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This thread has been moved to "Serious Emotional Problems" Call a national suicide prevention right away: 1-800-273-8255 If you are outside of the U.S., do a search on a suicide prevention agency in your country and call them right away. With that being said, I will try offer some advice on your UTI problem, which you believe is the only uncurable one, and seems to be where most of your depression is derived from. I think you can cure it. Have you tried Apple Cider Vinegar? It is a highly recommended herbal cure to this ailment, over every other listed cure. Please see here: http://www.earthclinic.com/cures/apple-cider-vinegar-for-bladder-infection.html If you have tried the Apple Cider Vinegar, have you tried it in the pill extract form? Go on Amazon and search for "Apple Cider Vinegar Extract" and you can find potent doses of this herbal cure, which you can use at your own discretion to try and cure your ailment. But again, call a suicide prevention agency right away.

When I attended college, I used to live with multiple roommates who would be awake and loud at all times of the day, so I can relate. If you ever need to study/sleep, and you can't find a quiet place, here is a quick solution: get a pair of headphones and drown the noise out with your own noise. Put on some tranquil instrumental music or any music of your preference that would calm you, and this will help you to focus or relax, without the need to have to get others around you to be quiet.

You can consider doing both, as those 2 roads don't seem mutually exclusive.

Your idea would be amazing if implemented, but unfortunately we do not have the technology to create such a platform yet. We are still premature in scientific advancement when it comes to neuroscience and connecting to the brain. We need to be able to scan someones thoughts and interpret them correctly, before we can begin to consider implementing this idea, and we still have some ways to go before achieving that.

Should you get a job? It depends. If you're goal is to ultimately start your own business, then it depends on what that business is and whether it needs any capital. I recommend watching this short video where Robert Kiyosaki, a renowned financial expert and author, explains the four types of directions to make money.

Thank you for sharing your story, Annie. For every negative aspect you have mentioned, there are 10 more things to be grateful for in life. Try to provide as much positivity as you can in the relationships you have, without expecting anything back, and strive for everlasting improvement in all areas of your life—that's the best you can do.

Oh interesting, I didn't know that. That's encouraging to here!

Thanks for your feedback @ZenBlue. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this part, could you elaborate or link me to an example network? Thanks @Neill. You're absolutely right, and while this may not be my true passion project, I see the success of this endeavor to be able to fund my ability to engage in the things I am truly passionate about. But then you might ask, "why not work on your passion project from the start? You can potentially become successful on that while working on the thing you love most." Well, my passion project is risky, heavily resource dependent, and long-term: I want to work on creating self-learning A.I. that can learn science with the potential to make discoveries. I'm seeking financial independence within the next 2 to 5 years, so I rather work on something that provides a predictable amount of value to the world in a short time frame, and launch that first. I've launched an early version of it before, and have pivoted my e-commerce platform several times in the past, but this time I think I really have a good potential formula/idea down. The closest platform I could compare this to is eBates, which was acquired by Rakuten for $1 billion, so the potential is there. E-commerce generates $1 trillion per year in revenue in the U.S. alone, and is on a upward exponential growth trend, so I'm aiming to jump on that, and even managing to take a 0.00001% bite out of that yearly revenue would be nice.

I wasn't aware of that, good point! It'd be naive to think that his "stroke of luck" did not come with existing preparation through diligent & consistent game development. I'd like to share my main project idea with you guys and any feedback would be much appreciated. I'm working on a website/mobile app that is a shopping search engine that allows you to search/browse for products to buy, and this search engine will search across various online retails (Amazon, Target, Macy's, etc.) and return items that you are looking for that only are on sale, and/or offer cash back on the select product. It will be designed in a simple, sleek, minimalistic way, and is entirely free to use. The reason I can offer it as free, while still making a profit, is through affiliate marketing; the online retailer will pay me a percentage on each product you buy through my platform, since I referred you to them. Any feedback/suggestions?

I think monogamy works, but it's not for everyone. The 50% divorce rate is also a scary statistic, but your chances of becoming a divorcee can be reduced if you wait a long time before you get married—at least 5 - 10 years of serious dating before you decide to tie the knot. There's pros and cons to monogamous relationships as well as being single (or polyamorous). Personally, I'm still on the fence as to which path I want to go down myself.

Love the thread and your business ideas @Neill! While I think both of your ideas have massive potential, I love your main business idea EatSimply. Ongaku has potential but I want to warn you of some challenges with the plan for that one: Since this platform relies on user interaction to function, you create a chicken-and-egg problem. New users will only want to use this platform if they can interact with existing users, but existing users won't stay if there aren't already existing users. This problem can be somewhat solved if you have "1-player features" (for lack of a better term) to start with, as well as a lot of advertising upon launch of the platform. It sounds like the revenue stream for this platform is only from ad-revenue. If that is the case, note that ad-revenue based income relies on a lot of traffic, and a lot of recurring traffic, to make a significant amount of money through it. Thus, having a small-medium humble community base won't cut it if you desire to make significant money through this revenue stream. EatSimply doesn't face either of these challenges as it is a 1-player platform, and uses premium features as well as affiliate marketing (a stronger form of ad-revenue) as its streams of income. You're also solving a huge problem, which foreshadows great value and benefit from releasing a platform like this. I'm a hard-gainer myself, yet I like to make life as simple as possible (no calorie counting or tracking my exercise routines), so I would jump at the opportunity of using an app like this. I think you have a 9-figure business idea on your hands, now it comes down to manifesting it into existence. @abrakamowse, I've been pondering an idea like this myself. I've always been fascinated at how simple Flappy Bird was, yet it managed to catch on like wildfire, and if I'm not mistaken, the creator of the app was profiting 50k per day at the peak of its existence. It's fun to ponder about the sweetspot between massive simplicity and massive virality.

Multivitamin (for a balanced set of nutrients to supply my body with) Creatine (aids muscle growth/recovery if you're doing a weightlifting regimen) Green Tea Extract (on top of drinking Green Tea daily, I use these pills to reap more Green Tea benefits, including: antioxidants & increased metabolism) Probiotics (promotes a healthy immune system and digestive system) Garlic Extract (promotes a healthy immune system among other things) Flaxseed Oil (good source of omega-3 fatty acids, a nutrient your body needs) Tumeric Extract Coconut Oil Extract Apple Cider Vinegar Extract Milk Thistle (to promote good liver health, especially since taking a many pills over a long time can be taxing on your liver)

We live in the information age, a time where anything you want to learn is readily available for you online, for free. When you go to college, you're paying the college somewhere between $20 - $40 per hour (during lectures) and yet, you can get this same information online for free. The upside to college however, is that it gives you a guided path and holds you accountable, through scheduled lectures and tests. It also gives you a certification that you have learned X (a degree), which can help employers determine whether they should hire you for a job. I went to college, and while I don't necessarily regret it, I don't praise it either. If you are motivated enough to learn what you want to learn on your own, and stick to it, you can reap all the benefits that college could give you, without having to be in debt after you have learned these set skills. The question ultimately becomes: do you want to pay for guidance, or are you self-disciplined enough to self-teach yourself? There is no right or wrong answer and it comes down to being self-reflective enough to consider which decision will lead you down the better path.

Well that is Leo's most viewed video. It's a reflection of what the masses want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Hopefully that video has baited people into other areas of development.

Try some brain training programs like Lumosity or Fitbrains on a habitual basis. It may take a few months, but using these programs consistently can improve your attention span and memory.