Never argue with a professional cynic online. Instead, try … - George Mack

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Never argue with a professional cynic online. Instead, try and find their earliest ever work. Often when I go scroll back far enough, I'll discover an old version of them that had hope, that had optimism, that had agency. And then some rejection happened.

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George Mack is a British writer, advertising strategist, and entrepreneur renowned for viral essays and X threads on mental models, marketing psychology, and high agency—a proactive mindset of clear thinking, action bias, and shaping reality.

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