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So where is anyone engaging with what i wrote? You’re not engaging with my thought neither is Natasha, why should I give you any thought at this point? This forum is a waste of my time @LordFall

I know, but that’s her karma not mine

Thank you, I hope your future discussions go well!

Sadly this forum has turned into a place where you can't have intellectual discussions anymore, you'll probably not see me back for a long while. This thread is useless, what is the discussion exactly, Leo calling out Bryan Johnson for building a brand around health while Leo is building a brand around spirituality? Allow me to lol. There's no nuance just Leo expressing his grievances towards Bryan Johnson for unclear reasons and people rallying around his opinion as usual, The forum has become the epitome of conformity, and in which universe did you engage with my comment, did you understand what I meant??

Think of Bryan Johnson like Aristotle’s bending of the stick: society is bent too far toward processed foods, fast food and no excercise. Bryan Johnsons approach might be extreme but sometimes it takes extreme force to bend back the stick. In a world of influencers and attention you gotta play by the rules, a nuanced certified nutritionist who shows epistemic restraint and uncertainty has no influence in todays world, its like the difference between a spiritual monk who sits in a cave and a spiritual influencer like Leo, one inuenced us while we dont even know about the other one

So you’re saying heroin & meth are good and satan is trying to prevent me from becoming a homeless junkie whos a burden to my family?

For once we agree!

The issue is that you’re trying to communicate something yet claiming you’re not trying to do that at the same time

Youre calling me insane, why not call me gghgvvsrb76?

What Im saying is that you clearly had a reason behind why you wrote what you did and decided is was valuable enough to post, otherwise your posts would just be a random combination of letters but they’re not, there’s a meaning.

Whats your idea of meaning? Are you saying your post here doesnt mean anything? If so why are you making the post

It's the worst book I've read on his booklist imo. Edit: I found it dishonest, misleading and more or less useless. If you want an autobiography the Gandhi one "My Experiments With Truth" is really good, he essentially starts off the book about talking about how he was not sure whether he should write an autobiography at all because he was scared he'd change his mind on things later or end up writing something that ends up being misleading rather than illuminating. That was a refreshing contrast when you compare it with Arnold's autobiography which is pretty much just Arnold telling glamorizing stories about his rise to success in bodybuilding, talking about doing unhealthy volumes of exercise(50-60 sets of squats in one session) in the forest(heavily steroid powered but conveniently leaves that out). With a bunch of hot models around for motivation and that they were drinking a lot of beer, it's practically just him bragging about living a rockstar life, spending time with hot models and meeting influential people. He also gives some questionable diet advice at the end of the book like that you can mix red wine & raw eggs into a shake and drink it. Spend your time on anything else imo lmao. The only value I can see from reading this book is that you get a glimpse into the mind of a person at the height of their career and how paradoxically you can be at the top while still being completely deluded in most areas of your life. In this sense it's insightful, but to me it was painful rather than illuminating to read.

Don't read Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography, that was some hours I'll never get back. No hate towards Arnold Schwarzenegger but the book is misleading and overly idealizes his journey & gives unhealthy diet advice while leaving out the heavy steroid use that got him where he is.

My guess is you’re not interested enough in programming to do the hacker path you’re zoned in on. It seems too much like you’re doing the programming/hacking for the outcome of freedom & travel. While you can do that I wouldn’t recommend it because you’re going to be competing with people who’s as drawn to and fascinated by programming as you are by languages & travel, and AI getting increasingly powerful at programming means that unless you get really good people who know nothing at programming will also be your competitors. Either you should give programming a chance in a sense of seeing if it’s something you can develop a deep fascination & passion for by spending time with it regularly to get more used to it where it stops seeming like computer magic and you start getting a deeper understanding. But if you never find a way to deep satisfaction from programming & problem solving in solitude regardless of what outcome it brings then maybe you should consider other alternatives. Your hacker friend does programming, but what would he look at you and think “damn that seems difficult/uncomfortable/how does he do that so naturally”. It’s difficult to give you a concrete answer like “you should try X” because I dont know enough about you and most likely no one does yet. Youre young and perhaps whats more important than what choice you actually make is what you learn from it. Learning programming will teach you a lot so Id still recommend it. But keep your mind open, dont commit on a programming career to reach your goals quite yet. Knowing some programming, such as understanding automation and utilizing it in your life can be very useful regardless of what your work ends up becoming. Perhaps you could monetize your hobby, making money then spending it on travels and creating some type of content from travels that way you share what you love with other people and you never know what comes from that, you might meet likeminded or learn video editing as a skill or something unexpected. These are kinda generic ideas but Im just trying to point out that your current interests can also be used to create something of value. With that said dont give up on programming just yet, Id recommend CS50X(its free, i did it and enjoyed it) if you want to better understand how computers work but doing a python course like youre currently doing and maybe doing a couple simple game clones like pong and snake with some game engine/framework or doing some other simple program clone first might be good. But keep your mind open! Lifes a journey.

freeing yourself from karma. if you do morally corrupt things such as lying, exploiting others or self interested things such as eating unhealthy food because it serves your personal pleasure in the moment not only will it weigh on your conscience which will interrupt your peace of mind, it will also create future consequences that you have to deal with such as managing lies when they resurface far later, or facing health problem because of food choices. This is a clutter to the mind. So doing the right thing and being focused on pure action without self interested intent prevents future mental baggage. For example if you work on a business and you're overly focused on the outcome of the business that will occupy your mind a lot and stir up emotion once the outcome is not achieved. Instead pure doing is liberating to the mind!

Gandhi is proof that good men exist, although yes just because someone is a billionaire doesn't mean they're a good person

https://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/gain-35lbs-in-6-weeks-naturally Thoughts on this ridiculous scam article he made in 2015 where he advices natural lifters to overtrain themselves just so he can make money himself? I'd be skeptical of listening to a guy with this track record, he's in it to make money regardless of if it helps you or misleads you and he's all about the surface looking good, he doesn't understand the depth at all.

Dr. Grande is completely mistaken on many of his takes, I can't speak as to his definitions of narcissism and other topics but he posts many videos where he offers verdicts on criminal cases without putting much research into the cases at all. For example the Jack Denmo rape case where Dr Grande made a video recently claiming he believes Jack Denmo is innocent even though he left out all the evidence that point toward Jack Denmo being guilty. I'd take whatever he says with a spoonful of salt.

Do you get banned for talking about stuff like that?

You might want to look into Jung's idea of the anima/animus. The idea that we project our inner feminine ideal onto women as men and that this is why they have that higher energy you describe. Overtime that energy will get disproven to you, the woman is not as perfect as she seems, because what you're being pulled to is an illusion of sorts. The more intact the illusion the stronger the magical pull. The more you see her as an actual flawed person, truly, the less that magical divine pull will exist. However, there can be a different level of attraction that's built on true intimacy instead of idealization. But that's something that has to be carefully built within the relationship.

Highly agreed with you

Are you sure that's not what he did? I heard his son is donating his balls to him next video.

Yeah that's a blunt way to capture it but there's something to it. I'd say most people are stuck in that state which is why meeting someone who's genuinely really good at something is pretty rare. I had some insight into this once when I talked with a guy who's a really skilled musician. When he told me that he doesn't practice endlessly all day because that would create a bunch of bad habits but that he was thoughtful with his practice, such as stopping when he noticed he was starting to make too many mistakes as to not ingrain them into his playing it make me reconsider my career as a musician and as a gamer. I basically practiced being a mediocre gamer lol.

This is correct, you need deliberate practice. Which is easier said than done! I played a ton of video games and I never got good at them,

Not necessarily, you can have more or less health, it's not either or.