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I am in the fortunate situation that I have saved up money and have a low enough consumption that I will not need to work in the immediate future. So far I've had a bit of work just to pay what little consumption I have. But now considering more, with changes to my job, resigning and living off the savings. The idea is to not have to spend time and energy on work. But spending more energy on school and self studies for when I hopefully start university after the summer holidays. I have saved up the equivalent of 5 to 10 years of consumption. Which makes the whole idea a real consideration imo. It seems almost clear to me that i should stop working, but it's a very uncontroversial thing to do, therefore i would like to ask if it seems like a good idea to others?

@mr_engineer Sounds like you have a pretty strong anti-bias bias.

It's wild watching a video like that, i can follow his line of bring and agree. I'm turning into such a modern hippie. The major problem with personal inquires is that the truth or knowledge is relative to the methods used. It's very present in the social sciences, and makes it quite tiresome to find the most correct case of how it is.

The thing with AI is that it gives advice based on stats from what it has read, therefore it will most often give quite generic advice, like it does here. I mean, it's good, but it's in no means actual advice that relly can help you achiwe your goals. The low cost index fund option is pretty good, but there are lots of funds, and types of funds. Small cap and value tend to perform better, with higher risk, it mentions nothing about that here. It also dosent get into systematic and ideosyncratic risk, concepts which for the DIY investor are essentiel to understand, to plan out your investment and savings plan.

The problem with teaching a lesson is about it being to indirect and vague. He most likely wont make the connection between it being missing and him treating others bad, it actually could very likely just make him mad, and treat other worse for the time being. If you want to help him via a lesson, and i suppose you would have to frame this very diffrently.

@BlueOak I really dislike the MBTI test, i often get diffrent results over time, at the moment its ITNJ. Much more like the OCEAN model of personality. Alright, is it more of an emotional experience and awakening? Sounds like deep focus buddy? Yeah, it's a construction, the story. And i do find it important to have the basic at place, so i can build upon it. It's like haveing a detailed schedule, such as i can be more spontainous

Could you please elaborate on how the experience feels? Might very well be somehting i can relate to. Them all i suppose, at the moment it is very much about finding out what kind of work and career i would like to do. Having the basics solidly furfilled is something i see as important to make the rest fall into place, and have energy to then focus on them. I don't have much else to say about it, any more detailed explenations of the things i could be doing and focus on? It's not something i have though explicitly much about

@Past-Philosopher-562 While people i have meet in my culture often like to critizie others for only solving problems at the surface, and only treating the worst symptioms. Then they also themself largely like to take the most symptom treating apporach, and only solve the most immediate problems, something i really strongly dislike to do. It's from my viewpoint a sure way to keep having the same problems keep coming up in new and frustrating ways, therefore i have spend a lot of time the past years trying to solve my most basic needs for the fullest potential. I spend most of my teen years learning usefull skills when i saw them needed, got really into lifting, earning money and investing, being well socially, trying to find a girlfriend, doing well in school and smaller hibbits things like cooking and cleaning decently well. This has really made me into a situation surplus today. I see lots of the people my age i know who have tons and tons of basic immediate problems they have to chip away at to survive. Something i would not like to. From a marslows perpective it would be physioloigcal, safety, love and belonging and esteem. Well, now it's much more about self actualization, well, they are all connected. But i feel like i have achived a great amount of freedom and status, and have stopped having it as a thing to worry about, now i think much more about what to do, to have it best.

Buddy, the only thing i have experienced so far is that when i solve my old problems, new once just rise up. The problems just become more and more vague and abstract, harder to find existing insight about how to solve it. Now it's all about life purpose, finding meaning, discovering truth as a now deeply subjective thing, and wondering about what is morality, how am i actually a good or bad person, if it matters at all? No mystical experiences so far.

The "severly" autistic people thing is really dumb. Autism is on a spectrum from the very low functioning to people much more like me. I have an aspergers diagnosis. it seems to me like i just much more rely on logic and reasoning when deciding on how and what to do, and at the same time have a noticible limitation when it comes to, well, emotional inteligens, while it would not frame it like that. It is much more like i just get less information out of the same social situations, and therefore have less to go of by. And at the same time are also noticibly stronger at logic and reasoning, so i can make up parts of it, and excell greatly in certain things, while struggling in others. It would from my point be very nice if everyone was like me, and i think that exactly might be what would be nice. It has less to do with being autistic or not, and more to do with interacting with people of the same culture or mindset. Since we then would understand them better, nothing new here i suppose? I suppose what you really would like is that everyone should be highly inteligent beings that much rather relys on rationality compared to emotionality? A problem with autism is that most autistic people arent smart, they just lack the emotionality, without the intellect to substitute it in any formel way.

@Pav It honestly seems more like satire than a serius recomendation. Since he says things that are by no means a respond or relevant to the questions of my post. @Shodburrito Yes, exactly. Thats one "social reality", which dosent seem good, does it? My idea is to make smart decisions to hopefully better my situation, so i can live a freeier and better life. If that means not working and spending more time studying and attent university, then i suppose it's what i should do.

I would say that you would actually be able to interpret me to that result if you wanted to. And my change in course is now just about spending less time on money, and more on learning, and improving my situation in the long run. I try my best, exercise a couple times a week, sleep what i need, and actually one the reasons i can keep my expenses down, is becouse i eat healtly. Beans, eggs, rice, cabbage, other greans and a little meat/chicken dosent cost much. It's all the processed foods, candy, pre packed meals that are expensive. Yes, thats the hard part. I do, compared to most others, do quite well in therms of keeping descipline, but i also feel myself getting less focused than i would ideally like to be. I remember some years back i would spend all my free time watching educational youtube videos, of high quality in a subject or of a problem i was interested in solving. Where i now spend much more time than i would like to on online forums while listing to music, while this is good for relaxing, it often can turn into the default option even if i am relaxed, and actually moreso need something to do. I'm unsure about what to do with it, i want the motivation and therefore decipline to come from within, since it will make my actions feel and seem much more effortless. But i am unsure about how to chance it from the moreso root couse. Which makes the regular, lower rick option seem more viable, since the failure but also reward is lower.

I don't regret much anymore, i see that the experiences made me into what i am today. But i feel sad when thinking about the actions in my development, the onces i did, and more precisely once others did to me. The times I got hung up for doing something different. The times I did something completely wrong but no one dared to tell me. The times I asked for help, but no help was given. Problems no minor or young adult should stand alone with, but happens to, since every adult does nothing to help or assist the fundamentel course, only treat the absolute most urgent flare ups. It is sometimes strange how thoughtlessly many people are about wanting to tackle the problem at the root, while to a greater extent they actually just criticize others for treating symptoms, when they have almost never done anything else themselves. Pure thoughtless akums razor addicts about truth.

I would make one less thing to focus on. And while this would make it easier to focus on gaining skills and have massive growth. I also see the reality of it being "never put all your eggs in one basket", where i then would have one less basket, and put more eggs in the basket called growth for future gain. I suppose it's a higher risk strategy. Where i will try to keep focus on my mission as best as i can do. Major health problems would be covered by the goverment. The only thing is having saved up enough to have money for food. This is the case. But i agree about your concern, it can be quite strange to not live a relativly normal life somtimes. Most need to work to live, i do not have that condition at the moment.

@Ramanujan I didn't see your respond until now. I could go into many details, if there is anything spesific things you are considering? the major part is that it's mostly cold, unless it's not. Or the weather is bad, unless it turns out to be good.

How do i know if i am emotionally mature (enough). I mostly feel and i suppose therefore act on the feelings of my basic needs, hunger, lust and so on. But also as an example experience the weather being good or bad affecting my mood. Something being very difficult as unpleasent or something being comparatively easy or correct as pleasing.

@RightHand Sure, could be. He might also have an interesting perspective. To a large degree i live in a echo chamber of people liking welfare and higher taxes.

@Basman Well yes. Private=profit. Public=harsh requiements. At least in the public, then thats the whole idea. Only the best get in, that might also very well be why the programs have pretty solid outcomes

@Leo Gura Do you actually dislike higher taxes and welfare? I see it as a major mediator of freedom in my and the people i knows life. It not only takes money from the rich and gives to the poor, as they being static groups, but by the universiel principle strive to take money from points in a persons life where they have enough, and give it to points where they need more. It seems to just make people less financially stressed than they seem to be in for example the US, and have more energi to put towards for example education.

Oh, how fun to see another dane. I've heard a solid bit positive about the applied philosophy degree, and some bad. Talking about getting a degree for a job, it's normally easier to get a job with it, sinse you to a larger degree will work with businesses and work practically. The idea about the art degrees being so hard to get into, is so only the most passionate people get accepted. If you become a promissing artist, then you will most likely get accepted. Until you will have to work on it, or pursure another path for the time being.

I've been thinking for some years about what do to, but havent come to much of a conclusion about it I often experience when entering a circle of people, that i quite quickly find a girl that i start to have a strong sexual attraction towards. The circle could be from work, a sport or most typically school. I go to school where its courses based, therefore i meet lots of people, and quite often i find a girl i like, 1 to 2 a year... The problem arises in 2 stages. One is that i have a girlfriend, which just was one the girls i meet, that i felt sexual attraction towards. And the other is that i honestly in some sense would very much like to be with the girls i meet? I both have practical and ethical resevations about the want and situation. I like my girlfriend, she is nice, and especially her dad is nice when i come over. I am also very unsure if it's a bad idea to try and hit on girls i meet at school or diffrent places, in the interest of just being with them once? It's very much up in currect culture of one night stand kinds of sex. But i don't know if it's actually something i want to participate in? Also posting this now since i today just meet a new girl i find very attractive. We have laboratory exercises this weekend for physics online, we at in the same group with one other. She is beautiful, nice, kind and does the work. Tibees vibes honestly. I've once heard from online that it does feel good good if you are with a girl once, you find attractive. You come over it, and can move on, rather than being more stuck that i feel like is going on now. If that is true? Thanks

Well, if it look at it from my model of needs from an evolutionary perspective. The most suggesting way to do it for me. Then porn comes to be a easy quick fix for the need of sex, and therefore not ideal in the perspective of actually getting sex, and well honestly makes a harder thing to easy. It can today be quite easy to furfill one imidiate needs, while not actually furfilling the rest, and have a honestly terrible life. But porn it many things. Or well, sexual pleasure is many things.

I'm some sense of reality you don't really have the option to be one or the other. to have functioning life you need to have wide set of practical skills. Cook, clean, social, financiel, just to name a few. From an earnings perspective, then you need differentiation to make yourself very valuable since you are the only one who can do a spesific task or topic very well. For this you moreso need to move into a "blue ocean" where the competition is low for such skills, as in very frew have them, but they are still very much actively needed. You probably need to think just as much about yourself, as you think abbout the objective "mater of one, or jack of all". Since you most likely make the difference up between which one you should pursure. I am myself thinking master of one. Or well. You can always devide up, and integrate fields again, so furth that you can interpret it as someone being a master or a jack. If you want it to be so.

Very interesting, i see math also being quite a creative subject, if you become good at it. The typical "creative" subjects often have a major unknowen unknowen to the part of being seemingly unaware of the rigors of the methods used. Where math is much more straighted out, and hyper aware of the methods, and their meaning.

@Alex90 if you ever come online again, i'm also from Copenhagen Denmark