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@egoless Finance doesn't have to be corporate. That's just all you've bothered to explore. Corporate is easy because they pay you a comfy paycheck and have carved out a spot for you. It's the path of least resistance. But if you're seriously passionate about a thing, you will probably have to venture out on your own and carve out your own spot. Most people never do that, because they only know how to think inside the box, like sheep, and they are lazy, like sheep. The only options they consider are ones which are laid out for them on silver platter by someone else. With that kind of attitude, there can be no life purpose, there is only earning a paycheck.

@1 9 8 4 Stop eating wheat. And the best way to rest is a nap.

@ppfeiff I've done all-raw vegan diet. I got nothing against it. It feels great. The trick is sustaining it in this crazy society we live in. It takes eating huge quantities of food in order not to starve. I found myself having to eat all day long, every few hours, and still being hungry and losing weight (and I'm already lean). And the lack of variety to it gets really old really fast since all you're basically allowed to eat is salads and fruits. And sustaining that while traveling, or doing a meditation retreat, is a real pain in the ass. Good luck finding places that will feed you enough fruits and vegetables not to starve to death. They don't do it because it's costly. Diet isn't only about health, it's also about practicality.

@doronshadmi You misunderstand how this tool is used. So, yes, in your case, don't use the tool. A tool is only useful when used the right way. If an adult stuck a screwdriver in your nose as a kid, yes, I could understand how you'd dislike screwdrivers and try to warn others about them.

Having too many passions isn't the problem. The problem is that you're not focused on anything. If you have, say, 10 passions, rank them from top to bottom, and make the top-most your LP, and get to work. It doesn't have to be perfect. You will adjust along the way. But you do need to really fucking passionate about something, anything. Of course your passion with develop as you gain mastery. But you do not just pick a random thing to master and then become good at it. It doesn't work that way at all. You will never attain anywhere near mastery in anything you're not already passionate about. The passion is what's necessary to bust through all the impenetrable obstacles which will inevitably arise. Without passion and a clear, compelling vision, you will quit within a month. It doesn't really matter what you dream about, but you do have to care enough about it to dream.

@Rachityczny What is it that you're passionate about creating??? Nothing can happen without connecting to your passion.

@wavydude Just because a guy is selling something, or is successful, doesn't mean he's connected with his LP.

Start by thinking outside the box. It's not hard to be original. Just throw out the first 10 ideas you get. Those first 10 ideas, every lazy fool gets, and fails at.

@Revolutionary Think It's not a lottery at all. If you have the skills, the portfolio, and know how to market yourself, you will get a bunch of job offers. You have to bring something enticing to the table. Just expecting people to do favors for you by hiring you is not the proper way to get a job. The more value you offer, the more the world opens up to you. The big problem here is that you're just applying to random jobs. Which shows you don't care what job you get, and you have no specific idea of what job you want. It's hard to get something when you don't know what you want because you cannot prepare yourself for it. I assume you're 20+ years old. What career have you spent the last 10 years of your life preparing for?

@DnoReally This idea that you will get enlightened in one shot, isn't realistic. Realistically, whether you use psychedelics or not, your waking up process will take years, and involve a lot of mini-breakthroughs, followed by ego backlashes, etc. The solution is to stop looking at this as a magic pill, and see it as a life's work of growing up. And then enjoy as much of it as you can. Don't treat it as something to be over and done with. The whole point of this path is curiosity, awe, love, magic, beauty. Try not to turn it into a grind. With this kind of attitude you should be able to weather any negative phases that you encounter.

@Max_V Ain't nothing enjoyable or peaceful about a retreat. It's the most disturbed you will be all year. That pain is how you know spiritual purification is happening. That's the devil leaving your body If you want enjoyable and peaceful, go to a movie.

Those don't work. Minimum cost for doing effective neurofeedback is about $2500 in total. If you can't accept that, don't bother with neurofeedback.

@TeamBills A good way to think about this issue is: everything you've ever done, was done without free will. In the same way that every time you got Xmas gifts, it wasn't caused by Santa. So it's really not a problem that Santa doesn't exist. Xmas gifts still happen. You can climb mount Everest with no free will. Your body and mind will do whatever they are capable of doing, no more, no less. How do you know what they're capable of doing? You don't! That's why you gotta try. Sometimes you will succeed, sometimes you will fail. But if you never try, you'll never know what you could have accomplished.

@doronshadmi Have you actually tried the thing you're criticizing? How many times?

@TeamBills Do it indoors. You can do a few sits per day outside to break things up.

Both ways have their pros and cons. Pushing through to the end, even mechanically, can be good because it disciplines the mind. Often times, as soon as you accept that you are stuck there for the entire length of time with no option of retreat, your mind will surrender and get down to some serious meditating. If you give yourself too many options during your sits, the mind will tend to be restless, thinking up ways to sneakily excuse itself from the task at hand. The whole point of doing a retreat is to be extremely strict about it. That's what makes it different than regular daily meditation. You are on this retreat to meditate 24/7, without break. Even during your breaks, you must be meditating. Even as your head hits the pillow at night, you must be meditating. You meditate until you start to lose your mind, and that's just the point when the real meditation starts Retreats are serious things. It should scare you when you think about doing one. A retreat should be the toughest week of your year.

@iTommy Ego and personality are different things. Enlightenment won't destroy your personality, just the opposite.

@Max_V Keep probing it deeper. What are you? How is it that anything is being awared at all if there is no you? What is doing the awaring?

@Edvard 20 years ago, you couldn't even imagine a phone message. Now you can't live for 10 days without one.

@Nadosa What would you do if you had $100 million dollars and no chance of failure? Do that now

That's not a valid impact statement

@Spiral There a plenty of people here who are into programming, engineering, etc. Life purpose has nothing do with personal development. The reason most of you guys are gravitating there is because you're lazy and you're just going with the most obvious thing you see. For this reason it's bad that I ever shared my LP with you. It's very important to craft your own custom LP. If it truly turns out to be personal development, so be it, but for most people that shouldn't be the case if they do it right. And even if it turns out to be PD, you have bring something new to the table. You cannot just be a copycat. That's not proper LP. No one is authentically passionate about being a copycat. Dig deeper into what you really want to create. Creation is innovation. If you're thinking "Let's start a YT channel", that's NOT it. That's putting the cart before the horse. "Let's start a YT channel" is not a passion. That's just one medium. And an oversaturated one at that.

@Joseph Maynor The cost of freedom is passion, knowing exactly what you want, and hard work. Be glad you were born into an era where freedom is possible. You could have been born a slave or a serf just 500 years ago. In Africa, slaves still exist today. You can buy one for $30-$70. The next life, you might be born as one of them. So don't squander this opportunity.

@ExodiaGearCEO Both ways are possible. But there is a big trap with the cash-first approach. Once you get cash coming in, you will get hooked on it, and realistically, you will not drop it to go look for a life purpose. "Why?" you will reason, "Here I am already succeeding. Let me just do more of this." And besides, chasing money often doesn't pan out. It's hard to succeed at something you're not deeply passionate about. Watch my video: The Truth About Passive Income

@Marios Tsagoulis Lol. You already failed by logging online. Your mind tricked you. Let that be a lesson for next time. FYI, standard Zen training begins with 100 straight days of meditation, with no talking to humans for 100 days. And that's just the start. That's the whole problem right there. You see?