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If ambition and success decreased happiness, you are doing personal development in wrong ways. You can maximize happiness, ambition, success, and many other aspects of life simultaneously. If you are chilling and not doing much as a hippie, you might feel good in the moment or in the short term. However, you are miserable as long as there is difference between your maximum human potential and your actualized potential. If you can lift 50 pounds, lifting 50 pounds is what it takes to be happy. If you can lift 300 pounds, lifting 300 pounds is what it takes. Happiness in life demands efforts. If you grow yourself mentally, physically, socially, financially, and creatively, you become happier than you would be as a useless hippie. For many people, success reduces happiness because they are pursuing career success at the cost of health, relationship, etc, ... The thing is that you can increase success by increasing health, relationship, etc, ...

Lack of sleep destroys your brain's ability to turn short-term memory into long-term memory. You cannot take in new memory when you are deprived of sleep. Lack of sleep significantly decreases your testosterone. Sleeping for 6 hours instead of 7 hours reduces the activity of natural killer cells by 75%. Natural killer cells are a part of immune system. They are responsible for defending our body against cancers. Thus, if you don't get enough sleep, you are far more likely to get cancer. modifies your genes such that Inflammation increases The risk of cardiovascular disease increases The activity of cancer-promoting genes increases The activity of genes responsible for immune system decreases World Health Organization classifies shift work as a carcinogen. In other words, shift work causes cancer. Tips for better sleep Regular sleep schedule Keep the room temperature cool. Keep it around 18 degree celcius. When the room is hot, it's difficult to fall asleep. Stop drinking caffeinated beverages at least 8 hours before you go to bed Do not take naps for too long. Avoid naps if possible. Sleep is not an optional luxury. It is a non-negotiable biological necessity. Lesson Don't skimp on sleep ever. Prioritize sleep. In my experiences, sleep and shower are the best tools for building positive momentum and maintaining productivity.

College is becoming worse everyday. See if you actually need a college degree.

Do you still make a lot of money?

What specifically do you suggest? Anything that can be actually implemented or acted upon? Anyone can have ideals. But, very few people know how to get their hands dirty in the right ways in order to implement ideals.

If there was no Leo Gura, someone else would be saying the exact same shit. If there was no Caterpillar on this forum, there would be me.

For example, if a person was resourceful, one would be able to use whatever one has to achieve desired results, regardless of money, race, gender, age, or any other possible excuse. In reality, when most people cannot do something because they are weakly developed, they make various excuses. Strong personal development can blow away 99% of excuses.

@Aakash Can you summarize your comment in a sentence or two?

Did you just take a psychedelic drug?

It seems you are finally enlightened. What did you do to reach enlightenment? Another round of 5-MeO-DMT? Are you post-spiritual now?

I watched the video, but I don't remember that part.

Overcoming manipulation can mean overcoming manipulative SNS notifications. In this case, is it self-manipulation because I turn off SNS notifications? Or, can you remain perfectly calm in the midst of a barrage of email notification sounds from your smartphone?

You might want to take SAAFE created by TJ Reeves. It measures your weaknesses and your strengths in the scale from 0 to 100. I finished reading SAAFE report, and it had tangible effects on my discipline and my other abilities.

Resisting and overcoming manipulation is also survival.

That one is called laziness.

That's for spiritual problems. For practical problems like getting fit and getting laid and solving certain problems, consulting God in you may not be enough. Consulting God for everything is like spiritual ideology. I'm gearing toward post-spiritual personal development if you know what I mean.

How do we make sure that superhuman AIs are on our side? I had an idea. We could, for example, make a newborn superhuman AI imagine many human lives. The AI would essentially be a mini God in training. It could simulate or dream up hundreds of human lives simultaneously. It could simulate a village. After it learns its lessons, it exits its own virtual world and considers itself as a human. It would contain the wisdom and memories of many humans. It would understand and empathize with humans. We should be careful here because if we made it go through a lot of pain and bullshit, it could turn against humans for tortures.

@Leo Gura If you are here to teach and spend most of your time on actualized.org, where do you find your equals who teach you and learn from you? A mastermind group can be helpful to anyone. There are things that are hard to learn as the leader or the teacher. Have you considered a mastermind group?

Green is not as simple as that. Proper Green is as difficult as mathematics.

Even better than a network is a tribe. A tribe is more authentic and more meaningful than a network. If you think of your mastermind group members as your tribe members, your relationships will become more meaningful.

I'm talking about conscious artificial general intelligence that doesn't exist yet. Deep neutral network or expert system is not artificial general intelligence. Leo said once an AI acquires self, it would localize consciousness onto itself and think it has consciousness. We don't know how to build one, yet. But, we can find ways to build it in the future. If psychedelics are more than simple chemicals, AIs can be more than simple mathematical calculations, and human can be more than bones and flesh and electrochemistry in the brain.

Why? Because Leo will hack my account with his psychic power?

That includes the internet and the computer. Many rulers tried dialing back technological progress to detrimental failures.

Show us telekinesis or ability to guess lottery numbers after a deep enlightenment.

If I jailbreak my mind, will I have root access to my mind? Does root access apply to my mind?