Jacob Morres

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  1. you can be successful with any career
    David R Hawkins
    When I wanted to make my own video games, on my terms, I made a plan to start an unrelated business to earn money to finance my dreams.
    Within 8 months my business was making money, I quit my day job, and worked on my biz for a few years to become financially independent. Today, if I wanted to, I could spend the next 10 years just sitting around making whatever video games I desire.
    If you want something bad enough, you will devise a plan to make it possible.
    You will never become successful by thinking inside the box and doing what every other fool is doing.
    If you really care about music you will find a way to make it happen.

  2. I've lost interest in spirituality.
    I've lost interest in spirituality.
    @GroovyGuru You just need to burn through some karma.
    You're young. Go enjoy life. Come back when you're exhausted chasing material rewards.
    Spirituality requires high maturity and ripeness.

  3. How do we test Spiral Dynamics?
    How do we test Spiral Dynamics?
    You have to be careful with how you measure things, your personal selection biases, and how you define terms like "conservative" since it is all relative.
    A) Even old people today are still more liberal on many issues than they were 40 years ago. For example, 40 years ago most people viewed homosexuality as wrong/a mental illness, most people were openly racist and sexist, and would freak out over talk of socialism. Today, the culture has evolved so much that same people have come to accept many liberal positions like gay rights, women's equality, anti-racism, etc.
    B) Most people don't do any serious inner growth after they hit 25. They get stuck at whatever stage they are at at 25. Such people will get entrenched in their worldview and double-down on it. This is explains why they become conservative. They just stay in place while culture around them evolves. It's a relativistic thing. If culture evolves but you don't, you will look like a dinosaur even though you haven't really changed. If you were born in the 1950's and you got stuck in your development, then by the standards of 2020 you will look like a racist, sexist, homophobe, etc. Because your mind is still living in the 1960's.
    C) The majority of people do not advance even one stage after their 20's. Because they do no inner work. So most Spiral evolution happens generationallly and collectively, not at the individual level. That guy born in the 50's may still be conservative today but his children and their children will be a lot more liberal because culture has evolved a lot and their minds were not stuck in the 60's.
    I doubt this is statistically valid. This is probably just your selection bias because you are young yourself.
    Also, youth are easily influenced by trends and propaganda. Their is a significant chunk of American youth which is brainwashed and radicalized by right-wing propaganda and ideology. Christian youth, young conservatives, incels, alt-right, white nationalism, people who follow Jordan Peterson, etc. Even today many youth are raised by stage Blue conservative parents who indoctrinate them.
    But overall I think if you do careful statistics you will see that youth are far more liberal than their parents. Even conservative youth is still gonna be more liberal than their conservative parents. You just don't appreciate how bad their conservative parents were.
    Today's conservative youth is still far more liberal than people were in the 1950's. Almost no conservative today would say that schools should be segregated by race, that blacks shouldn't have a right to vote, that it's okay to beat women if they act up, that gays should be put in jail, and that socialists should be put on trial as traitors and blacklisted. Yet these were all common positions in the 1950's.
    You'd have to be almost blind not to see how much society/culture has liberalized in the last 70 years. It's a shocking rate of evolution. People just take it for granted.

  4. Question about Tripp from Leo's Interview
    Question about Tripp from Leo's Interview
    It's overly selfish and emphasizes one night stands too much. It also tends to be highly misogynistic and needlessly cruel.
    I advocate an approach which is careful not to harm girls too much emotionally. You have to be careful and responsible about who you sleep with.
    No idea about dating in Afghanistan. I am talking about dating in developed countries.
    RSD is about becoming as natural as you can. The problem is how to become natural when you aren't one to begin with?
    True naturals tend to be highly extroverted, charismatic, social, confident, and experienced from a very young age. So you can't get that without doing thousand of clumsy approaches. Natural is the end result of years of nonstop effort and mastery. It will all feel highly unnatural when you start. Don't let that stop you. Naturalness comes with experience and skill.
    Yes, you will still require at least a year or two to get decent. There's more to it than mere confidence. You have to learn how to deal with all the obstacles that girls will throw in your face as you try to pull them home. You will lose hundreds of girls due to small mistakes you make. It's impossible to be born into life just knowing how to navigate all these obstacles. This is a skill that must be cultivated through practice and experience.