Joseph Maynor

I’m always thinking (and sometimes even saying) — the world ain’t fair baby! Why are we assuming that the world should be fair? What the hell is fairness anyway? Whose conception of fairness should we use? I notice little kids playing the “that’s not fair” game too a lot. But it’s not fair! Ah — go ask those people who were shot in Vegas whether life is fair. I wanna say — shit happens, deal with it.

Wow! You’re doing real work. Good for you. This inspires me to get off my ass more.

Think of it as building up the Education pillar of your Enlightenment journey. It gives you breadth.

You don’t die. That’s the counter-intuitive thing. The belief that you die is a false belief.

Focus on living principles in the present moment. Be principle-centered. That's how you do it. Watch:

Do you guys have anything to say about the amazing powers of Turmeric? I use Organic India’s “Turmeric Formula” It’s good stuff. The best Turmeric I’ve ever used. Seems powerful. I doubled-down on it for about a week and it seems to have wiped out a nasty sinus infection I had. I had swollen glands, the whole nine yards. I took a dose twice a day — so twice the recommended daily dose. It took about a week to cure it. I’m pretty sure ancient civilizations were using this stuff as medicine. It’s a natural anti-inflammatory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric

I think we have a lot of smart women on this forum already.

@egoless It's more musical than a harmonica. I play jazz trumpet. I don't mess with toy instruments myself. But people get good on them. Get yourself one of those pocket trumpets. Try to play a chromatic instrument. And start to learn a little bit about theory. If you wanna get good, you gotta develop a taste for theory.

College-years too for me. I knew my authentic-self best in college.

The Ego is just the Mind. Although, the Mind is more than the Ego.

Do Leo’s Life Purpose Course if you haven’t done it yet. Nows the time for you! You need more awareness into who you are, what you really have to offer, and what you really want. It’s amazing how confused we are about this.

Don’t try to read faster. Just be highly selective of the books you do read. Skim if you must. I get it, a lot of people do not know how to write-well, and our books are plagued by this. There’s a lot of fluff in our books. When you encounter fluff, just start to skim but catch all the golden-nuggets when you come upon those too. Learning how to skim is key. With many of these books you’re only gonna get two or three ideas from them — but those ideas are gonna be golden! You may see that the book would’ve been better off written as a pamphlet than a book (they had to add a lot of bullshit in there to turn it into a book.) But you do need to be reading books, lots of books. Your education depends on it. I’ve read hundreds of books myself. If you want increased and even above-average education, you gotta read lots of books — even nowadays, when there is so much info available online. Carefully research which books you will read. It’s like marriage — pay very careful attention to the selection process.

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I’m taking Leo’s Life Purpose Course now. I thought I had a Life Purpose, but I made the mistake of not aligning it with career. I was all confused about career. But yes. I’ve always been living a life purpose. My life purpose has been until recently to write a book. But now I realize that that’s not quite right strategically. Life Purpose is about career and much deeper than what I thought. I lacked a lot of awareness about the theory of Life Purpose. That’s why I recommend everyone do Leo’s Life Purpose Course. What you think you know about Life Purpose is almost certainly wrong! This is one example of how theory can be massively important in Personal Development.

Great gift idea. Especially for young people that are clueless about who they are who need to gain awareness of a future career track. I didn’t have anything like this to help me when I was young. I’m doing the course now a couple days away from turning 40, and it’s great. I wish I had this course at age 15 though. https://www.actualized.org/life-purpose-course

Maybe Sadhguru is wrong!

WOW! This is a great question. Freeing people from limiting-beliefs seems like a biggie to me.

I was using Viva Labs Krill Oil. Now I’m using Now’s Ultra Omega-3. The price-point is much better.

You’re probably not gonna be satisfied with that lifestyle forever by the way. Life Purpose is a dynamic thing. It’s almost like chasing a calling that’s a little bit smarter and craftier than you are. Most of the time you miss it by miles not inches. Then you catch up to it, and it runs off behind the weeds again to hide and plot it’s next mission. That’s the Muse and what it’s like to chase the Muse. If you settle-down, you have no chance. Then the Mind has you trapped and you’ll become fixed like a stone. That’s why you can’t be the camper you gotta be the climber in life. You gotta keep up with that Muse. And you gotta be willing to bust through the fear to follow it. The Ego will try to stop you from doing this. That’s the Big Boss in the video game right there. And who beats the Big Boss? Very few people. The most committed people. And even then, with a stroke of luck gracing them too.

Good luck finding a job after you get out. None of the entrepreneurs I know went to business school. One guy did, actually. He went to Stanford and is a really talented serial company creator. But the guys I meet that start tech companies were computer science majors, and one political science major believe it or not! Yep — a political science major started a tech company in my Center. I work in a Center in Downtown San Francisco with small startup companies. All the guys and gals there I get to commiserate with daily. You know what they all have in common? 1. They went to a good university 2. They’re smart 3. They’re creative and openminded 4. They’re heath-conscious. They eat right and exercise 5. They work consistently hard, but they make sure to have a life outside work too 6. They’re passionate about what they do 7. They make it look easy and natural when you watch them work 8. They never whine or complain 9. They’re sociable, but they don’t waste too much time with idle socializing at work 10. They’re gentle but also fearless 11. They’re not stressed out or neurotic 12. They seem to have lots of energy 13. They don’t let themselves get too distracted 14. They have big goals and dreams

This is a great example of a limiting-belief. You’ve cut off the possibility before it could be actually tested in reality. See how sneaky the Mind is? The Mind thinks it knows much more about reality than it actually does. Anything is possible. Live that principle instead.

Don’t look for a stock career, create a custom career.

I can think of 2 people in my life that could benefit from it.

The market is not the problem. Your strategy is the problem.