Leo Gura

Nope But if you expect high sexual value while offering none in return, guess what that makes you? A leech. And leeches tend to get killed. The more sexual value you want, the harder you're gonna have to work for it. If you are too lazy to work hard, then settle for way less. Sex is not some carebear child's game. It's a sexual marketplace where the stakes are life and death. When you deny this reality, you get bad results and suffering.

Hehe, what do you expect? Welcome to the sexual marketplace. It's a bit of a rude awakening. You come to Tinder hoping to leech sexual value, and instead Tinder leeches your wallet. To get sexual value you gonna have to work for it, not just click a few buttons on your phone. Success in online game requires huge numbers. 1000+ girls. You basically need an automated macro system to milk that thing proper.

@Frenk The harsh truth is that you are God cosplaying as a fool It actually takes infinite wisdom to act as dumb as you are

Yeah, but you gotta try smart. Don't keep doing the same shit robotically over and over again. Adapt. Think outside the box. Figure out why it wasn't working and learn from your mistakes. Failure is only a problem if you don't learn and adapt from it.

Ken Willburg

I highly doubt the Buddha used any technique similar to today's Vipassana. He almost certainly wasn't sitting there doing See, Hear, Feel or some Goenka body scanning.

Oh, I don't know about that. Takes some people decades just to acknowledge their own foolishness That first half can be pretty rough. And there are many degrees of depth to realizing one's foolishness. It's not a thing you do merely once. You will realize it deeper and deeper if you're seriously growing. Every year I realize how big of a fool I've been. And I've been doing that for a decade

Getting results If you do something for a few months and don't see/feel any results, then you gotta adapt. You cannot turn this into an algorithm. You must feel, listen, and adapt using creative intelligence and consciousness. Playing around is not sloppy per se. That's an important part of experimentation. Sloppy is more like being lazy, skipping days, not doing it earnestly, etc. There is a big difference between being lazy about the gym vs experimenting at the gym. Experimentation is actually one of the goals. In practice getting great results in life requires A LOT of experimentation and trial and error. And failure. Way more than anyone expects. I have tried a lot of different meditation techniques and most of them have failed for me. I was not happy with the results. So I had to adapt. You can't just do these things robotically and hope that they will work. You must find what specifically works for you. It makes no difference what works for others, only what works specifically for you. Getting significant growth in this work tends to take many years as you waste a lot of time upfront just getting to know the field, babbling in stuff, and wasting time. The results curve for genuine growth is very long and flat at first, then it skyrockets after you reach a certain critical mass. Which is why few people grow much, but those you devote themselves to it can grow to super-human levels. It is a big investment and most of the rewards come years later. But this is not say you should continue doing practices which you feel aren't generating results within a few months. It should not take years to start feeling some results. That means your method is too ineffective or inappropriate for you.

Billionaires pull shallow women? Says who? Billionaires are pulling whoever they want, basically, and I tend to see them with quality women. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos -- they aren't exactly dating bimbo supermodels or pornstars. They find wife-material ladies with some depth. But basically, when you are a billionaire, you have enough value and leverage to find a woman optimized in all dimensions you care about. Power and status are the ultimate game. If you want quality women, don't go to the club, become a multi-millionaire somebody and women will come to you. The wise hunter does not stalk rabbits one-by-one in the freezing cold, he lays a trap and rests easy by the cozy fire back home.

@electroBeam If you are doing those practices rigorously, they should be generating results within 6 months. If they are not, then either you are doing them wrong/sloppily, or they are not suited for you and you must find a different practice that works for you. Also, consider that your mind is elastic and will generate as much suffering as it is used to holding. So as you slay one case of suffering space will be freed up for more new suffering. The only way to really overcome that is to purify your body/mind through serious spiritual practice and genuine growth. It's very easy to trick oneself into thinking you are growing when in fact you are just studying theory, memorizing spiritual ideas, or thinking about stuff. You need to distinguish real growth from fake growth. I have an older episode about that. How do you know if you're genuinely growing? Ask yourself, with honesty. Is anything about your fundamentally changing? Or are you just making your surroundings more comfortable. Changing your material surroundings is not growth.

Spiral Dynamics is not Ken Wilber's model. So please give credit where it's due. See, you're not the only one who can play that game

Confucius say: He who recognize himself a fool is half-way to wisdom

Well, the smartest guys are not out at parties where the hottest girls are, they are locked in a basement doing serious work. So of course the hottest girls tend to get with the party guys. She can't suck your dick if you're locked in a basement doing rocket science. But also, be careful with your simplistic and victim-mindset reinforcing stereotypes. If you are so smart and deep, how about you use a bit of those smarts to lure in a hot girl? Maybe you ain't as smart as you think

This is true of any business, any industry, ever. That is the whole point of business. Business is not about doing whatever pleases your soul. Business is about serving others. Nevertheless, you can find a balance between the two, as I have.

"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

Forget about Love for now. You need some basic self-esteem work. Read 6 Pillars Of Self-Esteem and do all the exercises. The problem with Love is that it falls on deaf ears until you have some direct experiences of it. It's easy to talk about Love but nothing changes in you. Self-Love is an advanced thing. Very powerful, but requires some serious breakthroughs into consciousness. Psychedelics would speed all this up for you.

Banned Don't waste this forum's time with nonsense and games.

All the incentives are for the most selfish, manipulative, ruthless, and power-hungry people to win elections. Selfishness is rewarded. Selflessness is not. It's an arms race scenario. The most ruthless guy wins. If you go into an election sticking to truth, empathy, kindness -- you will lose. Because your oponent will viciously demonize you as weak. And selfish voters want projections of power to match their own tastes. Selfishness begets selfishness. Ignorance begets ignorance.

It's always a good idea to develop. Don't make it a false binary choice. Do both with passion.

This dude has some of the best right-wing take downs ever Seriously underrated YTber:

Wow, that is a surprisingly profound explanation. It seems like intuition is the key, and most humans simply lack it. Intuition is bascially a higher form of intelligence. People who lack it are like born blind. From my personal experience, I can attribute basically all my life's success to powerful intution which then opens the doors for everything else. To value and pursue truth one bascially has to intuit its importance long before it gives you any tangible payoffs.

Yes, but if you think you can rely on development to awaken you, you'll be very disappointed. It won't. If you want awakening, the only way to get it is to work your ass for it with intense focus and clarity of purpose. No hardcore spiritual practices, no awaken. It's that simple. Which is the reason 99.9999% of people are not awake and will never be awake.

@pole553 Banned Be here to learn. This is place for learning, not being combative.

That's why spiritual practices are required and enlightenment is required. Taking a psychedelic does not make you enlightened. It gives you a peak at what you can become with hardcore spiritual practice. You got the peak, but you don't want to do any hardcore spiritual practice. That's your problem. You are expecting psychedelics to be a magic pill.

By shutting up your mind and just looking at it. What you see is Absolute Truth.