Final bathroom almost finished, just a little grouting and it’ll be good to go. Grateful I get to do work I enjoy for my own and my family’s benefit #gratefulchain #PoW 
Thank god for those men. My grandad was one of them and my stepdad another. Both war veterans. Not saying I aspire to war but if definitely makes warriors of the men that survive and reinvent themselves. Both were successful business men and gentle giants post war.
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
Wabi Sabi Derek. Thank you for all you do. Keep it real.
This old guy once said to me when I asked him how he was doing, “Why complain, who would listen?” I used to think he was saying, nobody would listen because nobody cares but I’ve just had a ah,ha moment, after recently reading “Atlas Shrugged”… I now think he was saying, the quality and type of people that would listen (aka moochers/victims), the sort that would sympathise with you are not the sort of people he’d want to surround himself with.
I think the producers would say, “all that might be true, but now what? What are you going to do about it? What action will you take to change your self-created circumstances that you now, no longer desire?”
Great! Legendary book! Then … when you are having a crappy day take Rand’s advice and just keep moving forward, one step at a time. Whatever is in front of you (or behind you for that matter) just focus on the next step forward and then the next and then the next. No reasons, no excuses, no noise, just the next step.
Suggest you read “Atlas Shrugged” Ayn Rand.
Ok I’m going to give this a shot:
1st premise: our subconscious mind is 1million times more powerful than our conscious mind
2nd premise: we didn’t program our subconscious mind (unless we’ve done a LOT of meditation/hypnosis work later in life), our early caregivers or our framing limited inner child created our subconscious playlist
3rd premise: fear shuts down all conscious thought and all but physically essential subconscious programs
4th premise: Humans are herd animals
Ok so this is how I see it:
Most of us are sheeple and when we feel safe we are capable of conscious thought and action. The moment we see a wolf we will herd and if the herd zigs we zig, if the herd zags, we zag. Covid behaviour is a great example. Our ability to think is biologically impaired as part of our natural fear response.
Some of us have seen and survived REAL life or death situations and have grown stronger from this experience, we’ve learned to manage and/or mitigate our fear response appropriately to the perceived threat based on real evidence of the threat, we’ve learnt to look beyond the propaganda. We are the Triceratops. We see a wolf and shrug. Our ability to think clearly, stays intact during a crisis.
Some of us are wolves, we intentionally manipulate the sheeple for a free lunch. However wolves are also pack animals… and when a pack of wolves comes into conflict with a family of Triceratops, I wouldn’t want to be a wolf. This is where we are now.
Back to your original query, I agree the Austrians explain behaviour of the sheeple in ‘safe’ times and the triceratops all of the time.
But under the influence of fear sheeple’s behaviour is more predictable… they are not capable of rational thought and action under these conditions, only herd mentality/action.
The other issue is the sheeple and triceratops are potentially interchangeable depending upon the situational stimuli and this comes down to an individual’s level of self efficacy in the prescribed situation. Covid was far less likely to trigger fear in a healthy person who felt self efficacy around their health than any other person either sick or healthy.
I may have just confused you more but I hope this has made some sense.
Ok I’m going to give this a shot:
1st premise: our subconscious mind is 1million times more powerful than our conscious mind
2nd premise: we didn’t program our subconscious mind (unless we’ve done a LOT of meditation/hypnosis work later in life), our early caregivers or our framing limited inner child created our subconscious playlist
3rd premise: fear shuts down all conscious thought and all but physically essential subconscious programs
4th premise: Humans are herd animals
Ok so this is how I see it:
Most of us are sheeple and when we feel safe we are capable of conscious thought and action. The moment we see a wolf we will herd and if the herd zigs we zig, if the herd zags, we zag. Covid behaviour is a great example. Our ability to think is biologically impaired as part of our natural fear response.
Some of us have seen and survived REAL life or death situations and have grown stronger from this experience, we’ve learned to manage and/or mitigate our fear response appropriately to the perceived threat based on real evidence of the threat, we’ve learnt to look beyond the propaganda. We are the Triceratops. We see a wolf and shrug. Our ability to think clearly, stays intact during a crisis.
Some of us are wolves, we intentionally manipulate the sheeple for a free lunch. However wolves are also pack animals… and when a pack of wolves comes into conflict with a family of Triceratops, I wouldn’t want to be a wolf. This is where we are now.
Back to your original query, I agree the Austrians explain behaviour of the sheeple in ‘safe’ times and the triceratops all of the time.
But under the influence of fear sheeple’s behaviour is more predictable… they are not capable of rational thought and action under these conditions, only herd mentality/action.
The other issue is the sheeple and triceratops are potentially interchangeable depending upon the situational stimuli and this comes down to an individual’s level of self efficacy in the prescribed situation. Covid was far less likely to trigger fear in a healthy person who felt self efficacy around their health than any other person either sick or healthy.
I may have just confused you more but I hope this has made some sense.
Ok I’m going to give this a shot:
1st premise: our subconscious mind is 1million times more powerful than our conscious mind
2nd premise: we didn’t program our subconscious mind (unless we’ve done a LOT of meditation/hypnosis work later in life), our early caregivers or our framing limited inner child created our subconscious playlist
3rd premise: fear shuts down all conscious thought and all but physically essential subconscious programs
4th premise: Humans are herd animals
Ok so this is how I see it:
Most of us are sheeple and when we feel safe we are capable of conscious thought and action. The moment we see a wolf we will herd and if the herd zigs we zig, if the herd zags, we zag. Covid behaviour is a great example. Our ability to think is biologically impaired as part of our natural fear response.
Some of us have seen and survived REAL life or death situations and have grown stronger from this experience, we’ve learned to manage and/or mitigate our fear response appropriately to the perceived threat based on real evidence of the threat, we’ve learnt to look beyond the propaganda. We are the Triceratops. We see a wolf and shrug. Our ability to think clearly, stays intact during a crisis.
Some of us are wolves, we intentionally manipulate the sheeple for a free lunch. However wolves are also pack animals… and when a pack of wolves comes into conflict with a family of Triceratops, I wouldn’t want to be a wolf. This is where we are now.
Back to your original query, I agree the Austrians explain behaviour of the sheeple in ‘safe’ times and the triceratops all of the time.
But under the influence of fear sheeple’s behaviour is more predictable… they are not capable of rational thought and action under these conditions, only herd mentality/action.
The other issue is the sheeple and triceratops are potentially interchangeable depending upon the situational stimuli and this comes down to an individual’s level of self efficacy in the prescribed situation. Covid was far less likely to trigger fear in a healthy person who felt self efficacy around their health than any other person either sick or healthy.
I may have just confused you more but I hope this has made some sense.
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That made me chuckle.
"Atlas Shrugged" is indeed a call to arms, however "The Tuttle Twins and the search for Atlas" is a really good kids storybook loosely based on Ayn Rand's dome.
Highly recommend along with all the Tuttle Twins titles.
https://tuttletwins.com/product/the-tuttle-twins-and-the-search-for-atlas/
Thanks so much… I appreciate the tip. Been looking for a good kid’s book with a similar message.
Ohh, send me a photo of your mum’s bathroom reno please. 🙏
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance”
Thomas Jeffereson
Being a country girl from a cattle station (ranch if you are American) I can’t think of any better way to explain the world.
#yomamasofiat
#yodadasofiat he still reads the newspaper cover to cover and considers himself worldly and informed.
#yomamasofiat she thinks “Atlas Shrugged” is a novel not a call to arms.
#ProofofWork #PoW
Recently finished tiling this. 12mths ago I’d never tiled anything in my life. Still needs a shower screen, shower rose and taps then we are good to go. 
Just finished all Ayn Rand’s 3 novels. All were excellent but “Atlas Shrugged” was the best
“The Future is Faster than you think” was excellent.
And something a bit different, “The Biology of Belief”
