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This is solid advice, I really appreciate that. How do you see PhDs leaving academia to work on startups? How do they feel about this contextual shift?

Cheng Hsin Newsletter 33. You Versus Your Self-Experience Most people identify themselves with and as their characteristic actions and experiences, their beliefs and views, their thoughts and emotions. In order to get free of suffering, we need to change this entrenched view of ourselves. If we stay with the assumption that we are what we experience, we can’t undo the activities that cause suffering because we then experience being our activities instead of doing those activities. We also need to change our view from thinking our experience is created by circumstance and instead get that it is something we’re doing, not something inflicted upon us. In order to create some space between “you” and your self-experience, let’s look at some metaphors. As in an analogy I used elsewhere, if you were a rock that danced, you might identify yourself as a dancer. But dancing is an activity the rock is doing, it is not the rock itself. This distinction is necessary for our work here, even though it may seem like splitting hairs for most people. Just so, metaphorically speaking, if you were your body but instead experienced yourself as your style of dress and presentation, you might say “this is who I am” referring to how you look. And indeed, people will know you largely in relation to this show or presentation. But it isn’t really you at all. It is what you choose to wear and what you choose to present for others to see, but that doesn’t make it you, the body. Exercise during the week: Practice experiencing yourself as your body. Have a simple experience of your body in present time and make a distinction between that and all the other self-mind stuff you are doing.

He is writing a book and building a game. I would bet on courses around 2027/2028.

Thanks for your input. What do you do as a researcher/PhD? Do you think about joining industry?

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This is perfect. I would like to know about: What do you do as a PhD? How free are you to choose what you research? What is your routine/day to day as a PhD/Scientist? Are you mentoring people to join R&D positions?

Are you doing a PhD? Just to clarify.

Recently, I was doing a contemplation exercise where I was trying to THINK beyond the social domain (humans, social conditioning, external reality). I became aware that to live an autotelic life, you will need to reprogram your entire mind from scratch. Your mind will need to work as an outsider, alien or mind engineer. Every action that will be taken, every thought, emotion or movement coming from your "Avatar" will have a unique, original and autotelic intention. Imagine that: your internal world will be extremely alien to 99.9% of humans. You operate on a different scale, paradigm or foundation. Imagine that your life purpose is extremely alien: you do not operate as 99.9% of humans on earth. Your motivation is something that no human that has ever lived on earth thought was possible. Do you know anyone living as that? How rare is to transcend the whole social domain?

I agree. It is not easy to think outside your own programming. But we need to entartain new human possibilities.

I appreciate your views on that matter. I agree - the self is trapped within the symbolic field. The self is a reflection of society and culture. I had to write like that to make people think completely beyond our current assumptions and cultural values. What we can do: becoming conscious, enrich and transform the symbolic field itself. (what if we can create a new symbolic field via transhumanism? - food for thought) The whole idea of this thread is to inspire human beings to become pioneers, innovators and geniuses. Strive to become a human being like Tesla, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Franklin. (Don't compare yourself, become inspired by their achievements) One thing that you do not want: thinking like a machine that can be replaced by AI. Explore novel ways of thinking, think what no human ever thought within the symbolic field. Transhumanism is a door to further exploration.

I will watch it, thanks

@Leo Gura Are you planning to release new videos on mind autonomy, creativity or innovation?

I understand that. But never generalize an entire country. Go to yoga sessions, coffee clubs and parks. Do daygame!

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Sure. I think 100% that is the case. The truth is that I have fear to use it. My father was epileptic. I will accept that chemical limitation 😉

I do not use chemicals. 100% clean. No psychedelics, weed, LSD or alcohol.