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Mitch Horowitz | Mind Magic, Esoteric Suppression, & The Materialist Blockade
Self-Image and Clarity, Internalized Peer Pressure
Achieving an optimal life requires absolute, private clarity about one's true desires, stripped of cultural and societal peer pressure. Most people repeat a very limited menu of rote thoughts to themselves, which William James argued becomes their destiny. Recognizing that "familiarity is not truth" allows an individual to break away from conceptual notions of reality crafted by others.