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Yep, that's it in one word! Yes that's fair, it depends on what we mean by high consciousness. I find that he summarizes deep truths about human nature through entertaining historical examples. I'm sure there are other books that are more rigorous in their psychological understanding but his work is fun to read and gives you consistent quick history lessons so I find myself learning a lot each time I read even a few pages. I was just reading a passage about becoming more influential with people by resisting the urge to prove you're right in conversations and instead focusing on how other people make good points. This helped me right away because oftentimes I engage in aggressive intellectual debates and perhaps make my point win out but I don't think it convinces people because I make it adversarial more than collaborative. He names a few times where this tendency has backfired on people and it's led me to introspect on my own style of conversation. If you read the books with an open mind and aim to improve your own behaviour, they are tremendously useful, I've found! I wouldn't let the dark psychology angle stop you from giving him a shot, I think the way he exposes all of our shadow tendencies to gain control is what's led me to increase my consciousness of those traits both in others and in myself and resulted in more productive and healthy conduct many years ago after reading 48 Laws of Power and now reading this more recent book.

It releases next month on November 10th 2026, you can preorder it now! I'm also very excited to read it. Which of his books have you read? I think you're missing the point of his books, he synthesizes history into concepts that apply to day to day life. I think on the contrary what he teaches in books like 48 laws of power is very high consciousness; if you don't understand the shadow sides of the human psyche you will be caught off guard by it and not able to act effectively in the world. Shadow work is essential to becoming a well rounded human being that can be effective in society. @enchanted I've never really gotten into Shakespeare apart from having to read Romeo & Juliet in high school but I watched Rome HBO lately and Anthony and Cleopatra's story was pretty cool to witness. How is the play?

Those are good choices! I also really loved Skyrim. Yeah in my experience people either love or hate the game. For me I thought it was mid after a few games and a week later I got hooked for 10 years straight. I used to play a lot of Call of Duty before but the ranked system is not really as developed as LoL, I really like the ELO system and I ended up becoming semi-pro at the game.

Good point! Humans are very good at avoidance and projecting is one of the key symptoms of it. Most men are scared of accountability and in this case admitting that their ability to attract high quality women into their life is lacking and therefore project that there are no high quality women around. They are also in scarcity and don't know a lot of women so they meet 2 bad apples and give up instead of taking ownership, reflecting on what went wrong and then learning from it to build a life where aligned people are around them in abundance.

Seems like you're starting to know me! I did read it already like 10 years ago and I enjoyed it a lot. I enjoyed reading how his life unfolded and how Apple became the giant it is today. The part on him doing consciousness work, taking psychedelics and going to India to explore spirituality was particularly interesting. Apple has deeper roots than most technology companies. I think he's a good business inspiration for people on the forum. A dude that became a billionaire not by being a greedy capitalist but through being obsessed with building great products for humanity. That's cool, I should read more enlightenment and non-duality books. It's a topic of life that still scares me so I think I subconsciously avoid looking into it too much. It's starting to be an area of research that calls to me more and more though, often when I read technical stuff it feels a bit shallow and like I'm bypassing deeper knowledge.

Currently reading Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene. I really like him as an author and I feel like he gets wiser and deeper with the wisdom he shares with each book. I've read 48 Laws of Power and Mastery by him which were really good but this is by far a better book. Best insight I've gotten so far in the book is that mastering your emotions is gonna be highly relevant to reaching most big goals. Robert writes about many known people in history who both had great emotional control and it helped them or a terrible grasp on their arrogance or need for approval and it sabotaged them. Feel free to share what you're reading right now, what you're getting out of it, and whether it's worth checking out.

I respect your openness, and honestly, almost every man who's had a lot of dating experience goes through that numb phase just to survive the circus of dating.. The trap is getting stuck in cynicism and ending up jaded. The more experience I get in my dating business, the more I realize a lot of this is due to not setting strong boundaries early on in your relationships and it leads to women baby stepping their way past them and the man resenting the woman and himself for it. I think there's no shame in taking a break from dating to go back to your centre and as a matter of fact I've done it myself a few times. Once that's done one can go back to the dating market from a position of self-awareness and power as opposed to being needy for approval and companionship.

I've changed my exact services a few times. My main skillset is in online lead acquisition and content production so I've had b2b clients where I managed their social media profiles for a retainer and last year I was more like a personal brand consultant. What I found the most interest in and I've done the longest is be a dating photographer so I think I'm gonna triple down on that. So that's dating profile photoshoots, dating consulting, help throwing events, help shooting content to build a nice looking instagram ,etc. I think if I focus on that vertical and really nail it I can scale it to 7-8 figures over the next few years. My personal branding client paid me $5,000/month so if I'm looking to productize the services I gave him into something like a $1,000/month offer that solves the dating life of single male professionals 28-40 and perhaps even women since the women I consulted on their dating lives seemed to benefit from my advice. Yeah I never touch any of meta's optimizations. I don't know what their aim is with it but they always reduce my performance. I always calibrate every setting myself. > And again, you still seem ambiguous about whether you intend to tell customers they're speaking to an AI. That's important point to establish. No I think that part is mostly irrelevant. When they message my brand they talk to the Royals Dating instagram account. It hasn't made much of a difference when I've had a random guy use my templates when booking appointments for me and even other people doing sales calls is standard. What matters is how happy they are with the results they're getting from purchasing our services. My role as the founder and face of the company is to guarantee a standard of quality across every offer that goes out under my brand.

Totally I agree with you. Part of my issue with the business I was running was cognitive overload. I had to have the skillset to take good dating pictures, package them into a worthwhile offer both for myself and the customers, shoot the ads to sell the service, run the ads, answer incoming DMs to book calls, take the sales calls, book my calendar, do the photoshoots, edit the pictures, handle customer support, etc. I tried to bring on business partners a few times and that worked in some ways but introduced some new issues. One guy was mostly reliable but he wanted 50% of the business to dedicate himself to it and I thought he brought nowhere near the value I did. I was willing to just split the profit 50% with him until we worked successfully together for at least 6 months-1 year before signing anything but that didn't work for him. Building a successful global enterprise has been a goal of mine for years and I'm always learning new skills to make that goal possible but it's obviously not quite there yet. Another massive use case for AI for me is a personal assistant that helps me organize all my ideas and plan my workday depending on my priorities and energy levels. I use Gemini for that a bit but it's not as advanced as I would like it. I don't think it's really all that complicated. You assign it a few lead conversations and see how it does. This stuff is based off of closing percentage so for example myself I would spend about $6 for leads while running meta ads. I would convert around 20% to sales calls so each call could cost me $30. I would close around 20% of calls so customer acquisition cost $150. That number went up closer to $200-250 when I brought on another guy and at that time I sold $500 photoshoots so the margins are really important. An AI appointment setter would allow me to analyze all the conversations and try different formats to see how the % change. These are not in depth conversations. Meta Ads lets you set pre-selected prompts for people to send as the first message, so they ask things like: "How much are the photoshoots?" / "How does the photoshoot work?" / "Can you tell me more about this?" then we do have you ever done a photoshoot before? -> There are a few different packages depending on what you need -> When are you available for a phone call? I think in the next 1-2 years the voice agents will good enough to handle the sales calls themselves. I've had some call me and try to sell me and it's definitely not good enough to build a sales team around but very soon it will be. The amount of business models that this unlocks is insane. @Lyubov This should already be able to handle my personal needs for setting up sales calls en masse. I will play around with it over the next 1-2 months update you guys on how it went.

Synthesizing is not the same thing as copying. If you look at the sunset and then you paint a picture of a sunset then you didn't copy the sunset. You created your own creation taking from inspiration an aspect of reality. AI creates new stuff all the time. It can also copy stuff; it's a very versatile tool.

Sympathy is okay to feel like the tribe supports you but what people really want and need is solutions to their deep problems. If one can solves others' problems then they gain a lot of power in the tribe due to offering a lot of value. Some problems are not worth solving but most are. @Spiral Yeah I wouldn't worry about the behaviour of the average women. I would build systems in your life that attract top tier women so you are surrounded by the women you enjoy most all the time both in your social circle and your dating and sex life.

Curious if you guys had to just name one game that was the best for you, what it is and why? For me it would be League of Legends. I've never experienced a game that changed my life as much. It was both an insanely multiplayer experience that grew my psychology and pushed my skillset to its limit but it was also a very social experience that allowed me to make new friends in different countries and keep in touch with my friends after I moved away. Their ability to still be relevant culturally and host yearly world championships since 2011 has been impressive. It's an experience more than just a game which is why it seems that it attracts many casual and female gamers. If you guys haven't seen their world championships opening ceremonies enjoy! If I could do something even 10% of that for my own game project I would be over the moon. In a perfect world I would not only reach that and 10x more but we'll see how it goes. What about you guys?

That's a victim mindset. Put the accountability for yourself to attract high quality women that have high standards for their own behaviour and also develop the ability to set boundaries to cut off the women that don't match that. It's also important to understand female psychology as a lot of guys simply aren't skilled enough to handle women that would otherwise make great partners. That's why a lot of guys in STEM fields do poorly with women even if their finances and life is solid overall because they lack the emotional intelligence necessary to navigate the messy waters of human relationships skillfully. I keep using the word skill because it's a learnable skill. There are many great books on women's psychology and interpersonal dynamics that would solve like 80% of the problems you'll run into just by spending 20 hours going through them but most people can't be bothered to do that.

I think it's possible to do half decently already and in 6 months it'll be quite good. I already use Gemini to analyze my content and make it perform better which will eventually net me more cash. I will look to automate my outreach in the next 3 months and once that's done my cashflow will rise dramatically. I hired appointment setters in the past and it worked okay but I didn't have the business operations skillset to manage and scale it. I put the business on pause for the past few months and I will pretty confident about getting back to it and solving the bottleneck that stopped me last time.

It reduces the barrier to viability of a lot of businesses models so you can make profit in a lot of ways that were not possible previously. For example you can make videos, create a product related to it and build an outreach system and CRM that tracks everything for you whereas before only people very talented in marketing could aim to do something similar or an agency with a lot of manpower. This is a guy who's journey I'm following because he has a cool project that is similar than mine. He is very stubborn and refuses to use AI and is ruining himself hiring human artists to draw his comics. I think he is doing it the wrong way and investing too much upfront whereas that money can be vital for him further down the line once commercial viability is proven and he could put some capital towards blowing up his vision. I think at the moment his comics look mediocre and he could make a better one in 30 mins by using AI. I am curious where he will end up 1-2 years from now and if he will end up going the AI route or stay stubborn and fail or if he will persevere with his route and somehow succeed.