Susceptibility & Gullibility

“Gullibility is the unintended consequence of susceptibility and desperation.”

The weak and the susceptible are often mislabeled as gullible because they are desperate to find a quick fix to their problems; hence why they often fall victims to Ponzi schemes and other financial and quick fix promising frauds. This is also how majority of motivational programs operate and prosper at the expense of the susceptible and desperate person. By appealing to the emotions and desperation of those seeking improvement, many leadership and motivational programs and teachers make the person seeking improvement feel good by teaching them entitlement, victimhood and especially blame-shifting by portraying that the causes of their problems are other-people or other-things. They succeed in doing so because it is easier to deceive in the short-term than to improve in the long-term. Hence why many motivational teachings that pat the person on the back and give them encouraging and comforting peptalk, never result in long-term improvement.  

The easiest and quickest means of separating the susceptible from their money is to appeal to their emotions and to give them a quick reason to feel better. Those who deploy toxic-sympathy and empathy-crusades, end up causing a great deal of damage to susceptible-people in the long-run; because the comforting falsehood that is being fallaciously preached, is not how reality is. This is why Theory of Self-Relativity advocates factual-thinking; because if we can’t evaluate thoughts and intents with facts, we could easily fall for ill-intent that is cleverly disguised to benefit the manipulator at the expense of our own self.