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Mr.Beast style YouTube thumbnails, with overly-expressive emotions. Most youtubers are aping Mr.Beast.

Get the book "The Book Of Not Knowing", that should get you started. It's a deep philosophical book about questioning everything you normally assume is true, including your identity, thoughts, beliefs, and perception of reality. It’s less about giving answers and more about teaching you how to directly investigate your own experience and think beyond automatic assumptions.

Check out "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse, it's really good.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-583 A recent video from Ralston complements this quote nicely.

I like how he frames the definition of a principle, that the principle is not about you, it's about itself. So for example, honesty, if you take honesty as a principle and trying living it, you'll notice that you'll have to be honest even if it goes against you in some sense. That's why it's not that easy to adopt principles willy-nilly, it comes with development and consciousness.

https://claude.ai/design

lol, last missing piece to becoming a tech millionaire.

Nice! Claude code (I assume you used it) makes implementing apps like these so much easier these days, you just need a solid AI workflow and you're good to go. Have you checked Claude Design? I procrastated on side-projects because I hate design work, and now that's not an issue any more, no more excuses

Sure, but what if I hear it from my culture and then experientially verify their existence within me? Do you consider that as conformist as well? It's the difference between believing there are craters on the moon vs actually observing them from a telescope, isn't it?

@Leo Gura What's conformist about that? Aren't they point to something real in direct subjective experience?

Yes I agree. But still, when we are in a relationship, there's that untold agreement that some expectations should be met, some expectations define a relationship, right? So there are some responsibilities on both parties, that shape a relationship. If we strip away those expectations, why have a relationship at all?

In what way? Most girls expect that euphoria in a relationship, and if you can't provide it, they percieve that as a problem.

Cold plunges.

Disillusionment post got me thinking as well, because it hit home. The more material goals I succeed in, and the more I observe myself after the event, basically everything fades away, all the excitement and happiness fades away after some time, new problems and challanges arise, and it's like nontsop chasing of fullfilment. Sure, life becomes more comfortable, also healthier and survival a little bit more secure, and mental health gets improved as a result of that security and physical health, but still, there seems to be a huge hole in my existence, an itch that doesn't get scratched by anything I've done so far, and that bugs me a lot. Also, I haven't really invested in spirituality yet enough for it to bear some fruit for me, so I don't have that divine connection to Truth and Reality that @Leo Gura you talk about, so is the answer in that direction? I think this disillusionment without proper spiritual context can become very problematic and unhealthy, when you feel like there's nothing more to life than chasing that cheese and you realize that no amount of achievement will truly be enough, I mean that's scary. What are you guy's thoughts on that?

He has good takes on OP's question.