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I remember (if I'm not mistaken) you saying in one of the older videos that it wouldn't surpirse you to see a monk levitating. What made you change your minid?

Good points. The idea of development should be attractive to a guy even if he doesn't date. Yes it's true that dating, mating and seeking sexual gratification can become the motivation to improve yourself in many ways, but if the motivation comes from other places like for example if you want to be healthy for the sake of health and feeling good, if you want to be financially independent because you value free time and being capable in the world, if you want to be humorous because it's just a fun way to be! etc, you find that you're naturally becoming more attractive to women as well. Yes you're right in that modern men and women have a unique challange of navigating postmodern western dating market, and many people cling to old ways. Like for example in my country many people still think in rigid men/women roles, especially older folk, but the reality is that the provider role has shifted from mainly men to men/women and that changes stuff, as you mentioned. If in the past man's main motivation to become a good provider was the wellbeing of his wife and children, now women can also take care of that (which is a great modern achievement).

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16098910-letting-go I think this can help you a lot, read it. Also, why do you think a book can make you lose awareness? What do you mean by that? It's just a new information, it's up to you how you use it.

Use claude-design to generate a desent UI for your website. Just describe what you want in details and see what comes up.

Programming made me cry in the past, but those were not the tears of joy

Do you think it's fine to spend 20s and 30s experimenting with stuff, even 40s? If you hadn't found your passion earlier in life, would you feel urgency in your 30s to finally find it?

I also find that true for maintaining consistent practices like meditation or even exercise. Work ethic translates to all these fields. And if there is no work ethic every endeavour that needs consistency over times struggles a lot. As for faking greatness, just look at Tates. It's a comical example of what happens when you fake success. But maybe not all examples of fakeness ends like that. Some motherfuckers are just lucky till the end, but it's not something to role-model or aspire.

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How long did it take to see results on your head? I've just started using 2ml a day topical, it's been 2 weeks, and I've heared I have to give it at least 6 months to see if it works or not.

Maybe he'd meet his Deity sooner if he had some DMT in that cave

I don't think he portrays his realizations as the deepest possible ones. He's still relatively young, he could go deeper, and maybe he did after those experiences, who knows. He was questioning, he even writes that if he didn't get direct experience, he'd consider God not being real at all. His vision has some form yes but then he mentions that those experiences transformed his perception and understanding, so maybe it wasn't merely a "hallucinated God". But yeah, it's hard to know all that by simply reading this one book. He doesn't go much into technical details, ontology and metaphysics of God for some reason. When you strip the story of all the religious stuff, the core of it is a man who was dedicated to truth seeking like almost nobody. That's what inspired me.

Discipline and consistency are the key. Invest your time in clever ways, don't waste time, you'll regret it. Don't destroy your dopamine reward system with porn, gaming, social media, doomscrolling. Avoid those at all costs.

@D2sage Are you talking about male pattern baldness (Androgenic Alopecia)? Probably not, because it doesn't get fixed with diet or supplements. It can be helped with minoxidil (helps with regrowth) and finasteride which is DHT blocker (which comes with many side-effects).

That is already the case.

We ended my last long term thing with a girl last year and since then I've realized that I was craving single life, so right now I'm enjoying it I don't envision myself having family or kids, so I don't really care about dating much these days. I have friends in 30s that are in urgency because they want to start a family soon, but since I don't, I don't feel any urgency. And also, at this point in my life I'm hyper focused on other things I'm building or wanna build, so I don't have much time for relationships. Also they take emotional work as well, and I need my stable drama-free life at the moment. Relationships are source of drama (maybe not all, most). I can enjoy that, but not always. As for the future, I'm not really sure. As you mentioned there are lots of fantasies around intimate relationships and you need to kinda be willing to indulge in those, which I don't wanna be doing currently.

I have to agree with this. But also we can't deny that there's a deep conditioning in most of us to mate. All the cultural stuff that we add on top can be ignored, but there are some cravings that can't be ignored that easily. What do you think, what forms of relationships would you like to engage after all that? You said casual dating is kinda lame, what does that leave you with?

@Ulax oh my god 😬 But to be honest, it takes balls to be so shy / wierd and still go to some TV program and expose yourself to the whole world. Oh I didn't know the guy had a redemption kiss:

What's your plan? You're gonna transition into a different industry, or?

https://x.com/bryan_johnson/status/2102920107844624868 Why does he post wierd shit like that, just for the views? 🙄

@Raze Dude, did you just really compare breathing to relationships?

Yes we're moving to a higher abstraction. But it doesn't mean that knowing lower abstractions isn't necessary anymore. It still is important to make sense of the output or else we'll get sloppy apps. But not sure for how long will it be like that. It's like how we transitioned from lower abstraction languages (assembly, etc) to higher abstraction ones (python for example). But maybe this time it's different, I don't know. But surely industry is changing.

They already do actually. Still needs my input and reviewing output though, that's where I come. Thanks, will check it. My problem is that I have skills to build whatever I want, but I don't know what to build. I don't want to lunch another AI slop app. My idea was to spend more time on places like reddit, scanning what problems people have and try to figure out technical solutions. Haven't got it to it yet though.

Yes, that's my experience cause we're working on a single big project that's been in development for multiple years. I do this with my own side-project, which is much more fun than a company one because I get to play around a lot.

Maybe to experience more vulnerable part of yourself? Being in an intemate relationship forces you to be vulnerable. Even attraction phase forces you that, to face life and survival proactively. It's not a medium for expanding consciousness, but there's survival value in it. It can come with a lot of drama though, which is the reason I don't date at the moment, but I can see some value in it. Not the highest value for sure. Do you only do things in life that supposedly increase your consciousness?