Obviously people have done it.
Whether you can do it depends on your health, energy levels, work ethic, personality type, and many other factors.
Depends very much on your career and how busy/distracted it makes you.
You can do career in many ways. You can also build up a career and then afford some time off for side pursuits.
Are you going to get Awakened while running a Fortune 500 public company? Probably not.
You have to strategically design your lifestyle around your top values. There will be difficult tradeoffs because you can't have it all at once. But you can space your goals out over 20-40 years.
In the early stages of building a career, most of your energy should go into the career. But after a few years of that you can ease back on career and have time for other pursuits.

Yes, Owen is a sleazy marketer, however he also pioneered a lot of important concepts within pickup and just motivated and inspired a lot of people into seeing its potential. So he does deserve credit for that.
As said above, you should not be listening to Owen for his politics but his other good advice. You gotta get good at cutting out the corrupt parts of people because most people are corrupt in some way.

Of course now it is all intertwined in a hairy corrupt mess such that you cannot seperate the good from the bad.
That's how the devil achieves victory.

The trouble with the world is that everyone is so busy doing good that no one stops to appreciate how relative good is. How their finite and biased sense of good is hurting others.
That's precisely why democracy is so crucial. Democracy is the recognition that everyone has a different notion of good, which requires a mechanism for integration.

@zurew
The problem is that nobody is conscious of what observation really is.
Observation is Existence/Truth.
The only reason anyone can know anything is because things are illuminated by virtue of being Truth or Existing.
Observation is not some material process. It is Truth being True.
The reason you can know God is the reason you can know anything. Because its True. If nothing was true, nothing would be known or observed.
Knowing is Being.

The issue is that his ideas of what is good for mankind are very different from yours. And you should not be so sure that your ideas are the correct ones.
Good is relative.
It is not at all clear what is good for mankind. That's the issue.

It is true that spirituality increases suffering in the short and medium term because it requires confronting difficult existential and psychological matters. The ego will not go quietly.
But everything valuable in life has a price.
Do you really expect immorality and God to be for free? Without a price?
Clearly there must be a high price otherwise everyone would have God. God is not chosen because no one wants to endure the price.
Sometimes the price of spiritualiry gets so high you wonder whether you'd be more net happier if you never even started.
Spirituality is a very long investment. And most people are poor investors, unable to stay in long.
It's also not right for everyone, and might only become suitable for you later in life.

Yes. It is limited.
This is not a good argument.
Why are you assuming Orange cannot have a strong desire to do good? Any stage can have that. The question is what "good" means. One's notions of good is relative to one's stage. Also the key is HOW ones goes about doing that good. Whatever Musk's vision of the good, the fact is that HOW he plans to go about is through top-down king-like control. He is incapable of sharing power. This clearly shows that he has yet to integrate Green.
Musk's intellect is nothing unusual for Orange. Orange people can be highly intelligent in a technical sense. Orange makes for a good CEO. But that CEO mindset is not robust enough to deal with higher collective social problems.
You think Hitler or Bin Landen didn't have a strong desire to do good? The issue is that one's stage of development determines what that means and how egoically that will play out. Bin Landen's vision of good meant blowing up buildings. Musk's vision of good means blowing up government bureaucracy without even understanding what it does. Neither is intelligent.
Trump is a poor standard to compare against. Trump is particularly toxic and broken. Trump isn't just pure Orange, he has weird Red aspects too. So, yeah, Musk is more evolved than Trump, but that doesn't mean much because Trump is as low as the bar can be set.
Do not assume that Orange means a person resembles Trump. This is an insult to most Orange people. Study some healthy examples of Orange people.

This is a trap.
The problem with this overly simplistic take is that you cannot stop thinking. Life will force you to think, and if you don't train how to think properly you will end up thinking improperly and fall into self-deception.
Improper thinking is the default. No one is born a great thinker.
If you follow that guy's advice you will end up an enlightened anti-vax, Jews-run-the-world, election-was-stolen, Trump voter.
Also what this guy misses is that thinking is an art that can connect you to the beauty and intelligence of God. Thinking can be a spiritual activity in itself and it generates valid and useful insight.
I agree that reading philosophy books is largely a waste of time. Real philosophy is done in your mind.

Values alignment is the critcial thing.
But also your personalities and life goals gotta align. You have to be able to get along fairly effortlessly without constant drama and fighting. And you need to be able to resolve disputes when they do arise.
These fundamentals needs to be present underneath all the romanic feelings because the romance will wane.

Of course.
The only explanation for why everyone is not doing this work is because they were never interested in truth, metaphysics, or reality, and they never will be no matter what.
People love being lost in the dream. They are dream addicts.
I spoke to an ex girlfriend recently and she literally told me that she had an experience of no-self, and quickly removed it from her mind because it freaked her out. And she is a very spiritual girl who listens to all this work, not a normie.
One time she tried a tiny bit of 5-MeO-DMT and was freaking out trying to literally run out of the house.
People running away from God as fast as they can 
To face Truth takes crazy vision and maturity.

@AION Maybe you should actually honor genuine conservatism and contemplate why marriage has existed for 10,000+ years in every nation and culture on the planet.

The delusion is the ego power trip.
And the idea that mankind needs him to survive and thrive.
No individual human is needed.
Mankind does not need to go to Mars. These are power fantasies.
When you think you are that important it ends in delusion and evil.
Is Musk powerful. Yes.
Is Trump powerful. Yes.
Yes, egoic delusions DO work for gaining power. That's the whole point of why ego exists. And also ego is evil.

This sounds nice in theory, but in practice what you're saying is, let Putin turn Ukraine into a corrupt repressive mafia puppet state more backwards than Russia for the next 50 years.
Don't forget why Americans have so much power. It's because the American system is superior to all the other systems that have been tried aside from Scandinavia. And Putin ain't Scandinavia.
Don't hate on America so much that you overlook the obvious superiority of the American system relative to its alternatives.

Be very careful here. 
What you consider "cutting all fantasies" could itself be the fantasy. Don't overlook that negativity and doomerism is a kind of fantasy.
Just because dating is difficult does not mean you shouldn't do it, can't be successful at it, or that it's not worthwhile.
The most difficult aspects of life can also be the most rewarding. Building a business is also hell. So what? Do it anyway. That's life. Don't expect everything to be easy. People who have it easy with dating will have it hard in other areas. No one has an easy life.
I am not good-looking, I am super introverted, so dating was very challenging for me. And yet I still had some success and it was very worthwhile.
Really facing reality means going out there and dating. Not telling yourself why you'll fail.

The point is to create a climate of fear and repression, so that opponents dare not challenge authority or speak up.
Also, low consciousness people who do torture do not care if it works or not to get workable intel, these people are sadistic, vindictive, and power-hungry. They are bullies. They love the rush of just bullying for its own sake. They think they are doing good and serving God by torturing "evil" people.
Remember, these people believe in Hell, a place where God tortures bad guys. So why not get a head start on that on Earth?
You are dealing with the mentality of the mafia.

Trump's narcissism in that press conference is off the hook. Pure ego.

He could give an anonymous interview to a program like Vice News, or any serious news organization.
They do anonymous interviews all the time.
This way it would be safe for him, help expose Tate's devilry, and generate some good karma.

That's a better way to phrase it.
Intelligence is Good/Love-seeking.
Like a heat-seeking missile tuned to find Absolute Unity no matter what happens.

Well, firstly, I am not fully sure because I only just had it.
It's an advanced and subtle effect.
It creates a deep sort of buy-in effect since the mind now understands the why of things and how you're supposed to be using intelligence in a big picture sense, a spiritual sense.
Deep spiritual understanding is not like a brute technique that you apply to generate tangible results, it's more of a subtle reorientation of the mind towards godliness. It has a clarifying and deepening effect. Your understanding of life, world, and self takes on a new richness and abstract appreciation. It actually makes you more intelligent when you understand the metaphysical structure of intelligence. You can start to use your intelligence in a more advanced, abstract, holistic, mystical, and beautiful manner.
Think of it as your intelligence getting spiritualized, imbued with spiritual signifigance where as before it was merely material and utilitarian.
Advanced spiritual intelligence isn't just practical, it's poetry, it's beauty. It's like your mind learns how to dance and surf the waves of consciousness. This aesthetic quality is very important and lost on people who just care about material "practical" results.
The point of spirituality is to bask in the beauty of God, to recognize and appreciate its genius.

That's all fine and good, but it is not God-Realization.
God-Realization does not have or need a "God-Realizer". The realizer of God is God. Consciousness is just conscious.
That's fine but still not God-Realization.
No.
False.
The only thing here is God.
This is an improper reductionism which misses the highest realization of what God can be.
God can be total emptiness, but that is just one form of what God can be. You overprioritize it, which is a bias you impose on Consciousness and Yourself. You are free to impose that bias on yourself, since you are God, but it isn't necessary and it prevents you from accessing higher consciousness and understanding some of the things I'm pointing to.
You are stuck doing the Buddhist reductionism shtick. I'm not saying that doesn't work. It works. But it misses a lot of good stuff.
If you keep insisting on formlessness, you will have it.
You can entirely lose your sense of self, but that does not make you infinitely conscious.
But also, be careful fooling yourself. If you had completely lost your sense of self, you couldn't even recall your own name.

There is no mystery to it.
Trump is an authoritarian whose only mission in life is to serve himself and anyone who kisses his ass at the expense of everyone else. Trump hates losers and weakness. So of course Trump will side with Putin over Zelensky.
Trump respects Putin because Putin is a powerful authoritarian. Trump is disgusted by Zelensky because Zelenksy is a weak democratic liberal man in a losing position.
If you can't understand this, you don't understand Trump at all. This is Trump 101.

@Santiago Ram It comes down to consciousness.
Ultimately there needs to be a recognition, down to your bones, that sober life is the only way.
What it will take for you to realize that is unknown. Lots and lots of suffering.
The reason 5-MeO works is by giving you more consciousness which is needed to have that realization.
Spirituality is just hyper-sobriety.

Yes, it's a great reminder and dispeller of Maya.
I'm sure there is but I have not reached it yet.
Strictly speaking there is a difference between dissolution of the human ego vs God-Realization or higher consciousness. These are not the same thing and they often do not coincide. You can have one without the other.
Many so-called enlightened people may not have much of a sense of self, but that does not mean they have higher consciousness of God. And you can have higher consciousness of God but still a strong sense of human self. To have both would be exceptionally rare.
Yes. But it wasn't really a object, more like the field of consciousness itself became hyper-dimensional.
You can have a hyper-dimensional experience of Love itself.
Imagine if Love was the hyper-dimensional object.

Ethnocentrism is the priveleging of one's own enthnicity over all others.
The clearest example of this is Zionism or Nazism.
It is self-bias at the level of ethnic identity.