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@Ramanujan There are a lot of caveats with the notion of passion. You kinda have to carve it out. I think you need more than 5 years, because the mind is very stubborn. And you have to do more side work than what a phd can offer you. Also academia can screw your passion too. Passion is inherent to your condition as a human, you can't really avoid it. It is how you're able to get things done. Purpose is more straithtfoward. When you go to the foodmarket you have the purpose of eating.

Mastery is a rare thing. In a 3rd world country is extra rare because you have more survival pressure. But also, the examples on the book are of people of different countries and different times in history. You can't really overlook that. Some of them didn't even have electricity.

Ultimately you want to conform to none other than yourself.

As long as you're precise you don't run into much problem. What matters is how much you can grasp, how much changes you. Also a single word doesn't make the cut in the majority of cases. You need a thousand of different words to produce a single insight most of the times. Conformity is one of those words. As long as no one makes the effort to understand, the insight lies dormant. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Abiding to rules is a prerequisite for a lot of things in life. A lot of people are confomist zombies precisely because they don't care about rules. But to see that you need the example. You get it from life obviously. Also not every rule is the same. There is a rule to believe only in a Christian God and there is a rule of freedom of religion.

Funny, to me is exactly the oposite. I didn't find any value in 48 lop. Mastery is a book where you can take a peak into different expertise domains, Da Vinci, Jobs, Darwing. I loved that. A lot of useful concepts get ingrained indirectly.

Can you conform to rules but not be a conformist? Think about it. You're twisting words, but in doing so you aren't understanding much. If a word can have any meaning you want that's slop. Slop = noise.

The word "conformity" is not of this forum. You either get what the word points to or you don't.

@Leo Gura Beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

What about green? From what you post I sense you need to integrate more of green. As for me, yes, I do need to achieve financial independence.

Haiti is a country in the caribbean that shares the same island with the Dominican Republic, but with a very different reality. You can track Haiti's crisis and DR's success by how France and Spain managed each one. Their destiny is linked by its policies on slavery back in the conception. This documentary seems like scenes of a movie, or a very well made fps videogame. You can see how they need to move to blue in the SD.

Imagine being able to hear dog's language of barks. You would have to transform into a dog to see how they experience life.

Is Buddhism just another way of rationality?

KoolAid

RAADS-R: 56 / 240 from a cutoff of 65 and... CAT-Q: 66 / 175 of a 100+ threshold. But I went through a period of loner wolf though, and that makes you forget a lot of social clues which can make you think you have some sort of personality condition. Now I constantly look for social interactions. Few people consider periods of isolation as a natural thing, for me it was completely normal and necessary. But this kind of pattern is very different from autism. It also feels like I've avoided tons of unnecessary baggage that I see people constantly engaging with. Things that I was carrying before and I learned to operate without it.

This is a good one. A talk on how to let Spirit work through you. Just straight into how Mind constructs your success. The reality transurfing one, the part of the pendulum is good. But then it is just meh, alwasys the same "you repel what you put on a pedestal" stuff. Very cheap stuff.