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Stop right there lol.

I experience both of these things all the time.

@Leo Gura ?

I don't know about you, but personal development has completely changed my life beyond anything I could ever imagine. Personal development is not particularly the best way to reach success. In fact, it's almost a distraction if you're not careful. Success requires hard-work, patience, persistence, vision, and a bunch of other stuff that have almost no relation to self-help. Nobody can give you these things. You already have them, you just gotta be wise enough to use them. With self-help, you develop your mindset and you gain wisdom and insight so that you can become better at executing the steps required to reach success. But you still have to actually take the steps nevertheless, and that requires putting in the work, and getting out of the comfort zone. Developing your mind alone will not create success. If you want to be successful, simply work hard, there are no shortcuts and there will never be. Nobody can become a master just by sitting on their ass, watching YouTube videos and reading books. There are levels to success, and you only get to the highest level after going through the little successes, and the many failures along the way. It's a baby-step process. The more work and effort you put, the more progress you make.

What is not in my direct experience?

These things don't seem like assumptions to me.

And my question is : Is there anything that is an assumption?

@StarStruck A really good and easy technique that you can implement to correct that is this: Make empty comments about anything in your visual field. For example, you see a big shiny billboard, ask if it's a new ad or if she tried the product or whatever. Make something up. Anything, preferably the first thing that comes to your mind. You could talk about trees and make an interesting conversation. You could say this tree looks beautiful, exotic, I love how trees look like in this time of year, etc. Keep doing that so that she gets comfortable talking with you at the same level (girls seem to fear risking to look stupid if they talk like that first, so be the bold one and make the first stupid move haha), and then after a while you make the latter steps of escalation. You just gotta be talkative at the beginning. And don't expect a response. If she doesn't reciprocate, that's fine, talk about the next thing you see. The key here is that being extroverted like that should seem like your modus operandi. If she still doesn't reciprocate, then she has low interest from the get go and you can't possibly fix that. In that case, tell her that this date is boring and just drop her. But it's unlikely, since she agreed to go out with you, which means at least medium level interest, which you work on raising with your personality and swagger and all that stuff.

Like what @Nahm said. Spending should be casual, like how you normally spend on yourself. It's not really important how much. But you must make sure she never feels scarcity around you.

@Leo Gura Do you think he's acting from good intentions? It's really hard for me to believe that someone seemingly informed and aware like him can be this stupid. I think he's a fraud and a Zen Devil.

The last one has a strong spiritual vibe to it, especially after the 4 minutes mark. It'd been my favorite during my first awakening.

I'm glad that I can't. I tend to forget past experiences easily because I live in the now. I seriously tried to recall the past, but I can't. I just can't really relate to my past self except from a meta point of view.

It's not like that. Not everything women say or do is a test. Sometimes they're actually just expressing themselves. Your job is to take whatever they say and turn it into a selling point for your value. But you shouldn't overdo that either, because that would make you look needy and like a tryhard. It's kind of tricky, but essentially your goal is to shift the conversation outside of the logical pragmatic frame. Once you succeed with that, you wouldn't need to sell anything anymore. The mood will be correct and the date will go smoothly. You will sense a different vibe from the girl, a more feminine and open vibe. Throughout the date, there will be plenty of opportunities for you to sell yourself. Use them as entry points to activate that vibe. Once it's activated, simply try to maintain it by not fucking up and returning to the logical mode. And by the way, you didn't fuck up by remaining silent. You will always have silent moments. That's okay. You don't have to comment on everything she says, there are many things that don't deserve a response, so just learn to be comfortable with silence. You only fuck up if you say something hyper logical, like trying to debunk her or something. Silence is simply like saying: okay, maybe, whatever.

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I would tell her that it's a very amusing thing to me; that people are different, and that understanding differences and exploring various perspectives are my biggest passions in life (play the emotional passionate purpose-driven guy card + subtle wordplay i.e. I want to explore her). Then I would possibly recite an example or two of girls I know who said otherwise (play the pre-selected guy card + trigger her jealousy + challenge her + show her I have an independent opinion and am independent of her opinion). But of course, it's easy for me to think these stuff right now. I rarely say the right things on the fly, but I'm getting better.

Causality is an assumption. What else is there to say?

How can someone reduce another person's consciousness?

Corruption is defined relative to an existing system of rules. It's not arbitrary. We can deconstruct the rules and the concept of corruption, but that's another discussion.

So that the food goes down not up.

@PepperBlossoms Yeah, been there. It drove me crazy. Seeing through the mind has been exhausting. Observing it (the mechanics & relationship with emotions) is still joyful.

This is the part where I would disagree with the general definition of the word. I don't think that corruption has necessarily to be stemming from selfishness. It can be stemming from good intentions, for example, if I thought certain laws were unfair and then went behind them to achieve fairness, would that be corruption? I think, yes. At least from the system's perspective. It's like fighting fire with fire. As well, computers and bots can be corrupt if they start behaving wrong, even though they're not selfish, at least apparently haha.

I just had a 403 error, which basically prevents my IP from accessing this website. This happens a lot with a lot of websites, but VPN always to the rescue.

Not even that. lol.