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"How Openmindedness Works - Exercises To Open Your Mind" seems like it would be a gold mine for this. Ideas like... how do you know your mother actually gave birth to you? How do you know she didn't lay an egg? How do you know Australia really exists?

You couldn't have started any earlier. Your exact life experience is what led you to getting started in the first place. A character in a movie can't go back to the beginning and start from minute 0 knowing everything they know at the end. The same is true for you. Just be glad you ever got started on the journey and weren't asleep for your entire life.

I would approach your search for your life purpose as an add-on to your regular life, not a replacement to it. So you still go to high school and do all the stuff normal kids your age do. But then you add a search for life purpose, meditation, self-actualization on top of that. I think finding a few minutes a day like you said would be a good way to do it. "Knowledge not grades" is true to an extent. But in high school, really the knowledge you get is trivial. You just want to make sure you're getting good enough grades to get into the university program that you want afterward. "Knowledge not grades" works great if you plan to start your own business. Then all you need is the knowledge. But if you're working within the system then you need grades for post-secondary education, and on your resume for potential employers. So don't write off good grades entirely yet. Learning how to learn is good, but I don't think you need to obsess over it for weeks or months. A couple things like Leo's "how to study" video will get you most of the way there. Remember you're still 16 and keep things in perspective. Don't feel like you need to have it all figured out by your next birthday. Just the fact that you're thinking about things like life purpose already puts you lightyears ahead of most people your age. If you can really nail down your life purpose by 20 you'll still be doing amazing. Before you can ace life, you really need to explore what life is. Just try to experience a lot of stuff and get a well-rounded experience. Then you can really focus down and pinpoint one purpose to go after. I really do think the Life Purpose Course is going to answer so many of your questions. Personally I've gone through it 3x so far, I plan to re-do it every December going forward. But I understand as a 16 year old it's hard to get $250 to spend on it. In the meantime you might consider Jordan Peterson's Future Authoring program though: https://www.selfauthoring.com/future-authoring For $15 I feel like it gives a nice condensed idea of some of the big parts of the Life Purpose Course. It'll help you figure out what you want to learn about, things you could do better, what habits you want to improve, what you want your social life and other aspects of your life to look like. It'll help you figure out the ideal future you want to move toward, as well as the future you want to avoid. I don't have any affiliation with them, just aside from Leo's course it's probably the next most helpful one I've done.

This seems incredibly misogynistic and outdated to me. We live in a time when people are able to choose their own gender for god's sake. Why can't a man be happy in a role that isn't traditionally masculine? I still feel like the "man" in my relationship. It's not like I'm suddenly transformed into a cuck because my wife is the breadwinner of our household.

Some people are too toxic to change. There are people in my life that I've tried to bring around, but you just can't get through to them no matter how you try. Some people refuse to accept they could be wrong, or that someone else might know better than them. I have a friend I cut off contact with 6+ months ago because they were engaging in some unhealthy/toxic behavior. My friends who are still in touch with them say they're still doing it, and the only reason they keep doing it is because they don't want to stop and prove that I was right. Literally they're sabotaging their life and making things harder on themselves just because of ego.

16 is too young to give up on school. At least finish high school and get your diploma. If you don't, it might be one of your biggest regrets. How have you invested thousands of dollars into your current career at 16? Because you own an instrument? Chances are you like music and will continue to use them even if it's not your career? Lots of people would do the same for just a hobby, so don't look at that like a sunk cost in your decision. I'd be curious to see where you got this "college is a good way to find your life purpose" message. I don't remember Leo ever saying something like that. Are we talking about college here or still high school? Finishing high school isn't about your life purpose. It's practically a mandatory step before you can even start working on your life purpose imo. Don't make excuses to be lazy and drop out of school because "life purpose" just because you aren't feeling it. My guess is no. Break it down... how many hours per week do you spend in school, studying, working? You're talking about pursuing your life purpose, but then admit you're still trying to figure it out. The whole message is terribly incoherent. I think once you can afford to take the Life Purpose Course it'll give you a lot of insight. Until then I'm afraid it doesn't even sound like you know what you want, or what you're talking about. This is about your lack of motivation and nothing to do with life purpose. My suggestion would be to just be a kid, finish school, and do what's expected of you until you're at least 18.

Why do you need a degree in Fine Art? What job has a Bachelors in Fine Art as a requirement? Maybe a museum? Have you checked if most museums provide health insurance to their employees? My guess is you want to make art though anyway, not just give people a tour of someone else's. What do you think university can teach you about art that you can't learn for free on Youtube, or at a drastically reduced price through services like Skillshare?

I'm Canadian so I can't make any detailed state-by-state predictions. But as an outsider looking at it on a macro scale, I'd be very surprised if Trump didn't get re-elected. Some sports betting websites allow people to bet on who will win the presidential election. Watch what their odds are as we get closer to November. Money doesn't lie.

It's like one of those infinite zooming Youtube videos. Once it zooms in all the way on you, it just keeps zoom zoom zooming onto something else. In the grand scheme of things, the transition between you and something else is seamless. But if you took two still images at different points in time, you might have no way of understanding how one could possibly lead to another.

Logically it makes sense. If Jesus was just an enlightened dude, and you're just an enlightened dude, then that would put you on an even playing field. Except you live 2,000 years further in the future than him. So you have the benefit of scientific understanding and other advancements. Therefore, better. A human is a human. But do you consider a human from 2,000 years in the future who can practically apply time travel to be "better" than you? For me the answer is yes at least.

My wife has the better paying job compared to me (think professional like a doctor, lawyer compared to just an office worker. She was making more than double what I was.) The good thing is this gave me the financial support/security to quit my office job that I hated and pursue my life purpose of being a freelance writer. I don't consider myself a "leech." I put a 10% down payment on our house when we bought it from my savings. I pay all my own bills like phone, internet, etc. When we got a new fence and air conditioner, half the money came out of my earnings/savings. My business doesn't earn six-figures or anything, but even this year with the pandemic and associated downturn, I'll still earn about the same amount that I would working full-time at a minimum wage job. If you just see a woman paying for her guy's meal or driving him around, you are making your judgement from only a tiny piece of it. You have no idea what the full details of the situation might be. Don't just assume he's a total freeloader. Still... Do I feel guilty that I contribute less? Do I feel like "less of a man"? Yes, sometimes. Probably mostly as a result of society's expectations and toxic ideals for masculinity. Part of our long-term plan is also for me to be a stay-at-home dad though. I'm more of a homebody who doesn't mind making dinner or cooking, and my wife is a driven career woman. So for our situation, the arrangement just makes logical sense. Once we have kids, me staying at home will easily save us $10k/year or more on daycare costs, for example. If you look down on guys in this situation... try to flip the situation on its head and look at it from another angle. Why don't you look down on women who are "leeches" as strongly? Why is society more accepting of this? Why is it perfectly okay for a woman to never go to college/university or plan for a career? Why is it okay for just getting married and staying at home to be a viable and even honorable life path for women, but not for men?

If you've never really cooked or gone grocery shopping, it's going to be too much resistance to start doing it all of a sudden. Start by taking the path of least resistance. Find a company that prepares meals and delivers them ready to your door. So all you have to do is microwave them or pop them in the oven. It'll probably still be expensive. Arguably not as expensive as getting takeout 4x a week. Plus it'll be a lot better for you. Make sure the meals are healthy and not just crap though. Find a place that specifically does keto or vegan meals or something.

Do you have a backup plan if it doesn't work out? Can you move back with your parents for a while if you run out of money? Credit card is a bad idea imo even if it's 0%. Say you max it out and then can't find a job within a year and it goes up to 32%, then what? 9-10 months isn't that much time. Especially if you'll only be looking for a job during half of that. Even moreso during covid. Do you have any idea what kind of job you'd want to do? If you don't have an education, how are you going to find something more fulfilling? I think your estimate of $1,200/mo is probably too low. For example if you end up moving to Denver, average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment is over $1,400/month. That's not including your phone, internet, utilities, food, car stuff. Not sure how old you are... but I don't think anybody's first job feels authentic to them. Not many people stay working at McDonalds or a grocery store. But most people also don't go travelling the country to find themselves either. To me it kinda sounds like a temporary escape that isn't completely thought out, and will end up with you back in the same position. But just my 2 cents. Slightly ironic that Leo moved to Vegas and you wanna move away as well. You say nothing there to keep you there... why do you think new places you've never been to will make you feel more grounded or instantly have a connection? I think you might be disappointed to find that the rest of the world is just as empty, and meaning is what you make of it. I think you can temporarily keep working your current job while doing the inner work to figure things out, and then you'll still be left with 12k in the bank at the end. Or just do the travel till January and have 6k left, without committing to moving to another city at that point yet. With covid restrictions it also might be better to wait a year or so until things clear up so you can really enjoy the travel too

Doing nothing silences everything else so that you can pay attention to more subtle things. Which is going to be easier: - Trying to listen to a cricket chirp in a silent field at night - Trying to listen to a cricket chirp on a crowded subway platform with trains flying past Which is going to be easier: - Trying to focus your attention on one object in an empty room against a white wall - Trying to focus your attention on one object while there are multiple strobe lights going off behind it Which is going to be easier: - Tasting a single spice in its 100% pure form - Tasting a single spice in a complex recipe that includes a dozen other spices Right now there are thousands of sounds, sights, smells, tastes, and feelings you're experiencing at once. Like you're trying to focus on something while there are 20 different conversations and 5 different songs playing around you. You can't even start to become aware of how distracted you are unless you stop and do nothing.

What does "make it" mean to you? Can you make enough of a living to be comfortable? Yeah that's pretty easy Are you going to bring home $100k/yr after taxes and expenses? That's a lot harder. I've been working from home as a freelancer full-time since 2017. Last year I brought home just over $30k, working an average of 2 - 4 hours per day. If I wanted to work harder I'm sure I could scale it to a lot more than that. I also have a partner with a well-paying job so I have more security to take the risk than most people might. To me I've "made it", I can wake up, write for 2 hours, and make $100+ per day. Then I have the rest of the day to pursue other business ideas, or the freedom to just watch Youtube videos or play video games all day if I want. Of course sometimes I feel inadaquate, especially being the guy and having a wife that earns more money than me. But the plan is for me to eventually be a stay-at-home dad anyway. I think it's easier to make a living doing what you love, or re-train into a new career using only free info online, than ever before.

These videos point to "The True Self" in a unique way that I haven't seen people use to explain it before. I haven't managed to glimpse enlightenment using these techniques yet, but something about them really speaks to me moreso than anything else I've seen before. And I feel like if I just keep doing it, eventually I'll have the realization. I just can't seem to make the jump yet though. I can point to outward objects and then in at myself and realize conceptually that it's nothing and has no qualities, but not having any kind of massive change in perspective. If you're struggling with enlightenment, maybe one of these videos will be that one realization that pushes you over the edge. If you have any similar techniques you know of, or any tips for me, feel free to share.

He's pure Stage Orange. I get a super low vibrational feel for him. He looks and sounds like a miserable person, in the same category as other "make money" mentors like Dan Pena. In my opinion there are better and more well-rounded teachers out there. People who can teach you how to get rich, without turning you into a jaded asshole in the process. My advice would be: Find your life purpose, and then find training more specific to that. If you wanna be a photographer, take photography courses. If you want to design logos, take a graphic design course. Don't take generic courses about sales from people who only earn a living by selling their courses. Otherwise you'll get stuck spending thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours dabbling, but never mastering anything.

I feel something similar to what Leo is talking about. I guess more than anything, I'm thankful to Leo for putting out the video. It's nice to know that I'm not alone. Since my teens I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure out if I actually have an underlying health condition like chronic fatigue, or if I'm just lazy. I don't have Hashimoto's or exactly the same problem as Leo, but seems like something similar. My blood tests show my thyroid levels are borderline low for several years in a row, but not bad enough that my doctor will prescribe me medication to try. All of my other blood tests come back normal. I've tried all the common sense things that people have suggested on this forum. Eating a brazil nut every day for selenium, 4,000 IUs of Vitamin D3 per day for months, cutting out gluten or dairy, different diets. Little to no effect. Trust me, if you can Google and come up with something, people who feel these symptoms have already gone way farther down the rabbit hole than you. For me it's a bit different, my energy seems to come and go in waves. There can be a month straight where I'm super motivated and can get lots done. Then other times I'll go months feeling sluggish, tired, tons of inflammation all throughout my body that makes it hurt just to walk when I get up in the morning. It's like having bipolar manic and depressive cycles, but completely physical. The cycles are completely random and it's maddening. I recently took up running and started eating healthier while I was in a period of feeling better. Thinking that creating better habits will keep me feeling good. Then despite being in better shape, exercising regularly and eating better than ever in my life, it randomly hits again and I start feeling like shit. It's so annoying to not know what the cause is.

Financial independence. Especially if I could also go back 10 years knowing what I know about Bitcoin, writing ebooks for Kindle, and other online business opportunities that would've made it easy to become a millionaire if I just did that at the time instead of playing Runescape lol

This guy says Buddhism does not see God as the creator of heaven and earth, or humans. I'm really confused because I thought Buddhists mostly see enlightenment and God the same way that Leo talks about. Absolute infinity/nothingness/love. Something greater than the universe that includes and interpenetrates all aspects of it. If everything exists within God, how is God not a creator? Was everything not created just in this perfect way to maximize love? Is this guy just wrong?

By all accounts, I'm a fairly successful person. I've been running my own business for 3 years, I own my own house as a millennial. I'm in a stable relationship. But it never feels like enough. I set very lofty goals for myself, then when I inevitably fail to meet them I really beat myself up over it. If I'm not working on something productive like earning money or cleaning the house, I feel guilty like I'm lazy and taking too much time for myself. I want to earn enough money to have complete stability and never have to worry about working for money again. I want to make a meaningful difference and lasting change to the world. My partner tried to reason with me. Saying we are already probably in the top 10% of income earners in the world. And that the vast majority of people never accomplish anything great in their life and that's okay. Even the person who invented the polio vaccine has helped millions of people but how many know their name? But it still doesn't feel good enough to me. Like most of these things it probably follows the stereotype of stemming from my childhood... never feeling good enough for my parents, my grades were never good enough to satisfy them, they didn't approve of the career options I wanted, stuff like that. Being aware of it and the root cause is one thing, but I'm at a loss for how to overcome it. I just want to be satisfied with who I am. But my expectations are so high and I don't have the willpower needed to live up to them every day. Instead I see that I'm overweight and want to change it, so I start an overly strict diet, fail, and get disheartened. I feel like I need to be earning $100,000 per year. So I try to start an online business, fail, and get disheartened. I want to make a difference in the world and help millions of people but nothing seems significant enough. I wrote 2,500 words yesterday but I feel like I should've written 5,000 so I beat myself up over it. I don't know how to accept being mediocre and live an average life and be okay with it. Even if I accomplished relatively great things I still think I wouldn't feel good enough. Anything short of being a Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk feels like a failure. I've done the Life Purpose Course but now I feel like I'm starting to drift away from my life purpose and it no longer speaks to me. I don't know what's meaningful enough to replace it with and devote my life to. I want to become enlightened and make all of these feelings go away so I can just chill and go with the flow. But I feel like trying to use enlightenment as a crutch instead of working through these issues will be the very thing that prevents me from ever attaining it.

I'm skeptical of anything that assigns a numerical value to different levels of enlightenment, overuses the trademark symbol like how Transcendental Meditation always puts an ® after their brand, claims to transmit enlightenment via Zoom/Skype like Reiki. Lots of buzzwords unique only to them.

Try his Isha Kriya, see how you feel after. Good place to start.

After watching the "Deconstructing Property Rights" video on the blog, I have some thoughts. Namely, I want to be a lion and not a gazelle! Obviously this comes from a limited human ego perspective. But for as long as I'm stuck in that perspective, I'd like to do everything possible to avoid being exploited, enslaved, and raped. This whole COVID situation has taught me that it's not 100% certain that you can rely on the government or modern society to protect you. It takes something catastrophic, but the system can at least temporarily fail as a result of a wide range of potential disasters. I agree with all the flaws Leo pointed out in the Libertarian perspective. We should fairly contribute and take from the system that has taken hundreds of years to get to this point. But I also think we shouldn't be completely dependent on the system. I see it as different levels of safeguards that modern humans have in place... At the top level, people rely on the government to protect them and ensure an easy survival for them. This is where the majority of the population falls. They wouldn't be able to go a week without an organized society, a fully stocked grocery store, internet, etc. However I now feel that you have an obligation to yourself to add extra layers of protection for yourself. Namely: Get physically fit, learn self-defense, be mostly self-sufficient for most of your survival needs. That might be learning to grow your own food, or maybe just keeping an extra month or two of canned/dried food in case something happens. For your own sake, and the sake of your community, you owe it to yourself to maximize your power. Obviously power can be easily corrupted. A strong and powerful person can look to exploit others. But when combined with higher levels of consciousness, I think this is less likely. A very powerful but conscious and uncorrupted person can be a steward for their community. Like a sheepdog watching their flock. You can protect your local land... whatever you want to make that. Your home, your street, your immediate friends/family, your village. If you're powerful, you can protect not only humans. But you could also protect animals from being killed for food if you wanted. The federal government is strong. But if it fails, the local government is quite weak and powerless in comparison. We should work to strengthen social support at a local level. So even if the federal government fails the people, we can still hold things together municipally or at an even lower level. A powerful person contributes back to their community that allowed them to get so powerful. Through charity and community projects, you can give back and strengthen your community. Give food to the needy, give youth activities to do to keep them out of trouble. Through this you will get a safer and stronger community with more involvement and less crime. Start small at a neighborhood level and then build outwards. Raise everyone up. If everyone's level of power and autonomy increases, it's less likely for one powerful person to exploit them. Not only to prevent exploitation from powerful people inside your own community, but also people outside of it. If China does ever invade the US, the most recent 3 generations of people who grew up playing video games, drinking Mountain Dew, and not exercising aren't going to be able to put up much of a fight. In terms of someone to emulate, the best that I can think of is Jocko Willink. He's physically strong and able to handle himself. He knows martial arts as well as how to use weapons to defend his property and those he cares about if it comes to that. He is also financially self-sufficient through his own business. Presumably he has a very extensive network of family and friends that he helps, and that would also immediately come to his aid for anything he needed. Combine that with a stage yellow person and you could really make a difference in the world.

Hashimotos is an underactive thyroid, this video says it's for an overactive thyroid. Either way I'm skeptical that neck stretches can help a hormone imbalance.