Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[UnbornTao]

On 6/9/2026 at 0:54 PM, Human Mint said:

Basic rigor and critical thinking is SECONDARY (yes, to your surprise), the elemental and most fundamental thing is producing insights. Which you can't measure and you can't control when they're happening. And also there is a blurry line between fantasy and insight. Notice how easy it is to dismiss an insight for fantasy and for impractical. One has to wonder what rol plays rigor and critical thinking really, if not to follow up valuable insights and make something tangible out of them. 

Being able to contemplate insights is the most valuable skill, since all of the actions you choose in your life come afterwards. Why did you chose to go to "x" university? Because you had one kind of insight that prompted you to go there and not any other university.

That's why this work is essential. You need to know that having insights is invaluable. It is not for the group think. And of course it is not to hold every insight you have as perfect and without rough edges. The rigor would come to polish the rough edges. But you need to experiment first.

Without basic rigor and self-honesty you can just make up anything in your own mind and call that an insight. You can proactively create experiences that are consistent with your view, desires, beliefs, biases, etc. Without rigor it's easy for these endeavors to turn into big forms of confirmation bias.

It's the external standard (so to speak), something that isn't your persona, that decides what's an insight, or what's true and real - not your character. Without rigor, or call it reality if you will, you easily get in the way of this assessment.

There's actually a huge line between fantasy and insight. The same as between a lie and the truth.

I don't think of insight as merely having a good idea, or as necessarily an intellectual occurrence - though those exist too - but it has to be real and oftentimes factual, like Newton and the apple and such. It isn't about coming up with interesting ideas, or exchanging beliefs. I feel these are easy to confuse.

[UnbornTao]

21 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

If you could think for yourself, you wouldn’t really be concerned about this place potentially being a cult🤷🏻‍♀️ worrying about it, is just implicitly calling yourself weak 🙂 and other people too for that matter 🫠

I'm too sovereign and nonconformist to point out cult dynamics in a place I'm in. Now that's something.

[Sugarcoat]

6 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

I'm too sovereign and nonconformist to point out cult dynamics in a place I'm in. Now that's something.

Hm. Maybe my problem is that I haven’t “contemplated” it enough 

“Joke” aside, but what I said was genuine. It’s not that it’s impossible that this place has maybe some streaks of what could fit definition of a cult. But I just think it’s such a non issue somehow. It’s a spiritual /self help forum, yes people repeat what others say, they may blindly believe, but that happens anywhere really. 
 

For now I don’t know how to explain myself further. But you don’t seem excessively concerned, more like you’re just exploring your expression or something (maybe im projecting now). So my comment, it’s just directed at a general tendency, not just in this forum.

Edited Thursday at 07:07 PM by Sugarcoat

[UnbornTao]

46 minutes ago, Wilhelm44 said:

Now you finally decide to respond. But you still can't say what you would have done differently if you were Leo.

Why is that question relevant here again?

[UnbornTao]

5 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

Hm. Maybe my problem is that I haven’t “contemplated” it enough 

“Joke” aside, but what I said was genuine. It’s not that it’s impossible that this place has maybe some streaks of what could fit definition of a cult. But I just think it’s such a non issue somehow. It’s a spiritual /self help forum, yes people repeat what others say, they may blindly believe, but that happens anywhere really. 
 

For now I don’t know how to explain myself further. But you don’t seem excessively concerned, more like you’re just exploring your expression or something (maybe im projecting now). So my comment, it’s just directed at a general tendency, not just in this forum.

Okay, fair enough. 

[Wilhelm44]

14 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Why is that question relevant here again?

How is it not relevant. You're literally accusing Leo of running a cult,

Edited yesterday at 10:00 AM by Wilhelm44

[Human Mint]

16 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Without basic rigor and self-honesty you can just make up anything in your own mind and call that an insight. You can proactively create experiences that are consistent with your view, desires, beliefs, biases, etc. Without rigor it's easy for these endeavors to turn into big forms of confirmation bias.

It's the external standard (so to speak), something that isn't your persona, that decides what's an insight, or what's true and real - not your character. Without rigor, or call it reality if you will, you easily get in the way of this assessment.

There's actually a huge line between fantasy and insight. The same as between a lie and the truth.

I don't think of insight as merely having a good idea, or as necessarily an intellectual occurrence - though those exist too - but it has to be real and oftentimes factual, like Newton and the apple and such. It isn't about coming up with interesting ideas, or exchanging beliefs. I feel these are easy to confuse.

I take insights seriously. Because I know they are hard to get, ranging from days, months or years to generate new insights for a problem you choose.

Having ideas is more of a casual thing. But insight is more of a meta thing. It's like opening a whole new view.

Insights challenges your beliefs, that's their beauty, that is the core. They put you in a more creative headspace where you're not a slave of your beliefs (give or take).

What I was trying to say is that even if you try to be rigorous you're not guaranteed to have good insights.

[UnbornTao]

11 hours ago, Human Mint said:

I take insights seriously. Because I know they are hard to get, ranging from days, months or years to generate new insights for a problem you choose.

Having ideas is more of a casual thing. But insight is more of a meta thing. It's like opening a whole new view.

Insights challenges your beliefs, that's their beauty, that is the core. They put you in a more creative headspace where you're not a slave of your beliefs (give or take).

What I was trying to say is that even if you try to be rigorous you're not guaranteed to have good insights.

Fair. Doesn't hurt, either. 

[Human Mint]

12 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Fair. Doesn't hurt, either. 

Right, no. But you can get lost in being rigorous without advancing much in your understanding (being rigorous over the wrong idea). But also to be able to generate insights it takes intellectual hygene, which in a sense is applying rigor. Making space for your insights is being rigorous. You can take advice from others but ultimately you know what to do.

Edited 8 hours ago by Human Mint

[Davino]

Thanks for sharing the creativity video. Really liked it!

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, Davino said:

Thanks for sharing the creativity video. Really liked it!

Nice!

[Davino]

This channel has interesting short interviews with millionaires: 

 

Check it out, interesting content, got many insights on the rich psychology from the shorts 

[Yimpa]

On 6/7/2026 at 4:06 AM, Leo Gura said:

Garbage.

https://www.threads.com/@kidrags/post/DZgTCR1ivXa?xmt=AQG0Oz4PY8uY5TJLQHgdZVAv1sXn-cBfCDTtf6LxGK8vT-W6c67sTc9PrfvAx4tC4wJXyPE&slof=1

[integral]

31 minutes ago, Davino said:

This channel has interesting short interviews with millionaires: 

 

Check it out, interesting content, got many insights on the rich psychology from the shorts 

Rich people cannot say how there mind works because they are not conscious of it.

But im sure there nuggets of truth that slip out like Elon telling his brother to play one of does command and conquer video games to learn how play it in real life. 

Edited 2 hours ago by integral

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, integral said:

Rich people cannot say how there mind works because they are not conscious of it.

Bingo

[Davino]

2 hours ago, integral said:

Rich people cannot say how their mind works because they are not conscious of it.

That's why you gotta observe the crocodile at action and get insights into it. Poking the crocodile and reading between the lines. If you watch a hundred of those interviews you'll start to the see the self-deception and good advice as well. It's the intermingle of truth and falsehood what makes it so interesting to inquiry.

 

This smells bad

Edited 2 minutes ago by Davino