Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[LambdaDelta]

28 minutes ago, Zen LaCroix said:

As intelligent as you are which we can see clearly in your videos. The book will have more reach if it's written in a way that is understandable. In plain english. The easier it is to understand for normal IQ people then the more the message and the book will spread

Pursuing accessibility can become its own trap. 'Tis a delicate balance to strike between depth and simplicity. No matter how plain and explicit some of the points are made, they can still be misused in various ways by unconscious people. In this sense, a certain degree of complexity serves as a filter of sorts. There has to be a mutually trusting relationship between the author and the reader; part of it is the author trusting the readers' intelligence and not doing them a disservice by dumbing down the content. 
Since it's supposed to be a timeless book (Leo's words), it matters little how few people will truly get its full significance in the present day, in a hundred years there'll be plenty more that do.

Edited Friday at 01:21 AM by LambdaDelta

[Terell Kirby]

20 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

This is not about being emotionless. It's not allowing others to make you react in stupid ways that weaken you.

Top notch post Leo -- the hallmark of maturity is being able to be responsive rather than reactive. It's been a struggle for me throughout the year, but I'm making progress. Emotional mastery 101

So much of our personal success depends on it, very nuts and bolts for youngsters (and oldsters) to learn.

[Rishabh R]

@Leo Gura I loved the emotional reactivity post (it's gold) since I have been guilty of it but I am making progress. By the way - How to maintain my poise when criticized over and over again when the criticism is contradictory ? Is it relevant to remind oneself that criticism doesn't tell anything about me as a person but rather it is trying to point me in the correct direction.

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, Zen LaCroix said:

The book will have more reach if it's written in a way that is understandable.

It is very understandable. A teen can understand it. The problem is that most people don't care to understand it.

[Harikrishnan]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

It is very understandable. A teen can understand it. The problem is that most people don't care to understand it.

He leo will you share some excerpts you have written maybe in blog like ralston does. 

[Raze]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

It is very understandable. A teen can understand it. The problem is that most people don't care to understand it.

Is it written in the form of narration or a systematic treatise with graphs, tables, lists and charts?

Are you studying the structure of writing process of any books to base its organization on? 

Edited Friday at 05:46 AM by Raze

[Dazgwny]

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

It is very understandable. A teen can understand it. The problem is that most people don't care to understand it.

I understand that making things simple to understand can enable it to reach further. But as you know, a lot of this stuff you teach is very tricky to understand, infact the trickiest stuff possible, that’s why it’s so rare that anybody actually gets it. By the sounds of the amount your writing and say you could write, it won’t be lacking in depth. I just hope you don’t cut out any depth to these topics just to make it more understandable to the masses. The masses have to do the work to understand. Not just be given the answers on a plate or it’ll just become belief bible style to the majority who read it. I’ve no doubt you’ve thought long and hard about these things though.

Also, is the book just like a description of God, consciousness, and everything that goes with it? Everything you have come to find type thing? Or is it a guide, to help one realise, for themselves, like your videos, to entice people to do the necessary work? Or a bit of both?

[Yimpa]

12 hours ago, Harikrishnan said:

leo will you share some excerpts you have written maybe in blog like ralston does. 

Here’s one. It’s really long:

https://www.actualized.org/insights/writing-my-book

[Leo Gura]

15 hours ago, Dazgwny said:

 I just hope you don’t cut out any depth to these topics just to make it more understandable to the masses. 

Nothing will be dumbed down to please anyone. It will be like my videos in that regard.

15 hours ago, Dazgwny said:

Also, is the book just like a description of God, consciousness, and everything that goes with it? Everything you have come to find type thing? Or is it a guide, to help one realise, for themselves, like your videos, to entice people to do the necessary work? Or a bit of both?

It is not just a description, it is the entire epistemic process for how to do truth-seeking. That's if the book is released as a single volume. If multiple shorter volumes, then less so.

23 hours ago, Raze said:

Is it written in the form of narration or a systematic treatise with graphs, tables, lists and charts?

It is written like my blog quotes.

23 hours ago, Raze said:

Are you studying the structure of writing process of any books to base its organization on? 

No.

[Yimpa]

https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-corruption-of-series

[LoneWonderer]

Looking foward to corruption series 🙂

[Happy Lizard]

Knowing Leo he will probably start with the corruption of video games, which is nice, but I hope he also does the corruptions of some type of thing that we rarely think about. Because the bad qualities of some of these on the list  show very fast after a while. Its the hidden and the unknowns that blind sides us. 

[Davino]

Leo, why do you often say you're going to do something and then it doesn't happen?

This is not an attack and I don't want any explanations. I just cannot help but observe over the years this pattern of making a promise and then not delivering. 

For example, you've posted on the Corruption of... series, but then have not finished the deconstructing Rationality series which you said would be delivered in a row and I'm skeptical of how many chapters will be done on the corruption series. Still again this is just a local, limited and only a trigger of a metapoint on this lack of integrity and cornering yourself in future actions that don't materialize.

Give it another introspective chain of thoughts because I'm puzzled you haven't polished this already. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

17 minutes ago, Davino said:

Leo, why do you often say you're going to do something and then it doesn't happen?

This is not an attack and I don't want any explanations. I just cannot help but observe over the years this pattern of making a promise and then not delivering. 

For example, you've posted on the Corruption of... series, but then have not finished the deconstructing Rationality series which you said would be delivered in a row and I'm skeptical of how many chapters will be done on the corruption series. Still again this is just a local, limited and only a trigger of a metapoint on this lack of integrity and cornering yourself in future actions that don't materialize.

Give it another introspective chain of thoughts because I'm puzzled you haven't polished this already. 

He needs an executive assistant to whip him and keep him on track 😈

[LambdaDelta]

22 minutes ago, Davino said:

Leo, why do you often say you're going to do something and then it doesn't happen?

This is not an attack and I don't want any explanations. I just cannot help but observe over the years this pattern of making a promise and then not delivering. 

For example, you've posted on the Corruption of... series, but then have not finished the deconstructing Rationality series which you said would be delivered in a row and I'm skeptical of how many chapters will be done on the corruption series. Still again this is just a local, limited and only a trigger of a metapoint on this lack of integrity and cornering yourself in future actions that don't materialize.

Give it another introspective chain of thoughts because I'm puzzled you haven't polished this already. 

 

Quote

Investor: How do we know that you will do what you say?

Schindler: Because I said I would. Do you want a contract? To be upheld by what court? I said what I'll do, that's our contract.

But seriously, Leo seems to have fallen into a trap he once pointed out himself — starting too many projects at once. And when he said he's done making promises, which in itself is a promise of sorts, several promises have been made and also not delivered since then. Maybe a rewatch of "How to get shit done" is in order, where Leo says that talk is cheap — first go do it then come talk about it. I understand there's a business to run, so some hype/marketing has to be generated, but when nothing ends up delivered it's a bad look; not announcing anything at all would've been preferable. 

"Corruption of Actualized.org" would be an interesting meta-addition. There's endless examples of the abyss between the teachings and how 99% of users apply them. Plus more of Leo's own corruption; the personal exposé in Psychology of Being Wrong was a good start, but not enough. Where's the list of all the evil stuff? Wrong and evil are somewhat different. When I was the only one to post that list publicly it got deleted, probably for being too explicit. But if we profess to care about truth so much, that goes against the spirit of the work. Drag all the filth out, no matter how painful; that's the best way to combat corruption. 

Though at a certain point, it's understood that corruption is an absolute metaphysical necessity, and giving up or continuing to fight after that realization are both corruption in their own unique ways.

But even if Leo doesn't deliver, there's always DIY contemplation & learning to test how much you truly understand the other lessons. 

[No1Here2c]

I feel that this "Codex of the Sage", if ever completed and released, will be one of the most pivotal percepts to pass before my deciphering apparatus. There is something about a physical book that when taken in fully and truly can undoubtedly shape the understanding from which the mind operates under. It may be a cool idea to create a companion publication which operates as a sort of workbook to aid in the actual application of these sometimes vague and murky topics.

[Human Mint]

10 hours ago, No1Here2c said:

There is something about a physical book that when taken in fully and truly can undoubtedly shape the understanding from which the mind operates under.

Just a different medium than video form.

[Davino]

13 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

He needs an executive assistant to whip him and keep him on track 

He def would benefit from outsourcing more stuff. He loves to do it all himself to his taste, but at his stage you can't be micromanaging everything cause it's gonna be a bottle neck. It's like wanting to be both a CEO and a technician, there's a trade-off in being so complete.

[Joseph Maynor]

I like the blog post on proving beauty exists.  I'll make it Beauty just to clarify I'm talking about Absolute Beauty.   This can be seen thru Creation of finite artworks and exploration and comparison of taste in the various artforms.

[Yimpa]

Here's an example of Beauty and Corruption in a bag:

 

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https://www.actualized.org/insights/western-digital

How to Recover or Repair Corrupted Data from External HDD or SSD in Windows PC

Edited 14 hours ago by Yimpa