Algebro

I'd like to throw in a new aspect. I used to listen to music three hours a day and I'd definitely call that an addictive behavior. Don't get me wrong: it's all about the amount and I don't want to crucify music in general. But I think that music (as well as TV..) gets you into a consuming state of passivity. It's made mainly (or in most cases) to entertain. Personal development is not meant to entertain or stimulate. That does not mean it cannot be pleasurable! Listening to music can change your state and is extremely helpful for motivation, jogging, felling good but I'd compare music to drugs: It makes you happy without doing anything for it. I found out for myself that the time listening to music can be spend smarter. But maybe I am the only one who used to escape from reality through music (and therefore from developing)... What do you guys think? Is it possible to develop personally through music? If yes, to what extent? Do you agree that music can be an obstacle for personal development and/or a waste of time? Peace Algebro

If I'd get to know that smoking kills me, I wouldn't ask whether quitting is worth it. Let me ask you a question: Catch up with whom? Leo? Probably impossible ;P with the one you were five minutes ago? Definitely! Do not compare. That's not fair to you. Everyone starts from a different angle at different ages. You are best at something else, I'm sure! try to see it in the present moment: what do you really want to do? What do you want to have been doing? I guess the things nessesairy to achieve (or at least get closer to) your goals . one last thought: the future is always to some percentage uncertain. That's called life. It is always possible that one won't earn every seed sowed. But that's not only true for you! One may start "in time" but die in a car crash.. Peace Algebro

In my opinion Pickup involves some personal development you don't want to miss. For example the fact that you are the most important person of your life and therefore should act on that rather than to chase women. Learning Pickup is desirable for basic socializing and experience having sex and therefore to be able to know what's out there and what you could have chosen when you're parenting. Most of that is recommend to do by Leo as far is I remember. I know it is not nessesairy to use Pickup to get these results but for me (got Autism diagnosed, but that's another story) it really helped me to look at women rather than to look shyly away. To stand up for my masculinity and my desires whilst being able to accept a "no" and still love myself. One big personal reason for doing Pickup is that our fourth estate (TV, news..) are attacking Pickup whenever possible. They show us a wrong picture of Pickup through manipulation as they do ohhhhh so often. Whenever the media is against something (for example living vegan) I can almost blindly recommend it It is not good for some people if we are appy, enlightened, self actualized, capable of thinking and acting independently. but! Don't do it for having Sex (doesn't mean one shouldn't have it.. maybe without ejaculation, but that's another topic..). That keeps you trapped in your reptile brain: Food, reproduction, sleep, stimulation... Do it to be able to go your own way. To get better in terms of social skills. To be able to say what you want. To be free from social conditioning and ultimately from fear. Peace Algebro