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There may be some shadow stuff you gotta work out. But again, just showing up and getting to work is the ultimate solution. You just do it and turn off your mind.

The solution to procrastination is to just take action and stop thinking about it. The solution to addiction is to find healthier and more meaningful things to do. Basically, if your life purpose is strong and compelling enough, then you won't have time to procrastinate or be addicted. You just pour yourself into your LP and watch all the toxic stuff receed into the background. If you have no higher inspirational vision of what to do with your life then you will have a lot of time to waste in stupid and self-destructive behavior. So vision is the ultimate key.

As I said from the start, it's a matter of political will. For sure such a class as I suggest would get politicized to hell by radicals from both sides today. This is why we can't have nice things. It's a shame because kids really need such a class. The politics on this issue is just noise.

@Jayson G Consider people like Peter Ralston, Daniel Ingram, or Sadhguru. Ralston: mastered martial arts, ran a school, had a child and family. Ingram: is a busy emergency room doctor. Sadhguru: Had a child, ran a business, now runs a large community. Notice how active these guys are in life. They are not just sitting on a cushion meditating all day. And if they did, they would probably be miserable people. Life requires engagement and raw experience. That raw experience is then grist for the contemplation mill. It's hard to be properly motivated and engaged if all you do is sit around and think all day.

That was a joke.

You ask some good questions. This depends on how you do it, of course. You can get lost in fantasies, speculation, and mental masturbation. However, proper contemplation and study can produce serious and valuable insight and understanding into the nature of reality and any systems within it. Do not discount the importance of high quality sensemaking and serious understanding that's grounded in direct experience and genuine insight rather than speculation, belief, and fantasy. The real work is in seeing past the fantasies to see how nature really works. My solution is to do both. In fact, you need something tangible like artistic work or business to keep you from getting lost in pure theory. If all you do is philophy you will get too stuck in your mind and it won't feel good. It could even turn into mental illness. Life is long enough for you to pursue art, business, and philosophy. And they all balance out the excesses and limitions of each by themselves. Only doing philosophy and nothing else is NOT healthy. You also need pursuits to ground you in the realities of life. This can be business, art, sport, family, pickup, running a community, etc. For a healthy, happy life you must engage not just pure mind, but also your body and you heart. And you must not only master the theory but also engage in practice. Do practical stuff like art, craft, business, or raising a family. A healthy life is something like 80% action and practical affairs and only 20% pure philosophy. If you get this ratio backwards you will run into problems.

Sure there are. Most people who take the LP course never post here, they are off working on their unique LPs. Your LP does not need to be about personal dev or spirituality. Look at someone like Elon Musk. His LP is about colonizing Mars and technology. You don't need people here to tell you that your LP can be totally different than mine.

Who you are deep down does not change. What changes is your understanding of yourself. Clearing away the junk.

I agree her therapist is jumping to conclusions with that quote.

Incel vibes

@CoolDreamThanks Don't let spirituality make you a fool.

That's right. And I haven't even discussed insanity yet.

OP asked about strengths.

Tell that to the Palestinians who got executed last month.

I was speaking about your individual strengths. Note the context of this thread.

Don't over-generalize. Most Green people can appreciate the value of masculinity and femininity without making them some rigid, exclusive, traditional roles. If you consume too much online politics then you will get a skewed picture of this situation. Politics and culture wars on social media are not an accurate representation of how people feel about this issue.

How is input a strength?? Something isn't clear there.

You can live in a golden castle, but if your physical or mental health is messed up then you might as well be living in hell.

@Shakazulu Welcome. I don't know what "input" means.

I don't think some of you guys appreciate how hopeless and bad some people's situation is. You can't simply meditate your way out of every situation.

You're way to cavalier about this. All the survival activity humans do matters. The only reason you are alive is because some humans somewhere are slaving away in a mine. All of your spiritual development rests on a material survival foundation.

Therapists fail to help many suicidal people. This is nothing new.

No. To put it simply, young men are baboons.

I don't take anything.

That's not all that matters.