Optimism is powerful.

[Danioover9000]

 While these are great talks, and are so stage yellow, I think these types of people underestimate how powerful optimism really is. I actually think Daniel Schmachtenberger is underestimating it's power, along with open mindedness:

   I just really hate this blind belief and worship of these hyper intellectual geniuses whilst not really understanding or appreciating what they're talking about.

[quantumspiral]

Being as brutally realistic as possible in assessing the global situation is probably best.

Objective optimism is useful when applied to your own life in particular however.

[Danioover9000]

@quantumspiral

13 minutes ago, quantumspiral said:

Being as brutally realistic as possible in assessing the global situation is probably best.

Objective optimism is useful when applied to your own life in particular however.

   That's what I mean, objective optimism applied to one individual life. Very powerful. I'll die to the death arguing for how powerful optimism is. I don't like how Daniel Schmachtenberger tries to downplay how powerful it is!

[Danioover9000]

@quantumspiral    I also disagree with Daniel Schmachtenberger's framing of that agricultural cultures and all that. Firstly I think there's pre-agriculture hominids, not just homo sapiens and Neanderthals, but Denisovans also existed. There could be a few more hominids, and that's not factoring in Big Foot and Yeti like creatures yet. I think through natural selection, cross breeding, warfare amongst those hominid species we ended up like this today. I think Schmachtenberger was over simplifying that part of human history which IMO was crucial for the future human species!

[Schizophonia]

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[Danioover9000]

   Also I really hate how they straw man my boi Genghis Khan. Hate the Mongolian empire, but it's just the way it is, in terms of environment and geography, among several other factors that led to Mongolia being ruthless. I don't blame them or assign moral blame like Daniel Schmachtenberger or this Nate guy does. Also hate how they're describing Moloch or maybe Malek given the dark shit of magical ritual they did in the Gehenna  region, live burning children:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj98tvW0OiGAxUPVEEAHdAWCzYQFnoECDUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMoloch&usg=AOvVaw0s5KtE-bpxrg2e1u6qZfnT&opi=89978449

   Also Mongolia is a decent civilization in Civ 5 and Unciv to play, faster conquest of city states and strong bonuses to warfare. Sorry but if you can't militarily defend yourself, all that stage yellow talk talk will not defend yourself against a Genghis Khan that wants your people and lands. Same with Alexander the great albeit some key details left there, and especially Ceaser and the Roman empire IMO far more brutal than Mongolia. Mongolia is just that good with horseback riding and archery while riding horses, no tribe could do that, maybe the Commanche and their horse riding style...

[Danioover9000]

   I actually got angry, I wish I had the time stamp, maybe in the case study of conquerors Daniel mentioned stuff about the spreading of Christendom. I'm sorry but hard disagree because what was the alternative Schmachtenberger??? Caliphate Islam??? You mean that religion that destroys idols, cultural statues, art works, that practice massive slavery of others??? Yeah hard disagree here man!