About this episode
You've built a toolkit over the last several episodes. Logical reasoning. Causal thinking. Mental models. Serious intellectual firepower.
Now the uncomfortable question: When's the last time you actually used it to make a decision?
Not a decision you think you made. One where you evaluated the options yourself. Weighed the evidence. Formed your own conclusion.
Here's what most of us do instead: we Google it, ask ChatGPT, go with whatever has the most stars. We feel like we're deciding, but we're not. We're just choosing which borrowed answer to accept.
That gap between thinking you're deciding and actually deciding is where everything falls apart. And there's a name for it.
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What Mindjacking Actually Is
Mindjacking.
Not the sci-fi version where hackers seize your brain through neural implants. The real version. Where you voluntarily hand over your thinking because someone else already did the work.
It's not dramatic. It's convenient. The algorithm ranked the results. The expert weighed in. The crowd already decided. Why duplicate the effort?
Mindjacking is different from ordinary influence. You choose it. Every single time. Nobody forces you to stop evaluating. You volunteer, because forming your own conclusion is harder than borrowing someone else's.
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