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@Leo Gura Like I noticed a pattern where you'd sometimes talk about video games or movies related to monsters (If I recall correctly). And I saw that movie "a quiet place" and thought it was good, not like amazing, but pretty nice. But you seemed to really love it. I think maybe the idea of "value" is just biased based on how we grew up. I don't resonate much with things like monsters or stuff like that, so I don't see much value in those movies. I guess from one perspective the idea of something being underrated or overrated could largely be related to our perceptions, biases, what we resonate with, etc. I'm not comparing it to superhero movies. I just resonated with it tremendously, which allowed me to really dig deeper into its depth and distinctions more than most people would, allowing me to see more of its genius. But at the same time, that can probably be done for many films.

@Leo Gura I think you're undervaluing "well-made" though. It really is well-made, and I think that alone makes it not overrated. It's hard to find movies of that quality, creativity, film, acting, emotions, the amazing acting, music (the great Hans Zimmer), etc. Just like how you think the skill of humor is underrated (your valuable things require development over time video), I think you're looking at the value here from certain angles (possibly biased). Also I would say they are profound, but maybe not as profound as your videos, which of course would be the case as these are big budget hollywood films targeted towards the masses.

@Staples All this is so new to me lol I never made these connections to the movie. I'll look into all this yeah.

@Leo Gura Yeah I didn't want to call anyone out, but you've called them out in the past so I guess its already on your mind.

@Leo Gura While you're at it, and respectfully saying, what about cracking down on overly negative, non-sense posts and all that? I noticed quite a bit of that. I often notice some people going on long rants that make absolutely no sense, for example.

@Staples oh thats really interesting, but how does that make the movie's meaning change? Like so you're saying that based on his other books, the meaning of the movie changes, but to what? He's trying to say what exactly? I have to rewatch fight club because its been a while but from that I didnt get the message that "there's beauty in human suffering". Or are you saying that the movie doesnt even communicate it properly and the real meaning is in the books? And yeah I can see what you mean about the red pill stuff, it probably is mostly projection, people using it for their agenda kind of thing.

@Ero yeah man literally, there is no one making movies on the level of intelligence as christopher nolan.

I would add Fight Club to this list. I actually love fight club because Im able to pick and choose elements for my purposes of thinking of life. But a lot of guys use it for their red pill ideology, and whats funny is Tyler Durden thinks he's not materialistic. But the amount of work he put to get that certain look is definitely materialistic lol .. though the look is awesome.

You guys gotta rethink Interstellar if you think thats overrated. It very much deserves the praise. The ending may be off a bit, but overall phenomenal movie. Also Matthew's acting is unmatched in that.

@Buck Edwards haven't tried gemini, but also google, Meta, etc. is considered to be behind in terms of LLM development compared to ChatGPT, which is why Apple incorporated it, and why it has a deal with Microsoft. OpenAI is currently leading the LLM space by far. So in terms of now and future, OpenAI seems to be the lead. Of course this space imo is super competitive so who knows who swoops in in the future, but right now I see ChatGPT as the key leader (and from tons of usage and comparison)

Guys, not to play that Samsung vs. iPhone game, but I got Claude and ChatGPT (both the paid versions), and ChatGPT had a lot higher quality responses in my opinion. Perplexity.ai is great in its own way. Best combo: ChatGPT paid + perplexity.ai free imo

@Leo Gura oh okay thats not as bad as I was thinking, its a good thing we have a very powerful defense system in general (at least from a us citizen safety perspective)

@Leo Gura Is there any evidence to suggest that america will get hit aside from the anger we're contributing to (involvement in middle east and supporting israel)? .. asking partly because you just read 5 books and you've been studying these details in depth Its been a while with this war happening and things have generally been fine here in US

I completely accidentally came across the most mind-blowing podcast episode I ever listened to: For years, on and off I'd look into the history of North Korea, get some shocking insights, and go about my life. Of course, in the media these days we are forced to look into Israel, global politics, Gaza, Russia, China, etc. And of course, all these are absolutely critical things to look into. I'm not taking away from that. But this specific episode gives you a first hand account, where you're actually in her shoes as she goes from one "planet" to another "planet" to another "planet" (North Korea to China to South Korea to USA) But I was really thinking about it. Very specifically, the psychology of North Koreans, and especially this girl who escaped North Korea to come to USA, just think about the psychology change. It is quite literally like going to a new planet. In fact, if us americans had to live on Mars, I believe that's still less of a shock to our system then this girl coming from North Korea to USA. Just to give you perspective, when she reached South Korea, her first taste of freedom, she was so terrified of the freedom. In North Korea, absolutely everything is controlled, except your breathing. So you literally don't think for yourself. She says there is no "I" vocabulary. It's only "we". She just followed orders. So to even just think for 5 minutes when she reached freedom in South Korea, learning to live in this world we all live in, she got very exhausted after just 5 minutes of thinking. That's how hard thinking was for her. And now she's very well-educated, well-spoken, intelligent, compassionate, and is a public speaker, even talked to the UN, etc. I mean I started reflecting on my life, and realized how soft I am, and most americans are. Just contrast that way of life I described to most americans lives: video games, devices all day, staying in your room all day, food just handed to you. She was describing how her friend in US would complain about some guy not calling her back, and it was shocking to her because that's such a small problem compared to what she went through. These are often our biggest problems in US, some stupid relationship issue, or whatever. I personally have OCD, so I noticed something strange, I get so perfectionist at times, that even when I open the bathroom door, I have to make sure I'm going about that right. It's hard to articulate. But my point is, we are not exposed to deep uncertainty. This girl was. She had no choice. If her mom left to get food, she had no clue when she'd be back or if she'd even come back. When she's going through the desert to get to South Korea from China, she had no clue if she'd get shot at the border or not. She was prepared to die (brought poison along with her). We in the west need so much certainty: We need to know what everything around us is, we look for the people around us to make sure we're in safe environments doing safe things, we outsource our critical thinking to AI and other human beings and authority. This is just one angle of a multi-faceted angle of how fearful we are, how soft we are. I really then took a hard look at how fearful I am, and here's what I came up with: We spend decades in fear of other humans, innocent, harmless humans, often caring humans, to talk to these humans. Why? It's honestly so shocking if you think about it, this idea of avoidance of other humans out of social anxiety. It's so petty, when looked at directly. If we weren't so soft, I don't think this would be an issue at all. And what about all the other petty sht we fantasize about for hours and hours a day, petty motivations we pursue for decades out of fear of not pursuing a much higher purpose, a higher purpose that makes these petty fantasies look like a dream you woke up from. Sorry to go on a rant, but I've been in this personal development game for many years now and I guess this was just a really big wake up call for me. I'm going to now make some important changes in how I live my life. I need to learn fearless living. I think its absolutely underrated just how fearful we are. It's masked, so utterly masked by modern living. I'm not saying I'm right about all this, Im sort of just thinking this through, but yeah changes need to be made.

@Nightwise Exactly the line of thinking, Im thinking these days .. Though there's a tendency in my my mind to make our problems seem petty compared to these other countries, but of course I realized its more nuanced than that. Like as a whole, on a general level, yeah our problems are a lot more petty, our standard of living is a lot higher, we complain over little things, on a higher level, national level. But on the individual level, there are of course many people deeply suffering in the west as well, for their own unique reasons, or even collective reasons. So I don't want to take away from that as well. Like you even mention about your mental health history. But even so our overall environment in the west is built structurally to be too damn comfortable. Im starting to sense that tons of problems are arising out of this structure. Just the way society is set up, not having to hunt our own food, not having to protect ourselves much, easy solutions to our problems, the list goes on. I'll check out this audiobook. I honestly know very little about Russia and its history. I've been meaning to dive deeper into that. I know though that they too have gone through extraordinary amounts of suffering over the decades, and still to this day.

@Leo Gura I guess thats where the rubber really meets the road in this personal development journey .. but I prefer to stay on safe land thank you very much

There's a video leo made a while back, I saw it years ago, where he says if you want to get in touch with real survival, go to the canadian wild in the winter or something, and carry minimal stuff, and get in touch with real survival. Contrast that to modern day life, if we're not in touch with real survival, it feels like there's a lot of fantasy living going on. Idk about others but I often try to make life like a movie, compare my life to harry potter or something, and i even like doing that, but I realized it takes me away from true survival. Maybe that can be incorporated to some degree in life, romance, fantasy, art, philosophy, etc. But without a foundation of being in touch with true survival, idk something feels fake about that.

@Staples I see your point, and I agree, but from the lens that I'm currently looking at it, there is still deep fear inside that is not being conquered if you're just coasting through life handling things and adapting contextual to the circumstances. At the end of the day, you're still a deeply fearful person inside, but its masked. No deep work has been done to conquer those fears. I'm looking at it, in this case, from the angle that say this girl would look at a typical westerner given the fears she had to conquer in her life, which I don't think Ive seen many people do.

@Leo Gura .. yeah I would barely last 3 weeks if I did lol .. I need a more practical non-life-threatening plan of course

@Leo Gura nice, i didnt expect you to say itll be quite low. I'm actually going to seriously research this now. I'm pretty inclined now to give this a go. Also I did go to a few doctors in the past and they both said nothing can be done lol I even had weird tests done on me, even my research showed no cures, actually quite surprised you found 2 solutions like this.

@Leo Gura I've been following your tinnitus posts, and I have a 2/10 .. for many years now, I barely notice it now, I was interested in following the procedure that you laid out but I think you said a few times it could potentially make it worse if you dont know the cause .. its been many years for me and I dont know the cause at all, so probably I should avoid it? I rather not gamble with my life and make things worse .. is my thinking .. unless chances are very low that it could get worse? Would your 2nd option be one that doesn't have chances of it getting worse?

@Leo Gura your research suggests a crash as big as 2008 soon? I didnt check the context, maybe you're saying a similar crash in terms of dynamics, but not severity?

@Leo Gura I saw an interview with JP and his daughter, and his daughter said he flew to Romania or something to meet Andrew Tate, and he was trying to push to see if they "went to town" lol .. he mustve been slightly horrified inside .. no idea why she even flew out to meet Andrew of all people, even id be slightly horrified and im not even conservative

Hey Guys, I was hoping we can come up with an ultimate list of your most powerful motivation techniques. I think it's less about quantity and more about quality. What has personally worked for you the most? What results did you have? How exactly do you apply the technique? I truly believe one of the things that is stopping us from our goals, holding us back is our degree of hard work and motivation. I am also hoping that we can have sort of "reports" on testing these techniques and report back with results. I will try to do the same. I will share mine that has been working amazingly for me: 1. "The Eminem-Infuser Technique" Still working on the name .. lol But what I do is, 1 to 2 times a day, I first start listening to a few of Eminem's latest songs from the death of slim shady, followed by the classics Till I Collapse and Lose Yourself, ending with Godzilla. I know this already sounds corny, but honestly fk it, if its corny, dont worry, pls share. I am willing to test your best techniques. I have been working 7 to 13 hour days lately. Now I don't say that to make you think this is the "right" thing to do. This is not about morals, nor health, nor other stuff. I am simply in a situation in my life right now where I don't have a choice. (Motivation technique 2) But you don't need to be in painful situations like me to benefit from this fyi. Anyways, the guy from Bobby Fisher, forgot his name, he would use Lose Yourself as a trigger to get in the right state. It's similar to techniques from NLP. I heard it in theory years ago, but just some months ago I really made this a core part of my life. And for ex. today I was feeling shitty, in bed. And I was for sure thinking it won't work today. I put the headphones on (this is very important), and just went through the songs, closed my eyes, imagined me embodying his energy, beliefs, confidence, and that stuff really starts to rub into you. Suddenly your negative emotions go away, you get wired, focused, your up. Then Godzilla always makes my jaw drop because of his utter confidence, excellence in rap, the speed of his rap, etc. And I got out of the shitty state and I'm back on the flow. 2. Just being in a painful situation, a situation where you don't have much choice, reminding yourself of that, getting in touch with that 3. Just realizing how long you've been putting off your dreams, sort of being "done" with that. I am interested in the best ones for you. No need to share them all, just the ones your most excited to share. If we make an ultimate list, report back on results, I think we can all start to have this compound effect, network effect in this thread. I know this form is a lot about philosophy and all that. I love that too myself. But I truly feel many of us need just much more action in our lives. I've noticed how much philosophy takes me away from my goals that need intense focus and action on. A bit of philosophy does help actually, but too much and I'm all over the place. If you're like me and you need more focus in your life, let's focus on more action (on the right things of course).

@PRai1ND1A wow i resonate with that a lot, that just got me excited by life. Though I know nothing about MMA lol but I did hear great things about Khabib Not wanting an average life is also huge, im gonna write these down.