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I saw a video by Vlad Vexler. He said that we are seeing Trump move the US away from seeking International Power and towards seeking regional power. Seems greenland is part of that.

Razor's edge by Maugham

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I think the general meditation trap for young adults is to go hardcore into spirituality while neglecting basic survival stuff like playing around with careers. Or at least trying to address what gets in the way of starting a career. For example, through addressing time management issues, or organisational issues. A trap, for example, would be prioritising gunning for enlightenment whilst unemployed and living in your family home at 21. I think that's the clear 'spiritual bypass' trap. But there are many different ways to have meditation in your life, whilst not falling into that trap.

David Buss hypothesises that Women look mostly for social status indicators, and Men look mostly for fertility signs (youth being favourite indicator). I can see the sense in that

What has helped me are the following lecture series: (I think lectures could be better than books for you) Issue with most political content is its very emotional, sensationalised, and honestly not very accurate. I think its helpful to take in perspectives which are a higher level and more neutral in tone. This helps because your mind then refers more to these sources, instead of these emotional/ sensationalised styles. Leo is also rather dramatic in the way he speaks (i am saying that non-judgmentally), and i think it is good to balance that out with more grounded lecturers. Has helped me at least. I get though that lecture series can seem like a bigger time commitment. ---- That said, I think most important is correct diagnosis of cause of your anxiety. For example, it could be that the existential stuff is just symptom rather than cause, and you're anxious because you eat gluten whilst being a undiagnosed gluten intolerant. Random example but you can see the point hopefully. You seem like an organised guy so you could devise a plan to try and test what the possibilities are.

Yeah mission was gangster

I get you

What do you think is a good model for tier 2?

I guess good thing to do is to question the science that underlies Spiral dynamics.

Well, did not realise fires could do that

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Agreeed

I heard book: Staring At The Sun: Being at peace with your own mortality: Overcoming the Dread of Death by Irvin Yalom is helpful.

I'd argue though that a key thing is self-belief. If you believe that you will be successful then the hard work has a very different flavour to it. Often that belief stems from having earlier corrective experiences. For example, seeing progress from a gym program. Hard work for a depressed person who has struggled to meet their previous goals, and hard work for someone with many accomplishments behind them, is rather different I'd argue. So, if you are someone who has struggled to meet goals, then you'll need to get some corrective experiences and then your relationship to hard work will change. At least that is my theory.

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Congrats !

Love the post bro! This year I finally escaped out of a place of my life having fallen apart. I am very grateful to no longer be non-functional, and finally able to pursue my goals more confidently. Emotional issues still there seriously, but I have positive momentum. Currently coming to the end of an 'Intro to political philosophy' Yale lecture series I've taken fall notes on. And I'm currently in my third part of an 8 part cybersecurity course. Which is a career path i'm committing to for awhile.

I like the skunk analogy

I disagree that it is magnetic. I think sometimes it is and sometimes it is not. In many dysfunctional families, being authentic will get you punished, and can bring upon abuse. For example, expressing anger towards a tyrannical father, or being open about being gay in high school. But in more mature communities, authenticity is more welcomed and doesn't get punished so much. For example, AA meeting.

I see most of the issue here as you and I having different conceptions of what is meant by intellectual. I see it more as someone who is a humanities academic or self-publishes humanities academic work. Seems you see an intellectual as someone who is a philosopher.

grrrr okay

How is that a strawman when the first line of the post is: "Any intellectual who doesn't meditate or do meditative yoga isn't serious"

I get you mate. But the quoted claim leo made is: "Any intellectual who doesn't meditate or do meditative yoga isn't serious" That is a distinct claim from "there are levels to being an intellect"