Revolutionary Think

Leo talks a lot about Hero Journeys and such. So I was watching this talk by Mr. Zimbardo as to what creates hero's but, the thing is Leo also talks about how good and evil doesn't exist and how things just are. So I don't know how this'll fit in to it but, I'm wondering what the rest of the community thinks of this.

Has anyone here had a lucid dream?

I myself was curios to know about how our mismanaged schools don't teach any skills. So out of this curiosity I googled skills and jobs, then I found out there was a whole report by JP Morgan Chase about so many employers looking to hire although they couldn't find people with the skills they were looking for. The report is right here https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate-Responsibility/document/54841-jpmc-gap-los-angeles.pdf in the latter pages of the report these corporate leaders where creating pathways to connect LA residents with skill opportunities. So on page 23 on the PDF there is a Digital Learning Academy in my community run by the YWCA and I gave them a call. The lady told me she was having an orientation the day after. I ended up going to the orientation and they had limited spots available so they had to interview people to see if they were right for the opportunity. Today I just got an email that said I was accepted to the program. Not only in this program do they teach you digital skills but, they also teach you interview and job skills so @Leo Gura I think the best idea is that whatever I do from what I learned there I create an online and offline portfolio for it. Wish me luck...

I don't want watching Self-Actualization videos to be just another thing I do on YouTube that uses up time and I see hardly any results from it. I want to ask who ever here when they first heard of actualized.org what videos did you start watching first, and most importantly what did you actually implement in your life for example a habit, a friend you made, a job you applied for, and/or a business you started. What videos did you take the main lessons from and you actually could feel and see the changes happening in your life. I say this because there are so many videos out there and when you go through this journey by yourself you may not know what videos to watch first and how many you should watch before implementing some of the stuff. I know that everyone is different but, I think if I got some actual stories of what people actually did it would help me out.

Well it doesn't really matter what other people have done to each their own but, I'm just looking for a blueprint. Right now where I am is a bit of a disgruntled Communication Studies major. Don't get me wrong though I enjoy the fact that I didn't lay one finger on a loan to pay for University and got enough financial aid to support myself and have the rest as savings so that's amazing. I am frustrated at the fact though that I have all these amazing ideas in my mind but, I can't really seem to find people to listen. What I want to happen for me is for my blog and my YouTube page to get attention from someone influential so I can spread my ideas to like minded people. Maybe one day I want to have my own Television or radio show but, I don't know how to do it and what practical steps I can take to make it a reality. I guess that's why I am here on this forum I'm looking for high consciousness friends that I can reach out to online (I'm hoping that some of them may live near me) other than that though there are things like Skype where I can talk to people see their faces and get to know them. This is my blog http://bakshandehariel.wixsite.com/website and this is my YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/revolutionarythinking. Other than that the good news is I've got accepted into a Digital Learning Academy to hone my skills for the future job market. The end game for me though (I'm only 28 mind you so I got some time) is to hopefully have people thinking about my Revolutionary Thinking brand because I've got some great ideas that I think are paramount Today because so many people seem distracted in their lives in this internet age and the way I see it people's talents and abilities aren't being fully utilized in the education system.

@Visitor Can you elaborate show an example?

@Annetta If you don't mind me asking how did you put the things Leo says in his video into practice. What have you done and where did you see the improvement. BTW watched the video very interesting I think the idea is to just accept you wont have all the answers and it's OK to do things spontaneously.

Of course a lot has changed since those days. What skills do you have that gets you the jobs you applied for and what do you usually say in the interviews? Also what kind of jobs are these?

What do you guys think of this guys idea about organs? http://www.woomyung.org/blog/2015/07/episode-19-in-order-to-maintain-human-body/#.VaFyQIyQiPo.twitter

Do some of you intelligent people relate to this?

@Arman did you the 4th post. There I agree to an extent with what you say. @My_Name_Is_Mud good one.

Right. I myself try to work on my social skills and find like minded people. @hinawashi I also like to think as intelligence. knowledge, wisdom, etc. as energy. Like how your body get's energy from food. You eat food and that's calories but, if you don't do anything with the food that you ate you end up storing it and getting fat. Also obesity leads to all sorts of diseases as well. How does it relate well I like to think of learning as your brain being fed calories and different kinds of learning are different kinds of food just like how your body needs food from different food groups. Different kinds of subjects help you in different ways. Although sometimes you fill up your mind with so many calories but, you don't end up using it when you live in your own head and don't do anything to improve your life or to improve society with it. This is the main problem I have with the education system. Let's think of the education system as a gigantic buffet (a buffet that in most places you are force fed the food). The education system and mostly anything else you get information from is like a gigantic all you can eat buffet for your mind. The problem comes when you are not burning off these "mind calories" in a productive and healthy way. What can this be compared to well think of the jobs crisis. All of this information laying there in your head going stagnant but, with no job or nothing to use this intelligence on then what is the point of having it if it's not helping you or contributing to your life just a bunch of thoughts running in your head going no where. That's why a quality job is so fulfilling because you're burning off all your "mind calories". I think just like obesity leads to cancer and diabetes not burning off your "mind calories" leads to depression and frustration. For example I think Today I finally burned off some of my mind calories. I was invited to an event at USC where panelists talk about Trumps first 100 days. The panelists spoke about some Political things and I got up and talked about my generation and how we felt betrayed by a recession and job market. They listened to my concerns gave me and answer and sympathized with me. Much better that I got that information out there than just keeping it cooped up in my head. I burn off my "mind calories" when I network with people and talk about important things. I burn them off when I make a YouTube video people see the video and I respond to comments. Heck I'm burning them up right now by posting this to you guys. If the food and calories analogy doesn't make much sense I have another one. The knowledge you have are like money and assets in your bank account. You can be the richest person in the world but, if you don't spend the money on food you would starve. Even the richest person wont get anything with out spending the money he or she has. That being said a super smart person wont get anywhere in life if they don't use the intelligence they have wisely.

Anyway I was at my gym Today and there were people there passing out flyers for a meditation method called subtraction meditation. It seemed so similar to what @Leo Gura was talking about. Subtracting everything to find out that your mind creates a fake world and you can become ego less by subtracting all of it. They talked about all the pictures and everything like that that your mind takes. So I didn't mind and I checked it out and they told me guided meditation works way better than your average run of the mill meditation because it's guided. What happened after that is they said that a full month session would be $150 so I said I was strapped for cash and just ended up paying $50 just to have two sessions to see what it's like. Then I got home and googled subtraction method of meditation and I was frightened. Seemed like the found Woo Myung is pretty shady. It talked about the method of meditation being Muam meditation and it's just some kind of shady cult. Do you guys know anything about guided meditation or a subtraction method of meditation and if it works or not? Please let me know I'm new to this and don't want to get caught up in anything too horrible. What they said though at the gym sounded a lot of like what Leo's message was about on Actualized.org but, I'm afraid that this meditation group might be cultish so I could really use some input.

@Toby Technically he passed all the Subtraction meditation training and said he felt great because of it and I paid that $50 for 2 sessions so I'll see what happens. If I see that it's not fit to my standards I wont continue.

Right. Well pissed off I just spent $50 that's what I was thinking myself. What's the best guided meditation in your opinion.

What about all the stuff about Muam and being a cult? Have you heard of it?

@ashashlov I have so much to say about this I don't know where to start. I think that no matter what happens in the begging years of our lives we're going to go through some damage (unless we're extremely lucky) whether it's physical, emotional or mental damage. Remember nobody has a say or a choice when it comes to when they are born (time period), where they are born (geographical location) and who they are born to (family, parents, culture etc.). These are all the default settings. As for young adults and kids who's brains aren't developed I tend to find it sad how I felt the opposite when I was younger. Anyway you read my other post of what I was going through when I was young so no need to repeat it here. To summarize it I saw older people around me who were supposed to know better and guide me through life actually doing the opposite and damaging me with the things that they did. The way I see young people treated sometimes these days is absolutely atrocious. Sometimes when young people are in a damaging situation with abusive parents or guardians and they bring attention to it with them all they get is more abuse. It's truly a hostage situation. From what I see Today it's very sad we have a bunch of unenlightened children ruling the world and making up the rules. Basically we have the nuts running the nut house. It's really interesting how sometimes I see it as a chain my father resented his father and I resented my father (but, I'm getting over it). The funny thing is when you draw attention to the things that are wrong and not working (which in fact I did Today) and when you open yourself up all of a sudden people's ego mechanisms dash into hyper drive. They don't want you to talk about it and they try you to immediately change the subject. Then they say that you're victimizing yourself but, in reality what you're trying to do is get to the root of what's not working so you can bring people together to address it and work on it. The people though they DON'T want that they want to shove it under a rug close their minds and pretend it doesn't exist and the more you try to expose it and bring it out into the light the more insane the people become. The more they do things like try to censor you, silence you and point fingers at you as if you're some kind of crazy pariah while ironically they are the ones that are losing their cool and can't stand to be speaking about certain things. Have any of you ever noticed that?

I did a few open mikes here and there but, nothing really stuck. Maybe I should keep at it although I really want to start a movement. I learned about this forum through a mutual friend of the JumpCut academy I bought for the $1000.

It's not exactly the approval that I search for but, for a response. For a community that thinks about what I think about but, doesn't necessarily have to agree with me. Instead we can have conversations, and debates together with being cordial. I don't search for approval I search for engagement and engaging enough people so at least my ideas and philosophies can have a positive impact on the world. So thanks for your response.

Depends on what you're trying to accomplish or what your purpose is. What kind of effort are you putting toward it?

So what made your youth so very miserable and troubled. In fact how did you unmiserable and untrouble yourself

Day 5: I just had two profoundly different experiences with the University I used to attend. The first experience was with a program called career connect. Woke up early no traffic heading to the Valley and finding parking easily then being driven to the place we were going to have the orientation. My favorite part of the whole thing wasn't exactly the orientation but, it was the ride there. Being in the shuttle going down the freeway and while others were talking to people I mostly sat there silent staring out the window and looking up at the clouds. It reminded me of simpler times when my parents would drive me places and I'd sit in the car just not saying anything and just staring out the window. Those were some of the fondest memories I'd had of my youth. The best of the best was looking out a planes window and just admiring a birds eye view. So as I sat there we arrived at our destination got to say hi to all the people working there and got to know the inner workings of the cruise line they worked for. I also had a really friendly chat with a person who worked there and we kind of got to know each other. I had no problem speaking and socializing. I shared with him stories about my travels and it related to the industry to since it was cruise ships and that's about hospitality. Then on the shuttle ride back I felt the same way just looking out the window and enjoying that view. Today on the other hand the experience wasn't exactly that great. I went to an alumni reunion and actually the first person I talked to was a really nice lady who I had a class with and I enjoyed that class because I got to express myself. The problem was though is that I dislike these socially awkward situations. That's how the whole thing felt like though one big socially awkward situation. In situations like that I kind of retreat into my own thoughts especially when there are people there that I hardly know. It had some good moments but, not exactly that many. I had expectations for the event but, all and all I came out of it disappointed. It was a story of other people although I wanted people to know my story and my story was that I didn't exactly have a kinship with academia or my University to begin with. So many people feel as though they have some kind of relationship with the place they graduated from. As for me I just felt kind of a sense of nothingness. I wasn't raised in the typical growing up way I just wanted to get out of anything that had to do with school ASAP and find some work. Unfortunately for me my upbringing didn't make me the most social person or the most successful because of how turbulent it was. This experience really fell flat because I figured I went through this horrendous traffic to get there, paid for the parking, and looked forward to it. At last when I finally got there just to feel socially awkward and weird in front of people who I kind of barely knew. I think to myself sometimes that I was so responsible as a young person. I may have not had the best social skills, I didn't exactly make that many friend, and I may have not gone the extra mile that many times in my life ON THE OTHER HAND I was responsible. I did what I was told when I was younger. I finished my assignments, I came early and on time to classes, I got my work finished on time and sometimes even ahead of schedule. I was also well behaved and didn't start any trouble. That's why I have such a personal struggle and a very deep vomit inducing disgust with the adult world or as some people like to call it the "real" world. This world consists of things called jobs and this is when it gets real ugly. Most of these "jobs" that you will be accepted in when you're old enough to have one will be things that don't feed your passion and make you feel like an automaton. The other thing is nothing is more subjective than "getting a job" you're just a piece of paper either an "application" a "resume" or a "resume with a cover letter". I think it's so impersonal and dehumanizing. No where on those papers does it show your personality, the struggles you went through, the kind of life you had, and the passion and potential you poses. Nope your life is reduced to a piece of paper that is no longer than a page. The human element is completely missing from the equation as well when all the jobs need to be applied to online and you can't just walk in and talk to someone. Anyway I used to write stuff like this in a private journal. I think though that hopefully the majority of people on this website are cognitively complex enough to appreciate my musing and philosophies on life. Although I on the other hand need to understand one thing and it was actually good that I took that UCLA trail for the Peers program about making friends. I remember when I told the counselor that I had a long winded conversation with someone about philosophy and life but, then she told me that gets boring and it's unsustainable. She told me that friends are made by talking about common interests and my interests are video games, science, technology, chemistry, politics, geography, and travelling. That's a good piece of advice when I go too far down the rabbit hole with these philosophical excursions with others and in my writing. I'm more than happy for the entire world to be exposed to my writings and philosophies and to contemplate them once in a while. I think that's what the world needs more of what do you think @Anna Konstantaki?

@SOUL If you don't mind me asking were you always like this absolutely loving everything you do or did you learn to be like that?

So @SOUL do you do anything that brings you joy? Where you feel true happiness from doing it?