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Attention is energy and true wealth; whoever focuses attention can use imagination to construct reality as they want it.
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Reality construction
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The central model is that Caesar succeeded because he was a myth maker: a man of destiny who changes history by constructing a new reality that absorbs and alters the old one.
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Jiang says inner individuality and creativity are the system's greatest threat because if people deny imposed reality and generate their own, the whole structure collapses.
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"Yeah, right. Well, it's because the idea of individuality, right? The idea of individual creativity is the greatest threat to the system because your..."
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"We watch movies and we think this is a reality. Okay? So the question then is why are these people making this effort to..."
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"In only... 55 years. And the last question is, why did they kill him? Because he was killed, actually, by his friends, by his..."
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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