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1) When i set a goal and start working on it, i start by setting up my environment for success.In this case i would set it up so it would be impossible to access porn on any computer in the house. This would involve install ad blocks and throwing away the key pertinently, while blocking the extension page so you cant disable it. Deleting all other browsers on the computer and blocking all sites where you can download other browsers. Block reddit... Make it hard to stop watching porn. 2) Next Find a hobby to replace your interests, a big mistake people make with spirituality in general is they try to "stop" doing something, this is impossible, instead focus on something else. Identify a habit and replace it with a better one, do this incrementally, never try to stop. In this case it appears that you have nothing else to do or work on, So find something your interested in and do that. This could involve martial arts, chess, programming, skateboarding, video games, anything. 3) Also baby steps... try masturbating with out porn and limiting that to 1 a day. 4) Also in general follow the path of self improvement, work to become the best version of your self everyday. Develop a growth mindset and things like this become effortless to overcome.

@sidaz10 Integral health. Learn and optimize sleep, nutrition and exercise, follow the path of self development in all aspect of health, mind and body. Doctors studied sickness and disease not health, if your looking for health find a functional medical practitioner, these are the people everyone should go to when they have any issues. Doctors are good if the problem requires a hammer and nail to fix other then that they can ruin your life with drugs. Also avoid some alternative medicine paths that involve herbs and supplements, another rabbit whole corrupt by capitalism, just like doctors. Look into hair analysis and stool analysis tests. These will provide real insights into the body.

@dimitri wow looking into Coq, similar to dependent types in functional programming, With the option of writing code proofs. But Haskell has dependently typed extensions. so... gg haskell is cLeArLYyyy stage Coral++. To clarify i was labeling Haskell as stage yellow as its a tool that solves root issues in software development as a whole. Issues a stage yellow thinker will be able to properly identify and fix. From team work to re-usability, maintainability, architecture... A language designed around removing human error from the equation.

The only way to figure this out is with research, proper experimentation and repeat. Find people who have solved the issue and learn from them, find more then one, avoid snake oil sails-man. From my experience with other healh problems the root of all issues is nutrition, looks into the plant paradox, start experimenting there.

@Natasha I can vouch for the plant paradox. I had debilitating health problems, autoimmune, adrenal fatigue, thyroid issues, all solved with this diet. People with autoimmune issues are lucky in the sense that there body is telling them violently what foods are garbage and should not be consumed. For the average person eating foods the body was not designed to consume yields no obvious immediate symptoms. Unfortunately that does not mean there are no side effects. In this case the effects of poor eating is accelerated aging. This includes sudo healthy foods life fruits, Its just sugar. Only people who come from the bottom, who had to work there way back up understand anything about nutrition, the rest are to healthy to figure it out. There bodies are to resilient, harder to hear it complain. On a side note the way we view aging is flawed, our hair is not supposed to fall out, our skin is not supposed to wrinkle... just because its common does not make it "normal". Sleep, eat, think and exercise the way the body was designed to and aging stops. This is integral health.

wow this is fun , started reading "Coders at work" as recommended by the post, seems these duck tape programmers really like functional programming lol... Tier 1: - Cowboy coders: red, get the job done at any cost, leaves the world in ruins when its done - Architecture Astronauts: blue, needs structure, follows what has worked in the past - Quiasi-engineers: orange, innovative within the box, scientific in its approach but cant see the systemic bigger picture, resulting in overly complex designing/tooling to make things work within the paradigm, incapable of addressing the root cause of the problem because they cant see it. Tier 2: - Duct tape programmers: green, low yellow, sees the bigger picture, developed intuition, constantly learning. effective, plants seeds that will continue to grow long after his job is done. Still stuck in a paradigm, distills the essence of the paradigm, what works and what doesn't, No bull shit, only what is useful and effective is kept, but no real innovation is achieved that effects the industry. The wheel keeps spinning. They are the 10x developers. - Integral developer: mid to high yellow, highly developed intuition, sees the root of the problem, striving to make the best possible move, can effectively strategically navigate the chaos, Innovates at all levels. Takes into consideration all quadrants in its approach. Fixes the problem at the root. Shows the world a better way of doing things that no one is ready for. Takes 30+ years before there ideas are rediscovered. An example: Can programming be liberated from the von neumann style referenced in the book "coders at work".

@Commodent The ecosystem is underdeveloped do to lack of adoption, this will change in the future when people move away from software as a craft and begin real software engineering. Building software the way we build rockets. @electroBeam Maybe your perspective will change after years of working as a software lead and the pain that involves. Even then as explained to escape the bubble is not easy. I've applied integral thinking to software and the result are these insights. Seems unwise to dismiss my perspective so easily. If you have questions about the subject we can dive deeper. But its possible you have done the same and can see furter, in this case please show me what you see.

There are key insights missing from this conclusion. 1) The person speaking is irrelevant, if hitler gave that talk i would learn equally from him or any source. 2) The category of knowledge that matters here is the merger of nutrition and human biology, insights derived from this merger are what matters not laws of physics. 3) The insight that matters: The body cannot access fat storage when insulin is high. Eating carbs prevents the body from accessing fat storage, as a result if someone lowers calories and continues eating high carb the body will enter into a starvation state NOT fat burning fasting state. This starvation state puts the body in high stress and is NOT the same as fasting, it is also why most people think losing weight is "hard" and gain it back instantly. Its actually extremely easy when done the way the body was designed to do it and easy to maintain when eating what the body was designed to eat. 3.5) Another note prolonged low caloric intake with high carbs causes the body to adapt by lowering metabolism. In our "modern" culture this translates to a thyroid disorder diagnosis by ignorant doctors (i think @Leo Guru is well aware of this one). That person is then put on thyroid medication devastating the body for various reasons, especially because the underlying cause was not addressed only the symptom. The body continues to adapt by lowering the metabolism furter and the doctors adapt by increasing the thyroid medication. A truly incompetent cycle. 4) Functional Chiropractors study health while the traditional doctor study disease and sickness. The education western doctors receive has been fully mutated by capitalism/ pharmaceutical companies. As a result the only thing they understand are treatments that make money. == drugs. Of Course they have no idea there education was fraudulent and go there entire career destroying the lives of there patients. A tragedy. 5) Another important point is carbs are still very important for the body specifically if the person is body building. Where carbs is an important factor for endurance when exercising. 6) The diet the body was designed to eat is something similar to the diet described by "the plant paradox". Not keto. Doe it is a low carb diet. All of this is coming from someone who has lost 100 pounds and cured severe autoimmune issues, this includes curing crohn's, adrenal fatigue and thyroid problems as well as a list of other issues. Real hard work and suffering was put into these insights. Summary to loss weight eat low carb/lower carb intake, follow the plant paradox meal plan permanently. Not as a on or off "diet" to loss weight but to be healthy and to maximize the body's genetic potential.

I highly recommend starting off with haskell, a stage yellow programming language. Not going to go into details, haskell is the pinnacle of programming languages, the entire industry is simply regurgitating the same imperative OOP dogma. It takes real hard work to escape the OOP paradigm programmers are indoctrinated in by software culture. Only after someone truly suffers within there paradigm and works endlessly to improve does one escape the bubble. Sounds like the path to software enlightenment.

The closest thing to yellow schooling that ive come across is AltSchool. https://www.altschool.com/ Seems to be Elementary to Highschool level right now.

Normally people can randomly experience peek visualizations right before bed or right after waking up. Its clear to reach this dream clarity level of visualization requires the mind to be in a deeply relaxed meditative state, on the edge of conscious. We can take this further, when people maximize performance at a task they are usually in a flow state that is at the edge of relaxation. its a balancing act, only the essentials are kept in awareness, everything else is forgotten, no longer exists.

Isnt integral theory a meta theory? I thought spiral dynamics was incorporated into it?