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EllieBC

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Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:56 PM Saturday

THE SURVIVOR BLUEPRINT: 20 Laws for Staying Unbreakable in an Unraveling America [View all]

It’s by Jack Hudson.

Kind of long but really helpful IMO. These next 3 years will be about surviving.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thejackhopkins?r=e0jcn&utm_medium=ios

These 2 stood out the most for me:


LAW 5: CONTROL THE ONLY TERRITORY YOU TRULY OWN: YOUR RESPONSE
The government controls regulations…corporations control markets…mobs control noise…but you control reaction.
That is your last and greatest freedom.
When everything feels rigged…decide how you’ll think…speak…and act anyway.
Train your nervous system to pause two seconds before reacting. Those two seconds are civilization.
Master that gap, and you become untouchable.


And
LAW 13: USE SELECTIVE IGNORANCE
You cannot drink from a firehose of despair.
Every alert…every scandal…every algorithm screams for outrage. Filter it. Ask: “Does this help me act better today?” If not, delete it.
Strategic ignorance is not apathy…it’s defense of bandwidth.
Great survivors mastered what to ignore: rumors…doom-talk…emotional contagion.
Guard attention like ammunition. Waste none of it on noise you can’t change.


It’s been really beneficial for me to slow the info coming at me and not click every link or alert.

Anyway just thought I’d share. It came up on my Substack feed.
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