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I have a passion for writing extremely brutal action novels, and even regular novels. But I always failed to see how a Novel makes a difference in the world, even though I love novels... I simply cannot see how writing novels/books can be as impactful on society as for example making electric cars like Tesla, and that's the type of big impact I always wanted to make. So I let it go, just couldn't bring myself to do it. I think that your Life purpose orbits around your real world experience, ur beliefs and interests, so anything you believe/have an interest in can potentially become your life purpose, example: Hitler, Its very clear that Hitler had a toxic life purpose, his life purpose was formed because he believed something untrue about Jews/religions/blacks/minorities. If he believed that Christianity is true and had an interest in it, there would be a good chance that Hitler would become a pastor/pope instead of a mass murderer. so I think you should just expose yourself to more real world experiences. so a better life purpose can be formed, maybe you find something that you're more interested in than bodybuilding. "it resonates with you emotionally and intellectually"

Well the good news is that once Kim Jong-un dies, his sister will become the supreme leader the catch is that she's a meth head. sarcasm.

@Tech36363 if you disabled some Google tracking and data collection in your Google account settings then Youtube will stop recommending you new videos, so maybe you did that... I would recommend you to look at your "Time watched" section and if its longer that 2 hours per day you should outright quit the app or limit yourself from using it with extensions. You care about Youtube recommendations, which is mostly Youtube's way of eating all your time and attention. Many of us are stage orange and we like to feel like we're stage yellow, and because the concept of an Internet, infinite information & knowledge is very stage yellow, we justify our overconsumption thinking we're getting more conscious. keeping up with world news is important, but most of us are too immature to use it responsibly which means its better for us not to use it at all or in a very controlled environment, which is something to work on. Leo's Satisfaction Meditation Video Block YT Recommendations Block YT / Limit Your Consumption To A Certain Amount Per Day oh and btw if you like YT music you can switch to music.youtube.com

its strange, I went through a strong 3y depression. never considered or taken any drug while it lasted (with the purpose of calming it down). isn't it just a temporary relief? I was depressed because of tangible & real reasons that existed in the real world, drugs would've calmed me down yes... but what's the point if the reason I'm depressed is still real? from my narrow stage orange/green perspective, taking drugs is pointless and unsustainable. I'm guessing depression is as old of a concept as the human mind, the human mind existed for thousands of years while (according to Google) medicine is only 200ish years old, So if Aristotle was depressed, he had to cure it without medicine which kills every claim trying to prove that someone actually needs medicine to fight depression. just to moved to Frankfurt, right next to the Main river. Maybe take a jog instead of drugs, those gramps I see outside riding their bicycles seem pretty happy to me.

check out gentlemans gazette on YT don't start caring about aesthetics, approval, respect & luxury too much.

there, good & tangible advice! these skills are VITAL if you want to be a LEADER, and the only way you're going to make a big scale impact is if you become one. Steve jobs traveled to India two-ish years before founding Apple, he was searching for enlightenment , spirituality & inspiration, its the same for you, its just that you will be searching for different things (communication, argumentation, thinking, charisma and self confidence) p.s you don't necessary have to travel anywhere

Or have someone with massive integrity, that's the most important quality for people with power. Someone like Edward Snowden or Simon Sinek who's teaching leadership and leadership integrity... people like that do exist

Well... given that we started negatively impacting the climate and then LATER discovered, that if we keep doing it its actually going to become a problem. mankind might be working on creating another problem for itself RIGHT fucking NOW, maybe its the Metaverse, Maybe its A.I, but if history repeats itself then we won't know until we're already stuck in a lot of shit. and of course everything is done with good intentions, we invented the internet thinking it was going to be amazing and beneficial to us, only for it to be amazing and beneficial with new addictions created like social media addiction, conspiracy theories spreading like Australian wild fires, TikTok which is so out of control and in a league of its own, you can't even put it in a social media category, you might not see a problem with it if you don't have any young siblings, but I see grown men struggling to build any type of work ethic in their lives Tiktok just surpassed google as the most visited website, let that sink in & read it again if you can't believe your eyes, That means TikTok.com is more popular and more visited than GOOGLE.COM, that almost makes a TikTok account more valuable for businesses than a website, because a website is accessed through the google search engine. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johanmoreno/2021/12/29/tiktok-surpasses-google-facebook-as-worlds-most-popular-web-destination/?sh=2c81ee4a43ef

compared to America that is... the US is massively more social than most EU countries, I'm not saying that young people HATE living in EU, its just that MOST would rather live in "the promised land of the American dream", Its like America has some type of genius marketing strategy aimed at everyone else saying "This where you want to live" See how Leo talks about pick up and cold approaching woman, that's possible in Europe but way more taboo than in US, I recently saw a video of some American youtuber ranting about PewDiePie's video about cringing at pickup artists, after that I saw the contrast between US and the EU, Europe is very organized and focused when it comes to work. I would describe the difference between two continents as Tight and Loose jeans, Focused & organized with no room to breathe vs Relaxed and all over the place (chaotic at times) edit: damn that's such a good comparison, exactly how it is. AND SORRY ORIGINAL POSER FOR GOING OFF TOPIC

Well the EU holds the most conscious countries on planet earth, EU is the most evolved continent on Spiral Dynamics. I don't know what will happen in the future but the EU is the best candidate for stage yellow government. and still... all European kids dream of living in America, if irrationally is basically everything that goes against your survival, then moving from EU to US is the most irrational shit ever. one Europe's biggest problems is that 1. Its not social enough, so young people don't want to live there 2. no common language between the countries, If it did adopt a common language tho, maybe it would experience some cultural backlash but it would definitely be closer to stage yellow

so no you shouldn't get a vpn, matter fact you shouldn't even get Linux or TOR, I think its simply too inconvenient and most people just switch back to windows/chrome, you are not on anyone's kill list... there is nothing to worry about.

Recu ti sta znam Avast didn't notice shit, no individual at Avast or your government's intelligence agency is looking at your IP, data or location on their computer plotting something because you wrote a comment on the internet, that's the good news! (Its simply because there is too much people on planet earth, nobody cares about you or who you are as long as you're not a threat to them or a criminal). but "they" have enough data on you that they could probably write an entire book about you, not just your government but other governments also have shit loads of data on you... even if you never entered their country, especially the US. And this is not a conspiracy, I mean... at this point everybody should know that government surveillance is a real thing, the US created dozens of programs that keep track of everyone on the internet, and rented them out to other countries (Prism & XKeyscore are the one's I'm aware of) Prism: https://www.google.com/search?q=prism+nsa&oq=prism+NSA&aqs=chrome.0.0i512l2j0i22i30l8.3951j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Xkeyscore https://www.google.com/search?q=xkeyscore&oq=XKEYSCORE&aqs=chrome.0.0i512l10.6606j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Apple "They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone." side note: There definitely is a backdoor in all Apple's devices, or something that serves the same purpose. https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/ About Avast and what you can do: well first of all... Avast is BS, all Anti-viruses are total bullshit. If you get a virus on your windows machine... just reinstall windows... it doesn't cost you anything because windows is free, and not to mention Avast's VPN logs and stores your data that the government can access any day. OR EVEN BETTER! run Linux instead of windows, and if you want to protect your internet data from the Government/Your Internet service provider, Run TOR instead of chrome/firefox/edge, but its going to be slower, way slower. If you care about your privacy I would urge to listen to Edward Snowden on YT and read his book "Permanent Record" - watch his 2 JRE podcasts and if you want to know EVEN MORE ABOUT Privacy you can study something criminals and government's study called OPSEC. Just be aware of the great scale, the better your privacy, the less convenient your everyday life is going to be, vice verse. And be happy you don't live in China, where surveillance is also on the street, people and cameras monitoring you everyday. I know you didn't ask for a privacy course, but hey... that's what you got because I felt like it.

its called developmental psychology, that's what you can search for

@Carl-Richard thanks i guess i can be a little helpful here and give everyone my short story, this thread is actually perfect timing. about a month ago, I was also fed up with my 9-10 year long internet addiction and so I finally decided to quit, for the first time in my life I actually bought a book and started reading it out of my own good will, Youtube was most problematic for me, I convinced myself that Youtube had a lot of helpful videos that could be beneficial to me and that was the reason why I shouldn't quit. And yeah don't get me wrong Youtube certainty does have those "helpful" videos, but all I was using the app for is procrastination and distraction... And so after becoming aware of my delusion, I said to myself "I'm clearly not mature enough to use this app responsibly, So I'll just completely stop using until I grow up" and so I quit cold turkey and haven't touched it since, but the problem is, even though I had all this free time now, I was still finding ways to distract myself from the work I wanted to do. It just donned on me after I read this: Even though I'm free of addiction now, I still have no work ethic! that was the root problem all along, the reason I wanted to quit this addiction in the first place was because I wanted to be more productive, I didn't define the problem correctly, and so I had the wrong solution. Do you have any external resources to build work ethic? Do you literally just sit down a do it?

please do a thread about this oh wise sage Carl-Richard the great pls

+1 on that idea he should also keep doing vlogs on his blog (adventures in vegas part 1 & 2 and deliberate practice one)

Steve Jobs is a good role model, not 100% orange tho

How long do you think coronavirus will last? this is ridiculous... how long before we start taking this virus just like every other virus, like stop closing borders because of it?

The best way to find a style is to literally just go on Pinterest and start searching for clothing, the algorithm is going to recommend you similar clothing, if you find something that you like but don't know the brand/name, use Google Lens (An app) to scan the image and its going to show you similar clothing with links, brand names and prices. On the personal note, I'm a fan of wearing the same thing everyday the way Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg do, you find something you like and buy 10-20ish pieces of it, I originally got this ideal from cartoon characters, they're always wearing the same thing. Maybe you resonate with more formal clothing like I do. Some general tips: 1. Never wear chains that hang off your clothing, no piercings either, no implants whatsoever. 2. White shoes always look better, but they're harder to maintain. 3. Buy a Swiss watch (Don't buy those electric watches like the Apple watch or its knockoffs) 4. Don't wear heavily branded clothing or "Luxury" "Designer" "Hypebeast" brands, those are for immature teenagers who haven't developed any sense of their own style yet. 5. Don't buy anything over $200, there can be exemptions of course (just general money advice) 6. don't wear any silly colorful wristbands. 7. Don't wear any bright/light colors like a clown. 8. Wear belts 9. Never wear hoodies 10. Don't get large tattoo's 11. Don't wear coats (Unless you're a girl or a guy over 40) 12. Don't wear excessively loose or overly tight jeans 13. Celebrities don't know how to dress so don't take inspiration from them. 14. Don't wear extremely short socks 15. Don't wear a backpack if you're past high school 16. Never, and I feel like this is a deal breaker, never dye your hair to unnatural colors, so no red,blue,yellow etc only brown, blond & black clothing you should wear: dress shirts, sweaters, leather jackets, leather boots, ties, vests, jeans, vintage clothing if you look young, rings are ok, etc etc... bottom line is don't dress like a kid, dress maturely. I have a strong preference for mature clothing, I think most mature people have as well. In my experience girls like short hair, but you can do whatever you want. in terms of what contributes most to physical attractiveness (in order) 1. Height - height is the most important factor in physical attractiveness (in a guy) if you're a girl then height is 2., Number 1. for woman is of course her ass, boobs and facial bone structure. 2. Weight / Muscle mass (Not a bodybuilder, but a fit & lean athlete like body) 3. Clothing (Yup, the way you dress is 3rd place)

What's wrong with non stick pans?

I know for a fact that you're having trouble reading these posts of people trying to help you, its because your problem is completely made-up and you don't care enough to consider actually implementing anyone's advice, because deep down you know its made up and imaginary. so just relax and let it go. saying this with love and compassion.

let go of all this, Let go of personalities and realize that nothing has actually changed. go spend time doing something you like for example listening to songs you loved as a kid, songs you loved before Mr. steroid "Mr. Testosterone" doesn't exist, it was just your scared self all along. Just Let Go or even better go put yourself in a though Survival situation and see how much you'll care about personalities when you do that, think of that situation yourself. I'm sure the homeless think that their biggest problem in life is their personality . You remind of someone crying over the death of a fictional character. oh yeah and stop listening to any type of "Subliminal audio/music" and realize how silly & ridiculous it is that you've even thought of killing yourself because of your personality. my observation is that you've created a imaginary problem for yourself because you have nothing else to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQetemT1sWc

Leo shouldn't have a problem with this, I mean people constantly upload and share Jordan Peterson's work and he doesn't mind.

This is my favorite picture of all, I live right on the border with Serbia and Croatia (former Yugoslavia) which means my town was first to get hit by tanks and troops, the irony of the first picture portraying STRONG MEN as Soldiers who fought in war, if strong men create good times, then who raped all the women and children in my town? people often say "the soldiers had to protect their country, they had no choice but to fight" its clearly not true, raping 15 year old children has nothing to do with protecting your country, I don't demonize anyone though! and I have to be compassionate and understand their level of consciousness.

Recently I've watched one of Leo's conscious politics videos (Part 4) and have been thinking to myself: Is a company valued at 1 billion dollars even possible without engaging in all sorts of devilry like moving money across seas to avoid taxes like Apple, the irony of slapping "Made by Apple in California" on your products and then literally going out of your own way to avoid contributing to that same state/country, or Steve jobs literally saying "The purpose of Apple is to sell products that we would recommend to our family and friends" and then overpricing your products and exploiting those same "FAMILY AND FRIENDS", but then if you compare someone who isn't really exploiting anyone like a Music artist for example Billie Eilish, her net worth is $53M, compared to Apple's $2 Trillion. without doing much contemplation, my observation is: The more a company is worth the less likely they earned that much money with Integrity, which also means that if your in the TOP 10 most valuable companies like Apple... you definitely exploited and scammed your way to that position.