Leo Gura

Dude, Rogan is gonzo. He fell down the MAGA conspiracy rabbit hole. You're not gonna change his mind when all his friends are anti-establishment, anti-woke, right-wing influencers and UFC-bros. Covid broke his mind.

Nice!

My work is not formal enough to meet that academic paper calibre. I like to be more casual and loose. Writing papers requiring training in that style. There's no way anyone is academia would ever accept me after the things I've said. I will write a book at some point, which will feel more rigorous and formal. But my audience is you guys, not academics.

@DocWatts Bro, that's not gonna work. You're not gonna replace all those people with AOCs. When you demonize the Blue Dog Dems, you just end up weakening the Dems overall and then MAGA wins. This is one of the biggest misunderstandings of progressives. The country is not gonna join in your far-leftism. Even with MAGA. Leftists attacking Newsom is really foolish. He's one of the only Dems with enough strength to beat a Trump. Leftists just do not understand pragmatic compromise.

Okay. Found him on YT.

I've actually spent about a month now studying Christians on YouTube, listening to all their talks and notions of spirituality, looking for and noting every error in their views. And I don't mean the dumb Christians. I mean the smartest ones I can find. If you study them carefully you'll see how it corrupts their view of reality. No one is getting away with Christianity scot-free.

It is so ironic that Tai Lopez quotes the Amish but then goes around renting fake $100M mansions to impress his followers. Tai's whole internet lifestyle brand is the opposite of steady and solid success. It's gimmicks and cons.

Why not just place a brown paper bag over their head while you're at it? Problem solved!

Freaks don't know they're freaks.

@Thought Art You can delete some old attachments I guess.

It's hard to find someone for that. They would need to watch my whole series and who wants to do that?

Nothing changed. Maybe you maxed out your file limit? Hard for me to know since I can't see that.

Frankly, when I saw Ralston get divorced I realized that not even the most conscious guy in the world can make marriage work. That was hugely eye-opening for me. You have no idea what tree you're barking up.

I'm no fan of polyamory. I think it's mostly delusion. I'm just saying there are serious challenges to monogamy. Not that you can't do it.

He did that long ago in his previous books: Integral Psychology and Integral Spirituality. That's such a trivial difference. - - - - - Anyway, if I find a new juicy model I will cover it. But I don't know of any right now.

No. It's beyond your choice or will. You do not have this kind of control that you imagine. You can't choose a salvia state. You can't even imagine it or think it. It's completely beyond you. That's the crazyiness of psychedelics. There's no alternative to them. You can't huff and puff and fake your way there. It's very hard to get an answer to that question. I have not gotten it.

What does he say that's new?

Ambition is just a core personality trait. In that case it doesn't have any satisfaction or end. Ambition means you want the best, the biggest, the most significant, the perfect. You want to be the best in the world at something so its own sake. Like, you want to be best and biggest bank robber in the world. Of course ambition can also be fueled by various negative problems in the psyche like not receiving enough love, feeling fundamentally inadequate or unlovable, needing endless narcissistic supply, getting high on fame or power, megalomania, needing a sense of meaning to avoid facing the meaningless of life and your own death, childhood trauma, etc. Or, you could just be driven to do the most good in the world because you want to live the best life possible. And doing the most good requires having lots of power, wealth, and influence. If you really wanted to improve the world, you would earn billions and then use it to fund philanthropic projects.

Won't he be smeared as an evil globalist banker? Isn't Canada due for a stupid populist who drinks maple syrup and wears a hockey jersey?

I plan to cover some of Wilber's work. But his stages are basically just Spiral Dynamics with different names, so there's not much to say there. I will just address morality and empathy independently, without appeals to models. I have moved away from models because they are too limiting for where we need to go. The people who create these models are not intelligent enough to understand the highest stages, with the exception of Wilber.

The notion you're looking for is AMBITION. What's required is Ambition. Which is different than having a gun to your head. But of course having a gun to your head can be highly motivating. But that motivation will die as soon as you work your way out from the gun.

It's actually very important to recognize that people have hugely different needs for variety and new experience in general. Most people are not creative nor innovative because their mind is satisfied with the same old things. Such people can work in a factory and be satified. These kind of minds tend to be conservative and closed. If I had to work in a factory, I would rather just kill myself. Some minds are built for lifelong monogamy and others aren't. This is not commonly understood. You have to understand who you are. Guys who are into pickup have super high sex drives. Freakishly high. Which is not me, btw. If you guys think I have a high sex drive you don't understand what high sex drive is. If I had their kind of sex drive I could not do my work. It's challenging for someone with a low sex drive to understand someone with a high sex drive.

I will have a comprehensive video on what creates success. Those principles are what gets you to a millionaire and beyond. It's not about the money. It's about your attitude towards work, business, and life.

No. That's not of interest to me. And anyone who needs it explained to them how to become a billionaire will never become one. To be a billionaire you have to be able to figure out very difficult problems all on your own with no one else to lead you. A billionaire is paid for his leadership, vision, and ability to solve impossible problems. No one can teach you this. Either you got this in your bones or you don't.

Yeah. It's an excellent film.