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Summarizing: She says that physicists have been doing research in dumb ways that don't work because of rampant institutional corruption and group-think. Epistemologically lobotomized.

The problem I see with Peterson, is that he's so biased, that he can't accept the fact that the good facts in the bible can also be ridden with garbage alongside it (In it, outside of it, by its community, by the people that preaches to self-identify with it, etc), he felt for the ideology. Like feeling fond of the good Soviet Union times and the comrades we made along the way... And Dawkins says: "And so what? Were those friends even that good?" The point is, you could make friends regardless of a devilish corrupt organization. That closes the case for me. The tidbits of truth in the Bible could have been found through other means. The issue is that, once you have sided with it for a few things, it asks everything from you, and you are likely to go alongside it, so does people go alongside Trump, just because he frames himself as part of the in-group. Very post-truth. Dawkins doesn't like it, he doesn't like that kind of relating, of getting in this state of trance. But he's biased towards science, so whatever, they all have massive blind spots.

I think @Nilsi has a point. At least Jordan Peterson, I think that he genuinely believes in his ideas, but the issue is that along the way of learning about many of those moral truths and whatever other symbols that entices him, he has fallen into it like falling into an ideology, just like how Slavoj Žižek would say, he thinks he has escaped into his dreams, meanwhile, he's actually deep into it. The issue with ideology, is that it DOES OFFER something ENTICING in some way or another, it's not completely soulless, even North Korea has their folklore, and the people can feel genuine love of the leader, their songs, the nice stories, the beautiful dancing women. But it asks to be COMPLETELY ALIGNED with it, like having a good friend, or a wife, etc.; If there is any kind of critic, it must be a shallow soft-ball critic that doesn't undermine it. Cult psychology in some way. The problem is that Peterson he is truly on a crusade, just like Musk is in his crusade to colonize Mars, to have an electric car company... Etc. But the drawback is that sometimes, you don't have much choice of whom to side with (It's just Kamala or Trump, literally). And the matter with Musk, well, he basically already chose to be an asshole and do whatever the heck he wants to get whatever he wants, but he believes that in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter, like Steve Jobs being an asshole and putting people together to build great consumer tech. But then we have figures like Trump and Andrew Tate. Those guys are just chaotic evil, Tate literally fucking says it. With Tate and Trump, it's glaringly obvious, they will just say whatever people want to hear. And then, you have someone like Jordan Peterson, that ends up playing the politics game due to his ideals, just the way he would literally support Hitler in Nazi Germany, without the benefit of hindsight. Is building a cult worth it to fight against other cults? 😂 I guess that's how cults form. But it must be a spectrum, being a little sophist, bending the truth here and there isn't so bad, is it? Just some crack, the OX will not care... Put blindfolds on the OX before gorging on shit (Little bit of fecal fetish should not be done in front of our pets 😋🦅🐂💩) I guess that's the HOLY SACRIFICE we must make in the name of Jesus, just how he sacrificed himself. 🙏 But seriously, though, there must be some minimal compromise in how the message is delivered to increase reach, but that doesn't compromise in the ultimate message and doesn't create organizational corruption. The right thing for Peterson would have been to demonize Trump, and the whole political system that out of MILLIONS of Americans, the nation will pick that motherfucker, I'm sure there are conservatives that are a better pick. Choosing to eat shit instead of rotten bread is not a great way of voting. Unfortunately, I guess playing those power games comes with the downsides of doing things like voting for evil politicians, just because they side with your goals. People are so predictable, holy shit. Even Peterson with his big symbolic reasoning head fell for it. But there must be some other way, there must be a middle path, like how the Buddha found one after years of literally torturing himself through the period of his austerities and almost starving to death alongside extremist asceticism. There must be the modern information age equivalent of extreme asceticism and on developing the "charisma" on the other hand.

I believe to speak more articulated fluently and with substance is about practicing certain patterns of organizing thought and making connections between things in some very specific ways. You can see that with modern politicians, they are extremely consistent in the patterns they use to speak, and they don't deviate from them much. On the other hand, Leo Gura's style of speaking is more explorative in nature. Other styles of speaking, such as talking casually or with a friend, is primarily about the mental inner frame you are operating from. That already will give an instantaneous boost to be able to tap into those mental frames, from that perspective, it doesn't look very different from someone doing Game/Dating, world-class sales people selling to somebody a product, pitching a product in an online webinar, etc. But obviously, it will only express what you are already capable of expressing but is at the subconscious level waiting to be triggered. There are certain models they use, such as repeating exactly what people want to hear by studying them, kinda like creating marketing copywriting material. I believe there is that CONSCIOUS ASPECT that I just described. And there is the subconscious, you actually need exposure to that kind of speech to remember bits and pieces and doing so with THE INTENT OF IMPROVING, as opposed to simply processing like we usually do and not paying attention to the subtle details they deploy, and obviously following principles of MASTERY DEVELOPMENT and STRATEGIC THINKING, how it would usually be for any other skill. That's my take based on my reflections of learning and improving my spoken English, and currently with acquiring some French (😂 Mais, je ne sais pas pourquoi je le fais, c'est simplement un challenge pour moi maintenant) (Recently, I basically just switched the ASMR I listen in English to French, and learned the basics consciously, and unconsciously I just began picking up the language) But what took me from beginner level to intermediary, and finally, what will take me to advanced... They aren't quite the same techniques, although there is an overlap and stacking of previous techniques with newer ones. The law of diminishing returns is a bitch, there is only so much that subconscious language acquisition can do.Some techniques that might be useful: Recording with Shadowing (Repeating alongside a speaker of your choice) Recording with a script (And making it sound natural) Recording off-script Pay attention to: Prosody Use a synonym dictionary (Don't ever blindly use words you don't know the meaning, but use it to remember them) Use ANKI (To memorize new words, expressions, or whatever other tidbits you want) STORY TELLING TACTICS: Google "pip decks storyteller tactics"

Project 2025 sounds on paper all of the above. https://www.actualized.org/insights/project-2025-undercover https://www.actualized.org/insights/project-2025-out-loud https://www.actualized.org/insights/project-2025-warning

I guess the point is that some people make it into their whole lives building rotating harems of 20-100 women and lying to them like a tech bro high on cocaine pitching to his investors, as opposed to someone doing it more holistically. Some guys literally run WHOLE BUSINESSES to build actual business funnels to attract women at an actual industrial scale, and they create fake events and fake travels for "photo shooting" to getting extremely hot women to join them on their yachts and expensive vacations, and they obviously do it for the sex.

Ew. Social media makes me sick in my stomach, I already find that results on Google are awful to begin with for most keywords, and long essays on YouTube and some forums/articles will have gold nuggets, and speaking with a LLM (ChatGPT, Mistral, Claude, etc) is much better for opinion-based information, even considering how flawed they are for logic and reasoning, they excel at lack of bias, even considering how censored the most censored models are. The uncensored language models are also very unbiased and sane, I recommend trying them. But they are still really dumb even then, I never found one that I can speak about direct experiential reality without it answering like the first articles that appears on google. I recommend on duck.ai from it's from duckduckgo.

Dawkins is a fucking idiot spiritually, he couldn't grasp, not even the Buddhist kind of enlightenment. Let alone grasping infinity.

This feels very unnerving to me. "He's like that to shield the tenderness of his heart" (not verbatim). Gosh, we're screwed.

That's not a perfect metric. It has some overlap, but not completely. I believe getting followers leans more towards BEING GOOD AT GIVING THE IMPRESSION OF SKILLFULNESS rather than being skillful by itself. It's like guys doing game for dating. Faking can only take someone so far, but that can be enough to get a lot of women and followers and money. Like so many of those productivity gurus on YouTube are actual doctors, but people think they are in a position to give the best advice on productivity, when in reality, their videos have very shallow and basic advice that gets nowhere close to what Leo Gura gives. But also it can be a fake-it-until-you-make-it kind of catch-22 situation, so I think we shouldn't be so quick to judge. But that's what marketing does, it biases us towards doing what is good for marketing, but isn't high conscious.

Perfect analogy. Buddha had it, and he is like the religious equivalent to the modern David Deida talking about sex.

I find everywhere personal development gurus saying stuff like: "I had a [instagram, etc] with 1 Million followers, but it was taken down due to saying too much the truth". It's disgusting, their marketing. I don't want to become a personal dev coach and do marketing like that.

I'm posing with my crocodile partner, before going into a grand heist to conquer the world. (GTA 6 DLC) FAMILY VALUES. 🙏🐊

LMAO. Use the forum as a tool bro. Literally, most of the time I find GOLDEN comments here through Googling, stuff that's 5, almost 10-year-old even. "search term site:actualized.org"

I personally don't give a shit about it being seen low socially. I care about the pay. If being a garbage collector, did pay me great, I'd do that. But because my mind is essentially split among different interests (even though I didn't nail down into one thing, I do have a life purpose direction...), I'd probably not want to waste my time being a garbage collector due to it leaving me too tired at the end of the day, concern with getting diseases from the trash (cutting myself, etc). Nothing at all about how others would perceive. I don't even think that women give a shit, I bet if I said I was a garbage collector for some kind of special industry (Nuclear industry, going to nuclear sites and doing containment of materials, etc), but it pays extraordinarily well, they wouldn't think that bad of it... Maybe it could have a disgust factor to it at best. But even then, the point is, even the ideal of social prestige is bullshit, people care about the pay (Ergg.. gold digger women at a first instance), they just infer the pay with the profession's name. lol And even the pay, I just matter to ourselves, and even there we can be misguided in how much we really need.

Brazilian here. My parents couldn't care less about me having a degree or not (it matters is that I do anything at all that pays). They just want me to pay the bills, LMAO. However, obviously, I'm aiming to make internationally reasonable amounts of money, which for bystanders reading this, I can make more than the average doctor in Brazil by doing a couple of web design freelancing jobs online per month or whatever.... Which I don't yet because I'm disconnected from my top values and keep shooting myself in the feet, like the OP.

I'm a self-taught English speaker. My native language is Portuguese. I'm currently also learning French. I like the classic Glossika Fluency course to get up-to-speed with verbal comprehension and production (3000 sentences, starts from easy and increases difficulty). It provides audio as well, obviously. But I think they don't sell it anymore, you should find similar. - See also: Frequency Dictionary https://www.amazon.com/Frequency-Dictionary-Persian-vocabulary-Dictionaries-ebook/dp/B0BZTKKJBX (It can be used, but it's better the other way around) When it comes to becoming a better speaker, you must simply practice speaking more on your own as if you were speaking with somebody without any kind of script, and you record and listen to it as you please to recognize points to improve. - See also: the "Shadowing" technique to improve pronunciation, intonation, etc. - Record yourself speaking a text like "Comma Gets A Cure" https://www.dialectsarchive.com/comma-gets-a-cure (it's a great text given by linguists to test someone's accent, phonetics, etc). Use it as a benchmark to test yourself over time. Look up on YouTube people of different accents speaking the same text. When it comes to being an effective learner, it's about massive exposure to comprehensible input. The role of a GREAT TEACHER is to, first, counsel your students and get them acquainted with the highest yield self-learning techniques (because after all, everyone is self-taught after a certain threshold/critical mass), because the role of a great teacher is to make their students not need them, but they'll need them regardless as beginners. You want to get them up to speed with the crucial basics of effective learning as soon as possible, and lead them into creating habits of exposure to comprehensible input. I don't think going into endless grammar sessions is effective for a very beginner, it can be derived more effectively from example sentences. And on the classes, I think the best teacher for me would be somebody that already starts speaking as much as possible of the target language from day 1, and does classes in a way that maximizes comprehensibility. Just watch Stephen Krashen below. I guess for many students because they will be lazy, most of what they will hear of the English language in a comprehensible way will be just through your classes. But also, this idea that people must speak from day 1 is not necessary for mastery, but at some point they must start shadowing as closely as possible the language, and then producing their spoken own sentences. It does help get some people motivated, but what actually makes them acquire the language is massive comprehensible input. It's a mix between different methods at different stages.

hahahahahaaahahahahah he looks like he would have said that. Looks like a stoned stoner.

Bro. I hope you are doing better now 😇 What is the main take-away from what I said about myself? It is, that, for you, you also got caught up with some sorts of fights you picked up (i.e.: Need to get specific degree, monetize a specific way, get a degree in this institution, during this timeframe imposed by them), but in your case, you have the formal education system stealing from you the ability to change organically, it gave you an artificial deadline of when you must finish pursuing this path. I felt like that before when I got mentally caught up about some long distance relationship, and she imposed some weird deadlines on me. It fucked up with my mental health and self-steam badly. I did things in a rushed kind of way, only envisioning the deadline. Took risks in the crypto market. Didn't learn anything that would go beyond that 1-year time horizon. But when it comes to general mental health, I'm doing okay, my most pressing issue is to literally just have enough money to move out of my parent's home and have some social life at the same time I have time to keep pursuing whatever I want to pursue next. When it comes to actually making the most money possible, unless you have horrible self-organization skills, it's entrepreneurship. Although, the kind of risk it carries is that somebody just won't figure out how to put the pieces together (Leads/Traffic, Sales/Copywriting, Product/Service), and it's less "risky" to just plug into an existing company. The problem is that going the formal route of working for a company or being in the formal education system, is that, at least the way I see it, is that it will give you less creative freedom, and the less freedom of how you can spend your time, it just solidifies you further into their system with their own arbitrary rules that are meant for the good of their institution/business. I mean, just think how it did lead you to consider suicide their arbitrary rule of not repeating more than 3 times. That's very dehumanizing, being under the control of those systems, although, if we play it right, we will get presumably a certain path ahead to financial success. But fundamentally, that certainty mostly comes because someone is able to simply develop discipline to develop valuable skills, and the employers scoop them up, and re-deliver on those skills back to the market where they already hold a position. I guess, we have to come to acceptance of the level of discipline and kind of cognitive footprint/personality we have right now and scale accordingly, and not lose momentum, otherwise, like it happened to you, it can lead us, towards terrible mental states (to say the least). Don't let it drag you down, keep looking for the next goal-post. You will figure out the monetization. You can figure out even another profession altogether that will pay EVEN better and FASTER, but is less mentally taxing/requires less precise symbolic manipulation. Remember that keeping a Purpose is mostly about keeping being like Sisyphus, pushing that rock up the mountain. It's there to keep his character in order. It's not so much about the rock, but... Sisyphus... just LOVES pushing it up there. Look at him go. The monetization part: You just didn't do enough research. In actuality, the potential of making money through the default path is capped, and the career development is slow as hell. The maximum possible overall is not through there. It just matters that you guarantee some income enough to keep researching and trying alternatives, at the same time it gives you a dating life.

I was also wrestling with a similar question for years. In my case, it was obvious to me that I didn't want to go into the formal educational system beyond high school, and that I wanted to be an entrepreneur of some kind. Now, those are just the methods. The practice, was that I'm still struggling what will be my ultimate life purpose position. I'm trying to FIGHT HARD AGAINST becoming a personal development coach, I've been fighting against that idea for at least 4 years. And I always had this idea that I had to provide with TANGIBLE skills to the market in some way. Currently (As in, literally this month), what I'm doing to keep myself afloat in terms of having any purpose at all at something difficult is to just programming a language learning app, because I also have a passion for language learning (I'm a self-taught non-native English speaker, I fell in love for the process). I had an on-off relationship with learning programming for the past 10 years. I never really made anything, just stupid toy programs for the sake of learning the fundamentals. In other words, I'm teared apart constantly by wanting to go towards big picture abstract conceptual kind of work, and what my ego sees as being harder things. It's sort of what I call "revenge learning" where I see those unfinished pursuits, and I keep coming back to them. My major issue is that this on-off and DELIBERATELY leaving myself without a purpose for the (possibly misguided) idea of exploring out, left me with absolutely terrible work ethics, terrible lack of consistency with anything but consumption of large amounts of content (books, audios, etc) and writing about them in my personal notes for the sake of my own understanding. And obviously, I do that inconsistently. I still see being "a coach" as something lowly, because I'd literally be charging people money to do something that doesn't feel mentally challenging enough to me, although the discipline to actually deliver on quality coaching is beyond what I have right now, but I know I'd be able to build it if I was able to fully align myself with that goal, it would streamline by an of magnitude my mind and instrumental goals. I still would have to do proper online business (get leads, make sales, do copywriting, create content) regardless, and I'm fine with that idea. It's kind of a shadow that I'm trying to come in terms with. I actually wanted to also get super deep in applied computer science/machine learning mathematics for the sake of building great innovative unique products, but that's so beyond my pay grade of my work ethics, and my personality leaning over and over again towards abstract big picture thinking as opposed to linear precise symbolic manipulation, I don't consider that right now, also, from a business perspective, I CANNOT be a great engineer at the same time I'm a GREAT MARKETER. Let alone be a great self-taught mathematician using my own skills for innovative work that is aligned with market needs. The only approach I'm taking right now is to develop work ethics regardless, and use whatever I'm doing right (language learning app, and only god knows the marketing aspect, it will become just a toy project lying around on GitHub) now as a temporary goal, so I'm not left with nothing, as I explore and think. I'm simply going deeper at whatever I feel like exploring.

Even in online game through language exchange apps, for every 100 I get like 15 chicks show any interest in even talking, then out of those 6 will hand out WhatsApp numbers (C'mon... If they don't want to leave the platform to just talk lol), out of those 3 are only friends, 1 is really into me (Sexting, chatting every day, etc), the other 4 are lukewarm (1 would french kiss, 1 would have a date at my place, 2 up for a date in somewhere public). But that's online stuff. They live far, I have stopped even using that app if I can't even meet them in person, it's just an ego boost in practical terms, it doesn't fulfill me completely. But I'm an average looking guy, those were average looking chicks, and I fucked up badly many of the interactions it took me dozens of times getting blocked straight away, getting ghosted after saying something funny that went too far, etc. The 2000 approaches number in real life doesn't seem unreasonable. I literally had to learn the concept of finding the sweet spot between being too much of a try hard (player-ish, being crazy with my verbals, trying to sound cocky) vs being more boring/down to earth. I can imagine myself eventually going out and just enjoying talking to cute chicks. Whenever I go out and take a bus or something, I began sitting beside a cute chick and chit-chatting (I developed a skill for quickly scanning a crowd). One of those days it felt very soothing, I just spoke with her like a female friend about that I was going to the hospital to get a check in my eye health, I didn't even bother going for a phone close after we arrived at the destination. My main issue is that I hate the logistics of going out, and I feel hyperstimulated being in traffic, but all things considered, it makes sense that I'm so sensitive since I barely go out like that. That gave me the idea, if I go out to clubs/social places once I have the income, I'll go by bus and use even the commute as an opportunity to being social with chicks. As opposed to just taking an Uber (beyond blowing up the money) and the only social experience being with some Uber driver dude hahah.