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@Leo Gura Is there any evidence to suggest that america will get hit aside from the anger we're contributing to (involvement in middle east and supporting israel)? .. asking partly because you just read 5 books and you've been studying these details in depth Its been a while with this war happening and things have generally been fine here in US

I completely accidentally came across the most mind-blowing podcast episode I ever listened to: For years, on and off I'd look into the history of North Korea, get some shocking insights, and go about my life. Of course, in the media these days we are forced to look into Israel, global politics, Gaza, Russia, China, etc. And of course, all these are absolutely critical things to look into. I'm not taking away from that. But this specific episode gives you a first hand account, where you're actually in her shoes as she goes from one "planet" to another "planet" to another "planet" (North Korea to China to South Korea to USA) But I was really thinking about it. Very specifically, the psychology of North Koreans, and especially this girl who escaped North Korea to come to USA, just think about the psychology change. It is quite literally like going to a new planet. In fact, if us americans had to live on Mars, I believe that's still less of a shock to our system then this girl coming from North Korea to USA. Just to give you perspective, when she reached South Korea, her first taste of freedom, she was so terrified of the freedom. In North Korea, absolutely everything is controlled, except your breathing. So you literally don't think for yourself. She says there is no "I" vocabulary. It's only "we". She just followed orders. So to even just think for 5 minutes when she reached freedom in South Korea, learning to live in this world we all live in, she got very exhausted after just 5 minutes of thinking. That's how hard thinking was for her. And now she's very well-educated, well-spoken, intelligent, compassionate, and is a public speaker, even talked to the UN, etc. I mean I started reflecting on my life, and realized how soft I am, and most americans are. Just contrast that way of life I described to most americans lives: video games, devices all day, staying in your room all day, food just handed to you. She was describing how her friend in US would complain about some guy not calling her back, and it was shocking to her because that's such a small problem compared to what she went through. These are often our biggest problems in US, some stupid relationship issue, or whatever. I personally have OCD, so I noticed something strange, I get so perfectionist at times, that even when I open the bathroom door, I have to make sure I'm going about that right. It's hard to articulate. But my point is, we are not exposed to deep uncertainty. This girl was. She had no choice. If her mom left to get food, she had no clue when she'd be back or if she'd even come back. When she's going through the desert to get to South Korea from China, she had no clue if she'd get shot at the border or not. She was prepared to die (brought poison along with her). We in the west need so much certainty: We need to know what everything around us is, we look for the people around us to make sure we're in safe environments doing safe things, we outsource our critical thinking to AI and other human beings and authority. This is just one angle of a multi-faceted angle of how fearful we are, how soft we are. I really then took a hard look at how fearful I am, and here's what I came up with: We spend decades in fear of other humans, innocent, harmless humans, often caring humans, to talk to these humans. Why? It's honestly so shocking if you think about it, this idea of avoidance of other humans out of social anxiety. It's so petty, when looked at directly. If we weren't so soft, I don't think this would be an issue at all. And what about all the other petty sht we fantasize about for hours and hours a day, petty motivations we pursue for decades out of fear of not pursuing a much higher purpose, a higher purpose that makes these petty fantasies look like a dream you woke up from. Sorry to go on a rant, but I've been in this personal development game for many years now and I guess this was just a really big wake up call for me. I'm going to now make some important changes in how I live my life. I need to learn fearless living. I think its absolutely underrated just how fearful we are. It's masked, so utterly masked by modern living. I'm not saying I'm right about all this, Im sort of just thinking this through, but yeah changes need to be made.

@Nightwise Exactly the line of thinking, Im thinking these days .. Though there's a tendency in my my mind to make our problems seem petty compared to these other countries, but of course I realized its more nuanced than that. Like as a whole, on a general level, yeah our problems are a lot more petty, our standard of living is a lot higher, we complain over little things, on a higher level, national level. But on the individual level, there are of course many people deeply suffering in the west as well, for their own unique reasons, or even collective reasons. So I don't want to take away from that as well. Like you even mention about your mental health history. But even so our overall environment in the west is built structurally to be too damn comfortable. Im starting to sense that tons of problems are arising out of this structure. Just the way society is set up, not having to hunt our own food, not having to protect ourselves much, easy solutions to our problems, the list goes on. I'll check out this audiobook. I honestly know very little about Russia and its history. I've been meaning to dive deeper into that. I know though that they too have gone through extraordinary amounts of suffering over the decades, and still to this day.

@Leo Gura I guess thats where the rubber really meets the road in this personal development journey .. but I prefer to stay on safe land thank you very much

There's a video leo made a while back, I saw it years ago, where he says if you want to get in touch with real survival, go to the canadian wild in the winter or something, and carry minimal stuff, and get in touch with real survival. Contrast that to modern day life, if we're not in touch with real survival, it feels like there's a lot of fantasy living going on. Idk about others but I often try to make life like a movie, compare my life to harry potter or something, and i even like doing that, but I realized it takes me away from true survival. Maybe that can be incorporated to some degree in life, romance, fantasy, art, philosophy, etc. But without a foundation of being in touch with true survival, idk something feels fake about that.

@Staples I see your point, and I agree, but from the lens that I'm currently looking at it, there is still deep fear inside that is not being conquered if you're just coasting through life handling things and adapting contextual to the circumstances. At the end of the day, you're still a deeply fearful person inside, but its masked. No deep work has been done to conquer those fears. I'm looking at it, in this case, from the angle that say this girl would look at a typical westerner given the fears she had to conquer in her life, which I don't think Ive seen many people do.

@Leo Gura .. yeah I would barely last 3 weeks if I did lol .. I need a more practical non-life-threatening plan of course

@Leo Gura nice, i didnt expect you to say itll be quite low. I'm actually going to seriously research this now. I'm pretty inclined now to give this a go. Also I did go to a few doctors in the past and they both said nothing can be done lol I even had weird tests done on me, even my research showed no cures, actually quite surprised you found 2 solutions like this.

@Leo Gura I've been following your tinnitus posts, and I have a 2/10 .. for many years now, I barely notice it now, I was interested in following the procedure that you laid out but I think you said a few times it could potentially make it worse if you dont know the cause .. its been many years for me and I dont know the cause at all, so probably I should avoid it? I rather not gamble with my life and make things worse .. is my thinking .. unless chances are very low that it could get worse? Would your 2nd option be one that doesn't have chances of it getting worse?

@Leo Gura your research suggests a crash as big as 2008 soon? I didnt check the context, maybe you're saying a similar crash in terms of dynamics, but not severity?

@Leo Gura I saw an interview with JP and his daughter, and his daughter said he flew to Romania or something to meet Andrew Tate, and he was trying to push to see if they "went to town" lol .. he mustve been slightly horrified inside .. no idea why she even flew out to meet Andrew of all people, even id be slightly horrified and im not even conservative

Hey Guys, I was hoping we can come up with an ultimate list of your most powerful motivation techniques. I think it's less about quantity and more about quality. What has personally worked for you the most? What results did you have? How exactly do you apply the technique? I truly believe one of the things that is stopping us from our goals, holding us back is our degree of hard work and motivation. I am also hoping that we can have sort of "reports" on testing these techniques and report back with results. I will try to do the same. I will share mine that has been working amazingly for me: 1. "The Eminem-Infuser Technique" Still working on the name .. lol But what I do is, 1 to 2 times a day, I first start listening to a few of Eminem's latest songs from the death of slim shady, followed by the classics Till I Collapse and Lose Yourself, ending with Godzilla. I know this already sounds corny, but honestly fk it, if its corny, dont worry, pls share. I am willing to test your best techniques. I have been working 7 to 13 hour days lately. Now I don't say that to make you think this is the "right" thing to do. This is not about morals, nor health, nor other stuff. I am simply in a situation in my life right now where I don't have a choice. (Motivation technique 2) But you don't need to be in painful situations like me to benefit from this fyi. Anyways, the guy from Bobby Fisher, forgot his name, he would use Lose Yourself as a trigger to get in the right state. It's similar to techniques from NLP. I heard it in theory years ago, but just some months ago I really made this a core part of my life. And for ex. today I was feeling shitty, in bed. And I was for sure thinking it won't work today. I put the headphones on (this is very important), and just went through the songs, closed my eyes, imagined me embodying his energy, beliefs, confidence, and that stuff really starts to rub into you. Suddenly your negative emotions go away, you get wired, focused, your up. Then Godzilla always makes my jaw drop because of his utter confidence, excellence in rap, the speed of his rap, etc. And I got out of the shitty state and I'm back on the flow. 2. Just being in a painful situation, a situation where you don't have much choice, reminding yourself of that, getting in touch with that 3. Just realizing how long you've been putting off your dreams, sort of being "done" with that. I am interested in the best ones for you. No need to share them all, just the ones your most excited to share. If we make an ultimate list, report back on results, I think we can all start to have this compound effect, network effect in this thread. I know this form is a lot about philosophy and all that. I love that too myself. But I truly feel many of us need just much more action in our lives. I've noticed how much philosophy takes me away from my goals that need intense focus and action on. A bit of philosophy does help actually, but too much and I'm all over the place. If you're like me and you need more focus in your life, let's focus on more action (on the right things of course).

@PRai1ND1A wow i resonate with that a lot, that just got me excited by life. Though I know nothing about MMA lol but I did hear great things about Khabib Not wanting an average life is also huge, im gonna write these down.

@Leo Gura ah okay nice .. would be an interesting conversation for sure, I do like a lot of his talks

@Leo Gura That would be very interesting but wondering a) just sending him an email means its a high likelihood of him agreeing? b) why would you want to if you have a lot of criticisms towards him? Im just curious why engage in conversation with him if you're opposed to his worldviews?

@Quader He would earn 1/100th of what he earns now .. he would barely earn a proper monthly salary, and he worked hard at building a product, theres no reason to make it donation only; Its not about his worry, his patrons will leave him high and dry, most people will not pay if they dont have to, thats how humans are

I would but Im still recovering from bad trips lol

@Leo Gura loll that wont help us .. I have gotten scammed multiple times, a 5k course by some marketing lunatic, even owen scammed me with a subpar course once, the list goes on .. when you struggle in life from a lack of success then something much stronger is needed, dunno what that is, maybe a very strong pain point .. I have been holding back on the life purpose course because I keep trying these quick side hustles, the cycle keeps continuing, its exhausting

@Leo Gura oh okay .. all this is very tricky to navigate at times. Orange is a very consuming mindset for me and I guess america at large, and yet at the same time I need it the most at this point in my life, and yet the all consuming nature of it is making me realize how distorted this lens is, damn .. I have listened to much stuff beyond orange, including most actualized teachings but when you're in orange the pull of orange is very strong

@Leo Gura damn i have idolized them all for so long listening to them almost every day .. I mean they all have a lot of good teachings though, but if that is peak orange then you are saying there is better success advice out there? I never thought of them all like that. Quite frankly, doesnt make me feel so good to hear that lol .. but of course one can take the good teachings and leave out the bad Like Tim Ferriss, he puts out so much wisdom these days with his podcast, all these nuanced self help techniques. Systems thinking books may help, so would other books like LOA, but isnt the books you call orange the gold standard for success?

@Leo Gura yeah but its not just the low consciousness success advice, even the best success advice teaches the same principles of relentlessness, and such. Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, top podcasts with CEOs showing up, top books, the greats like Michael Jordan .. thats what makes you take a step back in your personal dev journey

@Leo Gura because personal development circles glorify the principles of relentlessness, and similar values pointing to such "heroes". So in trying to model those behaviors I didn't equate those values and principles to all the negative consequences that leads to it. I am also aware of Amazon's culture, but its easy to mentally segregate the bad things to glorify these traits that make you successful. It's a weird personal development thing.

I used to really look up to him as a role model but now its mixed feelings because of this greed. My uncle has been telling me for a long time how corrupt musk is but I didnt buy it. He works at Tesla and apparantly its absolute hell to work there. Not just musk but the culture is absolutely toxic, even with the workers there. Everyone cusses each other out and is greedy and stuff.

Am I getting this right .. Elon musk has been constantly pushing hard for the regulation of AI, meeting the UK prime minister, putting that letter forward for people to sign .. and Biden admin was actually taking steps to regulate AI compared to trump admin, and still doesn't vote for Biden despite him saying AI is the greatest existential threat to humanity? and also the fact that he's going all out to build it, partly fueled by revenge for OpenAI?

I just saw @Leo Gura's blog post. I had to rewatch the first guy's video 3x, this actually sounds batshit crazy. I tried skimming some parts of the 900 page paper: https://www.project2025.org/policy/ But I honestly don't understand it. I'm unfortunately very ignorant of anything politics related on a technical level, although I do listen to a lot of high level stuff. I tried putting some of the pdf papers into chatgpt, and well ChatGPT is too damn nice I guess. It says everything is fine lol but its ChatGPT. Anyways, what's really going on here? Some things I'm thinking: What are the implications of this? By current government processes, built over centuries, how could it let one man have so much power and be a dictator like that? would the government even allow this? How much of this is fear mongering? Could this be just a bunch of idiots trying to get it there way but the government won't allow that? I really don't know, but I definitely didn't like a lot of the points the guy in the first video described. I mean people say a lot of stuff, but does that mean any of this stuff will really happen? I'm also curious what you guys think the implications this could have on an individual level? the future? different sectors like AI, military, etc.? What groups will get affected and how? Key point of my post: I definitely don't want to make this sound like I am choosing an argument or position here. I really just want to understand this situation deeper, if there really is that much of a concern at all. I think first having a deep understanding of the situation is key. Kind of random, but a youtuber commented on that first video: "German here. I have found out about Project 2025 months ago and have been worried ever since. My grandparents fell for it. I hope that most of you don't." you guys don't really think this is anything similar to hitler is it? again, just looking for understanding here.