bazera

Power of Now. "Being here and now". This phrase is being thrown around all the time, especially in new age circles. Even one of local banks in my country has a slogan "here and now".

I think any type of a business will require thinking about technical stuff. Also, you could potentially earn lots of money with projects like that (if it genuinely solves people's problems somehow), and then you won't be needing to work as much as you work today, and you'll have more time to appreciate life for it's own sake. But earning lots of money with webapps is much harder than it sounds. For me as well sometimes, but it earns me a paycheck. Then I get to do things and build a lifestyle that I wouldn't be able to do without that paycheck. So it's a tradeoff. Not permanent tough, at some point I'll also think of ways to escape that paycheck slavery, but not right now, due to having other priorities.

Are being confident, charismatic, humorous and those kinds of traits more important? But being confident is much easier when you know you look good. Good looks is like a cheat-code to feel good about yourself, and that plays major role in making others feel about you the same way.

What I don't understand with this is that people go to therapy for years, for decades in some cases. Isn't therapy supposed to be helping with particular issue that should be resolved after X number of sessions? I used therapy for some issue that I needed help with, and was done with 5 or 6 sessions.

Yeah, especially since I became a meat proxy between Claude Code and app I tend to do what when I'm doing stuff just for their own sake. For example, playing with my dog, or spending time with my family, with no drama. Also, just driving alone in nature, just for it's own sake, with no destination, gets me into a contemplative mood. Thinking of my death also helps me appreciate life more. Sounds, shapes, forms, emotions, feelings, interactions won't last forever, I'm experiencing them temporarily and then some day it will be over.

I agree. Self-improvement also kinda became a conformist movement, people don't think about it, just follow the given advice, so if looksmaxxing is trendy, that's that they will call self-improvement. I don't think many people reflect on the idea of self-improvement at all, like what is one trying to accomplish with it. Most times the "self-improvement" steps you need is unique and requires personal investigation of ego and patters. It's not like you only need gym and sharp jawline and you're good to go, lol.

Social media has fucked up so many things in society: unnecessary addiction, insecurities, self-esteem issues, all driven by the attention economy just to make tech bros richer. And it's only getting worse. I can't even blame the looksmaxxing guys. It feels like it's just a new form of survival in a digital environment where all people see is your face on a screen.

I've heard many older people say that their 30s and even their 40s were the best years of their lives. It's probably because from 0 to 20 you're just a kid, in your 20s you're still trying to figure life out, and by your 30s you've got a better handle on things. You also likely have enough money to support your needs and wants, enough relationship experience to know what you're looking for, and more wisdom and maturity in general. Would those of you in your late 30s or 40s agree?

People have been making these kinds of predictions for decades. There were supposed to be mass landings and disclosure in the '90s, around 2012, and plenty of other dates too. None of them happened, so I'm pretty skeptical of any new date.

Speaking of wives, telling people that it's already time to get a wife and have kids, as if it's a mandatory thing to do in life and timer is ticking Every relative does this shit, starting to annoy me They don't even think for a splitsecond that maybe that lifestyle is not for everyone.

Jesus That's cool.

Seeing women as alien won't be an issue if men had more female friends. Also I don't think that's an issue for guys who grow up with sisters in household. Having couple relationships also helps dispelling that illusion.

@Leo Gura Did your follower count increase much from that video?

What is?

I wish Jesus could see this I'd pay to see his reaction

Mindlessly repeating lucid dreaming techniques, without trying to understand what's actually going on and what makes those techniques work. In general, repeating a technique mindlessly (in trying to practice anything) without a desire to understand how or why it actually works. This can get you started but later turns into a mechanical process rather than conscious one.

Yeah and Orthodox Christians as well. In my country when you go to the church, it's like a circus, and the higher the priest is in the hierarchy, the more ridiculous the outfit gets. If you tried to speak up and ask question on why those specific outfits, they rationalize and say that it's all canonical, as if canonical means sacred or something. It's funny when you look up Canonical in dictionary, you get -> "conforming to a general rule, standard, or official authority"

What the fuck was he thinking? Why did he do it?

How so? But yeah, I've also noticed that in the last years people, men and women blindly parroting those 5 languages.

I also feel like I'm an old guy as I turned 30 this year, lol. I think that's common for 30 year olds, 20s are over, 30s are getting started and shit gets serious all of a sudden. How do you view 30s from your age?

30. Time flies 👴🏻

That actually helps with weight-loss, tracking calories and tracking exercise to see if you need to ramp it up if weight-loss progress plateaus.

@SimpleGuy That monk mode, or locking in just refers to removing distractions, that's it. Remove distractions that robs you of your energy and time and devote those to something you want to see progress in. And what are distractions? That question is personal, depends on what distracts you. For me it was social media, doomscrolling, other dopamine-depleting habits, mindless socialization, mindless drama, even a relationship at some point, but that was me at a specific point in life, doesn't mean that relationships are distraction in general, that's why it has to be a conscious choise, not something you read on the internet. Audit your life for couple days / weeks hour by hour, what is it that you do that can be removed and those hours channeled into a more constructive thing that you're working on? That can be done, look at all those tech bros and Elon Musk types, but is that what you truly want? Maybe for some time yes, to achieve certain level of success but whole life? I'd reconsider that if I were you.

Why?