Wilk Wilkinson
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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But then I also started to realize personally that this was the ugliest thing that I could possibly be getting involved in. And it started to affect my life and my mindset personally. So getting beyond that became a personal goal of mine. I still wanted to kind of show people how wrong they were, you know, people that I disagreed with. And I did it in a lot of very poor ways.
And I realized, I kind of had this epiphany one day, because I was going to start this haters happy hour and start pointing out all... Start pointing out... It would be popular. Well, I thought so. And I was going to start pointing out in a podcast format how, you know, all the different ugly things that people were saying to me. I know you've heard them before or heard things like this before.
But people telling me, you know, they hope my house burns down or they hope these terrible things happen to my family. And just all of this just ugly, ugly stuff. And I'm like... The direction that I'm going is not the right direction. So I started to do this thing and started feel-good stuff and mindset stuff and started talking about the things that...
I was using personally to level out my own anger and to do that. And then being somebody who just believes in the tenets of freedom, I found that the ultimate freedom kind of like, you know, Viktor Frankl talks about is there's only one thing that I really have and that's the ability to control my own mind and how I react to things.
And that's kind of how I ended up in this depolarization space, Drew. It was one of these things where I was not going to allow all of these things outside of my control to control me and control my emotions.
That made that my journey.
There was a brief meeting, and Jay's talked about it, and I know I've talked to Francis about that as well. So I will say that there was a very brief meeting of which I can't discuss the details, but it's one of these things that the world didn't expect to happen.
Sure, I mean, there's a number of things. And I start with a baseline of gratitude and personal accountability, like I said. But when I start talking about gratitude, I talk about gratitude for a very specific reason, because I think gratitude is the genesis of happiness. And when... people start to seek out things that they're grateful for, that becomes ingrained in their mindset every day.
The reticular activating system will then start to seek out points of affirmation constantly throughout the day, and you'll begin to see many more things that you're grateful for. The other thing is... and this all ties into the personal accountability thing, but trying to stay away from that perpetual victim mentality.
There are so many forces out there, Drew, that feed on that fog model, the fear, outrage, and grievance. We never saw anything more evident than that fear, outrage, and grievance model, than the time over the last four years, four and a half years, during the COVID pandemic, right? It was constant fear porn. It was constant. We've got to scare everybody. We've got to scare the moms.
We've got to scare the old people. We've got to scare the kids. I mean, it was constant fear porn and trying to keep people scared. And then... By keeping some people scared, we could keep them outraged. And then at that point, then they can play on those grievances. Not to say that there isn't real grievances, but there are real and perceived grievances.
And there were grievance grifters out there around every corner using that. So using your own mind, your own strength within your mind to...
to stay away from that fear, outrage, and grievance model, or at least recognize it and steer yourself more towards what you're grateful for, the fact that I'm not a victim, I will not be a victim, and I'm going to live the life that I want to live based on what I know is real and what I know is in my backyard, and I'm going to work on that and not pretend like everything that's happening
in Washington, D.C. or in some faraway place is affecting me personally at my kitchen table. That is, for me... Keep going. Yeah, that is for me one of the biggest things. We, like I said, in this age of social media, Drew, and in the things that we see online, far too many people have started to bring in those things. You know, I'm a Midwestern guy, right? I grew up in small town USA.
In the middle of this country and the vast majority, especially at the beginning of the pandemic, the vast majority of those things we just weren't seeing in my backyard. You know, I had conversations with nurses and doctors and things from outstate Minnesota.
that had never seen a case of COVID and didn't see one for the first several months that this thing was on mainland, but yet their hospital was closed down and they couldn't see their patients and they're doing online stuff. And it was just, you know, I'm having these conversations with people and I'm like, okay,
We have to learn again how to compartmentalize things and realize that not everything we see online and not everything we see in the news is happening in our backyard. And once we learn to compartmentalize that and then emotionally steer ourselves into the right place. we can actually make real progress.
You know, we've seen far too many people, Drew, who have, you know, just eradicated relationships within their lives because of things that they saw online, you know, whether it be, you know, whether it be relationships with their own parents or their children or their in-laws or people that they've been friends with for their entire lives.
I've heard the stories, I've had conversations with these people And if somebody could have just gotten to them ahead of time and said, hey, let's have this conversation before you're ready to throw this away. A maternal or paternal relationship that you will never, ever be able to rebuild. Let's find out why this person believes what they believe.
What is it about their life experience that got them to this point? If we have those conversations preemptively.
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