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Exactly, if you have a stable internet connection and learn English you can bootstrap pretty much anything. But to realize that as a possibility as someone growing up in an underdeveloped country is very rare and difficult.

@Bobby_2021 I want people in all countries to be happy and to eliminate the exploitation my country engages in. How do you suggest we solve this issue then? I'm hearing a lot of pain and frustration at the west but no attempts to suggest a positive and healthy solution. It's an unhealthy habit to demonize westerners and make no attempt to solve the problem with love.

Nice breakdown. We live in a world were all of the above is true, from a certain point of view.

Yes, exploitation is one factor limiting cultures. However this is a very short term and incomplete perspective. The cards were dealt many thousands of years ago which shape the current societal developments across different nations. Consider other factors like: - Access to resources like metals, oil - Ability to farm - Landlocked vs sea based - having war prone neighbouring societies - Natural disaster prone areas Societies develop is the same way you might learn a new skill, they must constantly tackle new challenges and problems that are just within their reach to overcome. If there are no threats, they do not develop. If the threat is too dangerous, they get squashed. It's called the local maxima, leo shared a good video on the blog about it. Europe has had the best balance in the last 500-1000 years for societal development, prior to that the middle east had some good conditions. What to live in the most developed and good trajectory country right now? Look to Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia. Literally go to the world corruption index and pick a country with low corruption and you will be fine.

@Leo Gura Why did such cultures never develop? What factors can limit a cultures growth? Is it factors they have control over, or external factors they are subject to? This line of thinking is sometimes used by racists, which I know you are not. I understand you have a commitment to truth and are working to speak truthfully, but I think many in your audience need to understand all the factors and dimensions at play here before they hear such arguments.

@Leo Gura I might have missed the answer but what are you going to do with your cash after you sell? Bank it or invest in currency / commodities, or re-invest into your new biz? For me I'm thinking a global crash/recession is the perfect time to pivot from wage-slave to LP biz. Also anyone else who is planning on selling in the next 6-months, what do you plan to do with the cash?

Pretty much all of it. We've a long way to go.

Nah. His joke about the person dying was pretty gross. It was designed to tickle his audience rather than actually contribute to the debate.

Maybe! That's a big assumption to make. You'd have to look into that.

So, fighting the Nazi's in World War 2 is evil? Would you say picking the lesser of two evils is still too evil to bother doing? It is possible to kill with love - killing one person to save many is such an example.

@integral You could also just stop being a human. Then no identity crisis

@CARDOZZO Owen thinks Andrew Tate was just a misunderstood self-help guru, like his pal Julien. It's cute to look for the positive in Trump. Sure, there's lessons conscious people can learn from Trump in what not to do, but the overall impact on society is a massive loss having him around. I would say it's a big lack of awareness on Owen's part to tell the unconscious masses to stand-up unconditionally for what they 'believe' in. That's how you create people who are stuck in dysfunctional thought. Owen idolizes people with an unbreakable frame, which ironically are people with a form of poor social calibration.

Ugh, I don't even know what to expect anymore. If Trump was killed, would that kill or embolden the movement? Is the far right a hydra? Cut one head off two more grow back? American politics is the ultimate speeding train. Trump is going to make your dream miserable.

Well, I think such a person should question why their alignment is so. If you're conscious about what you're doing, and you know what you are doing has a negative effect on the victim, then what you are doing is not love. A crocodile only kills because it does not know how or have the ability to meet its own needs in a more loving way. If you gave crocodiles high levels of consciousness and the ability to use tools, you bet they would turn to agriculture or laboratory grown meat. If you had the ability to choose between butchering a chicken for meat, or just having the meat, you would choose avoiding the butchering every time, right? This is partially the reason why religions have developed ritual slaughtering practices, like Halal meat. They are recognizing the devilry in which they partake and seek forgiveness from God. I'm personally not at all religious, but Jesus really put it best. "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." The most divine thing in this reality is consciousness, and all of our efforts should go towards making consciousness a pleasant experience for all. Of course, what is pleasant is subjective. But if one person's pleasure costs ten person's suffering, pursuing that path is selfishness and devilry. It's a net loss. That's the whole game, maximize pleasant experience without being a devil (AKA, asshole).

@Thought Art Exactly right. The 10,000 hours rule is such bs. It takes 10,000 hours for mastery if you practice mindlessly. Practice with consciousness and you could cut that it half or more.

I am not sure that absolute emotional mastery is entirely possible as a human. But you could get very very good at it. We are slaves to our biological machines in this life. To my knowledge the best we can do is get hyper-conscious and override our reptilian brain before it reacts in stupid ways. First step would be consciousness training, with a deliberate focus on emotions. Noticing them, learning how to change them. Read Peter Ralston's consciousness series and mastery, that should give you all the tools you need.

Yep, be very careful when picking your doctors. They are human and have biases. I've had doctors withhold information about certain things about my condition as to not hurt my feelings, which cost me months to figure out without them. It feels a bit odd to do, but I kind of press my doctors a bit now and get them to explain things to me two or three times just so they don't accidentally leave something vital to know out.

Hell yeah it is. But you have to work it. It's not just a book that shares a nice perspective, you have to run the things you're interested in through it like a machine to get results. But the results are amazing.

Owen is such a character. For the most part the ideas he shares are fantastic, but his style is very problematic. The mental spell he casts on his audience is insanity. He tells them to break out of the matrix, wake up, stop being derpy and all that jazz, and then markets to them like the derpy animals he perceives them as. Look at his sales pages and youtube thumbnails. Look at his playbook, and then how he treats his audience. He treats them like mindless animals, with his sensationalist language and big flashy monkey-brain attention grabbing style. It makes sense why he does it, because the sales strategy works. He makes a fuckton of money from what he does. The problem is that it reveals a kind of unspoken disgust for his own audience, and for society as a whole. There's not much love there. He's okay living like that, but for most people it would tear up their soul. @petar8p That's the cost of hyper-predatory marketing. That's the integrity cost. If Leo marketed the shit out of his courses like that, you would feel talked down and condescended to. Leo and good teachers like him don't do that because they actually give a fuck about your mental state and development. From the perspective of someone who is very high consciousness, they understand that treating people in this way is like a crime against god. They are giving up hundreds of thousands of dollars to not lose their integrity and their connection to god. Or you could be like Owen, and just not care about that stuff. You do you.

I'm sold! Looking forward to it

In one of Leo's recent videos, he mentioned he was going to do an episode on non-violent communication. I wanted to get ahead and see what the fuss was about before he made the episode, and found this gem: It's a 3 hour video, so a great time killer for us self development nerds. Seriously this has already totally changed my way of thinking about social activities and how we relate to people for the better. Very keen to see Leo's video on the topic, I think it will make the episode extra juicy having a little bit of extra background knowledge before diving straight in.

@Thought Art im getting through Marshall's audiobook as we speak! I will check out Betty's book, thanks for the rec.

Totally overthinking. Most people just fuck whenever they get the chance. This sexual kung fu stuff is probably not helping. I understand your position, I was the same as a guy in my early 20s too. It took a lot of work to accept and understand that I was deeply sexually repressed and ashamed. At least that was my situation, yours is likely different. Start by totally accepting your current situation, and start making identity-level changes to become the type of person you want to be sexually.

You can do both. Minimalism just means to have a really tight core circle of possessions. Just have a small but classy wardrobe.

@Leo Gura Then how else do these crimes get exposed? Sometimes we gotta reach into the crocodile's mouth to pull out the truth, right?