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NOOOO. tanning is super unhealthy for your skin. fuck those guys.

the paradoxes of life...

Sure. Never said not to be.

Yes, you are! I can't believe you were using that other avatar before. Honestly my very first thought when I noticed your new one was, "wow, so pretty! the fuck was that other avatar lol."

That doesn't mean this is not what he wants to be doing right now. Life is a journey and there are only 24 hours in the day, we can't do anything and everything at once. There will definitely come a time where his activity with actualized.org dies down and he moves onto the next stage of his life. He already has plenty of money, if he wanted to move onto other things this very moment, he's perfectly capable of doing so, but he still has work to do here.

stop smoking so much @StonerLord

Care to expand on this calling of yours?

This comment.. seems kind of strange to me. The point is that his work with actualized.org IS the freedom he was looking for. He's doing exactly what he wants to be doing in life, instead of working for other people on other things he doesn't care about. What were you expecting, him to become a couch potato after he made his first million?

I recommend Leo's life purpose course

Enlightenment work is what gives me the most practical results in my life, so it's what I use. Just as Leo emphasizes in his videos, everything is approached from an extremely practical perspective and designed to get you very tangible results. If another framework comes along that works better, if there is something beyond post-rationalism (taking from Leo's most recent video) like a post-post-rationalism way of thinking or something, sure at that time I can look into it, but for now I do what works .

Just as Leo emphasizes in most of his videos, you need to approach this from a very practical perspective. What are we subtly implying, at least usually, when we mention talent? We are implying that other people have some sort of higher intrinsic value than we do in some aspect of life. This is an incredibly toxic way of thinking. Get rid of it. Get rid of this competition-based mindset. It has no place in your psyche.

People may have different natural propensities for things as children, but any real progress comes from consistent, concerted effort. If a 0 is someone who can't even hold a pencil, and 100 is Van Gogh, I may start off as a 5 and you may start off as a 15, but neither of us will get anywhere in life without putting forth this concerted learning effort over a period of years. And if I put in that effort, while you focus on other things, I can become a 40 while you are still maybe a 20. We may have different starting points but we vastly underestimate our creative potential. We take things that happen to come naturally as the only things of value we can create in life and brush everything else off, when really there's absolutely no need to do that. This is coming back to my previous point that successful people have failed more times than others have even thought of trying. Just work on whatever it is that you enjoy doing, and you will consistently see improvement over time. We just need to have the wisdom to see that.

Yes, talent is mostly a myth. Most people have trouble starting new endeavors and quit early on. When you stick with something you will see improvement over time. That's the difference every single successful person has accomplished in comparison to people that are struggling- they have failed more times than others have even tried. I'm also starting to integrate this more into my personal life. By trade I'm a software engineer and have always considered myself very "analytical" and not very "artsy" (absolutely terrible at drawing), but because I've since come to realize that talent is a myth, I plan on going full-force in exploring new fields such as digital illustration, electronic music production, video editing... I'm hoping by the end of this process I will have completely new creative endeavors that are open to me. The main issue with this "talent" mindset is that it is one that is fundamentally rooted in competition, and you really need to stop looking at the world and your life from that perspective. Leo talks about this competition vs creator mindset at length in his life purpose course.

Can you define "personal development related life purpose" if you don't mean life coaching? I've gone through the course and don't think I experienced much of this. I don't really envision trying to spread these philosophies much- the main point is to have an impact that resonates with you personally, and at least as a first go-around I think I was able to come up with some decent goals. I'm still relatively young and definitely agree with Leo in the course when he said sometimes you just need to go out and get more life experience, so that's what I plan on doing, while working towards the life purpose I'm able to define in the meantime.

hahah I don't count the days or anything, I just know the date in which I was introduced to the concept of veganism and can calculate it from there: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=days+since+july+8+2011

I very recently took shrooms for the first time as well. It was a great experience. I had been watching Leo's videos and thinking a lot about enlightenment and self-actualization, and I felt like I intellectually understood a lot of these ideas, but was having trouble truly resonating with them and turning them into practical results in my life. I felt like I was onto something but couldn't really pinpoint it. The trip is what gave me much more of an experiential perspective. It induced an ego-death state and allowed me to actually experience all of these concepts. I read recently on reddit someone else's experience with psychedelics and enlightenment, and think it makes a lot of sense. He described enlightenment as a cabin in the woods. Most people just wander around the forest all their life, never even realizing this cabin exists. What psychedelics can do is give you a tiny glimpse of it. If you're able to intuit that this cabin could possibly exist somewhere, they can give you a lens in which to glimpse a tiny portion of it- through a small window somewhere maybe. You can see a small corner of the house. But this is as far as psychedelics will take you- from there you need to have the wisdom to translate this experience into your sober reality so you can actually find the cabin, walk through the front door, and fully explore every room and all the nooks and crannies.

I think someone missed the point.

Exactly- I actually have a lot of creative work I want to start getting into. By trade I'm a software engineer and have always considered myself very "analytical" and not very "artsy", but I'm since come to realize that talent is a myth and I plan on exploring fields like electronic music production, digital illustration, and video editing in the coming years. I'm hoping by the end of this process I will have completely new creative endeavors that are open to me, and I can start exploring things like AMV production, game design, general fan art, etc. And most of these will probably have a basis in anime because it's one of the main art forms that I'm into. If I wasn't I'd have to find a different art form to identify with, so I mean, you're going to have to replace it with something anyways.

I WILL NEVER GIVE UP MY ANIMU ... P.S. changing my avatar to shirou aww yeeea

Currently on day #1717. I'm in!!

1. hahahahahah 2. There does not exist a "great vegan honey debate". You are deluding yourself. 3. It is complete nonsense. Let's give this a go, shall we? I hand you a puppy, a carrot, and a knife. I put a gun to your head and tell you to stab one of them. Any person with anything resembling any amount of sanity will obviously stab the carrot because you fucking understand that the suffering of the carrot is not comparable to the suffering of the puppy so please stop making a mockery out of their life and slaughter with this "plants feel" nonsense. Also animal agriculture uses an incredible amount more plant food to feed the animals before they make it to our plate, so if this comment was made with any sort of genuine intention, you would realize that if you cared about the reduction of suffering in any form you would stop consuming animal products. But you don't care. You're just providing your ego with self-justification so you don't have to face what you are actually doing. 4. What the fuck? OF COURSE YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL DON'T CONSUME A HUGE AMOUNT OF ANIMAL PRODUCTS. One person is just a drop in the bucket. Another reason why it's so easy for us to not care. It's called the diffusion of responsibility, it is a very real social phenomenon, look it up. Just as one nazi back in the day is "just a drop in the bucket" and it's not like quitting your job would change anything. But you're not in nazi germany, you're in modern day society with perfectly easy access to almost every possible food you can imagine down the street at your local supermarket. Yet you still choose to be part of the group that is responsible for the largest systemic genocide in our planet's history. If you're ok with that, sure whatever, but I'm not going to sugercoat reality for you.

The loss of life caused by these actions are absolutely nothing compared to the animal agriculture industry. We slaughter two billion lives every single week. In comparison, only 100 billion humans have ever lived in the entire history of our planet. The loss of life is incomparable to anything else that has ever happened in earth's history, including every mass extinction event. There is no excuse or justification for this other than completely not giving a shit.

There is no point. Objectively, at least. Life is what you make of it. Just have fun and express your creativity. Maybe invest in Leo's life purpose course.

There has only ever been a single definition of veganism, and that is someone who abstains from any and all animal products. You cannot have systemic genocide with "compassion and honour". There is no "method" that respects their life. And don't bring up this plant feeling nonsense.

So you have no basis for anything you've been saying.