Leo Gura

It is simple: women like strong men. "Nice guy" is a form of weakness.

Realizing you are God.

A raccoon's butthole is also Eternal. Everything is Eternal, so this means little.

The UFO nuts

@Yimpa Excellent. Thank you.

You are asking the wrong question. Go ahead and imagine what it's like to be Netanyahu. Although, for you, the better exercise is to imagine being Yahya Sinwar. I do not have a bias towards Russia. Justifying wars is a foolish endeavor.

Yup

You guys need to listen to Bashar on following your passion. He gives the best advice on how and why it works. Your passion is really what your Spirit resonates most with authentically.

Don't insult please.

@AION What do you think "follow your passion" means? Following your hunger to pizza?

It needs to be meaningful to you. Dude, his passion was for teaching God. Not the cross. This is like you saying that Kobe Bryant's passion was helicopter crashes.

Passion means your work is highly meaningful to you. Imagine the most meaningful work you could possibly do for mankind. That's what I mean.

That's a good attitude. But that is not enough, you also need to pair it with intelligent pragmatic strategy. Do you have a realistic business plan for success in rap? If not, then that requires your focus. You can't just hope that success befalls you by luck, you need a practical plan to make it happen. Luck is not a strategy.

Not in my world. Attitude. Fankly, many of you have the attitudes of losers. You cannot succeed with such weak attitudes. Success screens and self-selects for people with abnormal self-belief. You guys want success, but I can tell just by the way some of you word your posts that you will not succeed because success requires much more seriousness than that.

It is not a matter of odds, it is a matter how much you are willing to work for it and how creative and strategic you are able to be. It's a matter of attitude too. For me, not following my passion is simply an unacceptable way to live. I live that attitude. I cannot imagine living otherwise, which is why I have the career I have. If I didn't have this attitude I would have settled for a comfy 9-5 job and you would never know about me. Very successful people have a different level of attitude and seriousness than average. And I don't know how to give you my attitude. But my attitude is not even that hardcore as far as business goes. Serious businessmen have very hardcore attitudes which figure out how to solve any problem. You can't succeed in business without an ability to compete and outwit others. Business is like a sport.

I know that. Of course they are against you. What do think the odds were that I would succeed at YT? Very low. By definition, anyone trying to be very successful has very low odds. But it's not a lottery, it's much more in your control than that. But looking a pure statistics, 90% won't make it.

@Ramanujan Of course you can grind through life. But that's not what I can teach. You are talking about a way of life that is not acceptable to me. People have different standards for what they will accept.

I understand your frustration. Advice does not work for everyone and requires customization. However, the average guy living anywhere will be mediocore. Being really successful at your passion is rare and difficult everywhere. Yes, 3rd world is harder. But most people who take a course will not become successful. Those are just the statistics of success. Success requires exceptional effort, and yes, some luck too.

Dancing in this case. Or do your disabled thing but be the manager of it, not the programmer. Building technology is engineering and programming, which is totally different from helping disabled people. Your passion here would be the helping people, not the engineering. You can find other ways of helping people than with engineering.

The truth is that you do not know and you are trying to use other people to compensate for that void. But the more you do that the more mistakes you will make because you can't be sure who to trust. Direct experience is always true, but only in what it shows, not in your extrapolations and interpretations. The entire Earth being flat is not a direct experience, it is an extrapolation. If you are careful you will notice that your direct experience works with many different shapes of Earth. You cannot turn all human knowledge into direct experience. The solution to all this is to be very precise about when you truly don't know a thing, like the shape of the Earth. Just say you don't know. That is the truth.

Look, all success assumes intelligence. You can't succeed in anything if you do it stupidly. You actually need to have a valid and accurate model of how the world works, how business works, how people work, how capitalism works, etc. If you have delusional or fantastical ideas of how that stuff works, you can work for 20 years and get nowhere. The key to success is knowing what you're doing. If you can't figure out how stuff works, then you need to work for a boss who will train you. Not everyone is cut out to lead. If you are not good at leading, become a good follower of a good leader. If you want to get good a rap, you need a very accurate understanding of how the music industry works, the business side of it. You need to not just be a good rapper, you need to be businessman. Learn rapping, learn business, learn marketing, learn how to be a celebrity, etc.

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.