Knock

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    11 hours ago, JayFueel said:

     

    The common start up fees and monthly fees/ requirements seen amongst many modern mlms is a disservice to what the future business model holds. 

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the core component of the MLM business model predicated on monthly fees/requirements? If there were no requirement/incentive to recruit more soldiers into the cult then MLMs wouldn't exist. 

    A quick search of Wikipedia shows that 99% of MLM participants lose money. In large MLMs, the theoretical payoff is a false God, unless you are literally on the board of directors or top tier management. 

    Proponents of MLMs manipulate people's beliefs, as is necessary to keep the train going. Often, it's the weak minded and desperate that fall into this trap due to overarching greed. 

    None of the above to be confused with Network marketing or affiliate marketing, which have a completely different structure and is based more on direct promotion of a product/service, and not a recruitment of pawns under you to peddle more product. 

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    Sometimes telling someone how they should change their life doesn't work. But show them the beautiful things in life, tell them a good story, and they become inspired. Some people appreciate art and beauty more than words. 

    Some questions to ponder:

    Is martial arts an art? Could sports be an art? How about writing beautiful code? Baking a cake? Writing perfect emails? Lifting weights? Does the medium for art matter, or is it the beauty behind its creation?

    Is it possible to enter flow stats without art? 

    What would the world look like without art or beauty? Does art make the world a better place? 

  10. Posted

    @CreamCat I think what @universe  meant is that "spending more time in personal development" often results in passive consumption of more content. I.e Spending countless hours "researching" and "learning".

    Real growth will happen from taking action and creating instead of consuming content. As a content creator, the best pathway to growth is to create a Minimum Viable Product and share it with your audience to get feedback and see if it's what the market actually wants.

    These 'small bets' will maximize your efficiency, assuming business is your priority. Use PD to supplement your business, I wouldn't be doing it the other way around.

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    @7thLetter Both tools you mentioned are great, I have used them for a year and it has done wonders to reduce mindless web surfing. 

    Other recommendations:

    • Grayscale your phone/laptop 
    • Add a long password to your phone/laptop
    • Erase all icons from phone home screen or desktop. (For phone I use an app called KISS) 
    • Physically putting your laptop away in the cupboard each time you are done using it. (Out of sight, out of mind)

    Basically what these tools do is making it hard to be mindlessly entertained. The ideal being to use the internet as the great search engine it is, while avoiding low quality distractions. 

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    I would say mainly yes, it is low conscious. Profits usually come infront of the customers best interest, and usually pray on others lack of knowledge or access. Doesn't help those most in need. 

    What's your main motivation for targeting those industries? Is it more towards passion, or towards earning easy money? Ask yourself, would you still go in those industries if it paid minimum wage? Why or why not?

  14. Posted · Edited by Knock
    Added more examples

    If you want lots of footage of what self-esteem looks like, here are some popular celebrities I see as having high self-esteem:

    1. Barack Obama 

    2. Gordon Ramsay 

    3. Roger Federer

    4. Arnold Schwarzenegger

     

    Note however, it's important to decipher when they are 'playing up' for the camera and when they are genuinely themselves. 

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    @Sussso The best way to quit computer games is to start attributing a lot of 'pain' to the event. You want to create a story that makes gaming so unappealing that it would disgust you to play it again. 

    Next, you want to attribute your time and energy into a 'meaningful' pursuit that doesn't involve computer games. This can be whatever is meaningful to you. Lifting, self-actualization, music, business etc. Something that is really compelling that you can lose yourself in.

    Lastly, you need to eliminate the possibility of 'relapse'. The best way to do this is to create as much 'friction' as possible to prevent yourself from going back to gaming. Friction is created by putting in self-imposed barriers. Some examples of friction could be locking away your gaming console every time you use it, setting a long login password, using software to prevent access to certain games, etc. The goal here is to prevent mindless consumption of gaming, making you mindful every time you have to go out of your way to use it. This friction creates the time and opportunity to choose a better action. 

    I myself used to be an obsessive gamer for 10 years, and I quit 3 years ago, so I know what I'm talking about. Any more questions, I'm happy to help :)

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    What I find even more strange is that I have friends who are aware (at least on an academic level) of many of these personal development concepts, they just don't have the hunger to devote themselves into diving in.

    2 years ago, I was having a deep talk with a friend the other day about personal dynamics. He knew all about being needy, playing victim, acting-out for attention because of low self-esteem... He explained past classmates and why they acted the way they did. He even talked about himself and why he has his current issues/problems. He is aware of all this, without even had read one personal development book. 

    So I thought sweet, you sound like a switched on smart guy, let me share with you some resources (I shared some 5-10min YouTube clips about basic PD concepts). Next time we met, I asked what he thought of the videos.

    He didn't even open them. 

    I thought, well, he will come around in time then. I kept dropping concepts and ideas into conversation every now and then, sharing what's improving my life. 

    2 years later and my life has improved exponentially, while his growth is mainly linear. He still hasn't come around yet to take PD seriously, despite seeing the results right in front of his eyes. He is a smart guy and won't have any trouble living a comfortable mediocre life. But I know he can be so much more, I just don't know what else to do to convince him to get into self-help and personal development seriously like I have. 

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    Cultivate a strong vision for what you are doing. Create a vision board and use it as a reminder for why you are doing what you are doing. It should evoke strong positive emotions in you when you see it. Then use that energy to take action on the next important thing. 

    Also, understanding the process of what a true success journey looks like, will keep your mental game strong. Look up Leo's videos on mastery and the heroes journey :)

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    This is observation bias.

    People who are attractive gain more attention (see instagram). These people also like to appeal to the unconscious masses with their platform, hence 'confirming' this idea that beauty = low consciousness. 

    What you don't see is the good looking people who are not posting online. 

    You also don't see the ugly people on instagram promoting low consciousness things as often, so the association isn't there.

    Most athletes and good looking people are actually higher consciousness than average. They have great self-awareness and often meditate more than the average person. 

    A typical gym junkie may be a poor sample selection. But talk to someone who uses gym to compliment their other endeavors, and you will find that the opposite to OPs hypothesis.

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    I heard a story of an elderly man that was on his deathbed in the hospital, who agreed to be an organ donor. His family had all flown in from around the country to be with him for his lasts breaths. The organ harvesting team of doctors and nurses were hovering around like a bunch of parasites, and when he finally passed away, the family were ushered out of the room as soon as possible. Their final moments with their loved one was jeopardized, and they can never get that back.

    Hearing that story left a bad taste in my mouth. I love nurses and all that they do (my gf is a nurse), but I've decided not to be an organ donor.

    Just my 2c

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    @undeather interesting! Why did you choose to play spirituality videos in the background? How did you initially come about them and why them and not edm music or something else?

    3 hours ago, Commodent said:

    When all the "solutions" the current paradigm offered failed me. Advice on shallow stuff, like how to make other people like you, isn't really useful for resolving deep emotional issues.

    Thank you for sharing :) May I ask a follow up question (open to anyone)? I have friends who tried that self-help stuff, it didn't work, and now they are closed off to the whole idea of trying anything else in the field. They won't even consider meditation, let alone therapy, spirituality content or psychedelics. In their mind, it's all lumped together under pseudoscience. What will they have to experience before they become open to these areas of life? 

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    @Alex Thanks for sharing! If you don't mind going deeper, how did you come about reading "Power of Now"? What stroke your curiosity to read the book in the first place? 

    Story time- tl:dr at end

    Personally for me, I was very closed minded throughout high school and university. No-one in my environment talked about spirituality, reading books, meditation, self-help, conscious living etc. It seems shocking now, but I simply was not presented these ideas or have any role models that embodied this work. I grew up in a homogeneous rural community in Australia that lacked diversity of people and ideas. Additionally, I didn't have a smart phone or personal computer until I was 18 when I left school, so my access to information and 'stumbling upon' new ideas was throttled. 

    It wasn't until I moved into the city to study at university that I began to see some diversity in life and new ways of living. Here I was exposed to various kinds of people who had different ways of thinking to mine, and this challenge many of my assumptions. My mindset and beliefs back then was very much a parrot of my own parents, some great beliefs and values, others no so much. I definitely wasn't an independent thinker, I wasn't consciously living and designing my life, I was simply following the scripts I was indoctrinated with from the past 18 years. Fundamentally, I was lacking in purpose, self-responsibility, self-acceptance and conscious living. Surprise-surprise, turns out I developed low self-esteem. 

    Once I was in my last semester of university, it dawned upon me that I would be leaving the safe confines of traditional education, and entering 'the real world' as an adult. This scared the shit out of me. I was comfortable at uni, it had well defined rules and boundaries, expectations and trajectory. I was significantly immature and ill-equipped to take on the challenges of the real world, and deep down I knew it. So i did the one thing I was good at, using my initiative and resourcefulness, I designed my own research project on how to enter the real world, be a grown up, and how to integrate into adult society. I wanted to develop a character that had good interests and would be highly employable, as I knew that interests and personality was desirable in interviews. 

    For the first time in my life, I did an internal audit on where I was, and what skills, experience, abilities and interest I possessed. And I had nothing. No discernible skills, hobbies, experience or interest that would make me stand out amongst the competition. It dawned on me that I was a nobody, a boring person that stays between the lines and has no voice of their own. My discernible characteristics? I was moderately successful academically and was nice all the time. Unfortunately for me, those 2 things are not enough to get you anywhere in life. I knew had to make a change.

    I knew I had to change something, but I just didn't know how or what. At the time, my friends and the environment around me where talking a lot about politics, an area I had no knowledge in. So, to become interesting, I started researching politics and for the first time in my life, became open minded to a different belief then the one that was passed down from my parents. I stumbled across YouTube and Reddit, places where I was exposed to a large diverse number of opinions and worldviews. The more I learned, the more questions I had, and more I learned what I didn't know. What started off as 1 question about politics, became 100 questions about politics, religion, social laws, relationships, sexuality, morality, philosophy and spirituality. That one question, and the hunger to learn more, has lead me to open my mind, question my lifes direction and ultimately given my the power to design my own life, instead of living in the shadows of my upbringing. 

    My mindset now is that of inner confidence. That no matter what happens, I will be okay and I can deal with the outcome. I am consciously living my life with purpose, making choices for noone elses sake but my own. I have moved from a fixed and victim mindset to an abundance mindset, that growth and opportunities are always presenting themselves to you and you are worthy of the success that comes your way when you take action on them. 

    TL:DR

    • My upbringing didn’t set me up for success, and no, I don’t blame anyone for this.
    • It wasn’t until I moved to a different environment, that the possibility of different life perspectives and ways of living entered my consciousness
    • When I had to face the reality of life and leave my comfort zone, I was fearful and felt great pain through my perceived (and objective) inadequacy.
    • The discomfort from the fear became greater than my comfort of living in my own paradigm, and hence I became open to solutions on how to fix my current situation.
    • The more solutions I find, the more unconscious problems I saw. Once equipped with a hammer, I was able to see and fix all the jagged nails in my life.

    So anyway, that’s my story. I would love to hear more from you guys ?.
    And lastly, how would you assist enabling others to become open minded so that they too will be willing to equip the hammer of life?