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this describes me to the core. every word. but never articulated it this way.

I disagree with how serious most people are here, humor is almost absent

Islam is a whole story, a context, not just one thing and one agenda. people cherry pick whatever that suits them. if you understood the full picture, you would come up to the conclusion that it is a mix of social, political, spiritual, and historical context with multiple agendas effecting it.

Leo: explains deeply and passionately what love is. The girl interviewing him: is that why people end up looking like their pets?....i think you are on to something.

@DMM710 you're right. also, both aren't mutually exclusive. we can ask Leo and use AI as well

I sure will ask more questions, roger that. but AI is great as well in contemplation and connecting dots, I'm a writer so it is very helpful, it amplifies my creativity and workflow.

See, you accuse us, kids, with seeking instant gratification on demand? look at what you did: you chose a thoughtful, understanding route where you think a bit before commenting? NOPE you chose a lazy, reactive instant thoughts that come to the head route full of assumptions and projections.? YES

@DMM710 yeah it would be like talking to a version of Leo himself. so many business owners, consultants, experts... already do that, they make a a digital avatar and feed it all the knowledge they have and sell it to people as a chatbot they can ask questions and stuff. i don't know how efficient it is though.

it depends on the prompt and instructions you give it. the more detailed the better. I've been using it for this specific scenario and God damn how much does it amplify my understanding and how much i get from those videos. since all of Leo's videos are almost all connected to each other, the best technique i use so far is taking the transcript of 3 or 4 videos, give them to AI and tell it to pull from them and synthesize the information in them in order for me to understand or make sense of something. I end up articulating the insights so much better and clearer and coming up with new ones after connecting so many dots. for example, i took the transcripts of 4 videos: 1.Self-Love - The Highest Teaching In The Universe 2.Overcoming Addiction - The Root Cause Of Every Addiction 3.How To Deal With Loneliness - Especially While Self-Actualizing 4.Spiral Dynamics - Stage Yellow and told it to help me understand connection and what does it mean to be happy on your own without needing human connection and how one can regulate their nervous system without co-regulation. I gave it context of my life, context of what got me to be curious about that, constraints, gave it instructions on how to speak, level of depth, style, what to do and what not to do...etc. so many dots connected in one conversation, and i kept getting insights over and over after days from just that conversation. Of course i watched all those videos before, this just amplifies their value.

@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

I still don't get life purpose. since my life has always been a series of medium-term projects (6 months to 2 years) that either solve a problem, or my curiosity drifted me there. these projects are all over the place, from university to business to dating to hobbies. i learned so many skills and never specialized in any domain. now I'm a freelancer, not because of life purpose, but i maxed out university so i quit and freelancing seemed to be the next challenging project that excites me and I'm curious about. when i think of the future, i don't see myself doing something specific, but rather engaging in projects that fit that context of my life. my motivation has always been growth and creativity, so do I need life purpose?

It would be extremely valuable if Leo revisited some of his older, practical self-help videos and provided updated context on them in light of his current understanding. Many of us still go back to those older videos especially on topics like success, business, habits, and foundational self-development. As someone who is young and building his career, I often rely on those practical teachings. But sometimes i wonder "Would Leo articulate this the same way today?" Given how much deeper and more refined his understanding has become especially through his metaphysical explorations it seems likely that he would add nuance, depth, or even partial corrections. All it would take is a single synthesis style video where Leo briefly revisits key older teachings and adds updated commentary, refinements, or deeper framing, contextualizing them through his current level of consciousness and insight. I try to do this myself, I always try to synthesize old self-help teachings with the more recent deep metaphysical videos and come up with my own insights and wonder if I'm right or wrong. but it would be far more powerful to hear that integration directly from Leo himself. Anyways huge thanks Leo, you have changed my whole life I don't even know how to express it, thank you.

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.