Learning video editing and recording skills is quite easy. There are online courses for all major video editing software. I use VEGAS editing software. It's easy to learn.
Recording is easy to learn too. Just buy a Sony camcorder and start recording yourself speaking. You will learn as you go and make refinements.
Getting big on YT is hard. You have to be very persistent and offer something fresh and new and high quality. You have to publish content very consistently, like a full time job.
There are many ways to make money from YT. If your content is mainstream and gets millions of views then you can survive off ad revenue alone. If your content is more niche like mine, then you can still make good money by offering courses or products on your website.

Personally, I never felt shame when entering pickup. I just felt inexperienced, insecure, and eager to learn how to get good with girls. You can do pickup just for the mastery of it as a skill set. You can also do it for the adventure. Outsiders don't realize what a rush and exciting adventure the pickup journey is. It's like traveling around the world. The adventure of it is better than the sex. When you're on the pickup journey life becomes exciting and fun.

Of course it does, but much of this is out of your control. You can't remove air polution from your city for example nor the toxins in your food. Some people's genetics allow them to tolerant toxins a lot better than others. So I still consider this a genetic issue. Epigentics is still genetics.
She's getting old now so that's expected.
But also notice, plastic surgery is NOT makeup. She uses her plastic surgery to sell you makeup.
Yes, of course surgery is effective. No one denies that. In a sense surgery is a way to cheat-change your genetics. Which is why it's so effective. If I got surgery to replace half my organs I could probably fix most of my health problems.

The stuff you resent her about, you should communicate with her about that to try to clear that bad air. All relationships require communucation and clearing bad air.
If the communications keeps failing then you can break up with her. But first try to communicate.
And if you decide to cheat, just break up with her first. This will be much better for both of you.

One thing I really do hate is upper class people. What a load of horseshit they are.

That's life. Consider the dilemma a lion is in. You got it easy compared to him.
You cannot stop "evil" if you want to live. Evil cannot be stopped, it must be accepted as what you are.

You need to make friends with guys who are good, follow them, and learn from them and watch their results.
Just doing it by yourself you will make too many mistakes that will tank your results and you won't know why.
Pickup works but it requires pretty specific rules.

No, it's not conscious. It's a lack of consciousness. It's self-bias, closemindedness, ego, and just how Stage Blue cognition works.
He is genuine in his beliefs. Basically all people are genuine in their ignorance.
From Ben Shaprio's POV, he's helping the world be a better place, he's acting from love -- like all people. But since his self-awareness is quite low, his love ends up being very selfish and partial. It's not really his fault. All evil is simply lack of consciousness. Which is why evil doesn't really exist. It is just misdirected love.
Here you must distinguish between the intelligence required to think within the box of society vs the intelligence of truly original thinking.
To earn a law degree you don't need to do any original thinking, you just need to be very good at following the rules and orders that society has laid out for you. You need to be a good soldier. Which is what Stage Blue excels at. Stage Blue is great at being meticulously conformist. If you need to hire someone to make sure that concentration camps operate like well-oiled machines, you hire a nice conformist boy like Ben Shaprio to manage it for you. He will do it without asking any questions. This was in fact how Nazi Germany was run.
Nothing strange about it. Every political position can be criticized from above or below, not just left vs right. You can be anti-interventionist from above or below. For example, you could believe that it's wrong to start a war in the Middle East because they are low-life savages who don't even deserve to fight the noble white man. But such anti-interventionism is further from Stage Green anti-interventionism than wanting to invade the Middle East to steal their oil. One would first have to evolve in consciousness just to see the Middle East as a worthwhile place to steal oil from, and only then one might evolve further in consciousness to actually care about the lives and interests of Middle Easterners as much as white lives and interests.
You can be opposed to war for the wrong reasons. What matters most is not the fact that you oppose war, but what level of consciousness you're seeing the situation from. You might oppose war because you're to fearful of getting drafted. But that is a selfish perspective which is very different from opposing war because you're conscious of the suffering it would cause the "enemy".
The true problem with the Middle East wars is not that it hurts America's interests, but that it creates suffering for innocent and powerless people in the Middle East. It's like kicking a wounded dog and blaming the dog.

Hello everyone ! A happy new year to all of you !
This question is a reaction to Leo's recent post on his vlog about Ben Shapiro, specifically about blue stage people not understanding green stage individuals. Although I'm humbly in line with Leo's remarks on the praised John Lennon's song "Imagine", I wonder what over example could you guys come up with regarding Ben Shapiro's point of view. In fact he seems like a quite educated man and I feel encouraged to go along with most of what he has to say about politics and religiosity.
So what would you say are instances of Ben Shapiro failing to understand Truth and the "material" world we appear to be living in ? Is it possible that Green doesn't understand Blue ?
 
looking forward to hearing from you,
Paul

I surprised myself today and had a big falling out with my dad over the phone. I'd love to get another opinion on this matter but don't really have anyone to talk to, but I'd really appreciate any input. 
A little backstory: 
After my mom divorced him when I was 11, my dad and I lived together until I was 18. It wasn't good. My dad was very emotionally unavailable, had no emotional control and no ability to empathize. As a young boy I needed structure and a father figure but his abilities were more like a child's. This would trigger me so much that I'd hit him and throw stuff, I'd get so damn angry, just trying to get some understanding, some reaction. He'd just take it. He would behave like the victim, which is a running theme throughout his life. 
At the time he was addicted to alcohol as well, and would come into my room at 2AM to tell me he loves me. He would go through his phone contact list while drunk and call all these people telling them all these very inappropriate emotional things. Needless to say he has pushed everyone away in his life. He never took responsibility for this. He's the good guy, he's the victim. After all "his heart's in the right place" which in his view of the world is all that matters. 
Now skip ahead. I'm an adult, he's 69 years old and completely alone with no friends or social circle. We get along on a certain level, but whenever there's something I wanna tell him or I get my feelings hurt, he'll laugh at it, lie about something or blame something else. ANYTHING to change the subject. He has no ability or willingness to introspect and will immediately turn on me whenever I have feedback or criticism on his behavior. 
I understand that he must have had some huge trauma as a kid which caused him to be so emotionally unavailable. I think he was sexually abused, which he told me sometimes when drunk when I was like 13 years old, which is of course very inappropriate.
He's also old now and much cognitive decline over the years. 
I also understand that I will never get him to introspect or make any real attempt at emphasizing. But that doesn't take away the fact that his attitude is very disrespectful and hurtful. Preserving some parts of his ego is more important to him than the relationship with his wife (my mom) or even with me. It's like trying to carve up a diamond with a potato knife. 
Now although the life lesson "the ego can be very blunt" is super interesting and dandy, it's not really helping me right now. Part of me wants to break all contact with him for all the bullshit, but I can also see how he's tried his best in life but only if I view him as sorta "cognitively handicapped". 
Thinking about it now I can come up with another turnaround: maybe I secretly still want him to understand me, and I'm projecting my own trauma now. But whatever man, I'm just sick and tired of this shit. 
Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you. 

All of morality just boils down to minimizing the suffering your selfishness causes others.

Most of us has spend plenty to time slandering communism and crusading against it.
But at the end of day, communism has elevated millions of people from poverty, provided a hedge for countries who were bullied by the western governments, developed nuclear weapons and never used them, literally won the space race, made immense personal sacrifice for others, and they went through suffering, pain and tragedy that a human mind can hardly tolerate. 
Their art had so much depth since engrained in their in souls were desperately longing for expression and love they deserved but couldn't get due to their circumstances. 
They are people too who were stuck with the decisions made by a few assholes and that doesn't make them our enemy.
Here you can post anything you find intriguing or positive about the great powers of the East and the radical transformation they have made. 

He sounds perfectly authentic to me. He's just not some social media celebrity. He's a serious person. People who are chronically online have forgotten what a serious person looks like.
Sending an email to ask out an employee out for dinner? That's what you're gonna whine about? You understand that powerful and ambitious people like to fuck too? What do you want him to do, open a Tinder profile?

I'm not on a carnivorous diet, I'm a student and don't have the money/logistics for it, so I include carbs like lots of oats, honey/molasses, and fruit.
I will try to buy a goat this summer and kill/cut it up.This afternoon I ate half a pound of beef heart and 50g of raw butter, it was incredible.
I look forward to my meals and am gas free and my cognition is superb, sleep is better.
No spice/seasoning needed, even the salt gets nasty little by little, just that super juicy, greasy taste. Nobody wants to eat cabbage, beans and brown rice, it's incredibly boring and even disgusting, all the vegans I see have to do fancy dishes to be able to eat their "food".
Your excuse to repress your instincts and obey Dr. Greger, McDougall or another fallout ghoul? 
Before you start commenting: I saw several keto and carnivorous youtubers doing blood tests and mri, everything was fine.
I'm too lazy to find the videos but if you type "carnivore diet arterial calcification score" or something like that you will see that many (well, relative to the size of the community) have good scores, despite what we could believe.
 

There are so many possible tests and they are so expensive that you really need to be in search of a health problem when picking tests.
The more common wellness tests would be:
Vitamin D3 Male or female hormones Thyroid: TSH, free T3, free T4 LipoProfile cholesterol Anemia, blood iron levels Vitamin B, folate Liver panel In the US you can order all these tests online at websites like WalkInLabs.
Not sure how it works in Canada.

Part of the challenge here in how you define "core".
Sorta by definition, if you are able to change some part of yourself then it wasn't core to you. Core would be the stuff that refuses to change even after much effort.
Obviously there are part of yourself and your life which you can change. But human minds are not infinitely flexible. There is a core to your personality which ties in with your brain chemistry, genetics, childhood conditioning, baseline state of consciousness, physical health, and so on.
In a certain sense you must learn to live with yourself.
What makes it tricky is that you don't always know what is core to you and what is not, what you can change and what you cannot. So you have to be careful not to create limiting beliefs. But you also have to be careful not to brainwash yourself with fantasies.
In the end you're just gonna have to put in a lot of effort and see what sticks and what doesn't. Some change will come naturally and some change will be like iceskating uphill.

It's way more intelligent than its IQ though, due to humans having so much bias.
Jordan Peterson probably has a pretty high IQ. But his bias cripples the intelligence of anything he says.
Chris Langan supposedly has one of the highest IQs in the world, yet his political takes are cringe.
The problem is that IQ tests don't measure bias nor cognitive development level. So you could have someone with 150 IQ who is a Nazi.

God is EVERYTHING.
It can't exclude anything. That's Love.

No one cares as long as you got skills and can offer value and accomplish excellent results.
In the business world what people care about is the results you can provide.

Yes, there is very good reason behind slavery, oppression, war, theft, and genocide. It's all very useful and wonderful stuff when you are on the benefiting side of it.

It's a very uneven, distorted picture of the world. Good news is rarely reported. If you consume too much news it will seem like the world is going to hell. But if you walk outside and touch grass you will see that things are mostly fine and even improving.
Most of the news is just petty drama and clickbait. It doesn't capture the big picture of how civilization is advancing.

There are two different molecules of DMT, white and yellow.

That's true of conservatives in general. They have a fantasy of the past.
Case in point: Last month Nikki Haley said that "America was never a racist country."
And she is far from a Fascist. But that's how stupidly conservatives tend to think.
Conservatives are in deep denial about the evils of their tradition and past. Because they see themselves as champions of it.

Ana Kasparian got a nose job and she looks way better now. Her nose was really bad before.
But again, do not get distracted. If you guys are micro-worrying about your looks you have lost the plot. The real solution is to transcend caring about your looks.

I don't mean STDs, I mean pregnancy.
STD risk is way lower than pregnancy risk. And many STDs are curable. I know a few PUA friends who caught an STD but cured it.
Pregnancy can ruin your life worse than an STD. Of course it all depends on the details.