Leo Gura

Infinite divisibility is God.

You mean Actualized? My initial plan was just to use Actualized to get coaching clients. Then as I saw it was getting popular I knew I could sell courses. I didn't sell out because I hate that and because I had estblished myself from my previous biz so I wasn't financially desperate.

First time hearing this. Oh God. It's worse than I thought. He's getting lost in his own self-absorbed fantasy. The ego constructs a fantasy around itself, just like Trump and Musk. In a sick sense he's teaching the ultimate lesson. I was hoping he would outgrow the whole pickup thing.

Completely irrelevant. That was a right-wing policy agenda. This crisis is a projection of ignorant people. Why feed into it? If you distrust your government because something bad happened 15 years ago, you will never have a functional government. And the anti-Covid nonsense has nothing to do with that. It is just memes and mass delusion. To frame it as coming from a legitmate greivance is to give it too much credit. Covid was handled well considering how many people could have died. People have just rotted their own minds with conspiracy theories.

Such shameless ingratitude for hardworking people saving your life.

I don't use that word lightly. I only apply it to people who I think genuinely score high on a clinical narc assessment. If someone is a narc, to not know that about them, to not take it into account, is a mistake in analysis. Being a narc explains a lot of one's behaviors and motivation. It's not personal. I don't go around calling people narcs just because I disagree with them. Trump, Musk, Owen -- they have some deep personality issues and a lot in common. This not a thread about bashing Owen. It's a thread about making sense of why he backs Trump and Musk.

I'm not shocked at all. It's just what I would expect. Owen's whole life has been battling against mainstream PC culture which demonizes pickup. Wokeness killed RSD. Or so he believes. Wokeness is Owen's #1 enemy. Everything else is just a backwards rationalization from that. Owen is doing survival. That's what he's always been doing. What do you think Covid lockdowns did to his business? What did MeToo do to his business? You might as well have a gun to his head.

Look, we also shouldn't be too puritanical. A bit of corruption is okay. It's not like the non-pickup dating field is free of corruption. All sexual relations are filled with various corruptions and women do corrupt things to, and in the end guys need to get laid and women too, and humanity needs babies. The problem is easily addressed by just teaching some dating ethics and using some empathy. You can do pickup in relatively ethical ways.

Not just self-deception, corruption. It is obvious to anyone with a lick of intelligence that making a career out of chasing sex will severely corrupt you.

Cause we all know that Trump supporters are masters at starting businesses and never fail. Like how Daddy Trump never failed at business.

Sam is a boss. One of the smartest progressives.

The big picture is still more important. Money is a tool towards the big picture.

Obviously people have done it. Whether you can do it depends on your health, energy levels, work ethic, personality type, and many other factors. Depends very much on your career and how busy/distracted it makes you. You can do career in many ways. You can also build up a career and then afford some time off for side pursuits. Are you going to get Awakened while running a Fortune 500 public company? Probably not. You have to strategically design your lifestyle around your top values. There will be difficult tradeoffs because you can't have it all at once. But you can space your goals out over 20-40 years. In the early stages of building a career, most of your energy should go into the career. But after a few years of that you can ease back on career and have time for other pursuits.

Vision and theory. It is important that you are working towards the right big picture, not just something like money.

Sure. If you want to get real serious, sit down in a room with a notepad and write at the top the following questions: Does truth exist? If so, what do I know for sure that's true? How can I be sure? Where does truth come from? And then just spend hours working that out. Use your own direct experience to bootstrap inquiry. Try to find anything in your experience or mind that is 100% true. Rewatch my video: How To Discover What Is True? and follow it.

The reframe is that handling this much money responsibly is just the next step of your development. Handling money and big deals is a skill. So developing that skill is the real gold here. Money is just a resource and you will train yourself how to manage resources effecticvely to do good in the world. Doing good in the world requires good resource management. You will put these resources toward actualizing yourself and improving the world. Visualize all this in your mind every day until you are clear that this is just what your path needs. If that fails, I am happy to hold on to your money

This is a great place to start. You want to use truth to ground yourself, orherwise the mind devolves into conceptual fantasies and illusions. What I said is even more fundamental than that. "Trump is a devil" is a conceptual judgment. If you just look at your raw experience of Trump without any concepts you will not see any devil. You will not even see a human. You will see computer screens and photographs. Raw experience strips away all the mental noise, labels, and categories. This grounds you in raw reality. This cleanses the mind of trash. By doing this exercise you will realize that you don't even know if Trump exists as a human. All you have are photographs of him. That's the truth.

Especially in career. Career is 95% action.

Yes, all that coming soon. It's not that hard. Truth is your entire field of experience. Anything you experience is truth. But be careful not to conflate raw experience with your thoughts and concepts about it. You start by distinguishing direct experience from all concepts. And you ground yourself in direct experience. Then you use that to sort through all human concepts. Just look at your hand. That is truth. It is thoughts about your hand which create falsehoods and illusions. You could also have truthful thoughts but that requires very careful thinking.

Yes, Owen is a sleazy marketer, however he also pioneered a lot of important concepts within pickup and just motivated and inspired a lot of people into seeing its potential. So he does deserve credit for that. As said above, you should not be listening to Owen for his politics but his other good advice. You gotta get good at cutting out the corrupt parts of people because most people are corrupt in some way.

@The Crocodile You have posted such disgusting insults on this forum that you are lucky I have not personally banned you. The abuser is you.

Post your best psychedelic resource links here. NO SOURCING!!! No links to online drug stores.

It is only depressing because you are not taking action to improve your situation To get results in life requires taking lots of action, otherwise you will be a poor man, sitting there all bitter and depressed. Do you know how much action I took to reach my position? You wouldn't believe it. I didn't fly up here like a bird. I crawled like a rat through the sewer.

@Daniel Balan I have a YT playlist called Epistemology which contains many of my epistemology related videos. But I teach about epistemology all across my work. And I am always creating more new epistemology videos. My post-modernism series is one example. My deconstructing science is another. If you want to develop an epistemic foundation you need to adopt an attitude of skepticism towards all human knowledge and do your own private inquiry into how anything at all could be known? Only by doing this inquiry will you see how truthful knowing is generated. Do not confuse epistemic inquiry with self-inquiry.

@Joshe But Kamala laughs funny!