Calcifer

Tony Robbings approach to investing and financial management is in my opinion much more progressive, than what you hear every where else. In a nutshell: You create such an abundance of wealth through your investments and businesses, so you can then channel this abundance into more philantropic projects like giving out free meals for the poor. I think this is a good first step and compromise, and from there you can work on creating higher consciousness income sources that support your philantropic projects - but you have to start somewhere

This is an inevitable clash of motives and ideals. If you want to make money through investing you have to invest in these hard-orange companies. Sadly there is no way around it if you want to create an income out of stocks. If you invest into progressive and idealistic companies you invest into their ideals, but don´t expect to get much money back for it. The best way in my opinion is to totally avoid investing, if this creates a conflict within yourself. Or you should see it as a short-term solution for keeping you aflout for the next 5-20 years, while you work on yourself to become highly creative and a massive value provider.

You will come to that conclusion many, many times that you know nothing about anything. But each time you relive that realization you become more aware of the enormous scale of your ignorance. It makes me smile each time I go full circle and realize it yet another time. It is just a part of the game. "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." - Plato "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates Even writing this advice makes me aware that I don´t know anything to give advice. But this makes you humble and open for new possibilites. I think the key here is to pursue knowledge & wisdom despite the fact that you will only know a tiny fractune of reality, no matter how hard you try. It´s about living with this paradox and coming to peace with it. In the beginning it is just a subconscious feeling that you have so much more potential and that you could have a big impact on society. But you suppress this feeling until this feeling of wasting your life can´t be suppressed anymore. Often times this happens when everything else is already collapsing around you and you can´t put the truth aside anymore. At this point you start to take action, slowly. Everything from this point is just a matter of finding the solutions through the process and not giving up the faith.

Geoff Lawton - Geoff is an permaculture activist & terrafromer with the vision to create sustainable ecosystems that integrate the human as a part of the ecosystem, instead of excluding the human and seeing him as a threat to a stable ecosystem. An idea for which Goeff Lawton is known, is the idea of the foodforest. It is a forest that is specifically designed to be a stable ecosystem in which animals and species can live and be preserved, but also it is designed to produce food for us with minimal intervention of destructive agricultural approaches.

This won´t be as easy as it sounds, as soon as you don´t rely on Youtube you don´t really find videos of them on Youtube. Truly mindbending haha But if we can collect some extraordinary examples, then this would be truly amazing. Also what do you @Shooby mean with authentic careers? Is it more like something bizarre, that most people woudn´t even think of? Or more like a very specific, authentic niche, like being for example a musician that focuses on creating inspirational music?

Do any of you guys have found a way to download Leo´s videos on his Blog? I´d like to listen to them without necessarily having a good internet connection. I am already trying the Add-On "Videodownload Helper" for Firefox, but just downloading Leo´s newest blog post about requisit variety takes several hours with this add-on, which is not really practical. If you download a "normal-sized" Leo Video on youtube it only takes a few minutes even if you are downloading it with the highest quality. Any recommendations?

Hey, due to the corona pandemic & the end of high school I found myself in a situation where I had much, much, much more free time to spend on my own projects. The problem is that over these last few months I became much more wasteful with my time. I could waste 1 or 2 hours a day without even noticing a big difference in the short-term, but I am currently working on my Life Purpose and I can see that this behavior will waste huge amounts of potential growth - if I don't get this in check very soon. And since I am now alert & receptive for productivity and time management tips & advice, I thought it would be a wise move to gain a deeper understanding of this topic, so I can prevent unconsciously wasting my time in the future. But I am still very uneducated about this topic. Do you guys have any great advice about how you deal with managing high productivity and your time? Have you recommendations for good courses that I could purchase that would give me a solid understanding? Or any great books that I could read? I am grateful and open for any advice!

In my experience it took me 1 1/2 years to fully integrate the habit of standing up early (around 4 to 5 am). During these 1 1/2 years I could hold it for even 3 months without problems, but then it broke away suddenly, so it had to rebuild it. And this happened not just once but several times, so I doubt that 21 days are by any means enough to make something a habit that is second nature. At the threshold of 21 days it gets a little easier, but it isn´t solid. It just gets a little easier. I think if you are really serious about a habit that you want to integrate for the next 5-10 years then I would say that you probably need 4-6 long-lasting attempts to cement it into your behavior, so it becomes really second nature. When you´re building a habit, it doesn´t matter how often you got of track, but how often you picked yourself up again. At some point before you know it, after failing over and over again, it just became natural without you even noticing it. At that point congrats! You succeeded !

Did anybody read some really good biographies about historic leaders/visionaries, like Julius Caesar, Augustus, Alexander The Great. I am slightly concerned, that I buy a few books about these great leaders and they turn out to be just dry historical analyses. And instead of inspiring you, they are more likely to bore you to death. haha

Leonardo Da Vinci The Biography - by Walter Isaacson is amazing. After reading it, it´s like you have a 3D model of Leonardo´s character. I don´t know how to describe it, maybe I am just an obsessed Da Vinci fan. But this book demystifies Leonardo´s character and his genius, you see how his genius originated and how it unfolds over his lifetime and especially you get a sense of the costs and problems he faced because he chose to architect his way of doing things the way he did. (In the end all great achievements originate in the arrangement of habits and mindsets and in this book you get a glimpse into the architecture of Leonardo`s mind) I can only recommend it especially if you like Da Vinci.

I don´t think there are exercises that can teach you these traits in a very straight-forward way. I woudn´t compare them with doing push-ups or sit-ups, where you are doing 200 reps and now you gained +5 points in strength/creativity or passion. These are more general attitudes to life, which can be applied to any field of life. We are creatures of habit. You become a creative person by doing creative things every day. You become a visionary by visioning on a daily basis. You become fearless by doing bold acts and so on. And these habits can be applied to everything you do. Just make up your mind, which aspect is missing or suppressed in your life. After you´ve done that find solutions how you could change your way of doing things so it is more aligned with this trait that you want to develop. Let´s say you want to become a more curious person with a questioning-frame of mind. One way to approach this is to grab a notebook and go through your whole day writing down questions about everything you encounter. This can also be applied to a specific field of interest like finances or personal development. It´s an approach to things and can thereby applied to anything you wish. It isn´t limited to a skill or subject.

@WonderSeeker Neat Idea! I´ve got a few that I like to listen to before I am working on my life purpose I like to categorize my music tracks by their emotions they convey to me, so don´t be confused by the tags. haha aspiring/empowering Dreaming Beauty high culture light Mastery, struggle, joy, fighting the good fight Fulfillment This track from Olexandr Ignatov is my absolute favorite one world changing, achievement Heart of Courage right here is just mind-blowing. Just close your eyes and listen carefully, I bet you will be inspired haha Good luck refueling your inspiration

Seems like I got a bit carried away haha. I didn't really think about this easy possibility. But I have one question: At which point can you draw the line that this AI is thinking independently or just pulling from a huge database? Doesn't our human mind work in a very similar fashion? Aren't we just pulling from a huge database as well, only with the limitation that we are only able to access a small portion of this database at once? Isn't this the reason why it is crucial to watch one's own information intake since our mind works like an incubation chamber for ideas, which constantly recombines gathered data?

I am not really sure where to put this topic, but I think it kind of fits the "Self-Actualization"-Category since this is one of the most used ones. If not feel free to move it to the appropriate category. Does anybody has more insight into the topic of AI, robotics and the fusion of both of them to humanoid robots? This thing right here made my eyes wide. I am aware of that AI is already able to compete and beat men in games like chess or Go as well as computer games like Starcraft2 or Dota2, but this seems to be on a different level. How likely is it that this conversation was staged in the sense that the overall questions were known in the forehand? I don´t know, but it feels so outlandish, because these answers felt kind of natural and spontaneous. Does anybody have at least some insight into how real and legit this conversation is? If this is the current standard of the AI and Humanoid development, then these advancements are reaaallly impressive.