Success porn: A Motivational Scam

Life is a challenge, a struggle and this is to be faced with all you have. The lessons one needs to fight through and succeed are all at the fingertips waiting to be accessed. We all have the power within, we just need to learn to utilize it, grab it and take and make it ours. It can take a lot of work and you may put a foot wrong but deep inside you is all you ever need and to find out what that is all one requires is the will to want it more....

Success Porn. Just like real porn, none of it is real. It is designed for those looking for shortcuts to becoming successful, becoming wealthy, becoming attractive. And, it doesn't work.

Although reading it may leave the audience feeling empowered, motivated and energetic, the core of the system is always missing and the bubble will deflate very quickly. The mind and body both will forget it even read it 15 minutes later.

The people it attracts the most are often the young, the naive, the TV shoppers or the ones who are constantly chasing one get-rich-quick scheme after another. The fools who have not spent enough time critically thinking through what they consume, have not experienced a wide range of the world and not realized that in nearly every instance, the lion's share goes to those who do the work, or those who can pull the wool over the eyes of the ignorant.

There are many types of conman, and we can see how easy it is to trick people these days with how many fall for an obvious scam. Today I met about 3 people in chat who had sent SBD to random accounts based on a DM promising some return but got nothing. Really, that random, unsolicited, private message asking for money was a scam? And then the complained and blamed the scammer.

It is not the scammers fault, as underhanded and cruel as it may seem, that is what they have chosen to do. It takes a willing accomplice for their goal to succeed and that means someone too blind to see the scam for what it is, an idiot. Very few people in this world are born so stupid, but many are made.

We live a world of greed and desire and it is this promise of short-cutting the path to the money so as to feed the desires that most cons target. They promise and promise and spin a whole range of information that has come from other spinners. Nearly all of it is rubbish yet people buy into the imagery, the story of it, why? They want to.

They want to believe that the Lamborghini with the hot woman in the passenger seat is within reach, they want to believe that the ripped body is built upon a tin of supplement powder or single piece of equipment. They want to believe that all of their wildest dreams can come true, all of the fame and fortune is there for the taking. They just need to buy-in and they will get all of the information they need.

Them, and all of the other people doing exactly the same thing in a thousand different ways. If these ways worked, 50 percent of the world would be millionaire's living on tropical islands, drinking martini's out of coconuts every day. This is not the reality though, is it?

The only one's who get this life in this arena are the one's selling the dream, conning the customer and taking their hard earned money, or in this case, their vote.

Steemit is fast becoming Instagram where some people are posting a load of absolute horseshit and because it makes people feel like they have a chance to taste success, they follow and upvote it. People upvote what others upvote because they think it brings them closer to success. They resteem highly paid posts without even reading them thinking there will be glory by association and the money will fall off into their wallet.

These people have bought into a lie. The same lie that gets told time and time again in magazines and television and spread wide across social platforms. Buy me, and you can be successful too. It is a scam, as sure as the scam of the private message asking for money, as sure as the Nigerian prince with a fortune to distribute. A scam that preys on the weak of mind.

And there are many weak of mind. They are weak because they have not researched, the want instant gratification, pleasure all the time and they will attempt any shortcut to get it. They will pour everything they have into doing as little as possible. But, there is an opportunity cost to this behavior, a cost to investing into trash.

Everything they have desired, everything they want to purchase, the cars and home s and holidays, they will with all likelihood forego for the simple reason they are lazy.

It takes work and skill and depth and courage to become successful. Yes, luck plays a roll too. The determination to push through the adversity, repress short-term desires and drive when no one else is willing to be on the roads. That is where success is found.

My advice is simple: Anyone that says they know the way, does not. Anyone that is poor and says I am going to be a Billionaire, will not. Anyone that says pay me and I will make you rich, cannot.

Fortune is found in uncertainty and ones ability to act well when everything is unknown is the predictor of success. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change as Einstein said. The change is the uncertainty, the skill one requires to change cannot be bought, it cannot be upvoted, it cannot be consumed.

It must be learned. This takes effort.

Do not support this kind of behavior or accounts at Steemit, it is harmful for the community, it is harmful for the walking world. This fake, over-hyped, narcissistic approach is attractive to the suckers who are unlikely to ever know what it feels like to be truly successful. They spend all of their resources in places that do not build their own skills, they are desperate for result but do not build process.

They fantasize about having it all and think they can learn what they need to building strong relationships, by watching porn.

Taraz
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