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Bro good luck getting enlightened from a red perspective without falling into every possible trap. It's like jumping from cliff to cliff. If you're in red, the gap is really big. Trying to get enlightened will end with you dead at the bottom. If you're in yellow however, the gap is small. You might even make it. Plus getting enlightened aint the end of the world. After enlightenment... the dishes. Or if you're in blue, burn witches...

try everything you can think of. and Visit the actual workplace you will enter after college if you have a idea. College is a very different experience than the work you will actually do after it. I highly recommend trying to visit the place where you will be working after it. Maybe it's shit and then you know this is not for you. Maybe the workplace is great and you have a vision to work for while in college.

I would describe the finding and going after my current life purpose as: I looked in what type of work I believe in. Believe in that it could change the lives of many for the better. Then I created a good enough story in my head that forced me to take action. The rest comes as you go, just walk into the jungle...

Watch the osho documentary on netflix. He also build a type of community like this, it's really inspiring. I don't know how you could possibly pull this off tho. You would have to start small I think and build from there. One pointer, in almost all these types of communities they get ruined because ego slowly creeps in and the hierarchy structure gets misused. Look out for that one.

I always like to view it like this: Yes you can get satisfaction out of every skill. That is the way your brain works. BUT do you believe in your skill? For me it was programming and film-making. They both give me pleasure, I could do them both for work. When I just work at the office (programming) I don't really think about the impact my work is having I just do my work and that's okay I get pleasure from it, it's a little shallow tho. When I film it's different. Every time my life changed for the better it was because of some kind of film. That's why I love film, it has impacted me personally so much that I can see how it can change other people too. Programming was never like this, I never really changed because I used computer programs. Maybe I even got worse because of playing video games. So do you believe in the skill you are about to build? Do you think it can change people for the better?

Since you cant comment on blog posts I just wanted to give some feedback and or start a discussion about the "blog" style talk video's about the retreat. Personally this is some of the best content I got from Leo in a while, I don't think a lot of people get the psychological aspects of the journey. Thanks Leo.

http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?smlid=8856 For research purposes... But be warned it may shock you lol

Bro, please work on production and flow. Your voice sounds separate from the song, like you had a beat and recorded it on your phone and pasted it on. Also your flow does not stick to the beat. Most of the times it does but then it doesn't it makes me cringe. I do appreciate your courage, hard to put this shit out.

@BjarkeT How are you going to get really good when there is no underlying vision or fulfillment in what you are doing? Becoming world class means being in constant pain and fear. Try writing a book you will get a lot of doubts and fears, you will unconsciously push it off and save it for later eventually not doing it. Straight up brute forcing it will in very few cases work, I think. Especially in creative work. I totally agree with Cal Newport and believe in the concept of Flow but the mindset from which you tackle your work is also really important.

Hey there beautiful people, made this topic to share some videos I made on the topic on Career/Work/Life-Purpose. I used a lot of the books Leo recommends in his book list and that are recommended in the LP course. If you haven't read them this is a great introduction to some of the concepts and if you have I think these three videos will help you refresh your memory. A couple of the books I used are: Talent is overrated - Geoff Colvin The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle Deep Work - Cal Newport The One Thing - Garry Keller & Jay Papasan The 80/20 Principle - Richard Koch Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi The playlist goes in-depth on how to optimize the process of getting great results, not really finding your purpose or best career. (You have the course for that ) Would love to hear your opinions on the topic! Thanks for reading!

There are many facets to life. Consciousness may be the most important one but many people think have more urgent matters. Changing your core beliefs ain't easy.

Do what feels the most urgent If you can't choose I'll pick one for you: Authentic Communication and Relationships & Unconditional Love

@thehero Here is a story from my own life that may help: I was working(programming) in a software house. Fulltime the whole week 9 to 5. I had to travel 4 hours everyday to and back from work. The strangest thing happend in the 3 free hours I had every day. I just started my animation stuff, a lot of learning was happening and in those 3 hours I did more than I currently do the whole day. I finished video's every week even while I had almost no time. I think I was able to do so damn much every day because tho whole day I was sitting at work literally thinking: "I can't do this my whole life, if I don't find a way out I will go crazy" So everyday I worked my ass of when I was home. But now I'm back in school and everything is just fine. Life is layed back I have way more free time but I don't get shit done. Moral of the story, it depends on how you yourself interpret the events how you interpret the situation you're in. So you can definitely work while doing your passion, I did it. My advice if you have 6 months fully focus on building your skills, read books be in constant deliberate practice, few people do this. In 6 months you will probably have sufficient skill to get a Job in your field. From there you can build up your own thing. I got a playlist on YT - check it out it may help. New video coming in 3 days.

A video on how to implement Deep Work into your life. If you got any tips hit me up!

The problem with a backup passive income stream is that it still requires a lot of time and effort to sustain, or will dry-up quite fast. There is another problem with that, you can always fall back and this will most likely result in not 100% effort in game design. (If you are developed this would be no problem though) Why this question tho lol. Are you trying it? Edit: in Leo's case I guess (not sure tho) he has enough cash/passive incomes streams already to just stop. (LP course, Book list, Video's)

Still going hard with the video's

@Alt3ia I totally get it. But remember you're never wasting time when you are doing things you enjoy doing! Also consider as a option that somehow combining the two can possibly create a great niche. Maybe put one on the back-burner while you are studying, but when you are done integrate the two. Gamification in medicine for example (a very crude one of course I'm sure there are better options) Hahaha how ironic, check out the video. If you got any pointers for me post them in the comments on YT or just personal message me on here!

I do it sometimes, nothing better than facing the world by yourself with no one to fall back on I think you can gain a lot from such experiences.

There is a fine line between making content you like and making content people enjoy. That is why marketing and niching down is so important. How are you going to impact the world when nobody pays attention. When you break the world record running but do it somewhere in a field when nobody is watching, lol okay you're proud of yourself and you get satisfaction. BUT why not move your ass into a arena where there is demand for the thing you are doing. Then break the world record, this way you'll be able to inspire and touch other people too. I guess you will have to look inside yourself too see what you want to accomplish with all this YouTube stuff. If it's just satisfaction, go ahead and just put content online it may even blow up. But why not look into marketing and SEO too while you're at it.

Nice that you add so much value brhu. I just sit in my room and contemplate or listen to good music. I turn off my phone. Or I go out skateboarding and be in nature. Or go camping with a tent and stuff it's more primal and cheaper

Okay here is my 0.50$ Don't use the "post and pray" approach to video production on YouTube. Seek to fulfill the viewers demand instead. Look for a niche that is still open and searched for or find a niche that you think has a video that lacks quality and you can do it better. Do extensive research on what videos exist in the niche by searching it on YouTube in incognito mode then look if you think you can make a better quality video or a more informative one. (a good example is my video on Jed McKenna on my channel (link under my posts) in that niche nobody had a animation like mine and discussed the topic that I discussed about him. It is my only video that brings some subs now and then) Keywords: (This is the main word or sentence you build your video around, this will be typed into the search bar by a user to find your video) Create a big list of potential keywords. Choose a keyword that has low competition. (You can see this at the "About 505,00 results") under the search bar. Also search in Google too see if the keyword has potential there, on some topics they put videos on the first page. This has the potential to be a very big traffic source. Check that the keyword gets at least 100-1K searches per month. For search engine optimization (SEO) use this checklist: Tags: Use your exact target keyword first Then a few variations Use longtail tags, also do them first Maybe one or two broad term tags in the end. 500 characters max. Title: Should contain your target keyword Put your keyword as close to the beginning of the title 70 characters is best Description: Include your keyword in the first 25 words. Make a description of at least 250 words about the content. Include your keyword 2-4 times. First 150 characters are visible, 5000 characters max. Make a killer Thumbnail put a lot of time into this! I tried advertising, Here is my take on that. Most people think it's just that they don't get discovered. But it is most likely that your content is just not that engaging. So when I advertised my video (the one on mastery) I got some more views but not much engagement. Advertising does not bring a high quality audience that will subscribe more just views. AND these advertisement views will not help you in the search engine because paid views are dismissed over there. The first 100 are the hardest, keep at it. I just reached 50 lol. Join forums like this and post your videos if they can help someone. Use social media to spread the video and so on. This is essential to get the first 100 subs. From there you have a low but steady audience and your video's have more change of getting noticed.

I found that discovering the thing that I want to do takes a lot of soul searching and trying. I found mine finally, it took me about 2 years tough. It is hard to decide at a cross road because you're still unsure. A question that really helped me is: Do I really stand behind this medium or practice? Do you believe this practice is the one that can change the most lives for the positive? Because either one you choose once you get good at it and in flow you will feel great doing it. So it's not a matter of if you will like the activity, once you push yourself in flow you'll create good feelings of worth and such. It's more about the belief behind the practice or skill. Do you think Animation/Game Design can change the most lives for the better or is it Chinese Medicine the thing that will change the world? For me I will finish my Computer Science degree but I don't believe software can have as much impact as a good video, videos changed my life in the past way more than any software ever did. I chose for animation. Btw Chinese Medicine sounds gangster! I would be really interested in it, never new it was a real thing. Good luck on your journey!

Update Felt like updating this a bit so I can read back one year from now and see how far I have come . Still enjoy reading my shit from a year back, shit makes me giggle. When I read back I see how progress really just creeps in slowly, you don't even notice it sometimes. First, I stopped meditating RIP. I have been sitting on my own in my room contemplating life A LOT. Slowly quitting the things I never liked but did because people expected me to do it. Fuck parties that you know you won't really enjoy. I'm picky nowadays which one I go to and who I hang out with. Second, got my finger on my passion pulse. Slowly convincing myself that this video thing is really for me. It's gradual, it took me a year to really buy myself in and find my lane within the video space. But I'm fully convinced now. When I'm studying I find myself constantly thinking not about my study but my video's and how I will change to a motion graphics career and/or my own thing takes off but idk if that will happen for now just produce video's and study the YouTube platform and pray. Third, I'm very productive but my days go slow. My days go really slow. It feels like a drag. Hope this feeling ends soon. For now I just sit with it, observe it. Wonder how the universe presents this perfect orchestra before me every day. How this orchestra triggers me, the ways in which I create this orchestra, the unconscious labels I have for everything and how these labels hold me back. Fourth, Two years and I will live in a van. It is still the plan, one year school left, one year work. Then I ride the fuck out this country, turn inward. Great writing here again. - The Dude

You don't. I just discovered my study in uni (Computer Science) was the wrong one. I have one year left, I will finish it and in the meantime prepare skills that I enjoy more so that when I get out of uni I still can get to work with my new skills.

@Ethan_05 I agree you need to make a lot of content, this will bump up the possibility of you getting discovered. I also (especially for YouTube and blogging) believe in the need to study the inherent functionality of the platform that you are trying to build an audience on whether that is YouTube or Google Search. For example your YouTube video's are not really optimized for the platform which means that if a video catches on it will not blow up as big as it could be when you optimize things like tags. Research of the nice is so important finding titles and thumbnails that are crafted for specific audiences so that they click on your video. That is why finding a specific niche is so important. All that said only making more content doesn't help a bit. The key to creating great content for me is reflection on past content and comparing your content with others. I had a period where I would just pump out video's. I made a lot of them but they did not get any better. Then when I deliberately after every video looked at what I could improve, compared my speech to other popular video's and reflected on the structure of the content. Only then I stared improving. So I guess constant reflection and adaption is the key to creating better content. As for popularity, you can optimize for it you can market it and by sticking to it you can possibly gain popularity, but you never know.