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I'm sold! Looking forward to it

In one of Leo's recent videos, he mentioned he was going to do an episode on non-violent communication. I wanted to get ahead and see what the fuss was about before he made the episode, and found this gem: It's a 3 hour video, so a great time killer for us self development nerds. Seriously this has already totally changed my way of thinking about social activities and how we relate to people for the better. Very keen to see Leo's video on the topic, I think it will make the episode extra juicy having a little bit of extra background knowledge before diving straight in.

@Thought Art im getting through Marshall's audiobook as we speak! I will check out Betty's book, thanks for the rec.

Totally overthinking. Most people just fuck whenever they get the chance. This sexual kung fu stuff is probably not helping. I understand your position, I was the same as a guy in my early 20s too. It took a lot of work to accept and understand that I was deeply sexually repressed and ashamed. At least that was my situation, yours is likely different. Start by totally accepting your current situation, and start making identity-level changes to become the type of person you want to be sexually.

You can do both. Minimalism just means to have a really tight core circle of possessions. Just have a small but classy wardrobe.

@Leo Gura Then how else do these crimes get exposed? Sometimes we gotta reach into the crocodile's mouth to pull out the truth, right?

Elden Ring was great when it came out, but it's been like a year and a half since I played it. Jumping back into my old character into this new content felt so weird. I'd need to play through the whole game from scratch then do the DLC to enjoy it and I don't want to spend that time.

Love it. Good ol' classic violence. No need for any of this NVC stuff 😂 I would miss out on the joy of smashing a windshield in if I asked myself what needs the coffee purchaser was subtly expressing first.

@NightHawkBuzz These things are indeed a painful part of life that we live and die by, that's true. As a hypothetical: Let's say I believe that the world was created by an angel or good spirit, because the world contains food, air, water, friends, lovers, nature, happiness? Shouldn't that argument be equally valid? What would you say to me if I believed that? It seems to me that the existential nature of the universe is so much more fundamental than good and evil. It occurs way prior to any of that.

@NightHawkBuzz It breaks my heart that this idea has infected your mind. It's so coloured by this idea of good and evil when the reality is these concepts are moral constructs built by culture to maintain stability. The world was created long before good and evil were ever invented, therefore the idea that a 'devil' created the world makes no sense. It's putting the cart before the horse.

@Leo Gura Do you remineralize or supplement your RO?

@Leo Gura I think in this case Leo is speaking directly towards using meditation for awakening. If a few minutes of meditation a day improves your quality of life then of course go and do it.

I really enjoyed Leo's latest video. Fantastic breakdown and examples. I want to open a thread listing as many traps as we can, I challenge you to think of 20 unique traps and post them on this thread. The more raw examples the better, you might stumble on something important that someone else might not have ever considered. I'll start: 1. Being an employee. While sometimes necessary, you lose a degree of personal agency and self-reliance. You become dependent on the employer for basic survival. 2. Getting a bad cosmetic surgery, example a bad hair transplant. 3. Exploiting your clients. Taking advantage of their ignorance for short term benefit. It will ruin the relationship over time. 4. Buying too many physical products. Not being a minimalist. 5. Not looking after your health especially at a young age 6. Time wasting 7. Not maintaining your family and social circle 8. Moving to a new city or country too hastily without a plan 9. Failing to do pre-mortems 10. Getting involved in business or drama with shady characters and gangs 11. Doing anything you can't take back, but you want to 12. Having people dependent on you, when you are not yet ready for the responsibility. Kids, employees, family members, romantic partners 13. Getting addicted to substances or habits 14. Failing to deconstruct an ideology or belief system before you subscribe to it 15. Working for and becoming financially dependant on a company that does not share your personal values or morality 16. Taking on more projects and clients than you can handle 17. Taking what people say literally as fact, and not investigating their emotional state or social games 18. Buying or renting a bad property 19. Not taking the time to listen to your body or emotions 20. Giving up forever on sex, money, spirituality or health.

Love this one too

Love this contemplation. Recent experiences on psychedelics have really shown me the limits of my human mind. It feels a bit irritating and frustrating to be stuck at a relatively underdeveloped stage compared to hyper-mind. I'm stuck stupid for now. Curious if anyone other than Leo has experienced these things? It seems well beyond a breakthrough psychedelic experience.

There are too many assumptions in this line of questioning. Is entering the black hole mean the event horizon, or the singularity? No amount of scientific theorizing or thought experimenting will explain the experience of falling into a black hole. It's too alien from anything our minds currently know. How would infinite time dilation and spatial compression effect conciousness? It's like trying to explain psychdelics to someone using only words and chemistry formulas. You'll have to jump into one to actually find out 😉

Amazing. AI is such an awesome technology. It's very interesting to compare different models. Asking the same questions to claude 3 vs GPT-4 gives very different results. Thanks for introducing me to Claude, it's much less self-censoring than GPT-4. Does anyone else have recommendations for good models to talk to? I've gotten frustrated with GPT-4 and it's passive answers, it will do everything to avoid giving an opinion. I find a lot of AIs just agree with what I say, I would love to find an AI bot that is specifically trained to deconstruct and poke holes in your arguments.

My father has diagnosed schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. I would never give him psychedelics without extensive medically assisted preparation and studies into how it would interact with his prescribed medications. I don't know to what extent his mental illnesses were genetic. I do not know if having heritable schizophrenia on the mother's or father's side is more concerning. I suspect that my father's mental illness was more onset by trauma he faced in his military service, rather than as a genetic predisposition. You sound smart and careful in your post OP. Like myself, you are starting with a threshold dose and have a good background in personal development. I am also a very grounded person. I have done roughly a dozen trips, all at small to medium doses. Solo, without a trip sitter. I have not yet done a heroic dose. All of these trips have been extremely positive and enlightening. I did have one challenging trip on LSD, however I blame that on my poor preparation and set & setting. I was in a depressive, lonely mood and stupidly thought psychedelics was the way out. However that difficult experience gave me a very healthy appreciation for these substances, and I will never make that mistake again. All of this is to say, if you act responsibly, you should be fine. If you are not dealing with any mental illness symptoms currently, then in my experience you will be ok to take psychedelics. I would recommend everyone to start with a threshold dose just to get used to the experience. Build up very slowly as you go. There is no benefit jumping into the deep end without a good base of experience in moderate doses. If you do ever begin to notice mental illness symptoms in your sober life, I would immediately discontinue psychedelic use and speak to a psychiatrist.

@SQAAD You need to test your substances before you consume them. Use an Ehrlich reagent. Have you watched Leo's or any other videos on how to use psychedelics properly? It should be obvious double dosing on the same day or while sleep deprived is not going to produce the best results. Come on mate, do your research. Treat this stuff with the respect it deserves. You can seriously traumatize yourself for life with reckless ill-prepared trips. Or you can seriously enhance your life with well-prepared trips. Your choice...

Been on the search for stage yellow businesses as inspiration for my own business. Some of these might not be totally yellow, I don't know their internal workings, but for what they proport to be online it's a good start. Here's a few of my favorites: Ben & Jerry's Unilever Patagonia Novo Nordisk Interface Inc Danone teamharvey.co bcorporation.net If it qualifies as a B-corp, it's probably stage yellow.

Failure leads to learning. Learning leads to success.

Interesting, I've never thought to do this. New is always better

Just English for me. I've no desire to learn other languages unless I wanted to move to a non-English speaking country.

Hello, I've found myself in a very difficult point in life. I've finally realized that I have been deeply struggling with depression & anxiety for last 6 months or so. I'm doing my best in my everyday life to make things better like sleep/exercise, but it's not yet gotten me the results I want. I have tried microdosing in the past and it has worked well, the problem is psychedelics are very expensive and difficult for me to come by. I am asking if anyone here has tried both for managing depression and self-isolation and has any anecdotal advice about which they prefer. I've never tried anti-depressants so I don't know what to expect. I also don't really want to be reliant on an illegal substance, it's a bad strategy. Does anyone here had exceptional results from one or the other? Thanks friends,

Hi, may I please respectfully question why you are using cannabis as a tool to understand your cannabis addiction? That sounds like a bad strategy. Even if you found some success - you found it via cannabis, which only further strengthens your need for it. I suggest you pick up some other daily activity as a cannabis replacement and compare your experience. Gym / swimming / meditation / hiking, whatever you like. It sounds like your real problem is that you are unsure if your relationship to cannabis is good or bad for you. You need to answer that question definitively and finally.