It’s been interesting watching the drama unfold on Steemit as professional marketer Matt Trainer tried to turn us all into billionaires with his “game”.
I have to admit that as I listened to his webinar I thought it was turning into performance art, so good was his performance of an obvious SCAM. He was talking about how he used to try and help people but then got disillusioned and went on a spiritual quest. He read the bible 20 times, even learnt Greek and Hebrew so he could read it in the original (wasn’t the old testament written in Aramaic?). He talked about how his Lamborghini got flooded along with his houses and he came back from financial ruin. We were constantly about to be told what it was all about before he started riffing on something else. It was truly amazing how he could speak for so long and never get to what he was selling.
I was thinking of course it's a scam.
How could anyone not see it as just that?
But for others it wasn’t.
For others he was a great marketer that Steemit could benefit from.
The same could be said for the left and the right of the political divide. For one side, anything the other side says is so obviously stupid/unfair/ridiculous…etc.
So what is going on?
Then I listened to this great podcast tonight…http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/530928414/emotions-part-one
How can two people receive exactly the same information but interpret it in the complete opposite way?
Our bodies have an incredible amount of information that we are processing all the time. Our brains have to control all the systems in our body. Systems for glucose, salt, breathing, blood circulating, moving through space, etc. So much is going on inside our bodies that it would be impossible to be aware of it all. We see the outside world in detail but in order to do that our brain has to group things together. It has to make things simple. In terms of emotions it groups things as pleasant/unpleasant, arousal/calmness. Those 4 sensations are literally ALL your internal awareness (introspection) are.
So then how do we get these feelings of guilt, fear, joy, etc?
We interpret them based on PAST experience.
When someone who has been blind since birth suddenly gets the ability of vision what do they see? They don’t see objects or colour. They just see light and dark. They have no way of knowing what these signals of light in front of them are.
From early childhood we start learning how to interpret all these signals. And as we learn we build up our world.
So when Matt Trainer starts doing what he does some of us see SCAMMER but others see SUCCESSFUL MARKETER.
Some see Donald Trump and go CLOWN.
Others see DANGEROUS IDIOT.
But others see SAVIOUR, TRUTH TELLER.
Plenty of people thought Bitcoin was a scam when it was first popping it's head up. Hell, people still call it a scam.
Here are some more scams: Money, Religion, National Borders and your own identity.
Peace (drop mike)