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Nice insight. Yes exactly, our feelings will tell us what's true and what should be done yet many people ignore their feelings. Ancient Taoist wisdom also has this advice.

Awesome dude, ya you seem like a person who could actually do it.

Great image. I love images like these that help map out ideas. I like to do them to.

Ok not a bad point. As I said I am able to easily see and switch between perspectives and don't particularly care about one or another. Nor am interested in arguing against or trying to debunk someone else's post. I see the truth in it and I feel like this is a higher way to live than argument. Different question, have you started any posts recently?

Fair enough. I get what you are saying

Why create an abundance for others? Presumably because it would make you happy. You can't argue this. It's a well known fact that all our actions are geared toward happiness, but that implies we aren't currently happy. Accepting this fact and loving unhappiness is true transcendence. Being in denial is not developed thinking. Once more? You keeping count? Nope. I share interesting things and ideas I find on the Internet because I'm bored and lonely like you. I'm not drawn to any particular style of thinking I'm able to hold many ideas simultaneously and this is just one of them. What's more telling is your need to argue against my ideas or try and project on to me that I'm feeling the pressure of the world.

If you truly went all the way then you would would love unhappiness because you would realize it's the driver of all your actions. Instead you try and defend a stance (I'm guessing because the original claim made you unhappy) and make up a story that all your actions are an expression of love. You deny unhappiness exists in your life thus creating a shadow of it and self deception too.

I don't. Good point.

Great advice

That becoming wise was a “success.” Which is in itself a value judgement. We can succeed at being evil, doesn't make success a good thing. I never put value on it. You brought up the idea that you have become wise as if it was a good thing. The only reason to learn something is because we are unhappy with the amount of knowledge we currently have. Yes I realize there is the flip side (i.e. the joy of learning) but I mean even Leo has said this himself the only reason to get a relationship/job/house is because we aren't as happy as we could be single/poor/homeless.

Proof that we are God. We have the power to create a Badass Jesus or a Gentle Jesus. It's all in your imagination.

So you SUCCEEDED in becoming wise due to the UNHAPPINESS that was caused from being unwise?

True! Thanks Leo I'm not surprised you get it.

Sounds like you were UNHAPPY with my post and now you are trying to SUCCEED in persuading me into something. Thus proving my point.

You are proving the point. This whole paragraph is examples of unhappiness and things that would drive you to success. De Botton explains that even every thought is a solution to a problem and starts as soon as the mothers nipple is denied at infancy and the baby cries. It's all very deep (almost as deep as Leos videos). I recommend watching the first few minutes of the interview. It's profound. PS I'm not saying success is bad but it has unhappiness as it's driver.

The modern world has worse outcomes for marriage and the couples report being unhappier in modern marriages. 70% of our happiness is tied to our relationships yet the modern world leaves this part of our lives to chance and "feelings" of young inexperienced people. Why not take a lesson from traditional cultures and get the wisdom of the elders involved and the trial and error of thousands of years? Leo as said similar too regarding the modern world being less happy. https://youtu.be/kRMcimuuk0Q?si=S-NNUkqBLeMCe03V ^Great interview with Allen De Botton regarding this topic in Big Think

Yes attachment theory is well known and it's the elegant and impactful way Alain talks about it makes all the difference for me. It's a lot like how Leo talks about ordinary spiritual things in an incredibly profound and effective way that makes you actually absorb the concepts.

This guy is incredibly profound and wise. People who like Leo's long form videos this guy is sure to the interesting. This guy has tons of material out there he's written over 40 books and many amazing interviews like with Chris Williams

For example the most mind blowing concept here is that just like we unconsciously pick up very complex language rules and habits from our families before we are ten, De Botton suggest that most of our thoughts and ideas around relationships are also unconsciously and very subtlety inhereted at this age. Given that relationships account for about 70% of our happiness, De Botton is surprised that schools and families leave love and relationships to chance and offer very little deliberate education on the subject. This is a the product of our age of Romanticism vs the progmatic approach taken by our ancestors and for much of human history.

All true. It's no fluke that religions have been around for so long and will be around long after actualized.org Leo stops making videos and stops the forum. Also even Leo says himself his teachings are self-defeating because truth is not attractive to most people. Also Leo doesn't even offer an IRL community, and lifestyle. Something that may people crave far more the knowledge from Leo.

Caring that people have different values is also a value. That's like a meta value. A value about values. Sounds like something Leo would say anyway

Listen to Abdul accurately call out JDVance for being Peter Thiels bitch. Im starting to like this Abdul guy.

Hey hope everyone is having a great weekend. O'Connor is interviewing a religious person, and in this 30 second clip below, he brings up a great point about how matter can't be proven by scienctists - something Leo has said almost verbatim. I have a feeling fans of Leo will enjoy watching videos on this topic as much as I do. Take care everyone. Be kind to each other out there.

Start a new post with a specific thing you found useful from Orion Taraban. You clearly have time if you are on here shit posting other threads.

Hello beautiful people of the actualized.org forum. I hope everyone is having a great day. This is a great piece of advice by Mark Manson in a yt short. Comfort and growth are contradictory most of the time. Just sharing in case it can help someone, like it did me. Cheers