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Great stuff! When you're going through this phase, pursue that which inspires you most, and treasure that self-inspired energy. Best wishes.

There isn't going to be a bubble or one that pops. What we see is a hostage situation and the robbers aren't going home without their money. Which means at best, we see controlled demoliion, and at worse, widespread instability that invariably leads to increasingly more feudalistic geopolitics. This is a global condition now that was already pre-set through earlier decade long forecasting anticipating what is now societal predictive programming finding its natural tunnel. As one country falls another will rise, this is not a war among companies anymore, or countries, its geopolitical oligarchy, that's the overtone in the public's blindspot now. They've already run their simulations on what's to come and now they're just going to minimise the damage along the desired trajectory, and maximise it at certain price points because the only philosophy that remains competitive in this kind of game is that the "end justifies the means". That's the bank robbers code, and its all or nothing now. Case study examples of "look its popping" are just looking too young into the future of a technology that is invariably going to undergo far more developmental trajectories than what anyone anticipated pre-ten years ago.

This feels more like advertising from a personal however minor ego backlash than it does a reconciliation on personal views around relationships. You started off saying you can't do relationships because of the games, then you finish with "if it wasn't for the 'beautiful souls' (likely around age 25)". This feels like the games continued in terms of how you pursued women, you never found your lover and so now you feel regret for the intimacy you did achieve but have now lost, or haven't fully understood in a way that you can act it out properly in reality. And now you're pretending this was your internal doctrine the whole time all the way through, when in reality it now feels like a defense against potential pain from the intimacy that you actually seek. This creates a circular argument with yourself to justify why you will never achieve the relationship you want that's actually based in reality, not an idealistic image you have of your partner and real down to earth relationships. Just my off the cuff feedback. You do you.

Heading to Seoul soon, Henderson is new, KL will likely be my next marathon destination (just a great idea to run through all the beautiful spots, arrive at the airport and just jump on the plane straight to India). Yeah, I like peace as a medium, but I need a bit of adventure unless the tranquility is a disciplined interval, or for say, raising children.

Most people grew up doing sports of some kinds as kids, so they never needed a gym trainer outside of going deeper. Most people not only didn't have the right exposures to therapeutic techniques, this absence became funnel into every other medium that could corrupt it further; the entire entertainment industry (music, films, video games) comparatively speaking and a toxic social media environment that dually contributed to individual to group and back to further depending individual issues. It's not complicated. When a system is able to offload its management to other systems without having to be accountable to itself, it faces higher entropy which degrades the very functions that make it a phenomenon stable enough to call it a system in the first place. This is why simple yet effective ideas circulating like taking on greater responsibility and ownership in one's life creates the challenge positive stress needed in a person's life to restore and even better functions. Hierarchically, this also tends to be self-reinforcing here too where if someone is say higher up in a company structure their brains tend to on average work a little better relative to the proper exercising of the functions responsible to that role. It doesn't necessarily mean they are smarter than someone lower on the totem pole, though in general, higher status begets better brain function. That said, irrespectively, simply owning your life with as much responsibility as the senior position you should assign that level to, should beget most of the positive impacts here. Including with respect to how doing so aligns with the same esteem as moving up in seniority does to your own life. Isn't it interesting that the science shows that most people on average won't value their own lives as much as their social status reflects? That's the inference to draw on the correlation between social status and improved health, cognitive function and psychological stability. And its because evolutionarily, social status is inherently tied to feelings of safety, where its absence, can be correlated with nearly every therapeutic anxiety under the sun supposedly needing psychological intervention. Here's my straight up advice: For anyone, if you can genuinely find an amazing therapist, good for you, take that amazingness to generate a learning feedback loop that leads you to higher and higher self-mastery in a rigorous way and you'll be self-justifying your choice in a rational thought out way. The reality is however, that although I cannot account from personal experience, most people really struggle to find a good gym trainer here, simply because one, great therapists are rare in a cognitively ageing economy as per the first reference regarding degrading standards, and two, the psychological gym equipment just isn't amazing otherwise success rates would be reflected in the accounting books much more. Bottom-line, you must take personal responsibility for yourself in these regards. And here's a thing, that'd a damn good thing, and its going to make you feel damn good and empowered in the way I suggested including the positive cognitive and psychological benefits that will ensue. Interesting isn't it? By someone becoming their own saviour, and truly believing in that by taking on full responsibility and ownership there, they become the very person they feel safe around to feel loved again, and to love again, imbued with all the same psychological and cognitive benefits of the 'higher (social) status'; I stand by that hypothesis. It's a paradoxical way to heal self-love and for someone to embrace their lives fully, something that I wish for everyone here to experience in a healthy way. Best wishes.

Phenomenological Functionalism is how I would term what I said. My approach described is honestly what I would prescribe as at least one aspect of teaching a child to a person of any age on how to keep a diary, and or, what one main aspect of journalling should encompass. With the only limitation for the latter being that an adult typically has far less time unless they're studying psychology in some long form medium like university that it becomes reinforcing. This is GTA 6 for self-awareness without the need for a billiondollar budget but may just turn you into a billionaire one day, or at least if you start from a young age heh. My parenting techniques are going to be advanced kiddos!

It's a good idea (in part). It's not original in the way its implied, but its a good starting point. A purist philosophy must start from a functionalist approach. This isn't conceptual based, there are no a priori's. So directionally, presently there's a lot to miss and want there still for it to be workable. Pure Philosophy is a good baseline reading though, and its something not just Leo, but everyone should seek to expand on for their own template of contemplative reflection. Purist Philosophy sounds like a decent headline for an expression of adapting a "first principles" approach to philosophy. The first step is to identify the categories that you're going to be working with. First and foremost, they are functional. Like the function of being aware. "Functionalist Philosophy", which I would refer to as a way to engage in and develop philosophical introspection along with the self-awareness that conducts it. Functionalism is actually already a branch of philosophy, however it is mainly taught as a conceptual ideal of philosophy more than a first person practice which is how I would advocate it, something that I imagine would be more along the lines of what Leo may at least want to make as a central tenet concerning. The best way to explain my own use of Functionalism here from a "purist philosophy" approach is as follows. Imagine you never existed until this moment. You're in front of a desktop with a keyboard in front of you. Your task is to map your entire consciousness until you have completely mastered all of the functions that advance your personal agency. This isn't merely the naming of functions typical of the formal referencing of the term, it is to recursively interact with your awareness continually until those names eventually lead to mastery. You have no other task. You do not remember anything other than this one objective about what exists and or what could exist. Information merely appears to you in the moment and you analyse it as it appears. "Analysis" however appears not as "I am analysing" but an awareness over the analytical function itself, where you seek to become intimately aware of how you are analysing information. The moment you are saying "I am doing X" without having first mapping it, you are failing the task. In this sense, you hold a "revelational" awareness throughout as you are experiencing awareness self-referentially comprehend existenec moment to moment. This makes "Functionalist Philosophy" inherently self-referential, self-evidential and self-corrective. Doing it accurately, encompasses meta-recursive dialogue, where belief, claims, proclamations, dogmas, certainties, are tied to the awareness stating them, thereby reflective of that level of meta weight, with the level of absolutism held solely meta-relationally, not as a personal declaration or sermon. I urge the reader to give it a go. Relevant challenge questions for the daring: How long can you begin doing this task before you opt out and allow another story of consciousness begin to take over? What insights did you learn from doing this activity? How might you expand on practically applying the thought experiment better the second or third time around? Purist Philosophy, it's a good direction. But the battlefield needs some work, where it first and foremost must start operationally not semantically. As in "it does" more than "it knows", where knowing is understood in the recursive circular motion. That's where the least philosophical damage is done to truth, as best as a human can apprehend it within the restricted environment of our biological apparatus. Best wishes.

He gets paid to bring other people down. This is textbook. Classic 101 PSYOP on another person. I found it remarkable couple years back how easily swayed people supposedly so interested in science were regarding. I called him out on it at the time, he then got into a comment war with me at the time. He lost. It was so hilarious, I couldn't believe how further immature he was. This is the problem when you're not simultaneously advancing your emotional intelligence with and in unity with your broader cognitive apparatus. Our status quo on emotional intelligence is still so incredibly underdeveloped, my goal within the next few months to generate at least a couple of new models that are hopefully useful concerning. The whole idea of retreating back in time, mapping emotions, learning how to process them in real time, while also temporally, at the same time as reorganising an emotion with wisdom coupled, combined with developing the memory as a symbolic interface to serve as a reminder and motivational anchor on how to navigate future situations is so much more advanced than doing a performative intellectual rant on a modern day intellectual. Maps and models to come, most of the hours are spent in the phenomenology. But yeah, its a paid defamation ATM.

Maturity is the movement from imitation to authorship. Life experience synthesised within those bindings, is a life path devoted to making each stage of growth there, sewn strong, while burning ties to the rest. Because we don't just imitate, or 'conform' to the 'other', the imitation begins as a conforming to an internal impulse, which means conformity first and foremost starts with imitating a projection within consciousness that betrays our own authorship. This is the difference between the true definition of democracy and autocracy, and the measurement of maturity in the agreements found within them. How much is someone giving up their right to vote, for this moment right now, for their state of consciousness and its direction? Are you going to be the simulator or the simulacrum? Maturity and agreement here, is what separates agreement from conformity.

Mathematics is my favourite skill to build, the physical body and the consciousness that abodes within it is my favourite tool to rebuild with that skill. To add, awareness is entirely concerned of that which it is aware of. Any degree of self-consciousness is to be by that measure aware of one's own limits of consciousness as that awareness exists in that moment. Mathematics provides the strictest measurement of those boundaries, an alertness to my own short-comings of that which I should already be aware of but am not, or that boundary that I should traverse with my consciousness but I have not. This is the purpose of self-aware consciousness, and awareness, the measurement of that. One's level of consciousness, is automatically gauged as a limit to which one is aware of their own level of consciousness relative to where it is not, most especially, be able to articulate in clear dialogue to oneself what further areas of awareness in consciousness one still needs to master. Morever, the present strategies one is undertaking in reducing the friction that should exist between the awareness of these short-comings and the pull one should have to close them. It is the mark of a mature consciousness to both be content with oneself and discontent, even restless, with the gap that exists in this awareness between the actual and the actualisable. That is the very purpose of life in the context of our growth for consciousness. Any postulation of consciousness at all, is presupposing a working model of consciousness with that postulation, and that postulation at the very least comes with it, a measurement of how aware someone is relative to that postulation's advancement. This is why it is so pertinent to any path of personal development once it has reached this path, to conceptualise the boundaryless with boundaries that mark out areas of potential growth. Imagination, empathy, heart-mind-body connection, cultural understanding, social intelligence, dreams, physical stamina, fortitude, delayal of gratification, etc. With all of these maximised what may we typically see? And is this a greater and higher expression of consciousness than otherwise would be? What are all the practical ways in which one can add these categories to their own frontiers? If one truly understands the infinite maturely, then at the very least, one can figure out how to pick up a pen, get a piece of paper out, and mark out their areas of growth for the day, in a joyful, well spirited, supportive way towards, while viewing themselves as infinitely microcosmic in that dance. One thing now becoming memeticised is how personal development has just been turned into this dopamine drug or just another life treadmill to run down, and there is definitely a lot of truth to that, however it presents itself with another trap. The purpose of personal development like the purpose of any other thing in life, is understood relative to the limits of the consciousness apprehending it, which includes the maturity to which development is appraised. Any degree of sophistication beyond that cultural trend, whether towards obsessive self-improvement reversing the sense of meaning it's designed to instil, or rebelling against it entirely, is in service to understand purpose relative to context, so let me paint that picture briefly. We have this single life before us and the mature support of the multiplicity of life surrounding us. This causality engenders frontier points, how do I give more of my life each day? How do I explore more of life each day? Anyone serious in this endeavour, must measure it, inclusive of both the peace of that striving and the fight beneath it (or vice versa). Measurement, is why any communication to civilisation, to the life that breaths this opportunity in this moment right now and the awareness to seize it, exists at all. Measurement is not just in the conceptual, it is in our evolutionary instincts, memories, emotions and deeper essences, even tribe consenses even if personal opinion tends to go against the grain. Mathematics, is just my own main measurement at present, simply because I have learned to align it with so many other areas of life from those noted frontiers and beyond: physical, mental, social, spiritual, etc development. Perceive yourself rightly as grand, sacred, humble and eager, and you'll know how to position yourself relative to grandiosity, and the skills that await their furthering just outside its frontiers. Grandiosity is not bad in and of itself, we have this first word 'grand', of which all life is by virtue of its existence, then we have 'iose' kind of like 'virtuoso', and one of the goals of a consciousness relative to present understandings is to make it more poetically real, where music is reflective of harmony in the chaos. The skill of learning how to be a 'grand viruoso' in the context of one's own movement forward, is the opposite of being grandiosely unhinged. It is the accurate and well-earned self-respect to which one acknowledges within themselves because they've have taken the time to measure themselves correctly, and therefore can own themselves fully in that space, while pushing its boundaries with the mature weight they've set. Grandiosity is the fuel to be your full self, but like every other word when it comes to fuller, deeper, higher consciousness, it presupposes that you are perceiving the word with the maturity that places limits on its potential short-comings. So that the potentialisation, which needs the acknowledgement of the grand as its fuel, can actually result into meaning made real. When we are born, we are born to become our parents. Then we are born to become our environments. Then we are born to become ourselves. Only to then become born again to become the world once more. Only to become, ourselves, again. Languages are great for consciousness expansion in unique often hidden ways. I am learning French, Korean, Ukrainian, Chinese, Italian, Greek and English. Oh, and the US Keyboard as opposed to the UK version. Meta-language is probably my biggest venture in mathematics, in imagination especially. Best wishes

If you make it a habit to exert yourself harder on your methodologies (i.e. exercise/s) designed to train you further than any potential unexpected challenge may push you, you are preparing yourself to win a war you never even needed to prepare for. You, and likely anyone, will also most likely become a far happier person, in fact its one of the least significant overflowing benefits. I know this from personal experience. Best wishes, strength and harmony.

China is a great spot about now. Bangkok and Shanghai especially convenient for those looking for a luxury lifestyle on a much lower western budget. Kuala Lumpur would be my second choice for the more nomadic entrepreneur. Best wishes.

Keep it up, stay aligned with your progress! Best wishes.

@Zenterus It's really important during this phase of your transition to find grounded people to echo grounded maturity during this transition. Stick to basics, habits, goals that gives you deeper contact with the grounded earth. Attune to the people that already mirror this. Use this feedback loop to teach yourself to ground yourself, while avoiding influences that do not mirror this echo. That will create the safe learning environment you need. Best wishes.

It's a good idea to have many different circles and friends across many different areas, inclusive of philosophy. One's own views have a hard time of finding a common centre to the point of rigidity when this occurs. That tends to work well with creative synthesis that acts as a conclusion that bridges. This has a recursive conversational positive concerning your own input to discussions as well. Now one's leaning in to genuinely learn over repeating back preconceived conclusions. This is the problem of isolating oneself either in one's own mind, or just one perspective. Let's have a look at mind as an acronym. M = Map > model > Memory > Meaning I = 'I' > Eye > perspective > Optics > infinity N = Network > nodes > novelty > navigation > nexus D = Domain > Dialect > diversity > dialogue > design One more I'd add to M, as a 5th like the rest, is "Multiplication". That's what we are, but we can forget that for every one human, they reflect not just themselves but a time period that is beyond us in our perspective of them, and they themselves in their perspective of themselves and the picture of the world at large including our own. We are mind multiplied, healthy discussions in recognition of this foster the greatest of creativity even with the least experienced of people. Best wishes, have a rad time.