Basman

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New age hippies and therapy culture alike give trauma special primacy to the point of pathologizing what is arguably just life's challenges and the human condition. Healing has its place but more often than not what people lack is just development of their talents in my opinion. The urge within therapy speak culture is to frame development as fixing yourself, which is in of itself a negative way of framing things.

I believe it's likely that rich people will find a way to live longer eventually. Just not any time soon. Something like 150-200 maybe. The market for immortality is huge. The motivation and funds are there.

If your a highly motivated person your going to have a case of the grass being greener on the other side. It kind of comes with the territory. Your goals are always idealized. You need to cultivate some contentment to keep yourself going. You bring yourself everywhere you go, so you might as feel good doing it. I've started doing the following to be more present: Note 3 things that you like in your current environment. 3 sensations in your body. Focus on your breath for about 30 seconds.

MCU post endgame is peak kicking a dead horse. Let it die with some dignity please.

You can use reading as a coping strategy to deal with bad habits. Like if you catch yourself doom scrolling you pick up a book.

I prefer paperback. I find I process stuff better and it's easier to refer back and take notes, etc. Reading daily, 30-60 minutes a day should get you through a book in about 3-4 weeks depending. I like to be meticulous in my notetaking, so I read less, but I get through it. Your probably not going to remember everything, but you will absorb the core lessons. Depending on how technique heavy a book is you can be more or less meticolous trying to remember everything.

If people can't tell what you are from how you look then that's a skill issue. Of course, there are some who you genuinely can't tell. But after a while you can kind of tell anyway. Like they have huge tits and are frail af. It's entitled and weird to try and control people's perception, which is kind of why I think it's in large part ideological. Not just the notion that gender is just fluid but also that gender is whatever you think it is in a post-modern sort of way. That's where you lose a lot of people in my opinion because it's detached from material reality.

I think monks can be quiet charismatic actually in a way that's quiet rare. They can be very kind and present and have this sort of whimsicalnes to them. But I guess its less of an act or deliberate practice.

I'm halfway through that book on charisma from Leo's book list, and combined with a bunch of other sources and my own experience I've realized that charisma and making people like you is basically sucking people off verbally. Your trying to make people feel good about themselves and give them value socially essentially. I read into this stuff to work on my confidence but my takeaway besides these skills is that maybe I'm okay just not caring that much. Like, who am I trying to impress? Most people I don't even like or care about that much. Thoughts?

Just look at how they treat vikings. They look like bikers, with their side cuts and dreadlocks. And it doesn't get more aryan than vikings.

Disgraceful.

It's a subculture. Like how scene kids all wear black band shirts. You have little business messing with pronouns if they are otherwise obvious in my opinion. Fun fact, the majority of "non-binary" are college white women.

Typical high IQ people, "nerds", the types you see walking around in academia and shit always come off as missing something to me. They are either fat or frail and generally lack intensity. They have an abundance of one type of intelligence but aren't well rounded in my opinion. I find it hard too look up to a professor who's an expert in one thing but they are shaped like a pear.

Most things you need to live a good life are generally quiet simple to understand. Well accessible for average levels of intelligence. A high IQ is good for niche high reasoning skillsets, but there are many valuable skillsets that don't require super high IQ. Society tends to overate high IQ skills in my opinion. Quote of the year 😂