Daniel Balan

@Leo Gura But Leo, why Trump's foreign policy is exactly what Putin has sought after all along? I mean, Trump is giving Putin exactly what he wanted. He forces Ukraine to capitulate and surrender to Putin, he gives Russia the former Warsaw Pact countries as a sphere of influence. He puts heavy tariffs on his allies but none to Russia... I mean it is hard to believe that Trump isn't Russia's torjan horse.

To me Trump is a Torjan Horse for Putin. It feels like Putin alone has elected Trump in the USA.

Hope my input is providing a little bit of value. The worst thing about Leo's work is that you tend to forget almost everything from a video after a few weeks. So I take notes to mitigate that.

Goodbye forever Cruzier Sometimes we don't appreciate someone enough, until we have lost that someone. Sorry for your loss. But hey... Be happy for the years you had the cat by your side....

Leo said to check out how many lower perspectives characteristics does Neo Nazism tick! Here you have the notes from his video!

Hi! Here you have my notes from @Leo Gura 's video on How to Distinguish between Lower vs Higher perspectives part 1. Hope it helps! No AI was used. I typed the main ideas into my commonplace book as I listened to Leo's video. Lower perspectives are distinguished by a lack of education.( If you want to evolve you should study world wide geography, history, background, geopolitics and so on. develop high education on all domains of life) Learn worldwide geography and world history, for every country and every continent. Get a grip on basic science, mechanics, physics, chemistry, biology , geology and so on. Lower perspective holders lack the experience in the field they hold the opinion . You need to have experience within the domain you hold the opinion. Lower perspectives have a strong urge to defend that perspective from attacks. Higher perspectives are based on insights and the lower ones are based on beliefs. Lower perspectives will prevent you from doing deep enquiry of said perspective. Beware of emotional manipulation techniques. Close mindedness like an old mule. They announce the world that they are the holders of truth. There is always something else that these people are after. They are after money and sex and their perspective when implemented grants them that. Lower perspectives are not into learning. Lack of intellectual maturity and integrity. To develop a higher perspective you must: Develop skepticism, open mindedness, Genuine inquiry. Lower perspectives don't like new information. Inability to admit mistakes and reconsider in light of new evidence. Lower perspectives can't consider nuggets of truth in other lower perspectives. A high perspective sees the little nuggets of truth in many lower perspectives and jumps in and out of many perspectives. There are partial truths everywhere. Lower perspectives are based on groundless assumptions Higher perspectives go out of their way to try and falsify their perspective. They try to gather evidence that goes against the said perspective. Lower perspectives reject empirical evidence. Lower perspectives fail to make subtle distinctions. Not every Chritian is a nutcase, some are more evolved than others, not everything is black and white. Watch the episode Learning= making distinctions. Lower perspectives are extremely conformist. In a mainstream or non mainstream alternative ways. The low perspective mind is trying to fit in, to look up to authority for approval. Low autonomy of mind. Lack of basic questioning, lack of indepence of mind, low questioning of authority. Always question what your authority figure is saying. Think critically for yourself. Don't accept blindly. Watch out how you speak, weigh in every word you speak, because most of the time the first thing that comes to mind is self deception, even the third thing is self deception. The more that I do this work, the less that I speak. When you see someone that won't shut up. It is a good sign that their understanding of reality is preety low. When you really understand what is going on, it shuts you up. Ethnocentrism, Tribalism, and extreme ingroup bias. Loyalty for your team winning, us vs them, survival over truth. Less developed minds only care of personal gain, only want the goodies for their family and personal tribe at the expense of everyone else. The lower you are the more selfish you are gonna be and vice versa. Higher perspectives have deep respect for the epistemic ecosystem. Example! You have a big podcast to do tomorrow, you have done zero research for it but you still gotta pocket 10 million worth of advertising, so you spit some bullshit conspiracy theories, and voila , the audience is happy, you've pocketed the money. But you took a shit on the epistemic ecosystem which encompasses all of the knowledge society receives. Lower perspectives are adopted to fit in with some kind of social circle and to be part of some group think. Lower perspectives use worldview and perspective as a survival tool primarily. In order to get money, fame, sex, power, approval, love, success and influence. There is no interest in truth. Primarily all human religion is just for social fitting in! Not for truth seeking and finding good. That is just a facade! The real reason one goes to church every week is to gain friendships, connections, business deals, sex, love and to belong to a tribe. Lower perspectives have a high degree of emotional attachments. Those people use their ideology to get the best for themselves. And when you challenge them on these subjects they become extremely emotional and violent and bitter and angry. Lower perspective holders tend to over personalize disagreement. To them every attack is personal. Lower perspectives have a tendency to go on crusades against the people they perceive as evil. Rather than to go and seek to punish others , look inward and try to find solutions to your own mistakes and moral failings. The lower perspectives are moralistic, judgemental and demonizing. The more somebody demonizes somebody else, the lower their mind is. Contemplate why a higher perspective mind can't just demonize a certain group of people? Why demonizing cannot be part of a higher perspective? Lower perspectives are highly opinionated. Lower perspectives are eager to debate and own others. If you really known the truth you wouldn't feel the need to own someone in a debate. Lower perspectives are run on lower emotions. Fear, resentment, bitterness, nihilism, xenofobia, vindictiveness, cynicism. And energetically they feel bitter, negative, toxic and angry. If a perspective comes from a place of anger, this is an tell tell sign that that perspective is lower. If you are angry about the capitalists, that is not the truth, you are angry because you lack some qualities in the capitalistic world and therefore you project your lack of skills into anger at the thing you don't understand. To understand something you have to be objective and be outside of your biases. Lower perspectives are authoritarian in their style. Coercive and domineering. Why can't a really conscious, a really cognitive developed individual, truthful mind be authoritarian? It is because you believe that somehow you are on a higher ground than the one you are dominating. That is pure selfishness, and selfishness is the hallmark of a lower perspective. For example a higher mind can't just beat his wife and then sexually abuse her. Because he values the sovereignty of the wife. Lower perspectives lead to violence, cheating, lying, and theft. Lower perspectives have low empathy. They aren't able to put themselves on the shoes of other people. Lower perspectives love conspiracy theories. A lower perspective will strawman other perspectives and people. Lower perspectives will use low intellectual practices. They will use gaslighting, whataboutism, bullshitting, lying, cheating, name calling, denial, counter attacks, dodging questions, and false equivalence. This kind of manipulation won't work on higher perspectives, but will appeal to lower perspectives. A lower perspective doesn't have enough intellectual honesty and integrity to recognize all this tactics! Misunderstanding those tactics for genuine truth seeking. Lower perspective uses bluster, charisma and bombast in order to trick less developed minds into buying into that lower perspective. A lower perspective is full of double standards! Lower perspectives are extremely biased and unaware of their biases. Moreover they love their biases. Lower perspectives conflate facts and data with interpretations! Lower perspectives conflate personal survival needs with truth goodness and objectivity. Lower perspectives reify human constructs like Christianity, Islam, capitalism, science and so on. Those are human constructs they are not absolute truths. Lower perspectives solely focus on the human-centric bias. Only about the human perspective of things. Example. Christianity says that only humans go to heaven and animals do not! How biased is that. Or that god appeared in the form of Jesus only on earth? What about the other planets in the universe? You have to understand that not everything revolves around humans. Human bias is not Truth. Lower perspectives don't check sources. You have to always check the source of your information. The lower perspectives cherry picks only the information that confirms what they already believe is true. Lower perspectives focus a lot on optics, grandstanding, being larger than life, pretending to know everything, and trying super hard to impress others with their accomplishments and how great they are. Peacock syndrome. Lower perspectives don't distinguish between corelation and causation also they wrongly attribute causation and effects. Lower perspectives oversimplify causes. E.g. the economy is not going well due to those democrat marxists. Lower perspectives refuse to believe anything other than their current perspective. Also limited scope, lower perspectives only focus on a very narrow niche of reality failing to take into account the interconnectedness of all aspects of reality. Lower perspectives view and interpret things from reality in order to suit their pre-existing world view. Like seeing Jesus in a coffee cup and other signs like that. They can't distinguish reality from their projections on reality. Lower perspectives don't understand the nature of relativity. They will only use relativism when they are defending their worldview. Lower perspectives also dismiss and discredit experts and expertise, they only use experts when they need them to validate their perspective. How many studies on microbiology or vaccines have you done to flippantly discredit a scientist who designed a vaccine or to cast into the world your opinion when you've done zero research on the subject you so strongly hold an opinion. Lower perspectives weaponize information and take full advance of mass propaganda. Truth can only be arrived at only through genuine process of inquiry. You can't get truth from somebody else, only through thorough inquiry. Higher minds are non-partisan and are not politically radicalized. There is not a clear right or wrong, each side makes mistakes and also valid points, you can't just embrace one party and totally dismiss the other. Each party has valid points. Higher perspectives care about sense-making and epistemology and truth seeking. A lower mind only cares about It's party to win. It's team winning. Lower perspectives often engage in evangelism, prizing the imposition of their worldview, while higher perspectives value respect for other minds, avoiding domination through indoctrination. True education or facilitation involves guiding individuals, like children, to explore and understand concepts like mathematics through discovery, not just memorization. This contrasts with indoctrination, which seeks to instill beliefs without questioning, as seen in some interpretations of Wahhabist Islam where there's little distinction between teaching and indoctrinating. Lower perspectives have no environmental awareness. Lower perspectives engage in information echo-chamber and want to contribute to that eco-chamber, higher perspectives tend to do away with eco-chambers and try to not take part in them. Lower perspectives lack self reflection. Lower perspectives have no clue about non-duality. Lower perspectives have no understanding of developmental stages. (Spiral dynamics or the Susan Cook model 9 stages of ego development). Lower perspectives don't even know that developmental psychology exists. Christians and Muslims don't know that their religion is ranked fairly low stages of development. Lower perspectives have a tendency to impose their will and agenda onto others due to their insecurity. They need the whole world to reflect back their worldview so that it feels less like a fantasy. They think that everyone needs to be like them. Which is a sign of a very low perspective. A religion that doesn't seek to proselytize others and to dominate others into adopting It's worldview is ranked higher on among religions than those religions that all they do is proselytize. The lower perspective believes that there is only one way to view reality. Their way. Lower perspectives sometimes stem from mentally deranged minds. Lower perspectives only tell you what you would want to hear. In conclusion you have to realize that your mind is tricking you all the time. Surviving corrupts the mind. The more your mind tricks you into acting selfishly for pure survival, the more you will be falling into these traps, the lower your perspective will be.

@Twentyfirst My message was to not take shit from anyone. Regardless of who that someone is. You do what you want with your life I do what I want. If I knew I would have to over explain myself for every little comment I make I wouldn't have expressed my opinion on this matter.

Just give that money to me! I don't know if that would make you happier but certainly it would make me extremely happy

@Twentyfirst Bro! What do you want me to do? Go to my mom and ask her to make me cookies? If they ever need help with something I will help them. I just don't want to speak to them the same way you don't want to hang around bums. I feel like I communicate too much with them I will become a dumb right winger. And that is the only reason I avoid talking to them. Plus I was never the kind of guy who likes to bother people unnecessarily. I don't like to talk that much. I'm a very quiet and I like to be a loner. I avoid people in general.

Just to clarify things. I didn't left my parents because I never lived with them. I was raised by my maternal grandparents since I was 7 months old. And my mother left and went to live abroad with her newly found lover as soon as she was done breastfeeding me. So I never left my parents, They have always had separate lives from me. I just cut all communication with them because I deemed that they have nothing to teach me. And I felt that both my mother and father are backward primitive people from whom I can never learn anything. I was the man of the house since my grandpa died when I was 7 years old, and I consider myself as a very mature person. A maturity I developed without ever asking my parents for a dime!

I never needed anything from them ever!! and never asked them for anything. Why would I need some backward boomers in my life? For what? To fill my head with christian garbage from dawn till dusk? I never needed them once in my life and I never will. They didn't even raise me.. I was raised by my grandparents.

You know when someone is Yellow when you get Daniel Smachtenberger, or Leo Gura type of vibes. When I encounter Yellow something in my brain immediately notices the sheer novelty and complexity of one's speech. Yellow feels novel, like finding something extremely unique, feels like shifting into a completely new gear when it comes to the complexity and profoundity of one's discourse.

@mmKay Those SD summaries have been on my to do list for few years now. And I finally got some free time to do them. The problem with Leo's work is that you tend to forget within a week or 2 all the information from his videos. And unless you take notes all the watching of his videos is basically fruitless due to the fact that you forget everything so quickly.

Thank you for the appreciation

Hope it helps someone!