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There are many aspects which contribute to intelligence. If you nail all of them that's very rare and something really special comes out of that. I think for Leo its his genetic potential (probably high iq), his independent thinking which shaped his thoughts over the decades, his interest in truth which made him a lot less biased, psychedelics, his environment (relatively safe I think and little socializing).

Yeah that's what I need at the moment. Deep meaningful relationships come after I am done with the shallow stuff.

I like the idea of polyamorous and open relationships a lot and wanted to try these out at some point. But I never was in a relationship because I have problems with opening up to other people. A friend of mine recently opened her relationship and I could join the "gang". I kind of dislike the idea because I am emotionally really fragile so I feel like I need someone to ground me in my first relationship who is always there for me and where some mistakes can be forgiven. Yet on the other hand when I start with a polyamorous relationship then I might lay a completely different foundation of relationships from the start. I could learn from the start what makes a good relationship and what not because I am at the heart of competition. Just like you can only learn game in field and build character in the boxing ring because that's where it gets to the core. And I could also learn to live in a polyamorous way from the start. The transition from monogamous to polyamorous could be hard. I have got plenty of charm and am very good looking so I dont think I would get easily outcompeted if that's something something to bother about. I need some advice from some experienced folks here.

Your ego didn't create your ego. And for that reason you also can't control it. Ultimately there is nothing wrong with bad/ selfish acts that you do because you have an ego forced upon you that you can't take off and which is to strong for you to have any chance of beating. There is nothing you can do to escape that situation. So ultimately there is no reason to feel bad about yourself. What a mindfuck!

It's used for long term therapy so it can work to make long time improvements. But you dont change your behavior by taking it once. I really do get superpowers very frequently from it but I take very little of it with me the next day and for long term behavior change you have to do it a lot I think. It's not addictive and I never experienced withdrawals but your behavior does change when micro dosed. I become very reckless and insanely honest on it so I can make dumb decisions for my life. Also when you feel very sad and anxious it can actually increase when microdosing. When it's medium sad and anxiousness it mostly goes away. Thats how it is for me at least. It's great for reflecting and figuring out where the sources of unhappiness in your life come from. But it can also confuse you when you dont integrate your trips because you rotate between very different perspectives. And also when you push yourself a lot through this substance you can do things far outside your comfort zone which challenges you a lot. I fell into the trap that I was ashamed of my social anxiety then took the substance, had insane charisma and wanted to give other people the impression that that is me and became more socially anxious when I didn't took it because I couldn't replicate that charisma. I now tell everyone when I am high which might change things. All in all for me it's a tool that opens a lot of doors and has incredible potential but it's not an instant or reliable fix and you need to be willing to work on your problems sober. That work can simply be empowered with microdosing.

@halfknots When I am a little sad I like to microdose to feel the sadness more consciously. It allows me to just sit there in the dark, embracing all my sadness. I embrace it so much that it actually feels good in a way. After around an hour of being sad I start feeling better again just like a child.

@OBEler I think there are areas of application for different levels of consciousness. High consciousness is not always better. A super high conscious person won't perform better in a boxing match than a normal consciousness fighter probably because to get into that aggression you can't have high consciousness for example because the fight looses its importance and you might become to empathetic towards your opponent. I would make the claim that this can be an analogy to trading. To make good trading decisions low consciousness matters like fear, pragmatism and other low consciousness perspectives are important.

Holy shit it actually works! But Safari is a lot better on apple devices devices. Do you know alternatives for Safari?

I think that blocks specific websites. I don't need that, I need to block the ability to watch videos in this preview or a browser in which the preview is counted by my blocker.

My blocker doesnt support duckduckgo as a browser unfortunately so it can't block YouTube. But very interestingly when I use duckduckgo as my search engine (in safari) and I click on a video to watch in preview it's a target of my YouTube blocker which is perfect. The problem is that I can very easily just change my search engine back to the google one so this is not ideal yet.

There are people with certain diseases who need to eat animal products to survive. Leo is an example of that. If you have fitness goals getting enough high quality protein can be difficult, as you would need to eat very specific foods as a vegan to get to that amount which would include lots of legumes which can make you fart a lot and its also very inconvenient. Vegan protein powders can potentially contain lots of heavy metals so that might not be an option either. Doesnt mean you need to eat meat though, a bit of high protein dairy products can also do the trick.

The preview is even better unfortunately.

Oh no it can work in the long run. I have my YouTube 30min blocker installed for a good amount of time now. It's just what I settled in. If your used to that and manage to get all other temptations out of the way its no big deal. It's very unfortunate that I found ways around it.

I have YouTube timer already. Does it block YouTube on preview? Like when I google Leo gura on google I can choose to click on -> videos and then watch the video on "preview" and not with a YouTube link so it isnt registered on my blocker.

Willpower is for losers, it's neither fun nor sustainable. Sure I want to improve my life to such a degree that YouTube is not a big temptation for me but for that I need to shut it down first so that I can actually focus on that.

Do certain species have a unique intelligence that can't be replicated by other species even if they are way more advanced? Humans the bullshitting animal might be so good at bullshitting that certain inventions only come from humans. With all the alien stuff right now I wondered that if alien existed on planet earth if that's what they are after. They might be way more evolved but our bullshitting behavior might be worth the study because its no unique it gives unique knowledge. Just like we study animal and plant behavior and learn from it even though we are more evolved.

Are there that many research chemicals out there? I thought there were only a handful like shrooms, lsd (pretty much the only beginner friendly ones), dmt, salvia, 5meo dmt, 5meo malt and ones that are very related to them and then like a few completely different ones in research chemicals.

If the universe is much more intelligent in its design then any human can comprehend. If a single cell is more intelligent than any human invention how can it be that humans dominate earth? How can humans dominate an unbelievable intelligent world if their inventions they come up with are far less intelligent? Because it's not about the content of the idea but rather that humans come up with ideas at all which is a trait far more intelligent than any of the other intelligences around.

@Spiritual Warrior thanks for sharing your experience.

Yeah thanks for mentioning that. It's very difficult to balance being the boss and showing affection when you have many difficult students. But that is very true. It takes a lot of growth to get there I think.

Thanks yeah that's what I was also thinking as well and that's what many teacher also talked about. It's just that I wish the education system were better. That demand of discipline should come with actually providing lots of value otherwise students will learn that they are kind of worthless. Why else would they be forced to learn things that aren't that important. I still look at this from student lenses. But my class is pretty important at least it's like 1 hour a week with all the stuff that should be tought in school so demanding discipline is justified.

Thanks Leo, please make more questions like these if you have them. They are really fun and support self thinking. Okay so I can't grasp my hand because it's an always changing thing in time. When I slowly move my hand forward, the hand a moment prior to that would grasp the hand right now but that's not THE HAND RIGHT NOW because it's a different hand because it changed. When we speak of something grasping something else we speak of two objects. The hand can't grasp itself because for that there would need to be an object that grasps and an object that is getting grasped. An object can't be itself and its opposite at the same time and still manifest. Existence means duality, when opposites collapse they delete each other. Then because it's a finite object. If the object of the hand were instead two hands on top of each other the question would be why can't the two hands on top of each other not grasp themselves. So no amount of size increase would solve that unless it would be infinite.

Overhead Press it.

Okay so I can't grasp my hand because it's an always changing thing in time. When I slowly move my hand forward, the hand a moment prior to that would grasp the hand right now but that's not THE HAND RIGHT NOW. When we speak of something grasping something else we speak of two objects. The hand can't grasp itself because for that there would need to be an object that grasps and an object that is getting grasped. An object can't be itself and its opposite at the same time and still manifest. Existence means duality, when opposites collapse they delete each other. Then because it's a finite object. If the object of the hand were instead two hand on top of each other the question would be why can't the two hands on top of each other not grasp themselves. So no amount of size increase would solve that unless it would be infinite.

Lost a post in this thread. That poem won't leave me!