Actualized.org wasn't enough to fix my life. A critique of actualized.org.

Majed
By Majed in Personal Development -- [Main],
Now before entering the main topic, i want to say that actualized.org offers a lot of value. However, it didn't fully work for me. And that's because of huge blind spots in Leo's work and actualized.org.  1. The first blind spot, is that Leo rarely talks about mental health. For those of us struggling with it, learning about mental health is crucial for our development. This is a huge blind spot in actualized.org. Leo likes to say that pathological psychology isn't his specialty. However like i said it is crucial for actualizing our potential as human beings, especially for those who like me have mental illnesses like ocd and bipolar disorder. Also the link between mental health and physical health, substance addictions... Leo doesn't stress enough the dangers of hard drugs, in fact he promotes the use of psychedelics as tools for spiritual growth. Fine however, if you're like most people, there won't be a fixed boundary between use for personal development, use for recreation, use for chemsex... For example because of Leo's lax attitude towards hard drugs, i mixed once mdma with my psychiatric medications like anti depressants and anti psychotics. Which is extremely dangerous. Luckily i came out fine, but you know i could've died.    2. The second hugely important blind spot in all of Leo's work and actualized.org, is his lack of talking about how to actually make money. If you're like most people making money is central to your ability to self actualize. However Leo won't even dedicate a series explaining in details to us how to actually generate that money. I took the life purpose course and honestly, if you're clueless about the topic of mastery and such things, then it can provide a lot of value. However i have prior to taking the life purpose course, read the book mastery of robert greene and i didn't found much new information in the course compared to that book. And the thing after both of these, the book of robert greene, and leo's course, i still hasn't figured out how to convert skill or passion into cash. For most of us we would be judged on whether we're failures or successes in life based on money, not spiritual enlightenment or wisdom. Because of this lack of money situation, i am still a virgin at 22 years old. Even though i applied the insights in Leo's series on how to get laid. It just wasn't enough. I did 2500 approaches, and still didn't got laid because of lack of money. Especially if you're starting in a third world country what you need to quit is money.
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