about certain information being incorrect or already disproven. Usually this productive criticism is outright ignored, or when accepted, they continue to spread the lies because they profit from traffic driven by the fearmongering sensationalism.

A past mistake of ours was working with “Natural Cures Not Medicine” creator “DCP”. During the period we worked with him, I had nightly arguments about the validity of the studies that “DCP” had obviously never read, but had written about, eventually leading us to fully discontinue any association with him and his websites.

As I outline in my “11 things I learned from working in social media,” people like the easy answer (without a lot of effort, in the form of thinking, involved) and are apt to choose it above a more honest, but less simple, answer. Pseudoscience offers both the chance for people to be “special” and “smart,” all without actually having to understand any science or look at any raw data.

Even many mainstream sources are often lazy in dealing with science, and routinely misinterpret the results of studies (or simply copy the discussion of the study without delving into the actual science at all). I find a good rule of thumb is reading at least the abstract of any study I see mentioned in an article, and if their description is vastly different then the website or the writer either ignorant, or wilfully spreading lies. This applies less to geo-political topics that are largely opinionated, but cases of blatantly false information can result in a source losing its credibility.

The internet offers us the chance of spread information faster than ever and gives us the possibility to change the understanding of the world. Unfortunately, it also makes the truth unclear in almost every category for the untrained reader. Simple pictures displaying witty truisms (which The Mind Unleashed excels at on Facebook), combined with polarized and pseudoscientific articles, appears to be the key to making tons of money on the internet.

Perhaps even worse than this, Sorcha Faal, a pseudonym of the person that runs websites EU Times and whatdoesitmean.com, intentionally makes up lies in every article, linking to other websites to backup some of the minor points of the article in an attempt to make the entire article appear well sourced. These websites are unfortunately very popular among those who don’t know this information.

While they go laughing to the bank, sources that actually do their fact-checking, and turn away pseudoscientific or factually skewed articles, are struggling to survive at all. We have done our best to maintain our integrity at every turn; correcting any mistakes, typos, or vagueness when informed by readers and ending deals with other people and websites when they were shown to be lazy with their fact-checking.

Aside from the content, they use pop-up ads, and largely (or entirely) copy content from other websites, not many websites write their own content.

The biggest problem is that most people do not look into what they read enough to be able to tell which websites fact-check well, and which are extremely bad sources.

Scientific journals (like Nature or Science) are frequently good sources; definitely superior to a link in someone’s blog, and if the study is not at least named (author, year at least) or linked in some way, there is no reason to believe what that website is telling you.

The slogan of Infowars is “There’s a war on for your mind!”, they may be right about this. There are those like WorldTruth.tv, Natural News and Before It’s News that spread sensationalist propaganda for money, and there are websites attempting to truly educate people that struggle to keep going. Even satire content is shared by millions of people.

If you are a fan of Before It’s News or WorldTruth.tv, perhaps a challenge could be to find an article on one of the websites that is entirely true, it may be possible, but it won’t be easy.

Below is a list we use at the The Worldwide Truth Movement and The Exposing The Truth Group discussions groups to mention some especially unreliable or highly biased sources:

1. 21stcenturywire.com
2. 4chan
3. 4key.net
4. A Sheep No More
5. Alex Jones / Infowars /Prison Planet
6. Alfred Webre & Leuren Moret
7. althealthworks.com
8. Anthony Gucciardi / storyleak.com / naturalsociety.com
9. awdnews.com – AWDNews
10. Before Its News
11. Benjamin Fulford
12. bibliotecapleyades.net
13. Collective-Evolution
14. consciouslifenews.com
15. conspiracywatch.org
16. conspiracyplanet.com
17. cosmicconvergence.org
18. countercurrentnews.com
19. csglobe.com
20. dailymail.co.uk
21. dataasylum.com
22. David Icke
23. David Wilcock / divinecosmos.com
24. DC Clothesline
25. Dr Leonard Coldwell / drleonardcoldwell.com
26. educate-yourself.org
27. Erick von Daniken
28. Food Babe
29. fourwinds10.net
30. Fox News
31. globalresearch.ca
32. godlikeproductions.com
33. goldenageofgaia.com
34. greatdreams.com
35. illuminati-news.com
36. infiniteunknown.ne
37. tintellihub.com
38. Jim Humble
39. jimstonefreelance.com
40. Knowledge of Today
41. Liberty Beacon
42. mailonsunday.co.uk
43. Mark Dice / markdice.com
44. Mercola
45. misguidedchildren.com
46. Natural News
47. naturalcuresnotmedicine.com
48. naturalhealth365.com
49. naturalwikinuooz.com
50. one-vibration.com
51. pravda.ru
52. presstv.com
53. realfarmacy.com
54. rense.com
55. Rima Laibow (includingdrrima.net / drrimatruthreports.com / healthfreedomusa.org / healthfreedomportal.org / naturalsolutionsfoundation.org)
56. sheepkillers.com
57. Sorcha Faal / EUTimes / whatdoesitmean.com
58. Stormfront
59. TheDailySheeple
60. theeconomiccollapseblog.com
61. theforbiddenknowledge.com
62. themindunleashed.org
63. thrivemovement.com
64. top10homeremedies.com
65. truthcdm.com
66. truthchaser.com
67. truthstreammedia.com
68. truththeory.com / truththeory.org
69. truthwikiufos-aliens.co.uk
70. vaccineliberationarmy.com
71. veteranstoday.com
72. whale.to
73. WorldTruth.tv
74. Zecharia Sitchin
75. zengardner.com
76. Any neo Nazi site Such as Stormfront

Do not use as sources: Satire and parody sites

1. capnews.com
2. chronicle.su
3. dailycurrant.com
4. dailysquib.co.uk
5. derfmagazine.com
6. enduringvision.com
7. fakingnews.firstpost.com
8. nationalreport.net
9. newsbiscuit.com
10. newsmutiny.com
11. newsswallow.com
12. newsthump.com
13. parodyreport.com
14. private-eye.co.uk
15. sportspickle.com
16. tawdrysoup.com
17. The Onion
18. thedailymash.co.uk
19. thedailyrash.com
20. thedailysatire.com
21. thedailywtf.com
22. thepoke.co.uk
23. theunrealtimes.com
24. unconfirmedsources.com
25. WakeupWorld.com
26. weeklyworldnews.com
27. Wyoming Institute of Technology

Fear mongering propoganda websites about chemtrails

1. aboutthesky.com
2. aircrap.org
3. bariumblues.com
4. carnicominstitute.org
5. chemicalskyfall.com
6. chemtrailcentral.com
7. chemtrailer.com
8. chemtrails.cc
9. chemtrails911.com
10. chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com
11. chemtrailsplanet.net
12. chemtrailsproject.com
13. chemtrailsprojectuk.com
14. climateviewer.com
15. consciousnessbeyondchemtrails.com
16. geoengineeringwatch.org
17. globalmarchagainstchemtrailsandgeoengineering.com
18. globalskywatch.com
19. morgellonsexposed.com
20. skyderalert.com
21. thetruthdenied.com
22. uk-skywatch.co.uk
23. weatherwars.info

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DO THESE 3 THINGS BEFORE BED TO HACK YOUR CREATIVITY WHILE YOU SLEEP

WHAT YOU DO RIGHT BEFORE SLEEP COULD MEAN A BREAKTHROUGH IN THE MORNING.

BY JANE PORTER

Editor's Note: This article is part of "10 Ways To Be A Better Employee In 2015."Read the full list here.

Imagine hacking into your own brain while you sleep, finding unrelated details or ideas that were never connected and mashing them up to get a solution to whatever problem has been wracking your brain. It can and has been done.

What you do before bed can play a role in how primed your brain is for this kind of creativity. Research has repeatedly found that sleep improves people's ability to come up with creative solutions to problems. Psychologists from UC San Diego found that REM sleep improves the creative process more than any other state—asleep or awake. And often the solutions to problems come to us when we are sleeping because of a phenomenon cognitive scientists call "pattern recognition."

This happens when the brain is in a relaxed enough state to create new connections and neural pathways—also known as neuroplasticity. This explains why great ideas often come to you in the shower, on a walk, lying in bed at night, or even sleeping. The brain is relaxed enough to enable those new connections to form.

The brain uses two separate pattern recognition systems – an extrinsic and an intrinsic one, writes Steven Kotler in Psychology Today. The explicit system relies on logic and rules and is tied to our conscious awareness. We can explain it verbally. The intrinsic system, on the other hand, relies on intuition, skill and experience. You can't really describe it in words. Kotler explains:

When the explicit system is involved, the neurons that are talking to one another are usually found in close proximity. When the implicit system is at work, far flung corners of the brain are chit-chatting. Creativity … depends on those broader implicit networks putting together information in new ways.

But how can you optimize your sleep to help hack into your creative mind? There are things that can be done before bed to help you get there. "The secret, if there is one, is just about being able to relax enough for the intrinsic system to do its stuff," says Kotler. "This is a pretty simple mind hack used by a lot of creatives." Here are three ways to get there.

1. FIND INSPIRATION IN YOUR BEDSIDE BOOK.

Research has shown that memory works best when something is learned shortly before sleep. Fill your brain with new ideas and inspiration before bed and you give the mind some work to do while you're asleep.

Reading before bed—whether it's fiction, a business book, or something that inspires and informs your work—is an effective way to prime your brain for creative thinking. You may just wake up with a fresh new idea you didn't have when you went to bed the night before.

2. ASK YOURSELF THE QUESTION YOU'RE TRYING TO ANSWER

When you're getting ready for bed or lying with the lights out—literally ask yourself the question you've been wrestling with in your creative work. You can do this aloud or to yourself. "It is pretty easy to ask the intrinsic system a question," writes Kotler. "Out loud or silently, doesn’t seem to matter."

Triggering your brain to think about a challenging problem just before bed can help your intrinsic system get a boost in the right direction. The key is to then do something to help you forget about asking the question—read or focus on your breathing, perhaps—to help that part of your brain that works quietly in the background rev up.

3. ENCOURAGE LUCID DREAMING

Lucid dreaming is essentially dreaming while being conscious of the fact that you're having a dream. Why is this useful to hacking into your creative mind? "You could stay in that dream and then use it to explore impossible realities somehow," according to psychophysiologist and lucid dream expert, Stephen LaBerge.

Getting to that lucid dreaming state takes practice and training your brain to recognize when you're dreaming. A few ways to do this involve asking yourself throughout the day whether you're dreaming, so that you'll subconsciously remember to do the same when you're in a dream state. Waking up in the middle of the night, remembering the dream you were having and then going back to sleep, conscious that you were having this dream can also help you enter a lucid dream state. LaBerge calls these steps the mnemonic induction of lucid dreaming or MILD technique.

"It would give you a great deal of freedom," he says of lucid dreaming. "You're limited not by the usual laws of physics and laws of society and other external constraints on you as we are limited greatly in waking life. You are limited only by what the limits of the mind might be."

How to Be Limitless in Real Life | 14 Mental Hacks and Techniques

In the movie 2011 movie Limitless the main character takes a clear pill (NZT) which endows superhuman mental abilities which allow for him to become a master communicator, pick up artist, and a wealthy, powerful businessman virtually overnight. While the movie is fictional, it’s certainly possible in real life to become influential, make money and achieve success relatively quickly by merit of cognitive ability development, mastery of communication skills and mindset transformation.

A Quick Story...

When I first saw the movie Limitless several years ago, I was flirting with depression...

• I was broke, living on my brother's uncomfortable couch.
• I had just been through a very rough break up of a business partnership, an experience not unlike getting divorced.
• My dating and social life had gone from rockstar to zero overnight. My nights and weekends were spent watching TV on the same couch I slept every night.
• Living in a very lame suburb, I was miles from a suitable workout location. I got lazy and stopped exercising.
• Additionally, I had some legal problems with my drivers license, NOT drinking and driving but I had lost my drivers license due to some unpaid fines from years ago and driving under revocation. I never went to jail but I had to spend a ton of time going to court and most of my disposable income dealing with the legal system.

When I saw the movie Limitless, I knew that some real life equivalent of NZT-48 had to exist and I needed to find it! Here's a photo and video gallery of my life in the past 2 years approximately... Judge for yourself whether I found it...

By the End of this Article...

You will have the tools to begin a high leverage (meaning FAST) personal development process that is holistic (meaning that you are starting on Day 1 changing your behaviors and transforming your mindsets so that the change is sustainable) and quantifiable (meaning that your progress is measurable).

In a period of between a few months to several years, depending upon your learning style, budget and aptitude for personal development you could become surprisingly close to Bradley Cooper’s character Eddie Maura by focusing on improvements in the fallowing areas of your life: mastery of communication skills, influence abilities, improving memory, cognitive ability development, mindset transformation, skill acquisition, knowledge acquisition, dietary improvements & dressing really sharp. Get ready to hack your reality and become Limitless!

Mastery of Communication Skills

It’s amazing that while communication skills are undeniably such a huge factor of our success in business, relationships and life we spend so little time developing them. Like in the movie, excellent communicators consistently end up in stations of success and power (Our President, Barrack Obama, is great example of this). In Limitless the main character’s silver tongue is what opens a lot of doors for him. Focus on learning these aspects of communication:

• Body language techniques

• Usage of creative metaphors

• Demonstrating listening skills

• Practicing topic depth escalation

• Magnanimous conversation stealing

• Speaking pace & tonality moderation

• Applying economics principals to communication

• Emotional withdrawals and deposits (Supply and demand arbitrage method)

Technique: Body Language Mirroring

This is a body language technique where you mirror the body language of the person you are interacting with. If they put their hands on the table, put your hands on the table. If they rest their elbow on their seat, rest your elbow on your seat. Mirroring should be used with strategic timing though, do not mirror them 100% of the time. Mirror them to build rapport when they say something you like.

Influence Abilities

Those seeking a Limitless lifestyle will also need to develop very sharp influence skills. It’s well said that you can get anything you want in the world if you know how to ask. Those who ‘know how to ask’ would pursue the following skill sets:

• Neuro-linguistic programming

• Embedded commands

• Negotiating skills

• Rapport building

• Hypnosis & cold reading

• Playing the young & ambitious card

Technique: Use People’s Names Frequently

During a conversation try to use a person’s name about once every 3-5 minutes or as often as you can without it being obvious you are name pumping. Using someone’s name immediately engenders rapport, captures their attention and increases their likelihood of going with what you are suggesting.

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The majority of 'Smart Drugs' are nutraceutical supplements, meaning that they are high qaulity concentrations of the kinds of vitamins and nutrients you find in organic foods. Two questions I get A LOT from people who are new to Biohacking and haven't yet tried smart drugs is:
Which smart drug supplements actually work and have science behind them?
Which Nootropic should I get start with?
My answer to both questions is the same: Piracetam
How much do they cost? Actually one of the most proven Nootropics can be consumed for than 25 cents a day while some high dosage, sophisticated Nootropic cocktails cost over a hundred dollars a month.

Cognitive Ability Development

Cognition is the logical, reasoning faculty of the mind. This is the domain of mathematics and pattern recognition. The most important thing to understand is that your brain is like any other muscle in your body, gets more powerful as you exercise it. Have you ever wondered why you keep repeating the same patterns in life… Your brain prefers to process new situations using existing synaptic patters (formed by your past experiences). If you want to experience new things in life you need to give you brain practice by building new synaptic patterns. Your brain is the most powerful pattern recognition computer tool on the planet but here’s some ways to sharpen it:

• Try new things! This should be obvious, make it a goal to venture beyond your comfort zone in big and small ways to experience new things in life. By interrupting it’s patterns and exposing your brain to new experiences you make it faster to adapt.

• Try mind mapping: these are software tools where you create a graphical layout of your thoughts or plans. By creating a graphical layout you are forcing your brain into a higher level of focus while making plans for the future.

• Force yourself to use the scientific method when dealing with situations where you usually jump to conclusions or just repeat what you did in past.

• Be content creator instead of a content consumer. Content consumption certainly isn’t bad (The content you are consuming right now is showing you how to be Limitless in your life!) but for the most part it is a passive mental activity whereas creation is like climbing a mountain in your mind. Content is a generalization for information that that people consume for entertainment or learning purposes. It could mean writing a book, creating art, making music, making movies for Youtube, doing a podcast, building a website or starting a blog. Ask yourself how much time in the day you spend consuming content (Surfing the internet, watching TV, reading, etc), try to cut that time in half and use your new free time creating content instead.

• Do some logic puzzles.

• Learn a new language: Language acquisition challenges and causes cognitive development on a variety of conscious and unconscious levels. When you start learning a new language practice talking to yourself in your mind in that language. Checkout these infographic for hacking language learning.

• Try the Cash Flow board game by Rich Dad Poor Dad. It’s like entrepreneurial monopoly where your objective is to leverage the cash flow from your players day job into investments that will provide residual income.

Technique: Move your mouse to the other side of the computer

If you are right handed and have your mouse on the right side of your computer move it to the left and force yourself to use your non-dominant hand (or vice versa) for an hour a day. At first it will be very awkward and uncomfortable but practice for just one hour a day and you will greatly strengthen the bridge between the right and left sides of your brain.

Improved Memory

In Napoleon Hill’s Think & Grow Rich he lists memory improvement as one of the things that helps contribute to a person’s success in life. An individual seeking a Limitless memory would want to focus on the following:

• Visual based associations: It’s said that association is the basis of memory, memory experts utilize visual association techniques heavily to improve recall abilities.

• The ability to remember names & details about people.

• Spend time playing memory and cognition games.

Technique: The AV Association Technique for remembering limitless names instantaneously

Mental Energy & Creativity

In Limitless while on NZT the character has a surge of mental energy and creativity. A lot of times people think, if only I had a little more mental energy I would be able accomplish my goals; start that business, write that book or take that trip. Since there’s no such thing as limitless mental energy here’s some ways to make the most of it.

• Sleep cycle management; we rob ourselves of a lot of mental energy because of mismanaging our sleep cycles. One of the biggest ways is by interrupting our REM (rapid eye movement) sleep cycles, REM cycles occur in 90 minutes intervals. Our body will naturally wake us up at the end of these sleep cycles. If we hit snooze at that time we will probably only sleep for another 20-30 minutes. By that time we will wake up in the middle of a sleep cycle, thereby disturbing our brain as it processes our short term memory into our subconscious. This results in low mental energy throughout the day. I’m sure you’ve had the experience before of sleeping and then not feeling as sharp throughout the day. Now you know why.

• Daily mental energy cycle management.

• Peak state management.

• Proper diet for maximizing mental energy (more on this below).

What about creativity… Well the most creative people in the world are that way because they are surrounded by inspiration. If you’re life consists of commuting to work, work, commuting home, running errands and watching TV in the evenings then it’s no wonder you lack creative energy. Few easy ways for more creative energy:

a) Read more (and no you don’t actually have to read, I consume the information of about 3 books a week via audio books and programs!) I recommend both fiction and non-fiction.

b) Documentary Films: If you are like most Americans you spend several hours every day watching TV. Instead of turning your mind to goo by watching sitcoms or dramas be infotained by documentaries about real life. Checkout Top Documentary Films for +1500 free films.

Stress Management

Mismanagement or excessive amounts of stress will definitely prevent you from living Limitlessly. Stress is defined as the measure of change of change occurring in your life at any given time. Things like a new job, moving, the break up with a partner, etc. Make sure you are spending time daily on the healthy stress management activities:

• Working out.

• Eating complete meals.

• Physical contact with other people (If you don’t have a significant other get a massage).

• Relaxation time.

• Sex.

Enhanced Situational Awareness

On NZT Eddie has a Jason Bournesque situational awareness for diffusing and resolving dangerous situations. Here’s some real life ways to increase situation awareness:

• Survival and fire arms training courses

• Martial arts training

• Sensory acuity exercises

Technique: Sensory Deprivation Exercises

Turn off one of your senses while doing daily activities. This forces your other senses to sharpen. Start with something easy like watching TV with the sound off and reading the body language of the characters. Then you may way want to move on to something more challenging, like making a meal while blind folded!

Knowledge Acquisition

Limitless individuals have an internalized understanding of information equity and knowledgeable about a wide variety of fascinating topics. At the same time though they are able to subtly guide a conversation towards topics that they have a mastery of. A Limitless individual wouldn’t waste their time taking irrelevant classes, they would consume information and acquire knowledge in the more efficient ways. Here’s my favorite way:

Technique: Practice Task Batching in Combination w/Passive Information Consumption - Separate your work into 2 categories

a) Creative/high mental energy consuming tasks (Examples: blogging, negotiating, sales calls, designing, meetings, strategizing, planning, communicating with other people, etc)

b) Monotonous or repetitive tasks which require little mental energy (Examples: responding to emails, organizing paperwork, data entry, etc)

Plan your Type B tasks at the end of the day when your mental energy is low and batch the most similar, monotonous tasks one after another. While you are doing this consume information passively. Here are my 3 favorite forms of passive information consumption

1. Listening to audio books – I recommend a membership with Audible.com.

2. Listening to podcasts – Which you download free from the Apple's iTunes.

3. Listening to documentary films – Top Documentary Films has at the time of this writing +1500 documentary films which you can watch for free.

Skill Acquisition

In the business world knowledge workers who can quickly acquire new skills and abilities will have a huge advantage.

• Teach; its well said that the best way to learn something is to teach it. While you are learning a new skill find a friend who you can share with weekly and teach the same things you are learning. A great way to practice this is that when you learn the AV Association Technique for remembering Limitless names instantaneously teach it to a friend (do that this week!)

• Practice on the computer: For almost every skill imaginable there are (a lot times free) websites and software that you can use to practice and hone your new skillset.

• Ready, Fire, Aim (NOT Ready, Aim, Fire) – This is the opposite of what people describe as analysis paralysis; when you embark on a new endeavor you focus on action, making progress and resist the temptation to over plan, over analyze and second guess. For skill acquisition this means that you begin using new skills as soon as possible in the real world before you have completely mastered them (obviously this doesn’t apply for brain surgeons).

• Practice skill leverage; as opposed becoming a professional student who is always filling their head with new skills, learn the skill of leveraging the skills and strengths of others to accomplish your goals.

Dietary Improvements

You are what you eat. While the brain accounts for only 2% of the body's weight, it burns 20% of the body's calorie intake and requires specific nutrients for optimum performance. Most American’s & people in the western world do not eat a Limitless diet. Please check the Supplements & Nutrition for Enhanced Mental Abilities section of this site. You’d be amazed at how you can sharpen your mind (and body) by eating right!

Mindset Transformation

I’m sure you heard stories before of a successful person who had it all and then through radical circumstances lost it all and then in a short while, had made it all back. The reason why should be obvious, it’s because they have winners mindset. Every book ever written by a successful person about success talks a lot about mindset. A fair warning though, some self-help books trivialize the mindset message by stating (in many more words) that positive thoughts  + making goals will result in massive success and wealth. We’ll as any entrepreneur will tell you it takes whole lot more than positive thoughts to become successful. The mindset conundrum is that to be a winner you need to have a winners mindset but If you haven’t experienced massive success yet it’s debatable whether you can actually get yourself in a winners mindset. There’s a couple ways that those pre-Limitless mindsets can deal with this.

• Visualization & Goal Association: This is a powerful method that I could write a book on (and many have). Here’s brief description: 1) Create some emotionally charged long term vision goals 2) break the vision down into smaller, accomplishable, measurable goals 3) Create visualization associations between the emotionally charged vision and the tedious day to day actionable tasks to get there.

• The ability to banish negative thoughts from your mind

• Watch the movie Limitless

Technique: Mental Language Reframing

We can drastically improve our mindset by changing the way we talk to ourselves. There are certain things we say in our mind that limit our potential. Here’s an example:

I Can’t Afford It – This phrase is a mental limiter… Anytime you hear yourself saying this in your mind reframe it as:

How Can I Afford? Or what do I need to do to afford it? By reframing this negative as a question we force our mind to work and figure out a way to afford it.

Dress Sharp

In Limitless, while on NZT the character is frequently shown looking very sharp in a fine suit. Don’t underestimate the empowering effect (especially for men) on your own mindset and over other people of dressing well. In the book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcom Gladwell documents numerous double blind case studies of how the way a person dresses drastically effects our perception of them and becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy of how our experience with them will go. Regardless of how non-judgmental people claim to be the way we dress when we meet people makes a big difference. People in suits and uniforms will always be figures of authority and command respect.

For Gentlemen: Wear a suit, yeah I know suits aren't terribly comfortable but a suit makes a loud, clear statement: I do things important enough in life that I wear a suit. Unless it's a really swanky function I do not recommend a tie though. I recommend leaving the top bottom on the suit undone, this looks very sexy and sharp. I recommend buying your suits at Express for Men where they run around $300, I bought a suit about 4 years ago at there. I'm amazed at the amount of compliments I get on it after all the drinks that have been spilled on it and all the adventures it's been through.

For Ladies: In business settings: Dress as stylishly as you can without it being a distraction at work. Forever21 & Express are your best friends. Buy a nice watch, in general men have more discriminating tastes in watches then ladies so it’s a great way to make yourself stand out. In social situations, I'd recommend a cocktail dress, there is truly no better way to strike the delicate balance between sexy and classy than with a cocktail dress. If it's more a business setting a lady suit is fine. Also get yourself a small purse for when you are going out. Women who are out socializing with large purses are just clumsy looking.

Practice the AV Association Technique

This is a memory system hack that will be invaluable to you in social and business situations. It will allow you to easily remember, and masterfully recall thousands of details about hundreds of people. The Audio-Visual Association Technique is very cognitively engaging and it actually builds your creative faculty over time. Click the link below for a 4 part video course (a $97 value) which will teach you in 45 minutes a powerful 'mental hack' that master salespeople, politicians, pickup artists and cult leaders use to remember limitless names instantaneously. Get instant access to it here.

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