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  2. There certainly is. I never called him a con artist.
  3. It's the only video I dislike very much, I find it to be potentially very very misleading. It's mostly word choice and framing, but to me adds unnecessary complexity and confusion; at the same time deconstructs that weird definition presented as perception but then doesn't explain existential "base" reality, therefore lacking the philosophical depth necessary for resolving those mental gymnastics into metaphysical truth, imo. Or to simplify: Experience is truth and it's absolute. It may be absolute bullshit with the ego or absolute clarity, but experience is the absolute truth no fucking matter what. There's nothing but experience, perception, phenomena, sensations which is one and the same as consciousness. Leo of course knows this. That video may have been influenced by Ralston style at that time, I'm sure he would shoot quite differently that episode now.
  4. He’s saying the exact opposite. There’s nothing wrong with life purpose and passion. He’s saying practice with the same mind that you do dishes or meditate with. You swung your pendulum too far.
  5. You can call it whatever you like. You can regard it however you like.
  6. I guess there's a huge world of difference between being a "world class bullshit artist" and a conman. He's a public figure/talking head that has made a living peddling agendas and narratives (with lots of ads for you to buy stuff) which have coincidentally paid him extremely well. The guys had his grift on for years. Maybe he's not a conman in the strictest sense of the word but come on. He was selling people what they wanted to hear and they bought it and repackaged it - all while having some very naughty skeletons in his closet. The mea culpa is a little late for me but people are free to make up their own minds.
  7. Have you looked everywhere? If you have then there’s nowhere else for you to look.
  8. That's a pity.
  9. All world views are sourced from the same place. A seer can’t view everywhere. A seer can only view what’s in its own viewfinder.
  10. It is a shame there isn't more willingness to explore each others worldviews, instead there is insistence on our own.
  11. Maximizing meaning and purpose. It hyper-charges your brain with dopamine, it increases your IQ by several 10-points; and not willy-nilly like taking a drug — holy, sacred, crystalline dopamine which is embodied and aligned with a goal and purpose, which harmonizes with and uncovers the faultlines of true/higher reality. Then you also have brain training techniques like N-Back training and image streaming (can only vouch for the former, haven't tried the latter). N-Back is good for extending short-term memory length and capacity and generally increasing working memory capacity, image streaming is purportedly very good for training imaginative ability, semantic connectivity and verbal fluency. I worry if I try image streaming I might actually go insane. I don't think practicing random off-the-cuff associative thinking would be good for me (I think I already have more than enough but who knows), but working memory yes.
  12. It has a CONscience. My science.

  13. Robert Greene's new book

    Natasha Tori Maru replied to HMD's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I'll be reading this - I enjoy Robert Greene's work. I've read The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction & The Laws of Human Nature.
  14. That’s the nature of business. No one’s business. Parrot droppings will drop. It’s the gravity of love.
  15. It both knows and doesn't know and neither doesn't not know or also knows when it doesn't.
  16. Well you can’t con a con.
  17. I don't see this as a con. People change. Like Elon Musk changed hard after Covid. So did Rogan. People can backslide. That's not a con.
  18. @Joseph Maynor True but that doesn't mean they should deny how cheaply and easily they were conned.
  19. That’s the nature of the mind, it always wants what it doesn’t want. Flip Flop. Meanwhile Art is natural. The natural is just shagging itself. That self is its nature.
  20. I didn't recommend him per se, I used him as a nice example of a wild drug addict who evolved into Green. That is still true. Regardless of who he slept with 20 years ago, the fact that he kicked a heroin addiction is impressive nonetheless. He is still much more evolved than a typical MAGA chud. But his past haunts him. Nothing suprising about that. I would expect a heroin addict to have done some pretty bad things in the past.
  21. Day 2. This transition is gruesome. That said, I have proven now that my mind is ready to handle it. I have the best outcomes in my cohort so far. 6 hr training days, 2 hr team simulations. My mind feels fragmented by the end, but I am adapting and realigning for the next just as hard. Shared further above, don't let it go to your head, but never allow humility subtract from momentum and leadership where success doesnt isolate, it unifies others own positive momentum.
  22. I think self-improvement is a selfishness that tends to lead towards benefiting the whole. It makes you generally a better, less addicted, healthier, more conscious individual who more meaningfully contributes to society, but for essentially selfish reasons. Just wanting a better life.
  23. Yes, consciousness knows itself as not-knowing knowing.
  24. Today
  25. People want to project outward and stay invisible instead of manning up and taking full responsibility for their life, this is to be expected.
  26. When he says all the things you like to hear you'll recommend him. When he embarrassingly gets caught with his pants down you'll need to disassociate to spare yourself from the embarrassment of once recommending him.
  27. Yes.
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