Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Joseph Maynor]

It can be helpful to determine what kind of player you are:  Do you like quiet game vs. aggressive game?  Do you like classical vs. rapid or bullet?  Are you an openings or endgame nerd, or a tactical player?  Are you a master at positional play or are you more of a romantic spur of the moment player?  Chess has multiple modes of play -- and oftentimes you're tacitly agreeing with your opponent as to what specific game of chess will be played. 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Joseph Maynor

[PenguinPablo]

@Joshe Absolutely. I've seen this cope so many times. There are fictional stories warning about becoming this type of person. The genius that has the whole world figured out and is "above" most things in society, yet is a man child playing video games in their parents basement -- because it's easier to create castles in your head than accept the reality of being mediocre. Such a person hasn't even stepped into the ring. 

Edited 12 hours ago by PenguinPablo

[vibv]

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Because playing real people brings ego into it, which I dislike. 

It's about psychology, which makes chess interesting in the first place.

[Yimpa]

Leo and his carpet were in a relationSHIT

[Flowerfaeiry]

Saying that everything is love makes sense in the physical world, but what about the spiritual world? There's a war between good and evil going on. A clear distinction. If it were all good there wouldn't be such a hard line between the two. 

[Leo Gura]

20 minutes ago, Flowerfaeiry said:

There's a war between good and evil going on.

Is there?

How do you know?

[Flowerfaeiry]

Do you think this is something I pulled out of my ass? (said with love) 

[Leo Gura]

5 minutes ago, Flowerfaeiry said:

Do you think this is something I pulled out of my ass? (said with love) 

You pulled the whole universe out of your ass (with love)

Edited 3 hours ago by Leo Gura

[enchanted]

At the start of the video Leo stated that a fundamentalist Christian has lower consciousness than a fundamentalist scientist. However both just blindly accept dogma but the Christian's world view is at least ultimately more true than the scientists right? Christians have God, love, oneness etc...so why is the Christian lower? 

Edited 2 hours ago by enchanted

[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, enchanted said:

so why is the Christian lower? 

Because the fundamentalist is all wrapped in beliefs whereas the rational scientist is at least thinking and doubting and asking questions.

Development level is measured by the capacity of the mind to question reality. Beliefs are athithetical to that. Even having the right beliefs is worse than having the wrong belief but at least being in a process of doubting and questioning. The Christian is not questioning reality so he is stuck.

The epistemic process is more important than believing the right answer.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[CARDOZZO]

@Leo Gura Check PM 

[aurum]

Hamilton Morris, John Vervaeke, Andrew Newberg, Sam Harris, Anil Seth, Roland Griffiths, Rick Strassman, Robert Wright, Thomas Metzinger, Evan Thompson.

What do they all have in common?

They all validate mystical experiences, but either deny or remain uncommitted on the actual metaphysics. At least publicly.

 

[Leo Gura]

5 minutes ago, aurum said:

but either deny or remain uncommitted on the actual metaphysics

That is because that requires some heavy metaphysical work/understanding. Which is what I try to teach.

It's not enough to have a mystical experience, the mind needs to mine it and integrate it into a much larger understanding of Reality. It is like assembling a puzzle, but they never assemble it.

Edited 21 minutes ago by Leo Gura

[integral]

21 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

BTW, you are grossly over-estimating that number. You have not played even close to 10,000 games of chess. That's an insane number that even a grandmaster hasn't played.

I agree what you're saying, but at the same time one of the biggest things that holds me back when it comes to mastery is state.

If you have a really great state, you master things way faster.

And if you have really mediocre, average state you can get stuck at Plato's easily.

1200-1400-1600-1800-2000-2200-2400 people often reach a certain rating and then never improve.

[Leo Gura]

If you are playing chess at 2000+, you are basically within the realm of mastery already.

Don't confuse mastery with being the best in the world. That's a whole nother level which requires insane training and even right genetics.