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You're coming at it from the wrong direction. Your first question should not be: what business model seems easy to make money with. It should be: what group of people am I interested in helping? Then: what do they need? What is a painful problem or a powerful desire I can help them with? Then, if the solution is a physical product, you would use shopify to sell it. If the solution is advice or training, you create an information product and sell that. Or write a book about it. Or provide coaching sessions. Or if you can solve the problem with software, you create that for them and sell that. Et cetera. It doesn't even have to be online, that's not determined until you know who you are helping and what they need. It pays to think further than your own desire to make money somehow. Money you made is a representation of how many people you've helped, and how important it was to them. People who just look for any way to make money, never get far. Because they are only looking to help themselves and no one else, they fail to do deep research and do hard work to provide real value, and they fail to create something that others would want to pay for.

I'd sell it out of a vintage camper van, and drive it from festival to festival. Cause it's a nice environment and you'd definitely have lots of customers day and night. I've seen it happen.

Yes, someone I personally know also says that mushrooms cause them a slight headache. A headache is not a migraine though. Very different things. There are reports of people suffering from actual migraines, who just take a good dose of shrooms every 2-3 weeks, and they stay away. Maybe it will work for her, maybe not... Just take a good trip and find out

What an insight! Congratulations. This is a great example of how karma works. It's often not that what you do, somehow causes others to do it to you. Sometimes that's what it comes to, but more often, the fear of someone doing the same to you is the actual "punishment". I've experienced a similar difficulty to be relaxed about my girlfriend visiting an ex. When we inquired, it turned out that it was not that I did not trust her, but rather the cause of my discomfort was my own ideations of being able to "trick" any woman into sleeping with me, if I applied the right tricks. Some of the more undeveloped pickup artists like Mystery teach that this is possible, and my young needy self latched onto that, to compensate for the deep sense of lack, missed opportunities with women, and unfairness. "Right now, I can't get what I want, but later, I will learn these tricks and get any girl I want, single or not", I would think. I needed to believe that that was possible, because I had felt so beaten down by my experiences and unsuccessful attempts, that it was the ultimate nerd revenge to envision this ultimate dominance. Also, in the past I've viewed girls I slept with as "resources", easy to get into bed again if I felt needy, and didn't feel confident enough to find someone new. I don't have to stress that this is a terrible strategy that doesn't work on healthy women, and also a waste of energy that can be spent finding and being with someone I actually like. Point being, this belief that I could always manipulate someone into sex, was not true, but I used it to feel better in dark times. And it came back to bite me indeed, when at a party with my girlfriend, or when my girlfriend wants to visit an ex. Dating a girl who had shown me that she could be manipulated into sex, against the agreements of our relationship, just anchored that belief as truth. Even though the conclusion should have been that this was just not the right one, and finding someone you can trust _is_ possible. What helped me, was to practice monogamy and learn that I can actually trust myself around exes and available girls. Discovering what it's like to value a relationship more than an opportunistic experience. As within, so without. Me being able to stay true in the face of temptation, made me able to believe that it can exist again.

I wish I had this level of balls when I was that age. So funny to see how everyone is projecting their fears onto you and reacting so negatively. Similarly, I'm projecting my regrets onto you and am biased in the opposite direction. @Noahsteelers34 But alas, here's my tip: watch "Undercover Billionaire". Both seasons. People get sent to a random town with only 100$ and a car, and build up a successful business within 3 months. I found this show to be more educational than the last 3 business books I've read combined. Learn as much as you can from the mindset of those people. Write down their habits and discover patterns in their actions. If you aren't going to be resilient, relentless and a fast learner, or allow yourself to have even the least bit of victim mindset, you chose the wrong path. I could not have handled this when I was 21, because I didn't embody those qualities then. Sidenote: why Miami, and not somewhere with a cheaper cost of living?

Hmm, this Cordyceps is some strong stuff. As always, I'm detoxing from a caffeine binge, and I had quite a problem with basic cognition this morning. Took 2g of cordyceps. Now I feel quite strong, analytical, powerful. I'm taking the lead in meetings and analyze everything the quickest and everyone just agrees. That's something I normally only see after day 21 of semen retention. But I'm on day 5 again. Or perhaps I kept enough this time to not collapse all the way to zero? There is anecdotal evidence of Cordyceps raising testosterone though. So I'm attributing it to that. The bad news: the quantified-mind website is letting me down. I've been taking cognition tests there after taking different supplements, thinking they would make it easy to analyze performance based on different factors. It seems buggy and unusable, though. No graphs are showing up unless I select multiple experiments. Which makes no sense.

I LOVED this video. On the one hand there is the mainstream perspective of "you went crazy", which is understandable. On the other hand, there are some very helpful insights there, and it is kind of painful how our culture pushes him to disregard them. Also the entities he meets, like shadow people, are not random creations of the brain, many people actually see these and communicate with them. Very uncomfortable but fascinating. What do we think about this? I also get periods in my life where a lot of synchronicities happen. It doesn't feel dangerous to me, I value them. Also feels like I could let go and believe in them even more, and that would lead to more insight, but also deeper waters that I am not ready to get into yet.

Cool beans! Love you too. How would you feel about picking up girls in this state?

If you've got it all so figured out, sir, and you are writing this from your hammock under a palm tree, then surely you wouldn't mind elaborating? Since this is what OP asked for, and your arrogance has piqued my curiosity, why don't you explain your current situation with those companies, and how you got there? Did you start these yourself and then make yourself obsolete Tim Ferriss style? Are you a VC? Do you own a minority share or majority? What steps can OP take to be able to put up their hammock next to yours and live the laptop lifestyle?

What sorts of companies are they? How come you don't have to put in any work? I still think you'd be better off with 1. Can't get laid off from a company that you control. Thousands of customers would have to fire you at once.

Why the hell would you want multiple streams of income. Sounds like a nightmare. Much better to have one big stream of income. More than enough headache from that.

I would say don't do things that you wouldn't like to have done to you, because it does come back around.

There is no next. This is it. This is all you're going to get. Some people would say: screw this, I'd rather find someone to love who will actually be with me. But you are actually quite fine with this. And that's alright. Enjoy it as long as it's enjoyable. Say goodbye when it doesn't serve you anymore.

Sounds like you are happy with this situation. What do you need advice for? Just enjoy it

That's too bad, because I really think that going on some sort of therapy retreat could do a lot. I've had good success with primal therapy, which was only 7 days of intense work after which I just felt permanently better. But there's other retreats you could take, some specific for men, others mixed. Family constellation retreats exist, I hear good things about that. Healing is best done in groups, I really believe that. Meditation is good, but you need something stronger, it seems. Have you tried breathwork? Leo has a video on "shamanic breathing", I recommend to do that, but a bit slower than in his example, and breathing through the nose, and put on the right music. 30 minutes should be enough. Also, his trauma release exercise might work for you. Give it an hour and report back what happens for you.

That's some tough stuff. Good thing that you're insightful about it. This is in my opinion not trauma that you can just move on from. Letting the past be the past, is not the right approach, because the past is controlling your present and your future. It needs to be revisited and reprocessed. Preferably with professional help. Once you lift some of that baggage, finding and feeling deserving of a healthy relationship will be a lot easier. What kind of therapies are you looking into?

Niceness and attractiveness have an overlap: authenticity. The part of niceness that doesn't overlap with authenticity, should be discarded.

I read all kinds of books, from cringy pickup stuff to good reads like David Deida, and it all helped a little... But eventually, after going through different therapies, workshops, coachings, psychedelic trips and adventures and just a lot of trial and error, I realised that being attractive is not about adding anything, but about removing. Removing layers of conditioning, removing filters, removing inhibitions, removing unhelpful beliefs, removing manipulations, removing protection mechanisms, removing self-judgment, removing other-judgment, removing lies you tell yourself and others. If women are not naturally coming to you while all you do is just be yourself, then you've got more stuff to remove. That's not to say that that is easily done, or that it won't take years, or that you won't need help. It just is what it is. Simple, but simple doesn't mean easy.

@FlyingLotus Hahaha! Sorry

Try really hard to relax. If it doesn't work, try harder. Try reeeeeally hard to relax. Then give up. ✨

But Leo! Yeah so that's a great thing of a community, usually someone has time to create extra stuff. Like the video summaries guy. Perhaps you or someone else can collaborate with him to create more worksheets

Kundalini makes technology glitch too. Or perhaps the heightened states of consciousness cause it. Happens to friends of mine. Songs will start skipping like an old CD, bluetooth stops working, lightbulbs break a LOT.

Understandable. As a defense mechanism against being affected by too much negativity, it's totally working. It also defends against making connections with people, and being relatable to girls, though. Doesn't have to go away overnight. Just knowing that that is what you eventually need to develop out of, is enough. Take it one step at a time.

I feel you man. I couldn't read social cues for half my life. Awkward was part of my nickname. Totally possible to develop yourself out of it.

Let's not forget that you've never met this person. She never met her "boyfriend" - so it's not a real boyfriend. These people are living in fantasy land. She's single and has two friends who she facetimes with. That's all. The rest is just fantasies. Focus on real people.