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His older self was a lot more playful. He talked with a lot more energy. He's still somewhat positive, but now he sometimes does that Jordan Peterson-like crying/vibe, which feels really heavy, making his reframes less exciting and more "sad." Not disagreeing with the fact that his older videos are very grounded, and that 90% of people in this forum should master them first before implementing his more advanced stuff. But maybe an old-Leo type of rhetoric combined with the new-Leo type of insight is the "secret formula."

Abso-fucking-lutely. The bureaucracy is insane. Although I can't recommend which areas of society to focus on instead(or maybe you should stay with the school system), I can say with absolute certainty that the 2 main issues that overshadow the mainstream idea of "iTs tHe SchOOl sysTeM," are the heavy internet use and over fixation on materialism. If you are able to not get distracted by the internet(which fucks up your dopamine system) and are spiritually developed enough to see the subtle beauty in appreciating the fact that you are learning about God's creations through schooling, you will enjoy learning the content so much that you'll brush off how bullshit the school system is. I've been contemplating about this and my recommendation for changing the school system is much more radical than all yalls. No more middleschool, highschool, or college. (This will probably cause a lot of unemployment, sorry but learning is more important than you're stupid dis-passionate ways of teaching) Starting at 4 yrs old until they're 9yrs old they'll only learn 3 subjects: (Computer Technology Usage) teach them proper internet usage; to learn self studying ways to not get distracted, i.e. having time limits on internet use, only using internet at the same time every day, etc.. (Psychology and Self-help) Meditation Observing themselves while doing an activity Psychological theories Some slight metaphysics maybe -- life purpose. (English or whatever native language they speak) Helps with using the internet Socialization/ Rhetorical communication After 9 yrs old, they'll just do self study, because Everything is literally on the internet. MIT Opencourseware(for example) has way better lectures than 80% of other Universities on the same topic. For rigorously tested careers like Doctors for example, theory is self studied, residency of course needs to be actual. But they only go on campus or hospital for the exam and residency.

So, the hero's first journey was challenging, but his calling, the mentor, and his impeccable ability to go inside the belly of the whale provided him with so much quality fuel. He was able to defeat the threshold guardians and the dragon, with a lot of effort no less, but was entirely stoic in the process due to the three sources of fuel mentioned. He discarded the false Holy Grail and basked in and appreciated the real Holy Grail. But then, one day, something/someone stole the Holy Grail from him. He doesn't know whether it was one of the threshold guardians who survived, or a woman as a temptress. In any case, the general path and Holy Grail are still the same as his previous journey, but the threshold guardians came back much stronger and with newer members. There are more women as temptresses, and the dragon is also stronger. However, he feels that once he gets a hold of the Holy Grail once more, this will be his definitive grasp of it, and it will no longer slip from his hands ever again (fingers crossed lmao). Once again, the journey is much more intense: the threshold guardians are on steroids, the women as temptresses have enhanced their makeup and undergone butt and boob implants, and the dragon has grown thicker scales. On the other side, the calling is less powerful, the mentor is leaving him, and the belly of the whale is much bigger and thicker to get into. Questions: 1.) Is it a hero's journey if the hero lost the holy grail and have to retireve it again? 2.) Does this scenario still make sense as a hero's journey, in general? If not, do you think I mislabeled certain parts of the journey?

That's the question, if its possible. Idk if i'm retarded or not, but from my knowledge a hero can embark on multiple journeys. I'm prolly just retarded Just lock this post. Its useless.

@Zigzag Idiot Nope hated it. This is just the GIST of what the hero's journey is. It doesn't answer my specific questions.

Leo and those who did the life purpose course will know.

@SeaMonster They won't understand. The skill to be able to read your opponents and your teammates in a split second to find the optimal decision is rare and beautiful. This is the type of question that someone who doesn't play sports/ compete at a high level will ask. Also the type of question that doesn't understand human psychology as well. Anyways, OP, think of it this way: imagine if most people were naturally into spirituality, and they were watching 10-20 Leo Guras on TV discussing their different insights with one another.

Obviously you should almost always verify every advice that's given to you. Even Leo advocates for his followers to look for other gurus to "cross-referencing" his ideas. But the best boxers in the world usually only stuck with one coach for most of their career, without much cross-referencing with other coaches. Gervonta Davis had Calvin Ford for 20 years, Mike Tyson had Cus for almost a decade, Mayweather Jr. had his father for almost all of his career, etc... Even tho boxing and self development are two different things, I feel like there's a continuity between them, especially with the people supporting you. So the question is how would you balance between non consensus view from cross-referencing vs loyalty, because I feel like there's a benefit to being loyal that Leo doesn't seem to emphasize?

@Carl-Richard @SeaMonster I kinda had it in the back of my head that Leo's videos aren't specific to one person, but I thought there's still some chance that there's a direct correlation between his videos and an actual coach. Thinking about it now, my very first video of his related to my current situation at the time, like every string of sentences he was saying was directly connected to my situation -- so it felt like a 1-to-1 advice, that the ideas from that video stuck with me for 1-2 years, and I actually didn't even consume any other content of his during that time. Literally every single day I kept hearing all the cool paradigm shifts he said, in my head, subconsciouly. Like I wasn't doing no affirmations or visualizations or none of that, the concepts just stuck that it even gives me goosebumps right now just thinking about that moment. So the second best thing, it seems, if he can't coach me 1-to-1, is to only watch the videos that genuinely relates to my situation(to the tee) in that moment. @CARDOZZO I'm currently watching it. I wish Leo's site had a better search system where I don't need to type the exact word of the title -- maybe he could embed the search results from youtube when searching for his videos there. Probably would have seen it sooner then.

@Thought Art The first two events are pure internal, but the 3rd one is a mix of both. But I finally got the common essence between the 3. It took me close to a week to find the "root" commonality. Its surprising because I got the answer while I was doing an unrelated activity.

The 1st & 2nd events have an essence of "Being/Appreciation." The 3rd is coming from a low consciousness essence ie. "Validation." Do I just try to find a different event that relates to the 1st and 2nd even tho the 3rd event is up there in terms of inspiring me??

Dude you're literally a few clicks to find Leo's video on this. This goes to all the fucking re re's reading this -- use the fucking videos Leo made. The videos are polished, so not half baked like this forum. Watch the relevant video(s) atleast before commenting this type shit.

Stopped atm, because I feel responsible for who they become afterwards. I subconsciously do things that are bad for them (materialistically and psychologically) but they love it for some fucking reason. They keep coming back for more. Its so wierd, but also metaphysically hilarious.

@Hardkill We are now living in knowledge economy, where creativity and learning is what pays the bills. Our parents didn't have to deal with the internet so creativity and learning wasn't a global competition. And then most young people don't take their studies and schooling seriously. They are on internet distracting themselves all the time -- bitching on twitter, watching youtube, playing videogames, etc -- which are all the opposite of what generates creativity and learning. If a lot of young people are killing themselves .... well... it is what it is.... maybe in the next life god will make their spirits wiser to be able to resist these pleasures and distractions. I've noticed the ones who can pay the bills and then some where the ones who did well in school and were wise enough to prevent a lot of distractions. There's nothing wrong here, it is what it is. The more these younger people complain the more karma they'll accrue if they don't take control of their lives. God is not so unreasonable tbh.

Holy shiittt!!!. Why you gotta do my boi Leo like that?

He needs a computer thats so powerful that it becomes conscious of its own existence, that way they can do 5-MeO together.

@UnbornTao Dude, Leo could've spent the thousands of hours mastering linux into his Life Purpose. Besides, with his type of work he's not going to care about systems-level/OS-level applications lmao.

@Leo Gura You should record a timelapse of you building it like,

@Zoomy 1. I feel like you can override this if you did the impact statement exercise. 2. We have a lot of overlaps in our life purpose and I have a really good idea(but i'll keep it to myself), so I'll give you the scrapped ideas. One scrapped idea that I have was to provide the entertainment, but create some type of policy that shuts the game down after some time -- to prevent addiction. Another idea was to somehow curate your fast paced game so that it also improves the general learning abilities/skills of the users PS: Leo is very very very very very good at providing the Big Picture. He has good practical advice as well. But if you want something super pedantic and detailed small picture, "Deep Work" by Cal Newport is great.

Me too!!!. He's articulate, casual, and unique. Jordan Peterson is articulate but he just doesn't emotionally resonate with me. I have an uncle who's the same age as Leo who I look up to when it comes to some PUA stuff. I also look up to a dancer/choreographer who's a year younger than him. I also like to watch comedian, Andrew Schulz, who's also around the same age as him. The trend is that I like to look up to young-uncle/older-brother figures I guess lol.

I've noticed Americans are generally friendlier than Canadians. Every time I come back from US to Canada, I start to act friendlier to people here, but Canadians always assume that that's the "go ahead" signal for them to try to become friends with me when I'm just being "American polite." What are some graceful phrases/words to indicate that I don't want to be close with you -- without killing the vibe or creating awkwardness?

Jesus christ, this topic is pure cancer. I chose to ignore it a few days ago, as I was anticipating it to be locked, and now it's at 3 pages lmao.

Background about this guy: He created an Operating System all on his own (not a small feat btw).

Michael Spivak's Calculus textbook Tom Apostol's Calculus Series Any other proof based math books Proof based math is the type of math that spiritual kids should be following for a few reasons. 1st is that it allows you to be creative; it allows you to extend proofs to create new proofs. You can't do that when you just learn the "steps" on how to do a certain calculation. 2nd is that it teaches you the ASSUMPTIONS (axioms) that makes the proof possible. So as you solve the problem, you always need to keep in mind that what you're doing is based on certain ASSUMPTIONS(that you made or provided to you). Remembering these assumptions is tantamount to reminding you that mathematics is not true and that they're created from assumptions. Even though everything happens for a reason, I always wished that I was taught proof-based math as kid. I always had the tendency to ask, "but why?", "ok so its like that, but why is it like that?", and so on. Because if i don't know where it came from, I'm not going to believe it and therefore not learn it. Teachers would always explain why we do a certain step, but then their explanation for that abstraction is also another abstraction -- they don't get to root/axioms of the concept. I've only tried Spivak's textbook and that shit is hard and painful(heard Apostols is less harsh), but also rewarding at the same time. While doing one of the problems, i started to get slightly dissappointed in society for teaching math the way its currently taught. This disappointment has seeped into most areas of life: making me deeply resentful of 99% of people, but don't worry I'll hangout and joke around with them still. I'm heavily in favor of homeschooling your children, especially if you're a spiritual parent. Make them join sports, boyscouts, etc.. on the side, to prevent them from being socially awkward losers. Socializing and education should be cleanly seperated. Other kids will be bad influences, and so are teachers. I feel like if you just teach your kids how to read, and then just give em the textbook to learn the subjects taught in school, that kid will be set for life.

@sda No info on your gender(but I think you're a girl). Also I can 90% guess that S is an international student who's from a 3rd world country(correct me if im wrong) Option1: If you can, try to find a studio apartment, and maybe sacrifice your food budget for the apartment's cost. (starve a little in exchange for more solitude and independence) Option2: Or try to find working professionals as roommates. My roommate is one and he brings such an air of groundedness into the household. So I'm not surrounded by the immaturity of people my age 24/7, which I already get on campus anyways. If I had to become roommates with people my age ever again, I will go apeshit and shoot myself.