Animo

I consider myself mostly a complete beginner in the field of entrepreneurship. My ultimate purpose for this phase of my life is to achieve financial freedom. Right now I'm in a heavy research phase of identifying all possible wealth creation methods and defining my understanding of them, before committing to choosing one to invest all my energy into. Recently I've been feeling more fired up about this path (and this goal) than ever before, and I've been feeling like I'm crazy because most of the world doesn't seem to care at all about the opportunities that exist out there on the internet. I guess I never did either, but now I do. And I'm wondering if there's anyone here who feel the same way? Who would be interested in masterminding together in this beginning period and see where it goes? We may not stick together for long if we end up choosing different paths and then we'd need a new mastermind for that specific field, but, I still believe this element of working together with others is so damn underrated in every part of the journey, I'd just like to invite ya'll to see if something cool can happen. Who's up for that? For context, I'm a 23yo dude, currently in the Netherlands.

Try TikTok easier to go viral there than anywhere else, from what I've seen. Show off your skills in intriguing ways, build followers, start getting deals to promote products of brands, and off it goes.

Today I thought of psychic abilities and typed "telekenesis" into YouTube for fun and... wtf. I don't know what to make of this. Have any of you seen anything like this, whether in other videos or in real life? Another video of a girl doing the same thing: EDIT: Nevermind, everyone. I just tried this with a piece of aluminum foil like the 1st guy and was able to replicate the effect almost immediately. It actually freaked me out for a minute. It looks so supernatural. So either I'm a telekenetic master, or... foil is just really, really light and succeptible to even less input (from wind, probably) than you might think. If telekenesis is real, I now strongly suspect that these videos are not it. Don't know if I should delete this post or leave it up for people to try it for themselves and see how easily you can get fooled by how real it looks on a video (at least to me it looked real).

Oh god, that place looks like the biggest circlejerk I've ever seen.

I find LessWrong.com to be incredible and I was wondering if there are any similar websites out there? I love how LessWrong has this massive goldmine of concepts that you can see some real high-quality posts and discussions about. Personally, it really provided a lot of inspiration for my own Commonplace Book, since the website itself is like a Commonplace Book of sorts. But of course, they are limited to the paradigm of Rationality, so there's nothing but crickets when it comes to the more "open-minded" subjects. Anything esoteric, spiritual, mystical, etc. So I'm looking for more websites like LessWrong that include those subjects. They don't have to though. Can still be in the "Rational" realm.

Sure, but I don't see that as a reason to stop exploring and investigating.

@Farnaby That's okay lol. It's a fun discussion I caused. The videos I posted are laughable anyway, since I tried it for myself, and yeah, it's wind. It initially just tripped me out because of the delay between hand and foil movement.

You're right. The only way is to try it for yourself. The videos serve as inspiration, imo. @Blackhawk That's what I always thought too, but what if there's something about this phenomenon that makes it difficult/impossible to prove in a controlled setting? @undeather Hmm, all good points. But supposedly there are videos of people doing it without even moving their hands. I haven't extensively looked for those yet. Btw if anyone is interested, I found a book called "Defy Your Limits" by Sean McNamara which seems like an interesting thing to investigate concerning telekenesis. I read a bit of it just now and he seems to do his best to train you while taking into account things like wind, static, heat, etc. So like, if it works, you'd know you're really doing it, I guess.

No worries. Awesome, I'll check it out

Hey guys, I'm trying to get my bearings straight, because since the start of this year I was working on starting a Shopify business, but I only did that because that was the first thing I got introduced to in the world of entrepreneurship. I just rolled with it. Now that didn't work out so I'm looking to zoom out all the way, and see every online money-making path that is available, before I make the decision to jump into another project. Do you guys know of any resource that just basically has every one of these opportunities in a list? Of course, I'll do my research beyond that as well, because it seems no list is every truly complete. But it would be nice to have a place to start.

Well, I wish to be location independent and online businesses seem to be the most scalable as well. But you're right, I don't know if something offline might possibly fit me even better. I can't imagine it would, but I'll remember that on my search I should also scan how people might be succeeding offline.

I agree with you. It does seem to be the case that providing real value is the only way to get far (though I'll need to verify it myself in order to really know). So I know that money by itself isn't the fundamental thing to aim at. But I disagree with you about going at it from the wrong direction. Right now I feel like my view of what's possible with entrepreneurship is too narrow, so if I tried to figure out how to help a specific group of people in some specific way, I might miss a lot of creative possibilities because I haven't seen enough examples of how others before me have helped people. I think the questions you propse to ask are definitely a good way to go, but only after I got a bigger picture of what's really possible. That seems interesting, thank you. I'll read it.

You can grow your own psychedelic mushrooms, my dude. 100% natural. Used by wise masters for thousands of years.

Oh, good point, I suppose. You know, in a way it is comforting if it doesn't exist That's an advantage for those who realize they should first look at everything holistically rather than rolling with what "feels right", which seems like a mistake so many people make, including me. Appreciate it.

It was already a big courage challenge for me to even dare to ask such a question, since I knew this response would come from someone I do agree with you, about making your own list, as I said in the post. I just don't see it as lazy to check out lists that other people have potentially created and filling in as many blindspots as possible. I think it would be foolish of me to not try to seek out information goldmines like that. (I do also recognize it may have come off as arrogant/entitled to just ask for all the possibilities to be handed to me. I was more like aiming for clues.)

Well, from what I've seen, creativity happens as a result of many dots interconnecting, from creations of those before you. I'm not sure you can decipher a creative idea out of thin air. So that's what I was aiming for with this. Collecting dots.

Hey. I don't have a horse in this race, but I would like to inquire more about this stance of yours. You said that "the fewer things I put into my body, the better". But... if you don't take the vaccine, aren't you just gonna take COVID instead? Because it feels like the virus might be lingering around the place for years, and it seems likely that eventually you'd come into contact with it. And from some of the research I've done, it would seem that Covid has a higher chance of having shitty long-term effects than the vaccine. So I'm just curious if you see it this way. That if you don't choose to put the vaccine into your body, you're choosing to put Covid inside you instead? How would you feel about that? Unless you live in a pretty isolated or unaffected area, and won't travel much.

Expanding on what Leo said, I recently read The Four Agreements and this story seems kind of relevant: (Copy pasted this from an article) In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz tells the story of a man who wanted to transcend his suffering. So he goes to a Buddhist temple to find a Master to help. He asks the master “Master, if I meditate four hours a day, how long will it take me to transcend?” The Master looked at him and said, “If you meditate four hours a day, perhaps you will transcend in ten years.” Thinking he could do better, the man then said, “Oh Master, what if I meditated eight hours a day, how long will it take me to transcend?” The Master looked at him and said, “If you meditate eight hours a day, perhaps you will transcend in twenty years.” “But why will it take me longer if I meditate more?” the man asked. The Master replied, “You are not here to sacrifice your joy or your life. You are here to live, to be happy and to love. If you can do your best in two hours of meditation, but you spend eight hours instead, you will only grow tired, miss the point, and you won’t enjoy your life.” .................... So anyway, I know it's your life and you get to live and express it in any way you wanna, so I don't know if this is helpful. I just know I recognize myself when you talk about overworking, and I wanted to chime in with a thing I read yesterday. Yea. I guess I'm just not sure what your methods of self-improvement are, but if they don't include having fairly frequent adventures and cool stuff like that, then it just feels like the mistake I used to make. But really I know nothing about you lol so maybe that's not what you truly need.

Definitely The Alchemist, if you haven't read it.

Anyone from Lithuania perhaps? I'm going to move to Amsterdam soon enough though, so it would be nice to meet other self-actualizers from there, if you're out there.

Hi everyone, I'd like to get your thoughts on this. The more I contemplate it, the more it seems to me that laziness as a concept is simply invalid. It feels like calling someone "lazy" is ignorant, and comes from a lack of understanding. "Laziness" seems to be a symptom of all manner of psychological issues and traumas, some of which might be really deep. And telling someone to get off their ass and to stop being lazy is akin to telling some to "just don't be depressed". However, it does seem like some people respond productively to that kind of "stop being lazy" messaging, and they're able to force themselves to start getting things done, so I understand the possible utility in it. Some people might not react in any practical way if they're told that they're lazy because of trauma, not because they're useless losers. Maybe that harsh fire is the only way for some. What do you guys think about the concept of laziness?

Yeahh exactly. There's so little positive encouragement in general. When I was a kid, whenever someone called me lazy and shamed me for it, it just made me want to sink into a deep dark hole even lower. I think I'd separate laziness from conserving energy though. My definition of laziness is that you're avoiding actions that would be good for you, but which would require effort and possible discomfort. Conserving energy has a positive definite purpose in itself though.