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Playing without limits is no fun, and that's not just a belief I hold.

I already have a job lol. But I want MORE Idk about the red flags, I'm just honest. My long term vision doesn't change, I would just like to keep up the living standard I currently have and either I have to sacrifice time or lifestyle. I don't want another random side gig that is completely unrelated to my life purpose, I would rather learn some sales and marketing or writing or something of value. Maybe I will just bite the bullet and scale my expenses down, but that kinda sucks the most out of all these options.

God is truly unlimited.

I have thought about it. This is definitely the one that requires the most work, and I'm not necessarily planning on becoming a YouTube personality long term, but I'll consider it.

Man, I totally get you. I used to think pretty similarly to you, and I'm not claiming to have necessarily fixed this in the most conscious way (I drink when others drink to avoid a lot of that discomfort), but bro, you gotta get out there. Staying on a schedule is good shit, but at some point you have to loosen up a bit, or you will never enjoy the fruits of all that work. Don't worry how other people will perceive you. In my experience, people often treat me more like a fucking deity, and not like a weirdo. Be yourself and be willing to show others who you are. You have so much to give (I never say something like this, but you are a real G), and not only will people love you for that, you will also feel great about sharing your gifts with others. I used to be quite the loner, and nothing has improved my quality of life more, than socializing more and putting myself out there. Don't wait till next year, nobody will give a fuck where you have been, as long as you give them a good time. Going out and becoming more social is some of the most serious and rewarding work you can do, if you do it consciously.

Don't strawman him, this doesn't help anyone.

I don't think that has necessarily something to do with being black. When I'm with my homies, I'll carry myself differently, than when I'm with a friend, I don't feel so connected to. It's about feeling understood and connected, and a common cultural background can provide that, of course

JP = yellow; Tate = orange This doesn't mean, that Peterson doesn't have a massive shadow, which he is reacting against. Also, not all development can be tracked by spiral dynamics.

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Arrogance, overly idealistic, oblivious to the needs of my loved ones - those are my biggest ones.

Yeah, I was thinking about how, if aliens came to earth, I would totally be cool with them and would try to make them feel at home here - next thing you know, this slimy piece of shit popped out of my floor and I completely lost it It was a good lesson though.

Of course people have always tried to explain and understand the world around them, but modern science can be traced back to Descartes' assumption, that there is an objective world out there, that we can fully come to understand through the right methodology. Science is fundamentally grounded in duality (a subject that is independent of the world around it, thus able to explain and understand it objectively), which is ultimately baloney, of course, and has ironically been debunked by science for over 100 years now (think Einstein, Schrödinger, Heisenberg...).

Insects are the worst lol. I once had a trip, in which my mind got so melty and powerful, that out of my brown bathroom floor, a fucking snail emerged. It was actually there; I even had to grab a shovel and throw that motherfucker out. To this day, this is the freakiest shit, that has ever happened to me. The great thing about psychedelics is, that they give you some plausible deniability for all the fucked up shit you experience There is always some uncertainty, whether this really happened, or, whether it was just a trip (and in the final analysis, of course, there is no difference between those anyways).

For what it's worth, I literally know no one that is happily married. Call me toxic, but I think this shit is just slowly chipping away at your intimacy and romance, and your relationship just turns into a bureaucracy and pragmatic arrangement. I never understood why people feel the need to tie themselves down in such a way - are you so afraid your relationship won't last, that you need a legal contract in place?

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1295.Greatest_Psychology_Books This is everything you need and more.

This is a great little session for starters. Do it once and you will get the gist of it. If you want to dive deeper into the physiology/neurology of it, or try more elaborate protocols, you can always buy a book or two. If you want to improve your baseline breathing, I suggest you seek out some professional resources.

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a great role model, when it comes to conscious relationships tbh. Leo has said himself that Schmachtenberger is more developed and integrated than him in many ways. Leo's teachings are the deepest and most profound you will find, but don't expect him to be perfect. That's the privilege of being a student - you can learn different things from different people.

You can get into meditative states, in which there is no identification with anything, yet reality is still there. In my experience, reality never really shatters, it's more like your ideas about it that are shattered.

"Sex, Ecology, Spirituality" by Ken Wilber.

These evolutionary dynamics on sexual selection are pretty hardwired into us. It's not the only variable, but it's still running much of the show. Today status signalling is not necessarily about having the biggest dick or muscles, and can be something more abstract like being witty, driving a sports car, being a celebrity etc.; but in the end, these primal clues like body posture, "confidence," leadership, health etc. are pretty much still what girls are looking for in a man.

Idk what kind of math you need to do, but generally there is a lot of beauty to be found in mathematics; Pythagorean philosophy, Euclidean geometry, fractals, nonlinear dynamical systems, game theory, probability theory... You could just grab a few books on these topics, and appreciate the beauty of mathematics , and maybe you'll end up enjoying your mathematics in the end. You also don't have to enjoy everything you learn. Sometimes you need to know some shit that is giga boring and dry, but it will make your understanding of the things you're passionate about that much richer, for it to be worth it to fight through.

We are 8 billion people on this earth; everyone is on a different stage of development; wealth is distributed extremely unevenly; we have dozens of competing political and economic systems, that all claim to be the best; we are facing exponentially increasing risk of extinction; advancements in exponential tech will completely change the job market and the way we view ourselves; we are running into planetary boundaries and cannot keep up the imperative of exponential economic growth; we are all struggling with survival to some degree; many people in positions of power are literal psychopaths that will not hesitate to screw over the lives of millions and billions of people. We will have to address all of these problems (and many more), if we want to be good householders of this reality. Being nice and kind to each other is definitely not the solution to all of these problems, though it is one of the easiest and most meaningful things we always have at our disposal, and I definitely don't want to belittle that.

Fair enough. I'm not super comfortable with randomly chatting up girls, so maybe I'm projecting a bit here lol; But talking to girls I meet at a party or in university, or wherever I happen to just be anyways is much more fun and easy-going for me personally + I don't have to commit extra time to it.

I don't think it's necessarily a lack of empathy. The more I'm trying to have conscious relationships and invest in them, the more I realize how much of a pain in the ass they are. I can definitely sympathize with not wanting to get involved in relationships at all, and seeing humans as mostly unconscious selfish fucks, though that's still a perspective I'm not willing to take personally.

He is definitely not dumb or a con artist, and as far as learning what it means to be an "alpha male," he is definitely an authority, that can be taken seriously. Obviously this is a very narrow specialization and I don't think you should listen to that guy, outside the context of doing some kind of shadow/integration work.