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Everything Is F*cked (Audiobook) Mark Manson

Notus & Friends

CHAPTER

The Clown Car Mind

People whose minds or clown cars are easily manipulated by whatever person or group makes them feel good consistently. The thinking brain has been bullied and abused by the feeling brain for so long that it develops a sort of Stockholm syndrome. With the clown car, there's no independent thought and no ability to measure contradiction or switch beliefs or opinions. This is why cultish leaders always start by encouraging people to shut off their thinking brains as much as possible. It's hard to pull someone out of the clown car once they're in it.

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