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Because people are incentivised to agree with the fashionable opinions

Bro still posts on insta and in vaults

Great stuff bro

Sort of

Interesting. I've also been more cynical re social dynamics, so might be why it had less of an impact on me too. The big difference between greene and rsd guys is that greene is really just theorising where as the rsd guys are pulling from mountains of experience

I like him but wouldn't say I'm a fan, and I don't find him very controversial. I'd probably be much more interested in Greene if I'd come across him before people like Peterson, and RSD pickup guys.

I use power more as a value dynamics thing. Powerful people being those who can seem high relative value compared to others

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Nice. Can see

I spent my young adult life chasing a wonderful opportunity. There was a real desperation and longing to achieve it. However, I lacked the consistency and some other skills to achieve it. And I watched that dream completely fall apart, and it really broke my heart. And my life kept falling more and more apart. Then I gradually picked up the skills I lacked before, one by one, and around a year ago I started on a very positive trajectory. And since then hope returned and a lot of the negative emotions reduced/ went away.

Here is what I see

A key issue is that reading Greene, someone is just going to become a theory junkie very easily. Its like watching a tonne of pickup videos and then thinking you're a stud. Nah you gotta take the theory and practice reps, until you hone the theory until its second nature, and understand where you go wrong in applying it. At least with pickup they bang you over the head with the need to actually go out and practice that shi like an animal.

Power dynamics are very important. but most people's understanding of what counts as power is very warped.

Much higher. I've semi made it out of the inner hood recently