Stop Internalizing Oppression, Start Realizing Your Strength: Repressed Warrior Paradox part 1

Facing opposition and challenges way beyond what you expected? Feeling like you’re always being kicked when you’re down? Noticing a strange pattern of being called weak and small, while you’re being treated as the biggest threat in the world? It could be a sign you have strong potential and will succeed in a bigger and better way than you expect. Whether you are an activist for a marginalized community, trying to advance from a lower socioeconomic status, building a business with a new, unconventional set of ideas, or doing anything that bucks the establishment, you don’t want to miss this episode. Develop a strong, fighting mindset, don’t internalize the ways they make you seem to be weak, overcome the ridicule, and stick to your values and uniqueness to gain success in advocacy and in your personal goals.

This episode introduces what I have termed the Repressed Warrior Paradox, where those with strong potential are held down and being fought back against out of proportion with what they expect, and they don’t realize that is because of their extremely strong potential to create both social change and personal victory. Because they don’t see their own potential, they will back down or be blindsided and are prepared to be the kind of fighter they need to be, and are on the inside to ultimately achieve their potential for unexpected victory. This is the first of three parts, in three episodes - this episode is focused on describing the typology. Next are individual steps if you are facing this experience to feel more confident and achieve success, and discussing the systemic designs that keep people with strong potential down, and how we can create better policies in a better society that allows more people to achieve at their highest level.

Notes:

You're an activist and realize that somehow weak, lazy people are the biggest threat in the world to conservatives. Why?

Major principle: Today's nuisance can be tomorrow's champion

The Repressed Warrior Paradox typology:
You are being beaten up on, you just want to live your life, but can't.

Wondering why things are so hard for you.

You just can't fit in and nothing can go your way, and everything is harder for you, but you just can't point out why

Ridiculed even when doing the right thing.

You just can't do things the way others can do them, but you can do a lot more than them

A lot of potential but just cannot make it in conventional spaces and manners

You are frequently a failure, but not because you're bad, but because you disagree or you just cannot stand how things are done.

You may be strong but viewed as excessively sensitive

Even little stuff may seem harder, this sometimes comes along with neurodivergence but is not the same)

Has to do more with an anti-authoritarian attitude

For seemingly no good reason, being knocked out for extended periods of time. Left defeated, confused, and helpless.

You're called weak, lazy, a whiner, despite of how hard you work, and are also somehow a massive threat, public enemy #1

You feel you're not conventionally strong or smart but there's a small voice that tells you that vou are better than you are being told. Maybe you have shown strong potential and achievement in the past but maybe not now.

Oppressed populations have this happen more often, so if you are a POC, LGBTQ+, disabled, it's more likely.

Kicked when you are down. Why? Maybe it's because you are a threat and stronger and more capable of victory than you think.

Happens to anyone who has the ability to validate or spread ideas the establishment does not like.

They want to knock you out before you can ever win. Interference comes to take you out ahead of time because you are a big threat, a bigger threat with more of a chance of victory than you e