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That doesn't make much sense to me, he would be suicidal as an introvert going out 7 days a week. All extroverts have an introverted function in the 2nd spot of their function stack so it's not like they explode from spending time by themselves necessarily. Extroverts get energized after a bunch of socialization though. I've never really felt like I gained momentum after sets like most PUAs talk about, if anything it drains me even if the successful ones less so. @VictorB02 It's a cool idea. Similar to Ivern in league of legends. He's the only jungler that frees the monsters instead of killing them because he's the spirit guardian of the forest. Our entertainment, in general, is too focused on killing, growing up I thought I would get a gun at 18 and just go assassin mode on people that pissed me off.

Made up statistic, over 60% of men have had sex in the past year. To be fair if we only take the % of single men perhaps it'd be closer to 20-30%.

Do you guys know the backstory of Owen? He was miserable and depressed living in Kingston Canada then took a Boot Camp with Mystery, took his business model, and did it himself after moving to LA. It's a cool story, but it's hard to replicate. He threw himself into this and went out 7 days a week for years according to him and I believe it. He's speculated to have an ENFP personality type so he gets energized by going out and talking to people; perfect business for him. As an INTP I've studied game for years and been around pickup coaches. Most of the people who find great success in that career are ENTJs or ENFJs like Owen. I met Mystery himself; cool guy. Engaging speaker but seemed lost in nostalgia and deeply hurt. The story of pickup will be an interesting one for humanity.

Couldn't Kamala Harris have ran? She's decently popular and has a a lot of experience.

Find friends outside of work to go out with that will accept you is what I'd say. It'll always be hard to make people accept you especially if they have an emotional bias about it.

Would your wife be open to joining the swinging scene/be into an open relationship? Just probably do a lot of self-improvement before then as she'll be way more attractive to random men then you will be to random women otherwise.

I like lust, it saves me from the dreadfulness of regular life. At least something exciting to look forward to.

@A Fellow Lighter Did this experience bring some depression for you or was it solely a beautiful experience?

@StarStruck Are you still more productive due to nofap? About to give it a go, I hit a real slump in terms of motivation and productivity lately. Any more thoughts on the subject?

@Jowblob Can you explain what you mean in a different way? I don't quite understand it but it sounds familiar

@QVx I feel like I'm getting to that stage and it feels like being lost in relativism. Hard to make plans as the intellect I was so sure of before now doesn't seem that useful to me. Very confusing stage of life and I'm learning to just let go and surrender to the moment which feels really good tbh but also incredibly confusing. Do you relate to that or have any advice for it?

I think you're unto something. Intellectual compatibility is huge in relationships and I have a lot of trouble finding that as an INTP. I used to have kind of a superiority complex when it came to the average extraverted normie girl as a sour grapes I imagine but I just don't think we're particularly compatible. I usually tend to be attracted to mostly rebel women with piercings, tattoos, colored hair that also don't seem to fit in narrowly in mainstream culture.

I like her point on seduction as a game. I've done pickup on and off for like 10 years now and it's never really felt fun to me. Mostly a lot of anxiety and then craving. I'm curious if for some of you going out is actually consistently a fun adventure with thrill and wonder or if it's mostly a negative experience like I experience it.

I feel what you feel. Props on going on that date that takes a lot of courage. All I'll say is that if you believe in non-duality then it makes sense that fundamentally most of us are going to be on the bisexual spectrum as we're all the same energy. The concept of spiral dynamics does make sense as to why that's so frowned upon. I think in a few dozen years the large-scale societal shame around it will be pretty much dissolved and we'll all live much closer to one another.

@Rafael Thundercat How is that different from the mainstream view of humans though since both have consciousness? They just don’t really know where it comes from and neither do we; just have a more sophisticated and researched guess of it

Leo has many videos in which he does make the point that you should focus on the lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy before focusing on stuff like self-actualization, transcendence and truth. I have fallen into this trap myself where I feel I'm almost at stage turquoise and can barely feed myself and I don't recommend it. He started his journey in this topic being a successful business owner with multiple tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands to his name and not a college student/struggling entrepreneur. I do wish he would keep mentioning it over and over as it is a very diabolical trap to fall into I'd say.

I don't think he was correct with the view of solipcism as you being the main character hallucinating others. I think that that was him particularly in ego delusion. The truth should be that God itself is solipcistic but we are indeed little egos that walk around and exist within its dream. It's not because we sometimes have access to the greater consciousness that it's ours alone.

I like Leo's definition; something you would find interesting and valuable to do intrinsincally. Meaning that if you weren't even getting paid for it you would find it worthwhile and if you can find a way to get paid for it then you're really winning.

What causes mean a lot to you? What do you want to accomplish? You're in a great position, I would not worry about short term fluctuations. You're not very impulsive if you've truly saved 30k at 20 years old so if you have bipolar you're managing it really well. More than likely you're just a bit aimless which is perfectly normal at your age.

@Leo Gura What's your thoughts on this trip report? I've had a trip similar to this when I combined shrooms and LSD together. I came out of it but for a while I was like stuck in this reality and I knew there was no escape whether I died or not. Reading this again let me to ponder this rabbit hole. Solipsism is an interesting concept. Do you think God is indeed in agony from the loneliness or is that a silly way of looking at it?

This is a simple reaction of your subconscious to your own feelings of fear.

Can you elaborate on this? So the computer era brought about increase competition and lead to a sort of self-improvement crazy you would say? Your point on brain plasticity is interesting; I hadn't considered that. The beautiful thing is I don't really think it will matter. You just need to give people what they want, they don't necessarily have to be on the same level of development. For example to convince a bunch of stage orange people to vote for you then making the economy abundant and giving them power and freedom should be enough even if it's bundled with the stage green humanitarian values they hate. I don't know how familiar you are with the concept of singularity but it just seems to solve the game of life. It will fundamentally change our experience of the physical universe from scarcity to abundance. I don't even think @Leo Gura understands it properly. The way I see it it's basically combining the spiritual world and the physical world into one. The spiritual being formless infinity and the singularity and metaverse bringing infinity through form.

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Well, the interesting question is which part of society needs to be at Stage Yellow for it's values to be reflected to the overall benefit of the public. If we get stage yellow politicians and they use this AGI then perhaps we can solve most of our problems without needing the general populace to evolve as quickly; especially because stage yellow understands the perspective of the stages below it.

Those countries at least have the advantage of relying mostly on manual work instead of anything using IT which is a chat gpt application away from being automated. Are you familiar with the concept of AGI? I think perhaps this will allow us to leapfrog from stage orange to stage yellow and above. Stage green is not powerful by itself to overcome Stage Orange's efficiency. An artificial general intelligence is basically a being that starts off straight at stage yellow due to being trained on all of humanity's data. The birth of such a being is due anytime from 2025-2030 according to current estimate. Exciting times; this gives me optimism above all else. If we're just relying on AI as a mega computer that humans exploit then that sounds like a century of atrocity to me with nation-states and mega corps waging economic and physical warfare against each other with it.