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Leo has mentioned that sometimes you need to immigrate to another country to fulfill your LP. I totally agree with this, not only that. I must immigrate because I cannot stay where I am now because of my values. I live in the Middle East and in many ways I am an outsider even though I am Arab, because my values and beliefs are so different. I just cannot bare the thought that I will live and die here.. But immigration is insanely difficult, Leo has said something like "Do whatever is necessary", "Find a way", "Make it happen", "If thats what you need to do then you have to do it, dont ask how, focus on doing it." I agree, but the problem is so fucking difficult, especially when you don't have money. Immigration in the west is becoming harder by the second. Canada is even hard to get into now, even though theyre accepting hundreds of thousands. For example, even if you're wealthy its hard. the Neatherlands had a invest for temporary residency program, which you can then later apply for a PR. And that is now closed as of March 2024. My buddy paid 3.3k $ through a law firm to apply for canadian immigration and was rejected. Its fucking tough. All of this while im still trying to figure out how to make money from my LP. Creating my LP and immigrating to western nation (also my options are limited to pretty much US, Canada, UK, Neatherland, maybe a few others as those are english speaking / majority english speaking countries) will be the hardest thing i ever do, if I do it. Im hoping I do..

Great Life synthesizes several domains of knowledge (Neurobiology, nutrition, philosophy, psychology, spirituality and self-development) with one goal in mind: Helping you to live the great life. What is the Great Life? The great life is: Truthful Holistic Disciplined Conscious Actualized Purposeful Joyful Love abound Free Creative Selfless Balanced Rich in Knowledge Wise Healthy The great life is a concept, an idea, waiting to be realized and fulfilled. A guiding principle, why I see it as Great, is because it entails 1- Wholism/Holistic, 2- Individualistic yet, the principles are shared, the methods many, the principles few the methods varry. My guiding tools: The simultaneous use of seemingly opposing skills Focus, and flow. Seeking and letting go, Learning and unlearning, Effort and rest Trust and skepticism Love and fear Desire and Resistance Being and doing You must be a seeker, seek knowledge, truth, wisdom, understanding, seek a better life a better future, seek seek seek! Seeking is prerequisite, if you did not seek, you wouldn’t be interested in any of this. Be hungry for these, yet also, learn to let go, of results, of always knowing everything. As Socrates said "All I know is that I know nothing." This quote illustrates the essence of what I am saying, Know (seek) that you do not know (let go). Great power comes from this, all great thinker display this ability, simultaneously balancing these forces, lack of balance leads to ignorance Learning is essential to the great life, you must learn many things, skills, knowledge, reading, etc. You know this. However, you can also learn falsehood, maladaptive behavior, ideas of yourself and other which are neither true nor do they serve you. As is the case with most people So what is even more important is learning how to learn, in order to learn how to learn, one must first unlearn concepts, ideas, imprints of society, to be able to learn what is true, and what serves you. Learning something new usualy involves breaking an old paradigm, new knowledge replaces old. In and out. This is very important. Trust in your potential, but also recognize where your errors lay. Trust in knowledge, but be skeptical of it, this is supposedly the essence of the scientific method, science trust the method, but not what the method is examing, the true core of skeptisim and trust is to develop trust in yourself while also not trusting yourself fully. This creates opposing forces whoch dance oin harmony to reach to the truth. Love and fear, when you love your work, you also fear, fear is a powerful motivator. Use it wisely, fear without love is destructive. I love my life, so I fear wasting it. Being and doing, this is similar to rest and effort, do what is needed, but also learn to simply be, simple, powerful, easier said than done. No shortcuts. In my life I have seen this happen, learning religion only to unlearn it, the process of unlearning reveals more truth and entails more "learning" in my opinion than learning. Because it shows you the mechanisms of the mind , the way which you believed, how it happened, why. It reveals your unconsciousness, by using your awareness. Powerful stuff, because it is deep. Learning the underlying mechanism is important to the great life because it shows you all the ways in which the great life may not be achieved. Two sides of the same coin, completing each other. The great life must be system based.

I did not find psychocybernetics useful, will check out the second suggestion, many thanks

I'm not a fanboy of RSD, but I really liked this video by Julien. Watch the first 6:50 mins. Julien states that most people have a self-sabatoging tendencies(what leo calls Ego Backlash). I have become painfully aware that this is truly what is holding me back. Julien says that dicipline, motivation, hustiling, and working is like trying to install software while there is a virus in the hardware. His analogy is that shadow work is the anti-virus, and that for as long as this virus remains sooner or later it will sabatoge the "apps/software". The apps/software are basically regular self-help stuff. I love this analogy. I certainly seem to recognize its truth in my own life. How do you deal with self-sabotage? When you're working on your life purpose, working on your spiritual practices, the virus is still infecting you. It seems no matter how much hardwork or dicipline you put in, sooner or later it will defeat you. Leo's content doesn't seem to deal with this much, except in a few videos. I understand that Leo's content is more advanced and assumes a certain level of development and trancendence of self-sabatogging tendencies / severe mental illness etc. So I invite people in this forum to share stuff they found useful for dealing with your shadow / self-sabotage

So, I watched the series on abiogenesis by James Tour, which Leo also shared on his blog. After watching it, I watched Prof Dave's response and their live debate. Let me clarify: I don't like Prof Dave, and his video on quantum mechanics (in which he criticized Leo) wasn't good, in my opinion. I don't like the guy nor think he's right on everything; he's also biased. But his response to James Tour's video is rock solid. It's clear to me now that James Tour is not a reliable source on evolution/abiogenesis, and even though he claims his religious beliefs don't factor into his opinions, they do. 1. Prof Dave responds to James Tour Series 2. Response to James Tour Response 3. Live Debate Also, I watched this video of James Tour being invited to Harvard to speak with scientists on abiogenesis; look and observe: Are the ivory tower Harvard scientists the ones who are close-minded? Are they the ones who are so shackled and tied to their dogma? Are they the ones refusing to accept a new paradigm? Or is it James Tour? Watch and decide for yourself.. for me the answer is clear. Science needs to evolve, science needs someone to challenge its dogma and assumptions, but James Tour is no the man for the job. Again: Prof Dave is annoying. I don't like his style nor do I think he's right on everything. But in this case he is.

I am not a materialist, but the examples you gave are literally explainable by chemistry. If you don't see the magic in chemistry, keep looking!

Leo, I remember you mentioned that excessively viewing youtube political content will slowly start to "toxify your mind" Can you please elaborate on this?

I clearly said in my post that even I disagree with him on a lot of things. My post was about appreciating his achievements, specifically his work/art.

Think what you'd like about Sam Harris. Honestly, I really like his Life Purpose. Wrote influential books, traveled to India to learn about meditation, and then created a successful meditation app. He had a successful podcast which he then made a membership-only model, and so many found him to be so insightful that they subscribed to listen to his podcast. He has become independent of advertising and youtube monetization. I have to admire that.

I have been smelling a lot of less than pleasant bad body/oral odor from many young women. I think this is because most peoples diet is so poor nowadays. "We suggest that the main nongenetic source of axillary odor variation in a healthy human is due to differences in diet. Our opinion is supported by a study which showed that hand odor of twins on different diet was correctly matched; however, this was not true for twins on the same diet (Wallace 1977). Hepper (1988) found that dogs can discriminate between adult monozygotic twins on different diets." Its a huge turn off, and more common than you think. Diets high in fruits and veggies are correlated with better body odor than heavy meat diets: "The results of this study show for the first time that red meat consumption may have a perceivable impact on axillary body odor. Odors of donors on the nonmeat diet were judged as more pleasant, more attractive, and less intense." Theoretically, antimicrobial compounds should help in reducing unpleasant body odor. Fungi and plants are chemical masters of antimicrobial warfare. Green tea, mushrooms, spices, and some vegetables produce many antimicrobial compounds that are biologically active. I'm guessing that metabolic health is also very important.

Even if you disagree with his teachings (which I also do), you have to admire the way in which he has made a name and living for himself. He’s living every educator/thinker/teacher/youtuber’s dream. Not being dependent on monetization, able to say what you want. Having multiple streams of income (books/app/podcast subscription). It’s a great business model.

I agree.

Sam Harris Noam Chomsky Jordan Peterson They all inhabit an intellectual terrain different from what they studied academically. Yet all have PhDs/Degrees. Do you think that to get taken seriously as an intellectual, having some kind of science degree helps give credence to your credibility?

It's a good book, honestly. I liked the Fifth Agreement even more. But it doesn't give much tools and methods in a holistic/serious way to any of the stuff in the book. I read it and re-read it because it is poetic, makes me emotional, etc. But Its not a very serious book like The Book of not Knowing. His son published a book called the master of life, which is also good and has more tools, some are a bit new age for me but its a great book.

Derek, from more plates and more dates, although not a public intellectual per se, has established himself as one of the most trusted and respected sources on stuff related to hormones, TRT, fitness, etc. He corrected Andrew Huberman on something and Andrew replied in a respectful way and admitted he was wrong, further cementing his legacy as a trusted source of information. There's a lot of lesson to learn from Derek for anyone who wishes to become a teacher/educator without a degree.

My LP is communicating knowledge/wisdom/insight. I don't like to think of it as competing but you in a way you are with so-called Public Intellectuals. Was just wondering about this question, because I don't have a science degree

I know. He doesn’t have any credentials to prove that he is a licensed therapist. Google it. That’s what my MD analogy is explaining.

This guy isn't a therapist. He has no credentials anywhere to validate that he is a therapist. You can't call yourself an M.D if you don't have a degree. I don't think having a degree proves knowledge. But calling yourself a psychotherapist even if you have deep intimate knowledge of the human mind is misleading. I totally agree with you on how fascinating it is to watch Andrew Tate's defense mechanism and delusional way of thinking. I wanted to make a video analysis of it. Very intriguing

Beautiful, thanks for sharing.

I have a sense that there is One Thing I should do. One thing I could do. One thing that if I did do, would set a chain reaction in my psyche and set in motion so many (positive) things. Something is blocking my progress/success/growth (in business, spirituality, and life). I don't view it as a "one solution" or / "magic bullet" that will heal and solve everything but as a necessary catalyst. Dominos of the mind falling one after the other just because of one thing. I recognize that life is complex, and single-minded thinking is not a useful tool for navigating this world. I don't know if this is a human tendency to reduce all problems into a simple idea. But also, could it be true? A chemical reaction is complex and many molecules are needed but the chain reaction can be set off by a single catalyst and that is what I'm referring to by using this nerdy analogy (that I hope made sense). Do you have examples of this in your own life? I would like to hear the forum's stories, if any.

Leo said, "Health is largely genetics". I think because Leo is struggling with health (I feel for you my man <3 ), potentially a genetic disease, he started to develop this opinion based on his experience. First of all, in some instances genetics are determinants, other times, they are correlational. Huntington disease is an inherited disorder, in this case Leo is right. However, most people do not possess such genetic disorders, most "bad genetics" increase the probability of certain diseases, but they do not determine it. Let's not forget that epigenetics is also real, and some genes can be turned on or off. Leo said you should eat "according to your genetics". Again, if you have an allergy or intolerance, then he is right. Most people have no such conditions. This advice can be taken in a very wrong way. Health is not largely genetics for the majority of people. This is just false and I am tempted to post a long ass post filled with actual research to back up my point. Love you Leo.

Dan is the man

I have ADHD, but when I trip, it's amplified even more. Not sure if everyone feels this, but thoughts, ideas, imagery, and memories all explode in my mind. It's fun, but I feel like I can't focus enough to delve deeper. This convinced me that I need to establish a daily meditation habit. Other than meditation, what else can help with this?

I also fucking hate humans. But I also fucking love them.

thanks for the share friend.