Hi, this is Against Everyone with Connor Abeeb.

Friends, welcome to the third episode in the How to Live Beyond series of episodes on Against Everyone with Connor Abbe.

To open 2023, each episode in this series considers a set of tools or a way of thinking that are useful, but that we're ready to go beyond this year.

So far, we've looked at the new age movement with Mitch Horowitz. that are useful, but that we're ready to go beyond this year.

So far, we've looked at the new age movement

with Mitch Horowitz and also psychedelics and sorcery

with Lisa Romero.

So these episodes focus on techniques and traditions

we use to cope with and confront the challenges of our time.

But risk, if we can't consider them deeply enough,

getting us stuck back in those challenges, or worse, making it harder to overcome them,

or even worse, funneling their strengths back into those challenges. These episodes aren't a call

to forget about these techniques and traditions, but instead a call to bring forward what they've offered without the barbs of the problems they're tangled up with.

This time, I'm talking about the problem with money magic, abundance training, vision boards, manifesting, not to mention all sorts of team building corporate exercises and so on.

And one of the big problems is that it works really well.

The first level of that problem is that it's annoying that it works because a lot of the people

doing it are like life coaches who make you want to die and business

gurus who want you to put post-it notes on your mirror with annoying, trite affirmations

on them and conference room, corporate consultants who just, I don't know, like everything

that comes out of their mouths sounds really bullshy. They can be, let's face it,

unbearable to listen to. And so when you discover that actually they've got something going on

there for them, it's really frustrating. How frustrating is it that they are in fact wielding tools

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