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@Leo Gura Thank you. I hope to be of service.

@Thought Art Any particular recommendations?

@LostSoul Hey mate. Its something I struggle with myself. But my best current understanding is to journal about events from your past and engage in humanistic psychotherapy. Humanistic psychotherapy is the most empathetic and human centred psychotherapy I've personally come across.

@Swarnim Are you able to connect to people in at an intimate and deep level?

@Cireeric I think 'developing work ethic/ discipline' is another key one

Ye I wouldn't be a part of actualized if it wasn't for pickup. I also had some stage orange achievements in my teenage years that blew my mind, and i put a lot of it down to the mindsets that people like Owen Cook, and the RSD crew instilled in me. That said, I also met some limits of that mindset petty soon after that too.

@Julian gabriel You can do shadow work, i.e. via journaling, depth psychotherapy, holotropic breathwork. Imo, a lot of beliefs are just defence mechanisms, and serve as means to aid our survival in various ways. For example, as a means to hide a part of ourselves we have come to believe is unacceptable. By doing shadow work you can rewire your unconscious patterns and as such these defence mechanisms fade away. Hence leading to belief change imo.

@Leo Gura ?

@Blackhawk So, you think the Russian side are evil? If I am correct in that assumption, why do you think they are evil?

@mr_engineer Perhaps instead of a debate think of it like a dialectic. Wiki: "Dialectic, also known as the dialectical method, is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned argumentation. Dialectic resembles debate, but the concept excludes subjective elements such as emotional appeal and rhetoric". Also, imo, if you want a tip on going meta, you can learn about deductive reasoning and experimenting with turning each argument you have or come across into a premise-premise-conclusion format. I.e. Premise 1: All cats are blue Premise 2: There is a cat near me Conclusion: There is a cat near me that must be blue (Conclusion is just what is true if both premises are true). Then you can inspect whether each separate premise is true, and investigate what sub-premises need to be true for a premise to be true. Make sense to you?

@LSD-Rumi I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of tennis stars were very miserable. If you read Andre Agassi's biography (tennis star) he gives a sort of psychoanalysis of his life and its pretty neurotic. A lot of parents trying to live vicariously through their kids.

@Lincisman If you have the financial means and a relevant therapist is available, I'd recommend humanistic psychotherapy.

@StarStruck Assuming you know chess basics, i.e. how each piece moves, I'd start off with going through each of the beginner section's videos 1 by 1. I think they all have some value.

@Hardkill I think there is a nuanced answer to it. I think pickup can bring character growth in a certain amount of areas, i.e. courage, social skills. However, there are areas where it simply cannot grow you, for example, it will not heal your trauma. Also, i think there are a lot of toxic aspects to the community that get picked up along the journey, especially with the mystery method type game. I think pick up can exacerbate self-hate because of the toxicity of a large aspect of the pick up culture. Hence, you get these big time pick up guys with a tonne of emotional trauma. I think a big issue is when you have more deeply emotionally wounded guys who get involved with pick up, and then do not do deep shadow work alongside it. Some don't even see the value to it imo. Hence, I think they never sort out the deep routed issues and keep acting out the same unconscious dynamics, just now with dramatically better social, and assertive skills.

(The commentary, not candace owens)

@vladorion To my understanding, there is a lot of reliance on intuition at the top level, i.e. magnus Carlson

@Leo Gura https://reliefweb.int/report/brazil/toll-bolsonaro-s-disastrous-covid-19-response-enpt Here's a brief article about it. They had around 680,000 deaths i think

I think Brazil's response to covid under the leader of the far right figure of Bolsonaro is a good example of what happens when covid policies are not stringent enough

Any folks know of one?

@Rafael Thundercat Hey dude. At the moment, I'm trying out using the guardian weekly (Its a magazine and i have a subscription for it) as well as pod save the world. Pod save the world is, for me, the best news channel on YouTube.

@MarkKol I swear everyone on youtube has an expose video on them by now lmao. Next thing we know the 'my name is fred' guy is going to exposed for running a ponzi scheme.

@StarStruck I relate to this sort of split heavily lmao

@StarStruck Its also imo because women are socialised to be more agreeable than men. So, a hard no is more likely for a man than for a womann. A woman is more likely to be more subtle in rejecting someone else's advances.

@Devin I've looked into it a bit, yes. Tho, I do find it difficult to resolve the seeming paradox between the idea that gender is purely performative and the idea of dysphoria. I'd need to look into some more queer theory to get a better understanding of the various viewpoints.

@Devin I think the idea is that the process helps overcome dysphoria.