I need to tell you a secret:They want you sad and lonely.
Big pessimism is in bed with big pharma, big business and big government.
They create reasons for you to be sad and sick and afraid, and then they sell you the pills and the rules that will make you "happy" and "safe".
It's a TRAP.
They manufacture the problem, and then they sell you their "solution".
Don't fall for it, bro.
You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
This life is a beautiful miracle, and you can choose to live each day with wonder, adventure and hope.
Most depression and sickness is caused by a few simple things:
Toxic food, toxic lifestyle, lack of purpose and isolation.
The solution for this is not more pills, more screen time or deciding you are a victim who needs to be protected.
The solution is to fight back against big pessimism with everything you have!
There are two main ways to do this:
First, you need to experience a baseline of health by eating well, sleeping well and getting outside - this will give you the physical vitality and strength to fight "physical pessimism", aka sickness and lethargy.
Second, you need a deeper source of meaning to defeat the even scarier "spiritual" pessimism in your life.
In his book "Man's Search for Meaning", Viktor Frankl identifies 3 different paths to finding this deeper meaning:
Creative Purpose – Bring something into the world that wasn’t there before.
Build, write, design, nurture, or solve problems in a way that leaves a mark.
Experiential Purpose – Fully receive and savor life’s moments.
Immerse yourself in love, beauty, nature, and connection; let them shape you.
Attitudinal Purpose – Choose your stance when life gets hard.
Meet suffering with courage, dignity, and purpose, even when you can’t change the circumstances.
Stack it all together, and you can go to war against big pessimism even when you are scared.
This is a daily war.
Big pessimism does not sleep. Just when you think you've won, it will creep back in!
Big media, big pharma, and big government are all pushing big pessimism.
They want you to feel sorry for yourself and feel angry and jealous of others.
We can't let them ever get us down.
We cannot let them win!
And we can't ever stop fighting.
This is where you find happiness and purpose - in the fight.
And the more you fight, the stronger you get.
So use the tools, and go to war.
Go listen to an epic battle soundtrack and go to war against the thing you have been hiding from!
You got this,
Ben
P.S. Whatever you do, don't let big pessimism get on your skin!
Use The Tallowed Truth instead!
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