Lorcan

What age are you?

I will probably do the one that involves pouring water over myself. More exposure that way. If I start getting really cold. I will have a towel handy to dry up and access to go inside my house whenever I want. What about you?

I sleep on a yoga mat with a thin polyester blanket on top of the mat, 2 pillows and my bedcovers. I will slowly wean myself off these comforts as I become tougher and adapt to become more resilient to the cold. I have my alarm set for 4:30 am every night for the past week. When I wake up. I go back to sleep due to a lack of willpower (me being lazy). I want to have someway of doing the cold exposure part of the wim hof method without using the shower or bath. Taking on the shower or bath is very loud and we will wake everyone in my house up. So, I have an idea for a compromise. Cold is cold right? So 15 minutes just wearing trousers and shoes in -1 will do the same thing as a cold shower right? If not, what I can do is leave two , 5 litre bottles of water sitting outside overnight so they get really cold. So when I wake up at 4:30, I can go outside, strip down, and pour the freezing water onto me whilst deep breathing and perhaps sprinting to increase body heat and deepen breathing even more. The whole duration of this , in and a around, 10 minutes. Sounds good? Right?

Age does not matter. I started when I was 14. I am now 16 and I am only now beginning to go about self-actualizing in a non half-assery manor. The advantage of being young is pointless if you squander your youth. It does stroke ones ego when I hear people compliment on how it is great how young I am and to have started this work. Do not let this grip you however. Crusading on the forum as youth will not get you any results, this forum and leos content is merely instructions. If you want to build a great life, you can read the instructions of how to build a great life forever. You will never build a great life. You actually have to go do it. Your questions has many layers to it. You will have to specify. I believe in terms of the "ultimate" truth. Nothing matters, but everything simultaneously does.

Listen here. I am 16 around your age. First and Foremost. DO NOT believe what ANYONE tells you. Do not get sucked into to what your is telling you. Do your own research. There are many ways to become wealthy in this world. The college grind route is only one of them. You do not have to do what your parents tell you to do. Neither can your parents punish you for not doing what they want. What they can do is be less generous to you, give less gifts to your on birthdays and Christmas. In short. Parents can only take from you if you let them, however, it is entirely up to them what they decide to gift you. Your parents can only take away you phone and charger for it you let them. Do not let them. Your parents only have the authority over you that you give them. Unless your parents are state-backed, in the case you do something illegal, like steal your parents car. Then you are in shit. But for walking outside of their property without their consent, refusing to give them your phone if they try take it off you. They can not touch you. Seek to become as independent as possible. Get yourself a wage job, create a bank account with your own bank card. (You will need parents consent I believe to open it). If your parents refuse to let your open a bank account by not giving their consent to the bank. Use a friends bank account until you are 18 and can make your own without your parents. I half-ass school, but the does not give me license to be lazy. Oh no. You have to work your ass off. Hard work is un-avoidable. You will suffer. The difference is doing from extrinsic motivation(motivated externally *cough* your mom) and doing it out of intrinsic motivation.(motivated internally motivation. One is Un-inspiring and soul sucking, the other is something beautiful that, once you have developed it well, it can bring you to tears. Do not believe me. Save yourself. Feel free to contact me for any more advice.

I attempted to watch leos"How you mind distorts reality video" I was getting a vague idea of what he was saying (Im 14 yrs old, most kids my age would have not clue to what he was talking about) but 20 minutes I started to lose him and what he was saying.(I find that leo lacks using examples in his videos to back up his arguments) Is there any important or foundational video that I can understand I please, no do not send me a link to his video for people in Elementry or Highschool, I watched that video and its pretty far from anything advanced. Its one big message saying "Educate yourself well, make a strong foundation" I can understand advanced topics if exsplained well. So please dont be afraid to link me to interesting and advanced videos of his. Cheers. Still currently working on a "mega thread" that I will post on this forum soon concerning deep , in depth both self and world improvement stuff.

Skip to 3:11. He tells you story of how he brute forced himself through running 100 miles. He was not an endurance runner, he was overweight at the time and all he did was heavy lifting. Brute Force = Requires a lot of willpower. (The less will-power you have, the more you will suffer). Faster Results Gradual = Requires significantly less willpower. Slower Results.

Do not.

I wanted to make video games. I do not like the society I perceive. I want to be a revolutionary. Any other life purpose or career pursuit seems pointless to me. Make video games or enlighten mankind.

Wait? Actualized.org memes? They exist????????????? BUT LEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am 15 years old. I will be 16 shortly.

I have noticed. And I notice this in almost every human interaction. People are indirect in conveying information. Subtle indirect messages, that leave a lot of room for interpretation. Why can not people make thing a lot simpler by being blunt, speak their mind, say what they want to say. In every interaction, especially in interactions with people that are not close friends. Each party seems to approach each other like one would approach a minefield. Or Sun Tzu might wage a war against an enemy faction. Deceptive, subtle, In-direct, appearing to the other person as x when you are actually y and appearing as y when you are actually x. I am guilty of this myself. Why do I this? Why can I not be forthright in every word. There seems to be some social barrier that exists only in my and other peoples minds that stops people from being direct, some sort of filter, make one discreet. For example, If I were to start a conversation with some random guys I have never talked to before during my lunch break with the aim of extracting value (pleasure) from the conversation. What If I simply said "I want to have a conversation with you guys". This appears to create an awkward ambience. Something about the directness of that sentence is rejected by the ego is the same way, the ego does want to say what it want, it instead wants to opt for something less direct or even a lie "Hey guys, I am bored, lets talk" or ask a question as an opener " What do you think of you x". Even though your intention with that question was to start a conversation. So why then don't you just say."I want to have a conversation with you guys". This awkwardness when being forthright with guys is not so bad and is only slight. Interacting with the opposite gender while being forthright however appears particularly odd and even taboo. Why is human interaction with the common masses so manipulative, being laconic and direct seems to be a crime to the ego?

I only know a small bit about what there is to know about nutrition. Here is a complete (I think) list of all the vitamins and minerals. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/listing_of_vitamins The Nutrients not included on the list are: Carbohydrates, Protein, Fat, Water. My question is, What would happen if you consumed the 100+% of the RDA on all of them? How would you feel? Is it possible? Is it that hard? Also, the intake of the nutrients does not have to be restricted to the RDA. What I really mean is what you somehow consumed of all the things the body needs to the point where the body starts giving less and less benefits for each Mg of said vitamin,mineral or nutrient consumed. (Diminishing returns)

The date is Saturday October 21st 2017. I am 15 years old. Soon I will be 16 in a few months. In 70 years I will be 85 if I live that long. Pessimistically I might live up to the age of 50 give or a take 10-15 years more or less. I want to be a revolutionary. I wish to create/help create and establish a global ideology/system that, if successful in its installation will amount to a generally high consciousness among the masses. I must act quickly and diligently because soon I will dead, or crippled by old age. What this system is? I have no idea. I am unsure whether if such a system exists. I do not want to be an emperor, a communist or fascist dictator. I want to establish a system that could actually work, not some "bullshit" paradise where robots do all the work and everyone is living in Disney land castles sliding down a slide onto an armchair every morning onto the beach front at a perfect temperature while sipping a Pina colada. A society with insane levels of material abundance will still have the majority of people in the low consciousness category. The society in question would be self-actualized (or more likely, self-actualizing gradually to the highest levels of consciousness for the most part) as to maximise the joy and fulfilment in each humans life and minimise unnecessary suffering (suffering that does not lead to growth or suffering that leads in the opposite direction from growth). The society’s highest values would be truth/truth-seeking and mastery. I have this written down in my dream book. I think this is beautiful. My intimacy with it is something I need to self-actualize on. I find it difficult to shed tears of joy for somethings that is so hard to imagine. (I have only been able to do it once in the times I have tried) I want to cry for this. Despite this being my life purpose. I still observe myself wasting away my time on petty low consciousness things. Deliberately, in full knowledge, I am wasting my fucking time. Now. I am better than the vast majority of people my age. I have been in and out of long streaks of meditation since the age of 13, I would get a good streak going then I would back slide. I have backslided with my meditation habit twice since I was 13. In the last month I have started up a consistent meditation habit. I have only missed one day because I foolishly forgot. I will not miss any more. I also exercise my upper body strength daily with pushups and various arm movements. I have gotten rid of almost all the fiction books in my book shelves and filled them with self-help books, history books, nutrition books, sociology books, political theory books, economics books, books on how to start your own business etc. I have not got a consistent book reading habit yet. I am trying to fully install my meditation and exercise habit first. I find that when I take on to many habits, my willpower breaks and I end up backsliding. I waste a lot of my time playing videogames, sometimes on my phone. Or just standing idol procrastinating. What the fuck. Marcus Aurelius talks about this man, who he says is in some way of minister of the gods. In book 3 of Marcus Aurelius’ meditations. He describes this man , " He responds to the divinity seated within him, and this renders the man unsullied by pleasures, unscathed by an pain, untouched by any wrong, unconscious of any wickedness; a wrestler for the greatest prize of all, to avoid being thrown by an passion; dyed to the core with justice; embracing with his whole heart all the experience allotted to him; rarely, and only when there is great need for the common good, wondering what others may be saying or doing or thinking. He has only his own work to bring to fulfilment, and only his own fated allocation from the whole to claim his constant attention. As for his work, he makes it excellent: as for his lot he is convinced it is good. And each persons appointed lot is both his fellow passenger and driver" If I want to be a Revolutionary Enlightener of Mankind I need to become this man, this minister of the gods he speaks about. The god within me. Why can’t I stop wasting my time and unleash it. Why do I deliberately let my lower self, my slave self to control me. The god within just watches. I am scared; I am so scared for my future. Have I chosen a path of untold suffering? As it I am scared to suffer. I resist suffering. I seldom do a set of push ups to failure as it is, and that amount of suffering from doing a set till failure is subpar to what I will have to tackle in the future. I need to change this. But how? How??????!!!!!! Why can’t I just fucking realize it? Why can’t I not fucking LEARN it? Not learn as in "oh, yeah, I agree that’s interesting" but as in learn as Leo describes (changing behaviour) "HOLY SHIT, A-HA, THATS WHY I NEED TO BE DOING THIS, THATS WHY". Why can I not have a mid-life crisis right NOW! Something is not clicking. Why can I not realize the importance and magnitude of existing? If I did, I would not squander my time playing videogames. Yet I do. I know I am "only 15". But holy shit. I am 15. That's old. That’s like 20%-30% of my life gone already. Gone. Not coming back, and if I die tomorrow, what do I have to show for it? NOTHING. I am scared, I am confused, I am lonely (almost), I am scared to suffer, and my willpower is subpar. I do NOT want to slip off the path I have set myself. I could EASILY fall back into living a mediocre life. I do NOT want this. But half of my mind, my lower self wants to do this, it almost whispers in my subconscious mind "but its nicer this way, you don’t have to suffers" and the higher self says " NO. Do not listen, Push. Thou art exist art chosen. While you exist, become great, become good." I have token measures to make sure I do not slip off the path, or ever backslide to the point where I give up on my purpose. I have stuck on my wall in my room in 155 size New Times Roman font "There is nothing impossible to him who will try". As I wake up, taped onto my wardrobe I see on a4 pages "Ego is the enemy" "The obstacle is the way" and "Let him who would move the world, first move himself". Above my dresser is Marcus Aurelius with a quote telling me not to procrastinate and that I will be dead soon. So what of it then? I fear that there will come a point where I may stumble into the abyss of the low consciousness masses. I want to avoid this at all costs. Yet, I still waste my time on petty things? How do I stamp this lower self out? This weaker self, the voice that cries’s for comfort, this belligerent fool inside that lusts for pleasure. How do unleash the god within me and kill any simmer ulcer of the lower self trying to drag me back down. I want to kill him, drown him in the light of truth. How? Or is this just an inherent curse of being human?

I sell sweets and shine shoes at school. Does that count?

I was contemplating "Who Am I" while I was in a field. At one point I found myself asking myself "Who is the who asking who am I". This went on to me asking myself "Who is the who asking the who asking the who asking who am I?" And more and more "who" were added until I eventually gave up because I realized that there is a infinite number of the self asking its' self who is the self, asking who the self is. Basically God asking himself who is the self, asking who the self is. If I start getting deeply mind-fucked. I surrender to the concept of " I do not know" There is an odd comfort in just embracing the void.

I am not sure what I did to be thanked. I have zero idea what your court trial was about. It appears to be relating to divorce. I suppose we are all a special kind of community here.

In the realm of self development. I have heard it is important to have a set schedule to preform activities throughout the day to get the most of the time one has. To have a set time to sit down and meditate as such. I was having thoughts that how did Marcus Aurelius schedule his day without modern timekeeping methods. I would think that the position of the sun would be an inaccurate way of trying to tell the time time just by eye, and sun dials and the sun position would not work whenever it was cloudy, and surely water-clocks seldom worked. So how did these people make do in a time before modern time keeping? Did these peole have a disadvantage? I would think that someone such as Marcus Aurelius would have been to busy running the empire to have it had mattered that he had specific schedule for his personal development.

I do not have the authority to stop anyone posting music. People can post what they want. "inspirational ,epic, motivational" is just a vague general guideline guideline to stop people from putting songs that they themselves do not find "inspirational ,epic, motivational". Which includes pretty much every piece of music that exists because music taste is relative. Even sad/melancholy music can be found motivational by individual. For example I find this somewhat motivational. I would change the start of the post to make it more clear to people that they can post what they want but it does not let me edit it.

"To create a society that maximises the happiness and minimises the suffering in one’s life as much as possible, while being as practical and functional as possible, while having a society that is as high consciousness as possible. Not a bullshit Paradise. A Strong,Healthy, High-Consciousness, and Happy Society that is fully functional and fully sustainable" To become a revolutionary/visionary and create or help create this.This sounds perfect to me. This is my grand goal in living. This is so beautiful. I can vizualize what it might be like but it has to be beautiful and almost definately the way forward for mankind.I have not drawn up any plans of how it might work. I can only imagine and vizualize very very vaguely of what it might be like. The accomplish such a feat, I need to be committed, I need to have massive amounts of will-power, I need to turn in-wards and develop myself, raise my conscioussness to a high sage/borderline sage like level to reduce the chances of not accomplishing what I set out to do, or worse, creating even more ignorance or suffering in my wake then there was when I started. Right now I am 15 years old with weakish will-power, little physhical strength and stamina, mediocre eating habits and a tiny amount of knowledge relative to individuals like Leo. However. I wish to seek truth. I want to change all of this. I want to become Unbreakable, un-faltering, un-wavering. I want to have crazy amounts of willpower. How do I do this? I have watched Leo Video on Willpower. To what extent should I resist being implusive, meditate, exercise, do breathing techniques, and take right action? If I want to build as much willpower as possible how should I meditate. Should I make meditation as difficult as possible? I tried meditating in tempratures of 7-10 degrees celsius with some windchill here only wearing a t-shirt on my upper body, and I sat for an hour. I managed to keep this up for 5 days for an hour each day until I finally backslided. Where is in comparison I had a meditation habit going for a month and a half with 20 minutes each day and sometimes 40 minutes wearing clothing that kept me comforably warm before I eventually backslided. Likewise with exercise. Should I keep intensity of the exercise sessions high or low? Does more suffering equal more growth? I know I used to say to myself when I had a decent cold shower habit that Fear of Suffering is worse then suffering itself. Also, how do I remain content/happy while exerting large amounts of willpower to avoid breaking and losing morale which leads to backsliding. Is the trick simply to "Do it"? What is the best course of action? I fear that I am falling into a trap, or will fall into trap.

Vaas's reaction after watching Leos Video this morning. (In case you did'nt get the joke. Insanity, as Vaas describes it is the opposite of learning as described in leos video)

What do you mean they did it on stone tablets that "magically sprang to life"? And what do you mean they still do it in mueseums. I doubt mueseum administrators use stone or wax tablets to schedule their day or keep records. " And sometimes they stood in the hot sun. That gave them energy. But it was mostly drinking and partying in groups that gave a boost to work next morning. It was a way of life. Slates are more powerful than smartphones. " Wait help? Help me understand, how is this relevent to the question. What do you mean slates are more powerful than smartphones???????

So what you mean by this is that, whenever Marcus Aurelius or whomever went to sit down and do some self-help work to meditate, contemplate or I think he did negative-visualization or whatever. That marcus did not go "right, I am going to sit here for 20 minutes" as he did not have a way to accurately record 20 minutes, instead he simple sat and meditated until he was content with how long he had sat? I often tried to do this when meditating, to preform meditation in a timeless way. It seems reality changes when your not wearing a watch. When I sit and meditate without a watch or alarm, much like marcus would of had to do for his meditation, negative vizualization or whatever he was doing, I get agitated on deciding when to get up from the meditation as not to halt it prematurely. However , meditating with a watch bring about a certain patience releif. Whenever I ever have my watch on me when meditating and I become un-patient, I look at my watch and see how much time is left until 20 minutes is up. I find that this helped with the impatience I experiance during the meditation but much intensified the thoughts in my mind "When is it over, what time is it, ho long is left?" Perhaps Marcus or the buddha or whoever meditated until they felt like they had mediatated enough. Such as when one goes to train in the gym without a watch or paying attention to time, simply exercise until your muscles and body tell you via sweating/constriction and aching that you have exercised "enough". However, trying to figure out if you have meditated enough without keep a watch is much more difficult, impatience comes about alot more quickly for novice meditators such as myself then one would start to sweat considerably or have ones muscles constrict or ache considerably in a gym. This is why I have prosed the initial question."How Did People Like Marcus Aurelius Schedule Their Day Without Modern Watches/smartphones?" I do not just mean meditation, I also mean any self-help habit preformed back then.

I will add it to my book wishlist. Thank you for the suggestion.

I do not understand the full function of mathematics. To me it is an entirely relative function trying to measure things in the universe that itself are relative. How much different would mathematics be if I simply added another number after 9? The current numbers are. 0, 1, 2 ,3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ,8 ,9 All other numbers are made from combining these number. What if I added to more numbers? Who said there only had to be 10 numbers. 0,1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,P,X Now how much would mathematics change by simply adding more numbers? Would calculus still work? I do not know. And surely if calculus does still work then the amount of numbers available in the number alphabet is irrelavent. It then would appear that mathematics is some form of logic to do with the measurement of defining of what is relative in relative way?