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@ajasatya Total freedom could also mean being ambushed, abducted, and beheaded by someone without knowing in advance it would happen. Right? It could also mean being born in north korea as a slave.

Even, pseudonymity is difficult to get. When I tried to buy bitcoins last time, I had a few options Buy it at a bitcoin ATM // Your picture is recorded by ATM. So, a government agency can identify you if it wants to badly. Buy it from bitcoin exchanges // Your credit card information reveals your identity Buy it from local bitcoin vendors // You have to meet them in person and pay in cash. This adds costs. Buy it from bitcoin exchanges, convert bitcoins to monero coins, and convert monero coins gradually back to bitcoins over time. This incurs financial risks and is a form of investment.

My knowledge of bitcoin was outdated. What about anonymity or pseudonymity? Last time I checked, bitcoin was not very anonymous or pseudonymous. Theoretically, government agencies with lots of money could reveal your real identity from bitcoin transactions.

I'm just one of lost souls on actaulized.org forum LIke directing my own education as a autodidact instead of following other people's curricula?

Bitcoin is a useful concept. But, it doesn't scale to billions of transactions per day. A blockchain cryptocurrency is not very suitable for large volumes of transactions. A new scalable cryptocurrency will take over bitcoin in the future. Because bitcoin couldn't be used as a real wallet due to lack of scalability, it was relegated to short-term investments. It cannot be the secure wallet for billions.

I will try and see if there is some value in making my top 50 objectives from long-term goals, yearly goals, quarterly goals, projects, and tasks. I might stop making quarterly plans, though. I just expect that updating the top 50 objectives would incur a lot of overhead and shouldn't be done everyday. Maybe, once a week during my weekly review sessions.

Right now, I have long-term plans for the next year, the next 3 years, the next 5 years, and the next 10 years. It looks like the following text document. For each section, I stipulate a set amount with a set date. For example, by the end of 2023, I will be making 4000~8000 USD by selling this kind of product that resembles the work of someone, someone else, blah blah, .. and has such qualities, blah blah ... For the current year, I make a yearly 3-month plan to make progress in the long-term plans. By a yearly 3-month plan, I mean the following text document. I think it makes sense to make progress in each quarter by breaking down the current quarter's plan into projects, adding a few small unplanned projects, and making the current month's plan out of the projects. Daily plans also make make sense in my experiences. However, in my experiences for the past few years, weekly plans tend to not make much sense. It's hard to make a meaningful progress in one week. But, making a tangible progress is possible in one month or 6 weeks. I also tend to be lazy and shift some weekly tasks to the next week. Shifting weekly tasks to the next week every week adds seemingly unnecessary complexity to my planning system. With or without weekly plans, I would do weekly reviews. I try to stick to David Allen's Getting Things Done(GTD) system for actual execution. How do you suggest that I modify my planning system? A suggestion can either be a good refinement or a paradigm-shifting change.

@Leo Gura Despite having been yet another addict, I found similarities between me and Kim Jung Gi. I think Kim Jung Gi could have become yet another addict if he was living in a different environment. I could have lived like him if I was encouraged to pursue an artform that I find fascinating now when I was young. Or, I am trying to feel good by identifying with masters like Kim Jung Gi. It's not too late to adopt mastery mindset. To live a mastery mindset, I need to adopt lifestyle minimalism which requires fixing my broken planning system optimized for cramming as many tasks as possible into one single day. Do you have videos or tips for a planning system geared toward lifestyle minimalism?

If I set the intent to discover the best way to achieve my life purpose or whether my life purpose is the right one, would 5-MeO-DMT directly show it to me?

I haven't been on psychedelics, yet. So, I don't strictly understand what you say. I just find it weird to think of the possibility that you are right now part of the external reality as a human and the external reality is inside you. It is a strange loop.

Am I part of the external world, now?

I just watched this video. It is very amazing. When I heard Kim Jung Gi, I thought he was just yet another regular artist. After watching video, I changed my mind. He is a real master. Now, I have a dream. I want to become a master like Kim Jung Gi. Now, I understand what mastery involves.

I watched the following video and heard the following quote from it.

The devil is in the detail. Can you go into details? I can't implement your suggestion as is.

It seems you wonder if I have been to japan because my example long term plan includes japanese. I haven't been to japan. It's just a random example.

According to Leo Gura, perfectionism is neurotic resistance to reality. Perfectionism reduces performance. On the other hand, if you don't pursue mastery, you get mediocrity. I recommend watching Leo's videos about mastery and perfectionism.

Leo has a video for you.

Hahahaha....!!! That's a funny expression. But, it doesn't take into account that other people are more than sex toys which don't have consciousness. You might get bitten when you treat other people like toys. Unlike toys, they have to be satisfied, too. That said, I might enjoy being treated like a sex toy by a sexy woman. Or, vice versa.

What am I running away from? What do you think my problem is?

I had one insight while I took a shower and another insight while I visualized about improvements. Loving devilry It's easy to let your own devil run amok and to hate other devils. It happens to everyone including me. I mean everyone. This is one of the major reasons that people have double standards and are full of shit. I figured out that one way to love devilry is to be fascinated by the mechanism of devilry. I could get myself to be amazed by the artistry of devilry. Night-time meditation is good for curing insomnia. Roughly one hour before you go to bed, stop doing things. Tie up loose ends. Wrap up your day by putting what's in your mind in your task inbox. And then, meditate for 20~30 minutes. A lot of distractions will go away through meditation. If you remove distractions before you go to bed, insomnia will likely go away. In my case, insomnia was caused by emotional distractions.

Uh, what? Can you explain in plain english?

@ValiantSalvatore You talked to me about Shinzen Young's weekend home solo retreat program. I'd like to try it now before even thinking about splurging my dwindling finances on an expensive rented property. Currently, it hurts financially a lot to live 10~30 days in a rented property. What was your experience with the program? Did you find your ego cheating during your home solo retreats? Perhaps, I can rent a cheap study room near my house where I don't sleep or prepare food. If I rented a cheap study room, I would have to come home for food and sleep. It takes less than 10 minutes to get to the study room. However, it seems that even if I rented a solitary study space, I would be surrounded by other people nearby.

Life is already more difficult than I can handle. I don't want to add more problems to my life. I'd rather depend on solo retreats for growth.

In the following video, I heard something in the line of I know your marriage is not an escape although it can easily be.

@aurum I am not as dismissive as monogamy as you are. But, I am not looking forward to marriage, either. It is a bad legal contract. If you sign the contract, you are 100% responsible for the legal consequences of divorce that will fall upon you with 20~50% chance. Someone said that the greatest cause of divorce is marriage.