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Hey Leo. 

I forgot how amazing you are in real life as opposed to text, since it's been long since you uploaded. 

I remember when I first started this work, everything was glowing, literally, I was in awe by everything and everything was extremely beautiful, every meditation session was extremely rewarding, every book I read was something I was proud of, every time I ate healthy or exercised I felt very good.

Everything now is mechanical, it has lost its initial touch, don't get me wrong, I love it extremely and won't ever give it up, but I have become too goal oriented, I am planning what I will achieve 10 years from now in these fields and other life stuff, yet feeling empty now. 

sometimes the good ol' Eckhart Tolle idea of being present does help. 

I will focus more on the small stuff and change my attitude, so thank you :)

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@Ayham what is the secret to your success. can u  name some books and resources

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@Sultan Al Hind

well, if you mean sticking to the stuff I do, sure. 

For like 2 years, I tried to stick to  a lot of habits and failed, until like 1.5 years ago, I discovered Actualized.org, had a sort of existential crisis, then made a  4 or 5 months plan to start a habit each month, these were:

  1. Meditation 
  2. Daily Reading (reading a book month, but now I have been reading more than just a book a month) 
  3. Eating healthy 
  4. Exercise 
  5. Contemplation (On weekends, I don't do it daily) 

These were a start, I experimented with many things but I stuck to those 100%

A commitment to do this until the end of my life really helped. 

Later I started a second brain in obsidian (or what Leo calls a commonplace book) using Tiago Forte's Para system. 

and now I have been getting into serious psychology and western philosophy 

Great resources 

  1. Robin Waldun on YouTube 
  2. Healthygamergg on YouTube 
  3. Hamza on YouTube 
  4. Jordan Peterson 
  5. Leo's life purpose course 
  6. Jordan Peterson's future authoring program 
  7. Shinzen Young 
  8. Culadasa / the mind illuminated 
  9. Daniel Ingram 
  10. Tiago Forte 
  11. Robert Greene
  12. R/streamentry subreddit 
  13. Books in general

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I agree.

It's easy (and perhaps inevitable for someone with high standards) to focus on all the little imperfections and totally neglect all the great stuff that's already there.

I really enjoyed this episode and found myself grinning from ear to ear and getting teary eyed throughout it - and I know no one that puts me into this state as reliably as Leo.

So yeah, credit where credit is due.


“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.” - Heraclitus

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This video was added to my favourites, thank you.

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17 hours ago, Ayham said:

Everything now is mechanical, it has lost its initial touch, don't get me wrong, I love it extremely and won't ever give it up, but I have become too goal oriented, I am planning what I will achieve 10 years from now in these fields and other life stuff, yet feeling empty now.

It is true that personal development can turn into a grind after a while. I have definitely fallen into that trap in the past. So you have to be careful not to just turn your life into an endless treadmill of more and more personal development goals. You gotta relax and have some fun too.

You can try not doing personal development for 6 months and see how you feel after that. That should renew your passion for it.

Life requires variety. You can't just do the same thing every day for 10 years.

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You are God. You are Truth. You are Love. You are Infinity.

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It is true that personal development can turn into a grind after a while. I have definitely fallen into that trap in the past. So you have to be careful not to just turn your life into an endless treadmill of more and more personal development goals. You gotta relax and have some fun too.

@Leo Gurahehe, yeah, I am trying to do that.

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You can try not doing personal development for 6 months and see how you feel after that. That should renew your passion for it.

Life requires variety. You can't just do the same thing every day for 10 years

I actually can't, it is literally what gives my life 80% of its meaning, plus I am at a critical point in my life and I have many goals that I want to achieve before I enter college, and that's like in 1.5 years, things like:

  1. Reaching stage 6 or 7 in the mind illuminated
  2. Reading a lot of serious psychology and western philosophy books, I also want to read books in math's, physics, chemistry, and biology so that I have basic grasp of science (I would turn to more spiritual books later)
    And I have a feeling this is wrong, that I should read what I am passionate about instead of science, which I don't even know how much I like, I am doing this partly because I have a sort of FOMO about all fields, even in your videos for example, whenever you mention a name or something that I don't know exists, I just feel like I should be way more knowledgeable and this leads to wanting to consume all fields rather than focusing on specific things, I also have a sort of vision of becoming a renaissance man.
  3. Figuring out how to be able to get out of Iraq using a scholarship or something, maybe I might get out after college, but that's not preferred. 

I don't really have much time to waste.

btw, do you remember people here on the forum? or only the most active ones?

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2 hours ago, Ayham said:

btw, do you remember people here on the forum? or only the most active ones?

The more active ones.


You are God. You are Truth. You are Love. You are Infinity.

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On 18/3/2023 at 7:30 AM, Ayham said:

@Sultan Al Hind

well, if you mean sticking to the stuff I do, sure. 

For like 2 years, I tried to stick to  a lot of habits and failed, until like 1.5 years ago, I discovered Actualized.org, had a sort of existential crisis, then made a  4 or 5 months plan to start a habit each month, these were:

  1. Meditation 
  2. Daily Reading (reading a book month, but now I have been reading more than just a book a month) 
  3. Eating healthy 
  4. Exercise 
  5. Contemplation (On weekends, I don't do it daily) 

These were a start, I experimented with many things but I stuck to those 100%

A commitment to do this until the end of my life really helped. 

Later I started a second brain in obsidian (or what Leo calls a commonplace book) using Tiago Forte's Para system. 

and now I have been getting into serious psychology and western philosophy 

Great resources 

  1. Robin Waldun on YouTube 
  2. Healthygamergg on YouTube 
  3. Hamza on YouTube 
  4. Jordan Peterson 
  5. Leo's life purpose course 
  6. Jordan Peterson's future authoring program 
  7. Shinzen Young 
  8. Culadasa / the mind illuminated 
  9. Daniel Ingram 
  10. Tiago Forte 
  11. Robert Greene
  12. R/streamentry subreddit 
  13. Books in general

Nice couple of resources I didn't know about
 

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10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The more active ones.

Leo you should share some of the best music and porn you mention, that's the most important thing to remember  ;P 

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I have shared my music.

As for porn, keep dreamin'.


You are God. You are Truth. You are Love. You are Infinity.

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14 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I have shared my music.

 

Think it's about time for an update? I'm interested in what else you've been listening to since then

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“We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak." -Epictetus

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Just now, lostingenosmaze said:

Think it's about time for an update?

Yes.

I didn't see anyone caring.


You are God. You are Truth. You are Love. You are Infinity.

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1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

Yes.

Please!


“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.” - Heraclitus

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40 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I have shared my music.

As for porn, keep dreamin'.

Some hints? We have nowhere to go to find this “high quality porn”. Is it stuff you just can’t find on Pornhub etc? Does it need to be downloaded/bought? Lol 

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40 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Yes.

I didn't see anyone caring.

Of course we do!

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guys, be original in your porn :)

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2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Yes.

I didn't see anyone caring.

I listen to your playlist 24/7. It's the best!

I even thought about making my own Actualized.org playlist 2.0

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I forgive my past, I release the future, and I honor how I feel in the present. 

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