LordFall

Have you tried posting content? You don't need to be a grandmaster to build an audience around it. It'll also expose you to auxiliary skills like video editing, audience building, marketing and monetization which will help you figure out a path deeper into chess or away from it. Talk to @integral about it he is also a chess guy. You can post a chess video in the next few days and have one stone built in your personal brand already even if you decide to not go all in on the path. It's a bit discouraging at first to get like 4 views but at least it's progress and tangible data and output. You're also blessed with the short form content algorithm which is a lot more rewarding than long form so if you make an engaging reel you could get 1000-50k views on your first one. I would also warn against just going to school for the sake of it, you're gonna put yourself in debt and waste a lot of useful time and energy. What happens when you have a master, $50K+ in debt and still no idea what you wanna do? If your main skillset in life is studying and mastering systems why not master business? It's the one core skills that unlocks everything financial. If you don't you will remain broke anyway even with a masters in sociology and have little impact so might as well put the cart before the horse. Once you understand the math of business life becomes more simple you can look at it in terms of time/energy that you put in and the money/life that you get out of it. To me what jumps out from your post is you're underestimating the energy and stress that your family saves you by housing you for free, they do stress you out by criticizing you but unless they're abusive that should still be positive sum. Then TO ME investing years in school without a rock solid plan of what you want out of it is a bad investment. It has the advantage of having a structure and perhaps teaching you some discipline but the ROI on it is so bad especially now with the AI revolution.

Business, marketing, content creation, audience/community building Those are the core skills to create a big scale life I think

Woman approaching their dream guy and putting a lot of effort making the first move = a quick 1 second glance lol

I like this mindset. It hurts to see yourself as unskilled and not good enough but if you have a victim mindset and blame the world for your shortcomings then it's even harder to fix. Personally I'm not that great at content creation and work ethic, I need to level up on both to accomplish my dreams.

I would say go for quantity over quality, AI content is a great start. Your own standard is always biased but what the market values is predictable so as long as you post regularly and iterate you'll eventually hit it. Video editing for hours even weekly let alone daily is a recipe for burnout if you're not passionate about it, it's such an unfun activity.

Good stuff bro. If I were you I'd focus on monetization verticals it's the most important concept to understand in business. You can have many interests that you want to both scale and also share with the world but your bottleneck is always gonna be is it monetizable? Alex Hormozi is quite good at breaking things down. There aren't that many different ways to make money, only basically 4 ways split into 2 categories business and investing. You start with nothing(boot strapping) or if you have a great idea and professional credibility you can raise capital. Once you have money you turn into an investor or you start a fund and invest money for other people. If you're broke without connections you're pretty much stuck bootstrapping which is fine then you have to look at it in terms of how do you use your time effectively to make a product or service that other people would pay for. Usually freelancing and doing a service for people is the simplest way. So Leo put his love of knowledge in the form of a life purpose course because it's practical people are looking for money and purpose in life. You can try doing the same thing around a field of life you like and that people need. Selling your time or even giving it for free at first until you find product market fit is a good way to get a start in the industry.

You do, it's called a content strategy! If you start posting reels and shorts a few days a week you'll get to 100K+ monthly views pretty quick. I'm in a slump right now but I get around 10k monthly views on my IG. It's exhausting to stay consistent though. We should start a content creator accountability trend on the forum, it's one of the lowest friction ways to take an idea to market and refine your marketing skills.

Why do you consider the Aghori to be particularly advanced people? They are like homeless monks. It's great to meditate and ponder the mysteries of the universe and bliss out on it and then you come back and you're still living your life. The dudes spent their whole life meditating I would hope they have had mystical experiences and are not super shocked by 5 meo. It's people that are able to take their high consciousness and help transform the world that really impress me personally, like Bryan Johnson. He loved 5 meo dmt so much he got it tattooed and is living his life daily to further humanity and our whole medical apparatus not just sit around in a tent doing nothing.

You see yourself spending the rest of your life with 1/5 of 1/4 women you meet? That doesn't sound right and if it is why are you single? For me I like to be picky because then you don't have to settle on characteristics like for example I would never date a smart woman that I connect with intellectually if she's not too affectionate or not that sexual of a person. There are too many women in the world to settle. My true number is way less than 5%, that's still 1/20. I remember I had 3 FWBs when I was in Toronto and if I was more in scarcity I could've dated any of them but I wasn't really compatible with any of them. Most men are really low effort and don't put much thought into their lives so if you really tryhard for a few years like I have and build a fun, free and abundant lifestyle then only really massive outliers can compete with you and THEN it really becomes about personality and preference. You have to know which game you wanna play and which game you can play at though. I just turned 31 last week and I don't really plan on having kids before like 37-42 years old. Probably gonna freeze my sperm so I can take my time and really fulfill all the sexual experiences I want until I look to settle down. They're making breakthroughs in biotech so in 10 years age when having kids won't matter as much anyway so that whole timeline is pretty arbitrary.

Small town's demographics tend to skew older so walking around there would be mostly older people not young attractive women. Also people tend to stay at home so when you go out to a busy spot you see a tiny percentage of them. And even if you're aiming to date the first attractive compatible woman you find(which I would recommend going out with multiple ones even if you'd like to only date one seriously at a time) you're gonna get along/be compatible with probably 5% of them at most and that's if your social skills are practiced otherwise you'll need to talk to dozens/hundreds of women to calibrate. All this to say it's quite hard to date in small towns at least like you said there's less competition so if you're a reasonably well put together dude you'll have a nice shot. In big cities you take a walk and see 50 hot women within 10 mins like here in downtown montreal, it's a different life. There are always problem in life but if you love women don't add to it living in the middle of nowhere lol, maybe money and see the world is my motto.

He's excited to try and find a cure to also help the other millions of people with it. That's the right mindset!

Do you meditate a lot? I'm getting a lot of sporadic energy from you when reading your posts like you can't stay still and need constant stimulation. This can be a great strength of yours but only through being channeled like a powerful laser. You haven't talked much about your life outside of pickup but what does your career and/or business look like? Lack of life purpose makes pussy super appealing.

I've met many women like this and even dated one, do not recommend. How some women are into bad boys some men are also into bad girls. Lucky you didn't fuck her that would just make her emotional reactions more extreme, sounds like she could fit into the bipolar/BPD mold. Another lesson is that you can't really help people if you don't have systems built for yourself. I feel bad at homeless people as well and perhaps you can give a few dollars here and there but unless you're gonna build a whole organization around it there isn't much you can do to fundamentally change people's lives. I have modelling chats and a couple times girls asked if I knew places they could stay temporarily but I couldn't do much apart from hit up another girl to ask. You need a lot of capital to be able to house and feed people. I think people especially in spiritual circles hate this answer but in life most problems can be solved by just making more money. A lot of times getting involved with partners that require saving is mostly procrastination to avoid fixing your own life because you get validation and dopamine much more reliably that way.

You can talk to women and make pleasant conversations for a few minutes and then go off with your day. If you find that unethical I think perhaps your mindset is a bit off. As for experience, I’ve pulled from cold approach, used it to promote events and transitioned those lessons into building actual social architecture. I’m not claiming to be a world champion, I'm only pointing out how to get more leverage from your time for someone who seems to be hitting a roadblock. Also when you focus on cold approach without creating systems around it you introduce burnout because it's not a really fun activity and also you're not working holistically on the other areas of your life whereas with social circle you can do it all at once.

No problem. It helps to remember that cold approach is just one way that was popularized to deal with the fact that the establishment doesn't give you easy mates anymore as was the case pre 1960s sexual revolution. Now that you can host your own events and post your own media for basically free the best route is to become the establishment yourself. With Instagram you can literally message every single attractive woman on earth so you don't actually live in Tbilisi my friend you live in a global dating marketplace i.e. planet earth.