Leo Gura

Visualizing proper inner game, and then going out consistently, approaching, and analyzing all your sets at the end of the night to iron out every sticking point and learn every micro lesson. It will take a year or more of constant game to start to dial in your inner game. You have to be ruthless about identifying and squashing every micro sticking point. Also observe how you are sabotaging yourself. Mostly it just sounds like you're not approaching enough nor sticking in set long enough. You gotta force yourself to do like 20 approach per night, and go out at least 3 nights a week for a year. You are not going to cure approach anxiety via some magic bullet. The cure is approaching. Do 5000 approaches.

If by kids you mean adults, okay, he is having his fun.

Well, of course there is no objective standard. This is all highly relative and subjective. Which is why it's hard to get a consensus on it. When it comes to an unknown virus what you must remember is that this is a potentially very dangerous situation, therefore caution is reasonable. You have no idea what kind of deadly variant could emerge if we just let Covid run wild without any checks. So governments and scientists erring on the side of caution is reasonable. Especially early on back in 2020 when none of us knew how Covid might unfold and we had no vaccines. It's easy to do Monday morning quarterbacking 2 years later. At this point what I see is that lockdowns are impractical in the US simply because people will not strictly adhere to them. So lockdowns in the US have failed and I don't think they will ever work here. But for some nations where lockdowns are more strictly adhered to, they might be worthwhile. I don't know exactly. There is no simple answer. I would not do any more lockdowns in the US because it will just piss people off without producing much benefit I think. I would only do lockdowns if there was a much more deadly variant or if hospitals were at capacity. Mask mandates I have no problem with because it's a minor inconvenience. The cost/reward on masks is very favorable. Vaccines also have a very favorable risk/reward ratio.

What is the correct way to slice a cake?

I don't think he needs your best wishes. Remember, when a girl freely chooses to sleep with you, it's cause she likes you and thinks you're cool.

All those things are less age-sensitive than clubbing. Only in your imagination. He was a genuinely cool dude and good friend.

That's the evolutionary process in action. It's like a volcano: pressure builds up, then it erupts, then it settles down, forming new crust.

@Hardkill 34 is the new 24 I met an Actualized fan at the club who was pulling 21 year olds and rocking life. He was 50. We had a blast hanging out and having fun. Youth is much about your attitude and lifestyle. Most girls who I meet at the club think I'm under 30. When you're cool, people think you're younger and/or they don't care about your age.

You are young as fuck. Just don't waste any more time.

I would reframe the way you look at social evolution and development such that you see EVERY event as progression. Even the bad regressive-looking stuff is still just a part of the overarching evolution. Society evolves by going 2 steps forward, 1 step back. The mistake many progressives make is that they foolishly want progress to always just be 5 steps forward. But a homeostatic system just cannot work that way. If you are foolishly expecting 5 steps forward every election cycle, you're setting yourself up for a lifetime of disappointment and frustration. You need the patience of a saint when it comes to people evolving.

Russia and China got a lot more Red & Blue. And also, remember, there is much development room within each stage. For example, it might take 50-100 years for development to go from early Blue to late Blue, or to just enter Orange vs mature Orange. There is also a difference between a country's cutting edge vs it's center of gravity vs it's tail. The cutting edge of Russia or China might be high Orange, but that's still a tiny portion of the overall population. It will need another 50-100 years to trickle down to the masses and solidify within all the social systems. These notions are highly relative. You're the one defining "1st world country" and "democracy". It means whatever you want it to mean in your mind.

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." The suffering and misery is there, but it's masked over with addictions, distractions, and rationalizations.

But this is a circular definition which begs the question, since you are defining democracy by using the US as the touchstone, thus taking the touchstone for granted as a stable given.

That's the function of all conflict, not just war. There's not much difference between war vs a fight with your parents vs snow buckling into an avalanche. It's a dissipation of pent up unstable energy. The energy is released to reach a new equilibrium point.

Like wrestling an alligator.

Yes, because their worldview is too closedminded to seriously consider that gender categories are relative constructions of the mind and culture. Admitting that degree of mental construction is very threatening. What next? Science is a construction? Atoms are a construction? God is a construction? Race is a construction? My country is a construction? My history is a construction? My self is a construction?

Arguments have been made that America was not really a democracy until the Civil Rights movement. But "democracy" is a relative notion with many degrees to it. It's not a simple binary. Democracy has many degrees of quality -- which is what matters. The notion of "a true 1st world democracy" is highly relative and constructed. What does that even mean? People will have all sorts of subjective ideas about that question.

Individualism has turned into a mind virus that's swept across America. People have lost touch with the fact that living in a society comes with pretty serious collective responsibilities. Otherwise society disintegrates (as we have been seeing). Every-man-for-himself is not a society. Nobody really wants to live in that kind of world because it's too brutal.

A lot of Western Buddhism is so watered down that it's compatible with scientific materialism and doesn't do any serious deconstruction of that paradigm. That is precisely why it's so popular in the West. It allows the ego-mind to maintain its fundamental grip on reality while cosplaying as a spiritual or woke person. But the truth is you ain't woke unless you realize all of reality is just your dream -- especially stuff like science and even Buddhism. All of Buddhism is your dream. This is the thing Sam Harris fundamentally doesn't get. Mediation and no-self isn't God-realization.

Actually, we've made enormous progress since the 1970s. You just have to see the bigger picture and realize that progress cannot happen at the rate you expect. Changing society is like steering a giant oil tanker. It doesn't turn on a dime. Of course you can. Don't sell yourself short. Your business does not have to be anything as big as Elon Musk's. You can help evolve society in small ways. Actualized.org is a tiny, tiny business by any measure. My work is like pissing in the ocean. Yet here I am doing my work. The reason I am satisfied with it is because I am not at all attached to having society evolve at any particular rate. I don't really care what rate it evolves at. It will evolve at whatever rate it can handle. I am not trying to impose my rate on it. I just enjoy doing my work.

You could make that case. Although I think a lot of the acceptance of LGBTQ today is thanks to Green memes infecting our culture. America was pretty Orange 30 years ago when LGBTQ folks were regularly demonized. "LGBTQ" is a Green meme. I would say that gay rights and gay marriage is a Green achievement. And even most conservatives have conceded on this issue by now, unless they are fundamentalist Blue. Many conservatives in America are okay now with treating gays as normal people. It just looks bad to hate on gays now. It makes you look like a social retard and conservatives like to be conformist.

On the whole I would say they are definitely a bit more consistent. But the human mind is run on self-bias and hypocrisy, so you should still expect plenty of hypocrisy from libs and even progressives. Out-growing hypocrisy is an extremely advanced stage of development which 99% of humans will never reach.

Ego-mind is like a shark, if it stops moving it dies.

I have a video called How To Study. But getting straight As is the wrong objective. Your objective should be to deeply learn and master life. Grades are dumb. No one will give you a grade for mastering life.

They don't know they're oppressed or they don't fixate on it. They just embrace the challenges. This SJW stuff actually makes you ungrateful and constantly annoyed with society. Society is never good enough for an SJW. There's always some injustice to wage war on. If you wanna be happy at some point you just gotta accept the social system for what it is. It's foolish to wish to live in the future. Just accept that you were born in the dark ages of mankind. Cause both are full of bullshit.