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Posture is very powerful, it does literally change your state of mind. Kind of like when you're sad or depressed if you force yourself to smile your brain will release endorphins and it'll help you feel better. It's not the only thing but it definitely lowers your self-esteem to have bad posture. Dominant posture if you're a single straight male is especially powerful. There are often times I've noticed recently when I have quite good posture girls with boyfriends on the metro will eye me up and often times I see their boyfriends with a slouched back, they literally look defeated I almost want to tell them Bro straighten that back imma take your girl if you keep standing like this!

Trans women can be really attractive, here's Hunter Schafer from Euphoria. Also most of them won't have bottom surgery but even so penises are not that scary, society has a huge phobia on that but it doesn't really make sense. I had my first bi experience recently was pretty cool, I'd recommend testing it if you're inspired to try new things in your dating/sex life.

100%. A lot of guys try to seduce a woman through text. It's basically chit chat nonsense that almost fundamentally can't do anything but lower her attraction towards you. Unless you're extremely suave at it then some guys are able to get some sexting going on and get the girl pent up to see them but that's clearly not what you're doing here. I would mostly let her be the one to message you if she's in the mood to chit chat and leave it at teasing and don't ask questions because you want her to open herself up to you in person. If she does it over text it's gonna be boring for her. "Whats been making you happy recently?" "Where do you wanna travel next?" "What are you looking forward to when visiting those countries?" "Are you always spontaneous or just with travel?" That's what I would aim to cut out. I would just ask her when she's free and do all that in person. Sometimes voice memos can work a bit better than just text but also not great. This of course changes if you're actually dating and she's your girlfriend but that doesn't seem to be the case. My feedback was for the courting stage. Also it sounds dumb but get AI to analyze your text. It's emotional intelligence is actually surprisingly high and it'll tell you stuff you hadn't considered. Here's what Gemini had to say about it.

You have to differentiate people venting online vs complex critique of the systems in our society. There are many in which women didn't really have rights until the last century and for example until 1965 couldn't open a bank account and manage property without their husband's consent. Marital rape not being recognized as a thing also being one. Also to this day in other countries women's rights are not great. You can also say that in general civil rights were not defended for men as well up until the 60s as well in the states which is a fair point. Now we go back to people venting on the internet and this is where I agree with you that it's basically a loser mindset from both men and women that are failing to get the life they want and instead of having the humility to get into self-development they will trash whatever is the source of their pain. Incels blame women, "feminists" blame men(considering incel means involuntarily celibate I would argue those feminists you talk about land right in the incel category too as femcels though) and you also have reddit left wingers/socialists/anti work people that blame rich people and the government for their lack of personal finance. Fundamentally it stems from a victim complex and learned helplessness.

If you're watching porn regularly that definitely doesn't help. Optimally for sex you'd wanna be on 1-2 weeks of nofap. That gets you to the point where you can fuck 2-3 times in a row no problem. Also helps if you're really attracted to the girl and not just like she's okay and you're sleeping with her because you don't really have other options. I literally took a 3 year break from sex because I realized I needed to level up to attract the women I was really attracted to and the last girl I fucked before then was just not it and I understood why my dick was not really into it. Regular meditation also helps, it lowers anxiety and being in your head and helps you connect to your raw primal sexual energy.

Appreciate it guys, so far so good about to head off for day 4. Yeah I'm about to hit 31 and I do have decent results from other avenues but I always felt like there was something missing. The more I do the cold approach challenge the big insight I'm having is I've always been fundamentally scared of the women I truly desire. Most of my experiences have been taking what's there either women hitting on me or just whatever matches I get on dating apps. The women that really amazed me out and about though I would subconsciously avoid like the plague and I'm still getting to the bottom of it but there is something really scary about facing what you want in life, at least for me. Yeah I think it really depends on what MBTI personality type you are. For a lot of people a daily challenge structure feels quite strange and restrictive. For me it feels like a natural progression and just talking to people out and about feels arbitrary and draining. One of the hardest days was yesterday day 6 of the challenge where the idea is to get rejected intentionally. I figured out through the 1 hour of walking around before I made myself do it that I have a lot of ego still in my seduction. I want women especially the attractive ones to take me seriously and validate me so saying something really dumb to get rejected was quite difficult and I had to take myself out of fight or flight a couple of times. Literally felt like people were watching me and especially other men triggered intense momentary frustration. I went with a simple "Excuse me, are you looking for a husband by chance?" and all 3 responded really well giggling so that was encouraging. Today is the genuine compliment day so we'll see how that goes.

The best way to stop fearing something is to learn how to use it to better your life and your communities. Have you guys started using your own AI agents yet? I've been procrastinating it tbh but I'm watching content on it and learning to use them little by little.

It's not binary. Law enforcement and criminology have already reduced crime heavily these past couple centuries. We don't have that much farther to go to remove unwanted violence from our species entirely.

That's fine I respect it. Why not change the world though? If you have empathy for the suffering of other humans and have faith in yourself as a powerful person then why not make it your life's mission to affect change on the world for the better? It certainly is mine.

How do you think we fundamentally switch the economic system to make it more win-win instead of the zero sum game it currently is? Financialization makes sense. I figured the same thing reading the Bitcoin Standard, the game is really rigged and it's basically the same thing as feudalism where the lords owned everything and peasants work on the lords land to survive. Now they give us this cash credit and devalue it by the year so you're free but can't afford your freedom lol. I don't think so. It's insanity to believe that peace comes from everyone stopping to be problematic. That will never happen because the incentives for chaos are too strong. You need monopoly on violence and fair economic policy. It's like saying your city would become safer if all the police and your country's military disappeared overnight. What would happen is simple game theory it would then become viable for a group of dudes to band together and become bandits and rule everyone else and get all the wealth, surplus goods and women to themselves. The best way to secure peace is to make the cost for wars and crime to be too high. If everything is surveilled and you surely will not get away with any crimes and you have a logically achievable road towards upward mobility then the incentives for both criminals and warmongers become nil.

Seems like Cuba might possibly be invaded in the coming weeks as US Navy troops are still highly concentrated from the Venezuelan operation more than a simple blockade would warrant. https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1tpt43q/pentagon_puts_building_blocks_in_place_for_cuba/ Perhaps Prof Jiang is right with his technate analysis of US geopolitical strategy.

@Natasha Tori Maru I'm confused both of these thoughts make complete sense when put together. I'm advocating against AI fear mongering and learned helplessness.

Immersion challenges are one of the top ways to make drastic improvement in a short time. I've always wanted to do a full on 30 day challenge but always procrastinated it. Ideally I wanted to wait to be a full on digital nomad with business income so I could do it stress free but I just moved to Montreal and the women are gorgeous here so I figured might as well start the process now. I'm gonna do this newbie starter variation from the GirlsChase forum since my cold approach is rusty and go from there. I like his idea that he presents in his blog here where overall all you need is to talk to 4 new women daily to overhaul your dating life in 30 days. https://www.skilledseducer.com/threads/newbie-assignment.34/ https://www.girlschase.com/content/can-you-approach-4-girls-day-30-days My personal weakness when it comes to this stuff is I tend to overationalize(I'm an INTP) and avoid talking to the women I truly want. I've been on a few years monk mode working on levelling up myself outside of dating so now I think is a good time to bring it back. I did day 4 of the challenge yesterday which was saying Hi to 6 women. I did about 8, felt good. There was a habs games yesterday with a lot of women wearing hockey jerseys so I used that as a crutch to do a few opens that worked probably the best, goes to show the power of rapport. Already a lot of lessons from the simple saying hi challenge, for example when walking around one of the best opportunities is stopping at street lights. I thought it would be really awkward because if it goes bad you both have to stand awkwardly and wait for the light to turn green but I did it it once and it wasn't that bad. I told this girl wearing a cool outfit that I liked her style and she said thank you; if anything I should've kept the conversation going since she smiled and gave me an IoI(played with her hair afterwards) but I'm trying to not pressure myself too much early on since that tends to loop me back into overthinking. I encourage everyone in the forum looking to actually change their dating life to do the same challenge. I see a lot of questions asked where it's obvious that taking action is the main answer. I'm gonna document the results in my obsidian notes, might share it as well in the journal section of the forum if there's interest in learning from my experiences.

That's a cool site thanks for sharing. The sneaky thing about AI cost that people that haven't studied economics don't see coming is marginal cost. All of business is based on marginal cost. It just means that you the cost of a product or service you offer goes down over time. Unfortunately traditional business(with human employees) falls into unaligned incentives where the worker wants his wages to go up with time whereas the owner wants his labor expenses to go down with time. Current AI agents today can already be deployed for like $0-500 monthly and are only gonna get more efficient with time.

The great thing about Bryan Johnson is he's a visionary. Most visionaries in the past were chastised by regular people in their time, it's the consequence of having a vision beyond the current circumstances.