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I dont know much but i know thats definitely how genetics work

According to 23andme im 6% Ashkenazi, my question is, is that enough to get into the club?

If I had to rewind and lets say i was 21, I would educate myself on how money works in terms of if i make money where to invest it, Id learn a lot about property, stocks and take risks by getting into them early. Looking back I wouldnt really change things because i did learn a lot, but there are definitely some things I couldve done differently which wouldve sped up the process - - Really work out if a business is capable of making money. When i started I had a lot of projects which were good ideas but quite hard to monetise, I created a couple of music based websites. These worked but it was just hard to make money from them and i ended up spending a lot of time on something that would either hit really big or not be able to make money. So I found that i need to be clear on what i want to do and if i want to make money it has to be a tried and tested model that i can then adapt and make it work for me, rather than something completely new. If you do have a passion project its better to either try and get funding for it if you can sell it to others or make money first and then fund it with that. - Know when to stop and also be brave and know when to take the next step. As I mentioned above I shouldve stopped those ideas years before i did, the other side of it is if you have something thats working you can get comfortable and just keep milking that cash cow but there i always other opportunities and sometimes you can make a lot more if you pivot somewhere else. For example i was making decent money on ebay and i didnt see the point of learning how to sell on amazon as i was already making money but when i finally did i changed how i did everything, the workload was much less and i was making 7x what i was making on ebay. So always be looking a how you can improve and dont get comfortable, this can be very difficult. - Reading books and just in general learning, I wish Id done more of this but this can really just boost your mindset and make it an almost inevitable that you will do well

Just for the purposes of discussion as ive seen this debate come up a lot on the youtubes recently. Whats the most important quality Men can have in terms of attracting women - Status Money Looks Charisma/Personality Great Body Masculine energy Any attribute ive left out just let me know, not necessarily talking about pick-up this can be just generally how attractive a man is perceived to be. Also obviously all are important to some degree, you can list in order of importance as well

There's the basic investment view of it in that if you did have 100k in the bank and put it in something that could make 10%, you'd make 10k that year. This can compound to more and more every year assuming you don't touch it. You could put 1k in the same investment and it wouldn't get near 100k, whereas if you had more money to invest you'd make even more. It's all about scale and a lot of times the more money you have the more you can scale up and the more money you can make. A lot of people would say if you have 100k in the bank you should invest in yourself in terms of skills, which is true, but this will also be an example of money making money as the money is giving you skills you can use to make money. Also the strange thing is that when you get more money things start getting cheaper. A great example is banks and credit card companies can actually pay you to spend and keep money with them, you can get discounts on things, you'll also be able to borrow money cheaply etc. This is because you have enough money where their business has to become competitive to get it. On the flip if you haven't got much money you can get charged more for borrowing or going over your account limit, so the gap can be very wide.

Money makes money, more money makes more money

Not to tear down your plan but I dont think you should focus on spirituality just because your financial plan doesnt work out, connecting spiritually is a thing you should strive for to be a part of your life whatever you do, not an escape or back up plan.

I think men and women both do this, its just a feature of being insecure so you bring someone down to build yourself up

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When you say preselection do you mean social proof? I agree these are all important anyway but it could be said that they all fall under charisma. I think humor, which other people have said is a good thing to have but it definitely depends on what type, like if someone is acting like a clown even if it's funny that wouldn't be attractive, so I don't think you can have that alone. It's interesting to bring in spiral dynamics so thanks for that and for keeping @Tyler Robinson happy with your wishes. Im not convinced by it though, i think there are some men that would attractive accross the board, like for example a man that has integrated blue, orange and green traits fully and is yellow, would potentially be attractive to women who are centered in all those levels. So imagine a man who has a decent income but it doesn't define him and his emotionally intelligent and spiritually curious etc, many women would be attracted. He may not be attracted to many women though, he may find that a women in orange's income may define her or green is too occupied with crystals and reiki whereas he's looking at things systemically. So in this sense it might be hard to find a good match but it's not because of lack of interest from the opposite sex.

I'm from the UK and to be honest I haven't really paid much attention to it, everywhere shut down yesterday and we got a bank holiday, also tv, radio etc is completely dominated by coverage and the history of the Queen. Lots of people talking about it as well obviously. I've never really gotten it and I can't get my head around people queuing for 20 hours to bow their heads to a box containing the queen. But I will say just a person level she did have a quiet dignity about her and did her duty as it was assigned for her, if it gave people hope then fair enough. I think a lot of the out pouring and people lining up is to be part of history as well, this will be a landmark event and dies feel like a big change so my theory is its partly fomo for a lot of people.

IBD is a horrible illness, I have ulcerative colitis myself and was diagnosed about 12 years ago now, so i can speak from some experience. From a curative point of view there are now a lot of options of treatments, im on infliximab which has basically put me in remission apart from a flare up a couple of years ago, but theyre developing new drugs all the time so there is hope in that regard. Also, doctors cant talk about it but diet and exercise can have a big affect as well, its very important to try and learn what foods makes your condition worse, for example pasta and a lot of dairy affects me, yours might be different but theres probably something. You can also take pre-biotics and pro-biotics, do some research into these, but generally you want to do everything you can to have a really well functioning system aside from the condition. What helped me mentally is of course being positive but also I read somewhere that the people that tend to recover from illnesses or at least dont let them affect their life, are those that actively look for solutions and take responsibility for their health, those that have a negative mindset and just expect some medicine to cure them have a much lower chance of recovering. It has been extremely difficult especially when Ive had flare ups, there were even times when i thought i would die. But you could also see it as a blessing in that this condition really forces you to get on top of your health and stop all the nonsense you were doing before (i used to drink 2 litres of coca cola daily), as well as address stress and deeper lying issues. My theory is that the illness is triggered and gets worse through bad diet and stress, so these need to be addressed. It also could be a good idea to join groups, i joined a couple facebook groups to do with crohns and colitis, you do get some negative posts but there are also incredibly positive ones of people running marathons after surgery for example. There are also people on there who are so much worse off, which makes you feel bad for them but also grateful that you could have had it a lot worse. Dont settle for any kind of life that you dont want, aside from everything ive posted, look at someone like Dr Stephan Hawking, of all the terrible hands you could be dealt health wise he mustve had the worst but his spirit was fucking amazing and look at what he contributed to the world. This isnt to minimise your condition but i can imagine you have a lot to offer so dont limit yourself, good luck!

I realised talking to a friend earlier this week that everyone has their specific ideology and this is put onto the world and becomes how they see and interact with the world, its like Google glasses. The friend in question was a fairly recent convert to redpill ideology after a bad relationship, the main crux of his argument was that there are no good women anymore and their standards are too high, they're selfish in relationships etc. When I pushed back a little and asked if he's actually approaching and meeting women to test these theories first hand, he told me that he has a fear of approaching and has never actually done it. Which got me thinking all of his beliefs as far as he knows, could have no real world implications for him, he could actually approach women learn that some are great some are not, same as all people, and maybe even meet someone he really likes. In the absence of doing that though he's entrenched in this belief system that also gives him a pass for not doing the thing he's scared of, also even if he does meet someone he will bring this ideology into the relationship which could also affect the success of it. Now when he sees things happen that other people may have a different interpretation of, he would draw it back to red pill, for example if his friends girlfriend leaves them it's because she probably found someone better and women are hypergamous by nature, in reality maybe she really tried to make it work and the guy didn't treat her very well, in his alternate reality it would be hard for him to believe. This got me thinking, everyone wears their own set of ar glasses, even people into spirituality or actualized.org. It may not be the intention of the teacher to give everyone these glasses, although it usually is, but the teacher themselves may not be aware of their own biases which then filter into their teachings. There are common traits they all of have, all of them believe they have the one truth, anyone that denies this is either a sheep or an enemy of 'truth'. They have a varied following that range from sympathisers to extremists, where you rank is usually based on how vulnerable or unhappy you are with your reality before getting into the ideology, so if you were having family problems, depressed, not doing anything productive, the ideology can help with all these things and change your state for which in turn you offer your unwavering loyalty. If you notice, most ideologies offer a self-improvement aspect, which is further proof that the current mainstream doesn't care about you. Redpill says you should work out and be better, religions will teach you how to be an upstanding man or woman, black pill even says you should looksmaxx. If your state does change because of this advice its likely that you'll then follow anything else that's said. If your life wasn't that bad to begin with you probably won't go top far down the rabbit hole as you're not trying to escape from anything. Whats also quite ironic is that the mainstream is actually the tamest alternate reality despite being a lot of ideologies' big bad. It is definitely an ar but it doesn't have any hard prescriptions, mainly because it's bound to certain standards which it could be sued for if it breaches, they can spin things but can't out and out lie. There are biases within it as well of course but they are somewhat hidden in comparison to say YouTube ideologies. Conspiracy theorists will say turn off the TV, which is fine but then they'll say 'listen to us, our matrix the truth'. One final note, all ideologies have truth in them, which is what makes them compelling but none of them are 'true' holistically. So if you want to be Neo you have to seperate yourself from all ideologies and just take what is true, the biggest test is to take what you learn and see how it holds up in the real world, that is the true redpill.

Ive been training boxing for the last couple years, never competed but sparred quite a few times. Training wise i dont think anything will push you as hard, in terms of blows to the head you could only spar with people you trust and agree that you wont go too hard or you could just body spar. But yeah i think its a valid concern but there are ways to avoid it and still train

To be honest I think there are as many issues or if not more with not socialising vs socialising. One glaring one related to this thread, is that you can get stuck in your own ideas about how the world works and this can develop into an arrogance that you are better than those that do socialise or at least you might feel that you understand the world better. This is a huge trap I think there is so much to be learnt from interacting with others, you should of course be aware of the traps within socialising, group think etc and this awareness can prevent you from falling down these traps. I do get what Leo is saying but generally I don't think it's great advice for people still developing to withdraw from society to contemplate and then be able to cope by believing that they're smarter than everyone else. As with everything in life its all about balance and both spending time by yourself and others can co-exist. Regarding building up frames, surely direct experience from others would to a much better model than you just sitting there working it out yourself.

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What i mean by this is obviously a lot of in-field pick up has essentially been cancelled from youtube and just generally has a seedy reputation in the mainstream, which in some cases is of course deserved but it also demonises what can be a positive experience for everyone involved. So i came across the channel below which i thought was very interesting how its framed, its not about just getting lays or closes or whatever its about pushing your boundaries and potentially adding a positive experience to someones day and it would probably play well in the mainstream despite the fact it is just pick-up, anyway check it out and add your thoughts -

I agree of course, im just saying in terms of it being accepted into the mainstream or to normalise pick up this would have to be the route as whats happened in the past has given pick up a bad name

@Someone here I think your mind maybe looking for rationalisations to keep you in that comfort zone. I know what youre saying in that it can be a lot less hassle just to go to a website and jack it to horny looking girls, but I also think you completely miss out on life, esp such an interesting part. Even if you just use it as motivator to improve yourself which will also make you more attractive to women, I think this can also be a very useful thing. Also you can have whatever relationships you want, they can be casual all the way up to potential marriage there's no rules in that sense. I can tell you real sex with someone you care about is 100x better than any porn you can find, but whether you get it or not the journey I worth while. I actually stopped watching porn a couple months ago, although I still sort myself out every now and then but without it, but you can definitely notice a difference because you're taking away that safety net of, I've always got porn.

You may have had more motivation to work on that if you didn't have all these naked women at your fingertips though. Like if you were a hunter but you could get fake meat which was good enough and you didn't need to hunt, you wouldn't have much incentive to hone your skills and become a good hunter

@KH2 Its $50 a month though not just a one off. The overall point im making though is that hes presenting a certain lifestyle to sell the course, the implication being that if you buy my course you can live this lifestyle, this is just not the case, he himself didnt make the money he made doing what he teaches, hes even got a section where hes teaching crypto, if you had got the course at the start of the year and invested into crypto because of it you wouldve lost half your money. Tate as has been said, has made his money through camgirls and casinos and this course itself, its a hustle because hes selling the lifestyle to you but its a bait and switch hes not actually teaching you what he did because the hard reality is not everyone can do what he did, but everyone can have a go doing dropshipping. So using your mcdonalds analogy its like mcdonalds advertising a massive $100 tomahawk steak for $5 in their adverts but then when you go in and buy it, its just some floppy, anemic looking burger, whilst the owner is eating the tomahawk funded by all the people who bought the $5 burger. You might make yourself feel better by saying 'ah well it was only $5' but obviously theres more going on than that.

The argument from me anyway, is not that its necessarily a scam, its more that the information just isnt really the best and there is a lot better info available for free on youtube or very cheap somewhere like udemy. HU is being sold with a backdrop of bugattis and yachts and what not this is no different to how mlms market but also how a lot of shady get rich quick people sell their courses. I dont really dislike Tate but you can even take him out of the equation and my view on it would still be the same for any course like this that is sold in this way. If someone came to me for advice as an amazon seller I definitely wouldnt advise them to get HU but there are some decent courses out there that could help you.

That is key with any teacher

I agree in that the message of stop making excuses and go get it is crucial and can change some peoples lives, Tate has identified this problem in young men, the issue is the overall rhetoric that comes with this message and is not so easy to separate if youre a follower of him. His end goal solution for his followers is to accumulate wealth and materialistic things and be a top alpha guy, I get why this is appealing but most guys that now follower didnt even think about getting these material things, he has sold this idea to them to the point that they will now make their life purpose bout getting these things. He is saying that he will help you get out of the matrix but attachment to material things is precisely what keeps you in the matrix, he has probably done more to get people into the capitalist, material world then any bmw advert or any consumer website could because hes convinced people that this should be their life purpose. Also whats worse is that i actually believe he knows better, if you read his book there are some highly developed ideas and thoughts in there so he should be aware of the trap but still he markets himself in this way, with cars, women etc. I get why he does that as it brings more eyeballs but i dont think his followers see this. So overall the question is, is he providing the best solution for men, i would argue not really

You really have to be careful with this type of teacher bro, how he comes across to me is someone who thinks he has all the answers and has more knowledge than anyone else, Im not overly familiar with his content but i have watched a few of his videos in the past and seen him post on here and this is the impression that i get. Now really look into yourself and consider that what attracts you to this type of teacher is a longing for certainty, people like Trump, Reeves, potentially Tate, offer very clear cut 'truth' and are very certain about it, this is extremely attractive and it reinforces itself because it lets you live in that truth as well as have excellent arguments for why this is true if anyone questions you. They may say things like 'snowflakes try and shut down what we want to say because they dont want freedom', there is a highly nuanced discussion to be had about what is freedom and its probably something you would consider but the idea behind this kind of statement is to shutdown that internal dialogue you might have and just accept what they are saying so you can align to them. Regarding Reeves in particular, if you look at Wilburs grow up, clean up, wake up, show up idea, Reeves may have done stuff to wake up and show up but he may also have not really grown up or cleaned up. Meaning that he may have some core issues that have not been dealt with or he just may not have the maturity that comes from experience and age, generally this can become an issue for younger teachers as there is most likely a lot of karma they havent yet burnt through. So sometimes what people do and probably what i myself have done in the past, is try to bypass the clean up and grow up stage, get some traction waking up as in having really profound, meditative experiences, then believing that you have somehow cracked the code and are enlightened and if only everyone followed you they would be too. What you dont realise is that the only reason you feel like that is because you havent actually done your clean up phase, youre just elated that you think youve found a shortcut. Then what tends to happen is these issues pop up in different areas, it might be that you are narcissistic and you havent dealt with that but now because you see yourself as enlightened, the problem is everyone else it cant be your as you get it and no one else does. This can go down a very dark and lonely path. All the teachers I respect just dont seem to have that kind of hyper doing energy, people like Spira, Mooji, Tolle and of course i may be wrong about them but just the sense i get, I think with them it is because theyve truly worked on all those things Wilbur mentioned and are now legitimately in the show up phase where they just add value and are not really concerned with egotistic pursuits. Its not that egotistic pursuits are bad per se its just you have to recognise them for what they are, these Reeves type people lack wisdom in the sense that they dont recognise that they are still in this ego phase its just theyre using the higher phases to boost their ego. Its like if I'm in an ego phase and i want to compete with you to be better than you, if im intelligent and i hear about all these higher teachings I just need to understand them somewhat and then i can convince at least myself that im better than you because you dont even know what they are, this doesnt mean that Ive fully internalised them. Of course this type of teacher is exciting because they simplify things but this is only because they are not actually fully developed so of course its more simple, the reality is a lot of development is pretty long and boring and actually not at all rewarding for your ego.