We All Wear Masks...
We Choose to Represent Ourselves in One Way or Another...
Show the World what We Want them to See.
But Here is the Thing...
All Masks are Tools...
And How You Use a Tool is Important.
When a Tool is Used Well, it Can Change the World for the Best...
When a Tool is Used Poorly...
It Can Cause Serious Harm.
A Mask is No Different.
If You are a Person of Character, with Strong Values...
Then You can Use a Mask to Reveal these Aspects of Yourself in Powerful Ways at Specific Times.
This is a Part of what I Call Being an Exemplar.
But Not Everyone Uses Masks in this Manner...
Some Attempt to Use their Masks to Hide what is Underneath.
However...
A Mask can Only Hide what is Beneath for So Long...
Eventually...
The Truth is Revealed.
Just look at one of the Prophets of Hustle Culture...
Tai Lopez...
Internet-Famous for his "Here in My Garage" Advertisement featuring a Lamborghini and, Supposedly, All the Books he has Ever Read.
Each Book He Claimed to have Read in One Day.
This Sparked the Sensation of Renting and Co-Buying Sports Cars and Jet Planes to "Show the World" How Rich You Were.
Truly, a Modern Flaunting of the Idea of "Fake It Till You Make It".
If You are Not Successful...
You Just Need to "Look" Successful...
And People will Buy What You Sell...
Which will Make You Successful.
The Mask worked for Tai, though, as He Built a Business and Following around Himself.
But the Problem Is...
People get Tired and Bored with the Same Thing Over and Over Again.
Which Creates a Problem...
If You Want to Keep People Interested...
You Need to Go Bigger.
Hustle Harder...
Fake It Greater...
Hide the Problems Better...
Lie Enough and People will Begin to Believe...
Maybe Even You Will Believe.
But the Problem is that Our Subconscious Knows the Truth...
What Lies Under the Mask...
And if the Mask is All We have to Rely On...
Then People have a Tendency to Push Too Far...
Which is Where We Find Tai Today.
The SEC has Accused Tai and his Business Partner...
Defrauding Investors...
$112 Million.
Lying to Investors...
Shuffling Money Around from Failing Business to Failing Business...
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul...
And Using $16 Million for "Personal Uses"...
Likely Attempts to Maintain the Appearance of Success.
But the Mask has Fallen...
Another Revelation of the Gospel of Hustle Culture...
Be Wary of Who You Follow...
Their Masks May Be Beautiful...
But Seek What is Underneath...
Lest You Succumb to the False Prophets of Today.
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