Scott Carney

That might be early.

It might be 2013.

But yeah, James Arthur Ray, he was one of these guys who teaches you can manifest reality if you just pray or think right in the right way.

It's that power of positive thinking stuff, which is a very popular ideology, which is very problematic because the world actually has physical laws.

You can't just pray your way into a whole new reality.

He basically locked people in a sweat lodge, telling them to overcome their internal struggles.

And I believe it was three people who died at that sweat lodge in Arizona.

and yeah true tragedy and then this sort of stuff happens a lot in a lot of different ways usually you know and the interesting here's the interesting thing about about these spiritual gurus all of them all of the ones that i've written about over the years have a kernel of wisdom which is amazing right have had these insights that the world is fucked up right there are um

I don't want to say conspiracies, but there are like things in the world that are not right and they identify them.

And then they have practices that at least at the first really are beneficial.

Like if you've never meditated before, you've never taken a cold shower, never taken a sauna, and then you start doing that stuff.

your life is almost always going to get better regardless of what the protocols are, because it's something new and there's a physiological component to it.

And, you know, it doesn't really matter what the practice is.

It's sort of like

i call it the law of speedy gains have you ever heard of the log diminishing returns you start something and then over you know and over time you put more and more effort in before you know to get more and more returns but the the flip side of that is if you start something new you've never done before you have an incredibly fast learning rate like if i tried to teach you ballroom dancing actually i'm a terrible dancer so i wouldn't do that but like let's say i took a ballroom dancing class

I would get so much better in a week.

Like so much better.

I'd be like, you know, doing the cha-cha a little bit.

Not great, but I'd be doing it a little bit.

That's the law of speedy gains.