Send a document once titled program developed for psychological Operations, Command to change and crystallized public opinion. And there were six parts of this document. I'd like to go part by part and you explain what this means. Step number one, create a small window of Doubt or uncertainty. This can be for any, any situation. So the small window of Doubt or uncertainty makes a start to focus more on an individual level. Let's just say it's a one-on-one
or anything that's novel. Or new makes our brain, start searching the environment for information. So any technique that's extremely effective, is rooted in evolutionary psychology. So if you're learning persuasion or Once or therapy or anything having to do with people and the techniques aren't rooted, don't their actual roots in evolutionary psychology. They're probably not going to be
very effective. So if you go back, two hundred thousand years, little tribes of humans living around each other. It's 150 people or so. If you went out and hunted every day and came back from the woods, take the same path every day. And you pass by one Bush. There's this big ass Bush, you Walk past it every day. And one day you're walking past. Dragging this big old deer behind you and a stick snaps behind that bush. Your brain when we do think anything more than a few times.
Our brain says, okay Keith is going to keep doing this Behavior like driving a car. I'm going to hardwire this stuff together so that it's easier in the future more often. You do it. The more it gets wired and wired and wired together. So we there's a common saying that neurons that fire together wire together. But when something disrupts, what we expect to happen, it creates doubt and uncertainty and focus. Most importantly, focus when I'm teaching any intelligence op on
teaching civilians. My number one thing number one, message throughout everything is focus is currency, focus is currency. And if that stick snaps behind the bush, how much of your attention is on the deer behind you, or on your kids, or your In the village. None. It's 100% on the new thing because we're following along a memorize timeline. Something disrupts it and the Brain says, something's different. I need to stop everything and
flashlight. Laser focus on what's going on to figure out what's disrupting the script. So we are script machines, absolute script machines. So what we're doing there that doubt and uncertainty manufacturers Focus. Step number to develop, doubt through targeted questions. What is an example of that? So, if you want to look at targeted questions, that create doubt just watch, five or six political commercials. Do you really want Senator such-and-such to run your state?
He donated three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to some piece of crap, drug cartel or you know, whatever it is. So these are questions that make down and if and we're going back to what the currency is here there. What we focus on is based on the We ask ourself. So on it from a self-help perspective, somebody that has low confidence. They're asking themselves. Why can't I feel confident? So the questions have the brain goes search for evidence that they should not feel confident.
Why can't I feel more happy in the day? So the brain says, okay. I'll go search for reasons that you're not happy. So you're our focus is driven by question. So what you're doing by asking questions is a raising doubt, but be your rechanneling that same Focus that you just created. Step number 3, introduced questions. That enhance confirmation bias. What does that mean? Well, we're all all of us are victims of confirmation bias.
So we like to think, like, if I made a post on social media or you're scrolling through social media right now, and you read a post that says the media is brainwashing people. You're going to be like, oh, yeah. I know, I know they are, but in the back of our head, the scary scary part is that you're going to think it's other people. That is the truly terrifying. Piece of that.
Is that when you see media, brainwashed people, Everyone agrees everyone agrees, but it's those other people, it's the people who watch the other political parties news that I disagree with. Those are the big brainwashers the Idea that I watch our they might do it a little bit, but they're not as bad. And there, I mean, they might do a little bit but I'm not susceptible to that stuff.
And that is where you are the most susceptible because you think you're not step number 4 display information that confirms the bias on occasion. What's an example of that? Yes, so they have a bias. We have a bias to think. I made the right choice. I did the right thing. So you want to continuously feed that person. What's basically their It is bias of being right making the right decision being part of the right group being smarter than other people because you chose this.
So you're going to continuously show them that they did the right thing. And basically all you're doing here is just a little syringe full of dopamine and you're giving someone that confirmation bias is giving them the exact same amount that if you filled a syringe with dopamine and jabbed it in their neck, it's the exact same thing. The chemicals are still flooding their ADI step number five, reward the subject for having come to the conclusion or figured it out. What's an example of that?
So we're going to either, we'll probably both. We're going to put some money down. Who hasn't made the conclusion will make them go. Oh, yeah, I knew that way before. I figured that out a long time ago, but we're wanting them to know that they came to the conclusion on their own and that's the truly scary part. If you if let's imagine. We like Keith you and I went out tonight and we interviewed we let's say we went to your nearest airport. And we interviewed a thousand people are.
Do you believe that you can be easily brainwashed? Do you believe that you are currently being brainwashed? Do you buy products because of commercials? Everyone's going to say? No, everyone is going to say no. That is how thick that confirmation bias is because the moment that we have to say, I'm either independent or I'm brainwashed. So we cannot. That's called a cognitive dissonance. When the truth conflicts, with our beliefs, our beliefs, usually punch the truth in the face.
And that's the ultimate thing where we done with the steps. Did we get through? Okay. Well, one of our oh, okay, so that that was the end of that step. Number six exposed the subject to a negative event. In order to solidify the bias at the end. What is exposing them to a negative event? Have to do with solidifying, the bias. The negative event is usually associated with some kind of common threat.
So if you and I both, I live in Virginia Beach, but if you and I both lived here and there was a looming threat. We both bond together because we have a common enemy. So some kind of negative thing that happens solidifies, what, what they chose to do. So, let's say, I chose to support X candidate, but why candidate just had a bunch of Nudes released on Twitter from their laptop that giant - event shows me that I'm not making the decision because of that
negative event. I am so smart that I made it before that even happened, and I get more dopamine from that. And if you think about anything, you say you like bicycling beekeeping, I like reading books. I like listening to music. I like drinking alcohol, whatever it is. It's not true. The only thing, You actually like our serotonin dopamine.
There are nothing else. So in our brain, if you can see the brain back here, there's a little part of the brain, right down in this area, called the nucleus accumbens. And if you stick your fingers right above and forward of your ear, and kind of Point into your head, that's kind of right there. That's where it is. And its job. It's about the size of a pea or a peanut, its entire job is to memorize things. It gave you dopamine and try to manufacture those scenarios in
the future. So it's going to be like, hey Keith dude. Last time we did this. It was really bad ass. We felt really good. Last time we did this. You need to do it again. So that's how addiction forms with heroin with sex or with watching the news and choosing a political candidate. It's the same dopamine pathway.