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Nah, awful take to be honest. But if you aren’t able to make it work for you then try something else. Obviously grinding books or trying to rush through them is not how you read. How you read is important. You need to focus your mind and train it to be sharp, reading does that. Audio books are good too but actually reading is ideally better. 20 mins a day.

There’s going to be a digital underclass, it’s already forming. I can tell you guys now that many wealthy and educated parents are equipping their kids with skills on how to not fry their brains. I predict that setting up your life so you aren’t on social media much will soon be associated with wealthy educated people.

I was always curious why I experienced this after my break through trip on ayahuasca. It lasted for maybe 3-4 months after. Would come at night when I was very sensitive. It was really disturbing.

I’m a bit envious that this guy can just afford to do life changing psychedelics and make a giant spectacle out of it with a camera crew filming and social media posts galore afterwards. Here I am working full time and building a foundation for success and a future family lol, something like that could derail me in a way I don’t want to put energy into recovering form. But to be honest I’m very much spiritually aware and have prioritized it since 2015, so the fruits of my labor have been paying off even if my experience is just around shrooms and ayahuasca. I shouldn’t frame it like I’m missing out on anything. I would imagine you can only garner so much wisdom when your original intentions are clouded. I guess what I’m getting at is he is literally the last person I would probably try to emulate when it comes to seeking peak experiencie. His whole Richie rich life is just so different from mine. I’d probably keep a good bit of it to myself if I were to do it and largely do my own journaling, talk here some about it. He also doesn’t look particularly young for his age. Is he really much more healthier than other guys his age? My grandpa lived to 92 and didn’t do shit for like 25 years before passing . Ate a pack of bacon daily and spent his retirement sitting in a recliner watching tv he recorded on a VCR. Maybe I’m being a hater but there’s something just performative about the way he moves that I don’t like.

I sometimes wonder if I’m just getting older and this is just moral panic. Cause people were saying the same stuff about violent video games when I was growing up. But at the same time I do think kids should not be using these devices until they are teenagers / young adults.

Yes, like them, but not the same as them. the book actually lays out the 3 levels of application, think conscious level, only the first level then has 3 tiers Level 1 Thick Face, Black Heart - tier 1 is like the most scammy least trustworthy person you, think a robber or professional criminal at stage red, heart is black as coal - tier 2 is the professional, these are the guys in finance, influencers, these are people who professional scam, they look good and appealing on the surface and these days they look great on social media but when you get close you can start to smell them rotting - tier 3 a face so think and heart so black it is a staring into a haunting void. These are people who are so black they shine, the people who are victims of tier 3 will praise and defend tier 3 even after being hurt by them, think politicians like Trump or Putin. Very few reach this tier of blackness and thickness Level 2 confusion this is a transformation stage where the person begins to awaken and be transformed by the way. Mistakes are made but it’s ok because it’s resulting in growth. Basically you are starting to realize you hold many contradictions and are coming into a harmony where you respect and honor and put yourself first but in a counter intuitive way it is for the all. Level 3 Thick Face, Black Heart You have gone full circle and integrated the teaching. You walk the way with heartfelt intentions, with a thick face, black heart 🖤 Perception of one’s value not given to others and a mature love that cuts through all the people pleasing and supplication we have conformed to for example immature self destructive compassion. Level 3, Think martial arts masters, a calm and cool master that is razor focused. This would include conscious people that are spoken of on here, Zen masters, Taoist monks, skilled outdoorsman like Alex Honnald, etc. people who are peak successful but you can see are doing so consciously.

I’m in the process of reading a book called “Thick Face, Black Heart.” I found it on Leo’s book list but started reading it all the way through a week ago. Honestly it’s probably a life changing book for me. I read only a handful of books a year and on average I come accross 1 book a year or so that it’s powerful and just the knowledge that I need for my next steps. Leo calls it a book for success and for cutting out people pleasing but also it’s much more than that. It actually has a powerful spiritual component to it and is steeped in Taoism. Thick face = able to shield yourself from caring what others think of you, including your own inner critic. Black heart = Able to move through the world ruthlessly without misplaced compassion or care for others. A lot of people who are successful in this world have this, and in and of itself thick face black heart is a tool. It can be used without conscious and for total disregard for everyone but it need not be. The book teaches how to use it selflessly and for the greater good of all, which for me in life has been hard. Especially for us spiritually sensitive people that come to places like actualized we are probably an odd bunch who are a little different than the masses. We can be overly sensitive and sometimes sacrifice ourselves for others in the name of spirituality and selflessness. This book corrects this and brings you back to a harmony where you know how to stand up and pursue what you want consciously. any Thick Face Black Heart practitioners here?

I think it’s an interesting question but sometimes I don’t think it’s the one to be asking. I think a simple answer is that in general, no, trauma doesn’t make you stronger. It’s like saying does being sick make you stronger. The thing is though it comes down to how you look at it. If you choose an empowering belief that leads to the next natural steps such as “trauma makes me stronger I will overcome this and be better for it.” Then of course you will indeed. But it wasn’t the trauma that held this but the belief that you can overcome anything, which is spiritual and true. Trauma are powerful experiences which can sometimes heavily shape our lives. I think a better way of looking at it is focusing on how we handle it after the fact of what has happened. Usually when we accept our past, learn from it and realize it no longer shapes our life it opens up a lot of opportunities for growth and wisdom.

Oh it’s nice to find someone here I don’t think Taoist teachings are heavily studied on this forum. They really are an excellent resource for sort of bridging between normal life as it unfolds while being

You need to take accountability. You aren't a bad person, but what you are doing is very wrong. You need to vow to yourself you will never hit your sister again and never use violence unless it's in self defense. You need to also seek out therapy.

I think he’s gonna send ground troops in. They moved a bunch of troops over. They’re gonna do a special military operation on Iran and try to destroy or control key infrastructure and whatnot. Damn the average voter is so dumb. Joe Rogan is dumb. Right wing voters who thought Trump was the “president of peace” are dumb. Generally speaking the average American is just so stupid. To be honest I think this is going to lead to a huge upheaval in the USA and probably a pretty huge restructuring, something similar to regime change and a new wave of democratic reforms. It will get ugly and tough but us average folk will survivor and make it. People without much will of course have it the hardest.

I tried this and I lost a lot of weight. To be honest you are still going to have a pretty mid to ugly body if you aren’t exercising. Unless you have a ton of muscles and amazing body already you will still look bad and not feel all that much better. Exercising is important for strength and aesthetics.

Not really. I send photos to Claude and he keeps track for me.

Yea but when I visited Vegas (my parents live there) it looked like a giant resort. It’s not really a place to build a like long term lifestyle unless you wanna do the “high roller” thing and go gamble and live on the strip and hook up with tourist girls only. Which does change the experience. Idk if I was single I’d want to live in a place with culture and a different lifestyle and steady people around and have the possibility to go long term. Seems like Vegas you got money/status maxxing stage orange type guy without any real culture, tradition or lifestyle. Obviously if you’re loaded you’ll be flying to other places but we are talking normal guys here. Hence why I prefer different cities and countries in general.

Dysfunction most times I think is spotted based on what you’re feeling. If you feel suffering vs if you are in your flow, authentic, at peace, joyful, clear minded. The suffering is a signal that something in your belief system is out of alignment with what’s true. That doesn’t mean all painful emotions are bad and you shouldn’t feel or create them. There is to some degree a utilitarian purpose for stuff like fear, ie you get close to the ledge of a cliff. I would say we all know how truthful we are intuitively and deep down. Id you’re feeling bad it’s a signal that you have some self reflection to do.

Honestly, move to California cause you can at least integrate game into a sustainable and fulfilling lifestyle there. Plenty of hot girls in California and it’s a better place to live long term.

In one of his videos he says he channels down this information. I said it before but I would expect for him to lean into dark awakening / mystic nihilism over time, his path will take him there because he hasn’t done deeper work. I could be wrong though and I’m just going by what I see. He’s appearing heavily on channels that would resonate with that (sneako, tucker). So expect him to release loonier mystic and conspiracy based content. He says he refuses to monetize his work though which I respect and could be based off the value of honorability which is more prevalent in Chinese culture.

I don’t think the goal of this work is to be nonconformist. I just think it creates the dynamic of there being a goal one much reach in order to be god / do this work, which I don’t think there is on this particular term, and furthermore who said all conformity is a problem or against this work? I would say authenticity is far more important to strive for because you are being true to yourself. Non conformity is the byproduct of this work because you shed a lot of lies. It’s not the goal and it doesn’t matter past a certain point since you can sit as infinite love even in conformist culture and during mundane life. A lot of this is also about what you want out of the lived experience. I enjoy mundane moments so to me there isn’t a need to max out on a state focused lifestyle.

He basically had to yap for several minutes before realizing why it’s important to be honest. And then he advertises a bs reward program. Also apparently his kid is one of those kids that flips Pokémon cards.

Throughout my day on my smartphone. You don’t listen to stuff while in the gym or when driving?

He’s been motivated to speak out on political issues and corruption so I figured his understanding would expand more since I last watched him.

Appreciate every day as if it were your last. Plan as if you have many ahead of you. The farmer lives in accordance with the sun overhead.

Generally speaking tattoos mean more open and freaky. Not always but maybe a bit more often. Not necessarily a problem but there def can be a values difference if you have a certain idea about who you want to date. I’ve met some really freaky girls without tattoos too. So idk it’s hard to say.

I’ve had women literally take an uber to my flat and have sex with me without ever having met before. And they were hot, not even joking. Young hot women in uni who liked my photos and vibe. Met off tinder/instagram, didn’t even call a couple of them just messages. The rules for this stuff aren’t set in stone. You can get away with a lot if you’re perceived as hot. To be honest women make more rules for guys they aren’t horny for. If a woman is offended by a guy shooting his shot it’s half the time because she looks to perceive it in a way that sets her up as a victim, but then occasionally they are literally doing every with a guy because they are sold on him from the get go.

It depends the intention behind it. If it makes you a warrior then it is beneficial to you. If it’s just being used so you can force and threaten people easily then you should reflect on why you’re doing it.