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@OBEler Yeah my friend who was also there told me there was definetely something to those temples, Dhyanalinga made it easier for him to access altered states through meditation. Interesting stuff.

That sucks. How did you injure yourself? Lifting too much weight without proper form?

Prioritizing protein is important, also being in a caloric deficit if you want to lose fat. So it's not like eating anything goes to build a nice body.

I remember him promoting that book on Dr. Mike's podcast a couple of months ago. It sounded sketchy the first time I heard about it. He's probably jumping on the looksmaxxing bandwagon with that book (I haven't read it), but some of the points he made on that podcast were reasonable, for example, that looks matter, as opposed to not mattering at all. But his claim that everyone could get an attractive body through surgery sounds like bullshit to me. One more thing: I also criticized him from an ontological standpoint and assumed that he should have looked at the issue from an existential standpoint, at least to some degree. But then I remembered that he's just a bodybuilder YouTuber. I was asking too much. Maybe surgery is what someone needs to realize that, ultimately, it was never really about the surgery.

I love that track ❤️ Didn't know the author though. RIP 🙏

There are lots of things. Hard to list them all. Understanding spirituality is one of them. I don't want to add more survival pressure on me by having a wife and children.

Fitness / health influencers eating off a wooden cutting board

@stephenkettley I'm 30. I think marriage and children isn't my thing, but relationships in general yes. You can learn a lot from relationships, and enjoy creating them.

@stephenkettley I feel the same way. How old are you?

Hearing my own voice in a recording is so cringey 😬 Also, thinking back on how I acted in the past when I was clearly ignorant about something but thought I knew it all... ugh.

Yeah for me 21 was like yesterday, time flies like crazy. Aging happens much quicker than you'd expect. My 20s went really fast. Make sure you use it well.

Non-addicts often underestimate how hard it is to break addicitons. It's a very humbling experience when you yourself get addicted to some unhealthy substance / behavior, then trying quitting and finding out that you can't. Then you deside to take much more responsibility for it, and sooner or later (often much later) you overcome it. But the lesson stays for the lifetime.

Good ol Ralston about a similar topic. It's also true for me that if life get's too comfortable, I get complacent, and confrontation with myself is often times uncomfortable. But there is no way around it in order to proceed. What I'd add is that being comfortable in one area of life helps dealing with challanges (and being uncomfortable) with other areas. For example being comfortable financially helps with so many other things. Should we always be uncomfortable about our finances and always challenge and grow financially with no-end? I'd argue against that. Challenges come in phases, and the ones you've already overcome make dealing with new ones more hopeful and realistic. That's the fun of it.

Any skill that you want to build will be challenging at first, that challenge becomes more tolerable over time, but you still need to keep it at least slightly challenging than what you're used to, to keep progressing, if the progress and growth is what you're interested in. Same for dealing with trauma and psychological issues. Most endeavours that we value and most things that we want to acquire and don't currently have will need some kind of a discipline to get. Repeated exposure is often key to actually see some results in whatever you're practicing, piano, meditaiton or conscious relationships, or whatever. But I don't like the demonization of comfort either. Why is comfort bad? That's a good question. "Being outside of a comfort zone" became one of those conformist self-help cliches that people just parrot. Maybe depending where you are in life, more comfort is what you need. It's all so personal and intimate, I don't like these templates that people sugget for "growing yourself". The advice applies to more obvious things like if you want to lose weight, and are lazy, yeah, you'll need to choose gym over comfort of your bed each time.

This was hard to watch 😂