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Some buddhist monks calmly burn themselves alive to protest bad government policies. In other words, they calmly commit suicide in public spaces. 99.999% of people would dance crazily if they are being burned alive. Is that what enlightened people are capable of? Awesome. I think they would make excellent warriors. They are warrior sages because they are sages and they are fit to be warriors. I want to become a warrior sage for my life purpose, too.

You can't say the same about patent trolls and copyright trolls. Patent trolls can grow ridiculously big because they don't produce anything. When you don't produce anything but have a lot of patents, you can attack a lot of corporations. Patent trolls cannot be attacked because they don't produce anything. Patent trolls focus all their efforts on rent seeking through patent lawsuits. They are professional takers. You should really say you can either create or take wealth.

That article introduced http://www.poolesland.com/ Poole's land is a millionaire's dream come true. Just thinking about what kind of resources I would need to make it happen boggles my mind. How does economy go around on poole's land? Obviously, it can't run for free. Perhaps, community members gather mushrooms and sell them for living. A naked man appears in front of the interviewer, swinging his dick around. The interviewer(a woman) was in pain. That was a fun prank, but he could have been sued for sexual harassment.

You might be harassed by distractions while you are trying to fall asleep on bed. One thing I discovered when I did a one-day solo retreat is that lack of distraction leads to a high quality sleep. Do a lot of meditation, and try to love things and people unconditionally. Distractions will fade in your daily life. If distractions faded but you still had sleep problems, you should go visit a sleep clinic.

@ValiantSalvatore How is a weekend retreat possible on the internet? The internet is distracting.

Why did she commit suicide?

Change one habit at a time.

After finishing the bare minimum I had to get done today, I started doing nothing. I had 2 one-hour do-nothing meditation sessions and 2 20-minute do-nothing meditation sessions. In total, I meditated for 2 hours and 40 minutes today. Because I was having some ideas, I surfed the internet for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Through that, I resolved a long-running issue that harassed me for a long time. Other than that web surfing, I basically loitered in my house like a zombie without any purpose. Sometimes, I wrote insights I had on my journal. Below are the insights I gained from my half-assed one-day solo retreat. The art of doing things slowly, or the art of mindful practice Because I was trying to do too much too fast, my mind was clouded. When my mind was clouded, it was easy for distractions take over, and I couldn't think well. My intelligence decreased. When my mind was clear, I could think clearly and decisively. Thus, by trying to do too much too fast, you end up achieving nothing of significance. Impatience is a distraction. Counter-intuitively, I could substantially improve my execution by slowing it down mindfully. Less is more. Slow is fast. By doing things slowly, you actually learn things faster. When you hurry things up, you don't learn. Learning boosts performance in the long run. Fast often leads to multi-tasking which leads to distractions. Fast often means getting sucked into distractions fast. Thus, fast is often slow. To put mindful practice in practice, for example, dedicate a day to learning something slowly. On that day, you do little else. The art of meditation During the second one-hour do-nothing meditation, my mind was detaching from my sensations, and distractions were fading away quickly. Doing a one-hour do-nothing meditation on a chair is difficult. I will buy a meditation cushion. After having 2 one-hour do-nothing meditation sessions, meditating for 20 minutes was easy. How can I do a solo retreat better? Shall I disconnect from the internet and just prepare a notepad for writing down insights? Update I went to bed around 10:10PM and woke up at 5:02AM to an alarm without feeling fatigue. Because meditation and mindful practice removed distractions, I could sleep well. Distractions used to cause insomnia. Conclusion I had direct experience of how lifestyle minimalism is essential for a good life.

Why did it happen?

@ValiantSalvatore Damn, you had a weekend retreat at a temple? I just finished doing a one-day solo retreat at home. It is not as intense as yours.

That's what I'm going to do. I just wondered how people without a lot of money turn themselves into investors.

When I do "do nothing" meditation, I sometimes fall asleep and lose consciousness. Are you sure you didn't fall asleep?

Is it a coincidence that your beard looks like that of the old man in the picture? He looks like your father.

@ValiantSalvatore So, they experience physical death without actually dying. TJ Reeves once said physical death is better than psychedelic death. Rear-naked choke is also a method for experiencing physical death without actually dying.

You don't remember much because you don't sleep well. Your job destroyed your sleep schedule. Sleep consolidates your memory. You should have a fixed sleep schedule. Without proper sleep, everything else breaks down. Sleep is the number one priority of personal development in my case. Don't allow your job to destroy your sleep schedule. because you didn't spend enough time to summarize, review, and actively recall the contents. After you read a book, you should schedule a session to summarize, review, and actively recall. After that, you should schedule a session to find a way to implement relevant points from the learning material. But, not every learning material deserves this much effort. Most books can be summarized into one page summary that you put in proper computer folders. because you didn't spend enough time on doing nothing. "do nothing" sessions clear your mind and allow insights to come up. While you do nothing, your mind automatically extracts essence from what you learned and your life experiences. I recommend doing a one-day solo retreat if you can't afford a 10-day solo retreat. I also recommend meditating 20 minutes ~ 1 hour a day.

How do you wake up at 4:40am? I could barely wake up at 6:00AM.

Don't dabble with investments. Do it properly without expecting too much. Don't dabble with psychedelics. If you do, they will bite you in the ass. Don't approach marriage without preparations. It is a dangerous contract with dangerous consequences. You may want to sign a few more legally binding contracts for safety when you marry. Personally, there is little incentive for me to engage in romantic relationships and marry. So, I may as well not think about it at all. I don't want to burn myself by dabbling with it. Don't dabble with guns. Just buy a pepper spray can for self defense if you are not ready to handle guns. A pepper spray can and fast legs are sufficient for most situations. Or, don't put yourself in a dangerous situation in the first place. You want to use minimal force for self defense. Too much power(e.g. gun) can backfire. Don't dabble with relationships. Don't play games with relationships. Don't play games with your life in general. You don't have much time. Stop wasting your time.

That was a great video.

Also, Leo Gura's life purpose course can help you with lack of direction. Dabble with many things. Play video games, watch movies, create computer programs, draw a sketch, and so on. If you don't have experiences with many things, you cannot know what your life purpose is. Do exercises from Leo Gura's life purpose course Do a one-day or multi-day solo retreat to flesh out your life purpose.

@XYZ Not the kind of advices I expected from someone who advocated closing off national borders. There are some dangerous things that shouldn't be taken lightly. Like guns and day trading. "Do something dangerous, now!" is a bad advice for guns. Also, you shouldn't put yourself in an intense gun fight for the sake of growing up. You could easily end up dying. If you want to take risks in some important areas, you don't want to take unnecessary risks in other areas. For example, when you are trying to making ends meet as an entrepreneur, you're already taking a lot of risk, so you don't want to gamble your money away through day trading or gambling.

I'm going to just directly give you everything I know about mentorship. My advice is somewhat machiavellian and heartless, but I really want you to embrace love. You can't get mentorship by directly asking your idols. Because most people will start hating you as soon as you stop helping them. A good way to get mentors is to help your idols in ways that you can help them. As soon as you stop helping them, they will stop helping you back, and they will start hating you. There is no guarantee that a single person is going to help you back. But, if you help multiple people, some of them will help you back. You can't afford to invest too much time or energy on people who are not going to help you back. When you radiate love(e.g. help people), people will want to help you back. When you try to sap love out of people, you become a love vampire, and they will avoid you. Don't ever call your mentors mentors. Don't even mention mentorship. Mentorship is not an official relationship. It is an informal relationship that grows organically over time. Ryan Holiday has good articles about mentorship. Just search google for "Ryan Holiday Mentor" There's a book named `Real artists don't starve`. This book contains a good section about mentorship. Help your idols, not because you want to be helped back, but because you want to help them. There is no way you are going to keep helping them if you help them for purely selfish reasons. You have to become selfless to help and love your idols. If you satisfied your growth needs by reading books, you wouldn't strictly need mentors. If you grew compassion and didn't need mentors, you could focus on helping your mentors. Then, some of your idols will want to help you back. You can then focus your energy and time on those who help you back. Use books and various kinds of learning materials as your favorite mentors such that you won't strictly need human mentors. Your neediness will turn off your potential mentors. A good way to help them is to become a fan or a patron. Becoming a patron doesn't necessarily mean financial support. You can help them with logistics, emotional support, and various other things. You can also help them sell their work by doing a good interview with them, give them some useful tips they didn't know about, and so on. Serve your idols because you want to. That's going to maintain relationships over time. In a sense, stop thinking about mentorship. You're not going to get the kind of mentorship you thought you were going to get. Start thinking about helping your idols. Just by being in their social circle, inspirations and gratuitous tips will fall upon you. Or, you can create a social circle. As you grow, mentorship turns into mastermind groups where peers help each other.

I came up with ideas for solo retreat. Do a one-day solo retreat every two weeks. That way, you can do roughly 26.5 one-day solo retreats per year. Do a one-day solo retreat every month. You still end up doing 12 one-day solo retreats per year. Do a 10-day solo retreat every year It is harder to fit a 10-day solo retreat into schedule, but it can work if you plan for it.

Where is it? Update: Never mind. TJ Reeves gave me a link to his foundations course because I purchased CODE evaluation.

How much absolute difference is there between IQ 100 and IQ 150? It depends on the population. In a certain population, the difference between IQ 100 and IQ 150 would be very small. The kid who had to spend months to learn music theory could have been a lazy kid who was not motivated or a kid who didn't have enough knowledge to understand it. I care about absolute difference, not relative ranking. There's a limit in improving the human brain. Everybody has a similar brain except for psychopaths and the like. The real game changer would be the direct connections between human brains and AIs. We will enhance our brains by connecting them with AI modules in the 21st century. Then, any person whose IQ is 150 now would look like a person of IQ 60 in comparison.