Also, purchase and read the book "The Prosperous Coach" by Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin.
 
Game changer for getting clients as a coach.

Everything is a byproduct of focus.

Steve Jobs went to India and practiced meditation for 7 months before returning to America.

So yeah as Tim said, not necessarily 1:1, but if you meditate and then get to reading/watching/listening to business, sales, marketing, economics, psychology and self improvement content, it definitely can be a massive catalyst.

Meditation is like exercise for the mind and by having amazing focus one can truly achieve anything. Although you can "meditate" doing anything:
Sports
Sitting
Reading
Talking

It's just about extreme presentness and getting lost in the now, there are moments of "non meditation" where we are TOTALLY meditative and moments of "meditation" where we are the exact opposite, meditation is really a state of mind you can apply to ALL activity in just being present and doing your 100% best. You can meditate:
Standing in line at the store
Picking up garbage
Answering your phone

There is a reason a lot of the monks clean so much!

I can still feel it. The energy appeared during the meditation, a very light energy that makes reality feel less heavy and dense. I think it's a permanent change/upgrade and those who can sense energy will notice the difference. Now we just wait and see if this changes things in society, I'm excited about 2021.

@AAW The imagination operates analogous to how a film might, it puts the mind in the seat of a car that's going to take it to a ride its never experienced before and consequentially, experience contrast that makes it re-conceive of the present known world which is why, although films are good to store as memories because you can also practice rearranging them in a way that makes your present mind more flexible I'd preface this by preferencing imagination over films of course. The imagination also allows us to know and learn things that we've never learned before, for example, even though you may never have played the piano, as the vividness of your imagination increases, so too does the influence of the mental realm on the physical realm in terms of allowing you to learn things without being in the physical presence of the mental preoccupation.
What is the imagination though? I think this needs to be broken down.
To me as a preliminary definition outside the scope of standard ways of looking at it, it's simply the malleability of otherwise concrete contents in consciousness. That's from the perspective of a conscious definition though, because then we also have unconscious imagination don't we, which goes into wondering about the relationship between not only imagination and lucid dream states but also visions, premonitions and the like as well, as if to say that somehow, perhaps not the imagination but at least consciousness, has this inescapable link to the rest of reality, like an electric cord does a power outlet. For this I would wonder, is the imagination just the means to an end for this consciousness to reality relationship or does it play an intrinsic role somehow? In light of the malleability of the imagination, I suspect that it's perhaps a bit of both but leaning towards just a means to an end simply because its an ability that can decrease or increase relative to use which seems to independently change relative to consciousnesses possible connection with all of reality.
I'll be releasing a book on the imagination within the next couple of years so I know a bit more than most so happy to share ideas as well as learn what ideas you may wish to share. Good post!

I thought some of you might be interested in this. The power of the cultivation of chi is incredible, such is the case of John Chang. John Chang is now dead, but he's attained spiritual immortality through his cultivation of chi. What that means is that he no longer has to reincarnate again. One of his students wrote a book called "The Magus of Java: Teachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal" by Kosta Danaos. Several of John Chang's students died trying to attain these powers. Unfortunately John Chang's teacher passed away before fully teaching him everything.
 
John Chang - Electrical Chi Powers
I highly recommend Damo Mitchell for learning Nei Gong, he has both theory and practice written in easy to understand language unlike many of the other books out there on this subject.
A Comprehensive Guide to Daoist Nei Gong by Damo Mitchell
Daoist Nei Gong: The Philosophical Art of Change by Damo Mitchell
Heavenly Streams: Meridian Theory in Nei Gong (Daoist Nei Gong) by Damo Mitchell
 
I recommend this book as well.
Seeking the Master of Mo Pai: Adventures with John Chang by Jim McMillan
 
Nei Gong 13 Exercises Illustrated and the Meaning of Xing Yi Explained
https://www.pdfdrive.com/nei-gong-13-exercises-illustrated-and-the-meaning-of-xing-yi-explained-d157067625.html
 
Here's a free guide on how to cultivate for yourself. You have to interpret some of the words and sayings a bit, but it's free.
Taoist Yoga Alchemy And Immortality PDF
https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/Taoist-Yoga-Alchemy-and-Immortality.pdf
 
This is a great forum for Taoism, Daoism, Chi Gong, Nei Gong etc.
https://www.thedaobums.com
 

"Do or do not. There is no try."
As a general rule I don't like to smoke anything to avoid harming the lungs.
If I was gonna do weed, I would take a pure THC extract tincture sublingually.

Ideally, although much more intensive, my goal is to save all orca whales from captivity along with any other life that I deem sentient enough to not warrant being enclosed where I build a sanctuary around the island and try to mature a process overtime where they're released or give them to a sanctuary that is relentless in achieving this goal on lease (so they never get sold anywhere else if that's at all a possibility). We often forget the sentient lives that are being lived behind bars unnecessarily (includes human lives ---- so where's their self actualisation?) and in swimming pools cruelly, we have many other abstract cultural problems as well but this is where a large art of my heart is at present.  Buy them off the parks and then do my best to contribute to having the whole business outlawed.
Otherwise zero countries (other than owning an island), in general the ideal should be to travel everywhere around the world continuously while actualizing, outside of this if you're a true hermit its Norway, Sweden, Denmark and maybe even Canada.

Actually you don't really need to learn anything to start investing in the stock market. The actual process of buying shares is incredibly easy.
All you need is a good understanding of the market in general, what companies are likely to continue doing well/grow/innovate. Where is society heading, what things will society value in 10 years time? 
For example, TSLA stock is essentially free money at this point because electric vehicles are the future, and the company is providing so much value and is so far ahead of any of its competitors. 
I would advise against investing in crypto. Far too unstable and the returns are negligible.

I'm looking to build my coaching business and I need guidance on marketing/ads/niche/etc. I'm looking to hire an excellent consultant or purchase a really high-quality course to illuminate the way. I'm also open to resources other than courses and consultants. What are your suggestions?

yes!!! This was the most "IN YOUR FACE" bit of the whole book for me as well. Second one being that SEO is a pyramid scheme and a waste of time

@dflores321 Look all around you. Everywhere you look things could be better designed, improved, or made more efficient. Survival problems lurk everywhere. All you have to do is find one good solution to a survival problem and you're in business.
You need to develop the mind of an entrepreneur who is constantly looking at how the world can be improved.
Every time I buy a product I look at it and see ways it could have been made better. When you start looking at the world like this you will soon have more business ideas than years left in your life.
Just an example to inspire you:
One time I was eating a rotisserie chicken. I noticed how its crispy wings were the tastiest part. They were perfectly crunchy, unlike any chicken wings I've had before. I wanted more! So I wondered, why doesn't somebody just sell rotisserie chicken wings? They'd be a huge hit! So I got the idea of starting a chicken wings fast-food chain that only sells crispy rotisserie chicken wings and various dipping sauces. Then I started researching how to launch a fast food restaurant. I even bought a couple of books on it.
That was like 8 years ago. But it was an idea outside my zone of genius so I let it go. To this day I feel that if someone started a simple rotisserie chicken wing fast food chain it would become the next Chipotle. You would make a billion dollars with that one idea.
P.S. If you make a billion dollars with this idea, please send me a check for 10%

@AdamR95
I had a deep experience of this while doing Strong Determination Sitting.
It was during my 10 day Vispassana retreat, which meant that my body was really starting to ache. I really thought I was going quit in the middle of the SDS session, but instead what happened was my resistance just dropped to nothing.
It was the most bizarre experience. I still could feel most of the sensations we associate with pain. And yet, mentally it felt like I could have sat there for another hour no problem. Pain, but no suffering.
I concluded that pain and suffering must therefore be separate phenomena. And that much of what we think of negatively as "pain" is really extra layers of suffering we add on through resistance.
So yes, I think it is possible to fully accept physical pain. I think it's possible to fully accept anything.
Which is NOT the same thing as saying that it's easy. Or that if you start cutting me with a knife I'll just sit there.
It is to say a different state of consciousness is possible.

Whether it has been described by others or is solely practiced by me I am not certain.
Warning: Over the years, this has, in a way, cost me the ability to perform mathematics and process "technical aspects" of life. I perceive consciousness, imagination, and "following the bliss" as paramount. The more I descend into this powerful, yet simple practice, the less value I project onto ordinary, restricted activities such as mathematics. (Although, paradoxically, this technique is more down-to-earth than any other if we assume the meaning of down-to-earth to be "tranquil in the moment.")
It's suitable for artists, for self-exploration, and for visualization in general. Here's how it works: Your visualization is already massive, infinite, and it's only being held down by your psychological constructs. That's all. The process you should apply when trying to visualize is to eliminate existing psychological boundaries. You are free to go anywhere, in any direction, to pursue the "w" axis of this world. When you usually try to visualize something, you are working upon preexisting framework of beliefs, which "slow the system down" if I may use the term. Each limiting belief is an axiom which clogs the mind. Attaining a powerful, transcendental visualization is simply about becoming aware of your limiting beliefs and dropping them down. What are the limiting beliefs in this case?
You believe that you reside in the third dimension. This is a mental construct holding your visualization down. Why? Because everything you visualize with this belief in mind will be subdued by and fall under the concept of "a third dimension". You believe that you are a human - this is another belief clogging the card's memory, which could be better used on visualization.  You believe that you are on Earth - this is another belief clogging the card's memory, which could be better used on visualization. When you let go of existing frameworks, your visualization will become a thousand times stronger. By default.
You are constrained by useful survival notions. They bombard you constantly - constantly (notice the word) - unless you become aware of them and let them go.
This is your golden ticket to Shangri-La; to visualizing and feeling whatever you need to. I use it in writing, but it can be applied in all sorts of fields.

Yellow is generally in favor of more social engineering, not less. Yellow just wants to do it in an integral, Spiral conscious way, using a systems theory approach.
All stages basically want to socially engineer society to fit their values. Yellow wants to socially engineer society to accomodate the entire Spiral, recognizing the value each stage offers and the need to help people grow through all stages up to Yellow.
Don Beck and his work trying to teach Spiral Dynamics to Israelis and Palestinians is the epitome of stage Yellow social engineering efforts. It's really eye opening to read about.
My work to integrate science, spirituality, and Western philosophy is also very Yellow.

This one hit me hard today...
 
Essentially going over how caffeine robs us of our true motivation, and gets us hooked. I have had no issues coming off Coffee as Chris Masterjohn said it wasn't ideal for Corona, but that's only because I drink 3-4 cups of Green Tea a day. Caffeine is very embedded in our culture. I feel I'll need a week off of work to fully kick the addiction and get back to normal functioning, funnily enough I've only had the habit for a year, and really thought Green Tea was healthy! 
Time to find some awesome Decaf herbal teas I guess! 
anyways, what's your guys views on Caffeine, been able to overcome the addiction? Still drink it regularly? 
I was most shocked as majority of doctors& Health/ Fitness seem to recommend it as okay- Dr Gregor, Dr Mercola, Ben Greenfield (he sells it) 
 

coffee is definitely addictive.
I've been on an off coffee all the time. I'm managing my coffee intake much better these days, but it isn't easy. Coffe fills your brain with rapid beta waves. It increases your pace, makes you chaotic and hyper. It's not a high conscious drug in an of itself and has some negative side effects. When you take it too much, it builds tolerance and you don't notice any effects, and when you try to stop, it gives you headaches and lethargy.
With that being said, coffee can be used for its benefits. To use it properly, do the opposite of the mainstream. Don't drink a cut of coffee every morning and 3 more cups throughout your day. Have a cup every 2-3 days only when you need that energy boost. At those intervals, a single cup of coffee, before an exercise or a demanding project, will have x5 the effect of daily users, without side-effects and addiction potential. requires discipline tho.

@Random User I my case it happends automaticly, the moment my vibrational lvl raised. 
It didnt taste anymore same with meat and other stuff. Now i ones in a while have a cognac.
But i can see the problem if you go out with friends. 
You could do a kidney and liver cleansing thats a very good thing todo body gets a fresh start.
While you do that you cant drink so thats a strong reason to not drink for 6 weeks.
And take it from there.
 

Story time. First I forgot who I was. That’s basically where all the trouble started.
Discordant psychology & depression ensued, therapists & pills didn’t help. Gained 70 or so pounds, ate terribly, lost sex drive. Got a lot more depressed, hopeless. Meditation however, worked. I found some relief and clarity, so I did it everyday, at least once. I didn’t know about the path, awakening, enlightenment, etc. The content, or big picture & details, and spelling-it-out, wasn’t as available as it is now. Also, I started playing guitar around 15. Classical & different genres of pop / rock. In hindsight, this developed relaxation, concentration, focus & feeling. 
Working efficiently, honestly & intelligently felt good, and bettered my quality of life, so I did a lot of that. I excelled and created opportunities of every job. I liked making things more efficient, more fun, & easier for everyone, and I liked putting how everyone feels, first. In hindsight, that was more significant than I noticed. It was from meditation, from slowing the mind down, that I saw through the lens of the importance of attitude. It felt empowering. I started exercising. That felt amazing. Because I felt amazing, I wanted to feel more amazing, so I changed my diet entirely. I experienced energy I’d never experienced before. I became much more expressive, and started singing along with playing guitar, and I absolutely loved it. In hindsight, writing songs developed expression and transmuted suffering. 
Because of the meditation, attitude, work ethic, energy, expressing & having fun, I left am hourly job for a salary job, and then left that to start a business. I had learned a lot, and also, at the same time I had no idea what I was doing really, but I just happily did it anyways because it was desired & aligned.
Meditation revealed the ‘secret’ of ‘now’, or, the actuality of presence, or, being. When I thought of too big of a slice of life, instead of getting overwhelmed, I’d realize it’s just this moment, never more. Meditation revealed the nature of overthinking; emotional repression & suppression. Because I was no longer overthinking (via meditation), and had some intuition going (via meditation and expression), and everyone else was overthinking, things got immeasurably easier & effortless. I realized meditation is naturally a leadership quality practice, so I did it more, often twice a day. I worked even more efficiently, trained a team, had maximum synergistic all-inclusive fun, and replaced myself in the operation. Then I opened another business, and in short, did the same thing. Then again and again. 
In meditation, I let go of a lot, had little thought chatter, and became much more open minded. Because I was open minded, I heard and started listing to Abraham Hicks, Wayne Dyer, Rupert Spira and similar content on YouTube. That helped open the mind up even more.  
 
I felt good, from meditation, enjoying work, having fun, and being present. I started reading about science, psychology, etc, and researching religions and quantum mechanics. I wanted to know about reality. I had no idea at all there was a Truth.
One day I sat down to meditate like any other morning, and the instant I sat, oneness was viscerally realized. I was a blissed out fool for a week or two. It was wonderful, and also shocking, as ’no one knew this’. I couldn’t fathom how I knew this, was this, and everyone else in the world apparently did not know this, though they too were this. Everything was the same, and yet everything had changed, and I didn’t understand any of it. I loved it and felt absolutely amazing though. 
Took tiny doses of shrooms with friends, laughed a ton, and also started seeing this oneness in reality, more so than just feeling / knowing it within. I started taking solo retreats in nature; inspecting my beliefs and identity, playing guitar & singing, expressing, writing songs, meditating, walking, and tripping. Took progressively higher does over the course of about two years. Never had a ‘bad trip’, humbly & enjoyably learned a ton every time. Loa, QM’s, spirituality, and things I more deeply wanted in terms of career and life wise became clearer and all started to gel together. 
 
By this point I was married and had three kids. This also gelled perfectly with the path, as kids are perfect mirrors. They do what you do, not what you say to do. Difficult to stomach sometimes, and makes for speedy awareness of minutia in behavior, attitude, inflection & the repercussions / creation from /of the even the smallest of these actions and words.  No more ‘hiding’ or ‘getting away’ with anything. The deeper learning & actualizing was of / with my family. I loved truly, actually, patiently creating space for them. Listening. Understanding.  
The deeper importance of intention, and awareness of vibration surfaced in marriage. It was revealed that all of what’s happening, is vibrational. 
At this point my life was chalked full of everything I love, and the ‘power’ of consciously creating was self evident. 
Still meditating everyday.
More solo retreats, more practicing, higher dose trips, more insights & realizations, working even more efficiently, by putting people first more and more across the board. 
Then the breakthrough ‘to’ infinity. A Mind-visual ‘grand tour’ if you will. Total game changer. At this point, in hindsight, oneness was actually (experientially, relatively speaking) more of a shocking sudden and permanent no mind / knowing of absolute unity. Infinity is an inexplicable complete and total unbelievable unthinkable incommunicable mindfuck. My brain was literally re-wired, which felt very different but fine, kind of a warm activity / electricity activity sensatio, and as old thoughts and thought patterns arose, they met with the new wiring, and were ‘converted’, or ‘refilled’, aligned. That, and uncontrollable laughter in absolute disbelief & mind blow 24/7 lasted a couple months.
Then in the middle of one day walking through my house, suffering & misery swirled in my head, very viscerally, like all of the false thoughts I ever had were being pulled by a magnet, in a circular spinning pattern, and like a toilet flushing, swirled into the very center of my brain and flushed. I was aware of this and felt this, and it was more disgusting and sickening then anything else, and nothing has every felt quite like that. It swirled down smaller and smaller until it just like ‘popped’ and vanished. I was very aware that I would never be able to see things again, in the manor which had led to depression etc, and I just sat in a chair for a few days as it sank in. Somehow it was crystal clear there would be no experiencing misery again, and that meant I would not be able to feel the vibration of someone else who was. I would only be able to relate by logical deduction, empathy & compassion, and not actually relating, not actually feeling suffering. Take that as you will, it’s nuts but it’s as accurate as can be said. 
Still meditating every day. 
So now there’s no perception of actual separation anymore, no fear, no self doubt, and everything is perfect and makes perfect sense, and every thing is experientially imperfect and makes no logical sense, and together that actually makes sense, as there is no separation. Reality, self, thought, emotion, the subjective & the objective, etc, me - revealed as pure perfect magical mystical ineffable being. 
All of that, which started with depression, & sitting down and meditating, had culminated into not being able to ‘physically hold’, or have the capacity for, infinite love. This was actually (joyfully & hilariously) kind of an issue for a couple years. Crying once or twice a day, purification cleaning house, sometimes blissful & beautiful, sometimes gut wrenching / ‘barfing it out’ via many tears, followed by deep & insightful more nuanced alignment of life / self realizations.
Sensitivity mentally, emotionally, and physiologically was incredibly heightened. Conscience is more like an exposed nerve of love. Little things I said or did that never would have bothered me at all, would haunt me for days if not addressed. It took a while to understand and acclimate to this. Meditation changed entirely. There was no letting go of thoughts anymore, but very literally moving as awareness / sensation (unconditional love) through out, as, ‘my body’. “Experience” like it was, like it’d been thought it was, was gone.
Inconsistent reality became ‘normal’, or rather there never was a normal as reality was always love / self & magical (ineffable).  All kinds of delightful things that aren’t explainable began to transpire, and so to speak, I was now fully aware that I am creating the whole of reality. Not as ‘this guy’ obviously, but as ‘who’ or ‘what’ we all really are. The nature of being, the absolute & relative, the human condition, etc, all readily understood, which is to say nothing is known, which is to say, nothing is known. As far as “balance between spiritual and self actualization”, neither is actually describing any ‘thing’ (‘other thing’) at all anymore.  
All songs made anew, and music, playing & singing are only for the experience of it. More love & beauty than could ever be thought possible. Intuition is now the most primary sense, like vision used to be. Took reiki classes, many ‘sober’ and profoundly unexplainable mystical experiences ensued. Met some loving & likeminded people and learned a ton from ‘hands on’ direct experience together. Saw with much more ease & clarity how beliefs are the most important underlying factor. This made sense of how people can have such different and otherwise unexplainable direct experience with food, diet, medicines, ailments, disease & healing, “luck”, immunizations, etc, etc.
Still meditating everyday.
Started seeing “God’s plan”, and understanding how there can even be a “plan”, which yet is unconditional, spontaneous & without thought, inclusive of all thought(s). The common connotation of the word ‘plan’ doesn’t work / fit.
Realized collective consciousness by seeing it directly outside of ‘reality’, the “how” this living of lives is orchestrated, and how co-creation ‘works’. Lost thinking / thoughts, to no mind & insights. That ‘led’ to ‘cosmic consciousness’ so to speak, seeing the entirety of the one off dreams, and how thinking & feeling works in terms of creation, in unison with the so called ‘universe’, white & black holes, superposition, entanglement, general & special relativity, etc, etc. Realized why almost everyone “tunes out” right here, and stopped mentioning it. Realized a simple dry erase board is a holon and is much more than it appears initially, and is not separate form intention, belief, emotion and the actuality of creator-creating-creation, or, ‘reality’.
All of this realization goes hand in hand with the emotional scale, and of feeling in the body. When I first started, I did not feel inside of my body so to speak. I didn’t know that was possible / actual. Now there is a “cellular level” feeling / awareness / consciousness that is like a extremely refined ‘field’ of bliss. Realized this, when “amped up”, effects people and circumstances within “my” field of perception beyond communication with words, and that it is “powered by” love and purity of desire, intention, and an overall alignment and fundamental ‘acceptance’ of / with / as the actuality of being (ineffable).
Started having  awakening enlightenment conversations with people in person and through skype, centering around creating the life one actually authentically wants, involving the ‘extracting’ and developing of unique source-given gifts and desires, aka, the true power of love, or, reality, or, creator-creating-creation. 
Of course things with my family, friends etc have never been better. The depth and richness of love is ever present like drowning & floating in bliss, well being & a sort of perpetual never ending awakening. Though at the same time, I became only interested in assisting in whatever ways possible with collective well being & awakenings. I realize no one is awakening, and every one is awakening, and just love being a part of it as no one, or, nothingness. 
By well being I mean emotional, physiological & mental health, or simply, love. By awakening I mean inspecting & freeing ‘yourself’ of limiting beliefs, leaving the matrix of conditioning, overthinking, anxiety, depression, attention blockages, etc, and quite literally communing with source & every one, via intuition & true genuine intention, enjoying the deeper richer authentic magical experiential sensations available to be experienced, having & achieving everything you dream up for this life, and self realizing in a timely & proper manor along the way. I see clearly the most fundamental issues at play are the misunderstanding / collective belief that consciousness arises from matter, and the collective lack of distinction between behaviors & actions, or, preaching vs purifying and exemplifying with respect to the being each one actually is. 
Still meditating every morning.
Attention on breathing, letting every thought pass. Nothing more. When it’s difficult, it’s because the nature of reality is purification. That is, source is unconditional, so any beliefs (conditions) held are naturally going to float right out the more one relaxes, breathes, & let concerns / discord go.
Realized the elusiveness of anti-gravity at play here, in terms of the relationship between letting thinking go, and thinking about it. Mind blowing synchronicity, awe & wonder are the unending actuality of self / reality. Realized the critical difference between a ‘caring or not caring’ paradigm, and knowing each person is so powerfully unconditionally loved, that no one else can do any of this for them, or convince another to change a belief / and therefore their actual experience of reality if you will. Realized this arena / realm is what I’ll be doing from here on out. Realized it is why I am. 
Realized the “defilements” and “samsaras” are one’s truest character / deeply intention based, thus difficult to surrender, yet fundamentally are relative the same as food choices are relative to how one feels, one’s vibrational proximity so to speak with / as, absolute / source. A short term - long term thinking / believing of thoughts, feeling, & living, that stretches well beyond life & death, thought, perception & sensation.  For example, when sitting and doing nothing feels better than sex, sex is no longer a ‘reach up’, to feel better. Paradoxically, sex then enters a whole new place that I think a whole book could be written about. Probably has already. The more belief / identity one surrenders, the more selfish & selfless collapses in terms of true intention & motives, and the more alignment is realized / empowered in creating reality. Sex, just as one example, reaches heights beyond the deepest trips, but then again, sex isn’t actually sex at all, and trips aren’t really ‘trips’ at all. 
Realized I’ve never actually experienced what concept like “done” or “failure” convey, nor will I ever. Experience is itself infinite intelligence, infinite mind if you will, which is love unconditional. Infinite can never be “done”, experience can never be “done”, purification can never be “done”.  Love only loves and in intrinsically being unconditional, wants everything you want, and never judges the wanting, yet feels alignment & discord. Realized all which was ‘needed’ was to be well practiced in meditation, so ‘I’ don’t manipulatively utilize or weapon use thought, as self referential thought stories, to manipulate ‘others’ so to speak, because ‘others’ are me, and are in the same predicament, or, are experiencing ‘the human condition’. And now I’m going to do everything I can to shed the light that I am, on this place & this love that is. 
 

Don't forget to take into account the suffering of being born and raised by parents who A) do not want you or love you, and B) are not equipped to provide for you financially or psychologically.
The most common reason for having an abortion is simply that you are not ready or willing to raise a child. Forcing people into raising children when they do not want to, or are not mature enough to do so, is going to have serious downstream fallout. More school shooters, more criminals, more psychopaths, more terrorists, more suicides, more depression, more mental illness, more drug addicts, more drug overdoses. All of that is directly related to bad upbringing from immature or impoverished parents.

Most rich people ARE more competent, conscious, and productive than most poor people. This is especially true if they have self-made wealth.
But that only goes so far. As 99% of all people in general, rich people are terrible at questioning the self-serving nature of their own worldview because one's worldview is built from the ground up to serve one's survival.
Rich people are not masters of their minds or their psychology. Obviously. Since they spend most of their time climbing the ladder of success, which has nothing to do with self-awareness or moral development.
What poor people do not understand is that being rich does not solve the issue of survival whatsoever. Not at all. It only transforms survival into a more complex and abstract domain.
You will have exactly the same number of problems when you're rich as you did when you were poor. They will just be a different set of problems. This is hard for most poor people to understand since they like to blame their problems on material conditions without realizing that problems are a deep core function of the ego-mind, not material conditions.

@Don Wei Be mindful of doing work just because some other human told you to. This is a waste of your life and potential.
Then again, if you don't have a clear picture of what you want, then following that human might be better than doing nothing.
Become crystal clear about what you want to create in life and then get to work on it. << this is how you feel empowered and worthwhile in life.
Really contemplate whether the stuff you're doing in university, which is eating up all of your time and attention, is in any way related to what you really want to create in your life. Or are you just being a mindless sheep, following the flock into wage slavery?

How is not important. Do not let HOW stop you. 
Key is to SET THE INTENTION.
Visualise and feel yourself where you want to be, how, where...Visualize positive end result AFTER you have achieved your goal. Do this at night before bed, 5 minute before sleep and do it when you wake up throughout the day, maintain and feel the feeling of wish fulfilled. Law of Attraction, Manifestation.
never ask HOW. How is not for you to choose. 

I can relate. My first job didn't work out the way I wanted either. It was heartbreaking, but also it presented me with my biggest opportunity for advancing my career. Within a year I quit that job and started my own business.
Yes, you sunk a lot of time in this, but now you're getting clear about what you definitely don't want in terms of your career. This clarity is worth the price you paid for it if you use it to realign yourself towards what your heart and soul are truly calling you to do.
What is your life purpose? Are you clear? What is your heart set on doing career-wise? If it's psychiatry (let's just assume that for now), then all you need to do to feel better about yourself is to double-down on your vision to become an amazing psychiatrist. How it will happen is largely irrelevant. You must program yourself with the vision that this what you want and you will make it happen. There is no good reason why you cannot become a psychiatrist eventually. It might takes some years, but people become psychiatrists all the time, so can you. It's just a question of clarity, vision, and passion. How badly do you want it? Even if you can't be a psychiatrist right now, it doesn't matter because what matters is your vision. You can spend the next few years just building up the vision and training yourself such that you become so good as a candidate that people won't be able to ignore you.
Stop waiting for someone to make you a psychiatrist. If it is your vision, you already ARE a psychiatrist -- it's just not been made official yet. From today on start acting as if you were a real psychiatrist. Go above and beyond what a normal psychiatrist does. Do whatever you must to make yourself exceptional in this field. Do the research, read the books, attend seminars and workshops, read journals, make psychiatrist friends, do free psychiatry on your friends and family for practice, act like psychiatrist in your dreams and visualizations, go to a hypnotist and ask him to program you that you are a successful psychiatrist, etc.
This is not an external world career problem. This is a vision and self-confidence problem. It's a lack of passion and commitment problem. You are unclear and doubting yourself.
 
 
Are you gonna let some fucking bureaucracy tell you who you can be?

Heavy metal toxicity
You can try doing detox
After detox I went from sleeping 9 hours and feeling tired to sleeping 6.5-7 hours and feeling energetic. It can make a huge difference.

awesome courage man! 
I dropped out of college too. Know how tough it can be and I went through that phasw too. Just wanted to say you'll get through it and good on you!