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Nobody's a Prophet in Their Own Land

You might have been trying to orange-pill family and friends for literal years now. Don’t be disappointed. Your approach might not have anything to do with it. You’re not doing anything wrong, and they’re not stupid not to listen to you.
It’s just that sometimes, we don’t take seriously people we know well.
Just focus on getting some other material to them, books, videos, documentaries that we’ve already discussed, and also try to bring some other bitcoiner to talk to them.
It might drive you nuts to see that the other bitcoiner might tell them exactly the same, and your friends and family will turn around to you and tell you, “Well, why haven’t you told me this already? I could have been buying bitcoin all this time.”
And you’ll just explode out of frustration, saying that you’ve been telling them the same things over and over again.
It happens. Nobody’s a prophet in their own land. Sometimes, an air of mystique is necessary. Sometimes, we need another expert, mentor, or speaker to say the same things people close to us have been telling us for years in order to get it.
The prime example is that of making your bed each day. Your mom has been telling you to do that ever since you were little. It just helps with feeling well, makes the room seem tidy, helps you with discipline. It’s such a simple yet effective trick. We’re forced to do it in the army, but that’s extreme so you push back on it and never actually do it unless forced to.
And then comes Jordan Peterson saying, “make your bed,” and you treat it as if it’s the biggest lifehack of all time.
Think how your mom feels about that.
The same goes for you trying to orange-pill family and friends. Just bring someone else over to help.