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@Elliott when i look at the future, i don't see me having more or being more successful or contributing in some way. but rather i just see myself working on projects on and on and on. by focusing on autonomy, creativity and curiosity instead of some outcome or purpose. these are some examples of projects i worked on in the past 7 years: when i was in high school, i focused on learning beatbox and beatboxing, i was obsessed with it for 2 + years, then i focused on getting to university, i gotten into engineering school and focused on it for 2 years, i figured i'm more of a creative person than analytic, so i switched to architecture school. then i focused on architecture school for 1 year, then i focused on dating and socializing, then i focused on leadership and management skills by being in university clubs, the i focused on building my online business and it's where i learned visual thinking, drawing, and writing, now i'm focusing on scaling as a freelancer. while working on all those projects, my whole motivation was growth and creativity. once a project gets boring or i don't grow anymore, i go "well it would be sick to do this" and just go and do it mainly because it will challenge me creatively and will allow me to grow. but what i have is a philosophy and values but is that different than a life purpose or it is the same?

@WonderSeeker thank you for your explanation and sharing bro, I appreciate it. also that's inspiring. i guess you're right, timing matters, i will reflect on that more.

@WonderSeeker I agree that purpose is not a job, but the point of life purpose is to align everything in life with it, job included. for example, someone may say that their life purpose is to help people be more conscious and be free of their unconscious stuff, so they might choose a therapist, or coach as a job. but do I need that purpose statement to have clarity on what to do? I'm 23 btw

How is it that one of if not the greatest synthesizer and sense maker in history, with a gigantic body of work not get the credit he deserves? this guy mapped everything holistically, figured out life basically and he still is so niche? do you think his teachings will spread more now that he is planning to get into more podcasts and is writing a book?

Here is my theory: They probably had a different Model of technology than what we have now. see, the way we have technology by leveraging electricity, metals, engines, machines, electronics...etc is just a model. a model of how technology works. a model that is a result of a way of thinking, a materialistic scientific way of thinking. a model that got built by accident. what i mean by accident is that no one planned it, discoveries just compounded into what we have now. Technology is not "progress", it is not linear, but rather path dependent and survival oriented. if just the discovery of electricity were later than when it happened, technology would be so much different, because we would have used our problem solving in another area and in another field, with a different approach and it would lead us into a different kind of technology. but since we discovered electricity, and it solved our problems faster and improved technology by miles. we never bothered to think and experiment in another direction in another way and experiment differently to improve stuff. stuff is already improved so why bother. Technology is basically manipulation of consciousness. and consciousness isn't just materialistic. if we just go back 500 years, and tell someone "we built shit that flies, and shit that gets us to communicate wherever we are, and we built technology that thinks like us, we have our own light and it's not fire, we built 800-meter-tall buildings" he would go "impossible, fucking impossible" because in order for him to fathom it, in order to make sense of it, he first needs a dozen epiphanies that change how he sees the world and his paradigm. but since he doesn't have those epiphanies, his mind can't do the mental jump necessary to accept those things, so his brain just goes "error". if i had to explain it with an analogy, it would be this: if we go to a fundamentalist blue consciousness level guy (spiral dynamics) and we tell him "you are god, you are love, you are everything and you are infinite" he is gonna go "fuck you you dumb delusional devil ass motherfucker, who do you think i am? some hippie ass woo woo fuck? get away from me" because his psyche hasn't gone through 4+ epiphanies and paradigm shifts that would bring him close to making sense of that. (for more of this, watch Leo's "The Topic Of Mindfuckery" video) he will never ever ever entertain that thought from where he stands, he needs at least 2 or 3 existential crisis to grow and develop the mental capacity it needs to fathom those thoughts. so basically, we can conclude that if humanity gets into some apocalypse and all human knowledge and technology gets wiped out. humans are more likely to invent a new technology model that works differently that what we have since they will have a different sequence of epiphanies and paradigm shifts than what the modern world went through.

you didn't have to explain on his behalf (jk this is funny)

@Zen LaCroix okay hear me out, i get how important marketing is but, in a field like epistemology, genuinely original work should eventually surface through inquiry itself. What strikes me as strange is that Leo Gura’s work hasn’t meaningfully penetrated circles that explicitly care about epistemology and sense-making. If someone has a rigorous epistemic attitude, genuine curiosity, openness, and a willingness to question materialist assumptions, it seems almost inevitable that they’d eventually encounter his work. The fact that many lifelong intellectuals never do raises a question for me: is it a limitation of exposure and incentives within academia, or a form of epistemic closed-mindedness toward non-institutional sources? I’m not claiming Leo is beyond critique. I’m saying it’s odd that people devoted to understanding reality can spend decades in that pursuit and never seriously engage with one of the more radical contemporary explorations of epistemology and consciousness.

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@Ramasta9 but you forgot that spirituality and consciousness is just one tiny part of the map. Leo's approach is practical at the beginning then evolved to more epistemology, consciousness and spirituality. it combines left brain and right brain. from basic survival to business to life purpose to consciousness, to science to social sciences and lot more and how they all interconnect, and why and how and all the epistemic questions. it's holistic.

@Sincerity yeah true. but even if he's just a youtuber, if people have the right epistemic attitude and approach. they would eventually stumble upon his work, especially big names and researchers and organizations. and that's why I'm surprised not so many do.

you didn't have to put a dot at the end

this is too niche so making content for growth would be a tool to scale. so, treat your Instagram page as a portfolio for now that persuades people into believing you can deliver results. talk about why people need OBEs and LDs + post some testimonials (these are the most important) + a breakdown of what you do. then do cold outreach. all this has to be on the pinned posts and the highlights. Post WHAT and WHY and sell the HOW. also study basic psychology of persuasion and how people apply them, focus on the practical

the problem is not the stickers. the problem is where you are selling them. you just got to find the right target audience. and the stickers need to trigger some emotions for them (identity, belonging, pride, relief....)

search online business models that include content as a marketing strategy to get clients/buyers. if you have something to sell (service, product, transformation...) you can make solid money with a very small following if you do things right.

@Princess Arabia princess Arabia you cooked with the loneliness explanation. after i read it everything all of a sudden makes sense and it just clicks. if you still have more insights about that please comment them. also does that mean loneliness is an illusion and it is just the ego's way of screaming for attention?

can you update us with your story and what happened in the last 3 years ? i am kind off in a similar situation and would like to learn from your story, i'm from morocco as well so your situation is very similar to mine

I'm very passionate about the content in this playlist and would love to explore the topics further to gain a deeper understanding. I've watched every video in the playlist this year, and now I'm eager to dive into more detailed and comprehensive material. I’d be super grateful for any book recommendations or advice you’ve got to help me take my understanding to the next level.

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