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Some vitamins for sure. You can get Vitamin A poisoning from polar bear meat because it's so high. There's also a thing called rabbit starvation you can get if you only eat rabbit meat, because it's so low in fat. If you are getting your vitamins from leafy greens and vegetables, it's very unlikely that you're going to reach harmful levels. Your body can naturally balance it out, or you physically won't be able to eat enough. If you're taking supplements I'd go with the recommendations on the bottle though. Vitamin D it'd be hard to get too much unless you are really overdoing it. I forget the percentage of people that are Vitamin D deficient but it's huge. Most people can take 5,000 iu's a day without any issue. But check with a doctor if you aren't sure.

Don't focus on becoming a more "academic" writer. Writing in general is shifting toward a much more casual, conversational style. Write the same way that you would talk if you were explaining something to a friend. There is a place for super airy poetic language if you're trying to win a Pullitzer Prize or have your book dissected in university literature classes. If your goal is to convey a message, using big complicated words will just frustrate, confuse, and bore readers. Focus on learning to write for the web from people like Neil Patel and then write that way. Keep paragraphs to just 2-3 sentences in length. Use tools like Grammarly or http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ to clean your writing up and make it more readable, and less passive.

It doesn't matter if you're on the front line or just in some kind of support position. You're contributing to an organization that potentially kills innocent people and exploits third-world countries. Arguably paying taxes does the same thing. But that's unavoidable and you're coerced with jail time and other threats to comply. Deciding to join the military is totally voluntary. Just like if you're an accountant for a tobacco company or a janitor in a gun company. You're still playing some part and making their bigger picture possible. Doesn't mean that you can't still find sihk or buddhist soldiers in the world. The mind will bend over itself to find justifications for its behavior. Then again, a country needs soldiers to protect its borders to provide the kind of peace for ordinary citizens to pursue awakening. But there's a big difference between a military that just defends its country, vs being Imperialistic. I don't know how the UK's army compares to the US one, but I would not feel like it would be moral to be part of America's military industrial complex.

You are going to need to find a way to set yourself apart from the competition. Self-help and get-rich-quick gurus are a dime a dozen. Many of them have decades more experience in the field than you. What special do you have to offer?

For me, it's like desire. You feel pulled to do something. That in itself is meaning. You are the one that creates the meaning for yourself! You are listening to judgements from society saying that being a chess player will never provide an income for you and that it's not practical. That doesn't mean that it doesn't have a strong sense of meaning for you. You are thinking about it too narrow-mindedly. There are more ways to be a great chess player besides just competing in tournaments. I typed "chess strategies" into Youtube and the first result is a channel with 683,000 SUBSCRIBERS!!!! You don't think you could get a sense of meaning and passion from conveying your love of chess to others and teaching them the game that you love? That guy is absolutely living his life purpose through chess.

If your friend doesn't exist when they're not in your direct experience.... then what happens when you send someone a text message? Does your friend blink into reality for a split second to receive and respond to your message and then goes back to non-existence? Or is there no one on the other end and really you're just texting yourself?

I think web development for self-help websites is a good niche. But if it takes you 6 months to build a small site, I think you're going to have a hard time.

Depends on the person I think. Personally I felt the same way as you. I don't need coffee every day to function, I can just get it once a week or whatever. But lately I've found I'm around people at work who want to go grab Starbucks every day or every couple of days, and it feels like I'm becoming more dependant on it. Mood has gone down, less energy if I don't have it. If you have any kind of cravings I think it's probably best to cut it out entirely before it gets worse. But I'm also a very "all or nothing" kind of person.

Don't get paralyzed by indecision. It will never feel 100% perfect or like you're 100% ready. At some point you just have to start trying stuff though. Are your careers something that you could try out at home for a few days to get a feel for it? If you wanna be a writer or artist, spend a day drawing or writing the first chapter of a story. If you wanna be an accountant, open up some software like Excel and just start filling it out with examples as if you were really working for a business. That's just a negative story that you tell yourself. But if you keep repeating it over and over, that's likely what you're going to end up with. Change your narrative.

Personally I think like everything, it's about moderation. If you can't go a day without jerking off, you should probably do nofap. But I also think people get obsessed with it when they start talking about 100 or year-long streaks or make it their whole identity, start talking about it to family and friends. Longest I've gone is about a week and I think that's about the sweet spot. Definitely do feel more confident and more energy. The studies seem to show your testosterone levels max out after a week of nofap.

Literally everything. Money, weight / health, relationships, family.

At least completely finish the life purpose course and give yourself a couple of weeks to contemplate and integrate everything before making any big life decisions. You're already partway into the semester and have already paid for everything. It won't be a huge waste or loss of time to spend a few months to finish the courses that you're enrolled in now. If it turns out that your life purpose could apply to your current studies, it'll mess you up way more if you drop out and then try to get back on track in a few months. Sounds like your current course isn't the right fit for you. But don't be too hasty about abandoning before you have something else to move on to. If nothing else, it'll be way easier to explain to your mom if you have something you're passionate about to replace school with, and can give her a timeline of how you're going to accomplish it. Instead of just "I dunno, I'll figure it out"

Making a girl have 4x gushing orgasms back-to-back. Shoutout to Leo's "how to make a girl squirt" video haha. I get what he's mentioned a couple times about being able to enjoy your partner's orgasm as much as getting off yourself.

Totally depends on you. Maybe you would find being a windmill turbine or radio antenna technician enjoyable if you love heights, being outdoors, climbing, and adventure. Personally I'm afraid of heights. So the idea of spending every day 300 feet in the air would be hell for me.

I think this may already be a mistake. If you're halfway through the course, you haven't done most of the values passes or life purpose exercises yet. Don't jump to conclusions and think you've figured it out before you go through all of the material. You might have suspicions, but let it fully play out first.

"How Openmindedness Works - Exercises To Open Your Mind" seems like it would be a gold mine for this. Ideas like... how do you know your mother actually gave birth to you? How do you know she didn't lay an egg? How do you know Australia really exists?

You couldn't have started any earlier. Your exact life experience is what led you to getting started in the first place. A character in a movie can't go back to the beginning and start from minute 0 knowing everything they know at the end. The same is true for you. Just be glad you ever got started on the journey and weren't asleep for your entire life.

I would approach your search for your life purpose as an add-on to your regular life, not a replacement to it. So you still go to high school and do all the stuff normal kids your age do. But then you add a search for life purpose, meditation, self-actualization on top of that. I think finding a few minutes a day like you said would be a good way to do it. "Knowledge not grades" is true to an extent. But in high school, really the knowledge you get is trivial. You just want to make sure you're getting good enough grades to get into the university program that you want afterward. "Knowledge not grades" works great if you plan to start your own business. Then all you need is the knowledge. But if you're working within the system then you need grades for post-secondary education, and on your resume for potential employers. So don't write off good grades entirely yet. Learning how to learn is good, but I don't think you need to obsess over it for weeks or months. A couple things like Leo's "how to study" video will get you most of the way there. Remember you're still 16 and keep things in perspective. Don't feel like you need to have it all figured out by your next birthday. Just the fact that you're thinking about things like life purpose already puts you lightyears ahead of most people your age. If you can really nail down your life purpose by 20 you'll still be doing amazing. Before you can ace life, you really need to explore what life is. Just try to experience a lot of stuff and get a well-rounded experience. Then you can really focus down and pinpoint one purpose to go after. I really do think the Life Purpose Course is going to answer so many of your questions. Personally I've gone through it 3x so far, I plan to re-do it every December going forward. But I understand as a 16 year old it's hard to get $250 to spend on it. In the meantime you might consider Jordan Peterson's Future Authoring program though: https://www.selfauthoring.com/future-authoring For $15 I feel like it gives a nice condensed idea of some of the big parts of the Life Purpose Course. It'll help you figure out what you want to learn about, things you could do better, what habits you want to improve, what you want your social life and other aspects of your life to look like. It'll help you figure out the ideal future you want to move toward, as well as the future you want to avoid. I don't have any affiliation with them, just aside from Leo's course it's probably the next most helpful one I've done.

This seems incredibly misogynistic and outdated to me. We live in a time when people are able to choose their own gender for god's sake. Why can't a man be happy in a role that isn't traditionally masculine? I still feel like the "man" in my relationship. It's not like I'm suddenly transformed into a cuck because my wife is the breadwinner of our household.

Some people are too toxic to change. There are people in my life that I've tried to bring around, but you just can't get through to them no matter how you try. Some people refuse to accept they could be wrong, or that someone else might know better than them. I have a friend I cut off contact with 6+ months ago because they were engaging in some unhealthy/toxic behavior. My friends who are still in touch with them say they're still doing it, and the only reason they keep doing it is because they don't want to stop and prove that I was right. Literally they're sabotaging their life and making things harder on themselves just because of ego.

16 is too young to give up on school. At least finish high school and get your diploma. If you don't, it might be one of your biggest regrets. How have you invested thousands of dollars into your current career at 16? Because you own an instrument? Chances are you like music and will continue to use them even if it's not your career? Lots of people would do the same for just a hobby, so don't look at that like a sunk cost in your decision. I'd be curious to see where you got this "college is a good way to find your life purpose" message. I don't remember Leo ever saying something like that. Are we talking about college here or still high school? Finishing high school isn't about your life purpose. It's practically a mandatory step before you can even start working on your life purpose imo. Don't make excuses to be lazy and drop out of school because "life purpose" just because you aren't feeling it. My guess is no. Break it down... how many hours per week do you spend in school, studying, working? You're talking about pursuing your life purpose, but then admit you're still trying to figure it out. The whole message is terribly incoherent. I think once you can afford to take the Life Purpose Course it'll give you a lot of insight. Until then I'm afraid it doesn't even sound like you know what you want, or what you're talking about. This is about your lack of motivation and nothing to do with life purpose. My suggestion would be to just be a kid, finish school, and do what's expected of you until you're at least 18.

Why do you need a degree in Fine Art? What job has a Bachelors in Fine Art as a requirement? Maybe a museum? Have you checked if most museums provide health insurance to their employees? My guess is you want to make art though anyway, not just give people a tour of someone else's. What do you think university can teach you about art that you can't learn for free on Youtube, or at a drastically reduced price through services like Skillshare?

I'm Canadian so I can't make any detailed state-by-state predictions. But as an outsider looking at it on a macro scale, I'd be very surprised if Trump didn't get re-elected. Some sports betting websites allow people to bet on who will win the presidential election. Watch what their odds are as we get closer to November. Money doesn't lie.

It's like one of those infinite zooming Youtube videos. Once it zooms in all the way on you, it just keeps zoom zoom zooming onto something else. In the grand scheme of things, the transition between you and something else is seamless. But if you took two still images at different points in time, you might have no way of understanding how one could possibly lead to another.

Logically it makes sense. If Jesus was just an enlightened dude, and you're just an enlightened dude, then that would put you on an even playing field. Except you live 2,000 years further in the future than him. So you have the benefit of scientific understanding and other advancements. Therefore, better. A human is a human. But do you consider a human from 2,000 years in the future who can practically apply time travel to be "better" than you? For me the answer is yes at least.