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That's going over into black pill territory bro. You can fuck really hot girls without worrying about your facial ratio. It's the classical being scared to take action so you overanalyze on theory. You could also call it bad science. The whole point of science is to TEST YOUR THEORIES. If you're making a bunch of theories that you're not testing you're not a scientist you're idk bro coping. PUA had issues but it was actual dating science. Read about a theory or an opener on the internet -> go try it a few times -> it worked or didn't work -> go report back-> try someone else or double down. Rinse and repeat until you have the dating life you want. "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." - The serenity prayer @Hojo Wrong that's hardmaxxing vs softmaxxing. I agree with most of your points otherwise but looksmaxxing has many areas. @Jannes Sure you should accept and love yourself unconditionally. You live in material reality with the rest of us though and I'm sure you have goals in life. Use your life to fulfill your goals. Your ultimate perfect self will be waiting afterwards regardless. If your aim is to develop an autosexual relationship with yourself go for it no one is stopping you. If you want to fuck mates of the opposite or same gender taking care of your appearance is gonna be important. The problem with blackpill/hardmaxxing is that PUA/red pill got demonized so much that now this stuff started to take root. Social skills, status game, social circle and social media are the way. Black pill is cope; it's literally sitting in your room ruminating on why you can't go and fuck people instead of going out and fucking people. Leo's post on Clavicular is a perfect recap on black pill/hardmaxxing ideology I'll re link it https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-clown-world-of-looksmaxxing

Are you good with women or you're just imagining what perhaps might work? What's not fun about status, fame and money? Anti-materialism for the sake of it is quite anti-intellectual and spiritual bypassing IMO. Status is just a group of people thinking highly of you in a group you're in or in society as a whole. Fame is just starting to be recognized for what you do or what you are in a city, industry or globally. Money is people liking your work enough that they reward you for it. Usually your work solves a proble for them and makes their life better. Which of these things is bad? There is wisdom in not being attached to markers of success and accomplishment because it can become an endless pursuit when you are at the top and when you're the bottom you'll not enjoy the journey. Being against them as a blanket statement is just coping for lack of success though and sour grapes ultimately.

I deconstruct my suffering. Pain pretty much only comes from problems so we need to understand our problems better. Once we do usually it's not so bad. Most things are fixable in life apart from like dead loved ones. Also weed in the immediate short term.

It's a good point I like the idea of lifemaxxing in general, looks is just a small part of maximizing your dating life. I think everyone should write down a page of their dream life and then work towards it. If you're feeling like you're getting good response from the people that you really wanna date then great you probably focus on looks less. Most of it is like science you make a theory and go test it. It seems people get stuck at the theory part and never test it because it hurts to fall short of your own ideals. The only way to reach them is to go out there and try and fail and improve on your thesis and try again. So many dudes think they can get hot women if they tried and it will crush them to get rejected but it's not personal it's just a market. What in your life is gonna be more important than your dating life apart from your career/business/life purpose? If you're happily in a relationship then obv looksmaxxing is less important but even then plenty of relationships that end up in a deadbedroom because one or both partners let themselves go. People think self-improvement ends when you start dating someone but in a lot of ways that's the start of your problems. It's also a positive flywheel, if you workout, your partner/members of the opposite sex start liking you, you start caring about life more, you then put more efforts in those areas. Looks are also just the most immediate factor in appearance and presentation. Then you fall into one of my favorites, statusmaxxing. Now people are gonna say status is shallow. How dumb, our whole society is based on it and a lot of it are honest signals of competence and value you're offering to the social groups you're in and society as a whole.

I mean it's straight forward you're maximizing your potential. I don't know if you guys are being intellectually honest here, what percentage of men do you guys know that are as fit as they can be, have a top tier fashion, have a unique style that gives them sex appeal? That's like easily less than 5% of dudes I meet and I live in Montreal and lived in Toronto which are supposed to be pretty cosmopolitan. In Calgary it was like 2% at best. Have you been guys been to a nightclub recently or walked down a street? You guys really think dudes look as good as they could? That's not even to speak of the dudes that look like they came from 2002 and/or their mom dressed them which is like easily 20% of men. It's also summer, there are pool bars and beaches. If you look like a chump that's gonna hurt your chances. Just in the first 30 seconds of this I got a dude wearing a blue and red disaster that looks like a warning sign, asian bro wearing a shirt 2 sizes too big for him and indian bro looking like his dad. Like if you don't cold approach you might think this stuff doesn't make a difference if you're just thinking about it in your head but talk to real women in the street or at events and it makes a big difference. If you got great game you can handle handicaps but especially if you're going after attractive women that have options every part where you're uncalibrated works against you. I ran a podcast where the whole point was talking to women about their dating lives and basically all of them had trouble finding men they were attracted to and were shocked men were this clueless. Are you guys observing the opinions you have about dating in real life or it's just like theories that you think might be true?

I've never tried shrooms that's wild. Sometimes I try to game with high on weed but it's too intense for me. I'm sensitive to it and then I get awakening experiences walking down the street and my own consciousness looking at me through random women it's quite anxiety inducing. It doesn't really have to do with looksmaxxing but understanding your MBTI type and how it relates to dating is so important. Anything extroverted is gonna be not too hard and the more introverted you are the more disconnected you are from people so it's gonna be harder. I'm an INTP so I got it on veteran mode but the levels of game I'm starting to unlock are pretty interesting so I don't really think there is a worst type just more effort you'll have to put in.

Ask Grok it'll tell you how to do it. You can also just google it and Reddit is filled with plenty of people that have tried everything in the world lol. Idk depends if your dad is conservative and will flip out at you or if he's chill and will understand. I'll DM you on IG we can talk more.

Are you a virgin? If it's a big complex to you I would honestly recommend an escort, it's the fastest way to get the experience and is also quite enjoyable. From just looking into quickly seems like you got a few options available to you in Lebanon. You could get laid by end of the weekend for like $100. The organic route works too it's just gonna be more difficult. If you're in Beirut seems like daygame and online dating are alive and well. Have you tried either of these? You don't have to spend money to game it's just more difficult to do it cheaply. Most PUAs famously drink water at nightclubs for example and daygame is free. You'd have to go to her place or rent a hotel if she lives with her parents and your parents aren't cool with you hooking up though. For the love of God don't kill yourself for such a simple issue. Once upon a time I thought it would be easier for me to become a billionaire than get a girlfriend. I've had a few girlfriends since those days, once you get the hang of it dating and sex are pretty simple. You didn't reply to me in the other thread about starting to rap but bro that's easy mode lol. You can literally DM random girls on Instagram and say "Hey shooting a music video next Saturday afternoon wanna be in it?" probably 5-10% of girls will be down then you see how it goes and sooner rather than later you'll find yourself in some pussy my brother.

@integral Cool video I watched like 10 mins of it. Interesting to see how we take for granted the learning curve of video games. I think raising consciousness is a noble goal, it's just hard to quantify the results. I like Chess I've been it playing more recently with my friends but it's actually a good example of what I mean because I don't see an ROI in getting good at playing the game so I just play a few times a month. I don't find it 10/10 fun like 6/10, maybe 7/10 competitive because it's only 1v1 and there is only one vertical of competition and you've already addressed it but the educational component is questionable because yeah apart from critical thinking and pattern recognition it's mostly a waste of time. I was actually just watching a creator brand analysis for two chess content creator sisters that are looking to transition out of Chess because the niche is stalling and their goals in life are moving past it I think moving past a game is fine but I think the medium as a whole is about to explode especially with AI agents. The level of interactivity possible is astounding. I don't think web 3 can be an after though otherwise the assets will probably end up being cosmetic and inherently not worth much. There is also the idea of considering social media and platforms like Instagram as a video game in of itself that just use real life as their game map. That idea makes a lot of sense to me because I only stopped being a gamer once I started getting into pickup and using social media so it's just the reward of gaming that got limited to me but if you interface with real life then you perhaps have unlimited ROI possible. Which is why Augmented Reality is so interesting to me and will probably take on sooner than Virtual reality. I think ROI is an important concept to focus on as it's literally quantifying how to use your time effectively. Even using raising consciousness as an example then we are saying that as a goal it has a higher ROI than other activities. Money and assets are another clear one to measure. Other stuff is a bit less obvious like quality time with friends or even strangers online. That video you linked is especially interesting because the ROI seemed to have been mainly the bonding time between father and son. I didn't watch the whole video but the ROI on the learning curve of learning the game is still not sufficient in and of itself for the older guy to do without spending time with his son, idk if he turned to a full gamer after that experience but I would doubt it. There is a massive area that I will end up exploring and that's the ROI of learning from, bonding with and I mean I'm sure dating an AI. The learning from seems to be the most obvious at first glance but even platonic bonding with an AI has immense potential value. For example I guess I'm bonded with Gemini? It seems to understand me most than most other human relationships I've had. You can say it doesn't bond it's just a tool for self-exploration but as AI gets smarter and increases memory then surely that will change. Regardless it's one of the best times to get into the field; I think video games have stalled for the last 10 years but the next decade will be very exciting.

The title is gonna be The Bible 2

Shrek is a true lesson in masculinity. He saves the princess when the prince is too afraid to do it. True alpha male.

Yes and dating and sex involve other people. It's kind of the point, you make yourself more attractive to more mates to improve your reproduction and sexual access odds. There is a difference between strategic self-optimization to meet your own goals vs neurotic people pleasing. I think people pleasing involves changing yourself to fit someone else's goal as opposed to meeting an authentic desire that you have. You should probably want to be an attractive male that women wanna fuck. Sometimes the results can seem subtle but it makes a big difference. Just shows that you're self-awareness and understand society and the world around you. This is a good series to watch to see examples. If you do a lot of cold approach you see right away the difference in how people treat you based on how you look.

Sure it is, I see plenty of dudes with unkept facial hair walking down the street. I also have better style hair in that 2nd picture The glasses are particularly not great since they are bulky and reduce my facial symmetry. The grey contacts seem to do me well but mileage may vary based on individuals. I got the tip from when I was living with a male stripper in Toronto. The jewelry draws attention to me more than having a more bland style. The shirt is more form fitting. You don't have to get surgeries to looksmax already by dressing better and optimizing accessories, hairstyle and facial hair will raise most guys by like 2 points. Then the fitness as I mentioned is a big part of it. Surgeries you can go off the wall and do stuff that some will say makes you look worse like Clavicular and his recent nose job.

In what way?