Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

Nelson Nash: Thinking Beyond Taxes

5 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Richard Canfield reflects on his mentor Nelson Nash's belief that thinking shapes everything. Canfield argues that objective truth triggers emotional disagreement and that governments depend on citizens not thinking critically. Nash once said many people would rather die than think.

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If you're communicating the truth to someone and you know that it's the truth, not just your truth, quite often that can lead to emotionally sensitized disagreement. But if you're having a discussion with somebody on a basis of understanding the truth, and it becomes much easier to tackle the challenges that we're dealing with versus the government relying upon Canadians to not think. And again, it's come up a few times in our discussion, but credit to our late mentor, our Nelson Nash, who is one of the most brilliant individuals that we've been blessed to learn from and one of the most well read. He often said, everything begins with the way that we think. And the fact of the matter is, most people would rather die than think.