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Assume no unless told otherwise. Would they want an engineer building a bridge or oil pipeline to have a degree? Yeah probably if government is involved or people's lives are at risk. But there are lots of engineering jobs at companies that you could do without a degree. Like being a software engineer or designing your own product. If you start your own business, you can bypass 99% of degrees except maybe stuff like medicine and law. Nobody cares what your qualifications are for the most part, just what you can deliver. You don't even need a degree to be a college/university professor depending on the field, but I'm sure it helps. A bunch of my business teachers in college were just small business owners themselves, not like an MBA or PhD or anything. Unless you have a very specific end career in mind, it's hard to say. Something like "scientist" is so broad. 99% of science you can just start doing in your own backyard or garage. Want to go out and study the life cycle of native bees in your area, or create a new type of glue? Nobody is stopping you. Want to be a historian? Nobody is stopping you from going digging through archives or visiting most ancient sites without a degree. You can probably even crowdfund the equivalent of a "research grant" nowadays on Patreon / Kickstarter from people who are just interested in following your work, if you can show that you're serious about it. Most people are too dumb to create their own course curriculum of what they need to do to become an expert in their field. So a formal education gives good guidance in that regard. But don't fool yourself that a university degree makes you an expert in something or prepares you to immediately start in your desired career. It teaches you how to follow instructions and complete assignments/pass tests, that's about it. It gives an extremely basic base level that employers can start shaping and molding you from. My city has some of the best universities in my state for business. But at work when I'd have to train new hires, some of these kids were unbelievably dumb or just completely lacking common sense or analytical abilities to figure things out. University doesn't make you smart. It just checks a box for overly-bureaucratic organizations, which you probably don't want to work for anyway.

No, I don't believe he was "awake" in the beginning. I've been watching since pretty much the earliest "outdoor videos". Go sort his channel from old to new and watch some of his old stuff. For the first several years it was mostly a mix of standard "Tony Robbin's" style self-help and a little bit of pickup type stuff. I don't think he was into spirituality stuff at the start. Or if he was, it didn't really come through in the work and maybe he was just in the early stages. Obviously he's been into philosophy and asking deep questions since childhood, but it's a big leap from that to enlightenment. In the early videos you can tell he was still figuring stuff out. The video "What's the Worst That Can Happen?" he explains the whole thought process being moving to Las Vegas, etc. It's a whole different vulnerable side that you've never seen before in recent vids. It's actually really interesting to go back and watch the old stuff. Shows you what 8 years of dedicated practice can result in. As for whether he would've still made the channel... go watch his video Free Will vs Determinism - Does Free Will Exist? from 5 years ago. I don't think it could have been any other way. In this universe, in this timeline, it had to play out this way. If you only started following Actualized.org in the past year or two, you owe it to yourself to go back and watch all the early stuff. Videos with only 5k views with so many hidden gems.

For me.... Talent x time spent mastering = strengths If you're naturally talented at something, you understand it at an intuitive level easier or better than most people. Some people just have a better ear for music than others. Others have genetics that make them better at sports. Anyone can master stuff, but if you're not talented, then it will take longer. In fact you can be "un-talented" and at a disadvantage that causes you to learn slower than other people. Maybe you really love math even though you suck at it. It can still become one of your strengths, but it will take more practice to get there.

My fear is that you'll do the bare minimum in your job AND on your business. Right now you're doing the bare minimum at work and it doesn't sound like you're using that extra time or energy on your business yet either. Where did you get the number that it will take 5 - 10 years to earn enough so you can quit your job? Have you actually worked it out in a spreadsheet? Why can't you work twice as hard to make it 2 years instead? Or are you just subconsciously putting your business off into the future where you don't need to worry about it yet, because you don't think you're ready? Companies like Instant Pot, Peloton, and Uber/Lyft were started about 10 years ago. Do you have an idea so big and complex that you think it'll take you a decade to earn $100k at, when those companies have built up to revenue in the billions within that amount of time? You could spend 1 year (generous) learning web design, graphic design, photography, copywriting, video editing, or something similar from scratch and then start making thousands of dollars per month pretty much immediately What is holding you back right now...... time or money? You need 10 years of labor to spend on your business? Or it's going to take you 10 years to save up some massive amount of money, like $100k so you can open your own restaurant or something? What is that until? Why are you waiting? Why can't you start your business now?

Think I read or heard somewhere at some point, one theory on why women tend to live longer than men, is because they menstruate. Naturally cleanses toxins from the body/blood. Long history of people using leeches to suck blood out of people to cure diseases and stuff too. Losing some blood occasionally probably does more good than harm.

To build on this as someone whose full-time business is to write blogs/articles to help companies rank higher in Google search results... The really low-quality stuff like keyword stuffing and other things have long been patched. But search engine algorithms themselves are still a valuable tool. In my opinion, more than paid advertising. The thing is that you actually have to deliver valuable content that answers a question or solves a problem for someone. OP, don't even look at it as marketing. Just put out high quality resources to help people for free. When you deliver value, you get value back. Just in my spare time, a couple years ago I created a blog with 25 posts that just provides useful information and answers questions to people. It consistently gets 4,000 unique visitors per month for the past year or more, even though I've put 0 effort into creating new content for it. What is that worth in marketing terms? You need to learn to Google basic things man, or you'll never get anywhere in business.

Don't go into a new job with this attitude. Even if you're "playing nice", the level of bitterness and condescension that you feel for them is going to come through in subtle things like body language, how you talk, etc. People won't be able to pinpoint why, but they'll intuitively feel that you're a douche. Can you see how full of ego the statements that you've made are? Why are you making such assumptions that people you've never met are bastards that don't have your best interest in mind? You're being an asshole to an imaginary story in your mind already. Working yourself up about what a terrible situation it's going to be, and actively seeking out the worst in people from the start. Maybe your manager will be a really high-consciousness person. Even if not, most people are just in survival and not actively out to **** and exploit you. If you go in with this attitude, that's what you're going to attract. Instead try being humble and giving every new person you meet the benefit of the doubt for at least a couple days. It's a fresh slate, why are you already bearing grudges against strangers? Try to find something you can learn from these people. Not in a smarmy "I learned what not to do" way, but genuine wisdom that you can take away from average people. Try to improve the workplace and make it more high-consciousness. Somebody has got to start somewhere.

Youtube and Twitch require very different skillsets. Youtube is more about documenting. Twitch is more about interacting with your audience. For an example of someone I think is a really original and great and unique travel Youtuber, check out Bald and Bankrupt if you haven't heard of him. Like Sahil mentioned, you will likely need to work on other platforms to funnel people to your content too. For a travel vlogger I'd at least have an Instagram as well.

This is just one possible path, but if it was me, this is what I would do.... Work minimum job and apply to get a software job during the day. Spend your evenings and weekends creating a website, online course, and Youtube channel where you teach people saxophone. Create what https://www.justinguitar.com/ is to guitar lessons, but for saxophones. Look at his website, and Youtube channel with 1M subscribers and just make the exact equivalent for saxophone. He has laid out the entire framework for you. All you have to do is study and replicate it for sax.

So I came across this article: Measuring time accurately increases the entropy in the universe https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277050-measuring-time-accurately-increases-the-entropy-in-the-universe/ First and foremost, I saw a lot of stuff relating to what Leo teaches about strange loops, etc that the scientists seemed to have totally missed. Not only are you observing the universe, but the universe is also observing and adapting to you, etc. They talk about this in a matter-of-fact way and ignore how miraculous this is. Then a couple quotes really got me thinking: So what this suggests to me is that entropy is a non-renewable resource, just like oil or coal. We can choose to burn through it fast or slow, develop technologies to make our use of it more efficient. But ultimately there is a finite amount of it. To me, I feel a direct analogy between this and the idea of a "carbon footprint." Entropy is to the universe what climate change is to the Earth. Humans appear to be creating order in the world if you look at things with a narrow view.... we make perfectly level and straight buildings and roads. But all it does is leads to more natural disasters and chaos in the environment. Makes me think of the saying "energy cannot be created nor destroyed." The same appears to be true of entropy. You can move it around or delay it, but it will come out at some point. Same as all of those nuclear bombs humanity has created. You can sequester and store entropy, but at some point it's going to escape in devastating ways. Because of my lack of understanding, the main thing that I don't understand is how this entropy gets distributed. When entropy is created on Earth, does it stay mostly in a closed-loop system around the Earth? This would seem to be the case, as things seem to be getting increasingly chaotic and disordered over time. Or maybe the entropy created on Earth just dissipates and gets spread across the entire universe? In which case there's less of a concern, because it will get spread infinitely far and human impact will be miniscule compared to everything else in existence. (Or I might be totally misinterpreting this article and talking out my ass)

Don't worry about your English, it is good enough to understand what you mean What kind of programming have you done so far? What made you get interested in programming in the first place. You have to decide if there is some part of programming you still enjoy that interests you, or if you need to throw the whole thing away and move on to something else. Take for example.... maybe you got into programming because you wanted to do work with AI or machine learning. But instead, you have a basic programming job where you're writing boring programs that you aren't interested in. If you moved more toward the kind of programming that first interested you, would you want to do it more? Also every job is boring sometimes and can be a grind. You might have times when you hate programming in the moment and it feels tedious. But you should still feel satisfied at the end result that comes out of your programming.

I'm having my first kid later this year and it's something I've really been thinking about and trying to plan for. To me the two biggest things are "positive discipline" and "non-violent communication". Still wrapping my head around them, especially the first one. I'm not sure how to use these things in the moment when a child is acting out yet. When you grew up with parents who yelled and hit, I think it's going to take a huge amount of mental energy to adapt to these new strategies. In the short-term it seems so much easier to just yell and threaten. But I know personally how damaging that can be in the long run. Doing one of the visualization exercises in the life purpose course showed me that you can have a "traumatic experience" from something that was seemingly minor and small in the moment, but changes your mindset and life trajectory entirely. You don't know what little thing you say or do might mess your kid up forever. I would like to give my kid the best possible upbringing and traumatize them as little as possible. But I can already sense how exhausting that's going to be. I'll have to be particularly conscious not to fall into learned behaviors from my parents, especially when I'm really tired and stressed.

This info is widely available by doing a basic Google search The big scary-sounding things below are mostly lipids (fat.) You can look them up individually on Wikipedia to verify they aren't heavy metals or toxic chemicals. Ingredients for Pfizer Medicinal ingredient mRNA Non-medicinal ingredients ALC-0315 = ((4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate) ALC-0159 = 2-[(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N,N-ditetradecylacetamide 1,2-Distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine cholesterol dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate monobasic potassium phosphate potassium chloride sodium chloride sucrose water for injection https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/covid19-industry/drugs-vaccines-treatments/vaccines/pfizer-biontech.html#a1.1

My country (Canada) is planning to have covid passports for people coming in. Not sure if this applies to Canadians or only foreigners. I'm not sure how it could be legal since the first page of the passport for any Commonwealth country (UK, Australia, NZ, Canada) is literally a letter from the Queen asking that the holder is granted free travel without hindrance. This makes me feel that requiring a covid passports for our own citizens would be ruled unconstitutional by our Supreme Court. If my government requires a covid passport for international travel, I'm just not going to travel internationally any more. If they require it for inter-city or inter-provincial travel, I'd consider that an infringement on my freedom of travel under our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I am 100% NOT going to keep a covid passport on my unencrypted phone and provide medical data to companies just to go grocery shopping, even if I've been vaccinated and it would be easier to just go along with it. That's my line I won't cross. I am getting my covid vaccine only because my wife is pregnant and I'm worried they might not let me into the hospital later this year when she gives birth without one. But covid passports are my line in the sand. I will also refuse to continue getting covid "boosters" every year like flu shots.

Haven't finished watching Leo's latest video yet. But what really confuses me is how society has made progress with starting to dismantle the idea of male/female first. Why is that the specific category that everyone decided to start with? And why does it seem like everyone is happy to stop there, instead of taking it 1 step further to realizing you're the entire universe? Why did people dip their toes into post-modernism "nothing means anything" on the issue of gender, but not anything else? How come today it's fine for someone born a man to identify as a woman, in some circles even encouraged, or looked down to criticize it. But if someone said identified as an animal, or being made of pure love, they'd get laughed at?

You have to build up to it gradually. You can't go straight from 0 hours per day to 10 hours per day. And if you fall out of the habit, it's like when you stop exercising and get out of shape. You have to start all over again re-building your stamina and work ethic. I know first-hand because I used to be super productive. Then I slacked for months during covid. Now I'm trying to get that work ethic back but it's tough. It's the same kind of willpower you need to not eat bad food when you're on a diet. If you do want to work 10 hours a day and actually be productive, then you need to make that your only focus in life for a while. It will take all your energy. You won't even be able to cook for yourself, or clean your own house while working that much. Also find out what works for you. For me, the earlier I wake up the more productive I am. If I wake up at 5 am, I can get a whole day's work done by noon. But whether I sleep in or start early, I'm losing energy and motivation by noon. For other people they are the opposite and more productive at night.

When you have 12-24 months or however many months worth of expenses you feel that you need to feel comfortable. Enough that you are sure you could find another job if you had to, or that your LP will take off by then. and/or Once a certain % of your income has shifted to coming from your life purpose instead of your job.

It sounds like you need to get them to pay you to coach them and hold them accountable. Like you alluded to, people are a lot more likely to take something seriously if they paid for it vs if they got it for free. Make them pay for X Skype/Zoom sessions where you guide them through the technique over and over. Eventually they will get into the habit and can start doing it themselves, or can keep paying for it if that's what they need. That is how you will prove your technique works. Eventually you'll have to make it into an online video course or something that they can watch themselves. Otherwise you'd have to hire a whole team of people just to do video calls with people and make them do the techniques. I guess you could also just do a couple weekly sessions at different times where everyone can tune in at once, instead of 1 on 1. I think in the Life Purpose Course it says something like only 2 - 10% of people actually finish online courses that they buy. So don't expect 100% success with your technique. There will always be lazy people who put it off or never do it. You just have to make people do it long enough to get enough social proof and testimonials that it works.

If you're already sick of school and 9-5 jobs by 19 I have bad news for you. You can't get financial freedom by doing less than you currently are. In the short term it takes more work. Getting a 9 to 5 is actually the easiest route where you just mindlessly clock in and pay is guaranteed no matter how productive you are. You have 40 - 80k saved up by 19? You're already waaaaaaaay ahead of most people. Couple options: - Keep that pace up for the next 5 years. Work your butt off as hard as you can and save every penny. Then you can have your 5 years of financial freedom. - Work a reasonable 9 - 5 and then spend every hour of your free time in evenings/weekends working on your life purpose instead of watching TV or other time-wasting activities. After you get home and make dinner, you should have at least 3 hours a night to work on your LP. Plus 8 hours per day on Saturday/Sunday. That's 31 hours per week, or 1600 hours a year. That's basically devoting a full-time job's worth of time to your life purpose if you don't include lunch and breaks. For most people, living in a van is nothing more than a romantic notion. Like going to live in a cave and becoming a monk, or moving way out into the country and starting a farm with no relevant knowledge or experience. The actual day-to-day of living in a van might not be as enjoyable as you think, and actually interferes with most life purposes and makes it harder. You'll have to spend time and energy each day figuring out where you're going to sleep, worrying about getting hassled by police and asked to move on at night, figuring out where you're going to shower and take a shit, where you're going to get internet.

This is so all over the place that I'm having trouble even figuring out what you're asking. The title is about dominating an industry, then you talk about creating systems, then about what books you read, and about 3 other loosely related topics by the end of the post. It feels like a bunch of words like "intersectional industry focus" and "mindset prioritization" are just shoved in here.

It's widely believed that stuff like taxis and transport trucks are going to be some of the first jobs to be fully automated and put humans out of work in those fields. There's a good chance that there won't be human-driven commercial vehicles in a decade. And once robots can drive, your insurance is going to be so high that you'll get priced out even if you want to. If you love driving... do as much of it as you can for the next 3-5 years. Work as hard as you can and earn as much money as you can. Multi-task and drive uber while also doing meal delivery at the same time so you're getting paid 2x as much for 12 hours a day. Or do long-haul trucking driving for 12 hours a day. You can earn $80k a year doing mindless highway driving and listen to hours and hours of ebooks and podcasts per day. BUT you need to be saving all that money and have a plan for what you're going to do with it once automation comes. Alternatively you may still be able to do more gimmicky stuff long-term. Have a pedi taxi which is basically like a rickshaw or bike with a seating area attached. In touristy areas you can probably make something like that work, shuttling around drunk people, even after automation kicks in. Plus you'll stay physically fit.

I bought HORIZONS PSYCHEDELIC STOCK INDEX ETF (PSYK) which holds Mind Medicine, Compass, Numinus Wellness, and others.... basically the most diverse psychedelic stock holding you could pick, and it's currently down 25% from where I bought it at lmao. Make sure that you have the correct risk tolerance before buying psychedelic stocks. I have faith that long-term it's gonna go way up from here, but it's basically like owning Bitcoin at this point.

Not really, at least not fully. I don't consider van life to be anywhere near "quitting society".... you're still operating within the system. Using money to buy things, having a driver's license, etc. Really it's just an alternative lifestyle still very much within society. In some places, I believe including in the US, you can renounce your citizenship and actually become a stateless person.... no passport, no birth certificate, nothing. That means you don't owe taxes but also you aren't entitled to any kind of benefits or protections either. You can basically be enslaved and your former government won't care or intervene, you'll be living like in medieval times where it's everyone for themselves. Most countries don't allow you to give up your citizenship without another citizenship lined up to replace it. You're born into it without your consent and literally can't opt out. Even if you become a stateless person, there's nowhere on earth for you to go that some country hasn't already claimed and imposed its rule on. So the best you can do is move from one society to another that is more in line with your values. Not escape it entirely. Even if you go live in a cave somewhere that's no guarantee that someone won't tell you that you're trespassing and kick you out. Joining a monastery is probably the closest to escaping "everyday life" but also just an alternative lifestyle within the confines of modern society.

Bit of a rant here. I just bought a new mattress and it got delivered on the weekend. The smell coming off of this thing is incredibly strong. It's like "new car smell" x10. I decided to do some research to see if it's harmful, because it was extremely chemically and didn't seem like it could be good to inhale. Plus my wife is pregnant and worried what it could be doing to our unborn child. Turns out mattresses will off-gas VOCs (volatile organic compounds) including stuff like fire-retardant substances, formaldehyde, benzene, and others for 2 weeks or more. Information on VOCs in mattresses is incredibly inconsistent. Some sources say it can irritate your eyes, nose and throat in the short term. Others say it can cause long-term organ damage and cancer. Others say that it's completely natural and won't cause any negative health impacts! WebMD says it's pretty bad: https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20190710/is-your-mattress-releasing-toxins-while-you-sleep Mattress Advisor and other websites with an obvious mattress-selling bias say it's fine: https://www.mattressadvisor.com/mattress-off-gassing-dangerous/ This isn't some cheap low-quality mattress that I got either. It's basically the top-of-the-line, #1 quality mattress in the entire store. First night I slept on this mattress, I woke up with a horrible headache in the middle of the night and had to go sleep on a couch. In the morning I needed to shower off the chemically-smell that was still all over my skin, clothes, and hair. The worst part is that I was given no mention or warning that this would happen. In store there was no mention or warnings. Apparently non-toxic/organic mattresses exist, but I didn't see a single one in the 4 rows of mattresses at the store that I went to. The salesperson didn't mention anything about smells or chemicals. Even the packaging that the mattress came in had absolutely no warnings or labels on it. For me this basically seems like the equivalent of selling cigarettes with no warning, it's so bad. At least when you buy stuff like paint that also releases chemicals and makes your house smell, it's clearly labelled as toxic/poisonous, flammable, etc. But with mattresses I guess that it's just assumed that this is the way it is and there's no other option. 3 days later, after having a fan running and the window wide open in my bedroom all day, this thing still stinks up the entire room. I am seriously considering returning this mattress and looking into non-toxic alternatives. But my wife sees absolutely nothing wrong with it. She isn't suffering the headaches or any bad effects. And she says stuff like my old mattress probably did this and I just don't remember, it can't be that dangerous and I'm over-reacting, etc. (She also says I'm over-reacting and being unreasonable when I brought up not letting our kid chew on plastic toys and ingest phthalates.) Anyway I don't care about this enough to make it my life purpose and try to pass legislation to make mattress companies acknowledge that their products are releasing toxic chemicals directly against your face and skin while you sleep. But hopefully someone will at some point. Mattress companies could fix this pretty easily by letting mattresses off-gas in a warehouse for a month or two before selling them, instead of shipping straight to the consumer. But of course that would take time, money, and effort and eat into profits. So you get a nice free dose of volatile chemicals with every purchase.

It sounds like a very front-loaded life purpose. By that I mean there is a ton of research that you'll need to do upfront to catch up on hundreds of years worth of philosophy before you can start contributing your own thoughts. If you do shallow research and start writing too soon, there's a good chance that you'll end up just coming to the same conclusions as previous philosophers and not contributing anything unique. All of the basic ideas have already been considered and discussed ad nauseum. This is a life purpose where you're particularly going to need to have a strong vision or end goal in mind. Because you might be learning and processing massive amounts of information. But on paper, you're not going to actually have anything to show for it for years. Things like # of words written per day is not a good goal early in the process for your case. Instead you'll need to find something else like numbers of books read, or create your own arbitrary scales for how far you feel that you've come. For some people, their life purpose is more like just throwing money at the problem and it starts functioning on day one like a McDonald's franchise. Other people need to go to school for years in a subject before they can even start working on it. You are in the second category. You need to look at this like a marathon and not a sprint.