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A Freedom of Information Act Request revealed that Cernovich would regularly contact potential sources for stories, a scoop first uncovered by Right Wing Watch.

The email shows that Cernovich messaged the personal email inbox of Payne Griffin, who is a deputy chief of staff to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, on May 18, 2017. Days later, Griffin is seen forwarding the email to Emily Davis, deputy assistant USTR for public and media affairs, stating that it was “sent to my personal” and that he was “not replying” to Cernovich.

In all seriousness, stuff like this cracks me up.

First I was accused of not having any sources.

Then I was accused of having too many sources.

Now the theme is that I’ve “lost a step” and “don’t break stories anymore,” ignoring the fact that I’m about to release a massive film.

Oh and I just finished a book.

The whole media coverage of my is stupid and dishonest, and journalists know it.

I’ve been around hundreds of journalists, and none of them have had a negative experience in person. They haven’t seen me do anything in appropriate, and in fact admit I’m a nice person.

Yet they still write their little stories about what a MONSTER I am, because they have to keep people afraid and hysterical.

There aren’t that many “enemies” anymore. America is moving along nicely. Because of this, people like me have their number called up, like some sort of draft into the fake news culture war.

However you’ll notice that the nasty coverage of me usually comes form bottom feeding blogs like Daily Beast and Huffington Post.

They are jealous of me.

They write about Tweets.

I file lawsuits in federal court to defend the free press, my lawsuits are joined by major media organizations.

• “Michael Cernovich sought access to certain sealed judicial records in Giuffre v. Maxwell, a defamation action in the Southern District of New York. The district court entered a standing order in the case permitting the parties to file documents under seal without first seeking judicial approval, resulting in the filing of the majority of the substantive papers in the case under seal, including the papers in support of an opposition to the Defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The amicus brief argues, among other things, that the district court’s order permitting the sealing is contrary to the First Amendment and common law presumptions of access, and there are no compelling or countervailing interests justifying sealing in this case.

I break stories forcing Congressmen to resign.

There are a lot of conspiracy theories about me, but the fact is that I am just one man.

There are articles claiming I command an army of Russia cyberbots, but too many journalists have been to my house and seen me work. It really is just me.

Breaking news is a grind, and I gained a bunch of weight due to traveling to D.C. I saw a picture of myself and thought, “Man, that guy is beat up.”

I am also a year behind my signature book, Audacity: How to Go from Nobody to Somebody.

And people who were consumed my breaking news are ingrates. Most don’t buy books. They always demand “more scoops.” Literally a week after the John Conyers story, people were whining that they didn’t have any “new scoops.”

I ended up not liking a large part of my audience, and began a massive blocking spree and also openly insulted people.

Why?

Breaking news junkies are a bad audience.

(Not everyone, there are around 10% of people obsessed with news who are legit. The vast majority are like locusts. They consume content all day without any regard for the people whose job it is to create it. And then they complain when you sell a book.)

While I always know what’s going on inside the White House due to dozens of sources, I don’t have the 12 hours a day it takes to keep track of that place.

What people who haven’t covered the White House don’t realize is that decisions change within 5 minutes. Jeff Sessions was NOT going to fire Andrew McCabe. That was a fact. After I reported that McCabe would survive the day, McCabe was fired. People yelled fake news at me, not realizing that my report caused an interesting conversation to occur.

I’m focused on the massive undertaking of releasing a feature length film.

Documentary filmmaking is a full-time job on its own.

While producing Hoaxed, I released a new book based on the film.

• “Hoaxed is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, no joke.”
• “Where to start on a review of this eye-opening book? (And upcoming movie!) There is a lot to unpack in this well-written factual expose of the hypocrisy of the mass media and what counts as “journalism” today. Fake News truly does abound and we are a dumber angrier country because of it.
• Buy Hoaxed here.

In 2018 I threw two massive events called A Night for Freedom. The New York event was….well if you were there, you were there. Historical wouldn’t be an overstatement.

And I’m arranging a D.C. and New York and Dallas and Phoenix screenings of Hoaxed.

Do you have any idea how much work this is?

Apparently the “journalists” who write about me don’t have any idea how hard-charging professionals manage their time.

And if you want to know how it is that I’m able to do so much, check out my professionally produced Power of Mindset Master Class here.

While breaking news, reporting on James Gunn, producing a film, providing commentary and analysis, I also released the best mindset master class ever.

• Nice use of text slides and b-roll. This is a great medium for the information to be delivered beyond just the audio, text and in person versions. Nice work. I’m not sure what you have in mind for the final HD version but I’d highly recommend time-stamped links organized as a table of contents in the description if you haven’t done that already.
• I am really enjoying all your products that I’ve bought from you. Amazing insight and Value. Your unique selling point is your presentation and that you live by what you say. Your presentation quality has improved. Great quality.
• I learned a big lesson thanks to you, Mike. Life changing indeed. I can attest to this as I’m living now at 40 the best time ever. I can’t wait to go deeper with this.
• Hey Mike, Thanks for what you do. I attribute a lot of my own personal turn around starting by reading Gorilla Mindset and taking that approach on my life. Still learning as I go, but it was really influential.
• Best video course ever.
• Your take on changing memories really hit home. Currently in the process of re-training my mind to change my perspective of memories and it’s working. Still need to watch a few more times to retain and implement in everyday life.
• Really glad there was no politics!

Anyhow, now you know the truth.

Yes, I have sources on sources.

What is my secret to developing sources?

People ask me how I developed so many sources.

Have you ever met me?

When we meet, I ask questions about your life, get to know your story, and when we meet again, I remember those details.

I don’t “wait for my turn to talk.” I instead have specific techniques I use to loop back details of you life you’ve given me to other details of you’ve told me.

How to Win Friends and Influence People kind of stuff.

90% of people are terrible conversationalists. Be the top 10%.

Learn how to develop empathy. Learn how to mirror people. Read a book on body language.

If you are a man, lift weights. A man like me, who is a big larger than the average bear, who is also kind and welcoming, has more persuasive power, because people know I am nice by choice and not out of weaknesses.

• “Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.” – Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Look at this guy. This is a nice human being. This is someone people want to talk to. Be like this person. Be nice not because you’re weak, but because you want to better the world.

 

Or attend a seminar with me, where I teach all of this stuff.

(I don’t have any seminars planned at this time.)

But you can read my books and watch my videos and APPLY YOURSELF.

People are so lazy these days, it’s starting to annoy me.

Whenever I do an AMA, people ask lazy questions like:

“What is a life hack?”

There is no life hack.

There are only hundreds of hours spent bettering yourself.

Real work.

Read the books, watch the videos, and then get to work!

That’s Gorilla Mindset.

Most people don’t emotionally mature after high school.

You’ve known a person since college, and you can talk about the same stuff.

Is what what you want your life to be?

Of course I’ve changed.

It surprises you that someone whose life work is committed to helping people change has himself changed?

Maybe you’re the problem.

Why do you want me to be the same person I was 5 years ago?

If you had changed, the old me would bore you.

You anger at me is the Magic Mirror at work.

Your lack of improvement is reflected back at you when you see me.

Right now, NO ONE IS BEING NICE.

I’m the nice person online.

I don’t troll people, I don’t do the types of gay jokes Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel and everyone else is doing, and I don’t insult people except in late-night AMAs for banter purposes.

Even CNN has become nothing more than soft core pornography, talking about mushroom-shaped penises.

Last night CNN called Kanye the “n-word,” and Don Lemon laughed.

That’s how nasty the world is right now.

I’ve become the voice of reason.

No one else is doing what I’m doing.

Congressman John Conyers resigned because of me.

James Gunn lost Guardians of the Galaxy. That was a multi-billion dollar franchise.

Who else – left or right – can say they forced both a Congressman and an A-List director to resign or be fired?

Especially in a short period of time.

If that’s too much ego for you, go cry yourself to sleep.

I wanted to stop World War Three, which warmonger Hillary would have started.

I didn’t support Trump because I loved the guy. He had strong instincts about foreign wars and domestic economic issues.

You notice I don’t jump into all of these debates about gender-neutral bathrooms.

I even call Chelsea Manning “she,” because being a nice person is in short supply.

The three greatest injustices of our time:

• U.S. imperialist wars,
• Factory farming,
• Human trafficking.

That’s why during the first Syria bombing, I fought against it, losing 10,000+ followers.

I lost 25,000+ followers during the second Syria bombing.

I don’t care. Wars are my red line.

Some of my followers were low consciousness, and I ain’t got time for that nastiness.

I didn’t think Islamophobia was real, because those labels get thrown at me. Three-fourths of the people at my wedding were either “of color” or Muslim. I am thus prone to not believe that bigotry is a huge issue in America, due to the lies made about me.

Then a Muslim friend of mine asked me not to RT her, because when I would RT her, people would be nasty.

This was a personal friend of mine who had stood up for me, which isn’t an easy thing to do.

Friends are harder to find than Twitter followers or readers. It’s not a hard decision for me to say, “If you don’t think Islam is an actual religion, don’t follow me.” Or follow me, that’s fine, but I don’t want to read your stupidity.

Oh and that’s not virtue signaling.  I block people who tell me to, “Prove mindset works,” or demand I provide a “Citation” for something I’ve said.

I don’t have to prove anything to you, you haven a right to demand I prove anything to you, and you can leave and that’s fine.

That said, there are several multi-billion-dollar industries monitoring bigotry, so it’s not my job to be a Twitter cop or disavow stuff every day or even every month.

But I don’t want that nasty stuff around me, it’s low consciousness.

A lot of my newer followers were entitled, and used to be pandered to.

Many people follow me because I’m a big account, but these are entitled people, and they expect me to serve up whatever generic slop they are used to lapping up from CNN, MSNBC, or FoxNews.

I’m not in the vote-getting business or even the eyeball business. I don’t sell advertisements.

The media needs viewers and readers, so they endorse and encourage ANTIFA violence. This is myopic in ways they can’t perceive. ANTIFA has beat up a lot of people, and they’ll murder someone soon enough.

Every vote counts, which is why the left and right pander to the worst of their base.

But I don’t need your votes, and I am not organizing any campaigns.

I will continue to change.

Life would be boring otherwise.

If my changes offend you, no big deal.

It’s a big Internet.

Many are thirsty for your views and will say or do anything to get that dopamine rush.

Good luck.

For those who stay, enjoy the show, learn something, and remember that slavery has been illegal since the 13th Amendment, and that includes ownership of “creators.”

P.S. I have a new book out. You can buy it here.

I’ve always that the only way to take me out is with a “paperwork error.”

You’re not going to outwork or outfight me. But I might forget to sign some paperwork sometime. This trait, which is linked to a lack of conscientiousness, has followed me since childhood.

On the Big 5 / OCEAN scale, I in the top 1% in Openness to new experiences, and in the bottom 10% for conscientiousness. This has created some interesting adventures and also challenges in life, which can be described as my way of saying, LET’S RUSH RIGHT INTO THIS OH WAIT NO I DIDN’T PLAN FOR ANY OF THAT STUFF YOU’RE MENTIONING.

• Take the Big 5 Inventory test here.
• Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You is a fun and insightful look at human personality.

My desk was always the messiest. My handwriting was terrible. Only one other person class had worse handwriting than I had, and my handwriting did not improve despite practice.

But I also travelled all over the world, and was crazy enough to think I could write a best-selling mindset book and make films and live a life that’s hard to believe it real.

I used to have poor credit because I’d forget to pay bills. I had the money to pay them. I’d just forget to.

Identify your fatal flaw.

You have one.

A fatal flaw isn’t a mild character defect.

It’s a flaw fundamental to your core.

You’ll see this fatal flaw manifest itself in all areas of your life.

For example, my fatal flaw has to do with some weird inability to focus on the mundane.

• I forget names,
• Pay bills late,
• Forget to file paperwork,
• Don’t follow-up with emails,
• Take too long to return calls.

Having a fatal flaw doesn’t make you a “bad person.”

Life has upside and downside energy.

My creative brilliance is a strength, and this strength comes with a downside energy.

Put Systems in Place to Protect Against Your Flaw.

First of all, when my daughter was born I transferred almost all of my money to her and any future siblings through various trusts. (Because my “fatal flaw” isn’t going to harm her. Let someone come after me for some nonsense. Good luck. I have no net worth!)

I set all of my bills to auto-pay.

I have a credit monitoring system via Credit Karma and Credit Sesame.

My wife remembers peoples names for me and briefs me before I talk to anyone.

My business partners handle all of the logistics.

Spending hours to fix a problem that could have been avoided in minutes.

I don’t beat myself up too much, though, as I’m uniquely talented in other ways.

But I do need to protect myself from myself.

That’s ultimately what mindset is about.

Self-knowledge without action is narcissistic navel gazing.

You learn about yourself, identify your strengths (and MAX THOSE OUT), and then find out your weakness (and militate against the negative consequences of these flaws).

In business this is called a SWOT analysis, which I learned about from Marc Lobliner.

• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats

A 25% improvement is a completely new life.

I am not perfect and do not pretend to be.

There is no such thing as “unlimited energy” or “total malleability.”

We have physical talents, and we have mental ones, and while we can improve, we can’t completely change every aspect of our personality.

But we do have 25 to 50% of our personalities to work with.

And that’s huge.

We humans aren’t good with numbers, so it’s hard to think about what a 25% improvement looks like.

In school, you could get a C or an A.

In health, a 25% improvement is being obese or merely a little heavy, or being fit or absolutely jacked.

This is especially true because self-improvement gains compound.

When you improve, this becomes the “new you.” And then additional improvements are measured against this better version of yourself.

You go from overweight to fit, to super fit. (If you want.)

Some of you know me as a “public personality.”

Did you know I used to have social anxiety?

Five years ago I almost didn’t show up to a New York meet-up due to “social anxiety.”

Years ago I scheduled my first blog meet-up, and almost didn’t leave the house.

“What if no one shows up? I’ll feel like a loser.”

That was my internal monologue and self-talk.

I ended up leaving and arriving late. Over 40 people had showed up, and at the time, I just had a blog.

Yet even this required me to push through, to be more social.

I am naturally an introvert, and introversion has a physiological aspect.

For most of my life, I thought I was “broken,” because being around people exhausted me.

• Then I read The Introvert Advantage.

Ah. It’s all about dopamine.

Yet I then used introversion as an excuse. “Oh, I can’t go out. Introversion!”

Anyhow, if you watch me now or attend my events, you’d never guess I am naturally introverted.

That’s because I pushed myself past my limits, started off small with meet-ups, and then held more meet-ups, and five years later I throw major international events.

(It still takes me a lot of “down time” afterwards to recovery. Introversion is a real thing. But I’ve come a long way from having social anxiety.)

How to Fix Your Fatal Flaw

Step 1. Identify it.

Be honest. You have one. Don’t be emotional about it. You’re assessing yourself as you would a business.

Step 2. Mitigate it.

Your flaw is likely deep enough that you need to focus on avoiding the “downside risk” rather than think you’re going to eliminate the challenge.

Systems and processes help in a huge way. Your own systems will vary based on your challenge.

Step 3. Max out your strengths.

One of the perennial debates in the self-improvement world is whether you should “eliminate weakness” or focus on your strengths.

Gorilla Mindset is about focusing on your strengths, and maxing those out.

People who “eliminate weakness” develop negative self-talk, as they are always focused on problems.

It’s far more effective to focus on what you’re good at, and develop those talents and strengths.

(I cover these issues in detail in my Mindset Master Class.)

 

What’s Your Fatal Flaw?

Post it in the comments.

Also, if you’ve made it this far, here’s a gift for you.

To celebrate the grand re-opening and to offer you the best products today, take 25% off of Gorilla Mind Smooth, and 25% off Gorilla Dream. (Gorilla Mind Rush is out of stock. Man, that has been a killer seller, and it takes a long time to get back into stock. I personally take Smooth, as Rush is too intense for me. But the younger guys love Rush.)

Hoaxed: The Truth About Fake News is now available in digital form. Hoaxed may be released a paperback later. It depends.

I didn’t plan on writing a book about fake news, as the film Hoaxed is a stand-alone film.

We had the interviews transcribed during editing, and it seemed like a travesty to keep this material from public view.

We talked to some big names in Hoaxed, but I don’t “hard sell” books.

If people want to be stupid and not read, that’s their choice. It’s $9.99 for an ebook.

• Also a major motion picture, Hoaxed explores how misinformation spreads online in conversations with several high profile guests and celebrities. Hoaxed is a collection of original essays – some snarky, some serious, and some gossipy – by Cernovich. Also included are long form interviews with high profile media figures.

Because I didn’t want to release “merely” a book of interviews, I also wrote some essays demonstrating how journalists create fake news.

Hoaxed covers some subjects that every informed citizen should know about:

• Fact-checking and its abuses,
• Selective editing,
• Mass shootings caused by far left wing groups,
• James Gunn and his defenders,
• Much more!

You can buy Hoaxed here.

Find out more about Hoaxed in the latest podcast,
“What I was Wrong About.”