I am not intimidated by you, you’re just scared, and that’s why you’re scared.
You’re scared because you only know how to think in your head. You’re scared because you’ve never had to face life on the outside. You’re scared because you’ve never had to face your own fears. You’re scared because you’re afraid you’ll never be able to live up to your potential. You’re scared because you’re afraid that you’re the one who’s going to be taken advantage of. You’re scared because you’re afraid you’ll be taken advantage of.
We all are, even your dumbest, most scared-assed friend. But as the saying goes, we can’t help it; we can’t help it because we’re all terrified. I know some of you are terrified because you think you’ll be taken advantage of because you don’t have a lot of money, but I’m not. I’m a very wealthy man with a lot of power. And I’m not taking advantage of you.
The truth is that not everyone is intimidated by you. Sure, youre scary, but not everyone’s a giant monster. And not everyone is taken advantage of or intimidated. I’ve met a few people who were intimidated by my wealth, but that was because they were scared of the things I had, not because they were intimidated by me.
The truth is that most people don’t think they’re intimidating you. They’re not, because when they are, they’re not. Because they’re intimidated by your money it’s easy to take advantage of them. And if they feel like they are, they’ll try to use you, like you’re a predator. A predator has to be afraid of something, otherwise they’ll attack the people they perceive as threats.
Fear is the most powerful motivator of all. And in a sense, we are all predators in some way. We all have something to fear. In fact, youre probably scared of nothing. If you read the first chapters of my book, you’ll see I have a huge fear of nothingness. It’s not actually that I actually fear nothing, it’s just that my feelings of nothingness are so strong that I try not to think about it.
The danger of this is that when we are afraid we make an enemy out of ourselves. We set off a chain reaction and make ourselves a bigger target than if we had just done nothing. What youre saying is that youre not intimidating me, you’re intimidating me. And you’re right. I have absolutely no idea what youre talking about. It doesn’t make sense. If you get this far, you probably know exactly what I’m talking about.
I also know exactly what you mean. I think that what makes me intimidating to you is that I feel like I don’t have a choice in the matter. I feel like if I didn’t act, it would have been too late. And this is true. I have a lot of options that I could have acted on. Maybe I could have spent more time with my wife and kids and saved the world. Maybe I could have been better friends with my parents.
Exactly. There is a reason that most people are intimidated by you or your wife, and it’s not because you’re “too cool.” I know it sounds crazy, but I can actually prove it. I just go out of my way to try to be intimidating, or at least not so intimidating as to drive you away. It’s only because I care so much about you that I am willing to do it.
But you wouldn’t be if you didn’t care about me, because I’m not the type of person who would ever be intimidated. I don’t look like a fighter. I don’t talk like a fighter. I don’t think like a fighter. I just act like a fighter. Its not intimidating in a way that would make me think that you would leave. We already know that you don’t leave.
