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Books: Indistractable Digital Minimalism >> great one on the matter Hyper Focus 4000 Hours

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Jay Alto's thumbnail course will get you up to speed with thumbnails and titles. Then do "the yoink and twist" with outlier thumbnails and titles from website 1of10.com.

Another thing I'd like to add is that when my trips have gone real sour, it will still end on a positive note. At least with mushrooms that has generally been the case. And I think too, when you're doing any high dose of psychedelic, a rough trip is completely unavoidable. Just be sure you ramp up your doses slowly. I remember listening to a portion of the book "LSD and the mind of the universe" . And the author talks about not only is a challenging trip unavoidable when you're doing like 600mcg of LSD, but also what intrigued me the most is how he described how a scenario that was particularly challenging needed to "exhaust itself" in order to allow your consciousness to reach new levels or domains. How that suffering was very much a purification process.

In my experience, going for an ego death CAN help significantly. That is, if you can remember to. Contemplate: What is death? What is ego? What is self? To get an ego death. Trying to focus your love on the trip is good too. Other than that, surrendering to it is all you can do.

I would very much enjoy this!

Thank FUCK. 🔥 Leo I'm super excited about this course. I'm a proud student of your work and I want to make you PROUD by actualizing my life Purpose to the hilt where it creates a worldwide positive impact like you have. ❤️

@Leo Gura I'm wondering, how much of this stuff are you conscious of while completely sober? Personally I've been accessing various states of consciousness, but I'm not accessing most of this stuff sober, at least not yet. It's pretty obvious that some of these things you're never going to have permenant access to. And I'm aware that you're limited by your personal brain chemistry. But I'm curious as to what Leo has accomplished.

Scoop is the way to go.

@Leo Gura Is there a typo here? In Exercise #8, it says: "...and one sensation can perceive another sensation." Shouldn't it be?: "...and one sensation can't perceive another sensation." Thanks! Side note, I'm noticing that as I do more trips and learn deeper, these exercises become more understandable. Whereas when I first saw this list it was BARELY understandable.

@Jannes yes, fuck all sources of unearned dopamine.

@Jannes @Jannes Put yourself in an environment where you have to act. Where there is an immediate consequence. Now it may be different for you but for me my level of conscientiousness and being able to be a self-starter is very low. It sucks because I would really like to be extremely driven and conscientious but I gotta lean into the truth of the situation. Another thing that I need is some sort of routine enforced upon on to me from an external source. Very helpful.

@Leo Gurado you have any tips to reduce bleeding for plugging 5MEOMALT? I have to do a lot of 5MEOMALT just to get started. I finally got a dose that is doing something notable, which is 4 large level yellow microscoops. (Pictured) What's unfortunate is that I have to sit on the porcelain throne taking some of the most uncomfortable bowel movements of 2024. Next day I'm feeling fine though, bowel movements feeling fine.

@Jannes I was diagnosed with ADHD my entire life but I never knew really what that actually meant. So I never really designed my life in a way to actually work with it.

@Jannes there's a difference between being diagnosed and knowing how your brain works.

I really appreciate this post!

OP: "The forum is a distraction, so check out this other distraction."

@Leo Gura literally my problem is not being able to focus on my purpose. Lack of motivation, vision, or even clarity on what is my next step. Currently I'm picking away at redoing the life purpose course exercises as I did then 5 years ago now.

This list is fantastic

Feel free to share your why with your vote.

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For me my crack pipe is YouTube. So I've recently sworn myself off of YouTube to take back control of my life. One interesting Insight is that there's a lot of tough moments in life that would be suppressed with processing it by watching YouTube video. Whether it be a tough existential moment of contemplating my death, or contemplating the death of other people around me that time is ticking and I won't have the people around me forever. Or I could just be me avoiding boredom from the fact that my life is actually quite boring and I've been distracting myself from that. Whereas if I can feel the pain long enough I will be motivated to do something about it. I've also noticed that for me at least, doing anything that is training myself towords a life purpose, it's actually always difficult and takes actual work and will never be easier than this moment right now to start working on it. I always subconsciously avoid practicing when I need to practice such as writing and studying because in reality it's actually quite boring stuff to discipline yourself to do on your own. Biggest insight for me is that life is actually more boring than you care to admit. You really have to work hard on building a beautiful life if you want a life that is not boring.

Happy Birthday Leo!!!

I understand this thoroughly, but for the past 5 years now, vision has never made sense. I feel like I have an inability to imagine something exciting. I really need some sort of resource or something to help me vision something out for my life. Or maybe even examples of what a strong compelling vision looks like!