Genetics have always been a privilege. Good genetics are a valuable thing. Not just in terms of looks, but many other factors too.

@Ghost
A) Stop dating girls that young. 25 at least, preferably 30ish. What do you expect from a 19 year old? She'll be as dumb as a coffee table.
B) Of course you should be screening girls on more than just looks. Sacrifice a few points on looks to get a better personality and higher wisdom/maturity. Game can certainly help you with this since it will give you more options and screening is an important part of proper game. The mistake is thinking of a 10 as purely based on looks. 10 means the whole package, which includes personality, education, cognitive development, spiritual development, career, finances, etc. All that stuff matters. Settle for a 7-8 on looks.
C) And of course society's 10 scale is totally irrelevant. Make your own scale.

Close friends are worth developing, and being okay with being alone is a great trait to have, because then you can make friends that genuinely vibe with you as opposed to friends for the sake of friends. 
I'm fine with being alone too, but a lot of my growth happened when I had support from friends who I consider my family. 
Close friends can help you become more you (authentic)

This guy totally rubs me the wrong way. I tried to read his book, the 10X rule but couldnt finish it. I think it would be difficult to try and find a bigger ego than this guys ego. Definitely not someone that I respect.  

Good speech:
The thing that progressives don't understand about "unity" is that while it might sound hokey and trite, in the end, it is the highest truth and it is an important message for leaders to put out into the public consciousness because reality is Unity and that is not merely a platitude.

Creating art is providing value. Just because your art goes unappreciated is another matter.
That you compare scummy crypto investors with Van Gogh is absurd.
No, that's according to your logic.
You are conflating Van Gogh's art with investing in gold. If all Van Gogh did was invest in gold you would have no idea who Van Gogh was.
It's your responsibility to find a way to provide value which other people appreciate.
There are many starving artists in the world. It is not enough to create art, you must create art which other people are willing to pay for. This makes your job twice as hard. And that's correct.
Here are the levels of making a living:
Level 1: Being a pure value leech
Level 2: Providing value but in a toxic way that harms others
Level 3: Providing value which doesn't harm others but also isn't art
Level 4: Doing art but no one is willing to pay well for it
Level 5: Doing art, providing massive value, and getting paid well for it
Reaching Level 5 requires some serious strategy and effort. It will not land in your lap.

Also, I know this thread is focused on BTC but anyone see that 
Ethereum hit all time highs yesterday? Hopefully there's a nice dip to around $1100 before it flies off again! 
 

The biggest function public intellectuals serve is to keep you from doing the hard work of contemplating things for yourself.
You don't want to think. You want to be told all the answers. Which is the whole problem.
"All of mankind's problems stem from an inability to sit alone in a room and contemplate."

@7thLetter Yeah, if it drops short term I'm all for it as just means we can buy more, I'm only interested in HODLing BTC & ETH long term, Alt coins are different ofc. 
 

@Leo Gura Trading is all about looking at previous data to understand where price is likely to head next. It's never a 100% thing that's what people have confused. It's more of a 50-70% chance of being right based on your skill/analysis.
Yes there's a lot of similarities with gambling but gambling is based on pure luck and guessing.
You can't look at the data to understand it'll hit red or black at the roulette table.
Me coming back to this thread proves my analysis was right honestly, if it hits my target.
But of course, I'm not claiming I know. I don't know, i don't know, I don't know. All I know are the probabilities.

Your logic is a silly as telling me that you'll come back several months later to see who was right about red or black at the roulette tablet.
Your problem is meta.
I am not saying BitCoin will go up or go down. I'm saying no one has a clue. Coming back months later and showing me your money proves absolutely nothing.

Yesterday I was at a spiritual workshop where we were healing the divine feminine / masculine within us.
As I was spilling my guys to a woman who was supposed to represent the divine feminine for me, I had talk about how distorted my view of femininity and women in general had become over the years.
Because of all the negative experiences I had in the past, my perception was so biased against women. Pickup fit into that world view.
It's a nuanced issue because on the one hand, I know how it can benefit guys. I was a part of that community for a while and it did help.
But ultimately, it still presents a distorted form of sexuality / dating.
What's even more interesting is that the feminine is so repressed, that even women don't always seem to realize it. They think this is normal and what healthy sexuality looks like.
And certainly we don't need to moralize against people who engage in a more surface level form of dating. But I don't find it fits with my current world view.
Pickup paints this picture that you are in charge of your dating life. Meeting a girl is an act of will that you can control. When in reality, I find that I meet a girl when the time is right. And most of the time it's not because of anything I "did".
If anything, it's like the universe decides that it's time for us to meet. And when that happens, the most bizarre circumstances can bring you together.
That timeline for that happening is also not necessarily on the "pickup" timeline. It could be fast, but it also could take a long time.
It's not about being passive. It's about really listening to what you want and feels good. What you feel guided to do.
Maybe that's approaching. But maybe it's nothing at all.
In other words, there's a lot of "force" that goes on in pickup. Guys trying to force themselves to approach. Guys trying to force themselves to be attractive. Forcing everything.
Maybe that's a useful paradigm for a while, but eventually you got to let that go.
I don't doubt that there's a conscious way to teach guys how to meet women. But so far I've seen very little of it.

@Hardkill Most relationships fail, period. Makes no difference how great you are. Doesn't even matter how enlightened you are. End of explanation.

Hahaha...
The way our culture defines success and intelligence is so fucked.

This.
 
1. wait for the price to deflate.
2. don't buy shitcoins, stick with the established coins.
It's actually very simple, but people tend to get a massive dopamine-boner when faced with the prospect of $$$. Just keep it simple and don't put much dopamine secretion into your investment... i.e. don't spend your time tracking every subtle movement in price and getting high on the idea of how much money you're making, cuz this is going to cloud your judgement.

@datamonster Agree with this, but I don't think Stocks / Real Estate are the way to generate that money as you need Capital to play both those games effectively. 
Imo, either a 9-5 or an Online Business is the way to go to grow capital when just starting out. 
To be honest, I think Investments are most effective simply regularly investing in your portfolio over decades & letting the magic of compound interest work over time. 
The younger you are, the more risk you can take (Crypto, Small Cap, Futuristic Funds etc) but we should all have a solid base I feel. 
Think of it like this you invest $100k and only make 10% that's still only $10,000. 
But start with $10k and invest $15k per year for 40 years at 10% and then well, it's a very different story.

@Michal__ Exactly, and the average return on Stocks is around 7-8% after inflation. It is not going to make you rich unless you pick the next Tesla (or Bitcoin ) which let's be real, is unlikely. 
Stocks / Crytpo / Precious Metals are long-term investments that shouldn't take up too much of your mind space unless you're day trading or actually working in the space in some form. 
Best way to build wealth is starting a business / career & THEN thinking about investing imo. 

It is a myth that girls at the club are "sluts". They are no more sluts than any other girl. All girls will have sex when emotionally stimulated in the right ways. Stop thinking you're special or above that.

Nah I don’t really see it as thieving, depending on what you’re specifically trading.  One person wants to sell stock in a given moment and one person wants to buy.
Although I wouldn’t recommend day trading however. There’s better things to do. Also most traders probably make less return than just investing in the S&P500. I personally only passively invest in ETFs. It’s the safest option and generally outperforms most people who try to “pick” stocks 

They are celebrities for a reason. They are attractive. That's the game. The game lies in their ability to attract.

Investing is a great way to build wealth, yes. 
If you want to have a career in these fields, if done right of course they can be high conscious, like pretty much anything. 
If you're just looking to invest, firstly, focus on creating a business / developing your career / LP to build wealth first, then from there you can invest the excess etc 
But, people always say I have X amount of $$ where shall I invest. 
I think you should firstly build your own income through Work / Business as that will make you free much faster than investing. Then from there set up your investment portfolio & carry on building wealth, when done right, you can certainly retire a millionaire. 
 

I didn't say that men shouldn't do pick up. That's a strawman. I would probably do some pick up if I were a man. 
I merely said that pick-up only works on a percentage of the the female population and that it's not universal.
But my deeper point is that the way that pick up presents female sexuality is a distortion... a workable distortion that can help men get laid. But it is still a distortion and should not be confused for accuracy. And this distortion gets in the way of deeper bonding experiences between men and women.
 

It's sort of like you're saying, don't practice piano because you're not perfect and natural at it.
Guys need a mechanism for getting better with women. Pickup is that mechanism. You can criticize it, but then you need to invent a better mechanism that actually works for guys.
The problem is that what women think will work for guys -- does not work! It's like telling a lion to eat tofu. Sounds nice in theory but doesn't work in practice because he's a lion.

How would you know that?
That's like saying the gym doesn't work for everyone.
We'll just have to agree to disagree.
I have used pickup skills to create deep bonding experiences. Of course not everything is a deep bonding experience, nor should it be.
The average guy who has zero training will not know how to create deep bonding experiences. Which is your typical guy who you ladies complain about. He has no idea how to do deep sex or how to please you.
Getting good with women requires training for most men. And training comes with lots of failure and trial and error.