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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.

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!

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?

Social media is the most powerful tool we have today to have an impact on reality as an individual.