Back to Mental Health in 13 Steps

Mental toughness is back in fashion in executive coaching. It was never out of style in sports: mindset separates winners from losers. But you can be your own mental coach. Here's how

Mental make-up is not about 'mental training'; it is about your view on knowledge, the nature of man and his place in the universe.

This posting is dedicated to @GoosR 

Recently Rush Limbaugh talked about mentally strong people and the 13 things they avoid. These 13 points were first published on Forbes and were compiled by Amy Morin, a psychotherapist and a licensed clinical social worker. Limbaugh offered his perspective (transcript), and we will add ours from the Objectivist point of view in a final comment.

MORALITY IS OBJECTIVE!

In the first instalment of Reason at Large Craig Biddle is dealing with Kant's school of altruist ethics and the “is-ought dichotomy”, also known as Hume's Law. Both fallacies are causing a blind spot for objective morality, which on that basis they continue to deny. Just because your intellectual tools are insufficient to figure it out, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist! 

Hume's law states, it is not possible to derive moral principles from Reality, from what Is.

Biddle explains in the video the fallacy at the heart of Liberalism, known as Hume's Law. It explains why Liberalism started as a reasonable enough premise until it outsourced all matters of morality to religion. And since the sacred has no business with the secular, a wall was erected that leads Liberalism in the final stages to a position of Nihilism. Which is where we are today. 

20 THINGS HEALTHY, WEALTHY PEOPLE DO

It is a well known fact in psychology that dependency makes miserable. Taking charge of your life results in pride of your achievements and better mental health. Success is not a fluke of fate, but the result of conscious decisions and a better lifestyle.

Mental make-up is not about 'mental training'; it is about your view on knowledge, the nature of man and his place in the universe.

In Back to Mental Health in 13 Steps we argued that our minds are shaped by our life's philosophy and our view of the nature of man and his place in the universe. The postmodern, deconstructivist point of view is devastating to a man's mind: it was designed for the specific purpose to deny man free will, making him a slave of social and physical circumstances. In addition to those 13 points to start your mental recovery here's some advice to top it up: start taking up Objectivist philosophy! In the meantime here are 20 things rich people do every day that poor people don’t. Now start here by taking charge for your own life!

OBJECTIVISM: A TOOL FOR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS (AUDIO)

Where does happiness and self esteem come from? Not from free acknowledgements for participating in contests. Not even from money well earned. It comes from setting goals and achieving them. But it starts with the awareness that man has free will. Without that, you wouldn't even think about it!

"How to Build Self-Esteem", by Yaron Brook Ph.D., Director of the Ayn Rand Institute. 

UPDATE: Radical Capitalist Episode 30: Objectivism As A Tool For Success & Happiness.

Don Watkins sits in for Yaron as show host with special guest, Alex Epstein to discuss Objectivism as a tool for creating success & happiness. Want to connect with Don Watkins? Tweet Don @dwatkins3. Connect with Yaron via Tweet Yaron @YaronBrook or follow him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ybrook. 

POMO LINGO: 25 TACTICS OF DISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA

The sociopathy we experience today in individuals and in societies themselves is the result of literally decades of self-delusion called political correctness. This process began as cultural Marxism. Today it takes the form of speech controls, censoring, demonizing of opponents, emotional blackmail and temper tantrums. 

Meme, celebrating 'the end of fascism' a.k.a. the Trump Presidency by an obvious display of fascism. 

UPDATE: An article in Vigilant Citizen lists 25 tactics used by Leftist activists and media types. Most of them will seem familiar. Most of us have seen these tactics in action over the years, either against us personally or in some other capacity. Browse the 25 rules carefully and keep them foremost in your consciousness so you know them when you see them and deal with it in the appropriate manner. Can You Identify Which of these Rules are Still in Use by Our Leaders Today? Possible rules of Operation Mocking Bird. 

(VIDEO) POST FEMINISM, WHERE FEMINISM GOES TO DIE

The New Feminism is a war on women. It explicitly calls into question the ability of women to negotiate public life without the assistance of others. It calls into question, not so much male privilege, as female autonomy, female capacity. The New Feminism might mock men, but it does down women, and it does them down in a very profound way.

UPDATE: pOSt FEMIniSM

We live in a world where grid girls are being eliminated.

And THIS is what the media chooses to promote instead.

This is why aliens won't talk to us.

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— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 5, 2018

SOVIET DEFECTOR EXPLAINS PROCESS OF DEMORALIZATION

This interview from the Cold War explains much of today's world and the mindset of the people that help shaping it. Communism has collapsed, but the mental process the KGB set in motion decades ago, is still wreaking havoc on the mindset of generations of indoctrinated, useful idiots. The process of demoralization is frozen in time.

 

Listen up and listen carefully to Soviet defector, Yuri Bezmenov. You may hear this only once. Present interview has a habit of disappearing. 

UPDATE: Annotated version of the interview when Yuri Bezmenov explains how the Communist take over of a country works.

CommieTunes Episode 8: CommieBlaster.com

First posted on July 17, 2013

Lecture on demoralization and subversion,  Los Angeles, 1982.

Tags: Info war, Philosophy, War & conflict


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CENTER IMMIGRATION STUDIES: 'TRUMP HAS A POINT'

25 Years of failed policies built on the lie  -- that if we deny that terrorism is rooted in Islam, we can stop radicalization -- have resulted in the most powerful terror army since Genghis Khan: the Islamic State. It's time for a change.



Dec 9, 2015 Mark Krikorian fine tunes Trump's point. 

UPDATE: Center for Immigration Studies' Mark Krikorian argues that Trump's "crude" immigration comments actually open the conversation to formulate effective policy.

PLANET TRUMP: 50 PARADIGM SHIFTS, ONE YEAR ON

Donald Trump won the Presidential election of 2016. But what does that mean? Welcome to planet Trump. The repercussions of the new President as leader of the most powerful nation on earth are almost infathomable. The political and media establishment (but also entire swathes of the world population) still don't know what hit them.

I love you so much President @realDonaldTrump Thank God for every minute you sit in the @WhiteHouse pic.twitter.com/Rs00gU9fTN

— Israel & USA forever (@IsraelUSAforevr) December 30, 2017

UPDATE: A year ago we posted 50 paradigm shifts as a result of the Donald J. Trump presidency, either as a cause of his policies or indirectly by the transformation in the political and cultural landscape. One year on we are taking stock of the situation.

TRUMPISM: PRAGMATIC AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN 10 POINTS

Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again Movement" can be summed up in three words: Pragmatic American Exceptionalism. The program comprises pride in economic achievement, striving for excellence, fighting cronyism, fair bilateral trade deals and strong relationships with allies.

Mar 15, 2016 Donald J. Trump: The Long Road to the White House (1980-2015). (Source) (About)

With the demise of the Soviet Union in 1989 the world added peace dividend to unparalleled post World War II prosperity. But the paradigm is collapsing. A number of very complex problems are developing that can't be resolved within the present conceptual framework. The present situation challenges the ideological Right to develop a new strategy that is suitable for the new world. Rinoism -- paying lip service to Conservatism while pursuing Progressive policies -- is dead and can't be resuscitated without causing a popular revolt. In order to be relevant in the new age a pragmatic political program has been devised by Republican presidential front runner, Donald Trump. It is a hybrid of successful negotiating tactics, the best elements of Conservatism and a brand of grassroots populism. These are the major points.