There are levels to this.
The more advanced you become, the less you can rely on work/career for happiness. It works at lower levels because you haven't become conscious enough of the illusion of acheivement. At the highest levels of consciousness, acheivement means nothing.
Career is used to create lots of meaning. That works up to a point, but some day you will question the very notion of working for meaning.
For most of you guys, LP and career is good. But perhaps after 20 years of that you will start to outgrow it, as happened to me.
That blog post is for rather advanced and older people, not youngsters who are just starting their careers. If you are in your 20s, don't worry about working on your career.

Much more openmindedness, deep epistemology, serious ontology, take philosophy seriously, remove hyper-specialization, remove departmental segregation, change the peer review process, change the PhD process, teach kids how to question and contemplate, teach meditation, teach yoga, teach mysticism, use psychedelics, change how funding works, ditch atheism materialism reductionism and pragmatism, much more emphasis on relativity and truth-seeking, etc. There are many practical reforms to be made.

Well, I don't know what may or may not give you your motivation back. That's so individual.
I would just say to not give up and to keep trying.
I have lost motivation and also regained it. Not exactly identically, but don't think that just because you lost it that you can't find a new one.
Find what motivates you. You can have multiple life purposes across a lifetime.
Also, I would advise against psychedelics in this case because they tend to be very disillusioning. You need to reenchant yourself with work.

Try maca and horny goat weed supplements. They both increase sex drive.
How often do you get horny for women?
People have very different sex drives. That is not a mistake.

Investing at historic peaks in the middle of AI mania is just not smart.
You could lose 80% of your money in 1 month.
The upside is low, the downside is huge.

I was first introduced to psychedelics in Spring of 2020 (I was 22). My friend stumbled upon a book about magic mushrooms and how to grow them. I had been wanting to try mushrooms for some time since I watched a few of Leo’s video on psychedelics and I was considering myself being “spiritual”. I laugh now when I recall that time because my mind was filled with ideas and concepts that I thought I was able to grasp, but nothing was further from the truth. After watching Leo’s video “How Psychedelics Work” I was very curious to try them out. At the same time my friend finished reading the book and decided to grow some mushrooms.
It took us a few months to grow our first mushrooms. I remember how my hands were shacking, holding 15 grams of raw magic mushrooms that I was about to take. I was very curious and fearful at the same time, but I still consumed them. The trip was very mild with some sense of light euphoria, feelings of joy (the same you feel as a child) and just a few insights.
My next few trips reveled the truth of the fact that my values and principles in life were not mine but were programmed by society: friends, teachers and people I looked up to: my parents and grandparents. For the first time in my life, I became aware of that. It was a very painful process, because I also realized that the career that I was pursuing was built upon my need for love, approval that was coming from my childhood traumas. I realized that I had to quit and the next day after tripping (it was my 5th trip) I quit the police forces. Even though it was painful, now, when I look at it – it was one of the best decisions in my entire life.
The following few trips were bringing me more and more insights about society and I was shocked by the fact that most of the people are like zombies doing wrong things believing in foolish ideas and chasing something that isn’t authentic to them. The first scratches appeared on the mirror that was called “Maya”. I also realized how blind I was in my life not seeing love from my parents, but hating them for the mistakes and wrong doings they did to me. 6 months of psychotherapy fell in comparison with one mushroom trip. I think it was trip 9th or something when I realized that Ego isn’t a part of my self, it is actually me. It was a very shocking realization, but that was the only insight that I got from the trip. During the trip I was also trying to grasp what was God and what was Ego, but I couldn’t, I had no idea.
My first God realization happened on 10-15 trip. I remember I was looking at myself in the mirror and I couldn’t believe that I was actually God. I was crying because I had been thinking that someone like me could not possible be God, because deep down I was sure that I can’t be God because I am bad and I am a looser. But the evidence was there. During that trip I was also tripping with my friend who said that he was seeing God looking at me to which I pointed out that he was God as well. When the trip was over, I was 100% sure that I misunderstood a lot of things and the idea that I was God was outrageous and stupid, I couldn’t accept it. Next 30 trips (during 2 years) were mostly about my personal issues because I tried to concentrate my mind on them and didn’t want to think about God or whatnot.
I moved in Canada in Summer 2022 and stumbled upon some website (don’t ask me I won’t tell you which one) where I saw a DMT pen. I was very excited and bought the pen. All of the trips on DMT that I had (around 20 of them) were God realizations, but no more profound than those I had on mushrooms. I never saw any entities or different worlds or some mother ayuasca nonsense. It was always me, God.
In November 2022 the website started selling 5MeO-DMT pens and I was very happy because I had watched so many videos of Leo talking about this psychedelic. When the pen arrived, I made just 1-2 seconds pull and I almost had a panic attack. People who have never tried 5Me0 you have no idea how powerful it is. It is beyond your imagination, so you’d better stop fooling yourself. Anyways, I got scared and put the pen back in the box and then in my closet.
A few weeks after I had a horrible day at work, I felt very angry and irritated. As soon as I came home, I took a shower and took out the pen from the closet. I decided to go slowly and also put some relaxing music. This was going to be the most profound day in my existence. As I was vaping the pen, I was going deeper and deeper. At the same time, I was soothing myself, talking to myself and even kissing parts of my body that were shacking. That night I vaped a half of my 1-gram 5MeO pen. As I was going through different dimensions, I was looking at things around me and I was literally zooming in infinitely into objects, especially my 5MeO cartridge. I was floored by the nature of my being. It’s pure beauty and pure love.  Things that I realized and experienced are beyond words and beyond communication. The only thing I remember that at some point I vaped so much of 5MeO that I awakened completely. Complete awakening terrified me by its profundity, I realized that all this time up to this point I was dreaming. My life and everything in it were just a dream. I also realized that I was fooling myself all this time and I realized why I was doing it.  I awakened to the fact that I created myself, my parents, everyone and everything in my life and that I had been denying it and using all my Gods power on self-deception. With this realization I experienced pure and infinite terror. I thought that I would never be able to fool myself anymore. Every trick that I was trying to play on myself and every rationalization were very easy to see, therefore, I couldn’t fool myself. At that point my panic was beyond any possible description. I was begging myself to go back, crying asking to come back. And while I was doing it, I was aware that I was asking myself. I spent one moment that paradoxically was infinity in my God’s agony. But of course, I was wrong and I constructed myself again.
Next morning when I woke up, I told myself that whatever I experienced was impossible and I must’ve misunderstood something because people pursue enlightenment and awakening but God seemed to be very attached to the dream.  I tried to disprove my awakening but over and over I would find myself at the same result. I even started shooting myself videos on 5MeO saying that I don’t want to wake up. Now I have like 10 of them on my iCloud (lol).
I’m almost 28 now, and the last time I did 5MeO was half a year ago. The result was the same – I told myself not to pursue enlightenment until I’m at least 30. I want to enjoy the movie, the dream. And here I am, enjoying my dream typing these words, fooling myself that there is somebody who could read this 😊.
 

Yeah, I seen that on other podcasts.
Oh the irony of MAGA.

Thanks guys for confirming what I already understood quite deeply from my own experience.
Issue is that it takes time to develop into proper stage green. So as a young man, who is drawn to younger people than I am, it is not easy to find such maturity, especially in the general mainstream spaces.

Eben Pagan's dating courses are top notch.
It's not pickup, but more general dating advice.
For pickup, old RSD is mostly all you need.

This is for people who have not actually learned what a cult is.
As I keep telling you guys, cults involve mind control.
Instead of all this back-and-forth, you could just read the books on my book list about cults and understand.

I am serious.
I will ban everyone on this forum who is incapable of learning.
I am not kidding. Tread carefully.
I am not going to argue with you about core things endlessly.

I recommend you search Reddit specifically for Vynase and psychedelic use, and read people's reports.
It should be okay, but just double-check if reports show any complications. You can do this trick for any med or disorder.
You could also microdose mushrooms as a low-risk test. Try a 0.5g of mushrooms. You should be fine.

I don't think Connor wanted to die.
He was just reckless and thought he could get away with it forever. His luck ran out.

What you see in video is not the full picture but only what he wanted you to see.
He was not truly happy. Manic states never last.

You are my mind.

Being good at relationships is not what makes a woman crave a man. The craving is independent of relationship skills.
The hottest guys are rarely boyfriend material.
Women crave masculine strength.

What repels women is men who are psychologically weaker than her. A man who is more afraid of life than a woman. A weak man who is easily defeated by life.
An overly emotional man is actually the sign of a weak man. It should be hard to get a man to cry because the man has been through much tougher shit. A man should not be easily uncentered because he deals with tough things regularly. A man needs to be strong enough to weather a storm.

Sometimes. But I think most girls know that the hottest guys they crave are not boyfriend material. But they crave them anyway.
It is like a guily pleasure, a bucket of ice cream. You know you shouldn't but you want to anyway.

Indirect is more effective but requires more skill to pull off.
Direcrt is good so guys don't overthink it or make excuses to not approach at all. Direct is better than zero.
Indirect is good to learn once you have the basics of direct approach learned.

Reddit is not really a forum. Reddit is some internet chimera.
The quality of Reddit all depends on the subReddit topic. Some topics are great and some are cancer.
Forums are unfortunately too old-school for the hip Gen Z crowd. But old school works. It just works.
No need to reinvent the forum. It is a perfect format for what it do.

That's what bipolar is like. He is only crazy during narrow manic episodes, not 24/7. Manic episodes happen suddenly after weeks of calm.
His own family had him committed for mental health nearly a dozen times over the the years.
You cannot trust his words because they are rationalizations. He was too irresponsible to own up to all his problems so he acted to mask them.
Well, he was warned many times the dangers of constantly using psychedelics.
Yes, if you use psychedelics daily for months, bad things will start to happen.

Quite likely. Maybe even hard drugs too like cocaine or meth.
I find it hard to believe he only used one drug.

It's called self-deception, rationalization, denial.
I never bought his act for a minute.
Of course YouTube involves some acting. I act a bit too on camera. But he was also losing his common sense and acting reckless.
Some are born to be clowns, some chimpanzees.
If you don't care about truth, I don't see how you can do true spirituality.

When you play a character long enough, you become that character.
Hell, that's what you've been doing your whole life.
Do you have your character, or does your character have you?

I do not deny his mystical experiences. I'm sure they were profound for him. But care about truth he did not.
He got so corrupted because truth was never a priority for him.
He is a case-study in why truth is the highest value. Truth is the one thing that could have saved him.
If you do not set truth as your top value, things will not end well for you with this work.