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Yes this is what I always am telling people. We get clouded by our emotions. Flow is earned. A lot of people apply flow, success, whatever you wish to call it as something that is this secret to unlock but to be honest there aren’t really secrets. It’s just ceasing all misconceptions and illusions and being able to deeply observe the world. It becomes usually very apparent the way things are, a sense of clarity and clear reasoning why x should be done or why y means sitting still and just waiting. The teachings are all very simple and in any moment it is exceptionally clear what to do. We often times get clouded by expectations, fears and wishing things were different. Patience is a virtue when it comes to shaping your life in a way where it leads to what you would like to see manifested. I spent a lot of my time in my 20s with ideals and expectations. I sometimes wish I had the wisdom I do now. I would of taken a number of great leaps and risks at times when it was appropriate and not wasted my effort when I was consistently marching blind putting tremendous effort into things that weren’t helping me, but of all the mistakes I would say delusions like what the OP seems to have discovered kept me in a state of inaction. Success (what I call flow, since Wu Wei flow usually unfolds as success and perfection in all one experiences) is earned. It’s not something you simply meditate your way to, although this practice can help. It’s a balance off inner stillness and ceasing illusions and expectations but then turning the lens outward and clearly looking at the world and clearly reasoning why a particular action should be taken at any particular moment, cutting through whatever inner resistance arises. I wasted so much money and time in my 20s thinking if I just want something and hope for it it will come to me.

Timing is also very important. Not just time management. But the actual timing of things. What is the best choice to make in these next two hours. Have you all ever had an experience where you spent weeks or months trying to accomplish something but then suddenly as you changed course or reflect on your actions, in the matter of a few hours or days suddenly you made tremendous progress? More than in the last 3-6 months? There is a quiet flow of energy at play and it’s incredibly important to become conscious of timing. There are people who did everything right at their company but when it came time to ask for a raise they did so the moment their boss got off of a phone call with their wife who is asking for a divorce. So always pushing always rushing always thinking you need to be doing a ton isn’t always the case. There is a dance to it. You need to know when to release the arrow. There needs to be tension in your bow which is created through force but enough ease to aim and control the bow as you do so. Effort mixed with flexibility and ease

I’m wanting to start a qigong practice myself, I really found it helpful the few times I did it.

Damn this is a wonderful analogy for creativity and passion. It’s your baby. Babies are fun. Usually the first year or two is a joy. Then as your baby gets older you realize the reality of being a parent. Your kids will misbehave and you will sometimes regret having kids. The same with passion. It’s fun to get started, we usually have big dreams when we go out to buy that art supplies or start that project. 6 months in you realize just how tall the mountain is you began to climb. It’s incomprehensibly tall and you may not make it to the top. That is the pursuit of greatness.

This is the same mistake people make with the law of attraction. The law of attraction works but most people teaching it leave this part out because a lot of people like being sold a dream that feels good over reality. It’s easy to play off people’s naivety for your own gain than share the whole truth with them. Gotta learn to swim before you can effortlessly row a boat staring. And even then a wave can still come along and knock you over. This is an ever present truth about reality. We do not get any guarantees. You can realize everything and on the day of going in to collect your dues get ran over by a truck. It’s why influencer LoA teachings get so many clicks, it removes people’s fears of uncertainty and the unknown.

You put too much energy into caring what other people think about you.

Is anyone here interested in studying Taoism? I am considering making a Taoism official thread that I will post my insights on the Tao and share Taoist teachings and applications to life and raising consciousness.

me too

A lot of artists and creative people filled with passion (including myself) make the mistake of holding tightly onto expectations. Expectations cloud your judgement. It can be especially deceptive as you get into spiritual work. We hear teachings about openness, following your heart. Where did we go wrong? A traveller making his way to another town came across a river he had to cross to get to the other side. One of the fishermen offered him a ride across. As the traveler watched the fisherman row the boat he was deeply impressed by how the fisherman was able to effortlessly do it standing. The traveler asked the fisherman how he effortlessly could row such a boat with zero effort with complete grace and perfection. The fisherman told him only that he first had to learn to swim. This is an interesting Taoist parable that holds a lot of wisdom around this topic. We all want to see success in what we set out to do but we forget the foundation that sits underneath. In order to so effortlessly row a boat you need such a foundation to let go, such a foundation lets us give up trying and going with the flow and in this flow is often times where passion and creativity and grand vision comes from. The parable is simple but the same lesson applies to the nuanced lives we live. We often times forget we need to learn to swim, we have bills to pay, we have responsibilities. We neglect to just sit still and observe. Observe the world. Observe reality. Truly watch how life passes and how the world works, how our life works. We have expectations that if we blindly follow a feeling that things will go how we wish but there are no guarantees. That is life but it is also what makes it interesting. If it was as simple as just following a feeling, the game would not be fun, it would break the game and you would not play. You need to work towards finding a balance where you can live from your heart and passion but not at the expense of being so naive. Balancing wonder and naivety. If you were not so blinded by your emotions and expectations you would of probably been able to reason how placing such a financial burden on what you enjoy would not be a wise risk to take without some knowledge of something else which could help you float in the water. The key here is knowing to swim, that way you can let go and flourish in your flow which is where creativity lives. Clarity of mind is important here. It does not mean completely neglecting and forgetting about your passions. This is often times the energy of your soul speaking out to be realized. But this is not a race. If you need to prioritise more time to learn to swim that is fine. There is no one right path. Passion/wonder and naivety must be balanced with wisdom, reason and observation of the facts of reality.

Can’t live with them, can’t live without them

Wouldn’t we all want this? This is the stuff these chat bots aren’t capable of doing yet and what the tech scammers keep over promising on because they need to sell you stuff you don’t need to keep the hype going. It’s annoying enough already using AI bots that brands implement for product support because people know they make mistakes and they don’t extend the same amount of trust to them. Also those bots are implemented after the fact of getting your money because the power dynamic has now changed. Your solution if you don’t want to put your clients who pay you money into the hands of a mistake prone bot is to hire a smm.

Yeah I use ai for research, administrative stuff, organizing information, lesson planning, getting pathways ready, etc. it’s a useful tool like how the advent of the internet was much more useful than having to drive to the library or post office. But it’s entirely incapable of replacement. I find clients mostly through a third party platform and word of mouth is gold, since my niche is somewhat small and the market I specialize in is fairly tight and underserved. I work 6 days a week like a slave. I have more students that I can teach and counsel. I am in the process of having a professional build a website though and I plan to do targeted ads but this is mostly for saving on commission I pay to third party platforms and also to diversify how I find students. I have 1-2 other people, one is a friend, I’m hoping to market as well and then leech a commission off of them if I successfully pass students off to them. If your conversations are extremely predictable and you believe it is worth the time implementing and will save you time then I won’t argue with that. I’m just saying I’d really wary of handing off any person who wants to give me money to a bot. I can’t speak for everyone but tbh I think most people loathe talking to customer service bots. If the number of inquiries is so huge I would say your idea to just outsource it to a social media manager is not a bad idea at all.

Just power. The same reason the west doesn’t care about Thailand. Because Thailand doesn’t have any power. Do you think Thailand wants to be built entirely on tourism and deal with all the fucktards that come to their country for a holiday? Of course not but what choice do they have? They don’t have a huge population or army or a ton of money to set the rules and get richer in another way. There is obviously much deeper nuance to this and plenty of history, geopolitics and political science books you can read on this. But yeah, they want China to be a poor workshop at best or a colonized country at worst. China seems to be rising above both of these.

poor optics here. tate is a violent serial rapist and child abuse image producer.

He might not make it past 30 at this rate

Well yeah… but my point was you actually have to be able to solve their problem yourself. What problem have you specifically identified other people have which you’re able to fix? Especially with ai? It is just the tool here. You’re the one swinging the hammer. The hammer’s existence and you having one doesn’t mean you (royal you, not you specifically) have a solution to their problem. ai could help you reorganize your leads if the sheet has gotten so big that you aren’t sure what to do with it. It’s good for reorganizing and house cleaning. But messaging them? You have so many leads that messing around with ai for this will actually help you? I mean maybe an initial message to touch base just to see who replies and if they are still interested now but I’d imagine you would have to step in for the ai for eveyone who replies. Handing over possibly one of the most important parts of your business process (sales) to an ai bot would not be a good idea. I would not expect quality from someone using an ai bot to try and talk to me and I would spot it within a couple messages. I also would be way too paranoid myself to leave curious clients to a bot that makes mistakes, I would not do that in my line of work ever. I use ai in my work but it’s more of just an extension or natural progression of stream lining tedious tasks and helping in general. There is absolutely nothing ai can do on its own for my job and nothing can be done autonomously. I am a tutor and university counselor for foreign students wishing to attend top 100 universities in the USA and UK.

Yeah, it’s incredibly useful as a tool and wonderful when applied by an actual master. It’s absolute dog shit otherwise. It has an astronomical amount of under skilled people believing they are onto something. It has turned into this almost cycle of crap going round and round especially for people trying to monetize it (the companies offering ai aren’t even profitable themselves). Ai does not create value it just amplifies what you’re capable of already, it can help you kinda tap in deeper, but you will have to get yourself there and you’re limited by your ability to actually apply it. You don’t just need to “learn to prompt it.” You would know how and what to prompt it for if you could actually solve the problem prior to ai. Good ai prompting implies you already know how to solve the problem yourself already.

To be honest I read your post and it was really vague to me. I understood what you wrote but it’s very broad with a lot of buzzwords. I believe you will need to actually genuinely offer something yourself that the ai can’t do. Deep expertise in actual problem solving yourself. Because there would be no reason for them to pay you when they can use the ai themselves to do this.

When you start to work on your consciousness and integrity it really starts to dawn on oneself just how sick and twisted most people with fame are. It’s especially true in the internet space which is almost engineered for the filth to rise to the top. Good looks and a killer attitude has always been a valuable commodity, no doubt. It’s just been synthesized now.

As I have done my own contemplation I've dimly had my own realization that AGI is an impossibility as long as scientists are asleep. It is not possible to create an AGI machine if you are spiritually asleep and do not understand intelligence. These guys now are like cavemen flapping their arms thinking the harder they flap they will fly like a bird. I could be wrong, I have more digging to do.

Yes I do agree that for some people this is the case. I would say I’ve used food before to “feel better.” So a good bit of just saying no and sitting with that is practicing emotional mastery.

I would try but it’s easier said than done. Just because I wouldn’t want to be so reliant on another person. There’s a lot of opportunities beautiful women have which sorta give them the freedom while still cashing in on sex and their looks, flip the script, but it’s still at the end of the day coming from a man. Sex with beautiful women will always be a very valuable commodity. First category: Onlyfans, bottle girl, pornstar, cam girl, stripper, karaoke girl, escort, etc. More independent forms of it. Refined in such a way where men act like suckers and empty their wallets for these women. The age old profession comes in different forms. Second category: There are more relationship based versions, sugar baby, gold digger, even house wife to some degree (trad wife) you are still relying on men and exchanging sex and beauty but you have less say and power in these situations, but it depends. Many beautiful women will place themselves to some degree in the second category. Most beautiful women will expect you to pay the rent and cover most of the bills. Some (not all) women weaponize it and run it as sort of a scam, they prey on gullible men and the ambiguity and know how to milk men with their beauty while having very different intentions behind their actions. For example I met girls who would go on dates with guys they had zero interest in or get a bill paid but they have zero interest in sleeping with them or anything more than getting some cash out of the experience. Gotta be careful for these hoes.

Most beautiful women are either gold diggers, some sort of sex worker (influencer, OF, etc.) or stay at home moms. Beautiful women usually base their survival off men in some form. It's some of the most stable income.

correction: sorry he is being criminally charged for rape, there is nothing that says he has been arrested (yet)