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  1. Posted

    @Brenzo2

    12 minutes ago, Brenzo2 said:

    Any benefits with this? I've been taking it in pill form and all I notice is more emotional control / calmness. And a very subtle relaxing and anti-anxiety effect. 

    You just listed a few benefits there

    I to an more relaxed and in tune when I take them

    Also I find I get better sleep 

    These are the ones I bought anyways 

    https://www.quintessentialtips.com/products/cbd-brothers-purple-edition-cannabis-hybrid-whole-plant-extract-capsules-various-strengths

  2. Posted

    @Arzola

    Thanks for the recommendations

    I already take CBD oil occasionally 

    12 hours ago, Arzola said:

    Maybe microdosing some psychedelics.

    I struggle to get psychedelics, so when I do I don’t really want to waste them by taking them in such small dosages 

    Im gonna stick with coffee, it’s more helpful than it isn’t and I’ve got worse vices that should be done away with before caffeine 

    5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Nothing comes close to modafinil. It is magic.

    Just don't over do it.

    @Leo Gura

    I’ll keep that in mind 

    I do have a tendency to overdo stuff

    Thanks for the advice

  5. Posted

    @ivory

    2 hours ago, ivory said:

    @IJB063 

    I don't normally write long posts but this question is true to my heart.

    The important thing to know is that almost all of this stuff comes as you progress though life with awareness and diligent (but gentle) practice. All of these things are life long endeavors. You will always be improving whether you realize it or not. You will always have something to work on. But also realize that change is a slow process. Be patient, but be consistent.

    The other important point I want to make is that external circumstances are always changing. You don't always get to choose what you want to work on. There are times when you will be alone and you'll have to exercise independence of thought, there are times where your job will demand all of your time and focus, there are times where you will be in love with another, there are times where where you'll be surrounded by people you don't like and have to practice acceptance and open-mindedness. Growth is not linear.

    The last point I want to make is to use your time wisely. Don't waste it. Follow your passions and keep developing yourself. Your free time should be valued more than gold.

    Now to address some of the ares of growth you mentioned...

    Creativity

    Creativity starts to flow the more you take care of your health and expose yourself to new things and places. Exercise, meditate, travel, explore, hang out with interesting people. Stay away from too much TV, surfing the web, and other junk entertainment. That shit will kill your creativity.

    Love

    Love comes with time. Be aware of your judgements and try not to entertain them so much. You are on your own unique path, and so are others. Once you come to realize that change in yourself comes slowly and gradually you aren't so quick to judge others because you understand the same is true for them. Understanding spiral dynamics at least on a basic level will help you out here.

    Independence of Thought

    Make your own decisions, take calculated risks, and give yourself the freedom to make mistakes. Learn from your mistakes and failures and don't be hard on yourself.

    Clarity of Thought 

    Meditate, exercise, eat healthy, and get plenty of rest.

    Life Long Learning

    Always have a book on hand and surround yourself with intelligent people. Get help when you need it whether it be a spiritual teacher or a therapist.

    Authenticity

    Don't try so hard for the acceptance of others. Figure out who you are and surround yourself with like minded people. Not everyone will like you, nor will you like everyone else. You need to be the selector, decide who you want to have in your life. Speak your mind and be yourself unapologetically.

    Radical Open-mindedness

    This comes with time and a true spiritual practice. If you are really on the ball, you are questioning your thoughts, beliefs, and world views. Over time you come to realize that everything you think you know was programmed into your brain and almost none of it is verifiable. The reality is that you know very little for certain. Nor does anyone else. The more you realize how little you know the more open minded you become. In short, opinions and judgements are garbage. None of that shit is true, you know nothing.

    Fearlessness 

    This is a life-long endeavor. You will always have fear and many fears may never go away. The important thing is that you really, really know yourself. Know all of your fears and start opening up to them as challenges are presented to you. Don't be in such a hurry to get rid of fear, courage is a life-long practice.

    Introspection

    Keep doing what you're doing. Over time introspection becomes a part of who you are. Initially, though, you will go through periods of confusion and doubt, wondering if you're doing this right. Sometimes you will be, and sometimes you'll be way off course. But, if you're starting at 20, by the time you are 30 you will be wise beyond your years. The mantra is "JUST KEEP GOING"

    Questioning

    Introspection and questioning are sort of the same thing. Just remain curious and you can't go wrong.

    Great post @ivory

    Thanks for the long detailed answer

    I agree with everything you put

    Appreciated 

  6. Posted

    @Calcifer

    17 hours ago, Calcifer said:

    I don´t think there are exercises that can teach you these traits in a very straight-forward way. I woudn´t compare them with doing push-ups or sit-ups, where you are doing 200 reps and now you gained +5 points in strength/creativity or passion. These are more general attitudes to life, which can be applied to any field of life.
    We are creatures of habit. You become a creative person by doing creative things every day. You become a visionary by visioning on a daily basis. You become fearless by doing bold acts and so on.
    And these habits can be applied to everything you do. Just make up your mind, which aspect is missing or suppressed in your life. After you´ve done that find solutions how you could change your way of doing things so it is more aligned with this trait that you want to develop.

    Let´s say you want to become a more curious person with a questioning-frame of mind.
    One way to approach this is to grab a notebook and go through your whole day writing down questions about everything you encounter. This can also be applied to a specific field of interest like finances or personal development.
    It´s an approach to things and can thereby applied to anything you wish. It isn´t limited to a skill or subject.

    Yes we are creatures of habit, that’s why we need skills to develop to we can align better with our values. These values exist on a gradient, there are some people who are more creative than others, there are some people who are more loving than others.

    And you can become a more creative and loving person by practicing these skills and developing them into habits, as you said: 

    “You become a visionary by visioning on a daily basis. You become fearless by doing bold acts and so on.
    And these habits can be applied to everything you do. Just make up your mind, which aspect is missing or suppressed in your life. After you´ve done that find solutions how you could change your way of doing things so it is more aligned with this trait that you want to develop.“

    That doesn’t mean it’s necessary intuitive what you need to be doing all the time though, hence the point of listing the skills

    “It isn´t limited to a skill or subject.”

    It can be 

  7. Posted

    @Felli

    18 hours ago, Felli said:

    Having the skill of visualisation can pull you to the future. Even in bad times

    it includes: creativity, intuition, vision, ambition purpose and you could argue spirit

    Yeah, I need to look into how to properly do it, I think it comes naturally when your trying do anything difficult 

    Interesting idea listing the values

    @Moon

    17 hours ago, Moon said:

    Edit: you said 5 skills:
    -a good studying habit and studying skills (non formal learning- for reading books or working on a project like coding)
    -social/interpersonal skills 
    -visualization and strategic thinking
    -emotional "mastery" and understanding your psychology
    -financial literacy (will give you the freedom to live by those values) 

    and to aid you with such things and more, looking after your health (good sleep, diet, meditation, exercise etc)

    I have a lot of work to do though haha

     

     

    1. Studying Skill
    2. Social Skills
    3. Visualisation Skill
    4. Emotional Intelligence Skills
    5. Finically Literacy

    Good study habits great, working on that now, though college is shut with Covid

    Anyone who wants some good study motivation and why you should study hard here’s a clip (I watch this biblically when I have work to do)

    I don’t know about coding, I was thinking of taking one of those boot camps but it looked boring as fuck, but hey, if it makes you money it makes you money.

    Social skills are a must, something I’m definitely working on

    We’ve all been fucked over with the internet and social media because we’ve been deprived of face to face social interactions (at the very least we don’t have as much than we would of without social media) so we’re all less social

    All social skills come down to empathy

    Social Skills =Empathy 

    I was just listening to this podcast and it goes into developing your social skills

    Yeah I need to learn about visualisation, it’s something Robert Greene (the guy above) talks about in his books

    Emotional intelligence is pretty much the master key that unlock every other door, so you can’t really escape becoming more emotionally adept and have a better grip of your own head if your doing self actualisation work

    Financial Literacy 100%

    What I do is every pay check I get I put 20% of it away, no exceptions, money buys time 

    Health is hugely important especially sleep, this ted talk blew my mind, by Matthew Walker on the important end of sleep 

    Good post @Moon thanks

  8. Posted

    @Recursoinominado

    18 hours ago, Recursoinominado said:

    Aside from any skills you have a natural pulling towards, i would say:

    Learn how to create an online business and how to monetize any passion.

    Sturdy digital marketing, sales, copywriting, social media etc.

    Learn to make videos or podcast or write a blog/book.

    Basically you learn something you are passionate about and how to make money out of it. 

    I am currently in this journey and it is overwhelming at first but those are the best skills for anyone to learn right now.

    There are hundreds of great courses out there teaching each one of those skills.

    So basically whatever you have a passion towards learn to monetise it. So:

    1. Digital Marketing Skills
    2. Sales Skills
    3. Business Skills 
    4. Technical Skills 
    5. Public Speaking Skills

    Can be done through videos, podcasts, blog, book etc... These can be advertised through digital marketing so social media, video marketing, understanding analytics data etc...

    @Recursoinominado Good stuff, I just don’t currently have anything that I’m passionate about that I could make money from or sell yet

    Im curious what business are you trying to creat now?

    &

    What courses are you using?

    Thanks

     

  9. Posted

    @louhad

    7 minutes ago, louhad said:

    Careful bout judging "The greens"... 

    You're gonna have to become an angry sjw before getting to yellow. lol

    Also I don’t think that I ever have to support rioting to advance to the next “stage” of anything

    I actually would see that as a regression, when I start supporting the looting and arson of stores 

    These “SJWs” are nothing more than spoilt children who are products of a pampered lifestyle, castration via a corporate entity and no life experience so they have to manufacture it through their pet fashion ideologies 

     

  12. Posted

    @Dark11

    I wouldn’t bother reading to begin with

    Just get your hands on some hallucinogen, and take it in a safe environment in a sound state of mind and meditate on it

    Then, if you’ve done that a few times, you can start reading and listening to lectures

    Its really pointless up until then, as you have no real experience of what you would be reading or listening to

    What’d you be listening to might as well just be fart sounds until you have something to relate it to

     

  16. Posted

    @Emotionalmosquito

    Curious, what’s this forum?

    Anyway good luck with this hot female rashie (what’s a rashie?)

    You can’t lose an argument if you have the truth on your side, just stick to the facts and don’t deviate

    Think through what it is you believe, look at the evidence, purposefully attempt to poke holes in your arguments, look at all perspectives, and then argue after you’ve done a good job polishing up your thought process

  17. Posted

    This is gonna be my final addendum to this post

    Was just listening to Leo's new video on "Life advice for Young People" and he mentioned this idea of reality being multi "perspectival" (first time I've heard that word), I thought that it was a good summary of the point I was trying to make from the man himself, so if your interested in this topic here's the link with the timestamp, so I recommend listening for a few mins from where I stamped the vid

     

  18. Posted

    I’ve just finished listening to Leo’s 2 videos on “Life advice for young people” 

    Near the end of the vid he lists a bunch of values and traits for living a good life

    1. Creativity
    2. Love
    3. Intuition 
    4. Independence of Thought
    5. Clarity of Thought 
    6.  Life Long Learning 
    7. Reading
    8. Authenticity 
    9. Radical Open-mindedness
    10. Passion
    11. Vision 
    12. Ambition 
    13. Purpose
    14. Spirit 
    15. Fearlessness 
    16. Work Ethic
    17. Introspection
    18. Questioning

    Etc...

    Now I was thinking, how could you summarise these traits into specific skills that you can learn?

    So what skills would you recommend some one starting there 20s learn? 

    Thanks for any replies
     

  19. Posted

    @Preety_India

    8 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

    @IJB063

    I can't have sympathy for her. Because she doesn't know how to put things. Instead of saying "your situation will make you stronger and you will win" which is the right way of showing stoicism. She on the other hand is coming off as completely callous and insensitive. 

    You mean to say that black people aren't strong. Black people are probably the strongest people in human history. They had to take so much shit and they still survived. They survived more discrimination and injustice on planet earth. How can someone even  tell a black person to be strong is beyond me. 

    People have to be grateful that it's black people who got discriminated because they tend to suffer in silence they are more forgiving and they don't bear animosity despite their cruel experiences. Yet if it was any other human race facing this level of injustice, there would have been a nuclear war. Black people take a lot of shit day in day out and stay strong. 

    That woman's post was rightfully criticised. If she is not a black person and doesn't identify with their struggles, maybe it's not her  pejorative to preach on how black people ought to react. 

    . When a person is feeling victimized, the last thing you could say to them is "take it as a challenge" instead of giving validation to their struggles. 

    If her intentions were pure and she only meant the best and not rubbing salt into wounds, then her choice of words was really poor. She could have worded it differently 

    Like 

    Be strong and resilient. Be stoic. But keep fighting and don't lose heart. 

    Instead she said "best you can do is" which means she thinks or assumes that the best that black people are supposed to do is suck it up and stay strong and don't end up being too damaged. 

    Sorry but I am not seeing any positive connotation in those words. And if I'm being so triggered despite not being a black person, I can only imagine how a black person must feel after reading it. 

    Don't overestimate peoples good intent.. 

     

     

    You know what, you’re right

    Black people are the strongest race, and they’re also the most forgiving race

    They have no animosity towards white people

    Us weaker races would have by now ended the planet if we were discriminated and oppressed the same way blacks have been throughout human history 

     

     

  20. Posted

    @Preety_India

    I think all that person was trying to say, all be it poorly, is that you should exercise stoicism, and that your current troubles will only make you stronger

    Instead people take that and construe it in the worst possible way, to make this person seem like the devil

    Have some sympathy, do you really think this woman is blaming black people for there own discrimination or would blame rape victims for there own rape, of course not (hopefully, I don’t know this individual, but it seems unlikely) 

    Cant people just exercise a bit more decency, instead of jumping to the worst possible interpretation of what someone says

  21. Posted

    @karltiboleng

    Don't post anything that can be misconstrued negatively attached to your name because it will be, misconstrued negatively, you can’t talk or negotiate to a mob and it’s already difficult enough talking to an individual  

    And considering everyone will will fully negatively misconstrue what you say I see no point in using social media, it’s a cesspool of self righteous idiots who always delude themselves to be the morally right and censor and demonise those who dabble a slight toe outside the Overton window

  22. Posted

    @louhad

    14 minutes ago, louhad said:

    @IJB063 Stage Green. We will see more and more within the next century. The fact that someone like Sanders, who essentially was campaigning on those kinds of reforms, was able to have so much traction makes it pretty clear it is only a matter of time. 

    Right now, the establishment is resisting it, but they are swimming against the current. 

    All systems have inertia, but systems are also constantly changing. 

    Hopefully you’re right, I just tend to be more cynical and pessimistic than the average person

    Ill guess we’ll see

  23. Posted · Edited by IJB063

    @louhad

    17 minutes ago, louhad said:

    Bureaucracy needs to be reformed to be more efficient. It needs to be reformed to serve the people rather than serving corporate donors. 

    Good luck reforming a bureaucracy, by its nature it’s immune to change, its better to tear it down and start anew

    But what ever serves the interest of humanity is what needs to be done, I don’t care how it’s done

    17 minutes ago, louhad said:

    We need to start to hold law makers to be more accountable to use our tax payer money for productive things rather than things like endless wars and fossil fuel subsidies.  

    How are you going to do that?

    The masses hold power, only in terms of collective bargaining, and as all of history shows the masses are easily manipulated

    And the media machine and the bureaucracy inherent in the system will make it impossible to hold these people accountable, especially through reformation 

  24. Posted

    @louhad

    7 minutes ago, louhad said:

    Invest in infrastructure of black and lower income communities.

    Invest in their education. 

    Improve their access to healthcare(including mental health).

    Reform the prison system. 

    I agree 100%, but bureaucracy needs to be removed in order to achieve this

    8 minutes ago, louhad said:

    Equal outcome isn't really tangible, but there needs to be an effort for equal opportunity. 

     

    Amen brother, that’s what I was pointing to

  25. Posted

    @SerpaeTetra

    Make those numbers equal?

    How?

    And why equal?

    Also here’s the wiki page to household mean incomes divided by race

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

    Indian American: $105,000

    Taiwanese American: $90,221

    Filipino American: $84,620

    Pakistani American: $80,389

    Singaporean American: $79,852

    Iranian American: $78,005

    Japanese American: $77,504

    Malaysian American: $72,827

    Lebanese American: $75,337

    Chinese American: $74,764

    Sri Lankan American: $73,856

    Indonesian American: $71,616

    White American: $68,145