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I suspect you're of the same sentiment as me, that sports are basically a huge waste of time and resources and don't add anything to society. Still, I think there is some value in people like Tiger Woods or Mike Tyson. They provide inspiration and examples of excellence. Especially for young people, it gives them a role model and something to strive for. They might not want to become the best basketball player, but it might show them to practice computer programming or some other thing they're passionate about. While the salaries that sports people make is absurd, usually once they get enough money, some good comes out of it: Similarly, Ninja has raised over $3 million for medical research in a single charity stream. You have to look at the bigger picture and all other aspects that they impact. The life purpose course gives some pretty crazy examples of things that can be your life purpose. Like making videos of yourself playing with Lego on Youtube, or moving to a cabin in the woods to read books for a couple of years like Joseph Campbell.

In my opinion, true confidence shouldn't be permanent or consistent. Only a fool is confident in everything, all of the time. It's not something you should strive for. Your confidence in every area of life should vary depending on your experience, knowledge, etc. Being overly confident can be a foolish trait, even deadly. Imagine if someone threw you in an MMA ring or made you a police officer with no advanced training. A confident person would rush in and do something stupid, while a less confident person would play it safe and look for advice. What you're seeing from most of these dudes is just a mask, a facade, a shell that they put on. Don't underestimate toxic masculinity in society and its ability to make men feel like they can't show weakness or emotion under any circumstances. You don't know what's actually going on inside their heads. They probably have tons of self-doubt and feel all the things you do, they're just good at hiding it. Unless you're extremely close with them and have a huge level of trust, chances are that you'll never have a candid conversation with male friends about what they're really feeling even if you ask. They'll just deny and blow it off. Of course having too little confidence and issues with imposter syndrome is also a problem on the opposite side of the spectrum. Maybe someone else can offer specific advice there, I can't think of much except "fake it until you make it."

They are listed as "recommendations" in the course. I see them as extra credit but not mandatory and I skipped most of them, or looked up a summary. You 100% need to do all the exercises in the course, but I think you can get by without watching all the movies and documentaries recommended.

If you want to be mentally challenged, I recommend looking for something that has some variation. Where there are different situations, you have to troubleshoot stuff. Not just doing the same thing 100 times a day every day. If you like STEM, don't write off skilled trades. You don't necessarily have to be a rocket scientist or engineer to feel fulfilled. Everything from being a cabinetmaker or a welder to an electrician. There will always be a demand for people who can do things with their hands and make stuff, and in most places not enough people are going into many trades. Lots of trades can make $100k/yr straight out of your apprenticeship, especially with overtime.

Straight up, don't do it. Go watch some Youtube vlogs from average people who actually live in New York. Japanese tourists experience a massive disappointment when they go to Paris so frequently that there's a name for it - Paris Syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome I have a feeling that if you carry through with it, you're going to experience "New York Syndrome" along with similar symptoms. At least do yourself a favor and visit for a few weeks before you fully commit to moving to make sure it's really what you want. Do you even know which borough you want to live in?

I don't think "I am God" shirts would go over well, but I can't think of a more succinct message. Maybe an "Infinite Love" graphic tee with an abstract design. Just hook me up with a "How To Make A Girl Squirt" shirt fam, complete with Leo's face and hand gestures from that thumbnail.

One of Leo's best videos. Really starting to put everything together now for those who have followed for years. I did have a few questions after going through it: - If this moment is perfect, why can I still feel hunger, pain, etc? Of course I can ignore those things and stay in the present moment. But the idea is that if I do that for long enough, I will die. Even if death is an illusion, do I really want to push it and test that? - If no other being exists, what are the people I can see around me? If I'm in a room alone they don't exist, but what about when they are in front of me saying and doing stuff? Are they just NPCs generated by my own imagination? Then is there nothing negative about killing or raping other people, except for the legal system my imagination has also created? Why should I show love and compassion for anything instead of just using it as a tool for my amusement? The only way I can see a reason to act moral under this paradigm is taking on beliefs like karma, or that as God I'll live through those people's consciousness bubble in the future so I should make things as easy for my alternate self as possible. I shouldn't beat my wife because one day I'll be the wife. But that's just another belief.

Why should we be good? How is it possible to have "shoulds"? If everything is love, how is it possible to have bad or evil intentions? Everything is love. Murder is love. Is all murder done with good intentions?

I've heard from a few people that taking improv classes really helps. Not specifically with standup, any kind of public speaking, being able to think quickly on your feet and come up with snappy comments, getting comfortable in front of a group of people, etc.

Yes, see some of the answers/explanations here

Why do dentists use fluoride? Because it's easy and effective. Why do farmers use pesticide? Why is food full of sugar, wheat, corn, and soy? Because it's a cheap way to deliver the desired results. Every business does what's proven to work and maximize profit. Every industry looks for a narrow outcome without regard for wider implications.

Funny, I went to the dentist yesterday and noticed massive positive results from starting to floss daily for the past year. I might give oil pulling a try next to see what difference it can make. Going for a fluoride-free toothpaste is tempting but it seems risky. Not sure if I'm willing to have a bunch of cavities in exchange for decalcifying my pineal gland

I wouldn't bother trying until the pandemic is over. You wanna live in quarantine for 2 weeks every time you go to another country, or potentially get stuck somewhere for months? What's the point of being location-independent when everything is closed? On the other hand, more people than ever are working from home. Technically anyone who can work from home is a digital nomad. Buy a laptop, find a job or business that you can do from a laptop, go wherever you want as long as there's places with wifi. Chiang Mai in Thailand is basically the world hub for digital nomads.

If you don't have a couple hundred bucks to learn how to trade, then you definitely don't have the capital to start trading.

Dude's been going through withdrawal and rehab for the past year. I can't imagine those are conducive conditions to creating great literary works. I own 12 Rules For Life but found it boring and never got more than 1/4 of the way through it. However I am a big fan of the Self-Authoring Suite. The future authoring exercise is basically like a mini-version of the life purpose course IMO and a good place for most people to start.

Yes but I feel the tide turning. I think the cold weather and the holiday season approaching is starting to chill people out. The election debacle is almost over, no big public cases of people being unjustly killed by the cops for a while. I think everyone is finally ready to just take a rest and chill for a bit. I think there's this collective feeling that humanity as a whole has been struck by a year of bad luck. Now we're approaching the end and people are getting optimistic that things will magically turn around on January 1st.

You don't need to be the master of a subject to teach a beginner's course in it. Most of the courses online are aimed at beginners. Usually it's nothing that you couldn't learn yourself by watching hundreds of hours of Youtube videos, it just condenses it into a much neater package with a specific order. That's where the value of courses comes in IMO, they're time-savers more than anything else. Sometimes with a little bit of extra "secret tips and tricks" thrown in that you can't find elsewhere. You don't find many advanced-level courses or videos, because the audience for them is too small to be commercially viable. By the time people reach a high intermediate or advanced level on a subject, they're likely in touch with other people in their field and taking part in masterminds, online groups, conferences, etc where they share information directly. That's how most experts continue to learn and grow. You only need to be a little more knowledgeable than your students to answer any questions or concerns they have. One teacher might be perfectly good at teaching algebra to 10-year-olds without understanding university-level calculus. "Without a doubt many giving wisdom are in the learning process themselves." -- EVERYONE is still in the learning process. It's just about where in the process you are. Even people who have invested 10,000 hours into their craft. Every topic has infinite depth, don't expect to find a clear "qualified / unqualified" cutoff. It's arbitrary That's not to say there aren't unscrupulous people who have no business making a course, providing low-quality information and taking advantage of people. But if you go into it with the idea of helping people and not just making quick money, you'll naturally strive to make your material good enough that it won't be a problem. Don't let imposter syndrome hold you back and make you feel like you're never ready or worthy to impart knowledge to others.

What are you talking about dude? Almost 800,000 people got divorced in the US in 2018. All of those cases need a lawyer. Average divorce cost is about $1,500, that makes it a $1.2 billion dollar a year industry in the US. That doesn't count all the other things lawyers need to be involved in. Where do you get these strange notions from like "there are barely enough legal cases to warrant lawyers?" Did you hear that somewhere, or are you just pulling it out of the air? How would lawyers earn a living if you're correct? All the evidence... the fact that the average lawyer makes over $100,000 per year, the fact that busses and billboards are covered in advertisements for lawyers, show that you're wrong. There are millions of lawyers in every country. Is there the occasional washed-up lawyer who can't find work? Yes, but that's far from the norm. I say this in the kindest way, but have you considered some kind of therapy or counselling? You're seriously going to not follow your dreams because you think your horniness will hold you back, or that the government will frame you as a hacker if you try to get a job as a programmer? How many cases have you heard of the government in your country framing programmers as hackers? How many of them were just junior-level programmers working at a company not related to national security or something important? It's pure delusion is what it is. Nothing in life is guaranteed! You could go to school for programming and not be able to get a job. Or you could just keep posting on this forum all day and maybe the government will hack into your account and frame you for terrorism. You can get fucked no matter what you do, so you might as well take a chance. No one ever becomes a judge or a CEO or a top military general without taking a single risk.

How many hours a day do you sit alone in your car between fares? Could you practice beatboxing alone in a parking lot by yourself for 10-15 minutes at a time a few times per day, or record a couple Youtube videos on your phone per day in your car? Make 100% authentic videos about the struggle of trying to follow your passion of beatboxing while having a full-time job. Some of the most insightful and interesting Youtube channels that I subscribe to are just people talking in their cars. Have you ever offered to beatbox for passengers? I think it'd be amazing to have a taxi driver who beatboxed for me while driving me to my destination. Maybe put up a little sign in your car like "Ask me for a free beatboxing session." Before long people will be calling your company specifically asking for the beatboxing driver . Maybe ask passengers for permission to record them, and then beatbox and get their reactions and post them on Youtube. That kinda thing could go viral. Lean into it 100%, make your channel "The Beatboxing Cabbie" or something.

Do what Gary Vaynerchuk does, calls himself Gary Vee. You can be (First name) D.

Yes, I had a toxic family and my parents and sister would all make fun of my ambitions and goals. It held me down and wasted years of my life. I did the things that I thought would make them happy and respect me, instead of living life for myself. Guess where that leads? You end up unhappy and they will still find something to make fun of you for. Normally you get these feelings because someone has made fun of you for expressing yourself in the past. Usually it's a pattern that has happened many, many times like me. If this is your situation too -- realize that not everybody is like this. It's not normal for people in your life to constantly make fun of you like this. You can find friends and a loving partner that are actually supportive of your goals. Even if they seem impractical or unlikely to succeed. Someone who cares about you can give gentle feedback without laughing at you or making you feel like an idiot. If you aren't at a point in life where you can just cut out those toxic people, you can still choose to not take their opinion seriously. Have faith in yourself and what you really want. You can make people happy for a time, but you'll always find yourself trying to come back to your true goals and passions. Watch out for toxic masculinity and society telling you that you aren't allowed to feel or have emotions too. Be careful not to fall into the habits of friends and family and start being negative toward others either... it's easy to put other people down to make yourself feel superior, especially if it's all you've ever known...

You're 13 and still figuring out who you are and what you want. Don't feel pressured to lock in a life purpose yet. One of the biggest mistakes that I think the current education system makes is trying to start pushing kids into a university program as soon as they enter high school. At this point you should just be exploring and experimenting with what all of your options are. Make a list of everything that you think *might* be worth pursuing and then start trying them one at a time. Try to think all the way to your deathbed in 60+ years. What do you need to accomplish so that when you die, you'll feel like you lived a life of purpose? What does a great life look like to you? Start there and work backwards. Then think of the opposite activities that you could get stuck on that you'll regret and would feel like resulted in a wasted life, and make sure to avoid those. Even if you spend the next 7 years (that's 2,500+ days) trying a bunch of different stuff to figure out your life purpose, it'll be time well spent and you'll still be way ahead of most people at age 20. Young people don't need to commit to one path super early on. Unless you find something that legitimately feels like your life's calling. Otherwise you can waste years going down the wrong path and end up changing your mind later on. It's one point in your life where dabbling instead of going after mastery is a good thing. You can afford to follow whatever passion comes up. Spend a month starting a Youtube channel and see if you really love editing. Try making a program or game and see if programming feels right. To contrast this -- do some short-term thinking too so you don't miss out on life. A non-trivial percentage of the population is going to get an unlucky roll of the dice and die before they're 18. That might be you. If you're going to get cancer or die in a car crash before your 18th birthday, what kind of stuff do you want to experience first? Don't forget to fall in love, have sex, play great video games, eat great food, and do dumb teenage shit in the next few years too. You don't have to go full monk mode at age 13. If you take life too seriously you might regret that too.

"Can't afford" and "not making it a priority" are different things. Unless you're destitute and barely scraping by on the brink of homelessness, you have ways of saving up $250 pretty quick. Don't eat lunch for a month. Boom, $250 saved. It's not comfortable, but that's the kind of sacrifices that need to be made to live a life purpose. Eat nothing but ramen for a month. That's life as a student. Elon Musk slept in his office, stayed up all night coding on the same computer that ran Paypal's website during the day, to make it work. You can't achieve anything great by taking the easy route. Get a part-time job on campus, save money for a month for the course, and then quit. Doing a business internship isn't life purpose, it's the status quo. It won't give you any more clarity or vision on what your life purpose is. I've got to ignore your comment and tell you to get the life purpose course anyway. It's that important. Especially when you seem so directionless. It will save you years of struggling to figure it out on your own. I can't think of many things that are more worth spending $250 on. When the amount of money is so important to you, that just ensures you'll treat the course seriously and not skip any exercises once you get it.

Depends what you want to program. If you want to create programs, Python is probably best. My experience... I'm also an accounting that wanted to get into programming. I got a book on Python and watched a few starter tutorials but never got anywhere with it. I couldn't think of any programs that I actually wanted to create that would automate my day or make it more efficient. I had no practical use for Python. It was all pretty academic and boring to me. Then a couple of years later I wanted to make video games, and the engine I wanted to use required C#. So now I'm learning C# and I have something practical to apply it to, a reason to learn new things and be motivated. I've got way further with it and actually have a decent understanding of programming now. If you're in it for the long term, I'm not sure if it necessarily matters what language you choose. The biggest hurdle to get over with programming is the general logic and syntax of it. You need to get into that robotic if-then thinking. The basics like integers, floats, strings, booleans, arrays, functions, classes, etc will transfer between different languages pretty much 1:1. As for finding jobs... I feel like I've heard a lot that education doesn't matter as much as showing what you can do. Have a portfolio of different programs and stuff you've made and you can probably get in the door for an interview. Then they'll test your knowledge and see if you know what you need to.

If you haven't played video games in years, why would you suddenly want to be a professional gamer on Youtube? What has prevented you from playing games in the past few years if it's something that used to bring you lots of happiness? Do you actually enjoy playing games, or is it the idea of being famous on Youtube or getting rich by playing video games that you're after? You can get burned out even on playing video games all day. Ask any serious Twitch streamer. It's fun and games until you have to do it 8 hours a day, then feeling forced to play video games isn't fun any more. Then you have to do all the stuff that goes along with it, like editing your videos, managing all of your social media, and reading hundreds of toxic comments any time you do anything someone remotely disagrees with. I don't think video games are a value. They're a tool. You can use them for good, but most people don't know how to wield it and it ends up doing more damage than good, just wasting a lot of time and being unproductive usually.