Leo Gura

But there is a general intelligence measure called g. A dog is less intelligent than a human. IQ is designed to correlate to g. It does to some degree. People who do well in IQ tests have high g. High g is objectively good to have, but of course it alone is not enough.

Because I don't like being a rat in a wheel, running endlessly nowhere.

@Schizophonia Don't act like women aren't attracted to narcs. We know they are. Narcs have delusional levels of confidence, which women love. Until it gets weaponized against them. Look at Trump and Tate as prime examples. They are delusionally over-confident. Do they have a challenge getting women? No.

But it's not just about math. That's only the tip of the iceberg. 80 IQ will struggle in many other tasks that require reasoning ability. An 80 IQ probably needs a non-intellectual job.

Why the rush? Within 10-20 years you can read all those books. To the point there won't be anything worth reading anymore. It is hard for me to find books worth reading nowadays, and I'm barely 40. I mostly do audiobooks these days. Books pay diminishing returns. After you read 250, you got pretty much what you need for life. Try reading without stopping so much to think. Or, just read however is most enjoyable for you. If you are enjoying the process, how long it takes doesn't much matter. But taking months to read a basic book is too long. You are stopping too much. Most books do not warrant so much labor.

My interests are simply elsewhere. I am trying to transcend survival, not to drive myself deeper into it. Having kids means doubling down on survival for 20+ years. That's not what I want. If I had kids, I would resent being bogged down in that much survival. I am way too disillusioned for that. And my health problems make that even worse.

Way more difference than that! People with IQs below 80 are not even allowed to serve in the military. They would cause more harm than good. 80 IQ is near disorder level. Such a person will not succeed in academia. It is very important in life to align your life to your strengths, rather than trying to push your weaknesses. An 80 IQ person is wasting time in academia, but could excel in other fields.

But that is a sample of one. You don't know how that scales across all the diseases and disorders that exist. Try to be openminded that your ways will not work for everyone.

That is way too optimistic. Rocket level math is hard for me to do, and my IQ is well over 100.

It's worth exploring, but at this point I don't see how.

Why are you so sure of that? You are making very serious generalizations which you could easily be wrong about. I am not saying fasting never works, but your statements are too strong.

@AION I reversed the warning points, but please be more respectful when you speak about women. It is off-putting. Try to be more even-handed. You tend to be obnoxious and it gets tedious.

@Monster Energy Thanks for the effort and care.

@Monster Energy I just don't see it working for me given everything I know about myself. Fasting will not cure most autoimmune disorders. If only it were so simple.

It's not about what they logically want. It's about what makes them horny. What makes them horny is deeply encoded, very specific survival factors, like strength and social success. A successful nerd might be good at survival, but not the survival that makes women horny. Women are not judging overall survival of a man, but very specific forms of it. Narcissists have that flash and spice that pulls women in.

You haven't given us enough information to give you feedback. But good for you for applying.

I feel ya. Yeah, it's tough.

Your topic is a good one. I just need to think about it very deeply. I don't have a good answer to it off the top of my head. It requires contemplation. That's hard to answer comprehensively. One of them is: How to achieve psychedelic-levels of consciousness without psychedelics.

I am not interested in fasting without water. Water is not some bad thing.

That would not surprise me at this point in late stage Hollywood. Pedro Pascal playing Odysseus' wife.

@Monster Energy I have tried enough magic cures that I am not interested in trying more. At some point when stuff doesn't work you just surrender. At some point you have to draw the line, or you will be chasing magic cures forever.

That's a level of analysis no woman cares about when dating. Regardless of their internal problems, narcissists tend to be very effective at survival. Which is all that attraction cares about. Attraction does not care about the deep truth of people's souls. Whatever bad stuff we might say about Trump, he is effective at survival. And that's enough for most women to sleep with him. The truth is that women are very, very easy to bullshit because they are attracted to very surface things.

Because that's not easy to answer.

We need Tom Cruise, Pedro Pascal, The Rock, and Jack Black in there, fighting the cyclops

I've done serious fasting. It doesn't work for me. The notion that fasting just heals everything is false. There are many things fasting will not heal. You have to be much more careful with such simplistic assumptions. The notion that you can heal all your health problems is false. Eventually we will all drop dead.