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He's not a Trump supporter, your mind is just setting off alarm bells because he's not a Democrat / leftist either.

6s and 7s do not get thousands of dudes messaging them on Instagram. Not even dozens per year. And almost none of them are good looking or charming guys. Most 6s and 7s get a few compliments IRL per year, especially in today's #metoo age, guys are afraid to day approach. In bars it's a different story, dudes will grab the asses of anything, usually in conditions where it's too dark to even see if a girl is hot or not before they do. Ideally you aren't going after a girl posting skanky photos on Instagram or regularly going to clubs. Really dude, billions? 7.7 billion people on Earth, 2.8B of those live in China and India and are never going to see your girl. 50% of those are women, 40% of the guys left are 40 years or older. If you're average, 50% of those guys left are less attractive than you. That already brings you down to like 500 million competitors in the entire world. Not even considering that the girl you're going after is probably never going to go more than 200 miles from her house. Random guys from Africa or Turkey messaging her on Instagram are not serious competitors dude. It's not all those guys you even need to worry about. It's your best friend, her male best friend, her male coworker that she talks to 8 hours a day. Anyway the answer regardless of the threat is to just pick a high-quality woman with morals who won't cheat on you. Maybe in your teens and 20s you have to worry about hypergamy and monkey-branching, but once women are in their late 20s they are scared and just want to settle down with a guy before they hit the wall. It's a stupid what-if. Life is full of risks if you want to get anything. How do you have friends knowing (god forbid) they could come over and steal from you? You have to stop being paranoid and give up some control to be happy in life, and whatever happens happens. 90% of guys saying this stuff it's not about looks or anything else. You even acknowledge that average looking guys can get girls. It's just about not acting autistic around them.

There was a subtle a-ha moment but not like a lightswitch that suddenly flips on. It's something I gradually contemplated and experimented with and it built momentum until I hit an inflection point It followed the hero's journey model where the protagonist rejects the call but it keeps cropping up. Eventually there's a point where I answered the call, and started to commit. Just as strongly, a feeling that what I was currently doing didn't feel right or good, or align with what I wanted to do. When you get desperate and hate your life enough, you start reaching out to consider alternate options. So it started as being repelled away from what I was currently doing, and then I had to find something to get pulled toward to replace it. I felt very aligned initially and a lot of things just kind of fell into place. Now my interest is somewhat waning and I don't love it any more and have to force myself slightly. I'm possibly at a transition stage where I'll start pursuing a new life purpose and gradually transition out of this one. Or at least, I'm going to need to pivot away from working with other people on my life purpose and do it entirely by and for myself, along with a potential change of my ideal medium. I try to find and stick to the routine that allows me to most optimally and efficiently live out my life purpose. I think consistency is necessary to accomplish any large task. It will depend on how misaligned your current lifestyle is with your life purpose. For me, my life purpose was totally unrelated to my education and career at the time, so it was intimidating to give up a stable job and render 5 years of college/university education relatively worthless. I suspect this will be similar for most people. The most intimidating threshold for me was sitting down with my boss and giving my notice, and I think it will be the same for most people. In my case I knew I had a chill boss who would be supportive and that I'd likely transition over several months. I still cried in that meeting, as a very stoic dude, in front of my male boss. It's a very hard conversation to have. Some people their boss might be mad and fire them immediately rather than have them work their 2 weeks notice. Either way, for most people once you have that talk there's no going back. The majority of places probably won't even be willing to hire you back if things don't work out. Telling my parents was intimidating. A big part of why I probably didn't pursue my life purpose earlier was making them happy and getting their approval. For coworkers it's a slight concern you're letting them down but not as significant. A lot of younger coworkers will give you the "wow, that's so cool you're pursuing your dream, I could never do that." Older coworkers just won't understand. One older coworker asked my friend if it meant I was just going to be unemployed collecting welfare, they literally couldn't wrap their head around the idea that you could just start doing something for yourself and earning money. Ideally you can gain traction before you fully commit, if that makes sense. I was taking online courses, taking small $10 jobs for 6 months or more before hitting the point of no return. Once I fully committed and no longer had a job, I had a plan to get my website set up within the first week, and was lucky enough to get my first client within the first month. I was making about $1,000/month by Month 2 of going fulltime toward my life purpose. I had a whole Trello board of various tasks I would need to complete before my last day at my job, so I was able to hit the ground running on Day 1 of my new life. So many little micro-events contributing to anxiety that I no longer need to worry about. Whether I'll get a seat on the bus, making small-talk with coworkers, whether the phone on my desk will ring, constantly looking over my shoulder for my boss and flipping back to look productive. I basically designed my life as a very introverted and avoidant person to avoid all of those things. Which you could argue maybe limits my potential for growth but whatever, I gave the real world a try for enough years and now I can live in my self-contained little bubble where I literally never need to leave my house if I didn't want to. That's basically the best life I can imagine designing for myself. Instead of having a mandatory 40 hours per week where I need to sit in the office, but really I'm stretching 2-4 hours of work per day into 8 hours.... now I give my work 100% effort for 2-4 hours and the rest of the day is mine to do whatever I want with. Previously it was mentally exhausting... you work all day and all you can muster the energy to do is watch some TV, go to bed, and do it over again the next day. I already had a strong idea of what direction I wanted to go in. Taking the life purpose course was more of a sanity check to make sure I was on the right track, as well as refine more specific details of my life purpose and make it all real. I would strongly recommend the course. I re-do it every November/December since 2017 to set goals for next year and make sure my priorities are still right. Feel free to ask whatever else you want

Nootropics are largely a wild goose chase. Make sure you've worked on the rest of your health first. Optimize your sleep. Get exercise. Eliminate all processed food from your diet. Drastically reduce or eliminate carbs and sugar from your diet. Stop taking all prescription meds (if your doctor says it's okay) -- once your diet is fixed you probably won't need them. Eating exotic wild herbs and poorly researched chemicals might make you 5 - 10% better once already optimized. But it's foolish to ignore the other 90% of things that are more simple and natural that you can do first.

AOC would lose by an even wider margin than Biden or Harris. The core Democrat voter doesn't agree with the radical ideas of AOC. One of the big problems with the Democratic party is the big schism at the moment between corrupt capitalist types like Biden, and radical leftists like AOC. They should really be two separate parties. But it seems like anything more than a 2-party system can't work in US politics.

You act like this is really far off. In 5 years, most businesses will be issuing free VR devices to their employees who work from home to attend virtual meetings. In 10 years VR will be as pervasive as cell phones or internet. My millennial generation has been going further and further down this route since the year 2000. Since covid especially, very few people do face to face any more or have any desire to. Those who do are doing it far less frequently and chatting more online. My understanding for younger Gen Z who grew up with this technology is that it's completely central to how they communicate and socialize. The lack of connection you're talking about has already been here for years. I recently bought a VR headset and the one thing that strikes me is the sense of presence. It really feels like someone is there in the room with you. So in some ways, I think this is at least better than current socializing on Discord or similar mediums through just text or even 2D video calls.

We could talk about all the negative implications until we're blue in the face. But with the amount of money they're throwing behind this thing (10,000 people in Europe working on it), the powers that be are going to make VR finally mainstream. You can try to fight against the inevitable, or you can embrace it and take advantage of it. Personally I think I'm gonna start learning 3D modelling and make my millions selling virtual furniture and houses to people. Imagine having a factory at your fingertips where all you have to do is design the products and then they print themselves infinitely with no expenses or overhead. Everybody's looking at NFTs as the next Picassos and Rembrandts but nobody's learning some basic artistic skills to design VR cabinets and countertops.

Of course he can. You'd have to be delusional to think Democrats are going to win 2024 at the way things are currently going.

I coulda sworn this guy died years ago around the same time as Kimbo Slice or Rich Piana

What online university or online course alternatives are there? How long will it take me to pay off 3 more years of university debt vs if I just become a hairdresser now but earn less, will I be ahead or behind? Am I more likely to get a job or work for myself (only employers care about degrees, no customers will ask a business owner to see their qualifications unless it's a legally required certification like law or medicine.) What courses will my university program include? What % of the content is actually related to what I want to do with my life? What % is filler elective courses I don't need, or outdated information about print/tv/radio marketing that I don't need? How much faster could I teach myself relevant skills without all the unnecessary courses? How much do I need to start earning to prove to my parents that university isn't necessary to be successful? How can I leverage my existing knowledge creating brands to help companies with their marketing and start earning money today?

Type "business ideas that require very little capital" into google. Articles with 12, 25, 40 suggestions right at the top of the results Lots of freelance stuff or things like dog walking you can do with no existing skills. Lots of jobs like music lessons where you can exploit any current skills you already have. Lots of things like photography or designing logos you can teach yourself in your spare time in a couple months. Go watch some entrepreneurial channels on Youtube like Project Life Mastery, Dan Lok, Grant Cardone, Tai Lopez. Just realize they are memes and don't buy their courses, but their free stuff will get you in the right mindset.

Literally everything I've ever seen you write on this forum bro. I've thought about calling it out so many times, you write like it's a horoscope or something lol. If you wanna talk in riddles about enlightenment it's one thing, but it doesn't make sense for practical topics like entrepreneurship.

There is a whole community doing this called FIRE (financial independence, retire early), lots of people retiring in their 30s. You probably can't do it in less than 10 years unless you make $100k+ a year and are extremely frugal Regardless of your overall strat, investing early is overpowered due to the power of compound interest. Even if you're in your 20s working at McDonalds, if you can save away a few extra thousand dollars per year and invest it, you'll be way ahead.

Pretty much anything finance-related is devilry, low-consciousness, and a net-negative to the world if it's just siphoning off money without producing any real goods or services. What about leaving the entire paradigm of hedge funds and banks behind for something radically different? Could you start some sort of investment firm / charity hybrid? Where you take a nice salary for yourself, like $200k or something, and the rest of the gains each year go toward charitable causes? Is there some way that you can earn money for yourself or clients, but then get tax advantages of charitable causes, all while helping the world and making it a better place? Could you invest in sustainable companies that help the world and still make a profit?

You should have a long-term plan and concrete goals, but you shouldn't be married to them. If your interests change then you need to change your goals with them (as long as you aren't just dabbling.) 1 - 2 year goals are good. 5 or 10 years is too far out for most people. My life is consistently nothing like I expected 5 years ago. It doesn't hurt to have lofty goals either. I have some things I want to accomplish by 2030 or later... but most of these are things I want to do on top of my life purpose. If you want an authentic life purpose then you need to ignore the fears of not having enough money, etc. The life purpose course has whole videos with exercises to release these negative motivations. "What you want" should be the best option by default. The best option isn't the best option if it just means a stable well-paying job, butit comes at the cost of you being miserable.

You're uncomfortable dealing with people because you've never done it before. If you don't change something, it will always be this way. You have to push your boundaries a bit and take that sort of job to start building your social skills and extroversion. I am extremely introverted and used to be the same way. My parents made me get a part-time job at a grocery store and it helped a lot. I'm still very introverted and I hate talking to people, but now I can do it if I need to. At least give it a chance for 6 months or so. Then if you absolutely hate it, you can retreat back into your hole forever. But being scared to interact with people will seriously hold you back in almost every aspect of life. Watch a bunch of Youtube videos on how to be social, how to make smalltalk, or anything else you're nervous about. It's a new skill you need to learn just like anything else. There are whole channels with dozens of videos to help introverts overcome social anxiety.

Life purpose course can be completed in a week or so if you're serious about it and devote 3-4 hours a day. Listen to the bulk of the material at the start (core concepts) at 1.5x speed to get through it faster, but give proper time to the exercises. Get the course out of the way first before you start planning to explore, travel, or anything else. Because if your life purpose isn't aligned with all the stuff you're doing, it might be a waste of time. If your top 10 values don't include at least 1 of adventure, nature, beauty, travel... then it'll have a negligible effect on finding your life purpose. Maybe the answer is to stay at home and work on your passion. If you wanna travel because it's cool to see new places and eat new foods and have new experiences, that's one thing. But don't delude yourself into thinking that travel is an effective one-size-fits-all method of "finding yourself". You aren't out there, you're right where you are already. Your life purpose isn't necessarily some mythical thing "out there" to be discovered. It's probably hiding in plain sight and has been popping up throughout your childhood and teen years off and on already in various ways. Looking within and backward might be more effective than looking out into the world and forward.

Conscious copywriting is just honesty lol. If you have a good product to sell and genuinely help people, you don't need to push so hard and be salesy or manipulative. In that case, you just speak (or write) confidently and tell people what you can offer. High consciousness people usually offer tons of free value up front, and then just use a sales page as a final push when they do occasionally launch a free product. So I'd look for people that have a Youtube channel or blog that's offering tons of really useful free advice.

If you listen through the Life Purpose course carefully, you'll pick up some names. Specific biographies he recommends reading, names that come up over and over in reference. Probably some authors of 5/5 books on the book list. I don't know if these are necessarily role models, but you can at least work out a fair number of people he respects.

You're demonizing dabbling too much. If you have no experience, dabbling is the only real way to find what you like and what you're good at. We expect kids to pick their lifelong career before they leave high school, but what % actually get it right the first time and love what they're doing for the rest of their life? I'd hazard to guess that it's not many. If you go too far in the non-dabbling direction at the beginning, you'll fall prey to the sunk cost fallacy. You might pick one thing that doesn't really suit you, but feel you've put too much time and effort into it to "dabble" and change paths again. I've found my life purpose and I'm still dabbling on the side to see if there's anything I might like even better. I still want to start a webcomic, podcast, maybe try voice acting, 3D modelling, make a synthwave album, make a standup comedy routine, create a video game, and other stuff on top of my life purpose. Maybe one of those will click more and it'll become my new life purpose. I'm about to restart the Life Purpose course again for about the 4th time just to see if anything's changed. You just gotta follow your heart and see what happens. For now, just pick something you can practically apply yourself to and try it for a few months, see how it goes. You can always change later. But if you allow yourself to get paralyzed and not make a decision, you'll just be mentally masturbating still again this time next year. The most important thing is to pick something and just start actually working on it. Most people just get overwhelmed and never do anything. That's why people like Elon Musk who just go for things look like gods. Tell him that he shouldn't be starting an electric car company, spaceship company, neuroscience company, and tunnel boring company at the same time because it's dabbling. Tell people with 5-10 different passive income sources they shouldn't be dabbling LOL.

Make a spreadsheet that lists your income for the month, and then all of your monthly expenses. Ideally do it for the whole year, even listing out stuff like dentist appointments, clothes, money you spend on Christmas presents and holidays, etc. Then start being honest about what expenses you can cut out to start saving. Your biggest expense is probably going to be where you live. So that might mean sucking it up and getting a roommate, or even a 3rd roommate if you already have one, or taking other unconventional steps to cut down on spending.

If this is a common theme that keeps popping up in all areas of your life, then it's a problem with you, some weakness that everyone around you is sensing. Go listen to interviews with people like Jocko Willink and David Goggins and emulate them. You can be a tough guy without becoming a dick about it.

Depends what you consider "dating". Around 10 years old there were some kids at my school in "puppy love", basically they think they're boyfriend/girlfriend, hold hands at recess, kids start to have crushes. But usually they are together one recess and "broken up" the next. Around 12 -13 kids can start to have some concept of "going steady", being exclusive and can maybe start to have some semblance of long-term relationships, go on dates to the movies together. Around 16 - 18 kids are starting to get the maturity to really explore the meaning of relationships, their sexuality, and other stuff. Kids at this age might be willing to make sacrifices for their partner, and discuss big decisions like whether they'll stay together when they go away for college or not. It's really like an ever-increasing spectrum. At 13 I thought I was super mature, I did at 16, 18, 20, 25 as well... in retrospect I was a dumb kid, but it's all part of learning and growing.

Take the job that pays 4x more, save wisely, and retire 4x earlier. If you would normally work from age 18 to 65, this means you get to retire at 30 instead. At age 30 you still have your entire life ahead of you to do whatever you want. But your energy will already be really starting to wane compared to in your 20s. I'd rather do something I hate 100% of the time for a little while and be done with it, instead of doing something I hate in little increments for my entire life. The important thing is that while working the 4x better paying job and for the rest of your life, you need to live a lifestyle as if you were working the lower-paying job.

I can understand how something like sustainability management would seem quite big-picture and abstract, hard to make practical. Can you think of any ways that you could encourage sustainability or care for the environment at a local level? Maybe you could organize a group of local people who care about the environment to go out and pick up trash in various places around your city every weekend. Write to your city counsellors about the importance of green space and try to get more added to the city. Host a presentation at your local library about how people can save money and help the environment by installing more water efficient fixtures. Maybe a not-for-profit related to sustainability already exists in your city, or maybe you can be the one to set one up. If you try to do something big, it can take years to see any difference and it can quickly become discouraging. But if you start with something small like picking up garbage, it's easy to immediately see the benefits of what you're doing.