Did you know the word gullible cannot be found in any dictionary? A fool and his money are soon parted. Proverbs 2120.

How to avoid getting exploited, cheated, scammed, conned, and screwed in life. In this episode, we'll be looking at the psychology of con artistry and scams.

This is going to be a practical episode with many useful tips that will save you thousands of dollars and maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars throughout your life. So this is worth listening to.

I have actually quite a bit of personal experience with this. This is a bit of a personal episode for me

which I'll get into here in a moment. But before we get

into that I want to tell you a story actually there's going to be a lot of interesting

stories throughout this is

this episode so stay tuned for those some of them will be amusing entertaining the first story I have for you is I was at a

Enlightenment intensive this was maybe five years ago or so I was in Canada in the Toronto area doing a week-long

sort of meditation and contemplation retreat.

And there we were sharing stories and it was interesting because there was a man there about in his in his 40s who was sharing stories about his family life and he was sharing certain traumas that he went through growing up in Canada there.

He came from a family of hunters and trappers. They would trap all

sorts of animals, his father and his brothers, and so he was part of this. And he was telling

me about this one particular incident where he was telling me the

the craftiness of the fox.

And I still remember to this day it was a very

poignant example.

So he was talking about how tricky these foxes are.

And what a fox will do, a fox will walk up to a house,

you know, near the forest. and let's say there's a house cat that lives on this property and the fox will start to jump up and down and get all playful

trying to play with this cat and the cat usually the cat

would be afraid of the fox but but here the fox is jumping up and down and

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