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I mean you sort of invalidate your own point. Cold approach is very strategic. It's an activity that allows you to create connection on your terms with anybody that you see with a consistent and simple action that also reveals your shortcomings in many tangential areas of life. What you're suggesting works great because it's doing what you would already be doing which is quite efficient. The problem is most people are already doing what they're doing but don't get results or the results are inconsistent. Last time I did slack line at the park I had a homeless dude not leaving me and my buddy alone sharing his dubious theories on astrophysics with us. To be fair I'm pretty terrible at it so perhaps the public display of competence helped your case if you managed to stay on the line lol. Cold approach is already not playing fair, 95% of men won't do it. Combining it with social media and intentional social circle game and then you have something that not many men in your city will bother doing so you can within a few years gain results that people would believe are out of this world. The reason I think I can have 4-6 women in my life long term and have children with a lot of them is I don't see many men being able to replicate the results that I do mostly from lack of effort and systems thinking. I think my system would work to great success to any man I teach it to since it most dudes are not gonna be your competition anyway.

I use search engines to find information easily not really to do deep research if that's my goal then I'll read specific works by authors I wanna learn from. I mean I won't do it again but any image you upload to the internet is already scrapped by many different sources. You seem to be against AI overall and don't seem to have explained your perspective on it in depth so don't take offence to me calling you anti-AI, that's just my observation. The more in depth we make these discussions the more useful they are to me and I assume many others as we are on a self-development forum. I think casual venting is fine but it doesn't make for quality discussion so I appreciate you explaining your perspective further.

Climate science is way more complicated than these guys give it credit for. Activists and socialists/communists never actually start businesses or powerful organizations that support their causes. I find that generally they are mostly angry of their low status in society and misdirect that anger in a social cause because that has the benefit of feeding their ego. Once they do find a place in modern society then they usually fall out of activism as people that are actually running serious organizations making change are doing a good enough job and they usually don't actually care about the cause enough to dedicate their life purpose to it. This is true of probably 80-90% of cases but not everyone, there are really people passionate to their causes but I don't meet a lot of them.

I don’t really like leisure if something doesn’t advance my goals it feels like a waste of time. I mostly enjoy fantasy shows and anime and I use it as visualization and an education in history. Been getting into historical dramas recently, Rome HBO is sweet and so is the Tudor’s. House of the dragon as well. Rise of the shield hero is a sweet anime I’m watching rn. Harem lifestyle and saving the world, what’s not to like.

We finally agree on something! I think it’s fine sex is at the core of our existence. That was gonna be my answer too I just wanted to see what people would say since I was concerned my answer was shallow. I was gonna say butts. I like butts because they’re clearly a very well done system that conveys a lot of information in very little time. So many times I’m depressed about life and I look at a woman with a nice butt and I instantly feel better. Idk how that works but it’s clearly genius divine level design. I watched this video on it it made me appreciate them even more. You know what they say great minds think alike 😎

I guess you’re correct. I agree that states are pretty arbitrarily made and not usually in favour of people and ultimately will collapse. I disagree that some sort of global workers revolution is possible nor a good idea. I think it’ll come in progressive states with the advent of automated labor. Something like this :

I read the communist manifesto. Part of the issue is its not implementable in real life so it’s Utopianism. All of these nations proclaimed themselves to be communist.

Bartering is not efficient. Fiat is a bit of a scam since they can print more and low key tax us but the mechanism in and of itself is not evil it was to create elastic demand in times of crisis. There aren’t many better alternatives, that was the idea behind bitcoin but it seems even more of an elitist form of money than fiat. The reason you’re wrong in my view is any other type of system has lead to even more inequality than capitalism. Communism chief among them with the USSR, Cuba and Vietnam being worse off than their capitalistic alternatives. Which part of capitalism do you dislike most? Communism didn’t even have freedom of enterprise for the most part that’s as repressive as you can get.

Not exactly I would say it’s more so based on freedom of enterprise and private property. They came up with a universal system of money for us to exchange goods and services. Its subservience because people start off with way more capital than you but within 5-10 years if you study business and finance you can start to build your own systems to benefit from it and accumulate capital yourself.

I’m down to try that I like game exercises they teach you a lot about dynamics. What I get from what you’re saying is it you look good and have cocky eye contact she’ll find herself qualifying and asking the questions which is a good frame to have in cold approach. Worst you can do is ask boring questions right after another and bore the girl. Women are comfortable talking about themselves but they need to be challenged and intrigued to really have a memorable interaction.

Well I’ve explained in my original comment that I don’t think the quality of the indexing has gotten worse and any competitor I use seems much worse. You’ve only put ai slop as a comment in your original thread that’s why I made the boomer meme. If you have actual criticism against the platform I’d be curious to hear them. For me it only got better and the AI summaries they put at the top of queries saves me a lot of time since I think most sites are trash at displaying information efficiently so usually it saves me time.

I think you're right that it's worth experimenting. I don't really do a lot of cold approach at the moment but I can see some of those working. When I warm myself up though after a while from not doing it I try to keep it as simple as possible to not overthink it and just get some reps and momentum in so I just use the hey, you're cute line as it works good enough. "Hey I saw you while I was walking and wanted to say hi. What are you up to?" is another classic one that's hard to fuck up and usually works.

Hasn't changed it still works as intended you just got got by anti AI propaganda

How is it poor quality? It still works better than most search engines if not all. I use duckduckgo too and it indexes a lot of stuff poorly. I would go as far as Google is one of the best companies at everything and is more on top of their shit than anyone. They have the best map software and the best cloud infrastructure and the best video hosting platform. Google is goated come on now Natasha take off the boomer hat. Even this great meme is courtesy of Gemini

I think communism has some good ideas but ultimately it's flawed and doesn't work. I think a lot of the principles will take form when we have AI UBI and the tech singularity but it still will not eliminate wealth inequality as there are always more finite experience and goods and some people are better at business/finance than others. There will be a day soon though where all food and housing will be taken care of and everyone will get a monthly allowance type of thing based off AI tokens. We are not far from world peace, even the iran conflict showed that war is not really profitable.

I think that's true french people like to debate and talk a lot more. The french language is meant to be a more poetic version than english so they value their literacy. The underlying structures of attraction work the same. The reason I said to start in french for a hook/opener even if your french sucks and you Chatgpd a few sentences is to benefit from the ingroup bias. Then you ask to switch in english and then they will probably oblige to be polite and then start qualifying to you because their english is not that good so now you are both someone they feel familiar with but that they wanna impress subconsciously within 60 seconds of interaction. Play chess not checkers

Hey you're cute, what are you up to I'm not very good at indirect game so I like to convey interest right away so this line is both casual but it screens quite quickly whether they're receptive or not.

I started vaping in 2017 and have been trying to quit for around a year. I've managed to do it for three weeks but keep relapsing when I hang out with other people that vape or drink. I've directly noticed that it lowers my energy, increases my anxiety, and lowers my motivation so that in and of itself is enough of a reason to quit besides any other medium or long term health effects that I'm consciously trying to ignore. My roommate vapes and so trying to quit will be a nightmare. About as easy as quitting junk food while owning a convenience store. But this needs to be done since I feel like it's hindering my growth potential. Do you guys have any advice/relatable stories for me?

Hopefully he feels like a competent man now that has the back of the young boy! I think uniting your childhood dreams with your adult competence is a great way towards self-actualization and reunification of the psyche.

Let's go my man! I didn't read the whole thread but keep it up that's good. You're doing web design free lancing still? That's a classic but tough business model now with AI website makers.

Ive moved to Montreal about a month and a half ago, things are going well but slower than I’d like. Launching a new site for the Calgary Creatives brand this weekend, pre launched with a waitlist and already got 9 signups so that’s really good. This is more of a medium to long term play that I don’t wanna monetize directly but I have a brand ambassador contract with AI brand that’s giving me $25 USD per signup so that’s a can stack up quickly and will be a useful tool for the creatives in my community to use for brand outreach and content ideation The journey continues Here's the trailer reel I made for it https://www.instagram.com/p/DaMEPyIRZ5O/

I'm in a pretty unique financial situation right now so I think it'd be valuable to journal and document for others to witness the journey as well. I've been working on my business as a photographer and media marketer for about 9 years by now. Before then I was a semi professional League of Legends player for a bit. It's been ups and downs as my personality type is not very industrious(INTP) and struggles with work ethic and well running a business. I've been watching a lot of Alex Hormozi content lately and he explains roadblocks and bottlenecks in business so well that's its helped me make sense of my whole life and why my business has been mostly unsuccessful so far. I've made somewhere around $75,000 CAD with it over a few years which is enough to sustain me for periods of time and then I end up having to get a random minimum wage job to pay the bills for a while then quit when I think I have a cushion and the business is working and cycle repeats, like 5 times now. I do think that now I have gotten the hang of it and the new people that I'm working with will be a competent team that I can lead and shape towards a multi million dollar business over the next few years. Also I'm in a funny spot where I basically have no money currently literally basically $0 until I receive my next $500 client payment in a few days. Considering the credit card debt I have I'm definitely below $0 net worth so hopefully this is a fun journey to document. I have a Vlog series that I do as well but I'm finding a lot of pleasure in writing lately as it allows me to go deeper in my thoughts as opposed to being a bit stressed and nervous on video so both will be worth watching if you're into this sort of quest. I'm a nerd at heart, this is partly inspired by the road to commander series that happened back in the days where Call Of Duty Youtubers would document their journey from level 0 to level 70(rank commander) in Modern Warfare 2. Feel free to ask questions or comment if you have thoughts. I'm also gonna be doing this as an accountability challenge and aim to get a post up weekly, as part of what I've noticed is holding back my life is consistency! I also find cringe the anti materialism that spiritual circles seem to embrace, I believe it to be spiritually bypassing and an avoidance of learning to be a competent human being that offers tangible value consistently to other human begins so documenting this on a spiritual forum is important to me as well. I tend to be more aggressive in forum posts than I mean to but if I have to read another comment from someone on their high horse about how business and wealth are corrupt and not worth pursuing while the only reason that we are here on this forum is because Leo heavily prioritized business and marketing to free himself financially and ultimately emotionally to have the bandwith to dedicate his life to the pursuit of truth and the ascension of mankind. A pursuit only possible for a human that can sustain themselves financially without having to work for another. I believe that becoming rich is one of the most spiritual things you can do, reach the abundance the formlessless gives us ultimately but in material reality while building out our shared universe and eventually exploring the confines of the galaxy. If we're talking about life purpose I also believe I will own at least 3 planets in the future so here's my proof that it was not luck I planned it from the start boys and girls. First let's do $1M though I hear planets are expensive.

Yes I'm getting back into nofap now, I like what it does to my productivity. I realized that it was highly linked to anticipation so for example when I worked on business I got excited for the end result and wanted an instant reward and fapped instead of actually practicing delayed gratification and actually making tangible progress on my goals.

I think it's a good idea, I meet really cool people at big conferences. A lot of women give up on dating without exploring all the options available to them.

Definitely try it out! Depends what your goals are but entrepreneur based events are cool cuz people speak the same language or you can go for a photoshoot vibe to target specifically towards women and creatives. Music based events are also a really good option since it combine both vibes and music brings people closer. Feel free to DM me and I can give you more feedback on event curation. Usually I think it gets messy because the group isn't big enough and it turns into a sort of weird friend group incest situation but if there are inflows of people coming in regularly and people are ethical with their behaviours then dating in the social circle shouldn't really be an issue.