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I can't imagine a worse relationship than being with someone who agrees with everything you say. The small disagreements, daily negotiations and compromises is what makes the relationship interesting because it helps you both grow and develops deep social skills. A high quality woman will challenge you each time you bullshit yourself because she knows you can do better.

Its an interesting question that can be answered in a few ways. Do you want a long answer or a summarised one?

this is EXACTLY what I mean when I said, it isn't a 20-second issue. Its the damage that this is doing to the part of your brain that you are trying to train to pay effortless attention, to be comfortable with silence and stillness. In a world dominated by noise and giant mountain of horse shit created by content "creators" , being able to pay sustained attention, say for 3 hours at one time is almost a superpower and it will make all the difference when you are trying to self actualise, fulfil your life purpose or do any meaningful work. No, honestly if you can burn that extra money, give it a 3-month trial and then reflect on whether it helped or not. or get a family membership if you live with more people that way everybody has to chip in a few bucks.

@Schizophonia yes adds distract you but the issue is much deeper than that. Anyways, let's just drop it, you're right this doesn't need to be a discussion

Imagine if during your set of bench-press or squat when you are trying to be maximally focused and you need individed attention, someone comes and starts tickling you under the armpits or showing a magazine in your face saying "look, you need to read about this facecream!" And you're like "fuck off, I am in the zone" and they are like "no no, just 20 more seconds, look look!" And then they come back at random times again and again and each time you must exert a little bit of your mental wellbeing to say "fuck off" and each time you need to bring yourself back, your mind has to retrace the steps it has already taken, reactivate the correct pathways to get into the zone which completely destroys your deep work effort and significantly reduces your creativity and short term to long term memory conversion. An add interruption lights all of your short term efforts on fire. And now imagine doing this 20-40 times a day, given that most videos have up to 10 add breaks , 7 days a week, that's tens of hours of disruption, annoyance needing to create a headspace for bullshit products that have nothing to do with your art, your life or your life purpose. And I'm not talking about double adds. It is also the cost of having your body flooded with adrenaline each time a bullshit advertiser disrupts you. And now imagine having to pay 12*15 euros a year to make it go away plus getting access to unlimited downloadables and cool interrupted music Worth it every single time. I mean, its not right, I hate that we live in this world but that's the cost of you having an access to free content. You pay with your time and your attention and become a bitch to the advertisers. I'd rather become a bitch to Google and pay them to leave me alone. But it depends on the individual usage of YouTube. It can be a tool of deep learning and it can be a tool of complete horseshit of a content where an add is actually a step up rather than an interruption.

Don't feel like you must choose one thing and stick with it for the rest of your life. Your LP may be changing and shifting over the years and so may your impact statement and the medium. But I understand the desire to get it right, its sort of a competency curse that once you're good at at a lot of things where you are no longer limited by your ability but you are now limited by the abundance of choices, it can be a bit frustrating to have to choose one. Anyways, it seems to me like you already have a pretty decent idea of what both are here: This seems like a powerful vision. Now from here work your way backwards. Where vision is the pinnacle of your Life Purpose Journey, the Impact Statement and Medium are further lines down. You said you like drawing, could that be your primary medium? Maybe you can have primary and secondary medium if you prefer more than one tool. This is a good start and seems more like your Mission Statement. Impact Statement is a little bit closer to your daily grind. Like when you zoom out of the things you do on daily basis (drawing, designing, researching, journalling) , you do that...to what? To help people what? Who are you trying to impact with your art? To generate (what?) and for (whom?) - that's your impact statement It is the bridge between your medium and your mission & vision. It is still a bit vague although it hints at direction (like a sign on a highway that says (Montana 350 miles this way, it helps but if there was no other sign you would probably miss Montana) but a bit specific that it connects to your ideal medium (driving your car on the highway, pressing the pedals, changing the gears, keeping the speed limit etc). For example my LP Statement (when I did this in 2016) was Studying Health & Wellbeing (medium) to help people live longer, better and thrive in life (impact statement) If I had to rewrite it today it would be tiny bit different as my LP has evolved but the essence remains the same, the impact statement is exactly the same 8 years later. The medium communicates to you what you do. The impact statement takes one step away from that communicating who you do it for and who (or what) are you impacting? Its kinda the answer to "what's the point of all this drawing/designingn?" Is this helpful?

Absolutely worth it, I've had it for past 5 years and wouldn't go back. YouTube is essential for my work, relaxation, exercise, learning and so many things and I can't be losing brain cells to those retarded adds. Yeah, go for itl. YouTube music app which comes with it is pretty cool. The cost isn't extreme either

@Yimpa that must have been the worst porn add I've ever (not) seen

That's not good enough of an epistemic evaluation . pseudoscience is not synonym for bullshit. Pseudoscience means there isn't enough science yet which leaves a lot of room for uneducated interpretation, this has been happening all the time throughout the history of humanity. It can also mean that there is actually so much science that the public is left overwhelmed and people just sort of make up their own pseudoscientific conclusions based on hearsay, feeling, marketing and guessing. Pseudoscience can also be a source of future science for example an accumulation of personal anecdotes can be a stage of of clinical trial design eventually. Personal anecodes become collected as Case Studies -> those are being collected by doctors as case series -> sufficient amount of case series may trigger first experimental case control studies or cross sectional studies -> with enough data and time and money, these may progress into retrospective cohort studies and later on with more funding and data into prospective studies -> eventually RCTs and if we get enough of everything, the data will be systematically reviewed and meta-analysed. At that stage because so much has been collected, we can have faith that what the science shows is probably more reliable than hunches and guesses although it does not mean it has 100% correct answers, just makes it more likely that the true effect has probably been captured relatively precisely....with more time it will either be narrowed down further or actually the direction may start changing. Who says all health benefits are coming down to theobromin, I think its just one of many compounds that are responsible for the effects. Kinda like green tea. There are probably hundreds of polyphenols in cocoa that we have no knowldge on. To me , DC falls into a category of processed foods that are beneficial and their benefits outweight the cost until they start tipping you over your caloric limit, causing weight gain and at that point they become more harmful than beneficial. Some other examples of such category would be: seed oils, nut butters, plant butters, plant-based meat replacements, wholegrain bakery, starchy foods etc/.

@Leo Gura if you don't stop dispensing free samples of your home made Gator-Rade to the members of this forum I'm reporting the forum to big Don when he wins the next election.👮🏻

Has someone hurt you @integral? What's up with all of your content lately?

Life purpose work can take you a whole decade, even more. I'm not sure I would completely abandon all social interactions and fall into something like a monk mode as you may turn into a hermit where the competence and productivity will become a curse rather than a blessing and you'll find yourself unable to relate to people anymore. You can combine it all perfectly well, just schedule work in your calendar so that tasks are separated and include both socialisation and LP work (as well as other things, I assume you still need to work for some basic income somewhere?) Most people can't dedicate all their time into a single venue but if you can and desire to, maybe you should. Just be mindful of potential fallout from that and how it may impact other neglected parts of your development.,

@Yimpa @PsychedelicEagle in UK this test is called Red Cell Fatty Acids and Rhonda is correct, this is the gold standard at the moment that does not get skewed by your past 24 hour intake. In the research they call it "Red Blood Cell Fatty Acids" so maybe look for that as well. Might be called differently elsewhere but don't think "Omega 3 Index" is a generally recognised term as of yet outside of US. When in doubt, contact bunch of local testing companies and ask about the specifics.

@KenDo thank you for sharing all that. Yeah, if someone had gone through some much in their early life during neurodevelopment period, it would be surprising if they hadn't developed something like a fibro or RA or MS or something similar. The nature of the diagnosis and the "profile" of your early life experience kinda matches what I've seen in others with CFS & Fibro. Yes, you'll generally see most of your symptoms flaring up during periods of high stress. Portion of that is genetics, portion of that limbic kindling - which is why others in your case are fine yet you develop symptoms, because your body has become hyper acute to pain signals. You might not be able to re-code your genes (although don't quote me on that, they say gene therapy is the next thing in medicine) but if you can slowly start building a lifestyle where you are not exposed to extreme stimulation, extreme environmental stress and, in general less oxidative stress, you might find that you can control your symptoms better. A lot of those things you might not be able to change immediately but it could be a vision for the near future. Things of more immediate nature you can focus on are: Diet - with high content of antioxidant intake while lowering sodium, saturated fats, processed meat, high fat dairy and burnd/deep fryed and char grilled stuff. - basically a sort of an Mediterranean diet Exercise - this might be tricky but evidence shows that people with fibro tend to feel better when they exercise vs those who don't when it comes to those pain points. Although it is not clear what type of exercise and things like aerobic exercise shows non-significant effect , mind-body exercise like Thai-Chi or other would actually benefit you and it seems to be mostly favourable, maybe connect privately with @Thought Art, who is our local expert on the topic and has tons of content on it. Sleep - I should probably put this on top of the list, seems to be as important as diet. Non-negotiable 8 hours +. Your cells fight off microinflammation the best during REM sleep. No need to monitor just don't deliberately shorten your sleep with reels and late night binge or anything like that Stress reduction - do everything possible to keep your stress levels low. I don't know enough about you to give any specifics here but its something to pay a lot of attention to In the long terms, working in a career that is not inducing a lot of internal distress and living in an environment that puts you at peace would be preferable. 2 Years ago, I moved to an English coast, took a pay cut at a remote job but my quality of life has improved and stress levels halved. I wouldn't go back to London again. Hope any of this helps.

Are you talking about evidently puffy face (especially around cheeks) or are you just trying to obtain a visible jawline? EDIT: btw, lean face to increase chances of getting laid? I mean sure...if you are lean vs overweight your chances are higher ...although not necessarily ...but like in the grand scheme of things where you are looking for a date partner (I assume) and not just a quick shag, the leanness of your face is sooooo far down the priority list.. Don't spend too much energy obsessing over this detail. Sometimes the answers why you're not getting laid are more obvious such as living in the wrong city, spending too much time in the virtual world, seeing too much catered content or having no social skills....talk to girls more often and you'll get laid eventually. Ultimately tho, sleeping with random girls and burning money to get one night stands is dull because it takes time to find the harmony in the bedroom with another person. I'd instead focus on increasing your value as a long term date mate, becoming someone that women will find attractive as a life partner not a fuckboy. In a long term relationship you'll get all the sex you want and with time the sex gets better as you both figure out what and how you like it. And you don't need to sleep with 50 girls to figure that out

Fibro is very multifactorial, kinda like CFS or Long Covid, it is rare that only one thing works and it needs to be addressed from numerous directions at the same time. Do you know what caused yours? Have you had it for long time or more recent? Was it developed after a severe immune shock? (Covid, major infection, trauma etx)

Going to the gym is like building your retirement fund, but instead of money you're building your "health fund" from which you'll be able to withdraw Because higher proportion of muscle mass is associated with higher quality of health in men and women past the age of 50+ At some point you'll start losing that muscle mass, it is pretty much inevitable, and by that time, the more you have, the longer you'll remain healthy, compared to someone who had little muscle mass to begin with and hos body is in severe catabolic state which is basically an onset of disease. It will also protect your testosterone levels from rapid drop and that'll have positive effects on your brain, heart and your 🍆 being able to work propely There's more to it for sure like mental health, detoxification, benefit for your digestion etc Secondly it builds up your discipline, teaches you self control, helps you appreciate slow progress and the concept of hard work to achieve a tangible result compared to wanting quick results for no work like investing into some shady scheme. But any reason where the gym is done to impress someone or get a girl or, only to lose weight for a wedding or something like that is completely stupid

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Something practical like those 10 book reviews in your LP course, that was a nice added value. Or those videos you used to have on Limiting Beliefs. Something unrelated to the content of the course yet exciting enough that you could both advertise it as a part of the course and the buyer would be like "wow I had no idea that's even a thing, thanks Leo"

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I'm curious, how is it that uranium is high. I mean, like how does one get exposed to it these days other than obvious stuff such as being exposed to some sort of leakage as a result of force majure. Does anyone know?

Interesting , thanks for sharing. The results are pretty much in line with what I would expect from replacing red meat with plant based alternatives regardless of the source of the protein (e.g,. mycoprotein, pea, soy isoflavones etc). I'm excited for the days when we'll finally have enough data to confirm that this stuff is actually by far superior to red meat and processed red meat in terms of disease risk mitigation and longevity. Small observations tho (maybe irrelevant) Not sure if we could call this a proper meta analysis since there is neither a forest plot nor PRISMA flowchart so not sure if they actually followed PRISMA guidelines of meta-analysing data. This seems to me more like a systematic review without the MA but maybe I'm wrong. Also, their choice of keywords seems a bit.......non-exhaustive? At least compared to what you usually see in similar trials which is like 5 lines of keywords. I wonder if someone went back and went really crazy with keywords if they would identify other RCTs that should have been plugged in and hadn't been? .....but mostly this is small stuff and irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Overall I think this is a pretty decent trial but I'd love someone well versed in research methodology to run a review video on this because if it shows up that the study had a flawed methodology, the low carbs, the ketos and the news will use this as a strawman and all the the baby will be taken out with the bathwater.... This is kinda of stuff that will be shared among vegan communities, news, health articles and used as an ammunition in debates, which is awesome, but I'd like to see this getting replicated, peer-reviewed and maybe published on NIH eventually to give us a beacon of hope and inspiration for more research in this direction without fear of backlash for the researchers involved Still, these are awesome results and I'm really delighted to see more of this type of research coming up. Fingers crossed for the future

Hey man, how are you doing? Share an update?

No advice other than following professional advice but sending my best to you and your family. Lot of strength and resilience in months to come! Don't forget to take care of your wellbeing in the midst of all this.