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This video is super interesting. I think his view is a tad too deterministic though. He highlights randomness and dumb luck which is without a doubt a huge factor. The middle way is how I make sense of this in practice, because if you believe everything is random and luck, you make yourself a victim instead of the creator. It's not all luck, a ton of luck and just the unfolding of life which has a random nature to it is most definitely a large part of it but it's not what is necessary to focus on entirely when choosing what to react to, what to believe, what to do that works in Wu Wei with life.

It's just another success treadmill podcast where you are the product and the podcaster and guests have hypnotized themselves and leech your attention to line their pockets.

He's fucking deranged and mad

Ideally the only way to have precise counting is cooking at home and measuring everything out with a scale and whatnot and referencing the nutrition tables of your ingredients. So yeah it's not exactly accurate. And thus my results aren't great. I eat out a lot so yeah there's probably calories in my diet not being accounted for. The thing is measuring everything out is unsustainable for me and doesn't fit the dominant parts of my lifestyle. My rule of thumb for losing weight is cutting back 20%, so however you're eating, learn what foods have the macros and nutrients you need, and then eat 20% less overall. It's easier to cut out bad habits than it is to build good habits for precision results, so just cutting out all sugar, deep fried food, etc can go a long way for the average guy. Throw in two scoops of whey protein a day to hit your protein goal. Done. It's not great but it's def better than just doing the protein and being undisciplined with the rest. Sugar and oil is where you gotta be careful, Claude is also decent at advising on what will potentially put you over into a surplus. There are various rules and things you can learn that can sorta replace calorie counting and still get decent results but if you are like a professional body builder or have a super stable and chill life and the time, it's def better to count precisely at home. I travel way too much for this and just don't have the lifestyle to train and count precisely for like 9 months to get ripped.

I know nothing about him aside from a couple youtube videos. I assume he was a tech guy that got stupidly rich.

Fucking evil. This is why intelligence needs to be redefined. A lot of people think because of how cognitively clever this is it’s fine.

The thing is they see success as virtue so it’s like if you can hang with them and you’re high on the success hierarchy they treat your word the same as people treated the word of the church 200 years ago. Their guests are considered beyond reproach because of this but it’s usually washed and called neutrality because they can’t have strong opinions. Makes them soft as shit. They’ll host the occasional intellectual but when you zoom out and look at podcast you can see it marches to the beat of the society drum, which at the moment is very corrupt and misguided.

Fuck no

The Diary of a CEO guy is such a mark. I don’t know how else to explain this podcaster type guy. Joe Rogan is the same. They sort of experience a higher form of brainrot and get hypnotized by all the powerful people who go on their podcast. So they start believing the hype. Rogan did the same with Trump. This dope at the start starts citing the tech bros as credible.

Didn’t all these companies torrent entire trackers of books and e-learning material to train their AI?

Nah, awful take to be honest. But if you aren’t able to make it work for you then try something else. Obviously grinding books or trying to rush through them is not how you read. How you read is important. You need to focus your mind and train it to be sharp, reading does that. Audio books are good too but actually reading is ideally better. 20 mins a day.

There’s going to be a digital underclass, it’s already forming. I can tell you guys now that many wealthy and educated parents are equipping their kids with skills on how to not fry their brains. I predict that setting up your life so you aren’t on social media much will soon be associated with wealthy educated people.

I was always curious why I experienced this after my break through trip on ayahuasca. It lasted for maybe 3-4 months after. Would come at night when I was very sensitive. It was really disturbing.

I’m a bit envious that this guy can just afford to do life changing psychedelics and make a giant spectacle out of it with a camera crew filming and social media posts galore afterwards. Here I am working full time and building a foundation for success and a future family lol, something like that could derail me in a way I don’t want to put energy into recovering form. But to be honest I’m very much spiritually aware and have prioritized it since 2015, so the fruits of my labor have been paying off even if my experience is just around shrooms and ayahuasca. I shouldn’t frame it like I’m missing out on anything. I would imagine you can only garner so much wisdom when your original intentions are clouded. I guess what I’m getting at is he is literally the last person I would probably try to emulate when it comes to seeking peak experiencie. His whole Richie rich life is just so different from mine. I’d probably keep a good bit of it to myself if I were to do it and largely do my own journaling, talk here some about it. He also doesn’t look particularly young for his age. Is he really much more healthier than other guys his age? My grandpa lived to 92 and didn’t do shit for like 25 years before passing . Ate a pack of bacon daily and spent his retirement sitting in a recliner watching tv he recorded on a VCR. Maybe I’m being a hater but there’s something just performative about the way he moves that I don’t like.

I sometimes wonder if I’m just getting older and this is just moral panic. Cause people were saying the same stuff about violent video games when I was growing up. But at the same time I do think kids should not be using these devices until they are teenagers / young adults.

Yes, like them, but not the same as them. the book actually lays out the 3 levels of application, think conscious level, only the first level then has 3 tiers Level 1 Thick Face, Black Heart - tier 1 is like the most scammy least trustworthy person you, think a robber or professional criminal at stage red, heart is black as coal - tier 2 is the professional, these are the guys in finance, influencers, these are people who professional scam, they look good and appealing on the surface and these days they look great on social media but when you get close you can start to smell them rotting - tier 3 a face so think and heart so black it is a staring into a haunting void. These are people who are so black they shine, the people who are victims of tier 3 will praise and defend tier 3 even after being hurt by them, think politicians like Trump or Putin. Very few reach this tier of blackness and thickness Level 2 confusion this is a transformation stage where the person begins to awaken and be transformed by the way. Mistakes are made but it’s ok because it’s resulting in growth. Basically you are starting to realize you hold many contradictions and are coming into a harmony where you respect and honor and put yourself first but in a counter intuitive way it is for the all. Level 3 Thick Face, Black Heart You have gone full circle and integrated the teaching. You walk the way with heartfelt intentions, with a thick face, black heart 🖤 Perception of one’s value not given to others and a mature love that cuts through all the people pleasing and supplication we have conformed to for example immature self destructive compassion. Level 3, Think martial arts masters, a calm and cool master that is razor focused. This would include conscious people that are spoken of on here, Zen masters, Taoist monks, skilled outdoorsman like Alex Honnald, etc. people who are peak successful but you can see are doing so consciously.

I think it’s an interesting question but sometimes I don’t think it’s the one to be asking. I think a simple answer is that in general, no, trauma doesn’t make you stronger. It’s like saying does being sick make you stronger. The thing is though it comes down to how you look at it. If you choose an empowering belief that leads to the next natural steps such as “trauma makes me stronger I will overcome this and be better for it.” Then of course you will indeed. But it wasn’t the trauma that held this but the belief that you can overcome anything, which is spiritual and true. Trauma are powerful experiences which can sometimes heavily shape our lives. I think a better way of looking at it is focusing on how we handle it after the fact of what has happened. Usually when we accept our past, learn from it and realize it no longer shapes our life it opens up a lot of opportunities for growth and wisdom.

Oh it’s nice to find someone here I don’t think Taoist teachings are heavily studied on this forum. They really are an excellent resource for sort of bridging between normal life as it unfolds while being

You need to take accountability. You aren't a bad person, but what you are doing is very wrong. You need to vow to yourself you will never hit your sister again and never use violence unless it's in self defense. You need to also seek out therapy.

I think he’s gonna send ground troops in. They moved a bunch of troops over. They’re gonna do a special military operation on Iran and try to destroy or control key infrastructure and whatnot. Damn the average voter is so dumb. Joe Rogan is dumb. Right wing voters who thought Trump was the “president of peace” are dumb. Generally speaking the average American is just so stupid. To be honest I think this is going to lead to a huge upheaval in the USA and probably a pretty huge restructuring, something similar to regime change and a new wave of democratic reforms. It will get ugly and tough but us average folk will survivor and make it. People without much will of course have it the hardest.

I tried this and I lost a lot of weight. To be honest you are still going to have a pretty mid to ugly body if you aren’t exercising. Unless you have a ton of muscles and amazing body already you will still look bad and not feel all that much better. Exercising is important for strength and aesthetics.

Not really. I send photos to Claude and he keeps track for me.

Yea but when I visited Vegas (my parents live there) it looked like a giant resort. It’s not really a place to build a like long term lifestyle unless you wanna do the “high roller” thing and go gamble and live on the strip and hook up with tourist girls only. Which does change the experience. Idk if I was single I’d want to live in a place with culture and a different lifestyle and steady people around and have the possibility to go long term. Seems like Vegas you got money/status maxxing stage orange type guy without any real culture, tradition or lifestyle. Obviously if you’re loaded you’ll be flying to other places but we are talking normal guys here. Hence why I prefer different cities and countries in general.

Dysfunction most times I think is spotted based on what you’re feeling. If you feel suffering vs if you are in your flow, authentic, at peace, joyful, clear minded. The suffering is a signal that something in your belief system is out of alignment with what’s true. That doesn’t mean all painful emotions are bad and you shouldn’t feel or create them. There is to some degree a utilitarian purpose for stuff like fear, ie you get close to the ledge of a cliff. I would say we all know how truthful we are intuitively and deep down. Id you’re feeling bad it’s a signal that you have some self reflection to do.

Honestly, move to California cause you can at least integrate game into a sustainable and fulfilling lifestyle there. Plenty of hot girls in California and it’s a better place to live long term.