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@GroovyGuru That's awesome then! So you're working from home, but you're still sitting there doing nothing for hours? I don't get it. Why aren't you using your time more wisely? Surely, at the very least, you can just entertain yourself online - Youtube, podcasts, interviews etc, tv shows? Meditate?

@Striving for more Depends on the situation. If you're doing daygame on busy streets, parks, outside areas, shopping centres etc, then very direct game is very important. You can't be vague about your intentions in those situations because the girl will wave you away and walk off. I wouldn't specifically use that phrase 'hey I think you're cute', but usually something close to it. Very important to state that you stopped her because you found her attractive - imo atleast. Its absolutely not cringey or needy - if done correctly. It's hard to give full details over a forum post, theres so much to teach. I would say indirect is more needy. The girl wants you to be fucking intentional and direct, and even if she doesn't find you attractive she'll respect your confidence. But if she doesn't want to talk, she doesn't want to talk. Being direct doesn't mean pestering the girl for 30 minutes. In other situations like when you're on public transport or just in any situation where the girl cannot walk away and leave the interaction immediately, a softer less direct type of game is more recommended. However I personally don't ever do approaches in these situations.

Is this really the right place to have this kind of discussion? Plenty of other more relevant forums online where you can talk about Cyberpunk.

Hello my British friends! Born in the East Midlands, currently living in very cold and grey London.

This pretty much describes my first corporate job as well. I often spent 3pm-5:30pm with absolutely nothing to do and obviously I couldn't just open up Youtube or browse the internet. It was very depressing. I know you aren't planning on staying in the job long but it usually does get better with time. The more comfortable I got in the job, the more knowledge of the job, the better the days went. My saving grace was Covid actually, because ever since April 2020 i've been working from home. I'm surprised you are working in an office at the moment? All that time that I would have spent doing absolutely nothing, I now do exactly whatever the hell I want. Being able to work from home is literally amazing tbh. Maybe try and find a different job which is allowing employees to work from home?

@Florian I can confirm that there is a big PUA community in London. There are a lot of guys out doing daygame here. There has been a few times where i've approached a girl and she said she was approached in a similar way just minutes before by another PUA. I was once going to approach a girl and then some random other PUA who I didn't know ran in front of me and took the girl for himself. To be fair this was on the busiest street in London, Oxford Street, which I now avoid like the plague, even though there is an endless stream of girls there. I strongly recommend doing a daygame bootcamp with James Tusk (search him on Youtube). It's expensive and he isn't back in London until some time next year but its 100% worth it. He's also the nicest most down to earth guy you'll ever meet. It's not essential that you live in London. You could easily get the train in on the weekend and spend 4-5 hours doing approaches. The benefit of living in London is that there are girls wherever you are so you can do one-off random approaches during the week, when you're going food shopping etc.

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@knakoo Nice share, the writer has some really great advice. Although I feel it may not be applicable for every single guy. I think if some guys followed this advice they would come across as too needy and nice guy. The writer seems extremely confident and grounded in himself, which allows him to act in the way he describes in his post and be successful with women. I think a lot of guys just need a more hardcore, more masculine, approach in order to get over their anxiety. Then they can start implementing his advice about setting up a safe environment and moving into the body. But all in all I love the post, I want to read more from him tbh.

@Strangeloop In what context are you asking these girls out? Are you in school, are these in social circle, or are you approaching girls you've never met before?

@SQAAD Honestly I think the ROA and dose is a major factor here as well, in addition to what has been said in other responses. The vast majority of people who take 5-MeO will smoke it, and likely do it with someone else or at worst in a group setting in the jungle. Not saying that God can't be realised in a group setting in a jungle, just doesn't seem like a conducive setting to realise God. It's unlikely for you to realise yourself as God with one mid range dose. Took me around 6 sessions with slowly building up the dose and getting use to the substance. Only then was it an OH MY GOD trip.

The absolute nature of reality of course! But there is a distinct difference between all of these concepts that we are using and the actual direct consciousness of it. The actuality of it is more profound and wonderful than you can possibly conceive of.

Are you even directly conscious of what 'consciousness is all there is' is referring to? The fact that you say its 'obvious and boring' says to me that you are not. What could possibly be more profound than the absolute nature of reality?

@jj40 You obviously lack clarity in your life but but this won't just come to you by itself randomly one day. And it won't come from watching Youtube videos. You have to actively create clarity and focus in your life. So sit down and intentionally and actively think about what you want to achieve. Actually write it out. Set a timer if you need to, and keep writing until the timer ends. If you don't know what you want, write out what you don't want. Keep doing this every week until you have a very very clear sense of what you want out of life. Then start to lay out actual action steps that you can take to achieve those goals. Set the intention from today to figure out what you really really genuinely want and don't give up until you do. Like I said, having direction in life isn't just going to come to you in a flash one day. You have to be proactive about this.

Actually you don't really need to learn anything to start investing in the stock market. The actual process of buying shares is incredibly easy. All you need is a good understanding of the market in general, what companies are likely to continue doing well/grow/innovate. Where is society heading, what things will society value in 10 years time? For example, TSLA stock is essentially free money at this point because electric vehicles are the future, and the company is providing so much value and is so far ahead of any of its competitors. I would advise against investing in crypto. Far too unstable and the returns are negligible.

@Beeflamb Your question is far too broad. It's basically impossible to answer. We're not here to lay out your life plan for you.

I think one bump may be acceptable if you received no replies after a week. No more than that please. Go to a 10-day Vipassana retreat. They're held all over the world and they're completely free with food and lodging provided for the whole duration.

That list of certified dentists is just what i've been looking for, thank you very much for that! Very helpful

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@tezk Excessively bumping threads is against forum guidelines, so please don't continue doing that. But to answer your post, the whole point of going on retreat is to be alone. Even if you attend a big group retreat you're still doing it alone, eating alone. I'd strongly recommend not going with some one else unless you are completely separated from them, not talking etc.

@Bird Larry Sure, I get this. I think it's fairly normal. I tend to keep quiet about my goals and ambitions, partly out of fear of being judged. I don't want to say i'm going to do something and then end up not following through with it. However, there's really no need to go around telling people your goals and vision for life, unless they specifically ask. Most people really don't give a shit - they're too focused on their own life. In my experience the best thing to do is quietly get on with your work, projects etc, and let the results speak for themselves.

@Intraplanetary Even though every person is 'wired' differently, I am surprised to hear she had literally nothing to show for her experiences. Why did she continue to do so many trips if she wasn't getting anything from them. I wonder how she would respond to 30mg of 5-MeO.

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@Dodo She reminds me of Anna Brown. Love the more feminine perspectives on spirituality.

I'm specifically working on becoming a freelance illustrator. I want to get to a point where i'm doing client work i.e. working for brands, companies, advertisers, magazines, publications. In addition to that, I want to produce and sell artwork that specifically illustrates spiritual and metaphysical ideas/concepts. I've always been 'arty' but I never got any good career advice in my teenage years, so I dabbled around in other areas and spent many years not really building my art skills or doing anything art related. However the whole time in the back of my mind I knew I was wasting a natural talent that I had, and if I didn't pursue it seriously I would regret it for the rest of my life. One day I suddenly realised that there are actually people that get paid to draw and make pictures! It just didn't occur to me that illustration was a potential career path, particularly now with social media etc. I also realised that illustrators aren't just people that draw images for children's books. There are many other avenues to go down. That was about 2.5 years ago, and i've been working on projects and kinda obsessively honing my skills ever since. I had a lot of fundamental art skills to learn, despite having done a lot of art my whole life. And good work takes a lot of time. I might spend 15 hours on a piece only to realise its not working. So thats why i've been working on it for a long time, and i'm not slowing down any time soon. I took Leo's life purpose course sometime before this. Elements of the above are clearly in my notes from the course, just not as explicitly. The main thing the course taught me was to just be committed to figuring out what you want to do in life, even if it takes you years to get there.

@Leo Gura Personally I didn't see any issues with the post. I actually thought it was quite genuine and honest. You didn't try to sell yourself as something you're not. My only concern was that, as you said above, people would almost certainly use it against you. A brave call to retract the post - it was probably the right move. Put that post on an actual dating site and you'll be drowning in it. Best of luck to ya!