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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.

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.

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.

@yetineti takes me up on my offer to have a live streamed conversation on our disagreements about what makes a man valuable. It'll be streamed live this Sunday 8 pm EST on my Youtube channel. Feel free to come up with questions for us to answer and we'll address them on air.

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.

I started to consciously escape the chokehold of limiting beliefs when I was walking with my buddy in downtown Toronto a few years ago. We were looking for a place to grab some beers and we walked by an upscale venue that had good vibe and a busy patio and as we were about to walk past it I said: "Wait let's just go here" He said "Nah this place is too much" I said what do you mean? Let's try it out and I talked him into it. I could feel that we were both a bit nervous about being there as we usually just went to the cheap pub on the other street that was much more appropriate for people like us. There were so many pretty girls on the patio that my biology took over and here we now sat. Summer in Toronto is beautiful, truly heaven on earth. This place was more expensive than we were used to though. Usually we could grab a beer for like $8. This place's prices...? $12 That $4 and a limiting belief was what stopped us from going there for about a full year that I lived there beforehand. That's how sneaky limiting beliefs are. Another one I noticed that you guys probably have run into are shopping malls. In there are regular stores but there are usually also upscale designer stores where the cheapest item is like $500. I would encourage you guys to go in and take a look at what you like and take pictures of it. Maybe one day come back and get it once you get the cash but that's not really the lesson. The lesson is don't let a general vibe of exclusivity induce anxiety in you and tell you that you don't belong there. I started taking guys to upscale hotels in the city because they had nice spots for pictures and usually are very open and accessible. Here's a shoot we did at the Ritlz-Carlton in Downtown Toronto. I started this event series where we went to eat at nice restaurants at the city and shot content with girls that we knew. It's something that would've seemed so crazy to me beforehand and only something rich people could do. Cost to shoot this picture? $50 It's also very important in terms of the type of women you think are out of your league. I started watching a lot of historical dramas with royal plot intrigues so I have a newfound obsession with princesses. Am I ever gonna get with one? I don't know, probably if I keep trying and I don't fall for some other lovely ladies beforehand. Turns out there are hundreds of princesses alive today and you can just DM them on Instagram. I think Chiara de Bourbon is very cute and I like what she's doing with her charity work. Did she answer? No. You know who did answer? This girl with 600k followers that came to my photoshoot. We ended up getting a $40,000,000 mansion as the location for the shoot also. It cost us $10,000 to rent it but it was worth it. Just kidding ,it cost $0. My buddy messaged a real estate agent and said we'd come by to shoot some content and give them some free shots to help promote the listing. One of the founders of a Pizzaiolo, a Canadian pizza chain, came by in his Lambo since he lived close by and was friends with the owner of the mansion. Super cool dude, he let us take pictures in the Lambo. Sour grapes is also another common limiting belief. Most people think that rich people are arrogant pricks. Some of them are but some of them are super nice and open to collaborating with people that come to them with genuine value. If we wanted to come by the mansion and bring some booze and get shit faced and throw a party that would've been a harder ask. Giving them free media to fulfill their goal and ours at the same time is a much better strategy. Once we had the connect my club promoter buddy actually did reach out to them to host a Christmas Party there. The price tag for that though was legitimately $10,000 so he skipped it. Believe in yourself and learn about social arbitrage, it's such a powerful strategy to get access to places and people that the average joe doesn't. Here is a very easy homework for those of you that live in a decently big city, make a point to go to the nicest restaurant and hotel in your city and treat yourself to the good life. You deserve it. A meal might be more expensive but a trick is that you can go to a luxury hotel and just get a coffee at the hotel restaurant and it'll cost you $12 instead of a $2 coffee from Mcdonalds. It's gonna be a bit better, to me a double double is hard to beat but the point is to just go relax, maybe literally meditate there and not to let a nice environment rob you of your frame and confidence. Maybe you can mingle and make some new friends too, I've heard hotel bars are a great way to meet single travellers looking to get busy upstairs.

This is good. Now you can focus on your life purpose and meeting people that matter to help you reach it. Most friends are friends of convenience, not really valuable allies for us in time of need. That's why it's important to learn intentional networking and social circle game. Finally got out of the drunk tank huh! It's good to see you back man. I don't have a monogamous girlfriend right now. You can see some of the girls I hangout with on my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/DOH0JPxka8M/?img_index=1

If you know yourself and you're satisfied with the results it gets you then more power to you. I would definitely recommend most men to have an active presence on social media. It can help your business and career goals as well. Overall it gives you massive leverage for the little time it takes to learn how to use it effectively.

On top of having an epistemic process for validating your first person experience then I think it's solid. You know the earth is round because you have scientists that have calculated it and proved it by putting satellites into outer space and taking pictures of it. You can then have a certain burden of proof for the science involved but mainstream science proves that pretty handily.

Yeah, it's definitely easier said than done. I would say don't give up on your dreams and passions but learn how to integrate current market trends into it and build a highly valuable skillset to be able to create a solid offering that meets market demand. I've had periods of making thousands of dollars a month doing something I love and living easily from it. Others of needing to get a job to pay my bills and put the business on pause for a while. It's part of the journey. I'll cosign @Ulax's recommendation of So Good They Can't Ignore You, really good book that gave me a lot of clarity about the path I was on. I actually got it for a girl I was seeing at the time

What I find really helps me is deconstructing vague goals into a more specific objectives. Using the SMART goal setting framework is my go to Then "getting good at attracting hot girls" becomes "it will probably take me 3 months to 2 years depending on my level of consistency to be able to consistently go on dates with women I'm very attracted to." I think being able to attract hot women is a skillset that any man can develop, just depends how serious he is and how much effort he's willing to put into it. If one practices game, gets his online dating profile in order, works on his sex appeal through fitness/dressing well/charisma and has his finances in order it's pretty wild the results you can get in terms dating and sex life.

Yeah I think every man should do that. Having a good profile that comes across well can be done in 1 week. I would recommend going out with friends or hiring a photographer and taking good pictures in nice locations across your city. Rooftop bars, hotel lobbies, an iconic downtown street, etc. Also archive the posts that are too old and don't represent your brand well. Blurry pic drinking in college, random memes, posts with you not in it, past interests that aren't on brand anymore, etc. Being able to exchange Instagrams with all the women you meet and come across as a cool guy they wanna get to know further is a no brainer in terms of dating strategy.

I appreciate it boys, I wish for you guys to accomplish all your dating goals as well! Depends on the one, feel free to share and we can deconstruct it.

Let's go, the Actualized squad out in the field helping to counter global population decline! Love to see members actually taking real-world action together!

This phenomenon has become increasingly obvious to me over the years as I deal with more and more people that seem to fall under the stage green umbrella but have a weird shadow and seem to lack the ability to empathize in a lot of ways. First let's define our terms so we know what we're talking about here The main phenomenon I see is that these people tend to identify really strongly with their own pain and thus they gain a lot of sympathy for the pain of others experiencing SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES that often revolve around powerlessness and you vs the system. This gives them a disdain for the system and all things related to it like meritocracy, business, competence, quantification, science, skillset, etc. This leads them to fundamentally not understand society and reality and not being able to make the jump to yellow. Other people that aren't in a similar situation as them they don't feel relatability towards and thus their sympathy is cut off and their empathy skills were limited from the start so they turn weirdly bitter, resentful and sometimes openly violently antagonistic. This is where cognitive empathy comes in and the ability to understand another even if they live different lives than you. You should be able to empathize with someone from another nation or someone that's richer than you or someone that has different a ideology than you.

To be completely real with you, I don’t have a coding background and I'm not very experienced with agents yet. The most I’ve done so far is mess around with Gemini Spark, so half of your workflow and that handoff script honestly looks like hieroglyphics to me haha. What does that handoff actually do in plain English? To answer your questions on what I’m trying to do: Right now I’m just using the consumer apps/interfaces, but the CRM problem I want to solve comes from my dating photography business. Traditional CRMs that I've tried (like GoHighLevel) feel good but feel a bit archaic, not customizable enough for my taste and have a lot of limits in what they can do. I want an LLM that can handle that initial back-and-forth conversation naturally, answer basic questions, qualify if they're actually a serious buyer, and then hand them off to me or a closer once they're ready to book. Basically an automated appointment setter that doesn't sound like a mindless bot. From there I want to connect it to my old lead list and be able to track followups and conversion % from a dashboard. I haven't heard of Paperclip AI, what is it and why did you think of it?