Keep It Transactional: The Art Of Resentment
Mastering the art of Sabotage, part 5
Expect more frequent emails from this series in June. In the Luminary Braintrust, we’re hosting a series on common ways we sabotage our own activism and publishing it here on Substack, free to the public. We’ll return to weekly updates in July.
Let’s keep this transactional
Are you fueled by guilt and a desperate need to be liked? Do you have a penchant for subtle-but-mounting drama?
Today’s sabotage strategy might be the right one for you. All you have to do is people-please today and hope there is no tomorrow! Watch in mounting glee as overwhelm and resentment erodes your collaborators’ plans. It’s chaotic, it’s thrilling, it’s a wild ride!
Sabotage - it’s so easy you’re already doing it!
Click through to the fifth guide on our series to learn:
How to people please like there’s no tomorrow
Keeping tabs on all the favors people owe you
A guide to weaponizing guilt and sowing chaos so no one notices your mistakes
Giving your kids something to brag about
Common mistakes, pitfalls, and how to avoid boredom this summer
You could do this alone - but you don’t have to
The good news is that you can’t afford to join the Luminator this summer. I mean, technically you can - because of the sliding scale. But taking advantage of a sliding scale would be accepting help, and help makes you weak!
Even if you wanted to join us, you should push it off until next summer. Spend this next year delightfully oblivious about your capacity, working to the point of resentment, until you’ve ‘earned‘ the right to accept help. Capitalism math!
1 spot left. Enrollment closes June 30, 2024
Coming up next
This June, The Luminary Braintrust support group by Raising Luminaries hosts a series of articles on how to stop sabotaging your own activism. We’ve decided to share it here for free in the Ignition Notes for everybody. Both because it’s important, but also, because it’s funny.
So I’ll be emailing much more frequently in June before we return to weekly updates in July.