Leo Gura

Keep in mind there may be more than one cause. In fact it would be astonishing if it was that simple. There are probably dozens of different chemicals that could cause ADHD.

As far as your second problem goes, the solution there, more realistically, will be to ditch those friends and make higher quality ones. Lifting everyone up around you as you try to develop yourself is a huge uphill battle. You gotta get a bit cold-hearted and just have the courage to go your own way. In the end it will all work out great. But in the short-term it will feel like you're being disloyal or selfish.

It's the difference between jerking off, versus having an actual human connection.

I just had the following insight after a few hours of meditation: Let's say you are having a terrible nightmare. An alien is chasing you and you are desperately trying to get away from it. Then I appear in the middle of the chase and say, "Wait a minute now... This is just a nightmare. It's not real." And you reply back, "But if none of this is real, then you're not real either and your very words are not real! Ha! What hogwash! Look at how you contradict yourself!" And you keep running from the alien as though your life depended on it. This is what rational people do when their rationalism is challenged. And so they stay stuck forever. Just a random musing that I felt increased my understanding of man's condition. The mind is so sneaky!

The forum can definitely become a low consciousness thing if you aren't careful.

This! You ain't gonna coach anyone with the kind of thinking you currently have about money. Coaching is a serious business. Not charity work. Ironically, the less money you charge for coaching, the less seriously people take you and the more they slack off on the assignments, and the more they miss calls. Giving away free coaching is one of the worst things you can do for your clients. And if having lots of money is a taboo, then you shouldn't mind paying $10k for the program. The taboo thing would be to keep that money for yourself

My work and daily life pretty much blend so it's very hard to separate the two. I don't work set hours. I probably work 50 to 70 hours per week on average. I generally try not to work Sat or Sun. But I still publish videos and answer lots of comments, sometimes for hours on Sunday.

Ahahahahahahahaaa.... ROFL << That should be your response to him. Give him a nickname like: The-man-who-maxed-out-on-knowledge-after-4-books. "Hey bro, make room in your big brain for a 5th book yet?" Sometimes the best way to meet stupidity and arrogance is with ridicule. Don't let people get away with frame-controlling you with their own ignorance like that.

You really need to raise the caliber of people you hang out it. Go study under someone who is way above you and will make you feel embarrassed for your own ignorance and deficiencies. When I see how much ignorance I still have undo, it makes me think twice before nitpicking others.

Lost Spires, Oblivion

The trouble with that approach is that it's sourced from a deep neurosis. You're basically in conflict with yourself, disowning parts of your psyche, and trying to bull your way through towards some idealized future which -- even if it comes -- will be deeply disappointing because you will one day realize that you whored yourself out for success. If you use this approach, you will become the stereotypical businessman who makes a killing on Wallstreet and then hangs himself one day from the ceiling fan. All your achievements in life are ultimately pointless and produce very temporary doses of satisfaction because of hedonic adaptation. What you need to do is to learn how to derive joy from being, not from doing. A good approach for you would be to do almost the exact opposite of what you suggest. Which means, practice self-compassion, self-acceptance, and a slow relaxed, easy-going pace. Learn to enjoy life rather than enjoying some idealized future. All that said, I don't mean that you don't take action. You still take action. But from a place of self-acceptance rather than a place of lack, as you're doing now. This is another one of those counter-intuitive moves I always talk about.

As the songs goes, "Gangsta ass niggas don't talk much." The loud-mouths of the world rarely accomplish much. It's the silent ones, toiling long and hard in the dead of night who get shit done and change the world.

I've never thought about retiring. My work is my life and vice versa. Even if I go live in a cabin in the woods until I die, I will still consider that my work. I don't ever feel a need to donate money because I strive to make my life and my work my donation to the world.

Normal pace. I can speed-read but I don't like to. 1) Most of them you wouldn't know. Barrack Obama is probably a good public example of yellow. Which is why the right demonizes him. Blue and Orange can't stand Yellow. 2) I don't really seek to change society. I just like sharing insights with whoever wants to hear them. Reason for immigration was that communist Russia sucked balls compared to the US. I liked the US instantly, but it took me many years to learn how Americans think. I know little about him. Blue! I explain that in much detail in the life purpose course.

In the same way you always have, without free will. How does the Earth keep spinning around the Sun? It has no free will. How does your heart keep beating every second? It has no free will. What the heart is doing every second is way more complicated and delicate than whatever you're trying to achieve.

I will at some point, when I get time to experiment more with it.

Learning and practicing mindfulness is the key. This is your opportunity to delve deep into mindfulness practice. I recommend finding a good live mindfulness teacher and going to some retreats. Shinzen Young is one such teacher I know. He's really great and helps people manage chronic pain through mindfulness techniques.

I've been meaning to try one out. I hear they're cool. Supposedly studies have found that half the population, when taking LSD, will experience hallucinations in a tank. While the other half will not.

@Kelley White Is one of your goals to use every emoticon known to man?

You can discuss disorders, it's just not our main focus. You won't be banned. I would think it's a legit disorder, although much over-diagnosed and over-medicated. Poor diet probably has much to do with it.

I wouldn't frame this as one vs the other. Self-mastery is the path. Self transcendence is the last leg of the path. If you work towards self-mastery with earnestness for a long time, self-transcendence will naturally happen.

Two very simple things: Go out and put yourself into social situations A LOT. Talk about YOURSELF! Stop asking questions. Just blabbermouth about yourself to people like a narcissist about the most stupid and mundane things. You'll see people open up very fast. Example: "I was brushing my teeth this morning and noticed that I haven't washed my bath towels in over a month." << Random conversation started. The biggest things holding back most guys is that we think conversations have to be logical and make sense. Well, they don't! The best conversation starters are total nonsense. Practice with store clerks at the mall in department stores. You are NOT going to logically figure this out. You need to actually push yourself in front of people and do it. Trust that your brain will figure out the details. It always does with time.

I would go to college, if only for the girls! But if don't care about girls (or guys) and you are fiercely self-motivated, the go do your own thing. Just remember that making a living in the real world all by yourself without a safety net is FUCKING HARD! The business world will beat you to the ground over and over and over again.

Well... the fact is that life does NOT have purpose. But you can set an artificial purpose for your life if you want to make things more interesting and less mediocre. As Hume famously said, "You can't derive an ought from an is." Which basically means, that there are no SHOULDS. Reality is however it is, and there are no shoulds for what you should do about it. All those shoulds are just artificial constraints. Just drop them all and do whatever the hell you want. Do whatever will make you most fulfilled. You don't need some deep metaphysical justification for this.

If you're serious about making this your purpose and career, don't be cheap with it. $10,000 is not a lot of money to invest in a career. Find a way to save up the money. How are you gonna realistically raise the psyche of the human race if you can't put together $10k?