Leo Gura

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  1. Well, display ads in general are very low ROI. Usually those ads work for major global brands, not unknow individuals doing direct sales. Those ads are meant for building generic brand presence like Coca Cola or BMW. Display ads generate very little direct sales. When you see a Coca Cola ad, they do not expect you to click a button and buy a coke right then. But as a non-major brand, you need sales to pay for the cost of the ad or you go broke real quick.
  2. Lol Much like the film, you will need to go through an extended chase sequence to get the disclosure, and the disclosure will be half-assed
  3. My post directly answered the question of this thread. Women's preferences are more relative because position in a social hierarchy is needed for their survival, and position in a social hierarchy is relative. That's why women are attracted to social proof and men are attracted to tits. Social proof is more relative than nice tits. If everyone in the world thinks I'm a celebrity, I will get laid a lot more just cause of that. Whether people see me as a celebrity is very relative. Social things are much more fluid and malleable than tits are, although these days even tits are malleable, haha.
  4. Connor is a perfect example of what I mean by survival. How survival conflates with spirituality.
  5. As long as she doesn't call herself a therapist or mislead viewers into thinking she is a therapist, I don't see a problem here. She should win the case on free speech grounds. Life coaching is legal and unregulated. She should frame herself as a life coach.
  6. In the context of this thread, men are the providers, which is why women are judged on their beauty and not on their ability to provide. No man rejects a woman because she can't provide materially. Women are not called to be "providers", men are. If a man fails to do it, "something is wrong with him". If a woman fails to do it, nothing is wrong with her. Let's not act like this standard doesn't exist. This explains why women date up. It screens out those who can't provide. It is easier to provide when one is near the social top. That's why women are attracted to men near the top.
  7. Peter Joseph is the best source I can think of right now on that. Watch his YT channel. I shared his vids before on my blog.
  8. Yes, and that is about as long as books can practically be. Any longer and it's multiple books for sure. 500k is basically my limit, so I need to fit it in that. I don't want the book to be exhaustingly wordy. It has to be dense and potent.
  9. Women need men to be providers. Men don't need that from women. I am not saying anything new here. Just pointing out the obvious. That is counter-balanced by men needing women to being good mothers.
  10. Those guys are handsome and seen as strong though.
  11. Men can also be attractive on their own merits. But, since women need men for survival, they want a man who is better at survival, and survival for humans usually involves higher social standing. Men don't depend on women for survival aa much (excluding reproduction). So yeah, it is asymmetrical.
  12. Find yourself a real bitch and marry her. More practically, you need to date a few hot women to directly experience how annoying they can be.
  13. Memes celebrating psychedelics. Post 'em if you got 'em.
  14. The "art" that Hollywood makes these days is so poor that I get more enjoyment from watching criticism of it than I do from watching the art. We have entered full late-stage capitalist post-modernity, where the reviews are more interesting than the art
  15. I am not so much trusting their judgment as I listen to the plot of the movie and how the movie generally works. This gives me information about whether it interests me or not. After I learned the plot of Disclosure Day, I lost interest in it. I thought it would be something more interesting. If I am truly interested in a film I will avoid reviews and even trailers. But such films are rare these days.
  16. There is too much Hollywood trash these days not to consider reviews. I am not saying I know it is bad. I am saying the evidence points to it being not so good.
  17. Nope. Conformity is going to a movie just because others are. If reviews say a movie is lame, why should I be excited to see it? They ain't lying. This is a mid movie at best. This is not like a Jurassic Park or Jaws caliber film. If you want a great alien film, watch Sputnik.
  18. That's easy to answer: Telling people they are too ugly to get laid is very hurtful and depressing. No one wants to hear that they won't get laid because they are too ugly. So this topic cannot be talked about seriously in public. Similar to God.
  19. I don't know what that means.
  20. Nosejob is only worth it if you have an especially big or problematic nose. Not a regular nose. Girls don't care about this as much as fools like Clav think. You will get way more results from learning game than looksmaxxing. Pickup is way healtheir than looksmaxxing. Even caring about your looks is already terrible inner game.
  21. Epistemic epistemology.
  22. I don't doubt he believes his own BS. That's hard to quantify. I don't have a number for you. Depends on the costs. Minor stuff is worth it like hair transplant.
  23. 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
  24. The absurdity of this is that Clav has exceptional genetics. You will never look as good as he naturally looks with him doing zero lookmaxxing. His looksmaxxing is NOT what makes him look good. It would be like if I was born with a footlong dick and made a channel about how to grow your dick with dickmaxxing. But that's not how I got my dick. Clav is lucky to have great genetics and his looksmaxxing is just performative online antics for purposes of clickbait. I promise you his looksmaxxing got him zero extra sex. Other than through the fame of his channel. No girl is sleeping with Clav because he looksmaxxed himself. This idea is laughable.