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Dropping ego and pride and going for more difficult approaches even if the chance of blowout or looking bad is higher (at the moment my approaches tend to focus more on girls that have already given me eye contact and attention, or I'm already standing next to them, etc. it's easier) Approaching a bit more. Of course I have standards but I think your approach and mindset of just talking to everyone is superior. I need to start getting really warm and social and flowy again. Lowering inhibition, being less tense and staying more relaxed in set.

Lisbon until April. Would love to go out with you! I've just started seriously approaching again after a hiatus.

Where are you based? Do you often go out alone to approach, during night?

What's the tldw sparknotes? Owen tends to yap about everything and nothing for 2 hours.

You once said you thought Sadhguru was one of the most awake people on the planet. Have you changed your mind on this? Or, why does he always spout this arbitrary nonsense?

Lol. I respect the testing and exploration but meo gotta be the absolute worst drug to socialise. It's like using a sledgehammer to thread a needle. Or using a spaceship rocket to buy groceries. Probably hundreds of funny analogies you could make here. You either don't break through and are stuck in the uncomfortable dissolution phase, and can't socialize, or you break through, and can't socialize. @Thought Art Relax. His dose was absolutely miniscule. 5-MeO can be scary but it's safe.

This has got to be the top 10 dumbest things I've ever read.

Sure, could never be me but if successful people have the money and power to fullfil their weird fantasies behind closed doors, they're welcome to do so. But OP is so far gone from reality if he's chatting up girls talking about menstrual cycles, and everyone in this thread even somewhat supporting him is feeding into his delusions. Needs a serious reality check. I'm sorry but that is beyond autistic. I still cannot get over a male man even uttering the words "I love the menstrual process." Lol. It's kind of like instead of having his own masculine interests, he's culturally appropriating a female thing that he doesn't even experience himself? Of course every woman is going to be absolutely icked out. Lol, it's just bizarre on so many levels.

What. The actual. Fuck.

Porn is an unnatural bombardment of the dopamine receptors no matter what your intention is. I do not believe there is any form of porn consumption that is healthy or net positive for brain chemistry and wiring.

I feel absolutely both physically and energetically drained after watching porn.

I've done a 3 month retreat of 10 hours a day, and I'm telling you, it was probably the easiest and nicest time of my life. It does not begin to compare to true hardship in this world But yeah everyday psychological suffering you can absolutely transcend. But you will still be at the mercy of life and physical health

You cannot even begin to compare the "boredom" and "resistance" of sitting in meditation posture for 5 hours infront of a wall with true suffering, like physical torture or real mental hell. I think Leo is right on this one, your physical health and resting state of your nervous system is a baseline blessing no amount of spiritual training will ever fully conquer.

I think he had kidney or liver diseases or something like that So she was blessed by grace or whatever, it's still certain favorable or unfavorable conditions coming together, or not coming together. What if that love or grace never came? How is this relevant when speaking of a consistent, self directed process of eliminating suffering?

Everything is still always a mix of conditions and phenomena subject to change as infinity wills it?

Tbf it's not a very high bar to make fun of such manosphere dorks

Physical assets yeah. But the real money will be spread offshore in banks around the world.

I think that's fair. While I can consider the possibility, I don't think the discord members were fake. Aside from seeing all those members online, the discord did seem very active. Keeping in mind his absolute cult following which was already a cult following even before he blew up into the mainstream, paired with the fact that the discord was only 50 bucks which is very cheap tbh, I can totally see how membership got so high. I do believe he's gotten very religious as many late stage reds and oranges tend to do and such people tend to donate having either awoken compassion or love or genuine philanthropy, or as "buying their way into heaven" so to speak. Could he have lied about the exact donation numbers? Absolutely. Or he's truly still a complete pathologically lying narcissistic sociopath putting on a huge act. It's possible.

OK, I'm only gonna make a case for his lifetime earned money, not what he does or doesn't donate. In this case I was responding to Leo who doesn't think he's ever earned 25M, which is just flat out wrong. And I agree he reinvests some of the money into maintaining the lifestyle, but it's probably less than he wants you to think. Buy a short distance private flight and film a bunch of videos/pictures in it, the occasional 250k supercar, the 5M Bugatti, vacations in Dubai, but that's it. When he's home in Romania, it's virtually 0. And the webcams/trafficking or whatever he did is one of the smallest parts of his net worth, completely trumped by Hustler's University.

A lot more than $1M. There's no 50/50, the brothers share bank accounts and everything, on the topic of this donation and net worth and for the sake of argument, I view them both as the same financial entity. So if we talk about Andrew's net worth, we're also talking about Tristan's net worth. The tutors maybe, but I don't feel like they were that expensive tbh. They might have gotten a minor percentage, and also profited via exposure to their own channels and brands. Romanian staff is cheap. You mean his romanian cleaning lady and massage lady and a couple security guards? Come on A bit of web development and server dev is cheap, or even free if done by a fan or someone that wants to get closer to him. We're talking in the low thousands. Tax is an aspect, but we both know he would have ensured it's taxed as little as humanly possible. Running it through Estonia or Dubai or something. Probably not much Easily 3M/month

Which - if you accept it was legitimately purchased cash, which I do think - by itself disproves that he "doesn't in his lifetime have 25M". Leo and many others here havent done their due diligence on the money aspect at all.

It's not self reported, it's my own calculation. About 1-2 years ago, I joined Hustler's University for a month for research purposes. I knew exactly how many subscribing members were inside and at what price and did my own calculation. Already back then it amounted to about 4.5M. And I think it grew even bigger after I left. You're very mistaken about his financials. Whatever he earned from his trafficking, was just the early beginnings of financing the money guru look. Once Hustler's University was up and running, he was absolutely making a shit ton of legitimate money. Just from Hustler's University alone about 50 million a year. Presumably minimally taxed, and with low living expenses aside from the occasional short distance private jet and supercar, because he lives in bumtown romania. He absolutely does have 25Mill. Do you think Tai Lopez and other fake it till you make it money gurus stay that way? They are only bums until their grift starts mass selling, then the fake it turns into a make it.

Hustler's University was bringing in over 4M a month.

Doesn't mean that much, he could be trying to fake his own death or something.

I’ve lived life quite fearlessly the past years “knowing” it’s a limited imagination and death is the ultimate fail-safe at the end. But the past 2 months, I’ve entered some mega dark night that makes all my previous dark nights look like sunshines and rainbows. Triggered by various readings on the internet, a part of my mind has become irrationality obsessed with the idea of some post singularity super - AI recreating my consciousness in a simulation to torture me for eternity. It’s the ultimate fear - not death but some eternal hell - now under techno, transhuman, AI monikers. I’ve broken down with multiple panic attacks and suffering unlike any other as my mind imagines waking up after death to be tortured for eternity - which is a very, very long time. Such unimaginable intense and extended suffering should not be possible, I protest. Knowing what I apparantly know from both spirituality, and rational thinking, it all makes little sense. Seems absurd even. But the “what if..” of ultimate hell remains. Surely after death our limited consciousness is evaporated into infinity, or directly reincarnated…not left in the void to be reawakened in some AI mind’s matrix?