Daniel Balan

I've gotten goosebumps when I've read that on Leo's blog. It was such an Aha moment. In my subconscious I've always knew that the only reason I wasn't killed by something thus far was only because of pure blind luck. Reality is merciless and will take your life regardless if you are a rat or a human. To god there is no difference between a rat or a human.

Thank you Leo! I've watched in-depth all your videos on spiral dynamics in the summer of 2020. But I noticed that 5 years in I forgot a ton of valuable information on each of the stages. Almost like I haven't watched the series at all. So I decided that from now on, when I watch a video of yours I will do so by taking notes thoroughly on my commonplace book. Thus I will make sure that whenever I forget something I can just open my commonplace book and refresh my memory. I've noticed that unless I do that, I forget almost within a week the content of your videos.

@Leo Gura have you ever seen such a strange combo? Beige and red violent psyche coupled with a stage green nature loving, emotional, egalitarian heart? How such a combo is even possible? Red and Green seem the polar opposites yet I feel like having a superpower, being feminine, emotional, defined by the fight for social justice, yet cold, violent, merciless against those I that I deem my enemies.

I've noticed that. If I wanted I'd have responded in a way that it would have resulted in 100% Turquoise. But I deliberately chose to answer with the most genuine answer that was the most accurate acording to my worldview and mental state.

I always knew that I am off the rails but I always fancied myself a watermelon. Green coating with a violent red within. But I never assumed that what I identified as red was in fact beige. I didn't even knew beige exists. From @Leo Gura's video's I assumed that Beige is a stage for the mentally impaired people and for literal monkeys. But still I think the test was pretty damn good! In my mind I tried to analyse myself before knewing about this test and I evaluated myself as 50% green, 35% red and 15% orange. Your test was kinda close to my estimates. Thank you for sharing this!

Thank you! Simple advice yet brutally efective! If you can manage to force yourself do the things you need to do you win. Distractions are the biggest problem.

And not to mention about the stage to which I belong the most. Stage Red:

I've also done the same for stage Blue:

@Ulax He could have world's best campaign team. It is redundant as long as the counter campaign paints him as a LGBTQ+ advocate and a George Soros backed candidate who wants to eradicate religion and wants to send young men to war against Russia. That's what all the news outlets in Romania report about him. And to a stage blue society, it is enough to be seen as the son of Satan. So much BS about a candidate who all his life was on a quest of eradicating corruption. All I wish now is that there are more sane minded people in this country who would vote for him and that the rednecks are just a loud minority.

Could a stage yellow/green centrist candidate win the presidential election in a stage blue/red country like Romania? I am 100% going to vote for the mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan. For me he is like a role model! Is Romania ready to have such a developed person as it's president? I want this to happen with all my heart! But I doubt that it will happen. What do you think? Is there any chance? Please read the following Politico EU article about my favourite candidate. https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-vladimir-putin-us-president-donald-trump-west/

@Loving Radiance Thanks for the clarification.

I wanna tattoo that on my forehead.

Thank you Leo! 🥹🥹

Assuming you wanna come back to America safe and sound you should try to avoid conflict with stage red as much as possible. For example if red curses at you or verbally bullies you, you shouldn't respond with fire to fire. You should say sorry man I didn't mean to offend you and change the subject to a more friendly topic. But also you should follow @Nilsi's advice regarding body language and how you present yourself. You also don't wanna come of as an easy target. But as a general rule you should present yourself as a firm and strong man via your body language but via your verbal language you should try to be friendly and non confrontational but your tone of voice should sound like you are a firm and worthy of respect dude. Aka don't talk with a feminine flimsy tone of voice

Hi guys, I have no idea who George Soros is, and browsing the web and asking AI gave me unclear answers. Currently in my country there are maybe more than half of the population who hate with all their being this Soros guy. Those people are in my eyes stage red/blue rednecks and fanatic Christians. It's basically like a MAGA movement who blame everything bad that has ever happened on this George Soros guy. I've made an opinion about him like this liberal, progressive philanthropist person who gave money to developing countries to help developing countries become more progressive. I want to know your opinion. Who is this guy and why the MAGA people make conspiracy theories about him and why they hate him so much?

Hi Leo. I would advice you to go on Joe Rogan's podcast. But water down your dialogue to suit his audience. And if any of his audience would find you appealing they would then go to your YT channel and do further exploring into your work. On JRE you should just lay a bait for his audience, those who don't care and would misuse your work wouldn't take the bait, and those who are more developed would research you deeper. The bait should be giving to Joe little nuggets from your teachings

I meditated for a year straight in 2018. And I can say I got 0 benefits from it. And I'm much more happier since I dropped meditation all together. It's just my opinion. But I always try to remain as mindful as possible at every second. I try to always observe my thoughts and my bodily sensations.

When I was a kid, I was super religious as everyone around me was. And I hated everything and everyone who wasn't into hardcore religion as my community was. During my mid teens until the present day I developed a extremely rebellious personality and I started to abhor religion with all my being. I fancied myself a stage green planet earth lover. But I've noticed that I'm blue AF. Because the same way I hated the non religious people when I was a kid, now I hate the stage blue, right wing, MAGA like Christian fundamentalists. Basically I've just changed the thing I was hating on, but I have never moved out from blue. One clear sign to tell if you are stuck in blue is if you hate others, if you demonize people or if you have a us vs them mentality.

@Tristan12 And if my take made you feel worse, I am sorry. I didn't meant to make you feel bad. I just gave you my mindset that allowed me to be more resilient in the face of suffering. I reckon that all the hugs and compassion approach isn't giving you any improvement s, so I gave a more stage blue approach. If I made you feel bad please disregard everything I said. And please stay alive.

Have you tried accepting your suffering? Come to peace with it. All I say to you is to realize that unless you are physically injured you shouldn't have a reason to be as crestfallen as you are right now! Me personally after almost dying because of covid, I can no longer fuck, AT ALL, for 4 years almost. My dick is not going up at all. And I am very depressed about it, but it never crossed my mind to commit suicide. I do my best to enjoy other aspects of life. I try to do things that make me happy. I accepted that I will probably never be able to fuck again and I am at peace. I suggest you do the same.

A psychologically healthy being, when faced with suffering, it fights tooth and nail to change the circumstances that cause the suffering. That being doesn't kill itself. That's why the people in Africa don't kill themselves. All they want is to survive. It doesn't even cross their mind to commit suicide. They want to be victorious against death, not to succumb to it.

Enough mister nice guy. Bro you are totally off the rails. If every being thought like you the earth wouldn't have had even microbial life. Let alone animals, homosapiens, and advanced civilization as we have now. I'm sorry to say this to you but the tendecy to surrender is a genetic disposition amongst the weakest individuals of a species. If all the people on earth would think like you we would have gone extinct long before reaching the homosapiens evolution stage. The people in Africa endure 1000 times the pain you endure, yet they give 0 fucks about how they feel. All they care about is to gather just enough food so that they don't starve! And that their kids don't starve. For them happiness is being alive. Yet you most probably live a confy life and you take all survival matters for granted. You don't appreciate how good you have it. You need to touch grass immediately. You are tottaly disconnected to what it means to work a hole day in the scoarching sun just to have money for food. I am not sorry if this offended you. But you need some tough love.

Could you please share here what is the cause of your psihological pain? What exactly about what you perceive about reality makes you feel so helpless? I'm also a highly sensitive person, maybe I can relate

@Tristan12 Sorry if I made you feel worse. I gave my best to give you a wake up call. In my opinion after everything I've been through, I came to the conclusion that only physical pain is worth being considered as pain. To me having depression is a luxury. And after reading your reply the only thing I can recommend to you is to seek professional help immediately. If you don't have any physical impairment, you have no right to be depressed. That's my opinion. And if you do have severe psychological trauma or mental disorders go seek professional help. Don't waste time on forums. Maybe you have a serious condition that makes you feel like you do. If that is the case none of the people here can give you help.

Bro don't kill yourself. Life is war! Everyday is a war to stay alive. If you kill yourself you basically acknowledge to the universe that you are a loser. I don't know about you but the thing I hate most is defeat and losers. I wake up everyday to go to work for 30$ a day. AND I AM HAPPY! I am happy that I am still alive! I am happy that I get to fight everyday just to earn food for myself and my grandmother and mother. I considered many times killing myself. But I then tought of all the people who are living hell in hospitals, that have no limbs, that have terrible serious burn injuries on their bodies, people that are held hostage in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives... And those people fight with all their might everyday just to not surrender to death. And they would give everything to be in your position, an able bodied male that has "depression". Fuck depression, depression is for losers, try going 3 weeks without food on your table! It happened to me after I lost my job a few years ago. And then you will appreciate every second you can breath air into your lungs and every sip of water and every little piece of food you have on your table. Look at all the people who were burned alive! In less than 90 seconds those people went from being normal to becoming ash. And they would have given everything to come back from the grave and be just as "depressed" as you are. Next time you feel like killing yourself remeber that others have had their flesh bured to the bone. And you sit there all entitled to happiness. Be happy for everyday you have survived. Survival is not something you can be entitled to.