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Then, it's more about caution and awareness. If you were aware and cautious without being paranoid and anxious, you would become more effective. Think about a calm warrior who calmly assesses and responds to external environment.

That sounds like a bad personal development advice. Leo Gura preaches letting go. In my direct experiences, letting go boosts performance far better than paranoia. If you don't practice letting go, you may succumb to distractions.

I got to know Scott Young years ago. Today, I browsed his blog and found useful articles on https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/articles/ In particular, I found those useful for my situation. The Best Career Articles If you want to be an author, don’t start writing (and other strangely useful career advice) What Do You Want to Do With Your Life The Interview Method: Why Our Assumptions About Success are Often Wrong Fantasizing About Retirement? Here’s How to Build a Career You Won’t Want to Quit You Need to Negotiate Your Lifestyle The Best Articles on Goal-Setting Set Goals in the Middle Two Types of Growth Show Up, Every Day Why It’s So Hard to Stick to Your Goals (And How to Make it Easy) On Keeping Your Word The Best Articles on Productivity How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time How to Be Prolific What is Productivity Guilt, and How to Prevent it? Make Your Time Top-Heavy Rethinking Discipline The Best Articles on Learning How to Start Your Own Ultralearning Project – PART 1 How to Start Your Own Ultralearning Project – PART 2 The Complete Guide to Memory How to Learn a Language in Record Time The Feynman Technique Five Scientific Steps to Ace Your Next Exam I immediately made a project to read those articles. Just make sure to supplement these articles with Leo's videos. Without Leo's personal development techniques, none of those articles above is going to help you. Personal development is more important than career development. I cannot stay complacent for long.

recommends some books about systems thinking and spiral dynamics.

What about china? Isn't china also trying to interfere with US elections? China has a lot of interest in USA.

Leo Gura has videos about going meta and systems thinking. Eben Pagan and other people teach marketing and other business stuff. I don't know any book about any of the topics. Leo's book list may have books about most of your topics. I think that's enough to keep you moving.

Goal setting and accountability and information sharing are good. I may form a group of beginners and intermediates.

I've looked for someone advanced who may be willing to provide mentoring. Some are willing to give quick tips. But, a little bit of quick tip is not very helpful. I was tired of looking. Asking random advanced people on the internet for mentoring is inefficient. Only after I have provided some useful service to a person for a while, the person may consider mentoring. Perhaps, I shall look for opportunities to work with advanced people and experts in some ways. If I worked with them in some way, they might be more willing to talk with me. There was a programmer who wanted to get advices from experts. Months after he volunteered for a job of creating quizzes for his favorite programming language, he got offers to work alongside experts of that language for conferences. He got paid to work with them. He got a lot of advices.

@Elisabeth ^^

I work in a creative field composed mostly of one-man entrepreneurs, freelancers, and employees. We can make passive or active income. It is very competitive, but the competition is not cut-throat to the point where winners take everything. We may compete in end-user markets as one-man entrepreneurs. There are also hobbyists who may be more willing to help beginners. There are going to be a lot of other beginners on internet communities. There is no shortage of people at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. There are many masters, but they will not or cannot help beginners individually. True masters are rare. Creative personalities tend to have big fat (undeveloped) ego. They may be afraid to admit that they are not as good as they think they are. Some may not be able to tolerate people who have small differences in methodologies. So, it may take time to form a stable core in a group.

That's personal information I'm yet hesitant to reveal. I want to talk generically for now. Since this topic applies to all professions, I don't want to dilute the focus by revealing my field.

I didn't expect you to call him a monster. You make extinction rebellion seem like a bunch of paranoid people who are overreacting to climate predictions.

Rather than trying to kill ego, try to improve it. Ego is inevitable. It's often easy for people to use spirituality as an excuse to escape their lives because it's miserable while not really pursuing spirituality seriously.

Civilization constantly collapses and rebuilds over and over. I destroy my ego and rebuild it over and over.

When you have enough information to get going, you stop.

According to Leo, consciousness has every structure and every form. One single soul owns everything.

It seems "stealing fire from god" means increasing performance through altered states of consciousness enabled by flow, meditation, psychedelics, and extreme conditions. Can anyone boil down the book into a few key points?

I want to help you free yourself. Judgment is actually quite universal. Some men say similar things a lot, too. Any person would be constantly judged by some criteria. You would judge yourself and others on some criteria. Trying to escape judgment doesn't work because judgments are inevitable. Anything less than stopping caring about it is not going to work in the long run. My goal is to eventually stop caring about it and still use it as useful information. An important measure for personal development is ability to push beyond nearly infinite amount of NOs and judgments. You can still cut out people who constantly drag you down without feeling (strong) negative emotions about them.

@Nickyy You seem to be looking for ways to criticize him negatively, instead of helping him improve. Chronic negative criticism is not welcome on this forum.

23 is normal, not perverted.

I heard Thomas Frank say almond milk tastes good. Soy milk also tastes good.

By the way, when I was younger, I was also needy around women. My intuition told me that I should refrain from approaching women when I am needy. I intuitively knew I was going to screw up. I guess my intuition saved everyone's time and energy.

I actually copied Leo's phrases.

He has difficulty with letting go of his need to have some sex with a cute girl who desires him. If he was not blinded by his neediness, he would be observant of a woman's emotions. He's not just needy about women. An average man is also needy about money and other things, too. In the big picture, it's a problem of neediness and not being able to let go. Everyone has issues with neediness. If half of your population is needy, you should suspect that you are also needy in some other ways. You can also easily be blindsided by your neediness in various areas of your life. You can develop appreciation of the difficulty of letting go. You can exploit a needy man to grow yourself by using him as an opportunity to reflect on how you are needy.

Let go of getting laid, man. To be honest, you are going to fail a lot no matter what. You will have better results if you act from a place of surrender.