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Wonderful book, I will no longer be controlled and nudged into conformity. I refuse to drive on the left from now on I choose the middle path through the traffic. My first journey will be to cemetery where I will tell Uncle Ahmed to get up and move his lazy arse, covid is just a cold, and avoiding infection is just mind control. The next time I see a man transitioning into a woman, but not quite pulling it off I will stand in the street point and shout as it says in the book “ the emperor has no clothes on” and everyone will see the light and agree with me. Finding an authentic purpose in life is one of the most important guardrails against undue influence. This is intrinsic to the world’s religions. For the agnostic or atheist, you can find also purpose by self-individuating (as Jung called it) through meaningful work, family and community. Free Your Mind" works like a mind-map of techniques and guidelines which can help readers in overcoming and defeating brainwash and manipulation. The book how "Warfare is evolving; And all the world's a stage; Anything we touch is a weapon." with respect to mind reading, persuasion and provokation. A book like 'Free your mind' is actually a best guide on the current culture. Many times we fall for something, not analysing whether it is required or not. Keeping oneself immune to manipulation is the key. Have you heard of Dunning Kruger effect? There were much more phenomenons explianed in the book which was a new phrase for me😅. My books Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories, Manhood: The Bare Realityand Womanhood: The Bare Reality attracted worldwide media coverage and critical acclaim. I gave a TEDxtalk about the series. A Channel 4 documentary based on Womanhoodcalled 100 Vaginashas now been aired around the world. That led to being commissioned by The Guardian to direct another documentary, SCARS.
This connection between government and broadcast media is brought up to date with a fascinating section on the ways in which behavioral science, or ‘nudging’, as it is often called in the U.K., has infiltrated the world of television programme-making. The U.K.’s Behavioural Insights Team published a report in collaboration with Sky that proposed a suite of suggestions about how programming could potentially influence the climate agenda. Psychology used to be about diagnosing and fixing people, but now it is as much about predicting and manipulating you, thanks to adoption of behavioural science by governments and corporations. Human beings are subject to biases which are used against us, mercilessly, such as our conformity and authority biases.
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Dodsworth and Fagan examine the numerous strategies used by manipulators, including huge tech corporations, politicians, and advertisements. They feature conversations with professionals in mind control, such as monks and magicians, illuminating their dishonest methods.
When you are manipulated, half of the problem is the messaging itself, but half of the problem is you. Sometimes natural human foibles are being weaponised against you, and sometimes it’s your own unique emotional landmines. It’s the work of a lifetime to understand ourselves and stop self-haunting – meditation offers an important solution.The need to reclaim sovereignty of your mind has never been so timely, because the combination of sophisticated behavioural psychology with Big Tech and AI means we will be more vulnerable than at any other point in history.
The book promotes critical thinking, giving readers the tools they need to regain control and defend themselves against the relentless assault of deception in contemporary culture.In this era of Social Media, you can find tons of Influencers. How do they seek the phrase 'Influencers'? They typically inject throughts in the listener's mind about someting which in turn manipulates them to follow their words. 20 chapters in 'Free your Mind' covers various aspect like Realiziation, immunisation, overthinking, social media distancing, siding with the right aspects and much more.
Sometimes we tend to think so hard, we lose our gut instinct and fall prey to our biases. You can debias the mind during any form of mindful meditation, by improving ‘interoceptive awareness’. Just one 15-minute mindfulness session can reduce the incidence of a particular cognitive bias by 34%. Counter-intuitively, to free your mind, don’t overthink it. It is more frequent that we fall into the trap of deciding on something without thinking whether we actually are in need. Now that influencers are the biggest manipulators, we need to be immune to our minds without wavering thoughts. Nowadays people know how to inject thoughts into people's minds to make them fall for it. The book explains a lot of phenomena that might seem new but actually, something we are experiencing. Today, people searching for meaning shift seamlessly from one ‘current thing’ to another. You can see it play out on social media accounts, when emojis get swapped out for one temporary crusade after another. Crucially, nature abhors a vacuum and we are more susceptible to cults and mass movements if we don’t know what we stand for. If people are empty inside, if they do not have some kind of guiding principles, then they risk being filled up by another ideology. As G. K. Chesterton said, “Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.” We must all decide what we stand for if we don’t want to fall for anything .Analytic meditation is a more advanced form of meditation practised by Buddhists, including the Dalai Lama. It teaches you to research and know your mind. Pondering the thoughts that influence your behaviour and attitudes, which can bring about inner change, a more positive state of mind and psychological awareness. My recent focus on fear follows a trajectory of interest in the taboo and what makes us who we are. You might say I went from pillow talk to nightmares. You see, it all started with the Bare Realityseries…
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