Leo Gura

Mice in wheels must be doing some deep work

Fucking children is about as non-conformist as it gets.

Peter Ralston's students

Well, yeah, but the question is how to get into deep work.

No one is asking you to deny feelings. Most people place feelings over truth and that is the mistake.

No. Good music helps. Rest and relaxation helps. Driving helps.

What??? That is not my position. I am not some logical robot who denies emotions and feelings. Of course we deal with emotions in this work. What I said was that Reality is not built around your feelings, and that feeling cannot be prioritized above truth. Just because feelings are not the #1 value does not mean they not a value at all. I would be the first to criticize any worldview or approach that dismissed feeling as nothing. "Facts don't care about your feelings" is a form of stupidity.

I never get headaches no matter how long or how deep I think. I just get exhausted, hazy, burnt-out, or sleepy. I have to be in the right mood to think deeply, otherwise it doesn't work well. I have to find a flow state. And that state/mood doesn't last more than a few hours.

I certainly get exhausted from deep contemplation. I can only do some hours of it per day. Deep thinking literally strains the brain. It is like running raytracing on your graphics card and the fans go into overdrive.

Gad Saad is such a worm. Rogan's fanbase is getting quite upset with Rogan for all this befriending of billionaires. At some point Rogan is gonna have to do some backpeddling to get them back or he will have a revolt on his hands.

Yes, he's very social and he wants to maintain his social connections with celebrities and important people. He loves being friendly with power. But I'm sure he still thinks he's fully independent. He doesn't believe befriending all those celebrities corrupts his judgment. But it does. Never crossed my mind. Of course it's not that simple and that's not the attitude that's being suggested. It's just sometimes you will run into stupid people and you should be prepared for it. I don't know what you are talking about. Yes, I suspect such videos to be AI. If the channel has no human face and was created in the last year or two, then I suspect AI. But mostly I just focus on the quality of the content. I try not to share AI content unless it is particularly poignant. I wish YouTube would force AI channels to have a label.

Smoking is way more heat than steeping a tea.

Metabolism is unique per person. No statistical average is good enough to tell you what is right for your metabolism and body. You have to figure out what works specifically for you through trial and error. Science gives you statistical averages, which can work quite poorly if you are on the far end of the bell curve. It is not safe to assume that your metabolism is just the average. It is less about doing research and more about listening to what your body is telling you. Your body can tell you things that no scientist can.

Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Orange thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Orange. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Orange thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Orange. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. List of Orange Values: Achievement, success, excellence Climb your way to the top Upward mobility Obsessed with being #1, be a winner Improving one’s own position in life Efficiency, progress, productivity, optimization Gaming the system, min-maxing, manipulation Creative exploitation Action, results, pragmatism Never-ending growth Capitalism, libertarianism Competitive marketplace Deregulation, denationalization Hard work, business, entrepreneurship Competition, winner-take-all Self-improvement Skills, knowledge, education Confidence, optimism, charisma Entertainment & showmanship Personal freedom, self-reliance, independence Free speech Money, sex, luxury Net worth Physical appearance, youth, sexiness, coolness Consumerism, conspicuous consumption Brands Pop culture, celebrities, social media Quarterly profits, mass market, sales Mass production, industry Rationality, logic, science, secularism, humanism Technology Materialism, reductionism, atheism, evolution Hard-nosed science, no New Age mumbo-jumbo Pragmatism, empiricism, skepticism No metaphysics Analysis “Facts” Data, analytics, models, quantify everything Science-based fact-based education Double-blind, peer-reviewed studies “Scientific method” IQ Strategic planning, risk analysis Innovation & creative thinking Results & the bottom-line matters most Maintaining a competitive edge Competence vs rank or bloodline Recognition, reward Win-win outcomes Stage Orange Examples: America, capitalism, emerging China, businessmen, CEOs, biz suits, corporate boardrooms, lawyers, Wall Street, Wolf of Wall Street, insider trading, Manhattan, hedge-fund managers, Goldman Sachs, Big pharma, Big oil, Big banks, tobacco companies, advertising, Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, libertarians, Ayn Rand, professional sports, FIFA, NBA, Superbowl, sponsorship deals, fashion, Rolex, nightclubs, pickup, MOGTOW, redpill, bro culture, Republicans, Trump, trophy hunting, breast implants, plastic surgery, Botox, liposuction, pornography, Playboy, Hustler magazine, Hugh Hefner, Larry Flynt, strip clubs, Hollywood biz, supermodels, Silicon Valley, start-ups, venture capital, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, casinos, theme parks, Carl Icahn, Koch Brothers, corporate raiders, Walmart, Amazon, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Disney, Monsanto, Microsoft, GE, AT&T, IBM, Facebook, EA, micro-transactions, gamer culture, Enron, R&D, lobbyists, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, yuppies, internet, bodybuilding, Arnold, steroids, corrupt politicians, MBA programs, golf courses, fly fishing, anti-union laws, patent trolls, Western medicine, Larry Ellison, Steve Ballmer, Dave Rubin, Stefan Molyneux, outsourcing, deregulation, tax cuts, trickle down economics, payday loans, sweatshops, junk food, fast food, energy drinks, used car salesman, marketing, sales & PR, focus groups, television, reality TV, infomercials, game shows, CNN, MSNBC, liberal media, e-commerce, financial industry, software engineers, technical scientists, nuclear weapons, luxury yachts, private jets, personal helicopters, real estate tycoons, railroads, the Gilded Age, Robber Barons, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, William Hurst, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Mercer, technocrats, cocaine, alcohol, pop music, rock music, club music, rap music, trophy wife, gold-digger, oil drilling in Alaska, champagne & caviar, fancy restaurants, luxury resorts, cruise ships, mercenaries, Black Water, gated communities, mansions, video games, Success magazine, private prep schools, poker players, self-help industry, biz books, biz seminars, marketing seminars, Dan Kennedy, Tim Ferris, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Brian Tracy, Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Daniel Dennett, Sean Carroll, Stephen Hawking, Christopher Hitchens, consulting, success coaches, millionaire mindset, net worth, sports cars, Mercedes, BMW, Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, VIP, celebrities, paparazzi, Las Vegas, Cannes film festival, Aspen, Palm Springs, Hong Kong, Macau, Dubai, cost/benefit analysis, nerd culture, polyester clothing, PT Barnum, snake oil salesman, atheism, skepticism, separation of church & state, enlightenment values, “Western values”, Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, factories, Henry Ford, WTO, Ferengi, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Paris Hilton, Bernie Madoff, Paul Manafort, sex drugs & rock n roll, mid-life crises, malls, fashion shows, NASA, SpaceX, Elon Musk, for-profit universities, get-rich-quick schemes, online millionaires, Bitcoin, Forex, daytrading, utilitarianism, Logical Positivism, behaviorism, Darwinism, social media, gun rights, Ivy League universities, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, CalTech, military industrial complex: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Sigmund Freud, Harvey Weinstein, 2008 financial collapse, dot com bubble, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, multi-level marketing, Viagra, DDT, asbestos, billboards, GMOs, cloning, human genome project, stem cell research, robotics, computers, birth control, sex education, all-you-can-eat buffet, karoshi: death thru overwork, Alex Jones, prosperity preachers, Howard Stern, South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy, House Of Cards, Avatar, Boiler Room, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris

Stop judging the method and judge the quality of the content. If the information is good I don't care who made it or how it was made. No idea what you are talking about.

No point in yearning for what one already believes one has.

@AtmanIsBrahman God told me to tell you to give me all your money. Don't shoot the messenger.

Thanks. I have like 100 more to add.

We should be careful here. It is not entirely clear how unspiritual Rockefeller was. Working hard doesn't necessarily mean one has no spirit.

I did 12 days of zero food. It was hell and zero obvious benefits came of it.

It is not even close to AGI. If you give AI no data, the AI will be stupid as a rock. But a small child with almost no data is still intelligent and has GI. Intelligence is not more data. You are more intelligent than any AI and you have a billion times less data. So obviously data cannot be what AGI is about.

Too extreme and unneccessary.