3hrs per night x 3 nights/week would be a great foundation.
That would be the minimum you need to get good at game.

It's very different.
You might be surprised to discover that porn can be better than sex. Because sex is not nearly as visual as porn. But sex has other great qualities you cannot get with porn. The tactile feel of a naked girl is hard to beat. You can't get that with no amount of porn.

Real-world running is quite noticably different than treadmill running. Real-world running is harder. The treadmill just spins under your feet, that's not how real running works, where you have to push yourself forward more. On a treadmill you are not pushing forward, you are just lifting your legs.
If you train on a treadmill a lot, and then try real running, you will feel weak at it.

You want both.
Truth is of course core. But that by itself is not enough for a good life. You need passions outside of spirituality. You need some kind of career, hobbies, etc.
Pick one career and pick one hobby. And also you will pursue truth.

Here's what you do: You just sit and feel the suffering and don't try to fix the other person.
Learn to feel it and do nothing.
And at some point, become conscious that feeling that suffering is something you're choosing to do. And you can choose to stop it. Nowhere is it written that you must feel it.

In my experience you will NEVER feel any difference between organic and inorganic.
However, that doesn't mean it won't affect your health over decades. You can't notice something that takes a decade to build up.
When something finally goes wrong with your health you will not even know why. You will be confused as fuck about it for years.

Switch your attention on something new, something productive. If you just sit around all day with no purpose, you will have a lot of bad thoughts brew inside you.

@Display_Name My only advice to you is to this:
Become very serious about what kind of thoughts you allow your mind to entertain. Take responsibility over your own mind. Do not focus on things that disempower you. If you notice a certain line of thought is consistently disempowering for you, make a commitment to stop allowing that line of thinking into your mind ever again. Just drop it. Let it go. Practice letting go. Watch my video: The Power Of Letting Go.
You are under no obligation to entertain every negative, depressing, disempowering, ugly thought that enters your mind.
Focus your mind on how you can best honor the miracle that is your current life. And stop thinking about bullshit.
Reality is your dream. So if you dream of horror and torture and shit, that's what your reality will slowly become. Until eventually you reach Hell. That's all Hell is.

I have not done it again. Mostly because I feel it is dangerous without a trip sitter.
And yes, it is terrifying. So I'm not really looking forward to doing it again. But at some point I will.

What I did if followed my passion, BUT I was also very practical and knew I needed to develop concrete career plans. So I switched to philosophy, my passion, but I also resolved to develop my game design portfolio and technical skills so I could be hired as a game designer. Which I was.
You need BOTH passion and practicality. Be practical about your passions. Like, if you are gonna study film, have a concrete career plan in mind. Like develop the technical skills of a filmmaker or screenwriter.
No one will mock you if they see you are developing serious technical skill in a craft like writing, art, filmmaking, etc.
You can't just rely on a diploma to get you a career. A diploma means shit. You need to make serious, realistic career plans on your own, outside university work.

Haha. If that were true I'd be getting laid a lot more than I am.
Women absolutely love immature men. Like flies on shit.

By consciously trying a bunch of stuff and carefully observing how you feel.
What you're missing is massive experience. See my episode: Expose Yourself To More Experience

I have an old blog post that lists some of the best sources I found.

That's good. The problem wasn't so much that it was self-destructive but women-destructive. It's not good for a leader of young men to model behavior which is harmful to women. But that's water under the bridge. He is much more careful now in how he speaks.
Well, of course mainstream media is not going to deeply understand Owen and his work. That's not surprising at all. And again, it's not some conspiracy to bring down the little guy. That would be like me complaining that people call me a cult leader because the elites are after me. No, it's just that mainstream media will never understand the things I teach.
The fact that guys like Owen and myself are still allowed to post YT videos is evidence that there is no conspiracy theory or elites looking to suppress deep truths. No one is going to ban Owen as long as he teaches in a responsible way -- which he is now doing. I put out way more edgy and risky content these days than him and I don't have some paranoia about the mainstream not understanding me or trying to silence me.
If media ever writes about me, it's gonna be extremely distorted to the point where it will look like it's full of lies. It's not lies, it's just their inability to understand based on their limited paradigm and life experience. But hey, if my life's work was taken down overnight, yeah, I would develop a chip on my shoulder about that. So I understand Owen's frustration. Society has always had taboo subjects, such as homosexuality, pickup, socialism, or mysticism. Teachers of such topics tend to get demonized. It comes with the territory. Jesus was nailed to a cross. MLK was assassinated.

You cannot learn socializing through a book.
Stop thinking of this issue as even pickup-related.
It's not really about pickup, it's about the fact that you are fundamentally insecure with yourself around other human beings. You lack core socialization skills. This is not about manipulating women into bed, it's about the fact that you are incapable of walking up to a stranger and holding a fun conversation.
Yes, and the only way you'll develop that is by socializing with 1000s of people. So get out there and get started. You don't fix this sitting at home thinking about it. Go out, approach, socialize. You don't even need to do it with girls. You could learn it by talking to guys.
As you develop those skills, you will get a girlfriend along the way. You don't need to stress about that. What you need to do is start developing the social skills like going to the gym.
I've gone through this process. From zero. Nothing you're describing is in any way original or unique to you. Tens of thousands of guys have gone through it. You can too. It's not easy, but it's worth the effort.

Of course I know exactly what you mean.
My point is simply that pickup just boils down to forcing yourself to approach and talk to girls. The rest is petty details.
It is a mistake to hold pickup as some secret scheme that you execute between the hours of 2pm and 4pm every Thursday in order to manipulate a few unsuspecting targets into sleeping with you.
You can approach pickup that way, but my suggestion is that you shouldn't.

Search for pickup videos on daygame. Watch in-field. Study some theory. Find a wingman who can give you some demos. Scout out locations for daygame opportunities. Then start approaching.

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As I said, it has a crazy steep learning curve. Just embrace it and have fun with it. Don't focus on the sex, focus on the growth and adventure of it.

I am saving my most advanced and original God talk for the new course.
My free videos are focused on more relatable topics.

Do it seriously for a few years, then move on to other things.

You are always alone, and it's great.
Stop looking for anyone to entertain you. Entertain yourself.

Because they are workaholics who got nothing else going on.
If they had even an ounce of spiritual sense they would not be promoting such crap lifestyles.
The most successful people tend to be unbalanced, obsessive workaholics. Because that does tend to produce success. But at what cost? There is way more to life than business success. To reduce life to that is an abomination onto God. So it's no wonder that these people are godless materialists.

It will not solve any practical problems.
Dispose of that fantasy as soon as you can. If you have a specific, practical life problem, solve it directly, rather than hoping that spirituality will solve it for you somehow, some day, automagically.

The practical benefits of awakening are rather subtle, like giving you a higher perspective on life. You will have a higher perspective on all your human problems like money, sex, relationships, family, business, education, health, politics, etc. But awakening will not obviate the need to take specific action on all those fronts.
It's kind of like getting a good university education. It doesn't really solve anything concrete, but it does give you a great foundation from which to approach all problems and projects, so it certainly pays practical dividends for the rest of your life. But it's not as direct as a university education solving your money problems or career problems.