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I think the point of this thread is to poke through the illusion. How else will we get to the higher stages? More specifically what I mean is: so that we don't 'fall in love' or fall for the illusion of what other people display to us. So we don't think 'that person is so special'.

Thinking for yourself. Following your intuition So are these the only examples of non-conformity?

I've had it many times a girl and I would make strong eye contact in public and immediately she'd look at my dick, especially with sweatpants. I have a small penis but you can't see that, or they don't care. That's about as direct as it gets with a stranger lol. I never approached any of those cause I was too shy, like now all of a sudden I was missing a connection first. But I would bet those would be extremely quick daytime lays, something some people in this thread seem to not believe exist. Someone else posted about sweatpants here too a while back. Some women will literally try to grab your thing by walking really close and letting their hands lose in that direction. I met a guy once who wore a kilt to the pub and he was basically sexually molested by girls all night lol. If you wanna get laid quick, you definitely can. Yes there are cultural differences, this was all in the Netherlands which is both a direct country and a very equal country when it comes to men and women, hence their incentive to be so direct about sex.

Lol I've recently started collecting license plates in my head.

Then you could also say: all other cultures.

Couples who go jogging or rollerblading.

@Olaf my experience has literally been the opposite. I feel like girls wanted to have sex or make out where I didn't want to way more often than the reverse.

@Olaf yes what you say is correct but my point was: I can't remember going on dates to 'please her' only to want to extract something from her in exchange (sex). That seems dishonest. My experience has been girls are hornier than guys but they won't outright ask cuz they can't handle rejection.

I'm just listening to old tapes of RSD Owen Cook talking about success and working 16-hour days. But then I also see today's Owen saying it's all bullshit. Is that how it is? When you're young you think working hard matters but as you're older you realize it was just a lie? Can you build a successful business or career without hard work? I mean, define hard work right? Right now I work maybe 35 hours, 7 days a week in my own business. That's actual focused work. I'm quite happy with it. But then are these hustle and grind guys just fucking deranged, or is there something to it?

Not my experience. My quickest win came at a club where I grabbed a girls hand, we made out and then she asked your place or mine. Was like 5 minutes tops. Other times it was more like tinder dates but I never saw that as playing games for hours, just a date. What you're describing is inauthentic game, I don't think it should feel like a struggle. But tbh I haven't done a lot of pickup.

I just don't get it. Some top entrepreneur 200 years ago worked 80 hour weeks. Now, with AI agents and all the information in the world, we still do it? Seems like a scam. Like some limiting belief that only hard work creates riches. However, it might be more about emersion. If you work seven days, that's what 80% of your mind will go to. But if you also have hobbies, interest, other friends etc it gets scattered and reduced to maybe 30%, not enough to get momentum.

I didn't know Moroccans could swim lol

Wrestler jumped off a roof onto a pickup truck through tables and a bunch of lightbulbs. He said it felt like being in a car crash. Not recommended.

Fascinating what's happening in Russia today When are the corrupt oligarchs finally going to turn?

Where do you live? That's pretty much how they do it in the Netherlands. Plus we also got these underground containers:

Housing is a basic human right, not a commodity! Here's how we fix it: everybody who has a job gets 1 housing token per month. Everyone gets the same size basic house. If you want a nicer house or go on vacation, you make more career or start a business and buy those things with money. But the public housing market is detached from the monetary system. It just costs one housing token per month. If you're homeless by choice and refuse all work opportunities you don't get a housing token but you get a homeless token which is just a bunk bed in a shelter. If you're an entrepreneur and over a certain income threshold you don't get any housing token and you can use money to buy / rent in the private sector (much nicer homes). Minimum wage is always: 1 housing token + 20% cash. So if the min. wage in euros is 1500 per month, then it's now 1 token + 300 euros for food etc. Median income might be around 1 housing token + 1200 euros or something. Above median wage you stop receiving the housing token and can rent / buy private. Who's gonna build the houses? Well, the builders who build them get a 80% salary reduction, as they'll now receive 1 housing token plus some cash for groceries per month. End of the day this boils down to the same wage but without the rent ever going up.So now the building company has all this cash left cause they don't have to pay those salaries, and this money goes back to the government to build more houses. We also add an extra wealth tax on billionaires for extra cash and funsies. You can still become very wealthy, but anything over $20 million in personal wealth / assets just gets taxed more heavily. Yes this creates some cheating and overseas constructions but who cares? This is just bonus, the main point is the housing tokens. Is this a good idea? I don't know. It would take decades to make this transition and requires the country to be 60%+ public housing, but if there's a will there's a way. If AI ends up actually reducing hours worked then why not? This doesn't mean the end of capitalism it just means the public housing market is (fake) detached from money. The main problem with all this UBI stuff is that it might kill ambition. Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Worst case everyone just gets a PlayStation and gives up on their dreams. Best case you have more spare time to chase them.

If you're truly present and engaged in your daily life, what's the difference between work and not work?

Yeah its probably very flawed, it was just a thought I had so I wanted to write it down and used a catchy title Got that housing quote from this video btw, quite interesting. I've seen so many homeless people in Lisbon, many people there simply can't pay the rent anymore.

Good point, where'd you find the anecdotal evidence though? For me it's like that though. When I do long nofap I lose interest in sex and probably come off as a bit weird. I think what women like in a man's aura is authenticity. All these conformist normie dudes look the same so give off a different energy you're gold.

Doubt it. Humans are social creatures so empathy is an important survivor trait.

Worse, theres a whole movement of people who track everything now from their food to their steps. And yes, these people are completely pseudo productive, meaning they feel productive but aren't.

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Through the democratic process, assisted by modern media. If the media were responsible and not so hungry for clicks, he wouldn't have made it even close. It's a popularity contest through media manipulation, it was never intended to be that way.

Why doesn't Leo play the stock market or prediction markets? With his knowledge should be able to make some cash. For example: Leo predicted lots of Trump stuff as he saw he was stage Red well before the mainstream did.

Holy shit that is so try-hard. You can have a fun flirty conversation without any of this.