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You'd be surprised, try tantra. Once I meditated holding hands with my girlfriend for like 15 mins and then I had like a 40 second long orgasm after we fucked, best orgasm of my life and only time it's ever happened. I think you can get it to the point where you are like one soul in two bodies experiencing each other type of thing but I haven't tried it that deeply apart from that one experience. I'd also recommend checking out BDSM if you want to learn how to keep injecting sexual tension into your relationship. Depending what you both are into it can keep things interesting and novel for easily a decade. I agree that drinking can loosen you up a lot and help you connect, it's no fun to always be a 24/7 sober productivity robot.

Plenty of IDF soldiers have been caught targeting civilians intentionally. Be a little more intellectually honest, please.

You can become an art critic. Post yourself on social media reviewing different type of animes and video games that you enjoy. Plenty of people make a living this way.

Oh yeah fair, there are some $20 books that are goldmines. Have you heard of the Alex Hormozi book series? I got the first one earlier in the year so good. The shocking part to me is the lack of awareness that it's a dead end. Especially in an era of AI, I think basically all criminals will be caught in the next 30 years. Perhaps it's more exciting for them than sitting down and reading a book on business.

I haven't played it but I researched it, it's for sure one of the most successful game adaptations in recent memory. You're in luck, they're working on the sequel as we speak! Which movie is your favorite and how come?

You should screen if they're open to it beforehand but many girls would be. Plenty of women are bicurious and too anxious to give it a go. I'm half joking don't just spring it up on them but definitely discuss it.

It's time, we've been preparing for this exact moment. You must now invite them both over at the same time over a bottle of wine and let the magic happen. Not the Disney kind of magic; much better. You got this soldier, report back!

Damn that sucks sorry to hear. On the courses front, you felt like you didn't get your money's worth from them? I've only ever bought one full price for like $1500 and the rest through the wild west but I found so much value in a few different courses. The Tai Lopez SMMA course got me started in business and there was nothing like it at the time on Youtube. Now you can find a lot but it's still not really A-Z. For the social circle stuff I paid for one that had Michael Sartain, RSD Luke and this personal brand guy Corey Chaloff at the time, that's the one I paid $1500 for and the skills that course taught me has made me easily $35,000 since. Social circle blueprint 1 and 2 were also phenomenal. I think it depends heavily on the course and your learning style. It's pretty terrible in terms of success rate and like 20% of people never watch 1 video in the course and around 50% never watch more than the first 3 videos. I think a lot of coaches take advantage of that to print easy money. I used to find him and Spencer Cornelia distasteful for focusing on negativity instead of providing value themselves but the more I live and realize how sneaky some of these scammers are and how effective a lot of these scams are, the more I realize the benefit of investigative journalism. I didn't realize how corrupt the system really is and how a lot of scams are semi legal until they are exposed and enough public backlash mandates legislative actions agains them. It's also interesting to think of scamming and criminal activity as a whole being a quite effective survival strategy. The internet is making it harder and harder to pull off but these were "legitimate" career paths for a long time and I'm still shocked when we see dudes like the one in this video pulling it off in public for so long. Lying is such a strange phenomenon, it goes very deep into self-deception of both parties involved. Thanks for your videos on that, it helps to make sense of it.

I like watching these financial exposés, it's a fun way to learn about how finance works. This guy is an interesting case because he targeted mostly UFC athletes that had liquid cash and were looking for a way to park it and not financially literate enough to sniff a scam. In a way I think finance is the most honest industry in the world because it's so openly corrupt. You can watch the numbers go up and down on a screen and those are the real numbers. They are manipulated in almost every way though. This one is pretty lazy but somehow it works. A dude that flexes wealth on Instagram with a lot of followers and promises absolutely crazy returns of 100% over the last 4 years. For context for those unaware, 10% annual return is the standard benchmark for investing in an index fund like the S&P500 and 20% would be world class results in private equity standards. 100% over multiple years is similar to someone saying, "Give me $100,000 and I'll give you $500,000 two weeks from now. No scam, my friend, I'm a wealthy prince from Nigeria, but my funds are currently locked away by my family. Help me now and you will be well compensated when my treasury is opened again." It sounds ridiculous but that was a common scam in the early internet days and even before throughout the 20th century and according to AI it works consistently and has probably led to around $50 billion stolen over the last 100 years. I find it really cool how investing mirrors classic self-development in that shortcuts are usually not shortcuts, they are traps for the greedy and impatient. Tried and true principles usually work and there are ways to make more money than average but you have to really do your research and understand what you're getting into. 90% of the time people selling you something that sounds too good to be true is just that and you should think and meditate on it. I find my propensity for getting scammed is lower than the average person since I'm more logical than emotional so these things never really make sense to me but I can see why someone that seems credible and has some kind of proof of mastery in an industry that you don't understand could work. That's why financial education is key and understanding how money works deep down pretty much inoculates you against fool's errands as you can usually dismantle someone trying to scam you by asking a few precise clarification questions that are hard to answer for someone who's making stuff up. I feel like a lot of times what really happens is people ask themselves "Does this make sense? I don't know but what if it works I'll be rich!" and there goes their money. Scammers usually look for easy marks and there are plenty of those around.

My recommendation would be to read the book the Bitcoin Standard and start to make your own thesis. I think Bitcoin has a lot of solid properties but also some big question marks around it. Biggest of which is who started it and for what purpose? It's very interesting to me that the Trump administration is very involved in Crypto. It makes it definitely more shady but also perhaps it's a vouch in the right direction. If a bunch of corrupt rich criminals are aligning with a form of money that's supposedly more solid future proof digital money, to me that leaves two main spectrum of options. 1) They are using it as a bigger fool trap where they will just sell and dump on people that invest with them. That seems to have been the case with Trump coin. 2) They actually believe it will hold their wealth once their crimes are found out and their other assets are seized. I think 1 is more likely than 2 but a lot of smart people really do believe in Bitcoin. I'm split on it but if you're young educating yourself and putting some(not all) money into a new asset class is not the worst thing in the world. Just make sure that you're okay loosing whatever you put it and be careful of the exchange that holds your funds that's the most common way people lose their money. Have you read or listened to the Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous? Truly an interesting read, I learned some good fundamentals on macroeconomics from it. Still not 100% sold but I'm watching the markets weekly to see what's going on.

I don't know, I think my life is working out perfectly as intended. Ask me again in 10 years to see if everything really went according to plan. Maybe a lesson on personal finance and savings but having that kind of personality would've changed my trajectory in a way I'm not sure I would take. Perhaps then just "Don't worry you got this." Even then maybe if I was way more confident growing up due to having received encouragement from my future self I would've been less ambitious. So I would have to go with nothing.

It's usually low productivity individuals that are shaming their own desires and try to gain a sense of moral superiority by taking up popular causes like being anti-porn. Go do something useful with your life instead of wanting to restrict people's freedoms. Plenty of porn performers that love their job or even self-uploaded solo porn. Good video of this debate

Wow I just found this thread randomly through one of @Inliytened1's comments, I relate a lot to your original post @Emerald. I'll read through the entire thread, I find your perspective to be refreshing in the veneer of stage green unity the forum is filled with. The urge to compete and dominate and even hurt others that you have a disagreement with is a deep part of our psyche. I don't come into conversations under that frame but I tend to flip to it if I encounter bad faith and antagonistic comments. Similar to you I do experience some cognitive dissonance around it as I aim to be more higher consciousness in how I show up in reality. It was fascinating to hear your experience growing up and having to hide your anger since it was not successful in your daily life to solve your problems and thus you had to learn to be a conciliator. I had a similar although different experience where my anger was too destructive to be productive and although I managed to win a few fights, I was also presented with a bigger fish than me before I really got deep into using conflict to solve problems and so similarly turned my energy into intellectualism and business ventures to make it profit me. Transmutation is usually talked about in terms of lust but anger is much more important to get under control in my experience as you can ruin your own life or someone else's in less than 10 seconds through it. Lust has much less severe consequences and although it grips you, it's not as vivid of an experience as pure anger. I actually came up with a business idea for a platform where people can have intellectual debates and you use both a community voting feature but mostly AI fact checking to come up with a winner and you get paid in crypto for winning arguments or betting on an outcome of a debate that turns out to be right. A more intellectual version of Polyamarket. I'm not sure if I'm gonna go through with it but arbitration of truth seems to be a useful function of debates and intellectual sparring. What's your perspective on this today? I would be curious on your updated thoughts.

I appreciate it, definitely one of the secret weapons with women, they love playing with them.

Yes, they say that our brains need proof and not promises of what we're capable of. Taking smaller steps before taking bigger ones makes sense and slowly but surely proves to your brain that you are in control of your environment and life. You may not able to sleep with the hottest girl you know this week but you could invite her to a cool event you're hosting this year or have connections to a cool event that somebody else is hosting. Then you can make friends with her and meet other hot girls and soon enough you'll have a big circle and plenty of hot girls that are open to dating you. Combine this social capital strategy with a cold approach and online dating strategy and your dating life will become a pleasant adventure that happens on your terms.