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I agree with you that the elites don't play fair and the system has massive issues. But I say this precisely as a student of history: whenever legitimate frustration turns into mob rioting, the immediate conditions almost always get drastically worse. Burning schools, cars, and local shops doesn't touch the elites, it just screws over regular working people in those neighborhoods and gives the state the perfect excuse to roll out heavier policing and surveillance. Tearing things down without a solid plan to build something better usually just backfires and makes life harder for normal people. Real question here, since we are on a self-development forum: out of hundreds of thousands of protesters, what percentage do you think are spending an hour a day reading books, learning skills, or taking free online courses to build genuine leverage in their own lives? Very few. Developing yourself is hard and takes years, joining a protest and blaming the government and the elites for your problems(even if it's partly justified) is fun and immediate but is fundamentally lazy, bypassing and also mostly doesn't work. It leads to local businesses closing and more global corporations with insurance policies that cover vandalized and looted stores. How many people in this past month have lost the work of their lives and have had to permanently close their small business because arrogant and wild youth thought they were hot shit and were teaching a lesson to the system? Apparently it's around 1500 businesses were ransacked, vandalized, or looted over this weekend alone. These businesses are not Hermes outlets. They are local bakeries and coffee shops where people have their hours cut due to this if the business doesn't have to shut down as a whole. Protests also cause public transit issues for anyone needing to use it to get to work on time. You think the protestors have pity for that?

Right, it's also a lot of lazy, entitled people who refuse to provide value to the system. Is that really what you stand for? More like it gives them the political will necessary to weaken EU's surveillance laws and will end up with Palantir like tech restoring the rule of law over this nonsense. Protesting is one thing, but riots damaging cities are another. Chaos and anarchy are not a tool of enlightened beings seeking to better society; they are maybe 30% that and 70% anger and bypassing one's responsibility towards society in favor of complaining and fucking shit up for easy dopamine. @Schizophonia What are your thoughts on the current situation as a French citizen?

Right, it's also a lot of lazy entitled people that refuse to provide value to the system. Is that really what you stand for? More like it gives them the political will necessary to weaken EU's surveillance laws and will end up with Palantir like tech restoring the rule of law over this nonsense. Protesting is one thing and riots damaging cities another. Chaos and anarchy are not a tool of enlightened beings seeking to better society, they are maybe 30% that and 70% anger and bypassing one's responsibility towards society in favor of complaining and fucking shit up for easy dopamine. @Schizophonia What's your thoughts on the current situation as a french citizen?

I think it's cool, the media that will come from stuff like this over the next few years will be amazing. I think there is a hard cap to the financial upside you can get by copying others ideas so I'm not too worried about this. In most jurisdictions you're allowed to copy others work but when you start to commercialize it you can get sued. Finding inspiration from other art is the cornerstone of most artists though. Fifty Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fan fiction and then E.L. James found her own creative direction and made billions from it; that's a great story. Ideally there should be a way to link back to the original content so the creator also gets virality when a piece inspired by their content blows up; then I think it would be a net positive. There is always an evolving moat to business where you need to find ways to make your value-producing ideas hard to replicate by others, this is nothing new and has been happening since the dawn of craftsmanship. It's part of how our species evolves as a whole and is mostly a positive phenomenon. @Heaven Why do you think Iman Gadzhi being involved makes it a scam? He's an entrepreneur looking at worthwhile products to put his money into. @Olaf You're inventing numbers lol, Iman's entire net worth is not even $1 billion so he can't invest that much.

The future is looking bright beautiful people!

Got it so you favor authoritarianism to push your personal agenda on society as a large. I think that's an atrocious viewpoint and if you don't want to watch hardcore porn you should build up the willpower to stop washing it instead of wanting the government to handhold you.

I would say that's a false dichotomy, I don't think you have to choose between drinking the full solipsism cocktail or being a materialistic atheist. I don't really have a label for what I believe at the moment, I'm growing and learning and consolidating my knowledge. I've had plenty of mystical experiences and they did not make the world go poof like any other dream. Did it for you? Seems inconsistent, you're still here with us my friend. All my awakenings led me to is appreciating life way more and realizing that a lot of my limitations were self-imposed and I could do almost anything in this world.

Why don't they invest more funding into sex ed class? If people grow up with porn as their main form of sexual education then of course strange behaviours are gonna occur. Why do you want it to be banned?

Which of Hawkins' books did you like best? I've only read Power vs Force so far, and I found it quite excellent. I want to get more into his enlightenment and spirituality books, it's a subject that's calling to me recently. I've been too obsessed with technical topics lately, I feel like a hamster with a smartphone walking around his wheel. @Davidess Cool, I hadn't heard about this one! I've read a bit of the first conversation with God book, I quite enjoyed it. Have you read them all?

What do you personally think about his hypothesis? Ironically with all of Leo's ranting against science, I think the scientific method is our best tool to make sense of reality. Mysticism must be combined with science to produce the greatest insights and understanding of reality; otherwise we cannot figure out who is saying delusional nonsense and who actually understands reality far better than the average person. I have not experienced any other worlds personally, I have dreams where I experience flashes of concepts and experiences that lack tangibility and don't stand the test of time. This dream stands the test of time and has been consistently progressing for millions of years. You can believe that life is a simulation aiming to teach us some kind of lesson, people like Nick Bostrom have published very popular theories around this. I think personally it's closer to universal consciousness expanding and learning more about itself. An omniscient God would already know everything so perhaps God is evolving alongside us. I think full virtual reality is the closest thing that you can prove that will lead us to experience alternate realities that are almost as real as ours. Any other hypothesis is just a dream or fantasy unless proven otherwise. If you don't believe that God is evolving alongside us but already knows everything then we loop back to my theory about God already experiencing life as a virtual reality game and enjoying things like wars and atrocities for the sake of I guess call it divine dopamine.

Fair enough it's unclear how the rollout is gonna go with the amount of irresponsible politicians currently in power, it's definitely a bit concerning. It's fundamentally gonna free mankind from labor though and end proverty globally basically almost inevitably. It's the next stage of workers right, global UBI. Socialism and communism were always pointing towards this, their aim are unrealistic without this technological unlock.

This is base reality that gets unlocked towards infinity once mankind unites and stops fighting itself. We'll unlock AI labor, infinite green energy through fusion power, extended lifespans to eternity with biotech and soon start to populate other planets. This century is gonna be wild. The more you study history the more you see that it slowly but surely has evolved towards abundance in the material universe. Perhaps it's possible that there are alternate realities but this one is built from friction brick by brick, getting us to the point where we can talk to each other with technology that spans thousands of kilometers instantly. I'm proud of us.

They appreciate the fruit of your intellect, not the intellect itself. If you manage to use your brain to solve a lot of problems in your life and become a high-status, abundant man that makes a lot of cash, you will have more women in your life than you know what to do with. The problem with intellect and making money is it's only half the battle; the other is emotional resilience. Building a profitable business that frees your life up and makes you a 1% man takes a lot of emotional suffering, easily 5x more than I would've thought 10 years ago. I've networked with multimillionaires and influencers in Toronto; there's no one dumb in those circles even if not all are intellectual powerhouses. If you are truly an intelligent man you are well set up to reap all the benefits that this world offers. You need to cut out the victim mindset and become ruthlessly focused on your goals and raising your status in your country and city. If you truly are high IQ then become a ripped multimillionaire over the next few years and stop fucking complaining on online forums. You can get any type of woman you want, they are not that picky. They just need a man that brings something to the table and being low or medium value with a complainer's mindset on top of it is a recipe for stewing in your own shit in terms of results. Women are offensive to men with a victim mindset because they are an existential mirror. If you are on top of your shit they love you and if you're fucking up they won't spare any time on you and will move on to a guy that's actually offering value. That's not bad, that's a divine blessing. There is very little other experience in life that hold a candle to having hot steamy sex with a woman you find incredibly sexy that you couldn't have attracted a few years ago but she now appreciates and lusts over the man that you are today. Actually on that note there is another experience that I think is equally as good and perhaps much better, finding two of those women at the same time and cashing in your universal progress. The full ownership mindset works like a charm but it is a slow and painful grind. The events that I host are a lot of effort and also complicated to set up but it's already given me access to the hottest women I've ever been with in my entire life. I cannot wait to see how much it'll scale over the next 5 years; it's what makes all of my life's pain and effort worth it.

Also probably this, I've had that same problem before. I think most men run into this at some point in our lives.

It's good, it's a sign that you have some sex appeal. I would keep levelling up so that the women you're more into also start giving you indicators of interest. You should flirt with them to practice your verbal game, it's win-win for both parties. They'll feel good about receiving the attention of a younger man and you can let them down smoothly. It's like a hot girl some of them are gracious about refusing advances and some of them are really bitchy about it, no need to be unpleasant to people that are into you.

I never heard about the trauma correlation before but it would make sense. Having trouble being present on a single task and being hyperaware of the environment sounds like a trauma response to me.

Have you read books like the Rational Male or read through the red pill forum? If you're only watching Fresh & Fit type of content then of course that's the impression you're gonna have from it. It was mostly about the opposite and stopping blaming other people for your mediocrity in life and sharing ways to elevate men's standing in the sexual and financial marketplace. I don't agree with everything in it but most men should probably read through it at least once and also books like the manipulated man by Esther Vilar.

@yetineti Thanks for the kind words man. I would say I'm quite aware of other people's emotions, I'm a very aware person in general who's always analyzing my surroundings. I tend to compartmentalize my own emotions though, I realized this after I had a dream where my emotional range was so vivid and I woke up shocked and wondering if this is how some very emotional people experience life. Felt quite good but also like it would be hard to be an effective person on a day to day basis with this much reactivity so I'm glad my subconscious is built the way it is. I would say I fall into intellectual empathy more than sharing emotions all the time, usually I get way less stressed than other people when stuff goes wrong and I only feel the anxiety after the situation is dealt with. It's partly why I have the dating vision I do. I have found not many experiences much more satisfying in life than embodying the grounded masculine surrounded by an abundance of femininity. Spending my time consuming knowledge and upskilling myself so I can solve problems with people is very satisfying and each time I do it specifically in an intimate context it feels even 10x sweeter. That's why I think being vulnerable and crying as a man is fine but the real gem is in developing hyper-competence so you can bless others with your divine masculine gifts and they gift you back the joy of unencumbered emotional expression while in your presence. I think a lot of women also get hooked on that part once they meet a man who's genuinely worked on himself and they give you a degree of appreciation and love that other men that are not as advanced in their journey often complain about not receiving.

Weird take, it's just an activity like any other where you go with the goal of meeting new people. Some people do the same thing with co-ed sports league or any other type of hobby. There is the added feedback loop of introspecting on your experience and getting advice from others on how to make your socializing more effective. Having a growth mindset and tracking your progress over time are effective ways to get better at any skillset.

Developing genuine social and conversational skills isn't the same thing as putting on an entertaining persona that turns you into a dancing monkey. Have you actually done pickup, or are you looking at it from the outside and concluding that it's solely about putting on an act?

Yeah that's fair, this part is not my forte so I don't think I've solved this. I tend to cope with emotional exhaustion by smoking weed and relaxing on my days off. That and offloading my life's frustration onto forum debates of course. I recently came to the conclusion that even my dating photography business was me looking to stick to my analytical problem-solving skillset to make money from solving other men's dating issues. I run into a slightly different issue since by default I'm dissociated from my emotions to better analyze and figure out solutions so in a group scenario I wouldn't be the one people gravitate towards. With my ex we were much more emotionally attuned so it wouldn't really come up as an issue but the problems we were dealing with at that time were so complicated that I couldn't solve them regardless of what mode I was in.

I think a large portion of day-to-day emotional distress comes from problems that can be solved, but of course there are existential experiences completely beyond our control where the only path forward is to feel, process, and release the emotions. If a woman you know is crying because a loved one died, then the only thing you can do is be there for her and hold space for her sadness. Most of the time, though, it's gonna be solvable things like financial problems, issues with her peer group, feeling overwhelmed with the pressures of life, etc. That's where you can actually make her life better by helping solve the root problem instead of just staying in emotional support mode.

Crying to release pent-up emotions seems helpful, sure. But afterward, you still have to solve the problems; the problem-solving skill set is what's fundamentally important. If you consistently solve your problems, you won't have as much to cry about. A lot of people seem to cry as a subconscious strategy to get others to take pity on them and handle their responsibilities. That's not a reliable long-term life strategy.

Most people are self-absorbed and boring to the bone. God forbid you learn some conversation skills so you can make someone feel good talking to you. Calling that skill sorcery seems a bit silly.

Do you love yourself unconditionally? Start with that and build a beautiful life for yourself as a gift. Other people will enter your life based on conditions but that's not a bad thing. You seem to be looking at it as a mountain of tasks that you need to accomplish to be worthy of love and feeling exhausted by the list. That's not really the most effective way to look at life. Think about it more like a video game and unlike most people that lack a growth mindset, you're able to build all kinds of cool skills to add to the value of your base character. What does your character want to achieve and what kind of adventures will he live? What kind of exciting and helpful companions will he meet on his quest? People that don't go on quests don't really find cool companions, that makes sense. I want to throw creative events globally and help local businesses and creative people reach their financial and career goals through being part of my communities and agency. It'll help me both make the world a better place but also meet thousands more cool women that I might possibly date and business owners that I might start joint ventures with. This is at times a tedious, painful and exhausting quest for me but the upside makes it worth it. If you find a similarly appealing quest, otherwise phrased as life purpose, then the pain of life will become worth it. No matter how you live your life it'll be painful, the main difference is if the pain is building towards something amazing or you're mostly stagnating at the same spot not accomplishing your deepest and wildest dreams. https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18036783041423983/ In this video I talk at the beginning about the fashion show I threw last year. It was one of the coolest experiences of my life and I had about 15 models walk the show under my agency name and the brand of another agency I partnered with. It was very stressful and we had to cancel it once and I ended up $2,200 in debt from it. That's the cost of the game bro! Learned so much and I would've paid even more for the experience. The next ones will be way more successful as my character has gotten way more powerful and experienced since then. What is your characters main goals in life? Flesh that out and build a beautiful and fun quest around it and you'll have no shortage of female companions that want to join you on it. The Red Pill is too negative, take the truths from it and have fun. I would start with the question, if everything worked out and you were building your dream life for the next 3 years, what would it look like on October 13th 2029?