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I have decided upon my contemplation that I am right and that they are wrong. However everytime I decide that I am right I have this quote from you that echoes in my mind " Isn't it odd that out of all the billions of worldviews and perspectives, only yours is right, valid and truthful? " And then I go back from square one in my contemplation and I assume everything I contemplated up until that moment was wrong.

Not at all, I'm actively contemplating every belief I have. You can see that in the example I gave here:

@Leo Gura For example, recently I spent time analysing the communist regime and the things it did bad and the things it did good in my country. The communist regime here built a ton of industrial factories and basically transformed the country from an agrarian peasant country into a very industrialized country. There were factories that produced industrial goods all over the country, 90% of them built under the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Once the communism and the USSR fell, almost the factories went bankrupt. They no longer had orders for their products and in since the fall of communism and dictatorship all the factories that once made everyone have a job were decommissioned and sold for scrap. The far right wingers today and the Russian propaganda says that the west made the politicans of today to render the factories useless on purpose so that the country can become a colony of the west and that the west is exploiting the country for its resources unlike when we were a dictatorship and had full sovereignity over our resources. I found all that just crap and in my own investigation I discovered that the factories were rendered useless once the state dirrected economy collapsed because they weren't built for demand and supply, they were built just to make sure everyone was employed, plus after the border opened and the COMECON was no more, western products outcompeted the products made in our outdated factories. So who is right and who is wrong? I explained my take to the far right wingers in my village that by the way want democracy to end and to become once again a dictatorship, and they say that I am a traitor, my mind is brainwashed by Soros western propaganda that wants people like me to believe that the factories were ineffective so that the westerners could easily steal our resources. They say that my sense making is not mine and that I only parrot western propaganda. How do I decide whether I am wrong or they are wrong?

You made a 3 hour long video about how to recognize when you are wrong about stuff, for being wrong you made a 3 hour long formulaic answer. This is all you can say about recognizing when I could be correct in my understanding of a topic or subject? This is important for me because I am extremely skeptical of my own worldview, biases, persepctives and takes on various subjects. That's what I learnt the most from you. However I realized that skepticism for the sake of scepticism ends up with me shooting myself in the foot. Sometimes I am right in my assessments and my skepticism is what leads to self deception, falsehood and being wrong. All I wanted to know is when I could be sure that my assesments are correct and that my skepticism is actually me drowing in even more wrongness.

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I don't know how you would have been but I know how I would have been without this work, and I would have been a nazi fascist right-winger sexist, Mysoginistic Andrew Tate fanboy. I'd have been lost in complete group think, I'd be a conspiracy theory consumer, I'd believe that Soros is destroying traditions and religion, I'd have been a devout fundamentalist orthodox Christian, I'd be totally anti stage green. I'd have been at bottom of the barrel stage blue. Basically in a few words, I'd be exactly at the centre of gravity of my culture and society. I'd be exactly the same as everyone in my community is. And how everyone in my small village is today, I described above. You are not special or genetically superior to the people from your village/city, you had been extremely lucky to find a wise teacher like Leo to have taught you this philosophical work. You could have never stumbled upon Leo and you could found only Andrew Tate who would have exploited you of all your money and indoctrinated you into a toxic sexist, mysoginistic, far right wing ideology.

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Thanks!

Congo is easy, also a nice place to visit if you want to experience something exotic and out of the ordinary. However, I bet there is a place where Leo wouldn't have the courage to ever visit again, I think that place is Leo's country of origin. Frankly, I'd have more courage to visit Congo than to go in 2025 to Leo's country of origin.

Go look for it under the video, or maybe ask Leo about it, I think Leo deleted it

Yea, the comment was something like "Actualized.org is a cult, Leo is a cult leader and his forum member something funny raped me until I couldn't walk and all my body hurts. Eventually people will realize how vile this cult is". That's what I remember being said. But I think the comment was deleted, I couldn't find it when I came back to look for it.

Bro, in the last video of Leo, the psychology of conformity, someone in the comment section accused you of rape. I checked a few days ago and the comment was deleted.

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But if you were to choose one over the other, would you agree with me that the pussified westerners are 1000 times better people and more desirable to be around than the stone age barbarians of Eastern Europe? I'd bet that if you want to open a business you rather open it in Scandinavia in spite of a lot more taxes rather than opening it back at home. Why? Because there if you build a factory you have the human capital required to run that factory, here the people are so at stage red that any sane investor doesn't risk his money building a factory where illiterate uncivilized rednecks can wreck havoc into.

I said this before and I will say it again. I'd give half of my monthly salary to god to replace the utter barbarians in my community with these snowflakes from the Nordic countries. I get that the Nordic youth is a bit too chill and mellow, but maybe we should start to appreciate such people. I've been to western Europe and I felt like I was for the first time in my life relaxed and not under threat that some redneck might throw a stone at me. I'm not complaining about the people in my community, I have gotten used to them and I know how to handle such redneck barbarians, but I wish they were the autistic snowflakes of the Nordic countries.

Ladies and gentlemen, His Unholiness, The lord of DARKNESS.

Hahaha, I never seen someone being banned after 4 posts. This is tragically comic. How much shit one must say to be banned after 4 posts🤣🤣🤣

I bet 1000€ that this guy has never ever seen not one video or blog post of Leo talking about spirituality. He is just parroting what he heard from others that shit and strawmann Leo's work. I've read something similar on the internet from someone that accused Leo of running a cult. None of the things this guy has said in the quote above were ever framed that way by Leo. Leo has always said that I, the listener, that I am god and that god means the universe. So I am the universe, by universe meaning the whole of reality. I don't really understand that yet but I am 100% sure that it is not what this dude is saying here. I don't really care about spirituality but I reckon I better start, I don't want to end up like this guy.

I've manually taken notes as I followed along @Leo Gura video, Why Truth Is The Highest Value. No AI or any transcript summarizing tool was used for these notes, just my manual work of taking the most important insights from the video. A life transforming video. One of my favorite videos of all time! Here are the notes: Why Truth Is The Highest Value Wanting to discover truth is doing genuinely enquiry to discover the truth which is different from defending your current worldview or your belief system or what you already think is true The people who are in the most need to do genuine, thorough enquiry about the truth are the people who think that they have already discovered the ultimate truth and that their worldview and belief system is perfect. To care about the truth is to have a very curious and open mind to want to go in a truth seeking journey! Not by defending preexisting positions and answers. Only by engaging in life long pure philosophy will you be able to generate truthful sense making about reality and the world Caring about truth is necessary for a proper life. There must be a higher purpose to reality than human feelings. Valuing truth is reflected in your whole attitude, your whole lifestyle, it's your value system, is what you think, it's what motivates you, what you prioritize in your life. I'm not advocating for absolutism here, there is no only correct worldview, no only correct life style, it's all relative. We are dealing with 2 sets of values, the ones that drive your daily life and the fantasies you tell yourself. Truth is the highest value because reality is truth. If you don't prioritise truth above else you are going to prioritize survival above all else meaning you are going to drown in self-deception, selfishness, corruption and devilry. If you place anything but truth as your top value you are going to fall into self-deception. Anything less than truth as the highest value must lead to corruption. This episode is going to have a profound connection to the topic of corruption. Corruption is the not caring and not prioritizing of truth. Corruption is the non-prioritization of truth. To prioritize anything above truth, that's corruption. Truth cannot be found collectively. In any collective there is no truth to be found. The only way to experience and live a successful life is to have your life led by a mind that is run by an engine of truth. The only way to experience a fine life is to have mind that is powered by an engine of truth. The engine that runs your life must be truth, otherwise if your engine is anything but truth the vehicle that runs your life will stray to corrupt and self-deceptive paths that will lead to suffering and pain. correct interpretation of reality can only be achieved by driving through life in a vehicle that has as its engine the valuing of truth. Without truth as your engine you risk having your wheels fall off your car as you drive through life. All the things you value are valuable only to the extent they are true or real. Existence and realness are the highest value. What happens if you substitute truth with money? Now you are free to lie to others and to yourself, you are free to bullshit, you are going to believe what you need to believe to make as much money as quickly as possible. In the most extreme examples you are going to start printing fake money on a printer in your house. What happens if you place success ahead of truth? Donald Trump Elon Musk Billionaires What if you place sex as your top value? You are going to be me too'd and you are going to be a classic pick up guy scumbag. You will misunderstand women, and have bad views on them Conversely if you place truth above sex you will lose a lot of sex because you are going to tell women things they don't want to hear. Women will get with men that tell them the most fantasies and lies and bullshit, not the truth. Truth doesn't get you laid. How to decide who to vote for? Ask yourself, which of these politicians or political parties are valuing truth the most and have their life and policies guided by the pursuit of truth the most? That's who you should vote for. What happens if you prioritize power above truth? That's called a dictatorship, that's called a tyranny! Political corruption is people valuing power over truth! The more some politician goes above and beyond saying and doing anything that will get him closer to taking power, that's who you should never vote for. The Italian mob is what happens if you place family and friends over truth. In 3rd world countries once you become a mayor or a governor it is expected that you give your family and friends positions of power. That is the definition of corruption. Fuck your family! Truth is what matters the most. Placing your ethnic group above truth creates fascism, Nazism, nationalism, Zionism, genocide, war and crimes against humanity. Fuck nationalism. Nationalism is a racist fantasy What happens when you put religion as your top value? Spiral dynamics stage blue puts religion as the top value. Anything you place above truth will get corrupted and become fake. Social justice and equality as the top value? Fake social justice if it is value more than the truth Truth is more important than human well-being. More important than mankind. If you prioritize feelings and pleasure over truth? That's called becoming a drug addict There must be a higher purpose to reality than human feelings. Truth is bigger than good feelings, because bad feelings are also true. God doesn't discriminate between good and bad feelings. Discovering truth often leads to bad feelings. Sometimes living in illusion also leads to good feelings A thing can only have value if it exists. Existence is the pre-condition of for the value of anything at all. God is the prerequisite on which everything can exist. Without truth, existence is not possible. Truth is infinite value. Your children are not the highest love, because there are a billion other children that need to be taken into account, and not just children, there are trillions of beings that are as important as your children. No human bias is ultimately true Examples how love fails as a value: If you love your children the most you are going to do some corrupt and evil shit for your children at the expense of every other child or being. If you love your tribe or nation you will do a lot of bad and evil things that will put in jeopardy the rest of mankind that is not part of your nation or ethnic group. If you love your partner, you will get over attached and dependent on that person. Also you won't be able to love that person through thick and thin unless you have a deep connection to truth. If you love mankind that will translate to enormous damage done to plants and animals and forests and ecosystems and to the planet. If you love Christ that will translate human worship into hating other forms of spirituality. And you will not realize what is god because god is well above your Christ ideals. The source of all corruption is not setting truth as your highest priority. God, truth, reality those are the same things By setting something else above truth is like saying I know better than God and I do whatever I want, even though this goes against God's unwritten laws of reality. People in the government lie all the time and they get away with it. Every intelligence agency is a source of profound corruption on the world. Notice how people who don't value truth become! Their minds are deluded. They lie to themselves, they cheat, they steal, they kill, they do violence, they hurt others. They live like animals. They're addicts, they're fools, they have a criminal record, they've spent time in prison. All their relationships are broken and toxic. They're depressed, they have anxiety, mental illness, spread misery to the world, they hurt the people close to them. If you go with a hidden camera to analyse someone who puts family as their top priority, you will see how much they work their children and do violence to them when the rubber meets the road. People who don't take truth seriously, they are incapable of love. People who don't prioritise truth, they spread delusion and propaganda. They spread toxic and hurtful politics, create war, they are unreliable and trustworthy, and unstable, they are insecure. Because truth creates security and untruth creates insecurity. Getting your worldview from twitter or political Youtubers is like having your food ordered from the toilet. Genuine truth seeking means a true and genuine desire to understand reality. Not acting like you already know. Not acting like your beliefs are right and your worldview is the truth. It is about going on that journey. Integrity is placing truth above anything else. Corruption is the pacing of personal material gain over truth. This people who run this charities, they are still assholes to their wife and children when they come home. Where do they got those money ? They stole it. Their charity is fake. You lie to get a job, you fake your resume, you bullshit as a political actor because you need to fool people to vote for you, you bullshit to get a sale, you bullshit to run your corporation. You want to be lazy and not work. But truth means work. All lying is done because you want pleasure or you want to avoid some pain. Satan is the master of untruth. All evil begins with untruth. Caring about truth is self-correcting. If you care about truth the epistemic errors that you have will auto correct over time. Otherwise your worldview will become more corrupt. You have to be really careful and honest. You might think you care about truth when in fact you are caring to reinforce your pre-existing beliefs and survival. The psychology of being wrong. Rewatch that episode. The critical aspect of serious development is to realize how wrong you are. Caring about truth is what seriously allows you to be wrong. Unless you are deeply questioning your worldview, you are not having truth as your north star. Valuing truth means deeply caring about epistemology and studying it. It means epistemic responsibility. Investing time and energy into truth seeking. It means paying the cost. Sacrificing survival for truth. Until you sacrifice money, power, sex, fame, success and luxury. If you don't sacrifice the aforementioned, you are not a serious truth seeker and your philosophy is false. Valuing truth means doing hard work. You can't value truth and be lazy at the same time. Nor can you value truth and leech off other people. Truth seeking is a proactive affair not passive. Don't wait for Leo to spoon feed you truth. Find the truth for yourself. If you really cared about truth, you could derive the entire actualized.org body of work just by sitting on the couch and thoroughly contemplating about it. Valuing truth means extreme open mindedness. Through close mindedness you can't expand your understanding of reality. Valuing truth means to explore difficult truths. Valuing truth means acknowledging about you not knowing. Stop speaking things you don't know. Truth also means not selling out. Not putting yourself in careers and jobs that would make you compromise truth. A list of traps on this topic: Confusing truth seeking with pushing truth onto others. Expecting others to value truth seeking as much as you do. Don't bash people with the truth. Moralising and become a truth crusader Turning truth into a weapon to advance yourself Being too honest. When in doubt, shut your mouth. Don't talk bullshit. Talking about truth, but not walking the talk. Question your beliefs and lifestyle all the time. Turning truth seeking into an identity To regard what you want to be true, as truth. Or what you already believe to be true, as truth. You've got to be very good at introspecting. Truth seeking is actually inhibited by what you want to be true. It doesn't matter what you want, it matters what is actually true. Make a list of all the things you want to be true. Make a list, identify those. And then drop them. Go watch the episode developing Introspection, it deeply connects with this episode. Do not become perfectionistic about truth and corruption. Practical tips for you: Carefully observe as a practice how no one around you cares about truth. Contemplate deeply why you prioritize other things over truth. Observe and become conscious of the consequences of not caring about truth. Where does that lead to? Notice the difference between the gain happiness and avoid suffering spiritual pursuit vs truth. True spirituality is about knowing how reality functions and what god is. Without truth your default will be group think and conformity. Which leads to madness of crowds. Truth forces pursuit of insight versus belief and fantasy and ideology. Truth forces you to be accountable to counter confirmation bias and cherry picking. Truth makes you fair and just. Truth forces you to clear and clean your own lenses, glasses and microscope and telescope from which you view the world. Calibrate your instruments before you do your science, otherwise your science will be wrong. Truth doesn't market and sell well. This is why you should pursue it. The avoidance of truth creates evil. Surrender to truth. Truth is the solution to all problems. Worship truth. How to become pure? By loving truth more than anything else. Your values really matter. Your values determine your destiny.

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I've manually taken notes as I followed along @Leo Gura's video, The psychology of conformity. No AI or any brain-dead transcript summarizing tool was used for these notes, just my manual work of taking the most important insights from the video. For me personally this was the most impactful and life transforming video I've watched from Leo. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank Leo from the bottom of my heart for creating this video. Here are the notes: The psychology of conformity Your mind judges the truth based on popularity and acceptance by others around you. You haven't been taught to really evaluate truth in your life. You have been taught throughout all of your education and your job and your career and your professional life you have been taught to conform. So you don't judge truth through your direct consciousness as you should, your mind is not autonomous. You are judging truth to the extent your culture and your group has led you to believe is acceptable, rational, sane and normal. Almost 100% of people's worldview is just group think. The only reason you have the worldview that you have is because of the place and time that you were born. Conformity is a stage of cognitive development. You don't think original stuff, you parrot whatever the collective requires for its survival. There is no limit to the amount of fantasies and falsehoods that your mind can be programmed with in the first 20 years of your life. Once your mind has been programmed with illusions and falsehoods you fall in love with the falsehoods and you defend the programming. Programming is bad because it limits your mind. Your mind is capable of so much more than what your culture has programmed it with. Conformity connects deeply with the topic of self-deception. The key insight is that you assume that your worldview is true simply because everyone around you believes in the same worldview. Developing above the centre of gravity will present you with problems. It is going to create friction for you within your family, in your community, in your church, in your business, corporation, in your government if you are part of the government, in the military if you are part of the military etc. Notice that all the people in 3rd world nations are completely lost in conformity and group-think. Conformity is the reason conservative ideologies and politics have such a high traction to the public whereas progressive politics struggles to convince the electorate. Precisely because 50% of the adult population is entrenched in conformity and stage blue. All humans that are in stage blue or below are so conformist that they are incapable of doing any intellectual work. All the biases of your culture will infect your mind and your thinking process. Group think creates an echo chamber effect where contrary views are not allowed and this results in collective fantasies and illusion that you mistake for reality. Ideas that challenge and contradict conformist norms are denied, demonized, rejected and suppressed. That results in a collective paradigm lock. Conformity equals belief. An autonomous mind is experience, consciousness and insight. Insight can never be conformity. Independent of culture. Understanding reality and proper sense makes requires breaking out of conformity. Genuine philosophical work is about generating insights and deriving ideas for yourself. It is not about reading books, it is about generating your own ideas. Humans always parrot other humans in 99.99% of the time. Intelligence is the ability to question infinitely, thinking through a topic all on your own from first principles, questioning every assumption. Examples of conformity Religion, all religion is conformity Islam and the middle east Mormons and Jehovah's witnesses Quakers and Shakers The only reason you believe and follow your religion is because of conformity, there is no other reason. Judaism Zionism Traditional cultures in China, Japan, Russia, India, Africa Ethnocentrism Nationalism Stereotypes Demonization and scapegoating Racism Xenophobia Anti-Immigration Indigenous folk culture Traditionalism, people defending their traditions The entire conservative worldview is to blindly conform to tradition without ever questioning it. Views on sex Arranged marriage Political movements like populism, fascism, communism, Christian nationalism, theocracy, propaganda CIA Military industrial complex Views on abortion Woke Anti-Woke (Anti-wokeness is more conformity than wokeness) KKK Groypers Socialism Marxism Capitalism Progressives Leftists Environmentalism College campus political activism Gender ideology Post modernism Centrism News media US media on Israel Money in politics All political analysis on social media/alternative media is just conformity. No serious thinking there. Iraq war, reactions post 9/11 Washington DC culture America Empire Libertarianism Legal system Conspiracy theories Internet culture Debates Popular social media influencers Silicon valley conformity investing Crypto NFT's Pod-casters Mano-sphere Toxic masculinity, young men imitating Andrew Tate, who is also extremely conformist Business culture Sponsorships The Tai Lopez phenomenon Pick up Ideas of success. Success is defined by your culture, you didn't come up yourself with what successful means. Health, nutrition, diet and fitness Gym routine Anti-Vaxx Western medicine New age alternative medicine Circumcision Drug views Psychedelics Self help Book publishing industry Hollywood Rap Hip-hop Basketball expensive shoes Dance videos on Tik-Tok Popularity of brands ( Iphone's etc, Rolex etc) Wine Fancy chef cuisines Business suits Sports Golf The way you use language, the jargons and expressions you use, the way you use grammar and punctuation signs, this is all just copied from other humans. AI doomerism is also pure conformity Human rights Freedom Veneration of the constitution The legal system All society and all your entire life There is a big connection between conformity and corruption. All corruption is just conformity. Seeing and curing corruption requires tremendous independent thinking, live consciousness Also any time spirituality is done in a conformist way it becomes corrupt because god is live autonomous intelligence Conformity is also a corruption on morality Observe that the ones who claim to be the most religious, the most fundamentalist of Christians, Muslims etc happen to be some of the most immoral and evil people, often stealing as much as they can get away with. Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by group think and conformity. What is terrorism but conformity and group-think. Have you noticed that the most evil things mankind has done was done out of conformity? Conformity creates mass stupidity. You are just a survival zombie that follows the path of least resistance laid ouy for you by your culture, which mostly leads to mediocre results. Your mind has been hijacked by collective survival and you don't even know it. Autonomous minds are virtually impossible in 3rd world societies because survival is too difficult. In such societies survival is eased by conforming to the biases of the collective. Notice how you conform to make money. Autonomy of mind requires financial independence. You think as others think because it is easier to survive that way. The devils exploit the conformity of the masses for their own personal gain. Look at Facebook, Tik-Tok, they are just conformity milking mechanisms. Tiktok, Facebook and others just feed the reptile brain in you for their profit, they give the devil in you more and more fuel. Near all political views and perspectives are just conformity. There is no true political autonomous thinking happening on social media. Conservatives are more conformist than liberals. All of conservativism is about insane levels of conformity. Conformity and group-think devolve into extremism. You can be intelligent when it comes to politics only after you have transcended all the conformity of the right, the left. Conformity affects what you find the most meaningful and what you should pursue in life. You are a monkey copying other monkeys. You need to put in decades of inner work just to realize who you really are and what you want out of life. For that you need to transcend conformity No one can tell you who you are but you. If you are doing business in any kind of industry pay attention to the norms of the industry that you are doing business in and why you follow those norms. Look at how much of what you do is conformity. Audit Your political beliefs, how you dress, the music you listen to, how you use language, grammar, spelling, idioms, cliches, stereotypes and memes. Even the emojis you use, the abbreviations like lol etc. Audit how you speak to waiters to customers to your boss etc, see the conformity in those Audit the tropes and concepts you think in. Categories like leftist, conservative, liberal, good, evil etc, audit why you use these categories. Audit the mental models that you use, models like spiral dynamics and many other models Audit your Fears and problems Audit criticism and judgement Audit history and narratives, who you respect and admire, your business ideas, a lot of your business ideas are extremely conformist The city and country you live in, your morality, how you learn, the methods you use to learn, what do you consider authority sources, who you trust and who you distrust. Audit your opinions, where did your opinions come from? Most of your opinions are not your own. You got them from some YouTuber or some influencer. Your style and your taste. The kind of art you like and do. Your art will only improve the more you transcend conformity. Be mindful of the philosophers that you parrot. Notice the font you use to write your word documents. Notice the food that you eat because of conformity Notice your entire religion is just conformity Notice the language that you use is conformity Notice how you talk to your friends is conformity Notice that your scientific explanation of reality is just conformity Notice how you apply skepticism is conformist. Your ideas of right and wrong are conformist Audit all your behaviors, beliefs, lifestyle with this one question: why am I really doing this? Am I doing this just because others are doing it? Why you are in this career, why do you admire this person here, why do you like the art that you like etc Start noticing how you think in clichés. Trace where your ideas are coming from. Notice just how much you are repeating ideas you have heard elsewhere. Whether is Marxism or some libertarian notion like freedom or some notion of human rights or some notion of climate catastrophe or some gender ideology. Notice that you didn't generate these ideas. Oh god, I've never had an autonomous thought in my entire life. It's all been just rehashing stuff that's been around my environment from other people. Especially be weary of this if you are an extroverted social person. You are always talking to other people, socializing thus you get bombarded everyday with new perspectives and opinions that you adopt for yourself without too much observation and reflection about them. This is what happens to all the podcasters. You are just accepting stuff just by talking. Symptoms of group-think Overestimation of the group, its power and mortality. Illusions of invulnerability, delusional optimism and encouragement of risk taking Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions. Close mindedness. Rationalizing away warnings that challenge the groups assumptions Stereotyping those who oppose the group as weak, evil, biased, spiteful, impotent or stupid. Pressures towards uniformity Self-censorship of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus Illusions of unanimity among group members, silence is viewed as agreement Direct pressure to conform toward any member that questions the group couched as disloyalty and treason. You are a traitor if you think differently. Mind guards, self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting information Group-think results in irrational dehumanizing actions directed towards out-groups Your number 1 priority in any organization you take part in is to combat for yourself(not publicly vocally) all the group-think. Group think is the price you pay for being part in any organization. Realize that everything you hear a human say is group think, which is why you can't take any of it too seriously. Don't underestimate the power of just observation. Observe other people acting out of conformity. More importantly, observe your mind, your thoughts, how you speak and behave out of conformity. You can assess someone's mind by the capacity to which it can think autonomously. Tier 2 cognition, spiral dynamics stage yellow and above is highly non-conformist. Conformist minds are extremely predictable, they are like animals. Your mind only becomes nonconformist and unpredictable at tier 2. Autonomous mind is a signal that cannot be faked, you can clearly see when a mind is not autonomous. Atheism is conformity. The highest intelligence must be nonconformist. Why is the highest intelligence nonconformist? Because if you were infinitely intelligent, why would you need to conform to anything? You'd operate completely on your own, you would be self-sufficient, you would be confident in your own intelligence, You wouldn't doubt yourself. High intelligence means questioning assumptions and seeing paradigms and frames. True intelligence is non mechanical, is not about copying something. It is not about going through an algorithm or a formula. It's not about regurgitating something like these LLM's like chatgpt or grok or others. When you need others to tell you what is real, this breaks the unity of your mind. The highest intelligence makes new discoveries, that cannot be done from conformity. Social media algorithms are fueling group-think and AI is making things even worse. The AI is just the averaging of human thought. The monkey see, monkey do dynamic is very powerful and present in your everyday life, notice how much you are imitating others. Celebrities, successful people or business leaders, politicians, social media influencers, actors, spiritual teachers. As an artist you imitate other artists. Some of this is necessary, but it goes way too far. Many of you unconsciously want to imitate Leo. The stuff that works for Leo might not work for you. If you value creativity, you must overcome conformity. This enables you to create things no one has created before. The biggest artists, the biggest inventors, scientists, philosophers and leaders were and are non-conformist. Non conformity is essential in starting new innovative businesses, developing new technologies, breaking out of wage slavery and developing financial independence. For very good investing, great leadership, new scientific discoveries and great art. The beauty of life is to find your unique self-expression. Great art is rare because most people are way too conformist to come up with anything new. What they are doing is that they are just imitating others. Evolution requires new ways of thinking that challenge current intellectual norms. Imagine inventing a new system of government. Not socialism, communism, dictatorship, democracy etc. Something uniquely new. Non conformity allows you to discover the most amazing aspects of life. New music, film, games, people, inventions etc Conformity is a shallow way to live, nonconformity is an unique, deep and fulfilling way to live. To majorly change your position in life, it requires doing the change in nonconformist ways. Lets say you are poor, you are stuck in a bad situation in life... How do you change your position in life? That will require serious unorthodox ways of thinking. Sure there are ways if you suck up to some very rich corrupt guy that you will become rich and corrupt yourself, sure that can happen if you conform to that. But the bottom line is that you want connection to yourself, not connection to corruption and theft. That's why this is not a good strategy. Warnings The trap of developing a nonconformist identity. The ego loves the idea of being special. Doing non conformity in a conformist way. Like anti-vaxx, MAGA, flat-earthers, conspiracy theorists, goths, libertarians etc. Joining a non-mainstream subculture and thinking it will make your thinking autonomous. There are 2 types of conformity, the wider, bigger conformity like mainstream conformity, national identity and there is then the sub-group conformity like MAGA conformity, gamer conformity, Marxists conformity, silicon valley conformity, new age culture etc. There will be a lot of challenge and friction for challenging conformity. You will have to stand up to a lot of gaslighting and demonizing and nay-saying. Non conformity can be dangerous or even lethal. Especially in 3rd world places where they have a weak legal system. You are really playing with fire if you are going to be nonconformist politically or religiously. If you will be nonconformist politically in Russia or Saudi Arabia, they will kill you. So think very carefully about that. Conformity can also be lethal, wars, cults these can also be lethal. Non conformity can be socially isolating and lonely. All the human social stuff gets harder, that's why people conform. Also be aware that the crowd can be sometimes right, the crowd is not always stupid and the crowd will know more than you do. For the most part collective thinking does work and is very helpful all you gotta do is to sort the wheat from the chaff. Conformity is the shadow of the collective thinking, the collective thinking is quite good. Also imitation is good if you are just a newbie beginner, you gotta learn the fundamentals first before you start innovating. How do you develop to the autonomous stage? Start by observing your own conformity. Do the audits that were outlined earlier above. Lots of observation work, also observing the conformity of others. Observing the conformity of other cultures. Study other cultures Questioning and contemplation. You question everything. Ask many, many powerful questions. Stop getting pleasure and meaning from being approved of by others. Stop needing their approval. It is really important that you make sure to design your life in such a way that you are not dependent on the collective. Also you need to make sure that the way you are earning money is totally under your control and responsibility. If others hold the strings on how you pay your rent then you will never be autonomous in your mind. You are always gonna be their slave. Critically question every truthism, every platitude, every truth, every claim in every book that you read. Don't just take something as truth, question it and come up with counter arguments. Catch yourself parroting authority figures like authors, experts, Leo or others and cut that off. You want to reach a point when you generate your own ideas. Not just repeating what you've been reading or hearing. You need more diversity or experience especially from other cultures to break out of your bubble. Spend hours alone contemplating. That is the gist of how you develop autonomy of mind. Also take psychedelics. An exercise: sit down and try to think of an original thought that no one has thought before. Try to imagine some completely new video game, a completely new movie, art, object, music.

@Leo Gura Hi Leo, thanks a lot for creating these videos for free. They should be work at least 1000$. In case you haven't seen I've also did a summary of your latest video, The Psychology of conformity. Please check this out if you haven't and please leave me some feedback if you like the notes or not.

Bro, I've summarized a 3 hour long video in a relatively small chunk of information in comparison to the length of the video. Reading my notes takes 3 minutes. If 3 minutes worth of reading is too much, I give up any hope I've had on humanity. For me the 3 hour long video seemed to be too short. If Leo made that video 7 hours long I wouldn't have complained because on that very topic there could be written dozens of books. As I said, I lose all hope in humanity if 3 minutes worth of reading is TOO MUCH.