Leo Eckl

Hello everyone, I'm Leo, 18 y.o. and from Germany. I finished high school in May with a very good degree and have basically my whole life in front of me. Being very sportive (various sports, especially triathlon for 10 years) since I was three years old and thus a "naturally" extremely ambitious person all my life, I got into entrepreneurship almost two years ago, joined a start-up for 8 months (besides school, haha) and then got into the self-improvement section. So much about my backstory, now to my current situation and vision: I live at my parents' home (we have an amazing atmosphere at home) and wonder what I should do to live the best life possible. This thought used to be an obsession, now I can see it with greater distance. I think that self-mastery, self-actualization, enlightenment are probably the most rewarding paths to go after and I am willing to do whatever it takes to make the best out of my life (sometimes my ego might not :P) including following the most unconventional routes. I thought about going all-in on spirituality since I felt like anything else would become irrelevant after enlightenment. As Leo has already pointed out in one of his videos, this is not the case. Considering my physical future, I'm currently building up my Personal Brand in the Self-Improvement section on Social Media (esp. YouTube) and am going to study Psychology in November. My highest vision is to create an environment that allows me to grow as effectively as possible (including mentors, scientists, the material, etc.). I am willing to document all of this and to inspire the masses with it so that self-mastery becomes the ultimate goal an individual in society has. This is my life purpose and I am 100% sure about it and I'm not wavering about it. To put it in a nutshell: I focus entirely on living the best life/mastering myself (since I believe it's the most rewarding thing we can go after [this includes spirituality]) and want to make a living off it through inspiring others and sharing my knowledge & experiences. (over the long term, I want to outsource any content production etc. so that I don't have to put any energy into inspiring the world and to use all of it to focus on my own growth) My question is now: How strongly should I focus on the secular stuff and how much on the spiritual stuff? On the one hand I feel like becoming enlightened first, completely mastering my psychology etc. would give me everything I will ever want and everything after that would just be a funny game to play and on the other hand I look at all these decades I have ahead of me and I feel like I can do it both simultaneously, so I would document my journey and all that towards enlightenment and self-mastery, which would probably be more inspiring than popping out of nowhere and then starting to build it from scratch. I'm asking here because I imagine here are a lot of highly conscious people (Hi Leo!), who can give me high-quality advice on that (and also don't feel like I'm talking about some fairy tale, haha). Thanks for your help! - Leo

@ajasatya Thank you so much! I feel extremely blessed to be born in this body and in this environment Thanks for your advice on enlightenment, I kind of felt that way.

Given the goal of self-actualization/self-mastery, which practice or method would you recommend implementing as a daily habit after meditating for over 4 months 2 x 30 minutes every day?

I believe this is a reply to my other topic, right? Thanks, I'll go for self-inquiry first and then it will probably merge with contemplating other things. This forum is amazing!

That was one of thoughts, too. But I feel like it has more to do with the truth of existence than myself. Wouldn't be focusing on myself better to begin with? Self-inquiry for example like shadow work?

That sounds great, I'll look for a philosophy online course then. So you would say philosophy and psychology build a great foundation for spirituality and that the spiritual development benefits greatly from the knowledge in the two other fields?

Why should we feel sad? To address the question: I think, social connections are a wonderful add-on for life, but solitude can be equally rewarding.

They don't conflict at all, they are actually synergetic. I wonder how much I should focus on what, especially since I have little experience in the spiritual path. I think my main concern is, that the spiritual path is so much more important than anything else that I would waste my time going after the other more secular things. But maybe that's not true at all since enlightenment etc. is just a realization that you are playing a game, which doesn't mean you don't play the game (well) anymore? I feel like I need someone who is highly spiritually developed to tell me that either everything else but meditation, self-inquiry and so on is garbage or that I should do what I want to do in this world because even after my awakening I will keep on doing it (while developing myself further spiritually). Thanks for the response as well as future ones!