Leo Gura

What is God gonna do about it? Health problems are baked into the pie. No, but teaching is as rewarding as parenting, so I have enough reward.

Well, I don't know what may or may not give you your motivation back. That's so individual. I would just say to not give up and to keep trying. I have lost motivation and also regained it. Not exactly identically, but don't think that just because you lost it that you can't find a new one. Find what motivates you. You can have multiple life purposes across a lifetime. Also, I would advise against psychedelics in this case because they tend to be very disillusioning. You need to reenchant yourself with work.

There are levels to this. The more advanced you become, the less you can rely on work/career for happiness. It works at lower levels because you haven't become conscious enough of the illusion of acheivement. At the highest levels of consciousness, acheivement means nothing. Career is used to create lots of meaning. That works up to a point, but some day you will question the very notion of working for meaning. For most of you guys, LP and career is good. But perhaps after 20 years of that you will start to outgrow it, as happened to me. That blog post is for rather advanced and older people, not youngsters who are just starting their careers. If you are in your 20s, don't worry about working on your career.

Because when a twister is finally on top of you, it's too late for warnings. Most warnings never come to pass. But the few that do are devastating for those involved.

It's beyond my control.

I think that's too uncharitable. Some people could genuinely value respect.

My health is not that good, so I don't have the energy to be managing kids every day for 20 years. That's exhausting for me just to imagine.

For most people that's true.

I'm sure it is for most people. But I am not most people. I care about very different things than most people care about.

That is not something that interests me.

It would get sick after a while. Getting sex too easily is not a good thing. Sex is better when it's harder to get. I've seen guys who get laid a lot, up close. They are mostly miserable people who take it all for granted. I do not envy them and I would not trade my life for theirs.

Why not just glue a camera onto a sperm whale?

Much more openmindedness, deep epistemology, serious ontology, take philosophy seriously, remove hyper-specialization, remove departmental segregation, change the peer review process, change the PhD process, teach kids how to question and contemplate, teach meditation, teach yoga, teach mysticism, use psychedelics, change how funding works, ditch atheism materialism reductionism and pragmatism, much more emphasis on relativity and truth-seeking, etc. There are many practical reforms to be made.

Most people work hard because they have no other choice. Survival. I was not speaking about those people. I was speaking about the workaholics who are successful enough they don't need to work anymore but they can't stop because they've turned work into an avoidance mechanism.

He is not even that good-looking. He mates off his fame. Fame that he worked hard for. The irony is that Leonardo DiCaprio worked harder to get laid then all these Blackpill whiners. DiCaprio spends a lot of time going to nightclubs to get laid. Most people are too lazy to do that.