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I think you are right. I wonder how that works. Human psychology is truly fascinating, always a deeper rabbit hole to go down. One of my favorite field of study that has immediate payoff in being able to understand the behaviours of people around you more clearly.

Well we are learning. I do actually think that making posts getting straight to the point on goals is important. How much money do you wanna make, how is your dating life, etc. People tend to use spirituality to bypass their real problems and It DoeNest MattER YoU Don'TunDersTand Im God YouAre InferioR to me! While their life is objectively shit. We should all aim for the good life. Whatever that means to us. That's why fleshing out our dream life is so important and why I spent so much time vividly sharing my visions of multiple wives on my yacht sailing in the Mediterranean while i'm hosting events in Europe and eventually buying my own castle. People are afraid to dream. They have been told that their dreams are stupid and they won't reach them anyway. That's the beauty of the self-improvement mindset over the victim mindset. You say fuck that and fuck you and you figure out the map to get you to where you wanna be. MBTI types are important to understand ourselves and most importantly the difference between how others see the world and how we see it. @yetineti My bad, I didn't remember. It just honestly feels to me like your points are so shallow and not well thought out and your communication style is condescending. You do have a few key points but your communication skills need work, idk what kind of award you won but it definitely was not in high quality forum discourse. You're also good at theory but doesn't sound like you're achieving much in the social domain so your takes are not that great brosky.

I think your issue is that you don't understand different personality types. Now before you go off on me invalidating you again, I enjoy analysis. I'm an INTP. Do you know your MBTI type? All 16 types have a default mode of engagement that they enjoy best. If you're a feeling first type then someone using intellect to interact is gonna seem strange to you. To me not analyzing situations feels like we're wasting time instead of learning. I think you're 100% right. That's the point of being anti-fragile though. Spotting your flaws should please you as you now have found a new way to make your life better. A lot of people are way too sensitive and stagnate as a result. I have plenty of flaws and when people point out my blindspots, if they are accurate in their diagnosis, then I am thankful. Even if initially resistant. A lot of people don't have valuable feedback to offer others though, they just project their own insecurities onto others.

Well I think this is actually a deep lesson in psychology. Humans love easy dopamine. @Inliytened1 likes to talk about getting laid and make low effort posts about it and people love to gang up on him and get that virtue signalling easy dopamine of righteousness. There are plenty of deeper posts on the forum that get no attention. A market is made to deliver what people want, perhaps not what they need. Interesting to see it in action. It is leading to a junk foodification effect though. Let's make sure to keep our eyes on the prize and reaching our goals.

A forum can be a great tool but it needs to be built on accountability and high-level discourse otherwise it's at best just chit-chat but realistically it will devolve into everyone's egos and shadows coping in their favored ways. I called out @Hojo quite harshly on some inappropriate comments he left in another thread about a month ago and he hasn't been back since. I have been reflecting on it since then wondering if I went too far but I concluded that no, it was a necessary check. A certain standard must be held if we want to keep improving otherwise we will stagnate or worse.

I think it's worth giving extroverts a chance. Some people are honestly dumb and literally low IQ and not capable nor have the interest in entertaining deep ideas and its a fundamental incompatibility. Some extroverts are more nuanced than that and value depth in the right time with the right people and will see your ability to connect ideas and expand on them as an attractive superpower that they don't really have. That's especially why I like fields like media and business so much because going deep in them gives you so much ROI. A lot of introverts go deep on useless topics that don't yield much results for their life and I'm left wondering if its not mostly a function of escapism and avoiding the harder sides of life as opposed to a genuine unique interest in whatever they're into. It's worth analyzing one's self and getting to the bottom of it for sure. Competence is universally attractive because it solves problems for anyone. That's why most of the richest people in the world are introverts because they go deep on problems and actually fix them instead of jumping around.

Carney's team is making some pretty big blunders though. An analysis of their recent negotiations strategy only leave them at a 68/100 68% was not an acceptable grade for me growing up in my household and it certainly is not for a head of state. Above a 90 is mandatory or you're not doing the job right.

I think we just came up with the apex of the witch: the scientific witch. A true superior witch would not be satisfied with hoping or feeling that her spell would work. She would try it over and over again until it's mastered and as reliable as a lighter. Does such a witch exist? I think perhaps and if you're one reading this you should DM me I'll show you some magic as well

Have you watched Ahsoka? It's pretty good, season 2 is gonna start in January. Baylan Skoll is looking for the origin of the force on Peridea, it's about to get pretty spiritual my man. He's kind of a dickhead for leaving his apprentice behind so I hope he doesn't find it but hey, we'll see what happens.

I think road rage is a common one that sneaks up on people. It removes the fear of confrontation from regular life and also you're at the head of a 5000 lbs weapon so it's common for people's built up anger to rear its head.

To double back on this though, I believe in witches. Most witches are bad witches just like anything else. Plenty of people throughout history have made prophecies that came true. If you've had mystical experiences you will agree that reality is pretty wild so it's not really that crazy of a concept. We'd have to deconstruct exactly which claims of witchcraft is more plausible than others though. One thing is for certain though. A man who truly wants to experience what life has to offer, if he encounters a horny witch he has to fuck. Any man who would run away from such an opportunity because of fear of the unknown has lost my respect. This is why I don't respect religious men, they are too scared of so many things. They definitely wouldn't fuck witch. More for me.

You will very plausibly be able to play your own life as a video game in the next 20 years. They are getting pretty close to being able to decode memories in neuroscience. Neural decoding using fMRI and electrophysiology combined with deep learning (like diffusion models and LLMs) can already reconstruct rough video clips, continuous language, or imagery of what a subject is actively seeing, hearing, or imagining in real time while in a scanner. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur Clarke

Is this something that you're planning to transition out of to have more of an impact on life or are you satisfied with this state of living?

Give me one good witch and we're taking over the world. Give me 2 and we're going for multiversal domination baby. I watched the first episode of The Originals and stopped there, I found the writing pretty bad. I'm very sensitive to cheesy lines and lazy tropes, makes the show feel cheap to me.

Not with flying broomsticks but they research occultism and cast spells. Whether you believe the spells work or not up to you. If you believe the universe is not solely bound by the laws of physics then why not. There are men who become witches too, they're not actually called wizards that's just in media, they call themselves witches as well. My buddy had a girlfriend who said she was a witch. She gave me some good advice that turned out to work, I'll leave it at that.

Holy shit I knew you were a novice too. Regular women are not witches lol There are actual witches out there.

This is clearly a novice answer. I'm going with the boys and seeing how life turns out with 2 witch girlfriends. What you're not considering @Inliytened1 is that the witches are on your side, they will teach you some magic too. You might be able to now get 15 regular girlfriends on top of your 2 witch girlfriends. Play chess not checkers Also obviously don't be a fool and date the first witch you see. You must make sure she is of stable mental health and doesn't seek to end humanity or enslave mankind. The question kind of takes care of that though, if she's your girlfriend she must at least like you somewhat otherwise what is she, a low self-esteem witch?

I think we should do some real science here and talk about high level concepts instead of getting lost in the weeds. What's better 3 regular girlfriends or 2 witch girlfriends?

I watched End Game with Thanos but I never was big into Marvel so I didn't really understand the plot. Studying it in depth is making me appreciate it so much better. It's the epitome of comic book writing, film adaptation and business strategy all put into one great masterpiece. Looking forward to watching more of the MCU and watching Doomsday in December! Who are your favorite Marvel characters and why? I like Spiderman and Tony Stark the best so far. Tony is a good guy billionaire and Spiderman is almost a regular guy just tryna help.

@Raze That's recency bias. Women have faced backlash from other women for commercializing and displaying their sexuality for over a century, long before woke discourse existed. Look at the public moral panic around early Hollywood screen sirens in the 1920s, pin-up models in the 1940s, or Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s. The outrage wasn't coming from modern progressive activists. It was driven by female peers and conservative women's leagues claiming they were degrading womanhood and setting terrible examples. The political rhetoric always morphs to fit the era, but the biological baseline stays the same. The crowd will always find a convenient moral justification to police an individual woman who converts high-tier sexual capital directly into unilateral leverage. Perhaps Sydney is getting a bit more outrage for her last promo shoot with American Eagle but I think the underlying psychological phenomena of women being more collectivist than men is a real documented phenomenon.

Fuck you got me right in the ego, if you put my authority in your points I can't really discredit it. I think you're onto something here. I think we can make it even better by moving #4 to #1, now we've got an optimized strategy! If you host a cool event #2 becomes a lot more nuanced and you can make the girls come directly to you. A lot of men's dating problems come from not offering much value to women. Guys should get some dating under their belts so they understand what they want and then work on themselves so they have a lot to offer. Then it becomes shooting fish in a barrel and women's selectiveness starts working in your favour as they ignore the losers to give you their attention instead. Sometimes a magician must reveal his secrets for the good of mankind

I don't know why he communicates this way on the forum. When we spoke on the phone, he came across far more thoughtful and grounded. It seems like he treats the forum as an outlet to impulsively vent and posture, which drags the quality of his communication down. When you step into a public leadership role on a platform dedicated to self-development, dropping to that level of communication does a disservice to the space IMO.

Lmao seems true That's a key insight to female and human nature as a whole. People really mostly care about what's good for them. Women are much more collective than men. Sydney Sweeney being a hot young actress using her sexuality to make money and build influence will piss a lot of women off whereas a woman that's getting ganged up on by the legal system will trigger their sympathy. Watch out for collective power, it's rarely in your favor if you see yourself as a high agency individual. Its also why this case is trending so far. Collective survival strategies are conflicting. Very few people are actually interested in psychiatry lol, it's a battle of groupthink.

I'm very excited for it. I'm rewatching all Avengers and other MCU movies to really appreciate the universe and the business model behind it. I'm working on my own media project so it's given me a new appreciation for how GOATs of the trade handle their work. The fact that the MCU has 40 movies in a coherent plot line is actually insane and for that they are well deserving of the $30+ billion that they've earned through their visual storytelling. I made a megathread for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you're welcome to talk more about it on there!

I just rewatched Avengers 2012 to continue my Marvel deep dive. It's so fucking good I would easily rate it 8.5/10 Until you start writing plots and stories yourself, it's hard to appreciate how difficult it is to write a good story for all ages. They managed to make a plot about Gods and superheroes saving the world be not cringy. The writing is pretty top notch, usually these type of shows have really cringe lines or just weird cheezy tropes that ruin the 4th wall but they avoided it. I'm reminded in episode 1 of the Obi Wan show where mercenaries struggle to capture an 8 year old Leia Skywalker and you're instantly robbed of all feeling of danger and feeling that these are competent criminals and left wondering wtf you're doing with your life watching a kids show. The Avengers takes an even more ridiculous plot and through quality writing makes you forget that you're watching a Disney movie. I'll be writing a more in depth review in the Marvel thread and also my next reviews for the next MCU movies I'm watching. Next up on the list are Thor, Iron Man 3 and then finally Avengers : Age of Ultron!