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A history of western philosophy by Bertrand Russell if you're brave enough undertake that beast. If you want something shorter and more useful I really enjoyed A Guide to the Good Life, but it focuses on Stoicism only, not philosophy as a whole.

Fruits and berries. Carrots,tomatoes, bell peppers, snap/snow peas

I'm not a runner but am relatively muscular from years of weight training and I have the same issue with hips, knees and ankles. Now I just sit in a chair but don't rest on the chair-back, or straddle the weight bench in my garage. The weight bench is my favorite but it's been 100+ degrees here lately so that's out for now. I notice the more I slouch the harder it is to breathe. But there's a fine line to walk between erect enough to breathe properly and so erect that you can't relax. That's the part I have trouble with. If I truly relax like I want to I'm slumped over like a passed-out drunk lol

I would say basic meditation and mindfulness combined with Leo's help understanding the nature of ego. All of my triggers, motivations, fears, desires, biases, etc, are so much more clear to me now than they ever were before. This has improved my life tremendously, although I still have soooo much work to do lol

1-3 times a week depending on how much we have going on. Fwiw I'm 37, married, and have a kid in the house. Kids make sex on the regular a lot more difficult.

I took my wife to one last year for her 27th bday because she'd never been. We had fun and it was a pretty solid bonding experience but I did have some guilt about it afterwards for the same reason @Joseph Maynormentioned. The green in me felt sorry for the girls and realized most of them would really rather be doing something else. Also I'm 37 and now feel pretty weird about eye fucking 18-19yr olds. I have no interest in going by myself but I'm glad her and I went, it brought us closer together, opened up a new line of communication, made us more secure in our relationship, etc. I'd say embrace it while you have the desire to go. The novelty will wear off, you'll get grossed out by their manipulative techniques or the objectification involved, or just flat out realize you're blowing money that could be better spent and eventually stop enjoying it.

I read that book 2 summers ago and was both blown away and confused. I think I just barely understood the basics of it and the majority went over my head.

Funny I just posted this on Instagram the other day. Love it!

One of my biggest fears is that I won't take full advantage of teachers like Leo in this lifetime, and in my next life I'll reincarnate into some Syrian-like hellscape where there are no worthwhile teachings to be had. There's no one out there covering such a wide range of important topics in the kind of depth that Leo does. Many thanks from me too!

I'm not sure in what sense you're struggling with discipline but one of the most simple things I've found is simply to write plans & responsibilities down, and to have a daily schedule. If you make a schedule in the evening for how your following day should look you're more likely to stick to what you wrote down than if you hadn't planned it out. It doesn't have to be extremely complex or detailed. Also, follow Jocko WIllink's stuff.

Do you live in Saudi Arabia? That's the most ridiculous BS I've ever heard unless you're like 16 years old, and even then it's pretty bad. How I "expect" my wife to dress depends largely on where she/we are going but basically I want her to feel comfortable, confident, and sexy. I've never needed to set any kind of boundaries on her dress. With this being said, we are middle aged, have a kid, and live in a smaller town so if she all of a sudden started dressing in some truly risque stuff I might be tempted to ask her to tone it down just so we don't become social outcasts LOL

I think it's not important whether there's video with it, what's important is that there's audio. Some people learn more efficiently through audio, and I can definitely relate to the OP on that. I get way more out of audiobooks and podcasts than I do paper books. Most everyone here can relate to that I assume since we love to listen to you talk for 2hrs at a time. @Leo-Tzu There's plenty of his stuff available on Audible.com

This is available on Netflix right now. I finished it last night and really enjoyed it. Just wanted to let you all know it was on there right now so you don't miss it. I tried reading The Hero With a Thousand Faces twice and couldn't finish it either time, but I think this documentary acted as a good substitute. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Myth

Donald Hoffman is an American quantitative psychologist and popular science author. He is a Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science. Again, IMO, his best stuff is on podcasts like Third Eye Drops and The Astral Hustle.

Bruce Damer: Principal Scientist at DigitalSpace; Associate Researcher in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz; Associate of the NASA Astrobiology Center; Member of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, and Founding Director of the Contact Consortium. He collaborates with colleagues developing and testing a new model for the origin of life on Earth and in the design of spacecraft architectures to provide a viable path for expansion of human civilization beyond the Earth. He began his career in the 1980s developing some of the earliest user interfaces for personal computers, led a community in the 1990s bringing the first multi-user virtual worlds to the Internet, and since 2000 supported NASA and the space industry on numerous simulations and spacecraft designs. He has spent 25 years chronicling the history of computing in his DigiBarn Computer Museum and curates archives of counterculture figures such as Dr. Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna and others. This is one of his lectures but IMO his best stuff is on podcasts like his appearances on Joe Rogan, Tangentially Speaking, and the Duncan Trussel Family Hour. Not exactly lectures, but much more chill and IMO more informative.

Anything by Bruce Damer or Donald Hoffman would fit in here nicely I think. I've heard them both on several podcast interviews but haven't looked up their stuff on YouTube. I will try to find something later when I'm at a computer and post it if you think they're an appropriate fit @Leo Gura

Similar thing happened to me in January of '16 and lasted for about a year. Eventually I started falling back into old habits, and slacking on the new ones, and that state of being faded. I've been trying to get back there ever since with no success. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavor!

I'm just curious why so many people seem to be resistant to Leo's videos. Over the past 2.5yrs I've tried to turn maybe a dozen people onto actualized.org with basically zero success aside from my wife. Except for 2 out of that dozen, these were people who I really thought would be into it and honestly expected a positive response. Those 2 were people who I sent the root of all addiction video to bc they were trying to quit smoking. From the other 10 though I've either gotten no response at all or something like "I just can't listen to that guy", or "this is stuff I've known for years", the latter of which obviously isn't true judging by the state of their life. I'm having a hard time reconciling the profundity and importance of the videos with how apathetic people are about them. So just out of curiosity, what would you say your success rate has been when trying to introduce friends, family, coworkers, etc., to Leo's material? Also while I'm on this topic I just want to say thanks to @Leo Gura for all the material. You've had more of an influence on me than any other single individual over the past 2.5yrs and my life has improved tremendously. Although I'm somehow both more confused and less confused simultaneously about metaphysical stuff lol. So thanks man! You're planting the seeds of a brighter future for people and humanity as a whole!

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He was extremely helpful to me while transitioning out of blue/orange and into orange/green. I don't find him nearly as appealing as I used to but I'm not exactly sure why. I think he's doing a lot of people a lot of good though all in all. For me he helped to transition both from religiousity to atheism and critical thinking, and then from atheism/rationalism into spirituality and meditation. With all due respect, Leo seems to be too worried about him holding back stage yellow (1% of population) from developing further and not giving enough credit to the good he's doing for blue and orange people which together comprise what, like 75% of people? I can see how this would be easy to do coming from Leo's perspective since he's probably more evolved than Sam. Leo did mention him in a positive light in the green and yellow videos though which was surprising to me and made me respect Leo even more for his objectivity and putting his own bias aside.

I listened to Matthew Walker's book after watching that episode. I'd say save your time and money and just watch the podcast. The book just goes into more detail on all the same topics. Detail that's unnecessary for the average Joe. Great episode of the podcast though! It's definitely made me take my sleep more seriously.

I'll keep it short. I live in TX, my entire immediate and extended family and basically everyone I come into contact with in daily life (aside from my wife) leans heavily toward blue. I don't want being surrounded by, shall we say, "less sophisticated" people to hold back my potential upward progress and I don't want them influencing my young daughter with their nonsense any more than they already have. I've considered moving to Colorado in the past for several reasons, one of which is that the people there tend to skew more toward green and I feel they'll be a better influence on myself and my daughter. The things keeping me from pulling the trigger are A) money. It's a lot more expensive to live in CO than it is in TX. Also my job is somewhat geographically dependent and it will be difficult for me to start over in a new area. and B) moving to a place where I have no family support structure- i.e. no baby sitters, no family cookouts, no Sunday afternoons swimming at my parents house, taking my daughter away from her cousins and grandparents who she loves very much, etc. Or, I can stay here and act as a speck of orange/green/yellow in the hopes of pulling others upward, but I've found this effort to be less than fruitful so far. What would you sages do given my simplistic description? Are any of you in similar situations and debating a move? Or have you already made a similar move from a blue dominant area to a more orange/green area?

Or there could be legitimate physiological reasons why it makes perfect sense that a diet like this would help to improve any number of health problems.

I read Sam Harris's book Waking Up and then started researching meditation and somehow stumbled onto Leo's YouTube page.

I go through these peaks and valleys constantly man. It's not just you. My weakness is podcasts.