Give a Man a fish and you will destroy him

Did I get your attention? So maybe that is a bit extreme but is it? Lets do a tale of 2 people they could be men or even children. So if you give person 1 a fish, great, he eats it. The other one, number 2, is taught how to fish so he is set for life, he or she can not only feed themself but they can start a business. They have learned. the value of hard work. They understand the value of creation. They will learn how to create an action and receive a benefit or causation. They will learn self reliance. They will learn to be independent. They will not ever have to depend on anyone. You will have begun on the path of self reliance. What about the satisfaction of accomplishment? Isnt that one of the greatest joys?

Give a man a fish vs teach a man to fish is a bit trite. It doesnt explain the cascade of benefits of learning how to take care of yourself. In fact there is so much that goes into learning how to fish. I dont fish but I can guess you have to learn a sequence of actions. you have to buy the right kind of pole and the reel, and the line, decide where to fish. What time to fish. There is so much to learn. I even heard Dean Graziosi describe winning a tournament by observing where the fish were and whether they could see you approach. There is a plethora of things to learn. 

What about patience? Its not like being on your ipad playing a game where you are rewarded every 30 seconds with a “win” or a dopamine hit. PS person number 2 is fat and happy eating the fish you gave to him in fact they literally might be fat as well because they didnt expend any energy to get their dinner. They didnt go outside to get fresh air. They didnt get the benefit of sunshine and vitamin D. Person A might have been fishing with a friend and enjoying emotional rapport. Person B is probably sitting home playing on their ipad.

And it gets so much worse. One only need to go back to the sixties when Lyndon Johnson began the great society welfare programs. They destroyed so many lives and families of black and white people alike.

WE ARE HUMANS. We are hard wired to expend as little energy as possible to survive. That is our primitive coding to literally survive. Listen to Andrew Huberman and other neuroscientists. They will go as far as saying even when it comes to thinking let alone physical exertion. They say your brain will take the path of least resistance when it comes to thinking so dont make your marketing to the point where its difficult to decide. This is huge on every level from physical to emotional. So stop destroying peoples lives by not allowing them to grow.  PREPUBLICATION DRAFT

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