You Can Probably Just Have It

Another short one, real quick.

I realized something crazy yesterday…

The right attitude and body language can get you almost anything you want—almost any time, almost any place.

If you are nice, confident, and happy—with your chin up and shoulders back—and you act like the thing you want is obviously the thing that is going to happen, you would be amazed at what you can obtain.

I can remember learning this naturally when I was around 15, and back then I could use these powers organically and innocently.

Then I got educated.

I don’t regret getting educated, but education also means domestication.

Social norms around "equality" prohibit any dangerously powerful way of acting, for these traits are not equally distributed. So I unlearned this ability over about 20 years.

The man of character today—if he wishes to rise in an institutional pyramid—trades an incredibly general, almost limitless natural power for the unnatural power of status within a bureaucratic point system.

Now that I belong to no institutional pyramid at all, I've been remembering this outrageous social glitch, which I had forgotten about for so long.

It's still there. It still works.

They have never been able to nerf it!

That's why they are constantly screaming "you can't do" X, Y, or Z.

They scream "you can't do that" precisely because you still can.