• NEW BOOK • BY JAKE SHANNON
The manipulation isn't going away. Your defenses can.
Mental Self-Defense in a Mentally Offensive Age gives you five field-tested protocols to stop algorithms, propaganda, and manufactured outrage from making your decisions for you — in one weekend read.
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WHY YOU NEED THIS
You're not imagining it. You're outgunned.
Every day you're up against information pollution, manufactured consensus, and algorithms built to hold your attention, not your interests. This book was written to close that gap — fast.
Information Pollution
Half-truths and bot-driven outrage designed to manufacture consent, not inform you.
Atomization
Manufactured consensus that makes you feel like the only one who disagrees.
Learned Helplessness
The exhaustion that keeps you scrolling instead of acting.
WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
Read it once. Use it for the rest of your life.
✓ Spot manipulation on sight — strip the emotional payload from any headline, ad, or speech in seconds.
✓ Call out bad data — run any "study" through a four-step audit before it changes your mind.
✓ Investigate anyone — use open-source intelligence to see who's really behind a company, landlord, or claim.
✓ Hold your ground — a simple three-line script for high-stakes legal or authority encounters.
✓ Follow the money — trace conflicts of interest between regulators and the industries they're supposed to police.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Five protocols. No filler.
01
Robot Translation Protocol
Strip the "Pathos Payload" from any message to find the neutral, verifiable fact underneath.
02
P-Hack Audit
A four-step mathematical shield for catching biased studies and statistical sleight of hand.
03
OSINT Field Kit
Civilian open-source intelligence techniques to see who's really operating behind a corporate mask.
04
The Script
A three-line verbal protocol for enforcing your rights in high-stakes legal or police encounters.
05
Conflict Audit
Trace the revolving door between regulators and industry to expose who's really profiting.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jake Shannon
Jake writes for people who'd rather build cognitive antibodies than outrage. This book is the mental-defense companion to his work helping operators build businesses, teams, and lives that don't depend on someone else's permission.
STRATEGIC ADVISORY & TRANSFORMATION
• 2× 10X Performance Coach of the Year (2024, 2025)
• Chief Data & AI Officer, Advisory Board for 10X Performance Coaching Program
• Master of Science in Financial Engineering
• 15 years coaching founder-led companies
IS THIS BOOK FOR YOU
Read this before you buy.
◼︎ THIS IS FOR YOU IF
You feel overwhelmed by the infinite scroll and digital anxiety
You question mainstream narratives in medicine, psychiatry, politics
You want practical tools, not another theory book
You're an entrepreneur or independent thinker, not a passenger
◆ NOT FOR YOU IF
You want comfort, not clarity
You outsource your thinking to whoever's loudest
You're looking for a feel-good self-help read
You're fine letting the algorithm decide for you
GET YOUR COPY
Start reading in the next 5 minutes.
One weekend read. Five protocols you'll use for the rest of your life.
