How to Be a Leader: The 1 Thing Holding You Back
Mark Hamilton reveals the following mode: the mind disease keeping billions imprisoned without knowing it. Discover why the human mind, despite its unlimited capacity, remains trapped: and how Neothink provides the tools to break free, become a self-leader, and help build a civilization without rulers.
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What Is the One Thing Holding You Back from Leadership?
The following mode , the mind disease keeping billions imprisoned without knowing it. From infancy, we learned through mimicked reactions: following parents, siblings, the world around us. Most people never leave this conditioned state. Neothink provides the tools to break free, unleash your unlimited human potential, and become a self-leader instead of a follower.
- ✓The following mode is the mind disease keeping humanity imprisoned: learned through mimicked reactions from infancy
- ✓The human mind has unlimited capacity but the following mode keeps it trapped, following external authorities instead of thinking independently
- ✓A few exceptions broke free: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison: but most of humanity remains in the following mode
- ✓The following mode creates a civilization of followers, which enables a parasitical ruling class to emerge and suppress everyone
- ✓The Prime Law removes all initiatory force: what the Founding Fathers missed when they added rights instead of removing the negative
- ✓Neothink works on two levels: freeing individuals from the following mode AND eliminating the ruling class through a business civilization
The Weak Link in Mankind
Mark Hamilton opens with a startling claim: Neothink isn’t just another self-improvement program. While it does help with money, success, and happiness, all of that comes from one common denominator he’s discovered over 45 years of research.
“I found the weak link in mankind,” Hamilton states. “The scourge of mankind. The downfall. Why we are in prison and we don’t even know it.”
“Our capacity of mind is so fantastically great, but most of us never really tap that. And there’s a reason for that.”
The reason traces back to infancy: before we were conscious, before we could make decisions, before we understood honesty or effort.
How Our Minds Became Imprisoned
When we were babies, we learned through mimicked reactions. That’s how our minds woke up and entered the realm of consciousness. We would mimic our parents, our brothers and sisters, the people in the world around us.
A conditioned mental state where you follow external authorities instead of thinking independently. It begins in infancy through mimicked reactions and continues through childhood, teenage years, and adulthood. Most people never leave it. Our minds are unlimited, but the following mode keeps them imprisoned.
Hamilton emphasizes this isn’t just theory: it can be seen and proven. “This is our great imprisonment, and Neothink frees us. It liberates our minds from the great scourge of mankind, the following mode.”
A few exceptions exist: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison. These people broke free. But most of humanity remains trapped.
External Authorities You Follow Without Questioning
Ask yourself: when was the last time you used your own mind instead of accepting what they told you?
Media
Do they have an agenda?
Government
Who benefits from their policies?
Big Tech
Is reality buried in narrative?
Teachers
What are they really teaching?
Professors
Did you ever question them?
Doctors
Are they just following protocol?
Clergy
Blind faith or reasoned belief?
The Crowd
Why is going against it so hard?
A Simple Test: Are You in the Following Mode?
Hamilton offers a revealing question: “Whenever I go against the crowd: could even just be a group of friends: do I want to? Nah, I really don’t want to.”
If that resonates, it’s a sure sign you’re caught in the following mode. You’re not able to break free and think for yourself.
Integrated thinking: or higher-level thinking: where you rise up and pull together puzzle pieces for yourself. Instead of being down in your slot, just listening to external authorities, you use your own mind to build logic. You see reality as it actually is, not as narratives present it.
The COVID Example
Hamilton uses the pandemic as a concrete illustration. During COVID, most people listened to governors, the CDC, Google searches: never questioning if there might be a political agenda, if reality was buried in narrative.
“Did you ever take a step back from the external authorities, from the narrative all around you? Did you ever take a healthy skeptical look at things and start using your own mind?”
By the time Omicron came around, anyone putting together basic logic could see the statistical drop in severity. Yet government still pushed boosters, masks, social distancing. Those who started using their own minds saw through it.
The Following Mode Keeps You Trapped
The following mode isn’t just personal limitation: it creates an entire civilization of followers. And what happens in a civilization of followers? A ruling class emerges. “It’s an opposite and equal reaction,” Hamilton explains. People say they need leaders, need to be supervised: and the parasitical elite class obliges. “Fine, we’ll be your leader.” But these aren’t earned leaders. They took the dishonest, lazy route to power.
Earned Power vs. Unearned Power
Hamilton distinguishes between two fundamentally different types of leaders who have risen in society:
Earned Power: Legitimate Leaders
- ✓Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs
- ✓Rose through the honest effort path
- ✓Brought genuine values to the world: iPhones, cars, homes, hospitals
- ✓Broke free of the following mode into genuine creation
Unearned Power: Parasitical Elite Class
- ✗Politicians, regulatory bureaucrats, the “ruling class”
- ✗Took the dishonest, lazy route to power
- ✗Not providing values: extracting from those who do
- ✗All illusion: an easy grab for money, power, prestige
The existence of a ruling class is only possible because civilization is in the following mode. “We afforded it to them,” Hamilton explains. “We said, we need leaders. This goes back thousands of years.”
Neothink Works on Two Levels
The Individual Level
Breaking individuals free from the mind disease, the following mode. Rising to greater prosperity, wealth, success, happiness, love. Hamilton has worked on this for 45 years through his private Neothink club, helping millions of searchers around the world.
The Civilization Level
Eliminating the ruling class that has been suppressing humanity. This requires going public: reaching the masses, not just individual searchers. Hamilton is now stepping out of his private club to address the world directly.
The Solution: The Prime Law
Hamilton reveals what the Founding Fathers missed. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were the best things ever to happen from a political standpoint. But they didn’t go down to the very fundamental.
The Bill of Rights started something now destroying us: rights. Rights to this, rights to that, rights for every minority and orientation. DEI, ESG: rights, rights, rights. A father whose daughter was killed said it clearly: “Rights are destroying our country.”
Hamilton’s alternative: don’t add rights. Remove the negative.
Initiatory force, the initiation or threat of force, including fraud: must be removed. Self-defense force is necessary and moral. But initiatory force is the negative in any civilization, any group, any government. Remove it, and things flourish. The smallest minority is the individual. Once you protect the individual, you’ve protected everyone equally.
Every constitutionalist who wrote the original document felt it was temporary. They all knew they missed something. They just didn’t know what. The Prime Law is what they missed.
A New Dimension: Business Society
Hamilton proposes something that has never existed in human history: a society with no political system.
“Most people find that very hard to conceptualize,” he acknowledges. “And the reason is: with 100 billion people who have walked the earth, every civilization has always existed in a political structure with a ruling class.”
We leave the political world and move into a business world. Not business as we know it: corrupted by government, revolving doors, lobbyists. Pure business: competing companies where your dollars do the voting, not manipulated politicians.
How It Works
Without initiatory force, government can’t force taxes. So people voluntarily tithe, perhaps 10%, to live in the “beautiful society.” Why would they? Because they see what brought them prosperity. They recognize the system that made them wealthy.
Deadbeats? Theoretically possible, but practically nonexistent. Anyone who doesn’t contribute gets called out by private businesses, ostracized, unable to do business. There’s no room for deadbeats when everyone is doing well.
Crime? Under the Prime Law, punishment is swift, harsh, dramatic. But more importantly: crime becomes the hard way to get money. In a society where everyone lives like millionaires, crime makes no sense. The easy way is honest contribution.
What Happens When Politics Is Removed
The results of a business civilization with the Prime Law
Prosperity Explodes
Like the computer revolution: what cost millions now fits in your pocket. Apply that across every industry without regulatory chains.
Poverty Disappears
The millionaire phenomenon: everyone lives like a millionaire when standard of living soars and costs drop to fractions.
Diseases Get Cured
Without FDA and regulatory bureaucrats blocking progress, medical breakthroughs accelerate. Hamilton predicts aging cured within 10 years.
Wars End
America becomes so powerful no one touches it. Other countries see the prosperity and want it too: a domino effect of peace.
Historical Proof: When Business Was Free
Hamilton points to moments throughout history when business moved too fast for government to get its hooks on:
The Personal Computer Revolution: What would have cost tens of millions a generation ago now fits in your pocket. The revolution moved so quickly that regulators didn’t know how to grip it. That’s what business does when free.
Henry Ford and the Assembly Line: Standard of living soared in America. The assembly line spread across industries. Ford, Edison, Firestone were seen as heroes: until government started coming in with control and destroying these companies.
When these companies were free of the iron chain and ball around their legs, they served consumers. They were competitive with each other, but the beneficiaries were the people: greatest values for cheapest prices. Then regulations came, businesses married government, and competition got blocked out.
The Cancer Cure That Never Was
Hamilton shares a personal example: his father was a scientist at DuPont, working on a very promising cancer cure 50 years ago. A fine textile injected into the bloodstream that would find cancer tumors, encase them with cancer-killing drugs, render them harmless.
What happened? “Cost-prohibitive FDA regulations.” The cure never reached people. This is what the political world does to progress.
The Ultimate Goal: Preserving Human Consciousness
Hamilton’s end goal sounds ambitious: cure aging and death. Why? Because human consciousness is the most important value in the universe.
“Your consciousness to you is the most important thing in the universe. My goal is to not let the most important value in the universe perish.”
How do you get there? Through a business society. By purging the political society. And that comes back to individuals breaking free of the following mode: which was never meant for conscious humans. It was meant for bicameral civilization 3,000 years ago.
“The human mind is the most wasted mind in the animal kingdom,” Hamilton concludes. “Because it’s held back. It’s never reaching its full potential.”
The solution: Neothink tools to free your mind from the mind disease, the following mode.
Frequently asked questions
What is the following mode?
A conditioned mental state where you follow external authorities instead of thinking independently. It begins in infancy through mimicked reactions: following parents, siblings, the world around us. Most people never leave this mode, remaining followers their entire lives. It’s the great imprisonment of the human mind that enables ruling classes to exist.
How do I know if I’m in the following mode?
Ask yourself: when was the last time you went against the crowd: even just a group of friends: and wanted to? If going against external authorities feels uncomfortable, if you accept narratives without healthy skepticism, if you let experts tell you what to think instead of building your own puzzle pictures of logic, you’re in the following mode.
What is the Prime Law?
The Prime Law removes all initiatory force: the initiation or threat of force, including fraud. Instead of adding rights (which can be manipulated), it removes the negative. Once you protect the individual (the smallest minority), you’ve protected everyone equally. This is what the Founding Fathers missed.
What is a business civilization?
A society with no political system: only mutual value exchange through competing businesses. Your dollars do the voting instead of manipulated elections. Without initiatory force, there are no forced taxes (only voluntary tithing), no regulations blocking progress. Prosperity explodes because businesses serve consumers to survive.
Who are the exceptions who broke free?
Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison. These people broke the chain and entered a new mentality. They brought genuine values through honest effort: unlike the parasitical ruling class who took the dishonest, lazy route to unearned power. The difference between the two paths is fundamental.
How do I break free of the following mode?
Through Neothink tools: Learn integrated thinking: rising up to pull together puzzle pieces of logic yourself instead of accepting narratives from external authorities. Question everything with healthy skepticism. Become a self-leader rather than waiting for someone to tell you what to do.
Why is Hamilton going public now?
For 45 years, Hamilton ran a private Neothink club helping individual searchers. But he’s witnessed civilization itself sinking deeper into the following mode: the power grab has gotten too great. To fix the problem at the civilization level, he must go public and reach the masses directly.