St Clair

Yeah this is certainly the case. But what I've found is that if you put your own heart and character into the idea, then it will be unique and set apart from the others. I'm the bass player in a band. Our songwriter basically just rips off Nirvana, Iggy and the Stooges, Black Sabbath, and a myriad of other bands. But people still tell us we sound so original and unique. It's because we put our own touch into it. I play bass on a synthesiser. Tommy is a freak on stage. We just fuck around and people love it.

Yep, gladly! My life purpose states: "To master the art of living, and create art that inspires other people to do the same" My overarching domain of mastery is story-telling, and that splits equally into writing mastery and piano mastery. I spend most of my day practicing these crafts and creating and sharing art out of them. I compose tunes and make Youtube videos to share them. I write stories from my own experience and share them on my blog. For the long term, I'm working on novels to publish as well. The essence of my life purpose is to live a rich and fulfilling life, and tell my story through art. My blog is basically just my auto-biography as I live, and is where I can share all my deepest insights and wisdom. My music is the trojan horse for the ordinary people - the idea is to become a jazz piano master. I just want to show the ordinary people that following the heart is how one can become brilliant at what they do and is where true innovation happens. As for the boy scouts and the kung fu, these are just huge pillars of my past that help me understand and cultivate my true character. Kung fu is all about being a warrior, following the heart and fighting for good. Scouts is all about adventure. If you are interested in getting more details, I discuss all these ideas in my blog. I'm actually just up to the part in the story where I had just discovered and launched my life purpose, but it was a big failure, because I still had 6 months of college classes to attend - college classes which I was absolutely not interested in. https://joshuastclair.blogspot.com/2018/08/chapter-2-warrior-adventurer-artist.html I'd love to hear about your progress with your life purpose. All the best!

@Amy Irene I absolutely love meditation in nature! One of my favourite things. I don't see many people endorsing it though, telling you things like "you don't need to go anywhere to do spirituality". But in my own experience, one of my top top values is Adventure, and I love to integrate adventure into my spiritual practice to make it a more enjoyable experience. So I would take my meditation practice to the forest, up to the top of a mountain, to the side of a lake, etc, and I would merge with the harmony of nature in a sense. It feels like I am absorbing the Qi of this amazing place I am in, discovering the essence, finding the inspiration, and empowering my art/life as a result. It feels like I'm making more progress in my practice too. In fact, I am adventurous with all of my good habits - exercise, journalling, contemplation, reading - all of these can be taken out to nature, as a creative way to implement them into my life AND enhance the practice. To me, I feel like this is adding a very magical touch to my self actualisation, but I think I am seeing it this way because 'Adventure' is one of my top values. Perhaps you could find ways to integrate your value system into your practices to enhance them. But as a general statement, I couldn't recommend practicing in nature enough! But also, I was living in the most EPIC/beautiful place in my country - I couldn't simply sit on a cushion in my room when the nature outside was so abundant and alive!

Hey Sari, I would say to definitely pursue your own investigations and studies regarding personal development. Gain your wisdom from direct experience and actually doing the personal development yourself. If you go about it this way, your insights will be original and from your own heart. Your own uniqueness and approach to the matter is the most powerful thing. It will set you apart from all of the others who are pursuing a similar career path. As for your college, I'd say look into studying something that is more pertaining to a medium that you can drive the personal development through. For example, if you enjoy film making, study film making, and then you can make films about personal development. And whatever it is you choose to study, also make sure to do your own efforts and investigations into it as well. If you focus on mastery and develop up your skills, then you are setting yourself up for later. If it turns out that the college major ends up being obsolete in regards to where you want to take your life purpose, it will be okay because you have the training/skills and not just some models/ideas/some words on a paper that 'qualify' you. I'd say mastery is a WAY better qualification. And also, just to give you a bit of insight into making the right choice on your major, I would recommend digging deep into your past. In my case, I took Leo's life purpose course and it was incredibly helpful. But it took me only 70% of the way. The other 30% was a case of me really digging into my childhood self, and seeing what he was doing. He was a writer, a musician, a boy scout and a kung fu martial artist. I took these things and synthesised them into my life purpose. Essentially, my mediums for my life purpose are writing and music, and I use boy scout (Adventure) and kung fu (Warrior) as a means of life mastery, to generate my own wisdom/insights, and empower my work in writing and music. So look into your past and you might get more clarity as to how to proceed both with your life purpose and with the major you will choose. I hope I helped you with your life purpose journey. All the best!

I know how you feel. One time I took LSD at a party - biggest mistake ever. I became aware that it was precisely where I was NOT meant to be. Everybody was in groups, all looking exactly the same (fashion trends), talking about drama gossip and nonsense. I had absolutely nothing to say to these people. But actually, I had everything to say - only if they wanted to listen. I couldn't relate to them that night because I was trippin balls. But when I'm sober and I'm talking with ordinary people, I just ask questions about themselves. People love talking about themselves, so just ask them questions about who they are and what they do, and listen. You don't even need to say a word - just listen. Even if you aren't interested in their petty things, still listen. Very few people these days know how to listen. And so if you really listen to people and what they want to say, they will be so thankful, and will consider you a trustworthy person and a friend. Later on, they might see that you are a thriving yet humble human being, and the daring will want to discover more. Also if you watched Leo's video on the matter, it could be a case of sameness vs difference. See the samenesses you have with these people, and you might be able to relate a bit better. You might be surprised.

Leo is such a strategic motherfucker that Leo expects to be on his deathbed tomorrow!

I see it in a more basic sense in that we can choose to ignore these things, thus making them non-existent to our awareness. It can be explained with smart phones and social media. If you are browsing News sites, reading articles about terrible atrocities in the world, travesties on mankind, school shootings, terrorism, etc, then your smartphone will pick up on that and feed you will all of the same shit. It will be in the ads, the recommended videos and everything else. Your smartphone and social medias will be absolutely crawling with this nasty material that only makes you feeling helpless and depressed. Instead, you could choose to watch videos and read articles on spirituality, Truth, turquoise teachings, masters, content related to your life purpose, etc, and your smartphone and social media will become a trove of wisdom. Use the smartphones' algorithms in your favour and outsmart the technology that they designed to keep people stuck in life. There is a precise reason "the news" only feeds you bad news.

I would choose an adventure before a practice. Adventures are super powerful in my opinion. You might discover something in New York, maybe find some treasure, maybe stumble upon some deep inspiration or insight, maybe meet a main character in your life story... you never know. And you never would know if you stayed at home. It depends on whether or not you value new experiences over your disciplined routine. Also, you could always find creative ways to fulfil your practices while on your trip - that's the fun part!

Yeah I see it like this. When you adjust your mentality , you’ll see that tribulations arent bad at all - they are there to test you. And in years to come , all these things that seemed negative at the time will be recontextualized. You’ll realise they happened precisely as they were meant to. An example from my own experience. This year I went all out on my life purpose in writing and music, pouring all my time and energy into it. I reached June and all of my savings had been whittled to the bottom - I wasn’t getting any revenue from what I was doing, and I needed a job. I was hesistant to get a job because I value my time, but I had no choice. I found the PERFECT job as a support worker for young people with disabilities , helping them integrate into society by getting jobs and their licenses and such: it was a job where I could still satisfy my life purpose by inspiring these kids and encourage them into a rich inspiring life. It felt so perfect. A guy who I do my spiritual practice with worked there, and referred me to management. I passionately made my way through the application process, and made the final job interview , which I absolutely nailed no doubt about it - they were excited to have me on board. The next week, I got a phone call, and they told me they chose somebody else. I was absolutely gutted - I’m sure I was the perfect person for that role!! I was fuming , defeated , upset , and stressed because what the heck was I going to do about my finances? Actually, it was a slap in the face to get me in line. I had committed to my life purpose this year, and yet I still had nothing to show for it. A whole lot of practice and preparation but no ACTION! I’m july I published a 10 pieces of writing and 10 videos on YouTube, sustaining myself off busking alone. Suddenly , I was proactively building my platform for my life purpose and having a ball, but only because I didn’t get that job. Thank God! I was never meant to get that job! I was always meant to build my own.

Design gardens. Everybody needs a garden.

The way I see it is that, the state of the ordinary society can't be so easily disturbed. This is why you see or hear very little about supernormal abilities - they can't be casually displayed to the ordinary people. Ordinary people still haven't transcended the ego, and so if they get hold of such information as they can unlock supernatural abilities by discovering Truth, they will be seeking the Truth only to satisfy their ego self, and will want to use the abilities to make money, bang more hotties, etc. For there to be a right way there has to be a wrong way. Most people don't even recognise there is a "way" at all. They are stuck in cycles. If the Tiger attacks the snake, the snake will want to strike back! But he is no snake - the tiger was an illusion the whole time, and he is just a hamster stepping onto the wheel. He thinks he's being sneaky and manipulative to others. But really, he's only manipulating himself.

@Joseph Maynor Yeah playing jazz is the absolute mintest aye! Just raw expression in the moment. Pure creative control. It was a pretty mind-blowing experience when I first took jazz improvisation to the streets to busk with. I could do whatever the heck I wanted - if a kid is looking at me with fascinated eyes, I could lock onto that and play something silly/random/funny, and that kid could very well be the next Herbie Hancock, who knows? @Genghis Khan I'm suuuper passionate about music and this post made me so happy! I play the keyboard and compose music, which has kind of taken a jazzy sound at the moment. But my favourite genre of music is actually 'Soundtrack' music, and I use it for Self Actualisation purposes. "Music directly imitates the passions of the soul.." I discovered this for myself a few years ago, living in Queenstown New Zealand. The place has a landscape similar to what you find in Skyrim, Oblivion, and Guild Wars 2. I was a huuuuge fan of these games, and so I took the music from these games and listened to them while exploring Queenstown. It blew my mind - this was transmitting all of the raw joy I derived from playing these games to "Reality". The music was synthesising with my direct experience of nature, and creating peak experiences. Standing on the top of huge snowy mountains listening to the theme track to Skyrim... lol, it's the most epic fucking thing ever, I felt like a true hero on a heroes journey. It's no joke. As you mentioned, soundtracks are designed to inspire the themes of the film/video game. If you listen to the soundtrack to Avatar while walking in the jungle, you will create for yourself a super magical experience, because the music was originally designed to enhance the feeling of nature and adventure in the movie Avatar (Throw a tab of LSD into the mix and you might even become a blue monkey!) And each soundtrack has a unique touch to it. For example, if you are exploring a desert, you could listen to music that was designed for a game set in a desert. If you are strolling through the town, likely Oblivion would have composed music for when you are in a town. My favourite soundtracks: -Journey OST by Austin Wintory -Ori and the Blind Forest Soundtrack -Avatar Soundtrack -Song of the Sea Soundtrack -Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind -Guild wars Prophecies, Guild wars Factions, Guild wars Nightfall, Guild wars Eye of the South, Guild wars 2 -In fact, anything by Jeremy Soule, he's a genius. If you ask me, I would say that you should try this out if you want to take your Vision Questing to the next level!

@Joseph Maynor From what I have noticed, 98% of it is nonsense. People are just taking the same old shit and just rearranging it. I've seen this with pretty much 98% of what you write here in this forum, it's just the same old "BE-ING this and THE SELF that." You proclaim to be turquoise but I haven't found one thing you have said to be interesting at all. I may as well just read A New Earth by Eckharte Tolle again. Sounds to me like many people here are just a bunch of hard-nosed jazz school students, improvising over the same jazz standards that the grand masters composed, and claiming to be original. Go cultivate your own style, and compose your own music. If reality is infinite, why don't you find your own way to tap into its Majesty.

My advice would be to create excellent videos that are 100% YOU and nobody else, employ consistency and patience, and focus on the mastery of your own life first and foremost. Think long term , and aim for a smaller intimate audience as opposed to a larger audience that is disconnected from you. Imagine that after 10 years of making videos, you attain enlightenment, and continue to make videos. You have found an unexplored niche, and now people are interested. Luckily , you thought about this from the beginning , and have delivered a compelling STORY through excellent and consistent videos from the get go. You said that you want to share your story through a YouTube channel, and how you grow and evolve as a human. The best advice I could give is to go ahead and make something EPIC out of your life - make it an oddyssey both within and without, go on epic adventures, accrue a life’s worth of stories to tell, and combined with mastery of whatever related skill you choose ( maybe speaking, film making , editing ..) your YouTube channel will always be interesting!

Yeah I've experienced this phenomenon first hand. The first time I started busking my music on the street, it was epic, and I had a blast. I made about $75 buckas, and I was absolutely stoked to be earning this much money from just 1 hour of sharing my own music. "My music makes money, yay!" I said as I eagerly collected all the coins. So I went out busking the next day, almost smirking as I played through my whole repertoire. I made $5. I was wondering what the heck went wrong? Did nobody care about my music this time? I was annoyed and upset.. Actually, this mindset was fundamentally flawed. I was playing music to get money is the case... this is backwards. This is cheap music! I realised this and went busking a third time. I sat there, and just breathed for a good 5 minutes, looking around at the mountains and the beautiful lake, looking around at all the families feeding the ducks - it was surreal just to be there in the first place, and here I was in front of my greatest passion, the piano! So then I simply played music for an hour. I didn't care about the money - I was just on the street enjoying playing my own music to the upmost. I made about $50, but the money was now secondary.. I mean, it payed for my favourite burger and a gelato ice-cream afterwards, but the true joy was not in these things. The true joy was in doing what I love, and sharing that with the world. Seeing people smile from something I created was way more powerful than 2 dollars that can buy me another snickers bar.

@non_nothing Fully agree bro! I'm self taught as well, and my primary field of music is composing. I see comments on videos of people saying "there's not enough teaching about composition" .. right, because the best composing is intuitive and thus difficult to teach. I never did ear training, but I didn't need to anyway. I play something that sounds good, something that I like, and so I follow that and eventually have a song. I'd say good composing and music in general is grounded in rich life experience. Not theory, not extensive ear training, and not through a tutor or a teacher.

https://joshuastclair.blogspot.com/2018/08/discovering-life-purpose.html I wrote a story about taking my understanding of life purpose to the next level. I shared it on my social media but nobody on there gives a flying fuck about real life. So, thought I would share it here where it actually might have somewhat of an influence on somebody. Cheeeeers!

Hmm, I think it might be because the piano offers us a traditional and simple structure for understanding the diatonic scale and it’s various interconnections. Maybe they are called ‘keys’ for a reason - keys to access the music scale. Or maybe I’m just being poetic .. Go look into some of the Youtube interviews with Jacob Collier, and you might find a comprehensive answer - he’s a wiz regarding this kind of stuff.

Hmm .. only speculating here, but perhaps it might be another mechanism of your mind that is trying to prevent you from learning new profound teachings ? Afterall, the ego is trying to keep its reign over you, and Leo is the enemy. Sleepiness is a pretty sneaky interference if you ask me.

What is 'low functioning'? A grand master could merely sit there in 'low function' mode, and his presence alone is enough to completely change a mans life. Meanwhile you take some 'high functioning' stage orange ELITE motivational speaker following in Tony Robbins footsteps, and he will spend 40 years of his life constipating bullshit on stage trying to do what a true Master can do effortlessly with one gaze.

Not quite sure what you mean. Anybody can do ear training , doesn’t matter what instrument you play

Hey im glad to hear that I’m not the only who experienced this craziness when constructing a story. It’s weird huh? Id love to share the story, but it might take a few years

Hey guys, first time I've actually posted on here. I just wanted to share an interesting phenomenon that I've noticed in my own life. So, I've been constructing multiple fantasy worlds in my head since I was about 10 years old. When I was 12 I started writing one of the ideas that was on my mind, and managed to produce about 20000 words of the story, but I stopped because I realised how little I knew about the entire story, all the characters, and the world that it was set in. Eventually, it was forgotten. That same story has come up two times since. It was 2 years ago when it just re-appeared in my head, and for a solid 4 months it was the only thing I thought about. Oddly enough, it didn't feel like a story that I was creating. It felt like a story that already existed and I was just discovering how it went. It also seemed weirdly aligned with my own life, and as my mind got more and more involved in this world I was slowly marooning myself into believing that I was the main character. I had an episode of some kind of insanity, and I'm sure it's because I wasn't actually being present with the story and writing it down when it was coming to my mind - I was lost in mind games and my saturated imagination. Anyway, the same story returned 2 weeks ago, and I'm much more in tune with myself to be working on it. And it has been much fun, because I'm realising how the characters and their stories go, using a similar method to what Leo spoke about in his last video : Contemplation using a journal. To tell you the truth, I am blown away and deeply inspired by the characters that exist in my own imagination. Their stories are so fucking heroic, and they do such legendary things to offer salvation to the world, that sometimes when I am making a connection in the story I burst into tears. I idolise imaginary characters that I created. So here I wanted to ask : Is this a normal ability of the imagination that anybody can tap into? Or is this some kind of secret power of my own psyche that I managed to tap into and utilise from a young age?

Ya'll need a video on how to be patient!