-Rowan

I think in one of Leo's videos he said mushrooms don't have much nutritional value. Cool to read all this advice. I've tried buckwheat for the first time and it is gluten-free and a superfood. So goes really well with a salad. It can replace rice in a meal whilst being much more healthy I didn't know tomatoes increase sleep quota, interesting. Personally, I find having a tonne of Spinach and Rocket and mixed salad in stock. I love good salmon, watering at the mouth just imagining it! For breakfast, I always go with Porridge (I think it's called Oatmeal in the U.S) and put in honey, cinnamon, and a good amount of flax/chia/hemp seeds, Flax and hemp seeds can go into any meal really and they're super healthy, which is great! I aim for 5 pints of water a day. That keeps me fresh and alert through the day. I just buy healthy things when I'm at the supermarket, so even if I have cravings for things, I can't eat them haha. It's funny, moving to the food for energy mindset from the food for taste mindset makes you aware of how much I use food as an emotional crutch. I still do really, if I've been working a lot on a given day I always raid the cupboards for tasty food. Only now I am aware that it's me trying to find emotional support. Does anyone know why Yogi's don't recommend onions? I love cutting them up raw into a salad.

So, I know Leo has said that when you buy the life purpose course you will get all the future updates for free. And since his content has shifted to more spiritual topics there has obviously been a tonne of questions asked about Life Purpose Vs Spirituality all over the forum and in the comments, such as ‘which do I persue’ , ‘how do I blend them’ ‘does enlightenment make my finding my Life Purpose obsolete’ and a tonne of discussions around those things. So, just wondering, will the Life Purpose course be updated to takes this new content into account, will it be updated to answer all these questions? Thanks, Rowan

Hi everyone, I will try and make this as tight as possible for you, it might get long, but any answers from you guys I really appreciate, since you guys know what you're talking about. So, I picked up the electric guitar when I was 10, and naturally, music developed as my main hobby through my school days. Absolutely loved it. learned songs, joined bands, all that stuff. Every subject opportunity to do it in school I took too, right up to the last 2 years before you go to uni (in the U.K, these are called your A-Levels, once you've done those you go off to Uni if you've secured a place). I was really into music production- that's basically the music studio work scene, think of music producers, sound engineers, all those things, to make a band sound good basically. Music was the only thing I knew I really liked when I was searching for university courses. So I went for Music Production, and now I'm in my 2nd year of that. (Just turned 20, Jesus Christ I'm not a teenager anymore ) Since about January, i've been having more and more doubts about whether I actually enjoy Production. For a few years it has been the thing I did outside of school, and now I'm doing it uni, I feel like my passion for it is just going down and down. I don't show a lot of passion on my course and obviously, music and production are intensely competitive, you won't get anywhere if you're not stupidly passionate about it. My uni has amazing music studio facilities, some of the best in the UK, but i don't find myself going into them and using them regularly. As a Uni student, I do have a lot more spare time than most of the population. I have been using this time for self-improvement stuff (daily meditation. reading 10 pages of a book every day, taking notes on Leo's videos, Duolingo, Visualisations and stuff) so I do try and make the most of this time. A lot of uni students just smoke weed all day and go out every night, which obviously I have done and still occasionally go out drinking, but since 1st year I have been more focused on personal development stuff. When I start thinking if I even want to do music production as a career it or not it really gives me doubts. I don't see myself as super passionate as I once was, and as everyone else on the course seems to be really passionate. People have their own websites set up, are working with bands outside uni and involved in all sorts of projects. I did do well last year with 69% average overall, but I just sense that this lack of passion is going to go badly. It's funny, because the stereotypical story of 'finding your passion' is something like a guy goes and does economics at uni because his dad did that, but now he hates it and wants to rebel! So he goes and does photography, art, music I guess what makes the feelings more alienating is the fact I've never heard of any creative types losing passion for their creative stuff. I do a wide range of modules on the course, these are the ones I did last year and am doing this year. Recording 1 Recording 2 Computer Composition and Sound Design 1 Computer Composition and Sound Design 2 Digital Media and the Internet Music Industry and the Internet Audio Technology 1 Object-Oriented Programming for Music Technology Music Theory Musicology of Production Live Music Production Radio Production It's not like I hate music. I've been playing guitar for 10 years now (I still can't believe I'm 20), am a big CD collector, really into a lot of bands! Metal music has been, and still is my favorite. I doubt whether I want to do this after uni as my solid career to master. And because no one else seems to have this doubt, I feel that if I let anyone know I'd just be demonized or judged in some way. When I head into uni it feels like everyone there is totally committed and I'm doubting if I even want to do this. I am incredibly appreciative of the situation I'm in. To have my parents supporting me going to a university, with my health and youth and the quality of life I have compared to the rest of the world, I'm really in the top 1% life quality. But still, It doesn't make these feelings go away. Last week they hit pretty hard, it was like a physical heaviness, chaotic thought spiral, going for some nice food to get some pleasure. When everyone's talking about music production and getting excited, I know what they're talking about and yeah I find it cool obviously since I applied to go to this uni, but these days I just don't feel that excitement for it. Our studios recently got re-done with some awesome new gear, everyone's losing their shit over it and booking it all out, and here I am, when thinking about going into a recording studio for a living, seems like a pretty grim situation for me. I think music and production looks very exciting from the outside, but when you see the pro's locked in a room dealing with musicians and all the technicalities involved and shit, sure for some people that will make them very happy, but I feel so alienated about doubting whether I want to do that for a living, and damn, I'm on a course called Music Production, if I don't want to do Music production as a career then what? The feelings vary for different modules. Even though I was intrested and have done some studio recording in the past, which made me apply to do Music production as a degree, i dont think i want to work in a music studio as a career. It's like, If this isnt your absolute life purpose, it will grind you down. Thats how competetive, hard working, stupidly dedicated music related industries are. You need the life long passion, if you hesistate for a second you're left behind. And that's what I'm doing. Hesitating. What makes me feel this even more is now in my 2nd year you start getting cv's, cover letters, a massive list of companies and all that stuff down to search for a 12 month placement/internship next year. Most available ones will be for music studios, as obviously, my course is music production. I haven't lost complete motivation, as I really want to put the best effort I can into crafting a perfectly tailored proposition to a company based in Umea, Sweden. (I've really wanted to work for them since I heard about the placement system before applying. I've got tonnes of content to be refined into an excellent application. They're based in Sweden, and just for the sake of it I've been doing Swedish on duolingo, not just for that possible placement though, it's a very cool sounding language and similar to English. I'm at 45% haha.) I think I've vented enough, a lot of stuff to take in there for you guys so it's hard. This feeling has only been strongly prominent for a few weeks, but I felt it in my 1st year to0 a little. I feel stuck, I feel maybe I don't belong here, then I think why am I even putting in the effort if I'm doubting if this is what I want to do? It's just strange because I had a big passion for it for years and now being at uni, has really degraded that passion. Is it something to do with regular meditation? Is meditation killing my passion for it? In Uni, I don't like the harsh competitiveness, the judgment you get if you get something wrong, the pressure to be on top of your game. I guess this is good if you know you want to dedicate your life to it, but I'm just doubting it, and that's causing all sorts of issues. Sometimes just talking about it makes me tear up. Sometime's ill cry about it in my room. And I don't know what to make of it, how to process the feelings, how to think about them. To get some relief I like to listen to Alan Watts and other spiritual teachers. Sometimes I just feel like I want to break out of it all. So any advice or help is tremendously appreciated. Thank you so much, really needed to get this off my chest. -Rowan

@Nahm That's weird, I was going to reply to @ajasatya saying that "maybe I just need to take a psychedelic" as a joke, and then you come out with that

@ajasatya Thanks for the response Did you go to college and drop out? How did you make money to travel and do those things?

Hi there, this is my first activity on the forum and I'm really looking forward to contributing to it. I just wanted to ask you guys and Leo, how do you spot bullshit on the forum? I've read a lot of stuff on the forums and sometimes I don't know wether to take it as real or if it's somone just bullshitting away on their keyboard mentally masturbating about spirituality or other topics. Any help will be much appreciated by me and probably a lot of newly joined members in the future, maybe "How to spot bullshit on the forum" could be a sticky? Thank you so much, -Rowan

Thanks Everyone

@Arkandeus Thats very true, I should have thought about that. Maybe there is a little insecure bullshit guard going on with me, I'll be sure to look for quality stuff and truth rather than frantically protect myself from in taking any advice people have. @WaterfallMachine That's really great practical advice, yes, asking those questions would make it easier to see someone's intentions and inner state. Thank you very much guys, I've found my answer here for sure. Is there a reputation system on this forum where I can give you some rep or praise for your answers? Thanks again, -Rowan