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@Leo Gura Thanks so much! I know you have had some deep awakening and those are some basic questions (they help a lot though) If I may ask you two final questions: Have you earned more money by creating websites, than by just continuing your job as a game designer? (or was it more about being independent?) And are you willing to share, what kind of internet marketing business you have built in the past? (and would you recommend doing this, as a gateway to one's purpose?) I learn a lot by modelling and even though I try to let go of this and fully focus on my inner compass, it kind of helps to resolve those questions, in order to let them go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHqBy92iGM scientific denbunking of flat earth

Seems like this is more of a strength of Biden, than interior reforms.

there are new vaccines coming out (novavax I think its called) which do not only target the spike protein, but a larger part of the virus. Those vaccines should be a lot more resistant to mutations. (according to my brother, who is infectiologist) I would be a bit surprised if new variants are able to completly escape the immune response of people who had omnicron. The body creates antibodies for all parts of the virus, while new variants have often just a handful of mutations. Only time will tell, but I would not lose all hope, that prior infections like omnicron will improve the situation.

Hey folks, I can't find out what he did prior to founding the consilience project. I know he studied Mathematics and Counseling psychology, but I don't know what work experiences he has, how he finances himself (he can't be making a lot of money with his consilience project). It's inspiring to me to study the path of people who have very meaningful work and understand how they managed financing themselves, while doing what they love. If you guys know something, please share.

you will grow with your audience and this is the case for so many disciplines, where you need an audience. For example Leo's audience will also get older and older with time. What I don't understand. Your life purpse is all about music, but how can age then change something. Your ability to create music will only improve with age. It seems like you are wanting something else from your career, something like youth, adventour, party, fame. Be clear on that.

you are probably still rather young. The younger you are usually the more shy we are and are fearful of showing what we actually want, do, think. If you overcome your shyness and fear of judgement from your friends, you will develop a super power only few people have and that is to be truly authentic outwards. This will bring you the most joy, the most passionate career, the deepest friend, the healthiest relationships and will make you feel proud and confident. So do it! Most of your friends will probably be impressed by your videos and those who start judging just start cutting them out of your life. Sounds hard, but those aren't the type of friends you want. But most friends will be impressed and happy for you, trust this! It will naturally get easier the older you get, since also your friends will start being more authentic and in general you will also start surrounding yourself more with people that actually like your authentic you. But I would not waste any time. Since this is a super power, you need it, as soon as possible!

What helped my game a lot, especially if you are physically attractive already was to: Not expecting of any girl to be interested in me. sounds counter intuitive right, usually you hear the opposite should be done. let me elaborate. There will be a lot of girls who won't be interested in you, as long as your are not 100% attractive. And that's fine, because you can get a long way with those who are (and I am not talking about unattractive girls) If you don't expect a girl to be interested in you, you will behave much more casual, natural. You will treat her as a friend. And the end of the day, if she like you, your appearance, your humor, your vibe, she will start to get attracted. Thats when you will have to start noticing that she actually is interested in you. From there on, you can start really driving this attraction forward and escalate fast if you want. The trick is. By honestly not expecting any girl you meet to be into you. You automatically display non-neediness and a healthy amount of indifferance. This will really allow the girl to make the first steps in her mind and start thinking if she could actually get fucked by you. Important. Systematicly not assuming a girl is into you, when you meet her, does not mean you can't flirt and do sexual jokes. You can and should. Just do them as if it was just for the fun. Don't do them, because you think this is going to lead somewhere, just do them because you enjoy a little flirt and sexual inuendo joke, when talking to girls. that my tip. that the mind set I use and I feel happy with my game. Currently in a long term relationship though, so this advice hasn't been tested personally for quite some time. Still think it is the right aproach though. It just creates the space for her to get into you first. Another bonus: I also don't mean that you can't show interest or intention. You can! You just don't expect any outcome from them. You could theoretically even tell your are interested, but in a way, where you never expect her to reciprocate that interest. Funny enough, if you give her the space and you are attractive, she will. You are really crazy, you could actually explain her, how much you would like to fuck her and explain it to her. Just don't expect it to happen. It might though

@Matt23 do you vaguely remember where you heard that. I would try to look it up. Counselor could mean a lot of things. @Barbara Nice thank you! Risk management sounds like an interesting job (makes also sense if he studied mathematics, he probably did also some quantitative risk analysis). Do you vaguely remember where he mentioned that?

You will have to pick one and commit (emotionally and mentally). Think about your values. Define your values and then decide what are your most valued values. If you feel anxious it's okey, but have to do this. It's okey to pick the wrong thing, thats the only way you will really figure out what you actually want. But you have to make a decision, commit and see where it goes. Personally, I am also in place, where I have to make a decision. That's why I am working on my values and working through the anxiety of making a bad decision (as I have already made in the past - studied 3 years of psychology for no good reason). Positive Affirmations are good if you think your subconscious is holding you back. everyday: "I will find work, that is meaningful to me / I will figure out what I want " Good luck!

I can relate to feeling ambiguous about self help being one's purpose. Your Life purpose is help others find their Life purpose, just feels like being part of a pyramid sheme. But if you really passionate about doing some coaching, shooting some self help videos etc. it very well could be. I believe there is place for improvement as well in self help. Leo wanted to do the deepest possible self help, but that left a lot of people confused, who felt connected to him, since he helped them, but were too young or too inexperienced to integrated and make us of any of his advanced videos. I say this, because I think self help youtubers have to start to be much more responsible with understanding what their content actually does and start telling at the start of every video for whom this content is (and this includes age) and whom it is not. So this kind of responsible self help would be kind of cool, but you would have to really connect to your audience and understand how your videos are affecting them (and not only those who write comments and admire you).

@cookiemonster It doesn't matter, one or the other conspiracy theory might even be true, but folks who get down that rabbit whole, are collecting conspiracy theories, as if they are pokemon cards. Most conspiracy theories will never be proven nor disproven. They are distractions. There is enough real and clear evil, that could be adressed, but conspiracy theoriest often don't even care about that undeniable evil. They want their unique special kind of evil and ignore the mainstream evil that should actually be adressed.

A lot of my friends believe in many conspiracy theories ( plandemic, deep state, 9/11, giants, aliens, pyramids, etc. ) I developed a practical way of interacting /helping them. In my opinion, conspiracy theories are huge beliefs. They involve so many institutions, people, science, history, etc. You cannot convince them at ones to let go all of it. So what the solution You build up little wedges in their belief system over time. You do this by argueing about small but key issues in their belief system. Don't be agressive, they must feel comfortable and they probably will, if you keep your discussion quite focused. You cannot win the war, but can win battles and if you keep it focused they won't feel threatened to let go of the belief. It is important to show and display them quality information and reasoning and with time they might see the worthiness of your world view. One problem I encounter is that I usually don't even engage in many conspiracy theories (giants, etc), because you can intuitivly see the bullshit already. If you want to convince others, you will probably have to engage to a certain degree with their theories. If you feel a division is being created between you and the other over the topic, it is also good to do things you have in common and talk about things where you can relate with each other. The key in my opinion is time. Big, powerful beliefs take time to change.

where do you live? have you a master (in case you want to do a phd)? As far as I know medical treatments (as for ADHD) must be aproved and researched before you can do them. You can maybe find a loophole or greyzone however, You should probably look this up if you are serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGHyB3DhsjM This resistance. these emotionale reactions by biting the moment of letting go, when the resistance just starts melting away. and no acting Do you find this video inspiring?

Since a few people claimed that "You will need to get a vaccine every 6 month", I made a bit of research to tell you what current expert think about this question. I read this article on healthline (November 30) https://www.healthline.com/health-news/are-we-going-to-need-covid-19-boosters-every-6-months-what-experts-think#Will-boosters-become-an-annual-thing?, where two experts: Dr William Schaffner ("infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee") and Dr. Dean A. Blumberg ("chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California") give their opinion. Both expert say: "it’s too early to tell how frequently boosters may be required. However, a COVID-19 shot may need to occur at some frequency for years into the future." Schaffner adds: "Would it be a year, 2 years, 5 years? We don’t know" Blumberg says: "I would hope that we don’t need a booster every 6 months. We’ll see, maybe it will be yearly or maybe it won’t even need to be that often." To summarize, I think it is not fair to say that a Covid booster will be needed every 6 month. It is possibility, but the research and knowledge is just not there yet to tell how often it will be need. The interval could likely also be 1 year (same as influenza) or 2 year.

I see a lot of Misinformation that "the vaccine does not reduce the transmission of the virus" My brother, who is a doctor and did almost only Covid cases for the last 1,5 years, told me that the vaccine reduces the spread by about 40%. I also read this study (Oct 2021) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00690-3/fulltext by a Journal on Infectious Disease, which does state, that (since the delta varriant) the reduction of transmission from the vaccine is "minimal". But they also say, that it is possible, that a third shot can improve this. Apparently also the viral load in vaccinated people reduces faster than in unvaccinated people. I also read this article (Oct 2021): https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/10/13/do-coronavirus-vaccines-prevent-transmission-of-the-virus, which does speak of a "large study" done by the Oxford University, which does find a reduction in transmission (65% reduction for Pfizer, 35% for Astra). So I guess this question does seem remain somewhat unclear, especially since the emergance of the delta variant (and now the omnicron variant). It is also unclear what effect the booster shot will have. ("The question of whether booster doses will improve the impact on transmission should be addressed as a top priority." Lanclet). It s better to not make certain statements, as long as there is still need for more research. However I would also like to state, that spreading the virus is not the only way you are affecting others. With limited healthcare ressources, we can also affect others by getting hospitalized.

I can imagine that the governemnt incentivizes companies with democratic and social values, but direct ties between government and companies can turn bad very quickly

I had a very communist perspective towards the economy at some point, but my opinion changed, because ultimatly the massive concentration of power in Leninism, will attract way too much corruption.

@Epikur no I would not say, either you control the virus, which means it reproduction rate is below 1, or you don't, which would lead to a steady exponential rise.

@BadHippie you have three options and you HAVE to choose one: A. Do nothing, no or minimal restrictions. Covid goes viral. Many people get sick. Many people die, even people that were vaccinated, since vaccine do not protect 100%. Hospitals system gets overburdened. Many people that need operations, won't be able to get them (this can also apply to healthy 25 year olds, who have no risk from covid). Many people won't get proper treatment to covid. So even more people will die. Tourism will also suffer, since no one wants to go to Covid land for their vaccation. B. We have very restrictive Measures, such as Lockdowns, to prevent Covid from spreading. The economy suffers immensely from those restrictions, as well as the people. C. You somehow manage to convince more than 90% of people (maybe even a bit more) to get vaccinated and thus to create a heard immunity (maybe combined with some minor measures, such as masks and testing). A third dose will also be necessary and eventually after one year or two a fourth probably aswell, however the distance between doses should increase each time, maybe even exponentially. At least 99% of doctors and epidemiologist agree that there is not other options. If you want to believe in some weird doctors who think differently, don't expect people to respect your opinion. 99% of doctors is definitly better than 1%. You are not expert, don't start thinking that you are. All argument you read on the internet are usually very limited, false, misinterpreted, but you won't realize, SINCE YOU ARE NO EXPERT.

you can date very beautifull women even if you are short (I know a friend who does). The real problem is that who think you don't deserve them or that you are in general not very attractive to women, but then focus maybe on the things you can affect.

you want to get rid of heightism, but girls should still be physically attractive right?

@Username hmmm well maaaaaybe covid wasn't that bad, BECAUSE you were vaccinated...

i don't think so. They are definitly people in favor of mandatory vaccination and such. You just don't hear from them. If not enough people vaccinate themselves, there has to be measure to promote or enforce vaccination. It is that or lockdowns and a ruined economy or a overburdened health care system and many deaths and triage. It just a practical choice. You HAVE to choose one. And having to inject yourself with a prooven safe vaccine is not that bad, but you can choose one of the other options if you prefer.