The Nine Laws Released By Castalia House

Castalia House Releases The Nine Laws:

Castalia House is proud to announce its first mindset book, THE NINE LAWS, by Ivan Throne. Ivan, also known as Dark Triad Man on Gab and Twitter, is an impressive man who has overcome many difficulties and life-challenges through accepting the callous disregard of the world and ruthlessly imposing his own will upon it.

There is an excerpt at the link. It has already gone to #1 in the Consciousness and Thought and Philosophy categories.

There was this in the comments, from someone who hadn’t even read the book:

You could save some money and read Kipling’s “IF” and get the same sentimental hogwash.

I suppose there are a lot of people who need self-help pep talks and some sort of course to follow whether it’s Dale Carnegie, AAs Big Book, and “ah, Grasshopper, you must find the storm of calm in the center of your soul, and the lightning with flash from your eyes.”

It reminded me of this over at Scott Adams:

I’m going to tell you how Master Persuaders convert embarrassment into energy. It’s a learned skill.

I often talk about the benefits I got from taking the Dale Carnegie course. One of the skills you learn in that class is how to convert your anxiousness about public speaking into excitement and positive energy. I personally observed the Dale Carnegie course turning a few dozen introverts into people who were enthusiastic about speaking in front of a crowd. It was astonishing.

Part of the Dale Carnegie process involved each student doing something embarrassing in front of the class just to get used to the feeling, and to know you could survive it. It is one of the best skills you can learn because our egos tend to hold us back. We fear embarrassment so we don’t risk it. That limits our potential…

Master Persuaders don’t process humiliation the same way as others. They convert it to energy, the same way Dale Carnegie students learn to convert anxiousness to excitement. It’s a learned skill. And it is literally the opposite of having a thin skin. It only looks the same because of confirmation bias.

Adams, no lightweight in accomplishments, says the Dale Carnegie course will change your life, I’m sure in no small part because of what he describes above.

Altering your perception of stress is one of the most powerful abilities you can acquire, and Carnegie’s method is an interesting way to acquire it which I would not have thought of.

I developed it by viewing the strain of amygdala activation as identical to the pain of lifting weights. When I lifted as a kid, I thought about being big and powerful in the future. That trained my mind to transpose my consciousness during the pain to what I would get in the future. When the gains came, I saw the results, was enthused, and that enthusiasm mixed with the pain, actually making me embrace the pain, and even enjoy it.

At some point I transposed that to the idea of negative emotional sensations. Now when I feel stress, strain, fear, anger, or other bad feelings, I embrace them, and feel them fully, thinking about how strong my amygdala will be in the future. It changes the strain’s effects massively, compared to the rabbits who fear it, and go into conniptions of torment when it happens.

So the idea that nobody can share cognitive hacks that have helped them is just silly. Your mind is a computer, you are the one who programs it, and you can pick up useful snippets of code anywhere.

I have a copy of The Nine Laws, and I will dig into it soon and get a review up. I have no doubt I will be stealing a few snippets of code from it here and there, and they will help immensely in the rigors to come.