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It is normal. Just keep following your interests, you're on the right path.

@rNOW It's not because you're an introvert! The reason you're exhausted is because you are in your head. You're not present. Period. End of discussion. Stop thinking and analyzing so much and watch this problem just "magically" disappear.

@Annoynymous I would say self-survival is necessary to certain degree. The idea is to take what is good about self-survival and transcend. For instance, it's good to take care of yourself partly because that allows you to help others. This is a healthy self-survival that benefits the whole. Unhealthy self-survival might be something like constant fear about the future, Win/Lose situations, etc.

Just about all of them. Love is the answer.

@SelfHelpGuy I'm going to bust on you a little bit and say that this question itself is kind of silly. There isn't "one" relationship style that is best for everyone, that way of thinking is way too simplistic. For one person, monogamy might be really powerful and growth inspiring. For someone else, it might be complacency and degeneration. You have to evaluate your situation the best you can, make an honest assessment of where you are and where you're trying to get to, and then just make a decision.

Huge Tolle fan boy. You can tell that energetically he is in a completely different place than most people. Also, people say that The Power of Now is a beginner's book, I completely disagree. That book goes very, very deep.

That's all true, but try thinking about it like this: Someone with a lot of value to offer is going to be less accessible than people who don't. They're going to have lots of people asking them questions, lots of people who want their valuable time and attention. So how do you cut through the noise? Find a way to add value to their life in a way they care about. For instance, I get a good amount of people who message me and simply ask to work for me for free. That's an intelligent way to get me to help you because you're not asking for anything, and because now I'm going to be sharing whatever pieces of wisdom I have with that person all the time. Also I feel like this person actually wants to be helped, because they're willing to put some skin in the game. Which makes me want to help them even more. Yeah, you could throw a hail mary into Peter Ralston's inbox. And maybe you'll get a reply. But you're really selling yourself short in terms of the value you could be getting. And you're not instilling the habit of giving instead of taking.

Yes but that's about you. Why should they want to speak to you? What do they get out of it?

@theking00 Yes, your body and your emotion are way more linked than most people realize. It's actually incredible how perfectly they often mirror each other. Energy healers can feel the spots where the energy is stuck and move it / clear it.

Awareness is an important first step. Study your behavior like scientist. Then when you catch yourself in those moments when you're suppressing, either express them or let it go. Formal practices like meditation, yoga and breathwork will help as well. @LoveandPurpose

What do you do when you're hungry? You eat. I think you're already suppressing your sexuality. What makes you believe you're not ready for a relationship?

This statement right here is a sign of why you are broke. Imagine if you took this same attitude with your health. “Do I really have to dive into going to the gym and eating healthy?” What would your health look like? Same thing with relationships. “Do I really have to dive into getting a girlfriend and spending time with her?” How would your relationships look? I think you get my point. Everything you want involves some sort of investment of your time and energy. Money is no different. If you think it’s not important, surprise, surprise, you won’t have any. From reading your post, I think you have some negative associations with money. Probably coming largely from your relationship with your family, since they have such a different attitude towards money.

Agreed, it’s just a general point.

@Arthur There's a lot of victim / scarcity mentality around these stereotypical liberal ideas. Don't get too sucked into it. At the end of the day, rich people have a completely different way of thinking, feeling and taking action than poor people. That's why they have what they have. And it's not some big secret on how they do it, almost every rich people at some point ends up helping others do the same. You could figure it out if you really wanted. In fact, most rich people I know would GLADLY help poor people. But poor people often don't want to be helped. They are stuck in their beliefs and ways of doing thing. For all the people who complain about income inequality, how many of these people have actually started a business? How many of these people have actually read a book on marketing? How many of them are willing to put themselves through the extreme turmoil most entrepreneurs put themselves through on a regular basis? Very few. So my point is that while maybe our economic system does need to change, don't let that become a victim story. The fastest way to make sure you stay poor is to blame / condemn people who are rich.

It is tempting but you’re not going to logic your way into a girl’s pants. Commonalities actually do work though, I purposefully build commonalities all the time. It’s just that commonalities don’t equal attraction. And the commonalities don’t have to be deep. That’s another trap. I’ll take “Omg we almost have the same birthday!!!” over just about anything else.

@SFRL It's a turn off if you're qualifying yourself by saying those things. Because now you're seeking her approval. Otherwise it's basically irrelevant in terms of attraction. Are you suddenly going to be attracted to a girl just because she said she's a vegan? No, you're looking for a slim body, ass and titties. In the same way, a girl isn't suddenly going to be attracted just because you said you do meditation. Sub-communications, sub-communications, sub-communications.

@Rebec It's very simple, your emotions are basically habits. If you could track the amount of times someone laughed, was depressed, got angry etc each week, you'd see that it's basically the same, No matter what is going on, people default to their emotional habits. You do. You could change your emotional state right now if you really wanted to. It's not even hard, we just resist it for various reasons. Maybe, but that's outside of your control so forget about it.

I grew up Catholic, and it was extreme difficult for me to tell my family about how I saw things differently. So I understand your position. I don't know how strict your parents are, but considering you're 14 my answer is to keep your mouth shut. Not forever. But this isn't something I would recommend just dropping like a bomb right now. Be more strategic about it.

@XYZ I'm sure some people could find happiness in it but in general it's not for me. I like leading, I like being in charge, I like the unique challenges that typically come with being a man.

I most definitely will be. It’s important to talk about.

@GenuinePerspectiveXC Dabbling versus commitment.

@Sahil Pandit Just seeing the sheer amount of scarcity mentality people (including myself) have around money. Once you start seeing it. your entire world view changes. Quick story, I was standing in line at a convenient store the other day. The guy in front of me was buying a pack of cigarettes, and it turned out that this pack of cigarettes was $3 more than what he was used to paying outside Miami. This guy must have gone on a five minute rant about how ridiculous the price was, how Miami is bullshit because of how expensive everything is, so on and so forth. The cashier had no idea what to do. I honestly feel bad for that guy. Because if $3 is a big enough deal to make you start ranting, what does that subconscious say about your self-belief to create wealth for yourself? If you were to put a dollar amount on how much this guy valued his time, how low would it be? But he probably grew up in poverty, and so that way of thinking is all he knows. Conversely, I am also blessed to have experienced some of the most extravagant living. Being in nightclubs and watching billionaires blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single night. A dinner for a few people that costs $5,000. Art pieces that sell for millions of dollars. And they do this with essentially no hesitation. The monetary gap between people who have money and those that don't is so absurd. Even if you're making 100k a year and think that means you're doing well, you are an absolute peasant to many of those people. And you have to be around people who have this kind of money for the gap to truly sink in. I'm just continually blown away not only by the differences in money, but by the differences in thinking and what is considered "normal". So yeah, there is a crazy amount of money out there. For anyone who owns a business and is worried about the price they charge, realize that people are spending probably 1000x your price on products that don't help them at all. They literally might do that just out of boredom. So you don't need to feel guilty.

Except you’re not implementing the information you already have. So what good is new information going to do? Those Leo videos will teach you 90% of what you need to know if you’re one of the rare few who actually apply it. Start acting on that and then you can keep seeking out more information for those final tweaks. But the majority of your results come from the fundamentals.

Awesome. Yeah the whole thing is very well done.

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