ZenSwift

Yes, yes you should!

I listen to your playlist 24/7. It's the best! I even thought about making my own Actualized.org playlist 2.0

Still looking forward to that video on how to think. ?

That makes it a lot more clear for me. I wonder if there's somewhere you can learn more about training the skill of being a medium because I would pass that off to my sister as she has started receiving messages from the dead. Probably.

How do you know you have any abilities worth training up?

Notes: Plow for a couple minutes. I've had ONE set where this worked well because she was clearly interested to keep putting up with me. I managed to make her laugh which was probably one of the key things that set apart all the other sets. This really makes me think about the last 100-150 approaches I've done, I've only had like one decent hook. (All night game). Tough crowd? Poor game? Probably a bit of both? I need better friends to hang out with to make night game actually fun.

That hit me hard. So everybody else will cease to exist as I initially saw them, where I realize that it's all just in My Mind? All others is just me!? Sounds like a blast!

I remember someone made a really inspiring post about day game on reddit and ALL the replies he got was negative as fuck, shutting him down. This forum is the only place I know that has a positive, healthy perception of pickup. Especially reading Leo's posts on game has helped me a lot to frame it in my mind correctly. As I noticed that it is very uncommon to frame the process of pickup in a positive manner.

GPT 4 is going to scare me lmao.

That sounds great!

Thankyou for the clarification.

@Leo Gura Define Serious Trouble. I've been playing with the idea of doing a 25g trip hypothetically decades from now. But I see no point if I can use harmala and also since frequent use of 5meo will potentiate everything else anyways. I guess what's important for me is to one day do a trip where my entire body disappears and I am SOMEWHERE ELSE. I assume that's probably DMT?

Adding onto that: I believe that a significant number of individuals resort to a perpetual dopamine-seeking behavior as a coping mechanism due to their dissatisfaction with the lives they have unintentionally built for themselves. It's an endless cycle that people can't see out of because in their reality there IS no alternative to this constant chasing of the next hit. There is nothing else. Living a shallow life for so long that it's not even a possibility in their mind that there exists an alternative way of being.

I love it

Super inspiring!

Wild Idea, but would a tagging system be beneficial? Where posts are organized with tags and maintained by every member in the community? Similar to an imagebooru.

This is exactly why I want to awaken!

You have to be especially vigilant of traps and self-deception for things that give you benefit.

The ability to order mushrooms in Canada is unbelievable. It feels like by the time it's fully legalized to be used like marijuana, everyone's minds will be open to this legalization because they would have already had tried it.

Not sure how long you plan to keep the forum active, but I can see this as a very good move because as my life purpose starts to gain traction you better believe I'm going to be directing a lot of attention to actualized.org and the life purpose course through my projects.

I use Google Voice typing all the time. I used it to write my book.

@UlaxThat's so inefficient! What's way better is to just create a Tulpa of Leo such that Leo is present in your everyday consciousness at all times.

I've been spending countless hours reading through this thread. Currently I'm reading page 2. I've dissected Leo's lecture on the topic, and I have read Cutler's book. I will let you know if I have any questions, but I am curious to know what your research process looks like, as you seem to be pretty good at pulling sources together. Also, how much time do you think you've spend researching?

That's wild

(Inb4 just telling me to just do more approaches.) The worst part about game is not during, but the day after when my mind starts to reflect and it starts to become an echo chamber of the worst sets. Sets where I get bullied, sets where women are just being immature with the way they reject me, etc. As time goes on, I naturally recover, but I honestly would like to recover within a couple minutes rather than having it distract me from my work for the entire next day. What are your best techniques to process these experiences and quickly move on? Context I've overcome a lot of hurdles as of recent. I had some really bad nights, but I chose to keep going and do more approaches. I will not stop approaching because I know I am headed on a trajectory of personal development and growth. Last night I managed to do 42 approaches towards women in 27 sets with women in it (so I would run approaches on multiple women in a group for example. I don't count approaches to just men.) No matter how tough it is, I won't tap out. I am aware of the learning curve of pickup being very high, very brutal and extremely emotionally difficult. Sure, I have had thoughts of quitting, but I wouldn't be able to become the teacher people need me to be if I back down, so I wont. At this point, I'm getting pretty good at just surrendering to the gauntlet of approaching. Most of these problems out here are just solved by doing more approaches as Leo says. Additional Ruminations and Questions Leo says: "Stick it out to the end of the night" I do not see the practicality of staying in the last hour of the club when I have not even yet built the skill of doing solid approaches, building rapport, and establishing premise. Until I learn how to hold a good set on a consistent basis, I see no need to stay out in the last hour. Plus, in the last hour, it gets incredibly aggressive and most people already have paired up. Leo Says: "Clear Your Mind As You Approach" What do you mean by "clearing your mind", I need to hold at least set of openers in my mind, I'll then say the opener that holds the most congruence, I will then immediately clear my mind such that I can calibrate to the conversation. How do you find better wings? Game global is kind of a crap source for my city. At this point, I feel like I need to just focus on my life purpose so that I can earn the money to move to Vegas or something where the whole nightlife is better. Yet at the same time, I still see it as practical to still do game in the city I'm in in the mean time. Since game takes a long time to develop, I don't see it as wise to shelf doing game for a while. Yet at the same time, survival is knocking at the door, and waking up at 5AM would be a whole lot better than waking up at 10AM to facilitate a pickup lifestyle. (I am unemployed ATM, so I do have my time to myself, but if I ever need to run to the store or something before it closes, I will have to interrupt my routines throughout my day.) I thought about just looking at the guys in the club that have game and then turning them into my clubbing buddies, but I have an extremely tough time to build rapport with these people that appear to be "high value men" that have good game. If I plan to go down that road more, I need to shift my approach, still have to figure this out. I notice that I avoid physical escalation because I am aware that my hands are always cold as fuck. My body in general seems to operate at a colder temperature on the surface of my skin. I tried to dance to warm my body up, which works, but I would need to to that periodically throughout the night. I am considering using a heat pack in my back pocket to warm my hands up lmao. I am always holding water because otherwise my throat would get dry as fuck where it's rough to speak because it's such a loud club that I go to. That also makes one of my hands tied and also makes it cold lol. Does holding that water sub communicate an unwanted perception of me being sober? Is holding an object holding be back from physical escalation? (I don't think so) I'm noticing that I have siloed my life so much that I find it hard to talk to people outside my few niche interests. I need to consume more popular media in the social matrix to be able to create conversations that people can relate to more. I need to find great sources of news/tabloids to help facilitate this. It's such a pain in the ass to have to carry 100% of the conversation, for men AND women, but that just be how it is. When I do the random sentence string practice routine (From the video how to be funny), I find that all of my sentence strings start to silo around my own life, self improvement, and empowering self talk. Which makes me think that I'm doing the practice routine incorrectly. Where a better approach to that exercise would be to try to make it as random as possible such that you train your mind to free-associate random topics. Thoughts on that?