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What is your reasoning behind that?

@Leo Gura Can you, please, share some bits of your protocols? I remember you wanted to do that in your post 30 days retreat notes

How do you know that? From the outside it seems like they identify A LOT with their bodyminds

ENTJ also make the most money out of all types

Personally I think he is yellow too (I've read his books)

Concentraion (focus) Observation (mindfulness) Charisma and persuasion Ability to take action Business, marketing and sales skills Thinking in systems Strategizing and productivity Creativity (Industriousness, putting stuff into the world) Mastery (Set of skills in some narrow domain) Managing emotions, mental skills (refers back to charisma aswell) Sex and attraction Relationship savvy skills Leadership Household

In my opinion, you should have something like that. In my experience, this is more about self-esteem than it is about believing some crazy shit. It's more like you believe in yourself and your ability to do stuff and that the universe will ultimately optimize for greater good

Just ditch her. You look pretty young, I assume she must be pretty young too, no point to chase some immature girl who thinks with her vagina and not with her heart, think about opportunity cost

I noticed many people hate Tony Robbins a lot and they associate being a coach with doing stuff that Tony Robbins does

How to better overcome practical obstacles when being a leader pursuing your LP. How to deal with unconscious people, people who doubt your vision, naysayers, people who sabotage you or try to waste your time, stuff like that. Insights on how to be more persuasive are welcomed too

I think sports can be rather spiritual. It all depends on how you approach it yourself. The center of gravity in our society, though, is the sport is very unspiritual right now. You'll have to be brave enough to be unique and "different" and forgive other people that they don't know about how to make sport spiritual and for looking at you like you're some quack if you decide to expose yourself as a spiritual athete. I'd suggest to check Ken Wilber's work, he has some interesting ideas and models about how to turn sport into meditation and access different states of consciousnes (what you call flow). I'd also suggest reading "Zen body being" by Peter Ralston. He has some profound insights about connection of bodymind too. He is enlightened guy who has very good Martial Arts background, which you would probably considers sports aswell. I think these can be very helpful and enlightening

@Chakra Lion Very profound story, you seem to have a rollercoaster childhood, I feel for you man. Nice to hear that you have a happy marriage after the example your parents gave you. So you guys are not a monogomous couple?

Health, improving your cognitive performance, improving image (as well as self-image), improving physical endurance, improving your psychological tolerance to stretch yourself, self-nourishing

Do some shadow work, bro

Try to not ejaculate every time you have sex. Do small bets of not cumming and see how it works for you

So what changed practical-speaking wise?

So basically you found a "why" for exerting this power into the outter world?

I'm almost in the same exact situation as you, brother, you're not alone! I even opened a thread recently which is very simillar to yours. I think the solution is to not cast the pearls before the swines as Jesus said. In this case, our relatives are big swines.

How to not feel overwhelmed with all this work?

That shit is so twisted. How do we craft a conscious LP then? By clinging to our egotistical ideals and inspirations?

Just want your opinions\perspectives on this. I have a few close relatives of old age (50-80) who love to moralize and project their authority a lot, trying to give all sorts of "useful" advice on what I should do with my life. They basically pissed their lives in the toilet, not achieving anything significant in their lives, working on standard jobs for their whole life, getting married in their 18-22 years with instantaneous kids and miserable marriages, having mortgages and not doing anything creative or remarkable at all and they were not trying to do so in any way. In other words, they made a shit ton of strategic blunders and lived rather unconsciously For the last 20 years or so, they were just watching TV, getting fat from poor nutrition they eat and having constant meaningless fights with their relatives\children and health problems. I wouldn't say they have a good education either. They seem to have finished a college in their youth and their education seemed to stop after that. Now they have almost zero critical thinking. Recently I've been very persistently getting offered a marshmallow dessert with words: "Marshmallow is actually a pretty dietary food, they are actually good for you, I've heard it in TV, come, try it, bro." - I flipped a packaging and showed the nutrition facts to them, these marshmellows contained 80 carbs, from which, 79 were from sugar. Basically, it is just sugar bombs, no other component, just empty calories. When my relative saw it, she got in a denial about it, he defended a guy from TV and said that she knows better (she is 100 kg+ overweight) and that government lies about this kind of stuff... They moralize with such certainty and conviction, it baffles you, especially in those type of situations They try to give me all sorts of advice, ranging from how should I approach my career, how should I behave in my relationship (they had the most miserable marriages I've ever seen in my life), how should I use my money (they were broke the whole life) to when should I have kids with my spouse (as soon, as possible, of course). They preach conventional education a lot, when, at the moment, I've decided to go full autodidact mode, hardcore, as I see it will be more beneficial for my current LP, as colleges don't teach many important topics or teach them poorly and I'm pretty good with self-learning. The most frustrating thing is that for the last 2 years or so I've been reading 2 books per week on average, and before that, I was consistently reading 1 book per week. I usually read pretty quality stuff and value my education very highly. Although now I try to read fewer books and contemplate more, as books seem to give me diminishing returns, lately and I do a lot of other stuff as well. But at this point, I have a hinch that I've read more books and consumed more educational material than these relatives of mine for their entire lifetime of 60-70 years (a big part of that is thanks to internet globalization, making it so easy to access quality books). So, their talk on being educated triggers me a lot, considering how unconsciously and unremarkably they lived their lives. They draw authority from their age, the length (not quality) of their marital status, their family and tradition. When I talk with them about LP, it appears they had one, which was to have children and make a family, which they, seemingly have completed. They speak about it as though it is the most important thing in life (it is, of course, for them) and they project that into me as well, that I should share their values and get a child asap. And everything else then will magically be figured out. They make it seem although cumming into the vagina is a very difficult task. Looking at them, you could easily said that this LP didn't work for them, they lived quite miserable (in terms of suffering) and meaningless, unfulfilling lives, they would often talk how they are depressed and how many regrets they have (But I can avoid repeating their regrets by doing exactly the same thing they did in their lives!) and they would often be very needy of attention of their children (well, no surprise, given how much they identified themselves with family) How do you guys approach these situations, or rather, this type of people and what do you do? It seems like a classic clash between Blue meme worldview and Higher memes. But what do you do, in practice? Especially if they are part of your family? How to approach these situations skillfully?

Yeah, very profound book. Not just writing these sentences but actually living those concepts can definitely change your life for the better. I highly recommend reading the book

I agree with you Imo, it happens with younger generation for a good reason. All evolution happens basically through the younger generation, Young people have fresh ideas on how to live life better and they can change the world when they become adults. Many fail, but those who persevere through the obstacles, including the old paradigm locks of elders - become leaders and role models for future generations. Of course, not saying that all new equals good by default. I think the question is - how to persevere in a more conscious, less destructive manner, while still not letting them and their shitty beliefs (I don't believe all old people have shitty beliefs, but many do) hold you down in your life.

@drmiller100 I don't doubt they do, but at this point their love becomes very toxic and the output of how they show it makes me worse of a person, less capable, less healthy, less loving and more neurotic. Thing is, it's not just about me. I found a lot of people from young generation suffer from this, so it seems like a systemic problem

The problem is the advice is backwards 99.9% of times. If you just take their advice and do the exact opposite of what they are suggesting you'll get the amazing result. I usually get along pretty well with old people I'm not associated with. But not in a case when they are relatives to you. They assume too much authority because of blood link and their old age status. They feel although they are obligated to give you a life advice and push it onto you whether you want it or not