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You don't have a job? You unemployed?

Through dream board work and Leo's life purpose course, I feel really good about the prospects of being a leader. In a startup I've cofounded, the parts I enjoy the most is the leadership parts, rather than the computer programming parts. I love setting up policies, optimising internal processes and workflows of the business, and upholding values and principles with the employees within the business. I love thinking holistically and solving problems systemically. And I love directly interfacing with the wellbeing of people - that I want to directly change. When I was in high school and college, my favourite subjects were politics, culture and sociology. And it would probably more align with the stuff on the dream board if I eventually got into that. Eventually maybe get into a non for profit around changing public policies or researching new and innovative political systems. Unfortunately the startup is in a poor region in Asia. The business makes enough money to pay 4 employees, but not enough for me (or the other cofounder). This means I need to work at another job bootstrapping it. The other job is another startup, and I am their AI(Artificial Intelligence) programmer. To align with my life purpose, I really want to try and grow their business, so that I can land a management role with them. Its very ambitious, but I'm willing to fail and work hard to get there. Would you have any clarity on how to go about that? My default approach is to see what the boss really wants, beyond the tasks he gives me, and try to inquire on the reasoning and thought processes behind the tasks. What are the tasks going towards? How does that help make the business money? I could then see if there are any immediate resources at the business's disposal, that could improve the efficiency or way the AI work(and software work) gets done at the business. Come up with a vision for an improved internal workflow, that helps the boss get what he wants quicker, and with less work on his side. I assume, the more these internal workflows gives the boss more of what he wants quicker, and with less work needed on his side, he will like it. If I take ownership of this internal process, I could lead it, which would help me align more with what's on my dream board, and be a stepping stone to eventually getting a position that aligns even more (while waiting for the other company to mature). Would you have any clarity around this? I have very little management or leadership experience. Would you suggest I go start learning some courses? Start reading up on a few things? Any books you recommend?

m8 there's a whole science if you really want it forgot about this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasalingam

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Well if you didn't develop past your dad at the age of being indoctrinated with the left views of your primary/elementary school, then you must have had a pretty good dad. Imagine how much he must have gone against his own conditioning to get to the views they spout out at primary schools. Have some compassion for his handicap being born at a less developed time. My dad certainly didn't. All throughout primary school I remember him infuriated at our school for giving us assignments and tasks that were too lefty for him. He's not bad for doing this, he's just a main streamer. These people are the sorts of people you buy your bread and vegetables from. The sorts of people who fix your house when it breaks.

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@Guru Fat Bastard you mean the dust particles?

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There's a whole science to this. It was applied in ancient temple and church architecture and design. A mixture of the socio-cultural context and subjective effects of certain geometries and materials were used to enhance or propel the people within the church/temple to meditative states of consciousness. Maybe this is your life purpose?

@VeganAwake Don't get to rattled up with Inliytened1. Have you ever wondered how Inliytened1's comment is currently persisting in reality right now? Whose responsible for that comment? Who is currently creating that comment, allowing it to be here right now? Inliytened1 is not a person, but a comment for you right now, and its created by you, the real you, try and help you suffer less and be happy. Don't take it too much the wrong way. You're not arguing with who you think you are.

that's actually something that can be empirically observed/experienced

if you think this is bad, try becoming enlightened.

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fighter pilots and secret service agents are highly intelligent yet are stage blue

This is out of pure curiosity. My spiritual journey and personal and professional development is massively intertwined. I oscillate between focusing heavily on career/personal development vs focusing on lots of meditation and inquiry almost on a fortnightly or monthly basis. And in reality, I don't even see them as separate. Personal development is as spiritual as spirituality itself. As spirituality is as concept driven and idealistic as your career or 'survival is'. I see that the majority of people on this forum tend to separate them: for first 5 years, spend time on PD, then get into spirituality. Why so? That's very different to my experience. In fact the 2 compliment each other in an arms race fashion. You focus heavily on personal development and healing, to the point that you literally see personal development and healing as a form of expression your love and longing for God. And when practising spirituality, its a recognition that what your career was, was actually God in the first place, you just had to see it. One affects the other, personal development hypes up your involvement and playfulness with God, while spirituality keeps that playfulness from becoming seriousness and separation, and remembering of what you're actually playing with. And the remembering of what your playing with is what lets your career or personal development flourish, because you see what you actually want and what you're actually doing. And you see what personal development really is.

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What are the technical skills of leaders? I always here you must hone in on a technical skill and get really good at it. What is that for leadership?

there is no such thing as powerless.

This is a recollection of a previous experience. Its more for others to sort of try and reveal my blind spots, rather than to share and inspire. Despite this, enjoy. Caught a glimpse of the big bang today. Funny that the big bang happened 4.5 billion years ago, yet its happening right now. As I was meditating, just allowed awareness to do whatever it wanted, and it wanted to really focus on the I today. What is this I? How is it separate to God or the present moment? What exactly is this boundary. Well its of course a story. Lots of people on here talk about how they are God. But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to be honest. Yes you are God, but God isn't a human in space and time. God is eternal, beyond space and time. And to literally BE God, based on my humble observations, is to literally not identify with a human. But not identifying with a human is a lot more than not identifying with a body or soul. Its not identifying with being within time and space! Its not identifying with the physical universe! So when I hear very wise spiritual practitioners, walk around saying "I AM GOD, YOU ARE GOD, that tree is God, I'm walking on God"... and then carry on to do things within space and time... it feels a bit off. Like God is, not a human and doesn't have human qualities. God IME is more akin to a universe. As God, IME, you don't do things like think, eat, walk, drink, play. What you do is UNIVERSE. What you do is purely ARE. Maybe this is getting too presumptuous now... but you can think of it as what your 'role' is in a sense is to keep the universe going, not to eat and everything else. Its not some dude in the sky that talks to people and eats etc. Its creation. What you actually are, is very radical. And its so radical that even saying "I AM GOD" is too much, because that's said within the physical world. The most accurate way of explaining you are god is SILENCE. Because during a God Realisation experience (IME) there is no saying I AM GOD hahahaha... because that is totally false. That only makes sense in a physical universe. Go to some completely different salvia or DMT universe and say I AM GOD(I haven't done Salvia or DMT or psychedelics, but can imagine from trip reports). Doesn't make sense... Anyway. The title of the thread is There's only 2 and that's because, when awareness was honing in on what the ego is, realising its a story. I saw how the story was being created. God revealed itself as literally infinity, pure void and undefined. Its prior to everything you can dream up. But this sense of 'counting' or multiple objects, is actually illusion too. Its just God, and Story. Not God and multiple stories. When the big bang happened (in experience) there was no multiple stories. It sort of doesn't make a lot of sense now, but 'multiple stories', 'many' and counting are within the dream too. At the big bag, the whole concept of multiple, many, little, wasn't there. It was totally beyond that, and again this is hard to explain, but God was The Story (not multiple stories), and that Story was infinite intelligence. And that's the last point, is that maya, illusions, thoughts etc are not 'bad' or 'evil' or 'a distraction' or random or dumb. Stories are infinitely intelligent. Meditation is a story, yet its a story that wakes you up? What a powerful story. Anyway it was funny that, this big bang didn't happen in a 'particular state' or at a 'particular time' or under 'certain conditions' your washing machine is a big bang. Anyway there ya go. Can't wait for the day I finally get my hands of psychedelics and let it blow away all these confusions. Can only be hopeful the hard time getting them is infinite intelligence's way of maximising love.

@LfcCharlie4 love doesn't have to matter to BE, that's why its so miraculous EDIT: i see matter as psychological bondage. You may see the word differently.

This is a great question, with a counter intuitive answer

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What about the depression of knowing what's leaving?

I've got a very different perspective to the other posters. What enlightenment is truly about, is not the ideas, enthusiasm and fantasies about it. Although it seems that way at the beginning. Its really about appreciating what's already going on. And on that note, what's already going on is work, career, relationships, money, family, etc. Instead of shooting for your ideas of enlightenment, maybe shoot for the source of where the ideas are coming from.