Jax’s review of The Black Book of Power > Likes and Comments
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It's not clear if you read the book.
Jax, you were raised in one cult and fought your way out of a second, so the detector you built is the last thing I would spend a reply arguing with.
That quoted line is non-existent. You took threshold addiction to mean that collecting books, where a person buys 40 books about change and executes none of them, is a verdict on every other book in the market.
Since you raised the pockets, I'll answer it too. I priced it there because it filters, and I would rather have 100 readers who execute than 10,000 who shelve it. Anyone who wants to weigh that as self-interest is weighing it incorrectly, as it is mechanism to overcome threshold addiction. I sell fewer copies as a result, and that's ok. The price creates skin in the game before page one. It's your first irreversible move. Finding the funds is the exact energy the protocols require. If you can't solve this problem, you won't execute a 21-day protocol that demands daily discomfort.
You are also right that naming things is a sales technique. Give a mechanism a proprietary name and it feels like a discovery, and that effect is documented in Chapter 11 of my own book, which makes me a practitioner of the thing you're accusing me of.
I tell readers not to start other books during the 21 days of the protocol, including my own second book. That is the most 'cult-shaped' instruction I have. The reason is that a person who reaches for a new book on day 9 is diluting the one thing that requires consecutive days. Weigh that however your experience tells you to.
The book ends by arguing that no authority outside you is required and that the identity is yours to choose, and I run the group so people actually leave it. That is the structure a cult cannot survive, and it is the only defense worth making here.
Mind you, an alarm that fires on everything is what two escapes cost you, and I would rather you overshoot on me than undershoot on whatever cult finds you next.
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Jax, you were raised in one cult and fought your way out of a second, so the detector you built is the last thing I would spend a reply arguing with.That quoted line is non-existent. You took threshold addiction to mean that collecting books, where a person buys 40 books about change and executes none of them, is a verdict on every other book in the market.
Since you raised the pockets, I'll answer it too. I priced it there because it filters, and I would rather have 100 readers who execute than 10,000 who shelve it. Anyone who wants to weigh that as self-interest is weighing it incorrectly, as it is mechanism to overcome threshold addiction. I sell fewer copies as a result, and that's ok. The price creates skin in the game before page one. It's your first irreversible move. Finding the funds is the exact energy the protocols require. If you can't solve this problem, you won't execute a 21-day protocol that demands daily discomfort.
You are also right that naming things is a sales technique. Give a mechanism a proprietary name and it feels like a discovery, and that effect is documented in Chapter 11 of my own book, which makes me a practitioner of the thing you're accusing me of.
I tell readers not to start other books during the 21 days of the protocol, including my own second book. That is the most 'cult-shaped' instruction I have. The reason is that a person who reaches for a new book on day 9 is diluting the one thing that requires consecutive days. Weigh that however your experience tells you to.
The book ends by arguing that no authority outside you is required and that the identity is yours to choose, and I run the group so people actually leave it. That is the structure a cult cannot survive, and it is the only defense worth making here.
Mind you, an alarm that fires on everything is what two escapes cost you, and I would rather you overshoot on me than undershoot on whatever cult finds you next.