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Definitely both. I regularly check the blog as a unique source of epistemic novelty. Even though currently I don't have time to watch videos, it is nice to have high quality references to come back to, considering the difficulty in finding the latter among the sheer noise of brain rot content. The more you post in general, the better. I have found that even noting down a sentence/ paragraph can become fertile ground for an idea/ connection I make in the future. You can treat your blog as exactly that - a stream in consciousness you can reference and build on top. Adding tags or identifiers for the topics/ ideas discussed creates continuity that can be helpful if you decide to further develop an idea.

When you do not live in a politically-stable environment, following/understanding politics becomes essential. Understanding 'geopolitics' is a key component for the survival of many small nations, sandwiched between superpowers.

@Leo Gura Monk lifestyle will not work on anyone who is hyper-ambitious and driven. I tried the monk lifestyle for half a year, but the internal frustration was growing too strong. For me, being a Tier 2 stage thinker/ scientist at the helm of a transformative tech company (both structurally and technologically) is far more fulfilling due to the direct impact I can have and the actualisation of my gifts - I receive what I can only call spiritual insight into the nature of mathematics and physical systems. I would say this is even more intense, since for the last month I have averaged 11h of deeply technical work per day. Fulfilling in every way possible tho.

My bad, this is my last off-topic response How about you actually read the book for once and abstain from making statements about mine or any one else's understanding. The level of epistemic laziness on this forum sometimes baffles me. I quote from THE Book on Spiral Dynamics: p.216 "When properly handled, this raw self-assertive power [of red] contributes to a positive sense of control, lets the group break from constraining pro forma traditions, and energizes a society to reach for the very ends of the Earth." p.222 "Then, carefully managed programs converting unhealthy to healthy RED can be introduced – the discipline of martial arts,...Lessons in finding Blue moral anchors .... can only take root if the ground is preprard through healthy Puprple and Red-based building." Where are your references?

Wouldn’t say religion is healthy. Look at what it does to the middle east. Discipline and confidence that you can handle a hairy situation are entirely different. One thing is to memorise paragraphs, another is to work your ass in the gym until you can’t breathe. In life and death situations, it saves lives. I myself have had a few of those. Wouldn’t expect most people here to understand.

Nowhere did I mention competition. MMA is a sport, not a promotion. I grew up surrounded by street kids/ ultras - if you didn’t know how to fight, it would be really bad. As I said, I describe very specific environments few of you Westerners have ever experienced.

Consider epistemological anarchism more as an intermediary phase transition when the previous system loses ground (Tier 1-> Tier 2). You are encountering the issue of lack of “absolute truth” in the epistemological sense, seeing the failure of the previous stages. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Even now you can verify not all knowledge is created equal - what is a flat earth with earth-centric celestial mechanics vs a helio-centric vs galaxy-cluster level awareness. So there is a way out of epistemological anarchism, but only through careful study and examination of the epistemological and metaphysical basis of that paradigm - the homework Tier 2 has to do to not fall in the traps of Tier 1. Solipsism is more of an ontological statement, so it isn’t directly related to the subject of knowledge.

You are asking very important and deeply non-trivial questions. My suggestion is for you to familiarise yourself with the field of epistemology and to some extent metaphysics. To not delude oneself is exceptionally hard. My current paradigm is somewhere along the lines of knowledge being a generative model of a fundamentally intractable/chaotic world (with the goal of minimizing surprise= maximising entropy) . All knowledge is fundamentally incomplete and relative to the metaphysical assumptions. That doesn’t mean all knowledge is created equal - you can compare paradigms using statistical methods of hypothesis testing (establishing only relative truthfulness, nowhere is it “absolute”) by sampling the outer world. Unlike many, I would make the distinction between “knowledge” and direct experience. The latter informs the former but there is a significant “loss”/compression that is required to extract anything meaningful (i.e the principle of abstraction)

LOTR/Hobbit were first my favourite books and later movies when I read/watched them at 11-12. I would understand why grown men and women don’t find it appealing, I believe there is an age to be exposed to it. They still have a special place in my heart, but I have to say, respectfully, outside of an aesthetic, RoP was horrendous.

MMA/ Fighting sports are the only thing that can help stage Red to transition to Blue in a healthy manner. For certain populations, the alternatives are worse.

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The serpent is largely misunderstood due to Christianization. It signifies wisdom and is an original chtonic deity for very many of the most ancient cultures. Greeks didn’t understand the Orphic mysticism, which is why they dubbed it an “orgastic cult”. They could never open up to the matriarchal and entheogenic -rooted practices of the Thracians:

Why the serpent hate? Аз съм от рода на змея - Загрей и Сабазий.

Your underlying psyche communicates in images/vision/intuition of things that are already familiar to you (Jung’s psychoanalysis). The goal of Leo’ s course is to clear them up through contemplation. The thing is, your baseline experience influences greatly “the fidelity” of those visions. By going out and trying different things, you gain new “colors” to add to your larger vision that would have previously not been accessible. For example, Learning is a baseline value for me as well. It started as a genuine interest in the world, especially physics and mathematics. By doing research for the first time in HS, I realised I want to be at the forefront of human knowledge. I learned through leading large-scale educational projects, however, that I also want to see its impact on the world. After moving to the US to study, I realised that as a highly risk-tolerant and hyper ambitious individual, employment at prestigious companies and/or NGOs is too restrictive and boring for me. From working on a startup, I realised that the only way to truly create something disruptive is to have a “moat” from a deeply technical field - hence full cycle back. At each step, I gained better understanding of what my purpose entailed, none of which I take to be complete. Think of it as a process of exploration, where your experiences are the feedback you can use to “reverse-engineer” the source.

I see now. This may be an indicator you have to revisit it some point later when you have more life experience, s.t. you can better pinpoint its form. It has been a slow crystallisation for me.

I can also write “dick” on your face, but that doesn’t make you dickface now, does it?

False. I do shit even when I have absolutely no “motivation”. Some of it is because you just have to. To be clear; I understand what you mean, but your framing of “motivation” is rather different than all the resources you would find and how people use the word in general. Reframing it as different than life purpose and discipline is what allows you to realise that even at your shittiest days, you can still work like it’s your best one. Your life purpose gives you a drive far stronger than any gimmicky trick or visualisation technique could. I mean it, when I dropped the need to be “motivated” is when I started excelling. I am a self-made millionaire studying in Ivy, who started from a shitty country and an exceptionally poor family. Not saying this to flex, but rather to show you that I am not just chatting shit. Study Jocko Willing and David Goggins.

There are certain movies that deserve Goat status just based on the historical precedent they have set. Majority of people who have watched '2001: Space Odyssey', for example, say it is overrated without realizing that only thanks to it are there Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. The sheer technological innovation and story building by Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke is phenomenal. Even though I thoroughly enjoyed Interstellar, it is nowhere close to GOAT sci-fi movie. That is hands down the former. Alien by Ridley Scott has a similar position for cosmic horror.

Bladerunner 2049 is spectacular. I had a full spiritual experience after I finished, realizing that what we deem 'human' is a construct changing with our conscious evolution. There isn't a clear 'separator' from ape to man, it didn't happen overnight. As is there no separation from human and what can only be considered Alien/Godhood, so might as well embody it now.

There are two factors that have a much larger effect on your long-term life situation than motivation, namely your life purpose and discipline. Motivation is fleeting, whereas the latter two should be the baseline. I work 10h+ days and it’s not out of “motivation”.

That is a good analogy. The growing surface area has a nice parallel with the development of entirely new fields that are only possible due to advancements in earlier formulations (say calculus-> analysis -> mesure theory -> functional analysis -> K-theory)

Brother, the answer is in the quote.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/26/world/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-hamas?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

You are not getting either on this forum. Most people here would need to brush up on their HS math before they can explain anything to you.

The two are not mutually exclusive. I love math (currently studying grad stuff) and yet I’ve had nightmares and fever dreams as recent as last semester.