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I Brainwashed My Wife. And Then I Brainwashed Myself.

6 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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In this short, first‑person narrative, the speaker describes how he deliberately altered his partner’s social‑media feed by adding snowboarding and skiing accounts to her phone, which over six months led her to develop an interest in snowboarding. They then became an active snowboarding couple for two years, describing the experience as highly enjoyable. The speaker extrapolates the same technique—curating the content one consumes—to his own personal development, following accounts that embody the success and mindset he wishes to adopt, describing it as a "hack" for self‑brainwashing toward achievement.

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This is how I ethically brainwashed my wife into liking snowboarding. So when we were first dating, I loved skiing. I wanted to get her up on the mountain, but she didn't really know if she wanted to go or not. So I went and stole her phone one day and went and followed a bunch of snowboarding and skiing accounts on her phone. And then ta-da, 6 months later, she had been drip-fed snowboarding and skiing content. She wakes up one day and is like, dude, we should go snowboarding. That'd be so fun. And I was like, man, what a great idea. That'd be awesome. Let's go get a board. We got boots. And over the next 2 years, we were like this snowboarding couple. It was like the funnest time ever. And actually now I use the same concept to try to brainwash myself into success. So I make sure the accounts I follow, the stuff I consume on my phone is positive success, whatever I wanna become, it's that thing. And I try to put that into my mindset so that it outputs later on. It's kind of a cool hack to brainwash yourself.