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I said normal looking guy, not a nice guy. If you only swipe on hot guys on Tinder you will probably have to deal with players that got a shit lot of options and will not want to commit. "Nice guy" is not related at all to what i said. An normal/decent looking guy can be a cool interesting confident person that you can have great chemistry with and get attracted to. You will never know this unless you give it a try. If you go for the hottest people on online dating expect to be flaked on a lot and not get commitment. This really applies for both genders. Read the response Federico gave you, it summs it up perfectly.

It helps to interact with a lot of people. I used to think the exact same but when i started to interact with more girls i noticed a few of them showing interest in me (not big percentage but still). Dating is a number's game for both genders even if the dynamics are different. I am sure you can still interact with new people even with COVID.

LOL not true at all. If you go for the hot guys there they will probably be like that. Go for a normal looking guy with cute pictures of him. You tried that? General rule of thumb when it comes to this: If a guy is really attractive (either personality or looks or both) then do not have high expectations regarding commitment from him. Of course it can happen but usually it wont so just assume that. If you want commitment go for a decent guy so maybe a 6-6.5/10 attractiveness instead of a 8+. If you re a nice girl such guys will be happy to commit to you given you have some chemistry and compatibility.

Read the book "Models" by Mark Manson, his second chapter is about this.

One of the things that inspires me a lot about Leo is his insane determination, work ethic and just the ability to exceel in something through work even if he is not always his biggest natural strenght. Opening a sucessful business, reaching really high levels of consciousness, developing social skills and flirting skills from strach are just some of the things. Like Leo, i am sure there are others in this forumn that through pure hard work and determination have managed to achieve great results. My question is how do you guys (including Leo ofc) develop such willpower. I consider myself a decently hardworking and determined/ambitious person but compared to some other people here i feel a lazy fuck. I would love to have that mindset of being dissadvanated in something naturally and through hard work and perseverance to outmatch people that normally are naturally good at such things. For example in school i was decently smart but still one of the best students through studying hard. I would like to develop this mindset in all facets of life.

A girl that is similar value to high or bit lower.

Thought it provoked power

@HypnoticMagician What?

I have looked really young compared to my peers my whole life tbh. Same with my dad and brother. You can definetly tell when people assume you re 4-5 years younger than actually are and they re super suprised when you tell them your age. A guy a few months ago thought i was 17 or something. Believe it or not a lot of people tried to make me feel bad for looking like a kid (way too young) but i never gave a shit. If it had that confidence regarding other things, oh how life would be nicer. You definetly need life experience, that is really important. However keep in mind you already do that for basically all your life. If you live lets say until 80, 78 years will be as you say. 2 years out of your whole life are nothing in the grand scheme of things, look at it as a pause from a long run. A pause in a long run could be considered good, almost necessary. Yes that is why i said 35. Celebreties can look great even at 45, for normal people i am lowering it to 35. Without self care would be around 30, with self care you give yourself 5 extra years to 35. Realistic imo.

The thing is that, at least in my humble opinion, most people before COVID had very active lifestyles which is great and all but did not allow a lot for introspection, meditation, self-inquiry, etc, all the things which are good to develop for your own happinness/fulfillment. We are constantly running, chasing the next achievement, speding a lot of time with friends/family etc to the point where we forget to spend time with ourselves and to look inward. This is the biggest benefit of isolation imo, it is the chance to develop these aspects of yourself which due to modern society and survival chasing are really overlooked and underdeveloped. Of course this is temporary, after 1-2 years max you go back to normal life but i cannot say that this time was wasted. Just watching Leo's videos and thinking about them all by yourself already grows you quite a bit. Also ofc you can do the old fashioned thing and work a lot during your isolation to grow your business, or learn new practical skills to handle survival better like programming, langauge etc.

Ok, bad example. Still a person that smokes, drinks, does not work out, eats badly and is always stressed/overworked/lack of sleep will look worse than if he did not do those things. You cannot deny that. How much worse will depend on genetics, yes. Of course genetics should be taken into account. But with that logic why bother doing anything, anything in life has some genetic component to it which will make it easier for some and harder for others. Choosing not to smoke, not to drink a lot, not to eat badly, to exercise even 2-3 times per week (gym or running), to apply some basic skin care and anti aging products. These things honestly are not that hard to do, not doing them is an excuse imo. Fuck i am a guy with really really good youthful genetics (not saying it to brag or anything but im 23 and look like 19) and i still do most of these things just for own health and future vision (not smoking, drinking little, exercising, healthy eating, trying not to stress a lot, sleeping well etc). No excuses!

@Leo Gura Not just that man. Diet, skin care, exercising and being healthy overall (no binge drinking, smoking, heavy stress, lack of sleep etc) will slow down aging to some extent. I used celebreties as an extreme example.

That depends quite a bit on your tbh. It is true that girls mature earlier than guys but does not mean when you reach 30 your looks will plummit. A large part of that is how you take care of yourself on your 20s, if you do not drink a lot, do not smoke, eat well, exercise and do some basic skin care then it will go a long way. There are girls that look great even at 35 and some that do not. Concrete proof are celebreties which take insane care of their appearances and it really shows in how good they look given their age. I mean fuck, Kim kardashian is 40 and i doubt many of the guys here would not find her hot The same goes to guys tbh, self-care goes a long way when it comes to looking good as you age.

You can start today. Better late than never

I feel like feminism these days is trying more to make females equal to men but in terms of masculine values. So females can lead, be boss etc. Feminine qualities are still extremly underappreciated and feminism is not doing much on this regard. There is no fundamental reason why masculine qualities should be prevelant in our society more than feminine ones. Making females like men is not really solving the fundamental issue imo. There is no reason why things like social sciences or art should be above hard sciences. There is no reason why personal achievement and being traditionally "successful" should be more important than things like relationships or bonding. We have these days a monopoly of masculine qualities dominating all facets of life.

Two years in the grand scheme of things is not that much. And i am sure you already did things these 2 years, maybe not as much as you could but still. You can grow a LOT even in a socially isolated world created by COVID. Of course it is not ideal long term but it is what it is. Fuck, if someone puts me in sedentary confiement for 3 months, everyone would probably say they robbed me of 3 months of my life. Well i would use that time to meditate non stop and grow like a MF. Plus you can still be social and stuff even with COVID, like u can make friends and date.

@something_else Spot on!

Imagine 10 people in a big room, many of them are basically brothers with each other and they all got a gun pointed at each other's heads. They are equally fast so if one pulls the trigger probably that person along with everyone else will eventually die (maybe a few will survive but definetly not that agressor), i hope this analogy helps If you want a more proper explanation, google mutual assured destruction, it was a policy created by Eisenhower president to basically avoid nukes being used in warfare again.

EU is a great concept and i think one day it will be fully actualized but it will take quite some time. There are huge development differences between the countries, both morally and economically. In the next 50 years i see it happening though.

Keep moving forward...

@Hardkill They spend a shit lot of time watching tv shows and especially on social media. Video games and porn are more of a guy thing.

Why do you do it then? You already have decent skills socializing from your early years of pick up. Is there a specific reason you do it these days if you do not enjoy it?

Idk why watching Leo party and stuff touched me a bit, you see him more as a human rather an advanced teacher that is a floating head on a black screen in Youtube

@Preety_India Too advanced for this topic hehe

Orochimaru is stage red man