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I think it's gonna be quite good, Robert compounds on himself and the concepts he introduced in the 90s he has kept refining in the one I'm reading now so I assume the book on the sublime is gonna be beautiful. Curious how his thoughts on the brutal systems of life, intrinsic beauty and aesthetics will end up reconciling.

He said he's handsome and charismatic so that helps but also not necessary. Hosting parties is not that complicated you start with not even really a party but a back to school event and you put up posters and DM people and they'll come. He should partner up with friends but if he had balls he could do it by himself. You don't start with hundreds of people, some events are successful with 5-10 people but since it's back to school he can piggy back off of that and probably get to a 50-100 person event pretty easily. You will run into the problem of escalation in your own social circle which you can solve in many ways but the two best ways is to practice light flirting with a lot of women in it, so you don't actually commit to the full trying to sleep with them or ask them out but you just give everyone compliment and pump them up and they'll give it back to you usually. Then you'll see some girls will be more into you than the others and often times at this point the circle will work in your favor and one girl will tell you omg @Magnanimous Jenny clearly seems into you why don't you ask her out? The other way is to do actual cold approach outsite campus so you can practice more direct game and escalation which will give you calibration for your social circle back on campus. Cold approach was mainly developped as an antidote for not being served by your social circle and not having status so if you just start a social circle in which you have the highest status from the start it's gonna eventually start to solve all your problems. You can steer it in many directions depending on your personality, interest and the connections you build throughout this process. It could be used to network with TAs and campus recruiters so you can get yourself and people you like in your circle a job after 4th year or go towards frats, sororities and sports if you like that better, depends on his interest. You can use social hacks like partner up with a frat/sorority and use psychology like they'll be too lazy to promote their own events a lot of times and so you just take the first 2 weeks of classes and approach all the hot girls on campus and the cool guys. Now you're one of the most well known people on campus and gained status by using their brand instead of doing a direct approach and now during the rest of the school year girls will be coming up to you and warm approaching you since they remember you and you can tone back your social efforts and be a cool guy almost magically. You can also use the hack of the network effect where a college campus has like 10k people and a cool extrovert will know maybe 300 people if they're like in sports but if you throw events you can know 1000-2000 people after 1 year of doing it and get massive status. You don't need to go out all the time and drain your energy if you're an introvert, if anything if you just do 1 event every 1-2 months it'll add to your prestige and you can still stay at home most of the time watching anime but now you're cool and can get laid way easier. Social circle game is mostly strategy and business lite so you can learn it from a forum, youtube or a course pretty reliably. This is the cumulated knowledge of a lot of many generations of men, use it wisely young one and make sure to wear protection unless you aim to repopulate our species!

Also a lot of these debates happen because we define our terms inadequately. What does shallow mean? It can mean anti-intellectual, it can be does not appreciate the multiple fascets of life, it can mean focusing on status markers as opposed to other personality traits, etc. I like to talk mostly about money and sex because I find it grounds life into actionable goals and you can use many deeper fields to explore those two. A lot of intellectuals get losts into endless debates that don't really serve their life like the perfect crowd is the looksmaxxing crowd that doesn't actually learn how to talk to women and create beautiful experiences with them but will be able to tell us about the cephalic index optimization and give tips on optimizing your craniofacial morphology. Or college students that learn a lot about communist theory but have never tried starting a business or a non-profit and actually helping the people in their community. I think nerds is an intellectual that foucses on theory as opposed to being a practicioner, it also has to do with social trends as usually nerdy topics are not mainstream unlike makeup for example. Gaming is starting to become mainstream and so the average joe is a gamer but not nerdy until he gets deeper into like theorycrafting or like dungeons and dragon.

I think your charisma is good because it's the opposite of agreeability game, it's certainty game. Then you get people who follow your thoughts instead of being stuck in a people pleasing social circle that the aforementionned pandering based charisma ends up with.

I would host events and parties on your campus. Great way to go from being a beginner to knowing hundreds of girls. Hector Castillo has some good content on the topic, he's one of the leading writers for Girlschase and campus game was his specialty Basically people want to get to know people on campus and cold approach can be done a bit but you can't do too many or you'll ruin your rep but you can do the complete opposite and build your rep and status through social circle game i.e. hosting events on campus. Partner up with a few friends and host a monthly event and then invite every single hot girl you see to it and if she's busy say all good letme get your IG and you can come to our next event and you'll end up with the same status as varsity athletes and be able to know so many girls on campus if you do it properly. You don't need to get to that level you can do it more lowkey but if you're gonna try to get one girl why not takeover the whole campus in the meanwhile, it'll be quite fun and you'll get probably even more than one girl in the process.

In what way? The entertainment busines is full of weird dramas, strange to see how it goes. I'm really hoping AI write helps us out with the creative hole I feel like Hollywood is hitting right now. Hopefully they're gonna blow all expectations out of the water and make it sweet, they should start with a new superhero story though so many fresh interesting ones they could tell. I feel like an average guy/girl struggling to get by with the shitty job market we have today and gaining powers and using it to make money in an interesting way would feel fresh to most people, we don't need everything to be a grand epic tale of good vs evil.

I take it as have the means to engage with the conflict that you are dealt with. To me that goes straight to spiritual people having a blindspot for business and power building and they think being at peace with their own mind will save them from the problems of the world. On the other hand I agree with you that we don't solve wars with getting better at war, that was what we learned with the cold war and us being inches away from nuclear winter. We deal with it with realistic empathy. Naive empathy is thinking that your nice words are gonna stop someone's violent goals like europe tried doing with the appeasement of Hitler. Realistic empathy is understand where your enemy is coming from and what his objectives are and being able to either meet those in other ways or being able to exert less force due to greater leverage ala Power vs Force by David Hawkins Robert makes phenomenal books, highly recommend everyone read 48 laws of power and Mastery. I'm reading one of his new ones laws of human nature right now and its one of the deepest books I've read in my entire life.

Well yes charisma is usually about making others feel important and that you like them but also not being too needy and DHVing yourself so that they actually value your opinion. I'm reminded of a passage from a book I can't remember where it talks about Richard Nixon partly losing his 2nd term election due to making people feel like he's really smart where as JFK made the people listening to him feel like they were smart. I think understanding that most group conversations and social circles work on consensus rather than making individual good points is important, I used to be like the odd man out in friend circles for being too logical and not getting the flow of what the extraverts were talking about or refusing to dumb down my points to fit in. I think ultimately that's why social circle game and leadership skills are so important to make your own circle without pandering and entrepreneurship/business to tie it back to genuine value that everyone relates to. I try to walk that line myself of offering value but not pandering, it's hard but feels right to me at the moment. A good tip it to give genuine compliments to people when you mean it or to approve of their point if they're right even if you're arguing with them. I have debates sometimes and I know I make phenomenal points that the other person didn't take into consideration and sometimes they keep doubling down or moving the goalpost and it's very annoying or they actually say good point and it makes it seem like we weren't having an argument but more like a heated friendly chat that in the end bonded us closer. The skills part of social skills should ideally mean that it gives you the knowhow of streering social engagements the way you want to and to achieve desired outcomes instead of being frustrated people don't get you or not being able to hangout with the people you want. It should only feel like being forced to praise people that don't deserve praise if you're stuck in a social construct not of your own making like a job or maybe school otherwise you always have the freedom to create your own social circle and filter it however you want.

Bro thanks for sharing that's actually so interesting to watch. He does phrase it as putting his way on top which I think discredits him a bit but I think each man found a niche that called to them and is providing value in that niche. For what it's worth the guy I used to throw social circle events with said that he took Jeffy's bootcamp and he was a very rude guy and he almost got in a fight with him because he was so insulting but he actually learned stuff and he found it better than Owen's bootcamp.

It's not very productive to insult people, I think it's better to question their points or ask what they mean by that if you find it genuinely confusing. Ultimately we can get enflamed in online debates as I definitely do often do but we are on the same side so if people are making points that don't seem to make sense I think that asking them to put more effort into their points as it's a lazy one is a good move in terms of confrontation that's not literally an insult or to just say that you don't think they're being logical anymore and to rephrase their point if they think it's worth making. I like Leo's point that even if you possess the truth you shouldn't beat people with it, the point is to evolve collectively not for a certain self to be better than another one.

This is a false equivalency. You can't conflate things like this, Hitler decided that most of mankind was undesirables and worth sacrificing to reach his goals. You're now comparing this to a dude running a science experience in a petri dish to help all of us live longer and cure the diseases that are ruining our lives. If you have to rely on extreme reductionism to make your points I don't think they're good points. You can die on your own terms nobody is forcing you not to. We're talking about extending human life time infinitely, if you don't enjoy our post scarcity future then I wouldn't personally vote for stopping you to end yourself if that's what you want. You are just arguing against medical research at the current moment though.

UBI doesn't threaten the status of the elites too much, people reinvests back into their companies anyway and the costs of assets keep rising while consumption is now predictable which is what the consumeristic culture of the west is based on. It gives a win-win way for the elites and the masses to collaborate together in the future of mankind. I think it's a beautiful vision for the future of humanity as it solves the problem of those wanting out of forced labor and those that want to compete for status and scarce experiences can still do so while people eventually get free food and lodging.

No, spiritual bypassing is trying to use spiritual concepts to avoid playing the game of life and to fall into passivity and nihilism. God created us with the potential to improve and overcome our conditions and it's been working thus far so I don't see why transcending the current limit of biomedicine would now be anti spiritual. Believing in science to keep advancing itself as it has done since the dawn of time is not guessing, it's having a vision for the future of our species. Many people would've called an airplane fantastical hype thinking. We've gotten this far and we'll go much further still. Solving aging and achieving biological immortality doesn't seem that insane to me in the grand scheme of things and some of our top minds as a species are working on it as well as billions of dollars being spent on it yearly so I would call it quite grounded in reality.

How so? That sounds like a weird anti-sex and anti life take. Sure but then we lose the usefulness of words and concepts. By smiling at someone you induce good emotions in them with mirror neurons, I wouldn't call that manipulative. If we use this definition of manipulation : Then only doing stuff like lying to get laid or intentionally taking advantage of vulnerable people falls into the manipulative category. Having good social skills and offering value is not manipulative even if you use it to get tons of sex but don't lie about it.

Why do you say this? He's clearly consistent and coherent in his rhetoric. It's not because it's based on sociopathy that he's not lucid. Normalization and "joking" is how you push the boundaries of people and societies while you work on the mechanisms that make your unwanted wishes physically possible.