The Renaissance Man

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  1. I believe there's a compromise to make though. You have limited resources. You can either invest them more in creating solid proof for your claims, or you can invest them in pushing your exploration further. As long as there's a philosophy of "don't believe me, test it on your own", and a positive intention to help rather than scam, ideas can be incredibly powerful, even if not traditionally proven. A LOT of scientific studies are worth shit for various reasons, so ultimately you need to test stuff for yourself anyway.
  2. @Husseinisdoingfine Please don't overlook what I wrote above. I was able to actually solve this situation in my own life. I'm not giving advice because I heard it from Huberman, Peterson, or whoever. Don't trust me on my words, but if you haven't tried seriously, consider trying this different route. It's true that consciousness over time will make you transcend those cravings, but you can't ignore the "over time" part. And my solution for that is in my first message.
  3. @Husseinisdoingfine I suggest an alternative for the short-term. In the long-term understanding will be required to transcend those cravings. But back to the alternative, I believed I was addicted to youtube. I watched it 4 hours a day, after lunch, before sleep, during breaks. Youtube was my last remaining distraction. I had removed successfully Instagram and video games. And it was easy, as long as there was an alternative. When I took away YouTube, I burned out in a week! So the fight kept going for months. I couldn't understand. Am I addicted? I think we tend to call everything an addiction, when many times the root problem is different. Well, 3 months ago I decided I would start reading novels, and replace youtube with that. Would you believe that after 10 years, watching youtube 4+ hours a day, unable to quit, I was able to quit it entirely in two weeks? Was it an addiction then, or are we demonizing normal brain needs? Maybe over time I'll be able to transcend novels and meditate all day. Whatever. At least compared to youtube novels don't have endless scrolling. They're less stimulating. Healthy alternative!! Be smart about it, think outside the box. The self-improvement world is full of this bullshit advice of habits and discipline. How many times do you need to see it doesn't work? Only being conscious of the situation will make you transcend the craving. But that's not something you do on command. So as you work on it, find smart alternatives. Marginal gains, that are a bit better. I went from playing video games, being on Instagram and tiktok and then also youtube. Then I removed games. 6 months later social media. 1 year later youtube, and since it was the last thing remaining, I had to replace it with something: novels. Much healthier and less addictive. I went from eating junk food and being ignorant about nutrition. I then learned about it and started being obsessive and weighing everything. Then I understood that the real way to make healthy nutrition sustainable was to find a healthy alternative to the junk food. So I found my combination of healthy, regular meals, and completely removed any junk food. Pasta became whole-grain pasta. Chocolate became only dark chocolate. Cookies became nuts. Pizza, sushi, and that stuff is only allowed outside my house. If I go out once a month, I don't care. See? TRY. I was in your shoes, it's the whole paradigm of approaching those """""addictions""""" that's toxic.
  4. How is posting here worth your time? In which ways does it help your survival? Because it does, otherwise you wouldn't do it. Why posting here rather than doing anything else? Why doing anything else rather than posting here? I'm asking these questions with no bias. The question is "why", and not "should you do it". Given all of you are in the forum investing your time (me included), I think this is a very valuable question to answer thoughtfully.
  5. This is so juicy
  6. I agree with Leo and found myself in the same situation. The misoginy then comes for another reason though. I've been in and through it: Men here, tell me if I'm mistaken: For years young men are told by their families, culture, women themselves, to be nice to them etc etc in order to be attract them. This coupled with their need for pussy turns them into weak servants of women when with them, they see them on a pedestal. Those creatures to satisfy, so mystical, so beautiful. Then you stumble on the truth of the things: that behavior is the farthest thing from what a woman is attracted to. Holy shit! Then those cultures (redpill, etc) promote an idea that the very reason of your suffering, of those ideas of behaving like a nice guy, came from a feminist culture, that promotes women as princesses in movies and men as chasers, that see masculine traits as toxic, etc etc. As a man you have those traits and tendencies, and you feel like your authentic behavior is seen as wrong. So you feel a boiling sense of revenge, against all the suffering you had in your unsuccessful (with women) teenage years, and against the idea that masculine traits are oppressed and deemed as inherently toxic. I was able to "escape" from the misogynistic mentality, while learning the good lessons, by seeing first-hand how those cultures (redpill, etc) make the problem much bigger than it is. Most women aren't ruthless (obviously), and you are free to act as a man in society as long as you have common sense and don't spread mysoginistic propaganda, and you won't get banned, etc. etc. It's actually appreciated (obviously, again). The mysoginy comes from magnifying those truths, because there's some truth in that, and coupled with the suffering that came from the bad advice society provided (to be a nice guy), BINGO!
  7. @RendHeaven If you push your own product just a little bit, or create new products, you can make 10x donations and youtube ads combined per month no problem. You don't get RICH through Youtube ad revenue by talking about philosophical stuff. A massive, mainstream audience is needed to make big money through Youtube ads. Note: I don't consider $10k revenue per month being rich. It's more than enough for a great life though.
  8. @Phil King What Leo did isn't even good marketing. Doesn't mean it's bad marketing either, but he doesn't push the life purpose course at all. He could be a lot more pushy with it. So if you were to sell the same product to the same audience as Leo you could easily double what he's made, just by changing how frequently you mention it and how you talk about it. I almost see Leo's marketing as "the bare minimum". But this goes to show what his values are towards his audience. Actions speak louder than words, and I admire Leo for this. Considering the same product, which should be of great value, here are 3 strategies: The more selfish option would be to suck as much money as possible from your audience, even if you provide value. For example selling the LP course for $1000+ The "least selfish", would be what Leo did, decent pricing and barely mentioning it. And then I would probably go for a third approach, that I believe doesn't hurt anybody much, which is a fair price, but a bit heavier on marketing, watching out to not sound like a greedy salesman.
  9. @Bobby_2021 Consider it as a brainstorming tool. That way it's super powerful. Challenging your theories, suggesting solutions. Then YOU evaluate each one. Treat it just like you'd treat any other source of information. Book, course, seminar. Just because humans can be deceived, it doesn't mean every book written is shit. It just means you need to validate the information, and the same is for AI and its hallucinations
  10. @Leo Gura were you able to have the entire conversation in one go, without any message limitations? The whole conversation it's 36 prompts.
  11. I also noticed how when you say "I think", such as: I think the that politics in that era, and in most eras, was so brutal that only a genius opportunist could succeed at it. Or "I see", such as: I see conformity and reactionary behavior as another big factor in all this. the AI expands your theory more than questioning it. It doesn't feel as biased as chatgpt 3.5, not even close, but it could withhold some information that contributes to the full picture. It's probably just a nuance of prompting, where maybe asking the question without letting it know your opinion, like: "what do you think happened to all the ideological purists?, why weren't they in power?" forces the AI to express its own opinion and more unexpected perspectives (or limitations) can show up
  12. Did any of you incur in rate limits using Claude 3 Opus?
  13. @Leo Gura I see what you did there
  14. @Jayson G Congrats!
  15. It's incredible how you can be surprised by your own direct experience in this way. Basically, over time you mature, as you do. Typically maturity comes from experience. With Leo's advice such as observation and contemplation, every experience has 10x the data and value, so you mature quicker. This is a summarized version of the process I've experienced. Andrew Tate There's one recent episode that surprised me. Like many of you, I like to watch self-improvement videos. I started from a lower place of watching people like Hamza and Andrew Tate. The red pill. I know first-hand why it's so appealing. And with a bit of shame I admit that they felt like role models. Not explicitly, but implicitly I admired them and "imitated them" a bit. Then, also thanks to Leo, I was able to recognize how that whole culture, while improving my confidence, had brought an unhealthy hate towards women, and over time, I was thankfully able to grow through that, and people like Tate just became people I disagreed with. I knew why he was appealing, but I could now see how there are healthier ways to go about life, healthier alternatives to hustle culture and misoginy. But I could never see how Tate was immature. This post is about maturity. For the first time recently, I could see Tate as a 40 year old man that talks about the matrix. Bro. You are a BOY! You are a 40 year old immature boy that had success, and now you feel like a superhero! That's so immature. That's the mind of a teenager. And I just could not see that. Early on I admired him. Then I disagreed with him. Now I see it from a new perspective, and that was so unexpected. But it's not only that. On social media I see it in other people too. I see how seeking approval and fame turns a lot of these adult men into clowns. And I believe that's not faked. It's not like a compromise they do to appeal to larger audiences. They are like that, this is my opinion. If they weren't, they just wouldn't be able to put their face in public in such ways.
  16. Empathy, and anything that's the opposite of narcissism and manipulation
  17. @Yimpa You too
  18. And I was able to trace back how this new perspective was developed, and it was from personally shedding a lot of the desire for approval. I could see in my direct experience how it was not worth it to a whole new level. I knew it already, but there's levels to this shit. There are levels to comprehension. I believe the reason I was surprised is because I had no direct experience of a maturity standard beyond a 20 year old. There's plenty of content on "how a 20 year old should behave". Usually stage orange advice, quite appealing, with discipline, and all of that. But I had no direct experience of "how a 40 year old should behave". I'm not saying I'm there or anything, but I was able to grow enough out of that 20 year old self-improvement paradigm to see how that's not how a 40 year old would behave for example. Or an adult man. I believe if I had a real-life relationship with a more mature person, I would've seen Tate for what he was instantly, as well as many other people. This is just an hypothesis, I'm not complaining, don't get me wrong. Just a thought. Anyway, it was cool to see once again how direct experience of growth goes beyond any logical understanding you might have from just logically hearing about development. I'm sure the experience of growing into spiral dynamics over the years it's the same. I may think I know what Yellow is, but I'm sure in 15 years I will look back at me now and see how I knew about 5% of what being stage yellow is really like. A stage is not something you understand. It's something you become, effortlessly. It's a new identity that has evolved thanks to tons of direct experience and lessons, moving you closer to what reality actually is like, as it becomes more and more undeniable. So fascinating.
  19. I would find this SOOO valuable. I believe a video, even a single one, where you quickly go through the channel videos (especially the ones from 3 to 7/8 years ago, not the really old ones), and say if you have changed opinion about something, and why. For example, certain meditation techniques you found much better alternatives to, or maybe explicitly saying how certain videos lacked a major part of the actual system you were trying to describe, etc. While I know it's our job to fact-check everything you say in our own experience, having a heads-up after content made years ago, that wasn't covered more recently, can still be incredibly valuable
  20. @Leo Gura do you still do your daily meditation? Or you just do that occasionally, because the vast majority of the value is in retreats?
  21. I noticed the same thing too. And with alcohol, smoking or drugs the thing is very different. The side effects are really devastating. I remember Leo also having this kind of opinion: Porn is a problem only if you see it as a problem. Or something like that. I recently read Easy Peasy out of curiosity, and there are quite a lot of assumptions on it, like that all porn users feel stupid and guilty, and that's a symptom that porn is bad. And it uses it as a relevant argument. In the book they say how you wouldn't brag about how much porn you watch, and that's proof it's bad. But they also say masturbation without porn isn't bad. But would you brag about how much you masturbate without porn? What the fuck? There's a fallacy there. I'd be really curious to see if those addicted people would stop feeling guilty, what would happen to the side-effects... It seems to me that Leo was right: it's an addiction only if it ruins other parts of your life and you still can't moderate yourself. I believe that porn and drugs can't be put on the same level. The mechanics are different, the side-effects are radically different, and they are discussed the same way by people like the nofap community far too often, but it doesn't take much critical thinking to see that in reality that's just not the case.
  22. Is this good or bad? English is my second language
  23. @Sabth Make a plan. Don't waste time on petty stuff and use it to improve your life. For any "how do I..." question there's the internet, books and courses. Simple solution, hard to get up and implement it. Alternative: a therapist can give you a lot of support, help and accountability. But in the end you'll have to do what I said, a good life won't just appear out of nowhere.
  24. @FourCrossedWands Bro listen to him. So good