I swear to god it doesnāt even enter into these peopleās minds the question of āwhat is the money that I want to take when Iām taking it off the table.ā
I try so fucking hard to get them to reframe, but itās the most stubborn mental block conceivable.
YOU DONT āSELLā GOOD MONEY TO GET MORE OF A SHITTY MONEY PEOPLE!!
Mate most people donāt even understand frame, let alone reframing, let alone what incentives they might have in any given situation to consider their current frame and opposing frames.
You might as well be asking a dog to solve an algebra problem - itās beyond them.
Well for the sake of argument I certainly donāt *explain* that Iām trying to reframe or make any notion to what that concept even is, i just ask them questions that should make them think about it differentlyā¦ if they have the capacity to do so obviously. š¤£
Itās not about capacity, itās about desire to solve an articulated problem.
Bitcoiners are too quick to blame orangepill recipients when they donāt get it without consideration for if they got the pain they have implicated in dispensing that orangepill, right.
Most likely youāve first approached with the wrong frame and subsequently failed to bring them into your frame.
Itās on us to dispense orangepills - not on recipients to swallow them. We are after all, opposed to coercion.
If you articulate the problem being solved correctly for the audience, they will swallow. If you donāt address their pain then they wonāt.
Completely agree, and mostly my comments are really just me being exhausted with the skull density of the average person, rather than commentary on a specific conversation š
I get it mate. This is my day job talking - taking normies through complicated things which they intuit they want/need, but they canāt put their finger on why or what or how exactly. I always thought thereād be tons of my type in Bitcoin but thereās like 4 of us.
But I donāt focus on their skull density; I let them tell me in their own words what that pain looks like and I adapt my spiel/orangepilling to them, and then meet them where they are.
Pills donāt go down well when forced. I try to make sure Im never forcing things down their throat and when I have to employ aeroplanes itās because I know whatās best and they donāt yet but Iām gonna feed them.
Itās weird when you get into this position, but after some time you realise itās necessary.
Honestly, the best orange pill is just being rich.
Like most people, I ignored Bitcoin for a long timeā¦ then, someone I trust mentioned the then-current $ amount of his Bitcoin position and it got my attention.
He didnāt have to discuss inflation, difficulty adjustments or UTXOsā¦ he only had to be rich.
This obviously only works in circles of extreme trust, which are quite uncommon.
You were reference sold. That works sometimes, most will want to triangulate that datapoint (usually ~3rd step) rather than trust it alone but sounds like you trusted him enough to ābuyā on that alone.
Thatās not the common experience though. Already rich people are the easiest to orange pill because they already get fiat for the most part; Bitcoiners are just showing them how to stop the bleeding.
Reference selling usually only works for small amounts, ie doubtful you put all your wealth into BTC based on hearing just that chat.
Itās a good icebreaker, itās not good for scale.
You are 100% correct.
āGot my attentionā ā¦not, became a maxi on that alone.
I then triangulated with another trusted friend, bought a small amount, learned, bought, learned, bought, learnedā¦
The scaling solution is the suite of resources that are now available for those interested in building conviction.
Yes the resources are fortunately there now.
I was more trying to paint the picture of average onboarding.
Funny story regarding framing:
I once took a friend to pubkey for a beer. Heās big into stonks and was curious about my gains during a week when number went up.
After I explained how things worked, he remarked,
āYes, but your gains are unrealized until you cash out!ā.
I looked him dead in the eye and said,
āThe beer in your belly was paid for directly from those gains. Whatās more realized than beer in belly? There is bo cashing out, just stacking, spending, and replacingā.
I think that cleared things up a bit.
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