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A visionary is one who has a creative mind and sees strong visions of how things ought to be done, what things ought to be created.
If a visionary is writing a novel, he has a strong sense of what kind of novel to write, what values it should embody, what themes it have. A visionary knows what is right, knows what he wants, sees a btter way to do things.
A visionary says, "No, we must do things this way, not that way. Follow me, I know how to do this right."

My explanation of it is pretty simple. In order to be human you must reside within a very narrow and low state of consciousness. This is true even if you are a fully enlightenment Buddha. Your consciousnes is still less 1% of what is possible. And that is simply because that's what it means to be human. The highest levels of consciousness are so alien and non-human that a human can barely remember or think about them, nevermind access them at will, nevermind making such changes permenent. What the human can make permament is very very little. Which is why enlightenment teachers poo-poo the whole idea of "chasing states". They tell you not to do it because a human can't sustain them. That's what "human" IS. Human means being pretty much in the state you're currently in. But what a human can sustain is something like deep surrender and emptiness. Which is what they call enlightenment. And this has it's benefits for humans, but as far as consciousness goes it's still weak.
So it's sort of a sad situation because most of consciousness remains inacceesible and unsustainable for humans. Merely by the fact of being human. I guess after death that will change. Which is the point of death. Death finally frees you to explore higher domains because you are no longer attached to the human experience scheme.

This will vary wildly per individual.
Don't look to others for the answer, feel into yourself. Your body/mind will tell you exactly how much rest you need. If you just become attuned to yourself.
You need to listen to your body rather than trying to impose expectations on it.

Most humans need 8 hrs.
That 4-6 hrs stuff is nonsense unless you are a genetic freak.
Your body tells you exactly how much you need. There is no cheating that.
If you do not get enough sleep you are literally giving yourself brain damage.
If you do hardcore meditation or kriya yoga you can reduce the number in a healthy way, but you will be doing hours of yoga per day, so you can't use that for work.

@r0ckyreed The main advice is:
Don't hesitate, just move. Visit the towns you plan to move to and explore them by car before you decide to move there. You need direct experience of the place, not just mental images. This will save you many mistakes. DO NOT rent a place unless you inspect it in person first. Even if this costs you extra it's worth it.

The key is not to think about states or cities, but to find specific neighborhoods. You need to look for awesome neighborhoods. State/city is not precise enough. What matters is the neighborhood where you will live, not the state or city as a whole, because you don't care about that.
For example, the LA metroplex has many shitty and many awesome places, and it's like that with most metroplexes.

Speaking of which, I had a corporate asshole today email me, asking to promote my work.
If I was foolish or thirsty for fame, I would have replied. And thereby sold my soul to the devil.
I get at least 1 such email per week.
Kanye is so rich he can just retire in the mountains, record his music, and sell it on his personal site. Not answer a single email. No one would bother him and he would still make millions. But he is too narcissistic and greedy for that. He wants all the fame and more money.

Women sleep with whoever is convenient. Just being near women is enough to get laid.
90% of game is just being near women consistently. The rest is minutia.
Notice that guys who whine about not getting laid are not around women consistently. They whine but are never around to fuck. She is not going to hunt you down to fuck.
Attractive means all factors factored in.

All my pranayamas are the same. I visualize the prana flowing up the spine from chakra 1 to very tip top of the head, and then back down.
I forget is that's KP1, KP2, or KP3.
Ideally you'd sit and concentrate. I'm often short on time so I just get on with life. To me, the value is in the physical rewiring effects of the pranayama. If I had more time I would concentrate more. Do nothing is also viable in my opinion.

That is literally how meditation must be done. Forced.
It won't happen otherwise. The mind is too lazy and too sneaky for such things to happen "naturally".

My ticket:

Values are where it really counts.
Imagine you value health and spirituality and truth but your girlfriend values socializing, drinking, and material pursuits like luxury vacations. That is not going to work.
No matter how conscious you are, you still have values you wish to live by. In fact, the more conscious you are the less you are willing to compromise on core values like health, consciousness, truth, honesty, peace of mind, etc.
The less corrupt you are the less compatible you are with corrupt people. And most people are corrupt.
There is also incompatibility in terms of life goals, personality types and sex drive. Life goals is stuff like wanting kids vs not. Personality type is like introvert vs extrovert. Sex drive can vary a lot.

Just look at the picture and find those spots on your body with your fingers at first, and then visualize them in your mind's eye and feel them through your body. There will be nothing there to feel per se. You're just going to imagine it for now. Ballpark it. Don't be a perfectionist.
This is weak-sauce. Get to the fucking pranayamas and do at least 24 of them per day.
Steven's routines are far too spaced out. Do them faster. It doesn't takes 4 months to learn how to do pranayama. You can learn it in a few days.
Do not over-complicate this.
My routine is the same as I last posted.
I do 3 sets of Mahamudra, 3 sets of pranayama (36 total pranayama), and 3 breaths of fire. This takes me about 1h 20m
Keep it this simple. Don't over-complicate things. Over time just increase the potency with which you feel and visualize the pranayamas. They are the key to this whole thing. So do them with real intent and feeling. Each breath upwards should feel like it's filling your skull with enlightenment. Suck that prana up your spine and into your skull like it's an actual fluid in your body.

If you're looking for a pragmatic answer, the answer is, it's highly variable. Some people take decades, some people do it one weekend. I've met a lady who got enlightened in one weekend.
There are so many variables: your openmindedness, the degree of your intent, the quality of guidance you get, your childhood upbringing, your genetics, and even pure blind luck!
With quality guidance, high levels of intent, and lots of sitting, you could reasonably expect something like 2-3 years. But don't let that limit you. Whenever you actually sit down to do enlightenment, intent to become enlightened RIGHT NOW!
 

We have a Kirya yoga mega-thread that answers many newbie questions.
Follow the books.
I suggest focusing 100% on pranayama spinal breathing. All other techniques are tertiary and mostly unnecessary.
You could reduce all Kriya yoga to just pranayama and maha-mudra. Which makes it so simple.

I skip it.
I only do pranayama and supreme fire.
Supreme fire feels important.
You can always add in more practices after a year of solid pranayama. So don't worry about it. Your first goal should be to start to feel the effects from a lot of solid pranayama. Once you are feeling that, you can think about more fancy techniques. I like to strip away all superflous techniques to get to the bare essentials.
Pranayama + supreme fire is that. You can also include maha-mudra in that but I am currently even cutting that out.

Absolutely not!
You should push yourself to develop social skills through massive socializing.
If you have a cute face that is a huge bonus. Many girls will sleep with you if you just act properly.
Losing weight is easy, not serious problem there.
Height is not a problem. Many girls are below your height. Will you date a tall girl? No. You will find shorter ones. Do you comprehend how many hot girls there are under your height? Probably 50% of the world's women are below your height. What matters is not that you are tall but that you are taller than her.
You just lack social skills because you lack social experience because you are so introverted.
The solution is to stop making excuses and go socialize.
I promise you can get a girlfriend, but it will take challenging work, it won't be effortless.
Don't delay, start today!

It's simple, really: pursuing women can be turned into a larger healthy self-actualization journey or it can devolve into ideology, toxic masculinity, ego-aggrandizement, and mindless pleasure seeking.
Similar to business. Similar to psychedelics.
These things can go really well or really sour depending on what intentions you're doing them with.
For me, pickup led to the creation of Actualized.org. For other guys it can lead to rapey type of behavior. Pickup very much magnifies your true intentions and character. If you're a scummy guy deep down, then pickup will magnify that. Much like how if you give a evil person a $10 million dollars, he will use it to do evil things. But if you give a good guy $10 million dollars, he will use it to advance mankind in some way.

Actually, Vegas is a super affordable place to live. If you are a local here, every club has free entry for locals on Sundays-Thursdays. Parking used to be free, now it's like $10. Drinks are $18 here, but I have never bought a girl a drink in my life and have no intention of starting. Dates can be super cheap. A date for me is a $5 coffee or ice cream.
If you want to hit up the hottest clubs in the world on Fri/Sat, that will cost you $40/night. But the clubs in Vegas are off the hook amazing. You've never seen so many hot girls in your life. $40/night is worth it if you're serious about developing your skills and you have a decent salary.
If you are clever, you can do pickup very cheap or even free. Depends a lot on location. Drinks in Austin, TX are like $3 and none of the bars have cover. Over my entire time in pickup I spent little money. Most of my money was spent simply on traveling to the best cities. And once I paid $2000 for a bootcamp.
You don't need total financial freedom to do pickup. Most of the guys who I met in pickup were not financially free. They had normal 9-5 jobs and gamed at night or on the weekends.
The biggest challenge is not money, it's time and energy. Pickup eats up a ton of time and energy. But still guys are able to do it while holding down regular jobs. I have met accountants, pilots, engineers, doctors, dentists, salesmen, etc. who did serious pickup.
Personally, I took a lot of time off work/biz to invest into pickup, and it was worth it. Of course I could only do that because I already was financially independent. But don't let this be a limiting belief. You don't have to be. But also, why not do both?!

You need to experiment.
Make one short film just to see how it feels and how you like it. Do some photography and see how you feel about it. And run other experiments.
Do not wait for classes to teach you how to do these things. Whatever you are passionate about, start doing it today on your own.
When I was your age I was doing a dozen different things: making video games, making art, building RC cars, making explosives, doing philosophy, creating Ebay businesses, building websites, writing fiction, etc.
You gotta forget the doubt and just take lots of action. Don't overthink your passions, just start doing them.

The point of a first date is to see if you two have chemistry. At least 50% of first date result in nothing. You are not obligated to like her.
However, as a rule, you should always deeply scan a woman up and down immediately upon seeing her and make a binary decision whether she is attractive enough for you to sleep with. And if she isn't then don't try to date her.
Go to a busy mall and just practice quickly making this decision on random women walking by. Practice until you get good at identifying your type of women. Don't approach them, just practice making the yes/no decision quickly.

If you're gonna work night shift, I'd quit day one
It's like the opposite of self-development. It's a slow, miserable decline.
First, you're a little tired, 6 months later, you can't get an erection with a destroyed libido
Speaking from experience

When I say to do 1000 approaches, I don't mean mindless approaches, I mean quality approaches. I mean you analyze every approach after the fact and work on your sticking points.
Honestly, 1000 approaches is so little. In practice you should be aiming towards 5000-10000 if you are serious. And they gotta be quality!

It adds up.
Charlie has said so many racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and regressive things, with such aggressive ignorance and arrogance, that out of tens of millions of viewers, one of them is bound to have a mental illness and hold a grudge.
What most normies do not understand is that if you have 1+ million YouTube subcribers and you speak on controversial topics, you are guaranteed to get death threats. We all get them. It's only a matter of time until one of them is acted upon. The more hateful things one says, the bigger the odds become. Every hateful or bigoted statement pissed off one extra psycho person who might decide to act out.
Also, Charlie was directly involved in getting Trump elected. He wasn't just a pundit, he was the chief MAGA vote recruiter. His entire agenda is putting MAGA in power. Of course some unhinged viewer will want revenge for that.

It's simply a numbers game. You gotta date a lot of people to find the right one if you care about values alignment.
The secret to most people's matchmaking is that they don't have any standards and don't care about values alignment. So that makes it easy in the short term. But of course that's why their relationships crash and burn in the long term.
The solution is to just date more people who roughly align with your values.
Seems like what you want is a more ambitious man. Hippie or New Age type men could lack ambition.
Of course conscious partners are gonna be rare. The more conscious the more rare, which how the whole system works. People don't raise their consciousness simply because they don't wanna be alone.