EternalForest

@Cepzeu Totally agree. my best sessions are the ones where I literally do nothing, do no technique, stop trying to block thoughts, stop trying to keep perfect posture, stop trying at all. And those sessions are so insightful and enjoyable that I wish they could never end, I could sit for hours in this way. But the minute I start focusing too hard, wondering if I'm doing it "right", looking at the clock, those sessions are the most fruitless.

@non_nothing Can I remember all the numbers that quickly? No, I cannot.

Lol, that video was created in sort of a confusing way. He never said he was going to put NEW numbers on the screen, the way he was talking the viewer assumed the same numbers were going to appear again, and then surprised you with 9 new numbers.

For me it feels like the path has yet to begin. Over time I always find new information and "start over". I still feel that my true path is years away from beginning.

I'll tell you a secret, It's actually quite challenging to legitimately get people's attention. Most people around you aren't even paying attention to you, and if they are, it's for a brief few seconds before they go back and do their own thing and they forget they even saw you. Focus on what you're doing, don't worry about everyone else around you because they're focused on their own thing anyway.

@petar8p @Joseph Maynor Thanks for the advice, I suppose I was just looking at this too negatively, now that I think about it I definitely haven't gotten my foot in the door as much as I could be. The opportunity isn't gonna come to me. And yes for what I'm doing, moving to a different may definitely have to be an option. And at this point @Leo Gura I've got plenty of work that I could show I've done over the past 2 years. In the meantime I'll get to know the scene a little better and volunteer/intern. @Samra .

@Leo Gura >"Experience" does not have to mean that you were a salaried employee during that time. Experience could mean: you working on a project in your mother's basement. That's a very positive way to put it, in that case I definitely have experience. I'm trying to get a job in audio engineering. I have a certificate in it that I earned last year, but there aren't that many jobs for that in my area, and the ones that are around require more skills/experience than I have. The easiest answer to that would be to relocate but I can't do that at the moment. My "dream" so to speak is to be able to make money on my own from my own music & DJing/performing. And I am working on, that but until that happens/earns me enough to be my career, I want to have some form of income because atm I'm working for the family business and living at home and I don't want to be dependent forever (I'm 22). And yes, I could just work at Walmart or McDonalds for now and swallow my pride. But before I do that I'd like to at least try and get a job at a radio station or something like that that's relevant to what I've been studying.

Btw, the reason I'm getting a job is just save money temporarily for the business I'm trying to start. Also, I have ways to make money self-employed but I'm trying to increase/diversify my income.

He talks about some names to research at the beginning of this video:

Try reflecting chapter by chapter. Read a chapter, reflect on it, try and apply it, read the next.

Never. At best I'd feel equal suffering for both, but by default I'm going to look out for my own species first. Honesty, I find it disturbing for someone to feel little suffering while watching their own species get tortured, compared to an animal they can't even communicate with. If I was on a sinking ship, and could only save a cat or a guy, I'd save the guy.

Theory and practice are equally important, they must be done together. Once you've experienced enough to the point where you feel you could write a book yourself, then I'd say you could lay off the theory just a bit. But never stop completely, always have a curiosity for knowledge about you, it's one of most rewarding things you can have in life! But at the same time, recognize when its time for the rubber to meet the road.

What you think you want mentally and what you actually enjoy doing in practice can be very different things, especially if you haven't found your purpose yet. I'd explore a few things and figure out what it is that you enjoy doing in practice more than anything else, for you that may be studying to become a historian. Or it might be something else. But ultimately you must be true to yourself.

Very true. Though I'd like to add I personally find modern texts valuable because they're written in a way that's more relatable to me, from the writing style to the content itself; they feel relevant.

One of the best posts I've ever read.

@MsNobody "a survey carried out by MTV in January, which surveyed 1,800 men and women aged 18 to 25, revealed that nearly one in three men “were worried something [they’ve] done could be perceived as sexual harassment."" Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/dating-me-too-era-rules-sexual-harassment-flirting-a8314876.html

Thanks for sharing, wonderful message <3

Communal stages: Blue, Green, Turquoise Independent stages: Red, Orange, Yellow Therefore, it seems like stage Blue and Green are "underdeveloped" Turquoise, and Red and and Orange are "underdeveloped" Yellow. So ironically, if you look at it from the communal perspective, Yellow is farther away from "Turquoise mentality" than Green, right?. What are your thoughts on this?

@Leo GuraAgreed, fair point. Assuming Yellow fully embodied Green, their perspective would include the best of green, plus. I was just sharing an observation I was making from the communal standpoint.

@Freakyboo Women talk differently then men do, and there are many dynamics at play when a man approaches a woman, this can't be ignored.

@kingroboto Sometimes lack of sleep can give a certain euphoria and it's own flavor of awareness, at least in my experience. But that should be maybe a once a week or twice a month thing at most. What you want to be doing is getting up at the same time every day, no exceptions. Doesn't matter when you go to bed, but you HAVE to wake up at the same time. What this will do is make you naturally tired and want to go to bed earlier automatically.

@zambize If you found out you were in a prison, would you stay there because it made you happy? Perhaps the happiness you know is not true happiness, but rather what the prison has taught you happiness is. Luckily, the door is right there, open for you. Ignorance is not bliss.

@Serotoninluv Pretty much anything Christopher Nolan while we're at it haha!

Quite the contrary. In almost all of Leo's recent videos towards the end he makes a statement discouraging the formation of a cult around his ideas. "Don't turn Actualized.org into an ideology." "What you and I have is not a relationship." "Don't believe a word I say, confirm it for yourself."

If it was me I'd make that reading time, there's so much to read in so many categories, it's almost absurd how little time we have to even scratch the surface of what's out there.