Danioover9000

Especially from freelancers and small businesses owners, how did you brainstorm for your own marketing strategy? Does it have to be directly in line with what you do?

@vizual Thanks for the post. I already know my mission statement, my generalised purpose, my specialised purpose, my ten year mastery path, my top ten values, my top 5 feelings, my top 5 strengths, my zone of genius and already did some year resolution goals. I'm still not sure what my ideal medium is, like I want to be an illustrator, but I also want to be a comic book artist, but I also want to be a writer, but I want to be a video game player. I'm even more unsure what my ideal consumer base is, to align that with what I do. If I'm an illustrator, and do landscape type genres, I don't know what that caters to. I know id I became a comic book whatever, that caters to mostly late teens demographic, but I want to include more mature themes, and still feel like I'm doing an illustration almost per page, like it's a monthly release comic book versus a weekly release. Going indie or freelance is good, but I still don't know enough.

@puporing Like put out cold emails, maybe online ads? Or join a website and draw for free for sometime, but later start charging costs?

@Carl-Richard I think I want to say that, is that both the giver and receiver in that communication, should exercise careful communication, and be sensitive to the liability of the communication. Meaning that, if in the convo, I passionately talk about an alternative medicine's potential of likely predicting the likelihood of a virus, that I clarify, immediately or at the end of the convo, that that shouldn't replace proper treatment. On the reciever's end, that would mean that you should be more careful of how, given other factors like worldview, value system, cognitive patterns of thinking, moral frame works, personality type, sense making mind, the state of being/consciousness one is in, and general to specific life experiences so far, that to not jump to conclusions too quickly.

@Vibroverse In theory, yes, but in practice, no.

@Carl-Richard It's definitionally a treatment method, for horses, less so for human beings. What I'm trying to say, is that Dr. K was giving a strong impression of the potential usefulness of Ayurvedic medicine, an ancient medicinal practice, to the current situation with Covid. Specifically, he was making a prognosis claim, but delivering that in such an assuring way gives the false impression that if the prognosis is accurate, is likely probabilistic, therefore the modal has some degree of validity of dealing with Covid, which is what I'm pushing back at, thinking that a likely prognosis equals also successful treatment is and can sometimes be misleading and dangerous. But this is an entirely sub issue detracting a bit from the key issue: Dr. K's guilt, or not, of blurring the lines of when it's officially a therapy session, to having a therapeutic like conversation with people.

Destiny's breakdown of the Slush video:

@Leo Gura...What?

@Ananta Of course, depending on what stage, cognitive and moral development, personality type, states of consciousness and life experiences, some people relate more or less. Since Putin's and Trump's value systems are similarly in stage red, blue and orange, they respect each other to some degree, but keep in mind that Putin's experiences in leading Russia ruthlessly outweighs whatever experiences of leadership Trump has. I think the timing of Putin's decision to invade was too late. It probably would've been better to do so on the last year term of Trump's presidency.

@MarkKol Well, sometimes when somebody is so committed to their vision and passions, and had put in the years of time and effort into training the skills needed, sometimes they seem misguided, but it's just a difference in perspective, world view, values, cognitive and moral development, personality types, trans states and states of consciousness, and general and specific domains of life and domains of mastery. One good example, is in the manga industry and looking at what mangakas go through. Some say it's voluntary slavery due to the below average payments that most mangaka receive, yet somehow in a mangaka's mind, they are able to motivate themselves to do their serialized work everyday, sometimes willingly sacrificing parts of their life for their work, which if someone was an outsider looking in, looks like wage slavery, but from the inside lookjng in, depending on their psychological development and narrative, looks like it's necessary. Depending on how their mind internally represents this domain in their sense making apparatus, how much experience they have, what states they are in and manage while doing the work, how aware they are kf their personality, how they think and what they value in their worldview, The Japanese culture tends to have a bias for collectivism versus individualism, so as a result, if you ask most Japanese, and moat people who are brought up in an eastern culture, and ask how they view themselves in their mind, the average answers tends to be in 3rd point of view, rather than 1st point of view, which is almost the opposite direction of the average answers if asking people of western culture backgrounds.

@MarkKol I can relate, sometimes I'm like what's the point of art? Is this actually a good field for me? Is this aligned with my life purpose? My vision for my life? Do I want to get payed in this field? Is this realy my deepest passion? Is this really fixing and filing in what's missing in the world? Why are fields related to S.T.E.M more impactful than other forms of art? Bill Gates developed his skills early on, but also is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, and I'm sure sometimes he would motivate myself from time to time, viewing art works. I think that's one of the purposes behind the existence of art pieces, and how they impact the world. They impact the world by inspiring viewers to one day be creators, and to keep reminding people that they are alive, not robots. Also helps develop and strengthen visualization skills, to the point you can 3d model anything in your mind Erotic art is one extreme example, it is quite impactful in reminding you of your human nature to perv.

@Carl-Richard He did say that Ayurvedic personality typology has a likelihood of predicting your chances of getting Covid, but in saying that so happily and confidently, he gives the false impression that Ayurveda can alsk be a treatment alternative for Covid, just like Joe Rogan giving a false impression that Ivermectin can treat Covid virus, when in fact it can't because it is anti parasitic not anti viral. Ayurveda medicine is ancient holistic medicine from India, has some roots in Hinduism, but nothing about it is prescriptive of treating Covid. This is blatantly irresponsible to not give a follow up verbal disclaimer that this is not a prescriptive approach to handling Covid, so because of that some fans of Dr. K might think that only Ayurveda medicine. Ayurveda medicine, like all alternative medicine, has it's proper place and time of application, but not specifically for Covid. It also plays into the war between stage orange/blue western medicine and stage green alternative medicine, which further encourages dogmatic efforts.

@John Paul You don't see the relevance of life experiences? So, when you see two people who date, and you know that one guy had a few dates and is a virgin, but the other guy had dated and been in different relationships for 10 plus years, doesn't that line of development matter?

@Carl-Richard Not hard to imagine the big deal. One thing to give an analogy, but another to assume thag is 100% treatment against Covid. That's one implication.

And a separate issue, but Dr. K claiming that Ayurveda can predict your chances of getting Covid??? I know that Ayurvedic medicine is one of the oldest holistic medicinal practices, but it's the same modal that used to recommend consuming certain metallic pills for certain ailments, but to me it's irresponsible to suggest that such a practice is enough to handle Covid. Like really?

@StarStruck To be clear, I have and still have problems with eye contact because even the normal length super excites me, so if eyes make you uncomfortable, look at other parts of the face. If the face is the real discomfort, look past the over person, in a subtle way.

So, what is the main takeaways from the video? Positive Solipsism or positive non-duality?

@Husseinisdoingfine Hypocrisy is sometimes hardest to spot early on, when everyone in the in group is agreeing with whatever mainstream/social media they consume. This really shows how difficult it is to develop into stage yellow and be there.

@Mafortu Exactly. I get the feeling that he is taking short cuts to his vision. Even his vision is questionable, because from what I learned his wife came up wih most of the vision plus the business side. Also, another great video on this topic, that even Mr. Girl and Chud Logic had to get kicked out from the panel:

@StarStruck It's a bad place to do cold approaches, because people you approach, in a gym environment, are in a different state, and sometimes gym is for some people their unwinding time. If you can't do a good approach, and come off as a bit cringe, then you will likely get a more stronger rejection than typical.

Which comes first though: confirmation bias, or validation of an insight an otherness has had?

@John Paul I disagree with your claim that all these things turn out to be imaginary. It's one thing to have that insight and interpret and internalise that in your sense making, but it's another thing to convert, externalise and embody that insight into your every day life, with your current developmental psychology, stage, cognition, morality, personality typing, states of being you habitually are in, and other life experiences and domains of mastery you have. Assuming you are more spiritually developed, this makes sense to you, but you still have to consider that in practice it's impractical to tell a person who struggles with relationships and dating, that the women and other people you are relating to are imaginary. It's open to being misunderstood, and abused by some who are desperate to develop their dating and relationships, because the distence between the mental gymnastics of justifying the use of this insight is actually verh short. Be careful about just parroting this insight, in case you haven't realized it, because that is the most disrespectful thing to do to yourself, to disregard your other areas of development.

@puporing One of the works I want to do and consider, is mostly NSFW, which raised the issue of how do I market myself in such a field. The work is also a niche, and not easily marketable to a mainstream Audience. For example, I have several passions in my life, a few of them I have decent to above average skill in, like drawing, chess and video games. If I pursued the drawing, like becoming an online illustrator or comic book artist/writer, and go down the NSFW path, then I'd have a little bit of a problem being authentic in the marketing because of what I might specialize in. It's one of several paths I've considered, so if anyone here has that kind of experience marketing NSFW, I'd like to know more.

@Yarco Thanks for the post, I mostly thought all the work has to come from me in the marketing, and forgot that there are other ways to market.

@Bando What I don't like about this video, was how heavily PR it felt, and how passive aggressive he was in addressing Mr. Girl, which is understandable if whatever Dr. K says would be liable to be used against him in a court of law. However, I didn't like how, after Reckfull admitted he was diagnosed BPD, suffered from suicidal ideation and chronic depression, that immediately, Dr. K should've handled this with extreme caution and acknowledged the difference in both their cognitive, moral, values, sense making, states of consciousness and emotional states, and life experiences such that communication should be done carefully. But no, instead Dr. K was a bit reckless, and ended up subtly manipulating Reckfull's vulnerability, and did bend a few ethical codes when he should've kept careful. The whole situation, and my intuition of Dr. K, is that he was manipulative, and whether he was genuine or not, let's say he really wanted to help Reckfull, but the denial and cognitive dissonance is what's giving me the bad vipe of him. After a brief look up on Dr. K's background, I dislike him even more.