Leo Gura

I never agreed with his philosophy. I'm a follow your passion guy. To me, not following your passion is a recipe for mediocrity. You cannot be great at something you don't love. For me, love is not a luxury. I need it to be great.

You need more urgency and efficiency than that. You can't spend 20 years screwing around! But do the best you can from today forward. 20-25 To be very honest with you, I don't feel that you are serious enough to make that work. It could work, but you'd need to have a much more serious attitude about it. I am not discouraging you, I'm just being very real about what success requires. You need to be real honest with yourself about how serious you are. If you don't want to be that serious, pick an easier goal.

Look, in this domain especially, you must err on the side of action. There are not guarantees against self-deception. You must play the game and play it well. If you fail, you can play the game more than once. If you deceive yourself about crying, then A) That's really weird, and B) You can learn your lesson and find a genuine cry instead. You are better off taking action and making mistakes than sitting around doing nothing or worrying. You will course-correct as you go by being conscious of feedback.

One good metric is, Does it make you cry? If it can't make you cry, then you're probably not passionate about it. Would launching a rocket make you cry? If not, what would? Do that instead. But if you're young, you may not have enough experience yet to know what would make you cry. In which case, experiment with stuff to find what will make you cry. What is the thing that is most interesting to you? Start there and upgrade it if you find something juicer.

Working your passion is a luxury that most people never want bad enough to earn it. Working your passion is EARNED by working extra hard, and extra clever. Working your passion is not something you can have by default, since then everyone would have it. Working your passion is an act of CREATION. You have to create that kind of lifestyle, which requires that you really want that kind of lifestyle and willing to bleed for it. It is like having a family. How do you get a family? You CREATE it.

You are not going to find a good criterion for what counts as depraved.

Even all that is progress relative to 100 years ago. 100 years ago Trump would have killed 20 million people. Today he's mostly an annoying clown.

No, you need a mind to exist and you need that Mind to imagine triangles correctly. A deluded mind will imagine a crooked triangle. Descartes logic only works because he is the Mind imagining triangles.

You need to aim for your highest passion, but if there is no direct path to doing your highest passion right now, then you use a lower passion to reach your higher passion. You do things you're mildly passionate about to create capital for the things you're most passionate about. Jeff Bezos was passionate about space. So he built and ran Amazon for 20 years to capitalize his space company. Now he works mostly on space. There's your blueprint.

Tate is an amateur next to the fakeness of AI tech bros. They are trying to fake ALL of Intelligence! Lol They are speedrunning fakeness like it's about to expire.

Congrats.

I've read about it and most of it seems delusional and unnecessary to me.

Often I force myself to do work even if I'm not in the mood. I did that today. I did not feel like writing my book at all, but I forced myself to just write something and soon enough my mood improved and I wrote 4000 words today, which is a lot. Mood is a tricky thing. Often you aren't in the mood but you force it and then a hour later your mood improves. But some days I don't feel like working and I don't work. Some days when I force myself to write, nothing good comes of it. If the work in general is your passion, then just doing work can force your mood to improve. The most successful people are just workaholics and work on a schedule without even thinking about it. That is perhaps most effective. As soon as you start questioning yourself and leave open possibilities for not working, your efficiency drops a lot. It is powerful to have a schedule that you stick to and don't break unless an emergency. If you work for 100 days in a row, you build up a lot of macro momentum.

Following your passion does not mean your work will always been exciting. In fact, most days, most times, work will not be exciting. Sometimes you might even hate it. But your commit to this thing you believe in, makes you not quit. There are many days where I hate my work, even though I'm generally doing what I love. Following your passion is like a commitment to have children. As a parent you will have days where you hate your kids, but you are committed to parenting them properly regardless. Hating work is not a contradiction to following your passion. Sometimes work will just suck but you have a larger vision driving you than you daily mood. Basically, once you're following your passion, stop caring how you feel on any given day, Overall, with time, you will get a lot of satisfaction from your work. But you will still have unpleasant days. But it's not a big deal. There is no way of becoming successful by only doing fun stuff. Even work you love cannot be as fun as playing video games all day. That's why it's called work and why it comes with a paycheck. If it was purely fun, with no commitments of any kind, then it would not pay money, it would be entertainment. The truth is that most work, even if you love it, is quite boring most of the time. Is writing a book as much fun as playing a video game or watching porn? No. Writing a book is mostly boring. But it is rewarding in a way video games and porn is not.

I am not a lawmaker. That's different from spiritual work.