WonderSeeker

I've had that happen around the peak of some mushroom trips before. Low-key one of the most oddly satisfying things I've experienced while tripping.

Will this book help with leadership / leading groups of people? I just switched careers to education. As a school teacher at a private academy in Asia, 80-90% of the kids in each class I teach do not listen and many of whom lack basic respect for the teacher. I've noticed all the other teachers deal with the same thing, but some are far more effective than me at putting these kids in their place. They also have years of experience under their belt, so I'm trying to learn from them. My curiosity is how to get people — including my rambunctious students — to respect me at a baseline.

You said you are tired of living in Lebanon. Is your goal to actually get out? Focus on THAT more than the trajedy, and work toward escaping. Yes, easier said than done, I know. My mom's great-grandparents escaped the Armenian genocide in that region 110 years ago. I don't know their story, but imagine they were feeling a lot of grief and depression too. But they made it. It's not too late to do something to improve your situation. You are here on this personal development forum, so without a doubt you have something to live for. You just have to tune your focus to the right places, opening you up to different possibilities you might be missing at the moment. All the best brother.

Gun to your head. You can only choose one song. The most beautiful, meaningful piece of auditory art you've ever heard. What is that piece for you? For me, it's this: I love this piece so much. It uses a river as a metaphor for life. At the start of a river, there is a lot of energy and momentum, as in with children. "Hey there little speedy-head. The read on the speed-meter says, you have to go to task in the city." But at the beginning of your life, it seems like you will go on forever. "It's only just light-years to go." Yet, as we all know, life is chaotic and full of larger than life forces that rock you on your back. As you get older it starts to gain momentum. "Leave the road and memorize this life that passed before my eyes. Nothing is going my way." As a 28 year old I appreciate the hell outta of this piece, because it puts me in touch with my mortality and makes me honor the shortness of my life. "The ocean is a river's goal. 'A need to leave,' the water knows. We're closer now than light-years to go." Now there is a deeper desire to make something of this life. To seek the ocean, the infinite. Mortal pressure is necessary and good for this to happen. "There's no one left to take the lead. But I tell you and you can see, we're closer now than light years to go." Again, this awareness, this strange attractor-pull toward the mysterious, infinate ocean. But now all of your illusions are seriously falling apart. You think to yourself 'nobody else has the truth, so it must rest with me. I must find it and tell it to myself.' Which means your God ofc. "Pick up here and chase the ride. River empties to the tide. Fall into the ocean." Jump in. Headfirst. It's your destiny. Do it with grace, honor, and love. "There is nothing left to throw of ginger, lemon, indigo. Coriander stem and the rose of hay." This is it. We left it ALL on the table. Our work here is done. "Strength and courage overrides the privileged and weary eyes of river poet search naïveté." He who is courageous enough to figure out life is a true philosopher. A sage. He who chases the wrong things, who is spoonfed truth without discernment, who arrests his development at naive level is a fool. "Pick up here and chase the ride. The river empties to the tide. All of this is coming your way." This means one of two things. 1) You ARE the ocean (Universe, God), and you (the river, your human self) is flowing back to You (your eternal Self). 2) Or, if you are still young like me, and the journey itself is 'coming your way.' The journey of going from high-energy, foolish young adult to calm, wise sage. I hope you enjoy this song and look forward to seeing what you all share <3

I half agree. I think he needs to experiment more because if you have the passion, but cannot systemize it to support yourself — due to a lack of motivation — you may have to search for a secondary passion thats more practical.

If you guys bothered to find and learn from other teachers, then go build businesses, move countries, go on dates, and have awakenings, you wouldn't need another course from Leo.

Gotta love long form! The Mongilian ones were cool... I was fortunate enough to travel to and camp in the steppe a few years ago, so a lot of what he said about Chinnghis Khan and the Mongol empire made sense. ----- New interview popped out of the toaster. Honestly the more I hear him outside of lectures, the more I trust that his intentions are pure. I think people blew him out of proportion for no reason. This guy doesn't want to be a celebrity just like Leo, and I respect that.

Professor Jiang created a video on the social matrix!! His opening line: "Our world is a hallucination, a collective fantasy." I watched this and the following videos in series to make sense of the evolving situation in Iran (which has been gripping my awareness and informing my financial/lifestyle actions lately): - Eschatological Convergence - Law of Asymmetry - Escalation Ladder - US-Iran War His new video ties in well with Leo's OG Social Matrix video as a foundation. Never ever have we had access to this many high quality teachings for free. Blessed to be alive today

I actually watched Klein the other day (can't remember what video though) and found him quite helpful. Good show. And yes, gotta use heavy discernment on that last Jiang video... I think he's smart enough to bring the nuance, but sometimes he leaves it out, forcing me to wonder. It still had some great insights either way. But this video was an actual gem, IMO: I like how it goes really big picture. Not just news of the day. The way Jiang talks about how societies evolve has helped me see how I act in similar ways to world powers in my personal life, and how to improve my own results. I might create a separate thread on this if people want it — I think people are missing this hidden power in his videos. Another guy who has robust insights on geopolitics is Jeff Sachs: Some of what he says counter-balances or contradicts what Jiang predicts which I like. He smooths things out for me. But he mostly looks at things purely from a geopolitical lens. And remember Sachs is older and more directly involved in the overall system (UN for example). That makes some of his insights more experiential, but he also may be blind to other factors. Oh and lastly Sachs is aware China is in a league of its own:

This is true and good epistemic responsibility. I'm curious also.

Indeed subjective, but love the idea and effort. IMO, the "Life Advice For Young People" series reigns undefeated and will never be surpassed. It just has that all-around coverage of personal development from the perspective of a father giving his son the ultimate talk.

Thanks for the clarification. It also came across as shamanic, and having done 25+ psychedelic trips, I could understand and appreciate where the essence of her technique was coming from. The more important thing is the results. They seem authentic and accurate.

Fellow INFP here. Thank you for making this thread as I've thought about making one for years. I hate to break it to ya, but I think we have it the hardest out of all the personality types. You're partiallty right that mass-approaching is stupid in the sense that it doesn't promote connection. That strategy is pure numbers game. At times it can produce success if you remain detached enough and have a lot of fun. Of the hundreds of approaches I've done, it's only worked a few times. Most of the time I'd just get disgusted being in loud clubs talking to rude, judgemental, desentitized, drunk people. That's why I became more interested in day-game. The framework you are searching for is a bit of a unicorn. The way I'm approaching it is I've been stripping out and keeping some of the useful RSD tactics, while discarding all the toxic stuff. Then combining that with doing shadow work. Which means letting go / somatic therapy to become more relaxed in my authentic self. I actually haven't done a lot of approaching in the past couple years. And honestly my results -- or the amount of satisfaction I'm getting romantically -- has been about the same. I thnk it comes down to TONS of experimentation. Not just with game, but most of all with WHO YOU ARE. - Are you on purpose in life? Does you mission make you feel like a badass? - Do you love where you are living? Does it give you the thrills? - Do you have cool hobbies to bring girls into? Having these different universes to share with girls and getting excited about them is what helps me. I highly recommend reading this book. Best book out there on seduction. Especially as an INFP!

I'm trying to be open-minded, but this technique (or whatever it is she is doing) looks awfully woo-woo and performative. What is she actually doing as she breathes like that and waves her hand? It comes off as distracting and unnecessary. Actually, I've had my grandmother -- who is into woo-woo psychic stuff -- do these sorts of 'readings' on me before for healing work, and she spoke in the EXACT same tone and cadence as this woman (which is also strange). Maybe somebody who has studied New Age can help me out. ---------- Aside from that, what she is saying at 2:40-2:50 definately sounds like a reading on Trump. 5:53 is also intereting. Less than 1% being shown (ie, authenticity ?). Makes a lot of sense. Overall insightful.

Not necessary for getting hired. I didn't know a single Korean word before the airplane touched down in Seoul. However learning basic 'survival' language is a must if you want to live a smooth and interesting life out here.

Here's an interview between Jiang and Mehdi Hasan. I like it more than the debunked videos because it's not speculative. Here Hasan pushes back and asks hard questions on the spot. I think Jiang handled it mostly pretty well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QCALiCZbGSg Timestamp 17:36 for the juiciest, most interesting part.

I'm moving to China in August. Not a livestreamer but do plan to have plenty of cultural exchanges and build an adventurous lifestyle there for the next few years. Did a cultural/language exchange (and date) with a Korean woman yesterday and it was fun learning in real-time with her as we walked through Daegu. Meeting with a Korean guy today to do the same (minus the date). It's actually quite enriching meeting real people over watching videos IMO. Teaching English abroad and local language exchange apps/events made these experiences easily accessible.

You bring up a good point. He seems to have the intellectual priming for consciousness work, but hasn't actually done it yet. It shows. Possibly. I've watched 10-15 minutes from each interview and for the most part they seemed okay. Tucker was REALLY over-praising Jiang which got me curious what his subconscious was up to. Maybe a hidden agenda. Full disclosure I don't know much about Sneako other than he's controversial and gets kicked off of social media platforms. No idea why Jiang would interview with him because why would he want Sneako's audience to be aware of him. Kinda sus Could be. But from the age of 6 he grew up in Toronto, Canada and went to Yale. So I'm not sure to what extent he subscribes to North American vs Chinese values (probably a mix). But you'd think since he teaches in Beijing he cannot be allowed to criticize the country/government too heavily. It makes me wonder the extent to which he embodies geo-political strategy in his own personal life. That's what has been so insightful for me in watching his lectures. Understanding how the world moves like a 10-dimensional chess game so I can embody that in my own career path, relationships, etc (but from a good moral grounding). On a different note, here's his school profile:https://moonshotacademy.cn/en/team/63c6350c39cf7a258d/

No idea what this means or contributes. Vaush too: It's kind of amusing to watch him skip around the video until he lands on something he feels confident he can critique, only to misrepresent it without context awareness. That's why I think all these YouTubers aren't doing diligent, good-faith, accurate 'debunking.' They're just leveraging Jiang's popularity to get eyeballs, then direct those eyeballs to whatever misrepresentative narrative suits them and their channels. It's tribalism. I'm making sure not to become tribal over this myself. Jiang's flawed, but his Iran analysis has been pretty strong so far. For example Iran just started making ships pay tolls to cross the strait of Hormuz, which Jiang predicted 2 weeks ago. Next might be boots on the ground (which is almost certain to happen) and a U.S. national draft. Jiang already predicted both weeks ago. Just saying.

You're not that guy. Professional gamers don't waste time on forums. Your mission is something else and it feels like you're avoiding the discovery phase for some reason. Why? Watch the whole thing, especially 28:23.

As a 28-year old US-born citizen now living abroad, I am confident in #1 happening, and not because I 'want' it to. It just seems like we crossed several major thresholds in the past decade that have made the American unipolar world irredeemable.

Step 1 is experimentation. Until you can specifiy the ONE thing you are going to do, you'll remain stuck. I worked in 8 different industries in a span of 2 years and now I am happy as fuck because through that process I found what I'm doing for the rest of my life. Try something. Anything. Fail. Try again. It works.

What are you passionate about that simultaneously offers value to society? That's all you gotta know. The rest is the journey...

Jiang's intuition is in the right place, even if he misrepresented astrophyisics a bit (credit to Dave for knowing scientific gospel better here). Even with that, Dave's just comes off as a materialist jackass who wants to talk crap because he got eclipsed. Excatly, if you just watch it and think it through there are plenty of gold nuggets to keep. Problem with secret societies is they're secret for a reason. The real question is how much they influence societies. Makes me wonder if we can look at other secret societies from the past, if there is such information on them. ----- Just prompted ChatGPT with: Are there any books of high quality, well researched, truthful texts on the history of secret societies with examples? I am trying to make sense of modern day secret societies, for example, those that may be connected to USA, Israel, Iran, intelligence agencies, Epstein (or what's left of it), and of course anywhere else. ----- It looks like the book "The Secret World: A History of Intelligence" might be a good starting place. What do you think?

What is your goal with all of this? I spent years chasing the wrong goals. Did Uber and a sales jobs concurrently at one point, so I know PRECISELY what you're experiencing. The wear and tear of sitting in that same position all day fucks your joints, on top of the mental work you do online, on lunch breaks in your car or at night. Oh and when I determined the right goal I stopped Ubering, but then spent another year going after it through the wrong lines of work (corporate job + business). Only after going directly for the goal did I reach it in a record time of 2 months. I'd say just get clear on what you want and the health problem will clear in addition to the months you might waste doing the wrong thing.