Most people cannot because success is not for most people.
The work, creativity, and ambition required to create success is beyond like 80% of the population. They are just not serious enough to do it.
That is why most people work lame, mindless 9-5 jobs. Then you are at the mercy of your boss and the economy.

Running a business requires constant effort. You can't just take 5 years off from a business. By the time you come back your business will be dead and forgotten.
Business requires constant growth and maintenance or it withers and dies.
And starting a new business requires even more work and time than maintaining your existing one, with no guarantee of success.
You can't just start and quit businesses whenever you feel like it, or you will get nowhere. Business requires decades of consistency. That's why most people fail at it.
The Awakening course I plan to some day release will blow your fucking mind. It will guide you to insight and understandings and states of consciousness that no teacher has ever taught in all of human history.
I will eventually guide you to Alien Awakening. Nobody even knows what that is.

its true what the woman say that they can be attracted to unattractive men. They are metaphysical creatures. They like stories and engaging with the metaphysical part of being a human. So they get attracted to the 'person' thats inside the human.
Being whiny is not attractive to them as it will make them think the 'person' is a pansy and whiney.
Thats not a man to a woman.
You need to be firm in your identity with a woman.
They fully beleive their body and if you know how to make their body react they will like you.
They dont logically think about things they feel their body react and go with it.
You can make their body react with your words.
If you have deformities you might have to work harder.
If you are attractive its a bonus as that gives you the ability to make her body react easier.
But if you are super attractive and dont make her body react at all beyond looks, its just as bad as being ugly.
If you want the woman you have to say something to her that make her head shoot in a random direction, like if a woman came up to you and say you are beautiful ,your body would jump a little bit.
They react to that type of stuff. Sexual innuendos that are not obviously sexual innuendos.
 
Like I was talking to a woman and we were talking about impacted teeth and how you can get a dry socket and I called the impacted tooth a wet gooey hole and it make the woman lost track of what we were talking about.
Talk about a time you had to go into a tight hole.
For survival purposes they have to constantly think about how you are trying to hit on them. You can say sexual stuff without it being sexual and their bodies will automatically react.
If their bodies react to the sexual innuedo they will think you are making them feel that way.
They will think maybe I like this person when its just their survival mechanism going off.
If you are 'innocent' like you claim you can do this easily.
 
Keep in mind woman read their porno.
Men will watch their porno.
 
Once you make a woman react to what you do the information is logged into their system as karma and they will think of it everytime they engage with you or its part of your profile. If you do this alot they will like you cause their bodies keep reacting to you.
 
Stop listening to red or black pill BS. Its total BS to make you a beta cuck! The information is hurting you and its not even real.

I think the answer here is simply that you misunderstand Owen.
If I had to criticize Owen, I would criticize him for being too attached to physical, material success. He cannot get himself to stop chasing girls, money, clients, customers, sales, and business success. He's very materialistic for a spiritual guy.
I don't understand how you got the idea from Owen that pursuing material things is bad or demonic. Owen has never taught that. Owen has always encouraged people to be grounded and realistic about handling their materialistic needs, whether that be sex, fitness, money, business, travel, nutrition, etc.
Somewhere in listening to him your mind got twisted up on itself.
Of course a guy like Owen is not going to have much time to answer your questions one-on-one. I'm surprised you got to talk to him one-on-one at all.
Look, man...
The solution here is very simple: Go work hard on dating, fitness, and making money.
These things have a place. Especially during the first 10 years of your development journey. Eventually you will outgrow them, but that's like after 10-20 years of hard work on them.
There is nothing wrong with material pursuits. Go make your money, get your 6-pack, buy yourself a Lambo, and then see how all that makes you feel.
Both Owen and myself pursue material things. How is this not obvious to you? Owen's whole message is how to turn the pursuit of material things into a spiritual journey.
I think you know this deep down, you're just looking for someone to blame for not taking action.
What more on this topic do you need answered? There is not going to be any answer which allows you to skip the part of taking action. What you need now is not more theory, you need action on those material goals. So get to work.
Remember, don't make things to complicated. Write out your material goals and then start working towards them every week.

No, you can't be ready to offer websites to clients in one week. Not even 3 months. You need deep submersion for a minimum of 9 months, I'd say, and that's probably too optimistic. You have to survey the entire landscape and know what all the things are, and it's a big fucking landscape. 

The secret to making it on Upwork is:
- Provide high quality work 
- Over-deliver 
- Maintain a 5-star profile with a 100% job success score 
- Communicate well 
- Be responsive 
- Start out cheap and only focus on getting 5-star reviews - don't even worry about money. It's against their TOS but I told clients when I was starting out I could do their work for next to nothing in return for a high quality review. There will be some cheap clients who will take that bargain, so use them to build your profile. 
Also, Upwork is saturated with web developers - it's a race to the bottom - so you need a niche. I was successful on Upwork by building HTML emails and landing pages for marketers in their automation platforms like Pardot, Marketo, Hubspot, etc.
I no longer have to rely on Upwork because I found a few agencies who keep me busy. Ideally, you'd find and stick to a handful of clients who can keep you busy so you're not always switching context and having to learn new client processes all the time. But in the beginning, you gotta take anything and everything and over-deliver it all.
You gotta grind hard for like a year or two. 
 

I dispute this. You are cherrypicking heavily.
Calling Huberman a scientist is a stretch. He is a celebrity influencer.
STEM guys struggle to get laid, struggle with socializing -- because they are borderline autistic. Of course some are sociable, like Richard Feynman. Hard science and socializing don't mix.

BTW, John used a lot of alcohol to game back when he was in Vegas, so that is a major reason I never respected his game. I respect Owen a lot for promoting sober game. Getting drunk is not game, any fool can do that.
The hardest part of game is getting the state and verbals while stone cold sober from a day of logical work. That takes serious skill.
You will notice that extroverts and naturals don't work logical jobs, they work highly social jobs like sales. I'd like to see an extrovert do 8hrs of science before going out to game. See how that goes.

@egoless Chronic fatigue is a very common issue that has hundreds of possible factors/causes. It's not an easy thing to sort out. Many books have been written on the subject. You'll have to take things into your own hands, do the research, and troubleshoot the problem one factor at a time. It can be frustrating, but if you can find a cure for yourself, it will be worth the effort.
Energetic blockages are something to look into.
Heavy metal toxicity is another thing to look into.
Physical ailments are not just physical. They are often psychological in origin. Especially something like chronic fatigue.

You just gotta do it properly.
It's very hard to awaken when your energy is all screwed up and blocked up.
You can read about people who have random kundalini awakenings and are traumatized by them. That's because they didn't know what they were doing. They probably weren't doing a good formal yoga practice.
Yoga isn't just about quickly creating a kundalini awakening. Yoga is a gradual healing and purification of your entire energetic system. Which is arguably more important that having an enlightenment experience. You are going to feel so much better and more grounded when your energy system is purified. This goes to the heart of embodiment.

What I'm saying is that I have known plenty of unattractive men who have had plenty of sex just because they were social and persistent. I experienced this in my hometown that there were plenty of unattractive guys (physically and/or personality-wise) hooking up and getting laid, just because they're social.
So, if a guy has a low body count or high body count, it doesn't mean much about his level of attractiveness.
But that was social circle "game".
But even moreso with pick-up, to me, it means far more about his level of pushiness and audacity than it does about his level of attractiveness.
When I was 20 years old, I had a period of time where my sexual boundaries were awful because I'd experienced a lot of recent traumas and I had a poor social support system where I really didn't have anyone in my life... neither friends or family. And I had just gotten out of a terrible relationship. 
It was a time where I was very alone in the world.
So, during that period of time, it happened several times that a guy would invite me to hang out.. and I found myself not being able to turn down the company because of the position that I was in, despite knowing what his intentions were. I would just rationalize that "I can hang out because I'll say no to his advances." And then, he'd make advances towards me and I'd either cave right away because I wanted to feel close to someone... or (with pushy guys) I'd say no the first few times he'd ask but cave because of the position that I had put myself in... and preferring to feel more agency in the situation if he continued not taking no for an answer.
But I was only physically attracted to about half of those guys... and only mildly. And I didn't have any kind of deep attraction to any of them. They were just there in a time where I was alone and had just gone through a lot of things.
So, when I hear of a guy who's very successful at sleeping with women, I don't see it as meaning anything about the guy's level of attractiveness.
I just think that it stands to reason that there are plenty of women out there with poor sexual boundaries for a variety of reasons or simply more desire for varied sexual encounters. And audacious guys just try their hand at lot at figuring out who's willing.
It's kind of like if you're playing Jenga. You don't have to get particularly good at dislodging the stuck bricks (in this metaphor, that requires actual attractiveness). You just have to look for the loose bricks... which is easy if you're persistent and audacious at checking for them.
And having had a period of time where I was a loose brick, there were motives outside of attraction that were making me open to sleeping with those guys.
And probably a sizable minority women are either struggling with sexual boundaries like I was or are just very sexually motivated themselves towards hook-ups.
That's why I don't see a man's number of sexual partners as meaning anything about his level of attractiveness.
I've known very attractive men with just a few sexual partners. And I've known very unattractive men who are sleeping with everyone and their mother.

Talk to girls and find your LP so you can build the right career skills.
Do both.
Yes, I use visualization a lot. I always have an exciting vision of my future that I am working towards.

It's an acquired taste. I never liked partying but as I pushed myself to learn game I started having more fun and learned to enjoy myself.
But I still don't enjoy myself every time. Sometimes I'm in a serious mood and not in a mood to socialize or party.
Having a set of good friends/wings is crucial for making your nights fun. It's hard to get in a party mood all alone.
But if you are taking on this journey to learn game, you can't just do it based on mood. You have to discipline yourself to go out even when you don't feel like it. Most of the times I went out I was not in the mood to be out. Your mood will also change as you start socializing and meeting interesting people.

Thanks for your post man. Chasing great wealth is not my life goal. I already make a good income in my current job that allows me to become a multi millionaire in 10-15 years through investing in the S&P if I make that my priority (spoiler I haven't made it my priority and I'm fighting to fix my financial emotional issues). I asked myself many times if the path of incredible financial success was something I wanted and no, I don't want that. Financial stability and security is my aim, after that is reached I want to focus on other areas of life. 
Even with a good salary I've never had enough, I spent it all for years. That is an emotional problem I'm now trying to deal with. No amount of money will ever be enough I realized because I ain't dealing with the emotional problem that's leading to all the spending. My solution isn't more money, it's healing and I need to confront my issues.
I think it's very important to study and atrive for well paying jobs or be self employed with a good salary that allows you to survive comfortably. Some will need more, some will need less. But miney amplifies your good and bad sides. If you're emotionally broken you can use money to try and run away from that like I have and it's not the answer.
I still get these jealousies of other super successful people but that's just because I haven't figured out my own unique life purpose yet and I compare myself to others. I want to reach the day I don't do that anymore. 🙏

No the harder you try, the less you get; It's like increasing speed on the treadmill, but it's still the same stupid treadmill.
It must come from love. When I'm in love, girls teleport into my Maya instantly, correlated with the intensity of my love.
If I create a Tinder account out of curiosity because I don't have any friends but I want to get off my balls (you know what I mean, a frequency that sucks like that), well, reality being a mirror, I'll end up with the reflection of my love which is to say nothing lol or bad quality women, no conversation or at least uninteresting conversations...
Even worse if you go to a stupid alternative app where people are there because they "know they're ugly" then it's over.
On the other hand, if the intention is better, I will have a lot of matches and pretty girls; once again, in a way that is surprisingly proportional to what I give off internally. I don't want to hear about Tinder, but I've already tried it several times out of curiosity.
Why not even transsexual girls like op lol; when you ruminate on actualized about the lack of abundance it is about refusing to take the phallic position which will therefore naturally be projected onto the other; that is to say refusing to feel pain (therefore by extension the self in general) by adopting a feminine position of active cope.(rumination is a kind of tacit cry for help that avoids confrontation with pain, Lacan would say it's about "turning around the bush of representation"). 
In fact, even being devastated/broken magnetizes girls, not the same kind of girls but still, because it's always a return to masculinity, to the phallus; passive coping, taking on the pain (in this case), taking on the self.
The worst thing is really the lack of integrity, usually out of fear of being abandoned (it's a long-term conditioning stemming from the Oedipus complex, trauma, etc.), like you think that if you come back to yourself and stop simpering people, you'll be abandoned and die.
But that's a big illusion; it's by abandoning yourself in a very selfish way that abundance will come, and by remaining passive, coping, you'll have nothing and become a sissy.
 

@Lucasxp64 There are yellow lines and red lines in a relationship.
For example, a yellow line for me is getting married. I don't want but, maybe I'm open to it given the right circumstances, but it's unlikely.
A red line for me is having kids. 
A yellow line may be crossed with great difficulty or be the end of the relationship. A red line cannot be crossed and is the end of the relationship.
You gotta ask yourself from all the things you said what are a yellow line and what are red lines. From this framework then negotiate what it would take for you to cross that yellow line and state very clearly your readlines so that nobody loses time and life, it's unfair to commit to an incompatible future.

No.
You don't understand how sex works for men.
As a woman you can go to any bar, any night, and get laid with no strings attached. A man cannot do that.
You underestimate the difficulty for men to get laid by a factor of 100x. When that is your view of it, yeah, it seems like no integrity needs to be compromised. Every single man compromises integrity to get laid because if he didn't he would be starved of sex for years. This is unimaginable to a woman.
You are thinking of the average man as having the attractive pull of a Brad Pitt, a celebrity, or a world-class pickup coach. That's not how it is for average guys. When you are not Brad Pitt, you have to settle for scraps just to get laid rarely. And you do not want to commit to scraps. But even scraps will refuse to have sex without commitment.
You have fantasies of how this works because the truth of it is far too painful to know.
Men have way less options than women understand, unless the men are exceptional. But women only think about exceptional men and project that exceptionality on all men.
Go look at what options an Incel has. He will be lucky to get one woman in 5 years. And that will be a poorly matched woman who is barely worth having sex with. But she will expect a commitment.

Just because one is epistemically intelligent is no guarantee that all of one's ideas and opinions are correct. Make sure you don't take one for the other.
Like I've always said, I am capable of self-deception and I upgrade my views all the time.
I have never claimed that all my views are correct or final.

If he's able to self-model his own epistemological consciousness, it puts him in the top 5%.
He hasn't shown that yet : in fact he's shown the exact opposite, for example his delusional tendencies that map over mainstream pickup culture and porn, a gap that's hard to fill without advancing his own ability to mentalise other beings. Perpetuation here habitualizes negation by temporal elongation.
On planet Earth, he's undoubtedly in the top 15% of those relevant to even measure. That's commendable.
Logically, if he is in the top 15%, that means he's a mentor to those in the bottom 85%. By definition then, that certifies both his legitimacy as a teacher for others as well as where he needs to grow. Though, its obviously had a Dunning-Kruger effect on him at certain points, and the excess psychedelics haven't exactly always helped his narcissism in this regard. 
The lack of epistemological intelligence in the system dynamics of this forum, is representative of the nexus of growth that still awaits him; and that's difficult to gauge, it requires extreme nuance on weaknesses as well as obvious broad strokes to subtract and add to his character which he may not have in him. It's inappropriate for me to gauge either way, as the lapses have temporal consistency (lasting many years), however the potential is still there for change, though again, the former is the perfect reason to not hold one's breath. I only see this forum slowly becoming even worse, not better.
There are people that vastly exceed myself, and knowing one's own limits and the gap between where one is versus where one could be it the first step to achieving the next step in growth between them and their alignment with what universal consciousness wants us to achieve.
And at the end of the day, its no one's business if its even his goal. Perhaps its just to fulfill his porn fantasies in real life. As long as he doesn't hurt anyone or tip the scale towards being increasingly less relevant as a teacher, there's only the greater good in that. People will mask the bad with the good he serves as they do for everyone else. I still have no real respect for him where words have not met actions or arguably, deliberate irresponsibility in some cases, but that shouldn't matter. Respect is earned relative to congruency. For building character absolutely, the end can never justify the means, you do the action and you reap the repercussions immediately upon your consciousness (there's zero delay), for toying onlookers though, which is the balance of where peoples perceptions fall as it occurs after the fact and object, "It's all relative". If one is to invert this balance of absolutism and relativism though, to the contrary, where one can live absolutely inwardly in this sense, one will achieve their potential to its probabilistic limits, if one can live relatively in the outward sense, one will become an empathy powerhouse as perspectivism unifies division continually to fold the inner world towards their natural ascension in absolute social dimensions. 
So no. There's ontological geometry Leo still has a long way to go on, but we all do. Encourage each other where we should be encouraged, be honest as well where we must make our growth, that's the sword of truth, with strong compassionate decisiveness. That's how a strong community here is built, which this place is very, very, very far away from. Maturity is wisdom; wisdom is knowledge on what matures.

I have completed 500 hours of strong sitting in the last three months (~5 hrs per day). I have tried tinkering with the technique and I wanted to share some of the things that I have found to be extremely effective in improving purification.
Considering Shinzen Youngs formula Purification = Pain * Mindfulness; the strong sitting technique is already fantastic, however I noticed that I reached a distinct plateau where it became quite easy for me to sit for 8 hours without much improvement in my awareness. Utilizing the formula, I realized that to improve the technique I would have to find ways to responsibly increase pain and mindfulness while sitting.
Pain:
Eat a chili immediately before sitting.
Mindfulness:
I downloaded a free workout interval timer app for my smartphone. (link below)
The app allowed me to set up an interval duration and then set a number of intervals for a session.
I typically set an interval time between 2-3 minutes and installed a simple tone to sound at the end of each interval, I set the volume very low because my sensory clarity is very high during the meditation. Adjust the interval time and volume to suit yourself.
 Before sitting, set a very clear intention for what you want to do subjectively during the sit e.g.:  "I" am going to abide as the formless source
"I" am going to do nothing
"I" am going to practice self inquiry
"I" am going to practice positive thinking
Begin the meditation with the timer app (I turn the screen off and I don't keep track of time)
At the sound of each tone "stop on a dime" and directly rectify the present moment with the intention set in step 1.
When the meditation is over go to the mirror and check dem spiritual gainz.
I have done this for the past 2 weeks now and I have noticed that I subconsciously move into deep formless presence every few minutes automatically.
 
Timer app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.muhanov&hl=en
I use the google hangouts message tone which came with my phone.
 
Also, to make sure I am consistent with my sitting, I meditate in front of a simple calendar that I made for the year. For each day I meditate I cross off the day in red pen. The aim is to not break the chain of red. When you sit in front of it for every meditation, the motivation to not break the chain skyrockets. Especially if you're a borderline OCD perfectionist like me. (I understand it's all in my head, but you catch my drift.)
 
In terms of realizing the no-self, this video popped my cherry. "I" hope it can do the same for someone else. (assuming causality exists, lol)
 
 
 

It is only depressing because you are not taking action to improve your situation
To get results in life requires taking lots of action, otherwise you will be a poor man, sitting there all bitter and depressed.
Do you know how much action I took to reach my position? You wouldn't believe it. I didn't fly up here like a bird. I crawled like a rat through the sewer.

See ⬇️
 
This cannot be understated. Several years ago I had this solid 8.5 coworker. After I finally convinced her to hug me with my god awful simpery, I was practically on mdma for three days. 
For those of us who’re pussy deprived, the mere whisper of female touch and affection unfurls like a radiant dawn after an endless night, a sensation so exquisite it transcends the boundaries of earthly delight. The soft brush of her fingers ignites a symphony of stars within, each one a cascade of warmth and wonder that dances through the soul. This elusive embrace, untasted and uncharted, becomes a sacred elixir; a nectar of bliss so potent it redefines the very essence of joy. More than a fleeting thrill, it’s the blooming of a thousand dormant gardens, where every petal unfolds in hues of longing and reverence, painting the heart with colors no dream could dare imagine.
So I don’t want to hear jack shit from guys who’re skilled at the ladies. Lucky fuckin bastards have no clue how good they have it. Do they have their own problems? Sure. But the idea that their lives are just as hard as an incel’s just in a different way, while they’re getting all the hot healthy action they want is an insulting joke.

Be very careful here. 
What you consider "cutting all fantasies" could itself be the fantasy. Don't overlook that negativity and doomerism is a kind of fantasy.
Just because dating is difficult does not mean you shouldn't do it, can't be successful at it, or that it's not worthwhile.
The most difficult aspects of life can also be the most rewarding. Building a business is also hell. So what? Do it anyway. That's life. Don't expect everything to be easy. People who have it easy with dating will have it hard in other areas. No one has an easy life.
I am not good-looking, I am super introverted, so dating was very challenging for me. And yet I still had some success and it was very worthwhile.
Really facing reality means going out there and dating. Not telling yourself why you'll fail.

The bottom line is that you need high concentrations of attractive single girls to approach.
Such concentrations are pretty rare, requiring special locations like nightclubs, street life, outdoor malls, college towns, etc.
Even a metroplex like Dallas-Fortworth, which is the 3rd largest metroplex in the US, is lacking in good locations for game.
Game, like real-estate, is all about location, location, location. Gaming in bad locations is demoralizing and a huge waste of time.
The #1 thing you can do to improve your game is to find at least one awesome high volume, high quality location. This all depends on the city.

You can learn verbal and emotional tricks to guide women's feelings and moods.
Example:
One time I was texting with a girl to get her to come over. She was acting hesitant and unsure. So I strategically texted her: "Stop being squirrely and come over." She replied back, "Squirrel! :D" with a squirrel photo. This changed her mood and she came over.
This illustrates the child-like nature of women and how to properly deal with them.

What makes a man a man is that he has to deal with very cold truths.
And what makes a woman a woman is that she has to deal with children, who require warmth.
It makes sense that women are more child-like because they have to deal with children.
Although man-children are common today.