<ul><li>Self-documenting and self-branding are becoming basic to all forms of work.</li><li>When influencers first emerged, they were met with skepticism from advertisers.</li><li>Reticent advertisers pushed influencers to embrace consistency, and they distilled their work into comforting and legible formats and genres.</li><li>The job of an influencer involves learning how to constantly accommodate oneself to the means of establishing and maintaining visibility.</li></ul>

The Life Of An Influencer

<ul><li>Considerations about how to present oneself on platforms have become a part of the everyday routine for a broader swath of the workforce.</li><li>Influencer creep can be felt most keenly in sectors that operate on freelance and insecure labour, in which individuals take on a slate of unremunerated promotional work in lieu of job security</li><li>Boundaries between personal expression and entrepreneurship, between socializing and commerce are eroded while the routine, mundane, and the everyday are painstakingly aestheticized.</li></ul>

Documenting Every Part Of Life

<ul><li>We might call the expansion of micro-celebrity practice “influencer creep,” both for how influencing creeps into more forms of work and for how it creeps further into the lives of workers. </li><li>The mark of influencer creep is the on-edge feeling that you have not done enough for social media platforms: that you can be more on trend, more authentic, more responsive — always more.</li><li>With trends toward growing labour precarity and the platformization of social and working life, the influencer creep touches more and more work.</li></ul>

The Influencer Creep

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Like all animals, we know what we need. Nourishment, safety, sex. Our needs are limited. Instinctual. Natural. And in today’s world – almost guaranteed.Our wants, on the other hand, are more complex. Whimsical. Time-consuming. We create them by choosing from a menu of possibilities that changes along with our environment. And boy, has our environment changed. For millennia, we foraged in the wild. Today, we’re being suffocated by abundance.This abundance makes it fair to expect individual desires within a modern tribe to be totally random. Unique, even.But they aren’t.

Our Needs And Wants

Everywhere you look, you’ll see groups of people who want the same things. The newest iPhone. Gucci handbags. Yeezys. Expensive degrees. And lately ­– pixelated JPEGS.Like a bunch of neighbouring metronomes that spontaneously synchronize, our desires coalesce with those of our social group. We desire what other humans desire. In other words, our desires are mimetic.

Keeping Up With The Joneses

Firstly, our wants are confusing. It is impossible to know what to want when there’s an endless, ever-changing list to pick from, with no reference point provided by evolution.
Secondly, we are wired to play status games. High status had evolutionary advantages in our time as hunter-gatherers – it gave us easier access to resources for survival and mates for reproduction.
Thirdly, we’re signalling machines. By imitating the desires of a person we look up to, we signal to others that we possess some of the qualities of that person

The Reasons For Our Mimetic Desires

Mimetic Desire is the reason we become like the people we spend time with or look up to. They shape what we choose to want, often unconsciously.  Since our time is limited, it pays to pay attention to our desires. Escaping them is a futile endeavour for those of us that aren’t monks. Reordering them is more realistic.So find desires that stand the test of time. Those that don’t result in zero-sum games where you compete with your peers. Those that aren’t in conflict with other desires. Find desires that can create a journey you will enjoy, for the destination is never guaranteed.

The Reason For Living

Like all animals, we know what we need. Nourishment, safety, sex. Our needs are limited. Instinctual. Natural. And in today’s world – almost guaranteed. Our wants, on the other hand, are more complex. Whimsical. Time-consuming. We create them by choosing from a menu of possibilities that changes along with our environment. And boy, has our environment changed. For millennia, we foraged in the wild. Today, we’re being suffocated by abundance.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Mimetic Desire explained in exactly 500 words

Depending on how we answer whether someone likes us or not, we will either take steps to deepen the friendship or make moves to withdraw to spare ourselves humiliation and embarrassment. We assume that the other person must settle this, and we can do nothing to shift the verdict. However, we fail to realise that we often don't know what we think of other people. What usually helps us decide what someone means to us is our sense of what we mean to them.

We want to know whether or not someone likes us

The possibility of friendship often hangs in the balance because both sides are quietly waiting for a sign of whether they are liked before they dare to show any enthusiasm.  Most of it depends on how we behave towards them. We have every opportunity to persuade them to see us in a positive light by showing them that we see them in a positive light.

See people in a positive light

How we can show charm:<ul><li>We can remember small things about the other person.</li><li>Show interest in what they have been up to</li><li>Laugh at their witty comments</li><li>Sympathise with them about their sorrows</li></ul> Once you have carried out this set of techniques, you have to be highly unlucky to talk to people who show no interest in a friendship.

Use the full range of techniques for charm

Friendship cannot develop unless one side is willing to show they are ready to like when there is no evidence of being liked back. Whether or not the person likes us will depend on what we do, not on what we are by nature. They may initially look a little distracted and behave in an off-hand way, but if we keep showing them warmth and encouragement to help them overcome their self-suspicion, the barriers will eventually come down.

Friendship requires risk

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We spend an inordinate amount of time concentrating on the question of whether or not we are liked. It would be a great deal wiser to put our energy into actually proving likeable and persuading our audience of our affection for them. Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first online order of a book, product or class: https://bit.ly/2LayJ9F For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://bit.ly/2RQW2sV Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://bit.ly/2JYouWR 2DAODLd FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https://bit.ly/2JXaFrX “One of the most acute questions we ask ourselves in relation to new friends and acquaintances is whether or not they like us. The question feels so significant because, depending on how we answer it in our minds, we will either take steps to deepen the friendship or, as is often the case, immediately make moves to withdraw from it so as to spare ourselves humiliation and embarrassment.” MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Visit us in person at our London HQ: https://bit.ly/2T7u1yP Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself You can submit translations and transcripts on all of our videos here: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog&tab=2 Find out how more here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6054623?hl=en-GB SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Download our App: https://www.theschooloflife.com/app-2/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Nick Hilditch https://nickhilditch.com/

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One of the best treatments for anxiety, stress and inflammation is regular and appropriate exercise. Exercise increases not only your physical health but also your mental health. It is better than any other medication because you don’t build up resistance as you would to medicine. Even if you are on medication, exercise will be beneficial.

Mental health and fitness

It can be really hard to eat enough protein to build muscle. People may think they are eating enough protein, but when they start to track their intake, they realise that they don't eat enough protein consistently throughout the day. Track your protein intake. If you find you have not consumed enough, throw in some shakes.

Eating enough protein when you want to build muscle

There are three big lifts: deadline, squat, bench press. If you are a beginner, run through the lifts first. Ensure to improve your technique to identify sticking points before you increase the weight.   Don’t get stuck in a routine. Instead, switch programs regularly. When you are training for a competition, visualise the competition, then practice the lifts in the order you will perform them.

How To Get Stronger In The Big 3 Lifts

When you have knee pain, it is almost always because of the ankles or the hips. Work on your mobility. Ensure to do ankle and hip mobility exercises every day. If you cannot do a conventional squat, try split squat stance or Bulgarian squat.

 Ways To Correct Knee Pain When Squatting

When we think we have clear differences in lengths of limbs, it is often just tightness in the muscles. We then overcompensate to correct the perceived imbalances. To improve, do unilateral movements moving one arm and one leg. Start with the weaker side and let that side dictate how many reps you do on the stronger side.

What To Do If Your Right & Left Side Don’t Match

During the off-season, you train heavy and hard. Do resistance training two days per week, one or two days per week of cardio exercise, and mobility on off days. During in-season training, do correctional exercise and your prescribed triathlon training.

Triathlon Training In-Season Versus Off-Season

In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin coach four Pump Heads via Zoom.  Mind Pump Fit Tip: One of the best treatments clinically proven to help with depression and anxiety is exercise. (4:02) The recover/maintain mentality for training athletes. (19:25) Mind Pump on their high school pictures. (26:46) Magic Spoon is here to help you make your protein intake. (32:05) A high school football update with Justin: Establishing a good offseason training program for his kids. (35:20) Actions speak louder than words. (40:46) At what point should the Government block monopolies from happening? (48:47) The word is out on Vuori. (54:36) Netflix may be falling behind the pack. (57:14) #ListenerLive question #1 – How can I get stronger in the big three lifts to benefit an upcoming powerlifting competition? (1:00:20) #ListenerLive question #2 – What are some ways to correct my knee pain when squatting? (1:12:31) #ListenerLive question #3 – What can I do when my right side doesn’t match the left side? (1:27:29) #ListenerLive question #4 – How would you train in-season versus off-season? (1:36:00)  Related Links/Products Mentioned  Ask a question to Mind Pump, live! Email: live@mindpumpmedia.com January Promotion (#1): NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS SPECIAL BUNDLE OFFERS January Promotion (#2): MAPS Anabolic 50% off **Code “JANUARY50” at checkout**  Mind Pump #1655: The Best Natural Treatment For Anxiety & Depression  Strengthen your mood with weight training – Harvard Health  Super Bowl-contending Buffalo Bills cut squats from their workouts during the season — and trainers say that may explain why they're the least-injured team in the playoffs Visit Magic Spoon for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! All-In Podcast E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more  Microsoft to buy Activision in $68.7 billion all-cash deal Visit Vuori Clothing for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners!  Netflix Stock Gets Pummeled, Closing At Lowest Level Since April 2020 After Disappointing Earnings & Wall Street Downgrades – Update Visit MASSZYMES by biOptimizers for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners! **Promo code “MINDPUMP10” at checkout** MAPS Powerlift MAPS Fitness Prime Pro MAPS Prime Pro Webinar The SOLUTION to Knee Pain & Hip Pain (MIND PUMP) Luna Physical Therapy MAPS O.C.R. MAPS Fitness Performance  Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources  People Mentioned  Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath)  Twitter Ben Patrick (@kneesovertoesguy)  Instagram 

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In this episode of Quah (Q & A), Sal, Adam & Justin coach four Pump Heads via Zoom.  Mind Pump Fit Tip: One of the best treatments clinically proven to help with depression and anxiety is exercise. (4:02) The recover/maintain mentality for training athletes. (19:25) Mind Pump on their high school pictures. (26:46) Magic Spoon is here to help you make your protein intake. (32:05) A high school football update with Justin: Establishing a good offseason training program for his kids. (35:20) Actions speak louder than words. (40:46) At what point should the Government block monopolies from happening? (48:47) The word is out on Vuori. (54:36) Netflix may be falling behind the pack. (57:14) #ListenerLive question #1 – How can I get stronger in the big three lifts to benefit an upcoming powerlifting competition? (1:00:20) #ListenerLive question #2 – What are some ways to correct my knee pain when squatting? (1:12:31) #ListenerLive question #3 – What can I do when my right side doesn’t match the left side? (1:27:29) #ListenerLive question #4 – How would you train in-season versus off-season? (1:36:00)  Related Links/Products Mentioned  Ask a question to Mind Pump, live! Email: live@mindpumpmedia.com January Promotion (#1): NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS SPECIAL BUNDLE OFFERS January Promotion (#2): MAPS Anabolic 50% off **Code “JANUARY50” at checkout**  Mind Pump #1655: The Best Natural Treatment For Anxiety & Depression  Strengthen your mood with weight training – Harvard Health  Super Bowl-contending Buffalo Bills cut squats from their workouts during the season — and trainers say that may explain why they're the least-injured team in the playoffs Visit 

MindPump exposes the RAW TRUTH about health, fitness, nutrition and more... Hosts Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer & Justin Andrews pull back the curtain on the mythology, snake oil and pseudo-science that pervades the fitness industry and present science-backed solutions that result in increased muscular development and performance while simultaneously emphasizing health. No fitness institution or fitness "truth" is safe from their quick wit and over 40 years of combined experience in the fitness industry. Produced by Doug Egge. Find Mind Pump and the Mind Pump hosts on Instragram @mindpumpmedia, @mindpumpsal, @mindpumpadam, @mindpumpjustin & @mindpumpdoug and on Facebook at mindpump. Get expertly programmed Mind Pump training protocols at www.mindpumpmedia.com

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1739: How to Get Stronger in the Big 3 Lifts, Ways to Correct Knee Pain When Squatting, What to Do If Your Right & Left Side Don’t Match & More

Here are two quick and easy areas you must check are up to date: <ul><li>Professional Headline: The job of any headline is to entice people to click. At minimum, you can use your headline to highlight your current position and company or awards, or showcase skills you want to turn up in searches. Tell everyone on LinkedIn who you are, what you do, and why you’re someone they need to connect with.</li><li>Location and Industry: Are your location and industry still accurate? If not, fix them now!</li></ul>

Must Do: Keep Your Profile Basics Updated!

LinkedIn profiles that have a picture are 11 times more likely to be viewed. So if you’re still showing a silhouette, it’s time to make a change and reveal yourself.Some friendly advice:<ul><li>Your LinkedIn photo shouldn’t be from 20 years ago. </li><li>It shouldn’t look like it belongs on a dating site, stock photo site, or social network (e.g., Facebook or Instagram). </li><li>Don’t feature your pet or significant other. LinkedIn is for professionals. Be one.</li></ul>

Only Use Professional Photos

Give your profile page a bit more personality, or branding, with a visually appealing background image.LinkedIn advises users to use an image (PNG, JPG, or GIF) with a resolution of 1400x425.

Brand Your Profile With a Background Photo

Your summary should expand on what appears in your headline, highlighting your specialties, career experience, noteworthy accolades, and thought leadership.Don’t go back and forth between the first person and third person as it’s confusing and signals a lack of attention to detail.In summary of LinkedIn summaries: keep your ego in check, focus on the most relevant details about your career, avoid meaningless jargon, and ensure it’s easy to read.

Write a Ridiculously Good Summary

Using the right keywords in your profile is the difference between being found and being invisible.<ul><li>Identify the words you want to be found for when people use LinkedIn search and use those keywords in your headline, summary, and profile. </li><li>Using the right keywords will expose you to more potential connections and opportunities.</li></ul>

Use Keywords With Intent

Under your Contact Info, LinkedIn gives you the option to link to a website or blog. But by default, the text that shows in your profile is the extremely dull “Blog” or “Website.” Anyone visiting your profile has no clue where they’ll end up if they click on that.Want to use your actual brand or business name? You can: When editing the Websites area of your profile, select the “Other” option. Now you can add your own website title and URL.

Neat Trick: Pick the “Other” Website Option

When you created your LinkedIn profile, it had some ugly combination of letters, numbers, and backslashes that had no value for your personal branding. If you still have this, it’s time to customize your public profile URL. LinkedIn makes it simple to keep your profile consistent with your other social profiles.

Personalize Your LinkedIn Profile URL

Visual content is only growing in importance.Help your LinkedIn profile pop by adding documents, photos, videos, and presentations.

Own Your Media

LinkedIn lets you add several sections to give your profile more visual appeal and depth. You can add sections for posts, volunteering, languages, honors and awards, patents, causes you care about, and many more.All of these sections open you up to more opportunities to make new connections.

Add Shiny New Sections to Your Profile

People are going to endorse you for all sorts of skills — sometimes even skills you don’t actually have. LinkedIn lets you remove any irrelevant skills and endorsements. You should avoid “lying” about your skillset, even if it is by omission.

Tidy Up Your Endorsements

One of the biggest mistakes people make on LinkedIn is failing to reach out to connect with people you want to know but don’t yet. Building out your LinkedIn network has many benefits. You get in front of influencers. You get more endorsements. More people see your best content, share that content, and visit your website. And it’s great for personal branding.

Connect With People You Don’t Yet Know

“I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” The default message LinkedIn provides is so dreadfully boring and impersonal.When you invite someone to connect, make it more personal — mention where you met or a topic you discussed in a LinkedIn group, over email, or during a phone interview. This personal touch will increase the odds they’ll accept your request.

Personalize Invitations to Connect

LinkedIn posts offer another way to grow your influence, gain more visibility, and acquire new followers.<ul><li>Your existing connections are notified whenever you publish. New people can discover your posts via search.</li><li>Always think about the audience you want to reach. Highlight your expertise and interests by posting awesome content. Just make sure your posts are appropriate for the 400 million business professionals who use LinkedIn.</li></ul>

Publish Amazing Posts

One way to start connecting with people you want to know is to join LinkedIn groups. Join discussions. Start interesting discussions. Don’t sell your product or service or promote yourself — sell your expertise! That will help build your personal brand.

Find and Join Groups

LinkedIn search is your gateway to future connections. Search for people by name, company, or skills.But you can go much deeper. LinkedIn’s advanced search helps you find people by job title, school, relationship, location, industry, current/past company, profile language, and nonprofit interests — with additional search options for Premium members.

Find People Through Search and Advanced Search

Whenever you view someone’s profile, LinkedIn will share your name and headline. LinkedIn recommends this.But sometimes you might want to be a bit stealthier before connecting. If this is the case, you’ll need to manage your privacy under Accounts & Settings.

Stalk Users Openly or Stealthily

Once you’ve grown your network to thousands, it can be a bit daunting to remember every single person or to stay in touch with a few important connections.Luckily, LinkedIn makes this easy. In the Relationship section, in addition to telling you the date when you connected, LinkedIn allows you to write notes about your contact, including how you met, or set reminders to “check-in” at intervals from a day to every year.

Remember Where and When You Met What’s-His-Name

When someone accepts your request to connect, don’t start pitching your service or product. This is a relationship killer.Start slow. Comment on, share, or Like their posts.LinkedIn even makes it super simple to stay in touch, telling you when contacts are celebrating work anniversaries or starting new jobs. Again, these are opportunities to Like or comment.

Build Extraordinary Business Relationships

Because LinkedIn is a business network, it’s best to use it during business hours. Keep active, but don’t go overboard.Try to post an update at least once a day at a minimum; aim for a maximum of three or four updates per day, as long as you’re sharing useful, relevant content.

Use (but Don’t Abuse) Status Updates

What you say reflects on you. Never post negative comments about someone’s post or a past employer.Instead, pause and think if there’s a way you can rethink and rewrite in a constructive way — if you can’t, just hit the delete button and go do something else to shift focus.

Be Positive

LinkedIn makes is super easy, providing an “Ask to be recommended” link, where you can specify what you want to be recommended for, who you want to recommend you, and write a personal message.Pick specific people. Don’t just randomly ask all your contacts if they can recommend you. Be selective.

Ask for Recommendations

Remember to occasionally download your connections. After you’ve gone to all the trouble of building an amazing network, you don’t want to risk losing their contact info!To do this, click on Connections, then Settings (the gear icon), and on the next page, under Advanced Settings, you’ll see a link to export your LinkedIn connections as a .CSV file.

Export Your LinkedIn Connections

Poor grammar, typos, and misspellings are a no-no.Avoid typos at all costs.

Terminate Those Typos

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To measure your service team's social media messaging success here are the metrics that you will need to track:<ol><li>Issues solved</li><li>Social media customer satisfaction score</li><li>Social media Net Promoter Score</li><li>Inbound messages</li><li>Average response time</li><li>Customer sentiment</li></ol>

Metrics to Track

Through social media tracking tools you can gather data about many different elements that needs tracking, such as how long it usually takes to fix a customer's issue, how long before you reply, and how many issues are solved through social media.

1. Issues solved

Tracking success on social media messaging isn't that different from tracking the success of your other support channels (phone, email, or live chat).  However, you'll want to separete the report because you will be looking at the scores for people who are giving customer satisfaction scores on social media as opposed to customer satisfaction in general.

2. Social Media Customer Satisfaction Score

NPS stands for Net Promoter Score. It is a customer satisfaction benchmark that measures how likely your customers are to recommend your business to a friend. By keeping track of your NPS, you will be able to gather effective data to see where customer satisfaction is coming from and you can use this to see trands and strategize for the future.

3. Social Media Net Promoter Score (NPS)

Another way to measure the success of your social edia customer service is to look at the number of inbound messages. How often do people use social media tools to reach out versus calling or emailing?  This will help you keep tabs on your social media customer service and keep your team properly staffed.  You can also use call deflection strategies to encourage customers to reach out on social media instead of calling.

4. Inbound messages

Average response time is a major metric and goal that social media support teams should use. You should know how long it takes for a rep to respond to a customer's message on social media and how long it takes to solve the issue. Ultimately, this will help you keep track of reply wait times, time to first response, and resolution rates of your social media supportinquiries. This is important because 79% of customers expect a response within 24 hours of reaching out to a brand on social media, and 40% expect a response within an hour.

5. Average response time

Customer sentiment is a metric that many social media tools keep track of based on mentions and conversations online.  If you provide poor customer support on social media, you'll receive negative mentions and vice versa. The better support, the more positive mentions.  Tracking success will help us strategize and decide how to use our social media support team in the future as digital channels become a primary way for customers to reach out to a company.

6. Customer sentiment

Does your company provide social media customer support? Learn how to measure your service team's social media messaging success in this post.

6 Ways to Measure Your Service Team's Social Media Messaging Success

In 2020, outrage is the latest drug of society. It’s more acceptable than alcohol and it’s more addictive than anything you can swallow, smoke or inject, because while heroin or methamphetamine are clearly harmful, anger feels so damn righteous.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Outrage Is The New Drug

Outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but over time devour us from the inside out. And it’s even more insidious than most vices because we don’t even consciously acknowledge that it’s a pleasure.

We Love Being Angry

The biggest problem with outrage, however, is that it has been weaponised. Outrage sells like crazy, because it’s a strong emotion and strong emotions force people into action. That’s why political parties, instead of coming together to find solutions, whip their supporters into a frenzy of anger against the other side. Corporations are now getting in on the action too. They weaponise your outrage to sell their products, such as Gillette with their ill fated ad campaign and Nike using Colin Kaepernick to bring socially conscious consumers to their brand.

Outrage Persuasion

The mainstream media is by far the worst culprit, however, because without your attention they don’t have a business model. They have to make you keep clicking and tuning in, otherwise their advertising dollars dry up. That’s why everything is increasingly sensationalised and it’s no longer about reporting facts. A headline that makes you emotional causes you to click. The article gets you pissed off, which sends you to the comments section to argue with people. The topic trends on social media, which you’re of course taking part in.

Media Sells Anger

How is it working out for you?Has constantly reading, liking, retweeting and commenting your outrage made your life any better? What’s it actually doing for you? Has it helped you earn more at work? Be better with your family? Made you more fulfilled? Has it accomplished anything for you whatsoever?Spending all your time getting angry about things isn’t going to make you calm and peaceful, it’s just going to result in more anger

A Question For The Angry Person

In other words, the world might not be improving fast enough for you, but it’s improving every day. So here’s a free piece of advice: get off the screen, go outside and spend some time in the sun. Spend some time with friends and talk about things that make you happy. Hell, go and do some things that make you happy. You’ve got to balance things out. It’s a far more satisfying existence than spending all your time staring at a screen, fighting with people and getting worked up over problems that are probably far less urgent than they seem on social media.

Your Anger Does Not Make You Right

In 2020, outrage is the latest drug of society. It’s more acceptable than alcohol and it’s more addictive than anything you can swallow, smoke or inject, because while heroin or methamphetamine are…

Your Addiction to Outrage is Ruining Your Life

What is porn?Porn is what I call addictive habits. These habits are like porn because they start off as small and end up curtailing out of control if you let them.You start with softcore porn when you’re young, and before you know it you’re consuming hardcore porn with whips and people handcuffed to the walls of torture rooms.Porn is all around you and it took me years to see its devastating effects. Thankfully, once you identify all the porn in your life, you can blast it out of your life once and for all. But why would you?

You’re consuming porn daily and you don’t even know it

You whip out your phone and open the app of your favorite magazine. Everywhere is consumer-focused ads telling you that your life could be better. They show the lifestyle you could be living if you weren’t living this 9–5 nightmare you call a life. You think to yourself “I’m so stupid. How do I escape the rat race?”Lifestyle porn is all about people you’ll never meet and places you may never get to go. It’s a curated list of the top 1% of experiences you could have in your life. The lifestyle looks perfect.

Lifestyle Porn

They always have a laptop on their knees and downpayment on a Ferrari ready to be delivered during a socially distanced unveiling at their mortgaged home. The laptop is a symbol for one word: easy.A laptop makes you think making money is easy.If money was so gosh damn simple, we’d all be rolling in it and nobody would ever need to wake up early for work again. Money porn sells the dream that cash will solve all your problems.

Money Porn

All you need is a business and you’ll be successful. In Australia, where I live, <a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/295798">9/10 startups fail in the first 5 years.</a> This means startup porn is statistically designed to ruin your life.A business is hard work. Easing your way into business is a superpower and all the startup porn ignores that. The startup peddlers tell you to walk away from everything and start a business. That’s stupid advice.

Startup Porn

Social media makes this version of porn really easy.You can sabotage other people in the comment’s section of their posts or in the hidden chamber of secrets known as direct messages. Seeking revenge feels good. Seeing people lose, so you can, win seems obvious.When you eradicate the idea of winners and losers from your life, you welcome the gift of opportunity through the door of your mind.The more people you help, the better you do for yourself. If you help people, they will help you in return.

Revenge Porn

Porn consisting of people having sex is not good for you either. Most of this content shows scenes and acts you can never replicate. The bar you have for physical looks and crazy sexual acts will only increase.Drop porn for real-life sex with your partner. It’s much better.

People “Doing It” Porn

"People who consume content of celebrities and influencers are part of a community, not a group of people that are there to serve their ambitions.”

The secret to kill all forms of porn is discipline.Discipline yourself to focus on what you know is good for you. You have a list of habits already that you probably follow — like exercise, reading, leisure time, meditation — and you can focus your time there and get far better returns than the endless porn-fuelled addictions of meaningless nonsense.Porn is an addictive distraction to doing the work you know you want to do. Getting started with your life’s work each day is hard, but so is continually distracting yourself with life porn.

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Porn ruins lives. And you don’t need to be a porno star on viagra to witness its devastating effects. Porn is what I call addictive habits. These habits are like porn because they start off as small…

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For me, no. When I pay for something naughty, I prefer it to be dirty. And when I pay $35 to access one girl’s content, I want it very dirty.But it’s not a total loss. Belle is nothing if not creative, and I will really enjoy scrolling through her photoshoots all month.

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