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The Jordan Harbinger Show

515: James Jani | Repelling the Law of Attraction Myth

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

James Jani (@jamesvjani) is a YouTuber who makes documentary-style videos about money, business, and life, including The Law of Attraction: Fact or Fiction? and The Dark World of New Age Gurus.

What We Discuss with James Jani:
  • Why "hustle culture" is a bankrupt paradigm that makes it easy for fake gurus to prey upon society's very young and very desperate.
  • Why the so-called Law of Attraction that tells you you only have to think positive thoughts to "manifest" the good things you want out of life is bunk.
  • How studying philosophy exercises your grey matter and sharpens your critical thinking skills (so you can better resist nonsense like the Law of Attraction).
  • Why the Just World Fallacy that explains away suffering as a deserved consequence of wrongdoing is just a dangerously convenient way for people to bypass empathy for the world's unlucky have-nots.
  • How we can use street epistemology to help people question their unfounded beliefs.
  • And much more...

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0:02.8

That was a really funny quote.

0:04.3

I don't know where I saw this, but it was like, so felt is like, basically the advice your parents give you,

0:08.9

but you don't listen to it. Like you need like someone who's in the, um, the like guru position to tell you,

0:13.6

you're like, wow, like this is, this is like revolutionary.

0:21.2

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger.

0:23.3

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0:34.8

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0:39.9

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0:46.4

and become a better critical thinker.

0:48.6

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0:52.1

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0:58.1

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1:04.7

Just go to JordanHarbinger.com slash start to get started or to help somebody else get started with us,

1:10.3

which of course I always appreciate. Today on the show, you might have seen this crap on YouTube where somebody talks about finding some bracelet in a Chinese market

1:18.9

and they start having luck and they get a promotion and then they find a boyfriend and whatnot.

1:23.0

Have you all seen these? Maybe you've heard about the law of attraction.

1:26.6

Where if you think about things in the right way, you can manifest them into your life through the power of your mind

1:31.6

and the vibrations of the universe, etc.

1:34.3

None of this, of course, is scientific. It is all designed to sell you something.

1:39.5

Whether it's the aforementioned piece of junk bracelet that they get off towel-bow or just false hope,

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