Lorcan

So christmas day has passed and I talked a slightly less then a moderate amount to my grandparents. I dont think I really started a discussion, they just would maybe ask me a question from time to time and I would answer them, or I would over here a converstion they were having with one of my parents and give my two cents on the matter being discussed. For example my grandmother asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I said that I wanted to be revolutionary and we had some discussion on that lasted 5 minutes. Whilst playing video games, my grandfarther would wonder in from time to time, and he would always make a comment on what was going on the screen. Like I was playing Fallout 4 yesterday and I was standing in front of a broken wooden fence. He came into the room, saw what was on the screen and commented something of the like "That fence appears it needs some fixing" I was playing Battlefield 1 today and he walked him and he was looking at the screen , I told him it was a world war 1 game and so on so forth. and I showed him me wounding a good couple of people with a mortar, in which he commented on something about that mortar being good or something and then he left. the room. A few other moments like this have occured throughout my grandparents visit to my house. What does this mean?

Recently, Ive been thinking about my grandparents about how to make them more happy before they die. (I'd say they have 5 to 10 years left, I could be wrong) Anyhow , I find that I may seem unappreciative to them. When they visit, I say hello I give them a hug and them stay in there presence for a couple of minutes before then going off to playing videogames or whatever and then when they are going to leave, I say goodbye give them a hug and they leave. When they I ever get us anything I say thank you. But it doeant feel like its enough. Or when they have given me money and I say thank you to them over the telephone it doesnt feel "sufficient" What should I do? Send them a christmas card? (Ive never done such a thing before to them) Ask them questions about there lives? How do I appreciate them more without it being awkard and unaithentic?

Hello. My Name Is Lorcán. I am 14 years old. This thread will be my questions on Stoic Philosophy I have taken interest in of late from reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. (I bought it with some other self help books that were on the free part of leo's book list) 1.What exactly is stoic philosophy? Here is what google had to say. stoicism noun 1. the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint. synonyms:patience, forbearance, resignation, lack of protest, lack of complaint, fortitude,endurance, acceptance, acceptance of the inevitable, fatalism, philosophicalness,impassivity, dispassion, phlegm, imperturbability, calmness, coolness, cool; More 2. an ancient Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium. The school taught that virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge; the wise live in harmony with the divine Reason (also identified with Fate and Providence) that governs nature, and are indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain. From what I have read so far ( I have read up to part part 7 point at some point, but I noticed as I was reading I was not actually grasping what I was reading and more so just reading meaningless words in my head, so recently I have read up to part 4 with much more understanding of the content then when I had last read it) up to part 4, It seems to be a mixture of 1 and 2. Am I wrong? Is def 1 even that relevant to stoicism? 2.Is applying stoic philosophy better to live ones life then having no philosophy and living with solely ones own thoughts? 3. Are there any disadvantages? 4. What can I start doing to apply it? (Examples would help) Would sleeping on the floor work? 5.How much suffering is invovled? I would really appreciate some insight into this, seeing leo hasn't made a video on stoicism, I feel like at my age the stoic philosophy could be beneficial to me rather then living like everyone else is living.

Hello my name is Lorcan. I am 14. I have been working out lately doing arm curls,push ups , planks, burpies etc. I am probably one of the skinniest guys in my school. When I look in the mirror I can see my ribcage quite visibly and just about count my ribcage bones. Dont get me wrong , I dont look anorexic, but pretty skinny and bony. I was wondering if by doing all this working out I am getting rid of muscle instead of gaining it. Ad if my body is cannibalizing itself to make up for the energy loss of doing the exervise instead of actually building muscle. My wrists at their narrowest points measure 5.5 cm in width. Do I need to gain more weight if I want to be able to do normal workouts healthy? What should I be eating? I have a Breakfest Cereal in the Morning, I have dinner the at night I have anthoer bowl of cereal. I have a few snacks in between all of that , say a slice of bread. A biscuit etc. I weigh 7 stone and I am about 5 foot 9 I beleive

This thread seems like its going to be Infinite with posts lol.

Huh, so it just so happens that out of the infinite infinities that a life-form could possibly come into existence to. It just so happens that I was born into an infinity where I am not in infinite amount of suffering,pain and hell. So out of the infinite infinities of dimensions where I would be suffering in extremely intolerably pain forever, it just so happens I have been born into this dimension. 1 in a infinity. Or should I say. Infinity in a Infinity. Or should I say Infinity in a infinity in infinity. The problem with understanding with infinity is that its always one step ahead of you. You can run around it. Its like Hamster wheel. For example Me: Infinity cannot exist because in the realms of infinity, infinity does not exist. Infinity: Infinity does exist because in the realms of infinity , infinity does exist. Me: Oh...... Well then that must mean that in the realms of infinity that it does not exist either. Infinity: Yes. Infinity exists and does not exist at the same time. So both are true, Me: But wait , if infinity is so infinite, that must mean that in the realms of infinity, neither of those are true. Infinity: Yes. Infinity also allows both of those to be both false. Me:But how can? How can infinity exist and the same time not exist? That means infinity existing cant be true. Infinity: Your absolutely right. And your Absolutely wrong. For infinity. And Infinity. Me: What do you mean? In the realm of infinity, I am absolutely right about infinity existing. Infinity: *Laughs*Your correct. Me: Exactly! Infinity: Your wrong. Me: What??? You just said I was right. Infinity: I know , you are right. Me: Yes because in the realm of infinity I am absolutely right. Infinity: Yes but you are also wrong. Me:But I cant be because Infinity allows for infinity to absolutely exist as in the realm of infinity despite other infinities making it not exist, it surpasses those infinities which say that infinity cannot exist, infinitely. Infinity: Your never going to understand me. In the realm of infinity, whilst that in the realm of infinity, infinity existing is absolutely true despite other infinites making it not true for infinity. It also is not true because there is an infinity that makes infinity that is absolutely existing true despite other infinties which make it not true(not exist) because there is an infinity that surpasses that making it once again untrue (not existing) because there is an infinity that makes it absolutely true despite other infinities making it untrue. Mind boggling.

A Video of the Day and the Life of Leo would be interesting, but like leo said about showing the thoughts inside your head. Watching the video you wont see the interior workings of whats going on. I would guess leo lives a rather simple life, nothing that would be particularly wowzers and would be boring to watch. I wonder if their is some illusion among some here that leos routine is something that is absolutely extraordinary and exyravgantly different and amazing in how does everything in his routine and everything in his daily routine has a pronounced gold glimmer to it. I suspect leos routine is quite simple consisting basically of the stuff he mentions in his videos. Non the less it would be interesting to see how he applies what he preaches into his life. Would give some insights in that sense as you will be able to see how leo does it which you can use as an example for adding positive habits into your own life.

Update: I applied most of the advice here and It did me well. At least for 2.5 weeks My muscles started weakening and I began to get wrist pain. So I waited I couple of days and my muscles still felt week, so I stopped for a week and my muscles were still not as strong and my wrists were bothering me. So I stopped. Its been a good 3 week now and about 50% of my results are down the drain. I still retain some strength from having done the exercise, I can still bicep curl 5kg weights , where as I was not able to do at all before I even began exercising. Whenever I did pushups, my wrists would bother me. . My wrists are only 5.5 cm across, maybe 6cm. It got to a point where I would feel some sort of nerve ,artery of maybe it was a tendon pop to one side of my wrist to the other when ever I did a circular motion with my wrist I have tried Knuckle push ups and they are not much better. Is there any other exercises I can do to subsitute the pushup? Is there anyway to strength the wrist muscle without putting much pressure on the wrists? Knuckle push ups do not feel like they are working. Just making my knuckles sore.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Badum tsss) (sorry for the troll reply I had to)

Hello, I'm Lorcan I am 14 years old. My Problem is that I find myself lacking time. At get out of school at 3:20 and I get home at around 3:30-4:00. My Routine after school consists of Homework(30 minutes) Exercise(25-30 minutes of weight/pushups and 10 minutes of cardio jogging) Meditation(30minutes) Eating Dinner/otherstuff(30 minutes roughly) I had a reading habit but I cut this out on the weekdays due to lack of time. So if all these things in total take me roughly 2 hours to complete, why I am finding my self not finished these things until 9:00 - 10:00? Am I procrastinating? I am pretty sure I am not, I have not watched any TV and only went on youtube to get tutorials relating to the exercise I do. Where is my time going. Do I need to work longer?

I do not go to my parents for advice, when they give advice it is mediocre/obvious advise that does not really help anyone. How many millions of parents have said to their kids "Try your best" or something of the likes and ended up overall unhappy. Trying your best would be extremely difficult, I think the advice try your best is put way out of context. Trying your best takes huge resilience and enduring of suffering that most people would not be able to endure. See, parents give advice on what to do, but now on how to do it. Do. I have found that Leo's advice is much more valuable then my parents because it is less vague and more how to. Even though I will admit, some of Leo's advice is very vague. Also Leo's advice is not quick 1 or 2 liner advice. It 15 minute to 1hour and a half long advice. Also I am skeptical of any advice my parents give me. Seeing how they ended up. I do not want to end up like them.

Hello. My name is Lorcan. I am 14 years old. This will be a journal of my journey throughout self development and the like I have decided to take as it seems that it would be beneficial. For those struggling to understand the title. Petrified Something is an item in the popular video game series dark souls. In Dark Souls, all the items have descriptions for them, this is the description of the Petrified Something. Petrified Something - An unidentified petrified object. Pleasant to the touch, despite its looks. A rare and peculiar thing, to be certain, but one without a known purpose. I'm not sure myself how the title exactly makes any sense, but it looks like it makes sense. Somehow this Petrified Something description is related to some facet of self development which I am unsure of which one it is. Any how. This is going to be a Journal of my Self-Development journey. I will begin writing tomorrow as I have nothing much to write about today. To give you some backstory, I was in a consistent meditation habit , I started to be inconsistent about a 1 and a Half ago and have since stopped 5 days ago. I will start to meditate again as it seems beneficial, even from my own experiences of it. After I stopped I did not feel as good. (Unless that was some kind of placebo effect or my mind playing tricks). it helped in some way. I think. I will start my Journal Tomorrow. Feel free to comment if you have something to say, or some advice to give. encouragement or want to discuss something relating to what I am doing go ahead. Day 1 of the journal will start tomorrow.

Day 9 Hello again. I am writing this one the same day as I wrote Day 8 again because of how I have had a lack of time due to my schedule. After I finish writing this, I have to do 30 minutes of mediation and remember something off for a french test. Morning Routine: I had a warm shower with a bit of cold at the end (about 2 minutes of cold at the end) I sold off all my sweets at school (for those who do not know, I sell sweets at my school, see day 2). Although a few people owe me money. Ryan owes me 2 euro, Kyle owes me 1 euro, Brian owes me 1 euro and some kid in my school stole 2 and he definitely wont pay up. Also Kieran owes me 1 euro. I sell the sweets during class and they say they will pay me during break, and what happens, they do not pay me at break.Really its my fault for my bad business practices. I also found my self feeling sad today, just a bit kind of lost.In fact when I got home I searched to see what videos leo had done on happiness. (I had already watched one previously) I was watching one of his videos on happiness and then the dinner bell in my house rang and I had dinner, I forgot that I was unhappy. In my mind I sometimes wander of into this blankness, a state of unfullfillment and lostness and silence. I figure its just me perceiving that as being unhappy. Meditation: I still have to do it, I will do it after I have finished writing this. Exercise: I did 70 push ups (in 5 push up reps) which I think is more I have ever done in a session. I did 30 minutes of combined bicep curls , push ups and I did some butterfly curls. SideNote: I had an arm wrestle with my friend at school who only does 20 pull ups/ 20 push ups a day. (In one go) I lost quite badly and am kind of disapointed, I would of fought with all the exercise with my arms I had been doing I would of won.But I guess in all fairness that I have only being doing my Resistance exercises for 10 days and he had been doing his for a month. I will write more in depth after I sort out my schedule. Good bye. I will continue this Journal tomorrow with Day 10.

Day 8 I find my self lacking time after only doing exercise, meditation, eating dinner, and homework which in total take roughly 2 and 30 hours to complete. I get home from school at 4:00 so it should realistically take me till 6:00 or 6:30 to get all those things done, but I find myself working up until 9 and 10 oclock. I am pretty sure I am not procrastinating so I think it has to do with my schedule, its not strict enough. I have not set specific times to do things. I will fix this. I am writing this on Thursday and this was supposed to be Wednesdays post. I will make a strict schedule after I have finished my meditation which I still have not done today. If anyone has any suggestions , or would like to share what there schedule is , please do, even more so if you are a highschool/secondary school student. (Perhaps even a college student) Anyways, from what I remember happened on Wednesday. Morning Routine: 5 minute Cold shower, nice and frosty. Meditation: 30 minutes. Exercise: 25 minutes of resistance training, 10 minutes of jogging and another 10 minutes walking Once I sort out my schedule my posts will be MUCH more in-depth, like the depth I have written in day 1, but more deep.

Day 7 Morning Routine: Warm Shower with 1 minute cold period at the end. I don't see anything wrong with warm showers as long as you go cold at the end. Whilst you do not retain the maximum benefits you get from having a full cold-shower , it seems to me that you still receive some. (Increased awareness, immunity to cold) from my experiance. I will still take full cold shower as they give the most benefits. Meditation: I did 20 minutes today, I was outside and and it was dark, I was about 15 minutes in and I heard some movement on the ground near the tree to my left (which because of the darkness I could not see) I got spooked that I chose to go inside. I got impatient an decided to cut my meditation short so I only did 20 minutes. Exercise: I tried our a new type of cardio exercise, Sprinting in periods of 30 seconds, and then after each period pausing for a minute. Repeating this 4-6 times. I read in an article that this was the same as doing a 60 minute walk. I am skeptical about this. What should I do for my cardio? A 30 minute brisk walk, or this new sprinting thing? Preferably the faster the better, is the whole point of doing the sprinting. Hard and fast rather then easy and boring. My dad seems to in some grump over something, I am going to have to cut this short before he comes in and rages at me. I will have a full length journal entry from now and try remain more consistent. I am also having a resistance problem, its like I am at war with myself at times on whether do certain things.

Day 6 Roughly the same excuse as day 5 although without the justification that my parent was in the dining room and just flat out me not being bothered to write it. One of the main reasons for me not doing these journals properly in the past 2 days in my dis-organisation of time management and how there was a bit of an organisation problem with my room(I had a bunch of crap lying around that I was not using and it was just cluttering up the room and the table making doing things more painful then they should be.

Day 5 Again. I am sorry for being inconsistent. It was late at night by them time I was done everything I need to do (exercise,meditation and homework) so I did not wont to go into the room where my computer is in fear that my parent who was in in the room would tell me off. (At least thats my excuse, I know that I probably made the excuse to justify me being lazy and not making an effort to write a journal) In summary I did my 30 minutes of meditation, I did 25 minutes of resistance training (weight lifting and push ups) and then 30 minutes of brisk wa;king cardio.

Day 4 Morning Routine: Woke up around 10 this morning, had a cold shower with less resistance then when I was going to school, after all there was no rush.Had I nice cold shower, the knob was on the max cold, the coldness of my cold shower varies as our water comes from a well underground, so if its cold outside, the water is icy. If its warm the water is cold but not really cold.I did a couple of push ups this morning to. I had a bowl of cornflakes, probably the healthiest breakfast availible in my house, we do have porridge but I stopped eating eat because I heard that grains were an anti nutrient and I also heard leo mention to cut grains from your diet so since then I have tried to eat less grains. I am not to sure on this, should I eat cornflakes or porridge? I know cornflakes is made from grains to but I would figure that there is less grain content in cornflakes then in porridge? I am not sure. Afternoon:I was sitting on the radiator thinking on what I should do. I was thinking about reading a self help book or go to play video games. I ended up choosing video games despite knowing that reading a self help would be more beneficial, so end up playing video games for the next couple of hours, I have my dinner and suddenly shit its already 4 oclock (or maybe it was 5 oclock) what the fuck am I doing with my day. Meditation: I did 33 minutes roughly of meditation, I started at around 6:02 and finished at 6:35. My eye were giving me discomfort from staring at a screen for so long, so during my meditation most of the thoughts I had were related to the suffering that my body was going through. Exercise: I did 20 minutes of cardio, 12 minutes of jogging and 8 minutes walking, I haven't done my strength exercises yet, but I am going to do it today. I find that strength exercises are easier to do then cardio.I often feel in need of water badly after cardio, I need to drink more water. I had some resistance from my best friend homeostasis today but I pushed through it. It was quite cold out when I was doing my running, my finger felt frosty, kind of like the first stages of frostbite when your skin starts to redden up. After doing my meditation I found my brain looking for excuse not to do my jogging/walking exercise. I literally looked in the mirror and looked my self in the eye and said something like "No,I am not giving, I am going to do my exercise" The resistance is annoying, I must go see if leo had done a video on how to deal with resistance of further more to reduce and or get rid of it, because I know at some point its going to get me when I'm feeling weak, mentally or physically.

Day 3 Sorry for not posting this yesterday, I forgot about it. I do not remember in detail what I did yesterday but I will say it in summary. Morning Routine: Cold Shower, nice and frosty. Meditation: Did 30 minutes of meditation, it was a good meditation session. I had little disturbances, a few thoughts arised but I let them passed althougth with a few exception in where I went on thinking about the thing that popped into my head. Exercise: I did 20 minutes of walking with small intervals of jogging. I also did 23 minutes of pushup , weight curls and punching with weights. (2kg and 5kg weights) I also received a good bit of homework from school, about an hours worth of homework, I hope to have it done by sunday. Sorry for lack of detail I cant remember my thoughts in detail from yesterday.

Ok thanks.

I will get a book or two relating to health in the future, but some advice now would be helpful so I don't end up doing more harm the damage when exercising for the next couple of weeks.

Hey, doubld. My name is Lorcan and Im 14. I can see where you are coming from although I cant say I have a particularly abusive family. However in relation to the playing video games , social anxiety and chasing girls. I can sort of get a grasp of what you arr feeling(sort of). I used to sit on my ass and place video games all day ,porn and do no self help or self improvement whatso ever. However around 13 years old I got sick of that crap and by accident discovered leos channel after having some family drama in our house. I typed in How to deal with toxic people and leos video showed up. Since then I have improved a fair amount, I still play a hood bit of video games but Im slowly doing other things that are more flhelpful to me. So you want to change your life? I would recomend the Life Purpose course like expansion. Also I think self inquiry would be beneficial to you, so you can find out who you Really are. Its going to take suffering. Find your passion. An absolute passion. Dont get trapped in a dream bubble. But dont have limiting beleifs either. Question everything ,again and again.Even the beleifs that you find to be true. Notice what your mind does and take notice how how you may be self sabataging yourself. Dont get your knowledge form just one source, leo is great but, thr more sources the better. Develop a reading habit, there is loads of things you can do to transform your like. Google actualized.org blueprint ,there is a list of 100 and more things. Also keeping a journal on your self devlopment would help, there is a section for it in the forum. I have my own journal I started recently,hope I helped. My phone battery is 5 Percent

Day 2 Morning Routine: This Morning I had a cold shower of at least 3 minutes, I had the similar resistance to having a cold shower as I did the last day but, knowing that If I continued having warm showers for multiple days in the row it would ruin the cold shower habit I had going from the past month. Its strange how you get used to doing something and yet you still resist it. I preped my bag with 50c bags of sweets that I would sell at school for 100c or 1 euro. about 5 bags, business wasn't as good as usual. Previously I had tried walking around the school during my lunch , bag on my back hollering "WINE GUMS, FRUIST PASTILES 1 EURO" and going up to people and saying "Do you wanna buy something" and saying certain things to get people to buy it "This is what homeless people get there kids for christmas" it got a few sales but not really enough. Don't get me wrong I sold me more when I went around the school selling rather just waiting for people to come to me. But I wasn't getting that many more people, So I just decided that if anyone wanted to buy sweets they would just have to come to me. One thing I regret is that I had people constantly asking me where I Sourced my sweets, and eventually I got tired of people asking and told them I got them in Aldi or Lidl for 50c. Maybe this was one of the reason I wasnt getting many sales. If anyone has any advice on how I could sell my sweets more efficiently. Should I set up a stall,, advertisements. Perhaps do a bake sale or maybe I need to up my charisma. The older years never seem to buy anything. Although my variety could be better. Meditation: I did 30 minutes, it was very dark outside so I decided to do it inside. I found it more difficult then outside because inside there is less things going on. Outside you have the hustle and rustling of trees, the wind on your face, the grass wavering, tree branches swaying, flying birds and insects. Blue sky, green grass soothing colors very little squares. Inside, everything is all quite, still. Everything is pretty squareish. No wind on your face, dark and neutral colours. Bland and boring. I guess I am going to have to learn to enjoy the indoors just as much as the outdoors, after all, its just my ego making outdoors easier to meditate in then indoors. Unless I am wrong... I could be wrong. Exercise: I did 15 minute workout. I am quite a skinny guy, in fact I can just about count my ribcage bones without tensing, when I tense they become more noticeable. I worry that when I am working out that I am actually canibalizing muscle rather then building it because of how skinny I am. I looked up 3 beginners workout mistakes and he mentioned something about how if you are working out too much you will canibalize muscle rather then build it, he mentioned something about if you have some fat on your arms or whatever you can sculpt it into muscle, so looking at my arms, there isnt much fat on my arm to begin with to make muscle out of. Some advice would be nice on this . Thanks.

Thanks! Do you mean to list like this? Meditation: Today I did 20 minutes of meditation and blah blah blah blah blah (and so on) Body workout: I went to the gym (etc) Healthy meals: I ate this and that today, I find myself eating too much junk food (etc Career time investment :I did 2 hours of drawing today (etc)

Day 1 I woke up this morning, I had some negative emotions about school. I sat in my bed and they just sorted faded away after a while. I usually had cold showers, but this particular morning It was quite cold and both my body and mind were resisting me. My mind was resisting me from having a cold shower based on the discomfort from the cold I was already feeling from having go out of bed, the groggy feeling of waking up made me event abstain from having a cold shower even more. So acknowledging this, I took a warm shower. I felt slightly disappointed in myself for having given into to comfort. So because of this towards the end of my warm shower I turned it all the way to maximum cold. The first time I had to put it back to hot because of the initial shock impulsed me to put it back to warm. I then trying turning the hot water to cold slowly, which was even worse. So I just decided to deal with the discomfort of going straight to cold, so I went straight to cold. I got used to it after 30 seconds from having had cold showers in the past, I then showered for a minute in the cold water before finishing. In School, there wasn't many people present today in our year group because they had a two day school trip on Monday and they only just got back from the trip on Tuesday at around 8 o clock. It is probable most of them told there parents that they were too tired or something of the like to show up the next day. So I had free class for most of the day. I did roughly in the region of 20-25 minutes of meditation today, usually when I meditate I bring my watch, but I find it rather distracting as I have thoughts about looking at my watch and then I have a battle in mind about whether to look at my watch or not.Thoughts like "Come on you have been out here too long". Then I look at my watch and it reads 5 minutes have passed. So I tried not using it today. What I have noticed when I am not wearing a watch is that this sort of freedom comes about you. Its like when your wearing a watch your always sort of chained to time, scheduled, always keeping track of the time. Time seems to go a bit quicker when you wear one.When I'm not wearing one I feel more timeless, if that makes more sense. I did 15 minutes of weight exercise , I used 2 , 2 kilo weights. 1 weight for each arm. I punched while holding them and pulled my forearm up to my main arm whilst holding the weights. (I have no knowledge in weight lifting, I am new to it, I just started today) I did 12 minutes of brisk walking. I was planning to do walking earlier in the day but there was a good lot of midgey flys flying around the circuit of my house so I decided to put it off until later , in which I did 12 minutes of brisk walking as mentioned above at about 7 o clock. To give some backstory, I used to do 20 minutes of relatively fast jogging around the house and have since stopped since school started.I also did do 30 minute walks about 2 days ago but my own homeostasis was enough to stop me. (I will get back int it) Also I belive homeostasis is why I stopped meditating for 5 days in a row a week. It was hedonism I think, I was sitting on the computer playing a video game with my friend and I glanced over at the clock and it says 7 oclock, so In my mind I decided not to make the effort to meditate and stay in the fun and comfort I was having playing this game with my friend. I acknowledged this at the time and knew what I was doing was what I should'nt be doing but I did it anyway. I also have intentions to read today which I will do after I'm writing this, I am currently reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. I am new to doing this journal stuff. I see that my layout need improving, if you have any suggestions on how to improve my layout please do. Or if you anything else to say please do whether it be advice or a general comment please do. I do appreciate it.