UpperMaster

@mmKay thank god aint nothin serious

Insight posted earlier seems kind of rubbish now. I swear I keep having these fake insights.

Yesterday I slept late asf cuz I was talking to my friends. Today I woke up and went to the library to study. I completely forgot I had a language class scheduled. Now I am late for it, fuck. I live in this country basically all my life and don’t know the local language to complete fluency so this language class is important. And now I’m late for it, money wasted. bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

Recent realisation. Not sure if this is one of these insights that seem accurate in the moment but is complete rubbish in retro-spect. I realised that I am way too agreeable. I change my opinions about things very easily, I am easily swayed both by other people and myself. I think that I am very open-minded which is great, but it's almost too much to the point where I can't stand on my opinions sturdily. I feel like I have a weak sense of identity or ego. I think I should become more disagreeable and stand on my opinions more because I feel like doing so is crucial when it comes to achieving tasks. The consequence of not having strong opinions or being swayed very easily is that it's very difficult to orient yourself as you keep doubting the things you know. Doubting things are crucial, but I believe I am doing them too much, and I suspect that I do this out of fear. Therefore from now on I will actively try to be more disagreeable and develop a healthier and stronger ego. I don't think this goes against my efforts to align my life to truth, in fact I think this mentality will help me fend off the bullshit. Obviously balance is key, but I feel like I am currently way too openminded and I am unable to stand for my opinions. I suspect that one of the reasons I am a poor results maker is because I have a weak sense of identity, and am unable to trust my own opinions and conclusions without overly doubting them. I think I also do this with the false presupposition that having a healthy ego and being disagreeable is bad. But thats bullshit. Leo is pretty disagreeable temperamentally I suspect, and I think it has helped him succeed. I will therefore allow myself to be more disagreeable and stand on my opinions. I will stop myself from overly doubting myself. I want to align myself to truth as much as possible, and having a no bullshit attitude is something I need. The ability to not being convinced by bullshit arguments is something I need. The ability to recognise when an argument is legit or bullshit. To not be afraid. I am afraid, all the time, and I live life that way. That must stop. No more.

@Bandman good luck bro. I hope you live a fantastic life.

Worked only four hours today. I'm pretty disappointed with how much I worked. I realise that I really look forward to writing in this journal, like it puts on a full on flow state. I also am flooded with different streams of thought and writing here is like a way for me to vent and articulate these thoughts better. I think a lot about woman, because I'm horny asf to be completely honest. I keep getting reminded on how little progress I made compared to my expectations it's honestly killing me. I remember going through the forum the other day and some guy wrote about how he took the life purpose course many times and had a direction for his life, it seemed like his life purpose was to start a business. His post was about how he couldn't take action and start his business, and that he was wasting his life away by inaction. This really scared me because it brought in this perspective where I realised that a lot of people even after taking courses just can't get themselves to work, and that in the end no-ones going to do it for you. I've suffered enough due to my inaction, I really don't want to be in this position. Man I feel a lot better writing here, I feel like I have ADHD and just can't get myself to orient myself, after writing I feel so much more grounded, its honestly amazing the effect after it. I think I'll starts shamelessly writing here whenever I get into a state of hyperactiveness or ADHD because I feel like it has some serious calming effects for me. Not only that, I think it's super important for me to remind myself of this work, and re-allign myself to keep honouring life. I keep getting sidetracked. I was studying fine, then I met some girls from my class and I talked to them. After that boom my concentration went to shit, it's so weird because I get so ADHD and excited when I get distracted that I even forget what my current task is supposed to be. I'm tired as fuck. My mom reminded me that I am a loser today lmao. I have great parents like genuinely but for the past year, they're so disappointed with how I turned out that they straight up point out my bullshit. They say that I don't even try, which for me is super disrespectful to my efforts. Like I take a lot of offence to it because I know I am trying, but I swear it's so hard for me to focus and get shit done. I remember in high-school studying more that everyone, knowing more that everyone, but when it came to the test I couldn't apply the knowledge. This wasn't like this before, Its like I reduced in IQ. It's so frustrating. Like honestly. And Highschool was just me studying and getting low grades while other people partied and got good grades. Im honestly fed up, I've been driven to losing my hope so many times it's tiring. I hope this works out, I am so desperate for some sort of success. I honestly forget sometimes how much I've tried to get some sort of tangible result in my life, now that I think about it there's legit tears in my eyes. It's so fucking offensive when people call you lazy but you really try, but for some reason I just can't focus. It's so fucking irritating. Thats why I am clearing my diet, I'll get myself to be more healthy inbhopes that maybe I won't be this fuvking retarded forever. I'm honestly so pissed off. I'm 19 already, in like half a year il be 20 thats fucked, I can't keep having no tangible results. There's so many inadequacies that Im scared to write it. I'm so tired of being tired. I have faith that I'll make things work, I hope I can still recover. I have faith that I won't be one of these guys that dreams and takes all the courses but doesnt take action. What else can I do. I'll try.

starting my workday late its 1:00 in the afternoon. Usually I would start around 10:00. My exam for micro-economics is in 5 days. I'm stressing out. I need to pass this exam. I have five exams to complete, but only need to complete 3 to progress to the second year (I can take the other two exams later). I lied to my parents that I would attempt all 5 exams. In reality I'm only taking the three exams that I feel I have the best chance passing. The reason for this is that I have limited amount of redos for each subject, so in my head I don't think there's any point in attempting an exam I am nor prepared for. Maybe I should have studied more, and I'm taking the easy way out. I don't know. Out of all the exams in my year, most people claim that mathematics is the hardest and a subject like introduction to business is relatively easy. I don't really know how true this is. One of my good friends actually said the opposite, that math is the easiest exam and other exams like intro to business is actually harder. I found this perspective very interesting, and it did lead me to contemplation. I'm thinking whether the reason I believe mathematics is difficult is because it's actually difficult or because everyone else says it's difficult. The reason why I am not so clear on this is because well, saying introduction to business is easy isn't true, and also I remember through-out the year we have three math midterms. The first two I got like 1 or 0 points out of 10. In the third, I studied for two weeks and got 7. In retrospect it wasn't insanely difficult, it wasn't easy either but still. I'm curious onto how many opinions abut how hard an activity is, is based on reality or just someone else's opinion. Anyway, thats my daily side-tangent. Now I gotta focus on micro, get this work done. I've started becoming more conscious of what I eat and drink. I've been eating like shit recently. Today in the morning, my mother made me a smoothie, I got lucky. I bought some sparking water, and in the afternoon I plan to eat a chicken salad. I think thats a healthy option. I'm not sure yet if I should cut down on coffee or not. I started drinking it, and it weirdly makes me sleep better at night lmao. Or maybe thats bullshit Im not sure. I've been thinking about this journal recently a lot more, I really enjoy putting down my thoughts here, if I could record the process and actually succeed that would be great. I have faith.

@Yimpa ahaha awesome I didnt expect anyone to read it. I'll put more effort into being more articulate, excuse my lacklustre writing I have to develop that skill.

I passed one subject today, two more to go and I'll be able to progress to my second year. Today I realised that a lot of material success boils down to mental capacity and IQ, and that learning where your capacities are and learning to trust them is pretty crucial. I feel like you can only trust your own mind and logic when it comes to survival, because many times when we take another persons words by faith and not by truly understanding the person, you end up missing the context of the teaching. I'm not sure if I am articulating this idea correctly — When someone gives their opinion they usually explain what they think the main point of the argument is, and they leave out details they believe not to be important. The danger with this is that sometimes, you as an individual who is listening to ones argument/teaching need the left out detail to fully comprehend the teaching. What one person thinks is irrelevant or obvious information can be the key to understanding for someone else. To avoid this problem you need to understand and make sense of ideas with your own logic, when you do this you'll naturally fill in gaps of misunderstanding. Thats why I think relying on your own intellect is very very important, even if you aren't a 180 IQ genius. After studying I went to a football match, it was crazy, the opposing team fans started throwing fireworks in the stadium and even other fans. It was crazy crazy. Our team won 5 nil. The opposite team fans got kicked out. damn, crazy experience. It was like a very important match. Another weird thing is that in the team I was supporting, a new 19 year old player scored a goal and had a crazy assist. This player was someone I went to school with. I even trained football with him for 3 years because we were in the same football team. In made me wonder, because I was simply watching whereas this guy was achieving things in the real world. I didn't feel envious at all, I felt happy for him, but I did wonder if my time will come. I hoped and re-inforced my faith that my time will come, where I will do what I want to do and enjoy it. I fell into a blackpill whole recently and it's very negative, they show you very convincing arguments on why everything is genetically predetermined and that you should just give up. One of the only reasons I reject this type of thinking is because I really want to honour my life. I don't know what my greatest possibility is, it may be very high, it may not. but I'm going to fight for it no-matter what. I want to unleash and realise my possibility. I stopped myself from consuming any other self-improvement content. I know it's important to get information from different sources but I feel like every self-improvement channel out there is simply re-inforcing this competition mindset, this simplistic un-nuanced way for self-improvement. Like I want to actually do something I love, and accomplish large scale goals, I only have one life I don't want to waste it in petty competition (although I often get to that state because I'm bitter), I want to have amazing relationships with woman not shallow ones. I have faith that this information given in actualized.org can get me to a position where I live a genuinely fulfilling life, not life lived off insecurity. I don't even know if thats possible, thats why I'll just ave faith. I'll believe. Because if it does happen it would be worth it.

Today was very weird. I couldn't stick with the neurotic fight or flight state as I hoped, it was too much stress to sustain. The issue is once I get into that state I become seriously dysfunctional I'm not exaggerating. Nothing but my work matters do the point where I disregard everything else. Additionally its so painful, because your working out of fear. I did however work for four hours productively which was great. I contemplated motivation again, I hate doing it because it seems like I've contemplated almost every aspect to it, and so I feel stuck. Today what motivated me deeply was actually Actualised.org, and the faith that this material presented here can transform my life. I reminded myself that honouring my life is super important to me, and I really hope that I can learn and implement material thats given here and get real results from it. A lot of successful people are extremely neurotic and unhappy, and I really hope I can achieve success and also fully enjoy it. @mmKay posted an image on a thread yesterday about growth mindset, which I thought was super relevant to my life right now: I think this image illustrated how self-development actually looks like. I don't think media makes it clear to individuals that self-development is supposed to be messy. I wish someone could showcase their self development journey with all the difficulties and wrong turns they make because I had to learn the hard way that self development journey usually isn't pretty. I'm not referring to the occasional mistakes we make; I'm talking about how, every hour of the day, we're constantly trying to find new solutions and inevitably messing up. I'm talking about waking up every day, trying a fresh approach to be more productive, failing, and then coming up with ideas on how to improve your life in some way, only to abandon those ideas halfway through—then revisiting them a month later. It's about being driven by purpose and virtue one moment, and then, getting hurt by someone which leads us to start motivating ourselves through ego, and the need to prove someone wrong. I've accepted that this is part of the process, and I want this journal to showcase as much as possible how messy and human this process is.

The question is clear: Can a person with a low IQ develop themselves, explore truth and achieve self-actualization? Jordan Peterson suggests that individuals with lower IQs should align with mainstream conservative values, as this may help them avoid complications in life. He argues that those who are less intelligent should not think for themselves because they end up thinking badly. However, considering that thinking is essential for contemplation: is it possible for someone with a low IQ to think independently, align their life with truth, and actualise themselves?

@mmKay I'm still in the middle its so not cool dawg

Okay, I slept on it and this is my decision. I will forcefully put myself in the neurotic fight or flight state to get some work done because honestly I don't know how else I will pass my exams. I'll do this for a couple days and report on my progress.

@QVx Nah bro, I was actually referring to the pursuit of truth in general—avoiding biases, understanding complex systems, and grasping epistemic truth. I think it's reasonable to assume that someone with a high IQ might be better equipped to interpret and understand the truth, like their trips and so forth.

@Leo Gura ahhh we cooked. We do all this development to be rats lmao.

@QVx Here's something that really bothers me: People with an IQ of 150 often think they understand a lot about the world because they’re comparing themselves to someone who knows far less. But imagine an entity with an IQ of 1000—how would they perceive our so-called geniuses with a 150 IQ? So, at what point does your IQ actually allow you to grasp the truth?

@Leo Gura IQ of 95 slightly below average. Would this person do you think be able to create a subjecting amazing life and contribute to the world if he/she implements your advice. Do you think this person would even be able to contemplate and learn the right lessons from your videos. I mean at some level he/she has to trust themselves that they even understand your message completely.

@oldhandle I feel like you'll get motivation to start the business after you start it. Kinda got to hold your feet against the fire.

Big bro is strategic ahahaha

Whenever I feel like I am gaslighting myself, I really hate it, I revolt against it as much as possible. For instance, if I feel as if I'm gaslighting myself into thinking that all you need to get woman is game, then I tend to look for counter-evidence because I really hate the idea of being a victim to my biases. This is what happened, I fell into the blackpill rabbit hole. It's very difficult to argue against blackpill because they have statistics on their side, and I feel every personal experience I had with woman can be both explained in terms of black pill or game (oh she left you because she found someone who looked better, or oh she left you because you showed her too much attention). I've been starting to watch videos like this. This guy is a full on black pill, talks about genetic pre-determinism, and how self improvement as a whole is just a massive cope. I don't want to believe that self actualising is a cope, I also don't want to gaslight myself. How would you argue against these people, I mean there are probably guys that did the work and didn't get the results. I'm writing this because to maybe get some closure, so someone can give me an actually solid argument against this shit. I want to know the reality, I don't want false hope. For me its just shocking, if the truth isn't blackpill, then why are so many men who even had success with woman start to agree with the blackpill. Another YouTuber Jacked and Stacked, a man who had success with woman started basing all his content around how self improvement is just a massive scam. He explains how even though everyone should to self improvement, you'll probably never reach your big goals. It's just not probable. Crazy thing is I don't have an argument against it. The new blackpill isn't just on looks and dating. It's the idea that self improvement is just a massive grift. It's fake hope. I don't understand why people would gain this perspective if it wasn't the truth.

You dislike everyone ahahahaha

As we already know, every decision in life is based on incomplete information. In order to make decisions and orient yourself appropriately, it seems crucial to form solid opinions about the world. I realise that sometimes in my life I don't form opinions about certain things and remain agnostic out of fear, probably because I don't want to be wrong. It is difficult for me to know when I have enough information to commit to an idea. When is it appropriate to be agnostic and when is it not? How do I know if I am agnostic out of fear, or because I genuinely don't have enough information? Your response is kindly appreciated.

Yea see I agreed with that until recently, because not committing to an idea means you're still agnostic in some level. I feel like you have to commit to some ideas, and not doing so is just a sign that your afraid of being wrong and having to change your ideas later. For example, spiritual teachers believe in non-duality. I don't think it's right to say that they don't have enough experience or contemplation to commit to that claim. But maybe there's a possibility above non-duality that they're missing out on. They can never know until they garner more experience. But to remain agnostic even after experiencing non-duality, to me seems like your just afraid of having to change your beliefs after. Thanks for your response, I hope I articulated my point correctly.

Hurt my lat muscle in the gym. Went to the doctor has pain was still present after two months, and the doctor gave me a prescription, telling me to take it for a while. It's a prescribed medicine, but I'm not sure why it was given to me. How do you decide whether to take prescribed medicine or not? To what extent should I be skeptical? I want to know how to balance trust and skepticism in this scenario