I want to share my situation here as it's the only place that it feels worthwhile to share it to. And I only have a couple of friends that I feel comfortable sharing things like this with. I discovered nofap at 14, that marked the start of my self-improvement journey. I'm almost 19 now and I feel like I've hit the knee of the exponential growth curve. What can happen in a short amount of time now is absolutely baffling. During the ~5 years of my self-improvement, and about 3yr of more hardcore self-improvement I'm finally starting to reap visible rewards. I completely broke off my porn addiction about 8 months ago. Really defeated it, fully. I don't have urges. Porn simply feels pointless. Since then the growth in my life has been increasingly accelerating. I am proud of my body, I look great. I feel absolutely grounded most of the time. Detached from the approval of people. I feel increasingly authentic. I feel like I've built the infrastructure to allow anything to be possible. It's only a matter of committing to something. I meditate, I go to the gym, I train martial arts, I eat well, I feel grounded and confident, I work with people 20+ years older than me, I read, I learn. I feel so good sometimes it's ridiculous. The possibilities feel so big and real it's absurd. Leo's videos were a main source for my lifestyle. I got an 1-year "internship" to what's almost like my dream job. Recently I got applied to non-military service for 1 year at an organization that's focusing on national security. Think of it like an internship for a year. Now, I come from a lower-middle class family with nothing too special going on. This place is fucking crazy. The kinds of people I see here are the kinds I've never seen before. Ambassadors, generals, ministers, all kinds of politicians and high-ranking military personnel. I signed an NDA the first week I was there. The intelligence service at my country did an security investigation on me. I JUST GRADUATED FUCKING HIGH-SCHOOL. Where people were only focused on drinking and stupid-ass drama. Then all of a sudden I'm working alongside people with careers in politics, national security, intelligence, journalism. I've been warned multiple times about being an interesting prospect for foreign intelligence cervices as I'm a young and new employee. The security protocols at this place are crazy, and what's more crazy is that these people fully trust me with them. I feel like I'm being treated like an adult for the first time in my life.  I wouldn't have been able to get this job without working on myself hardcore for multiple years. From high school to living a fucking spy movie in about 5 months. I feel like after years of hard work, everything is clicking in to place right now. I feel good. I have so much time left. I feel as though I have a mission. I have a plan for the future. I'm discovering my life purpose. I know where to look. Fuck I'm hyped.  Holistic self-improvement works. Don't stop learning guys. Thank you for listening to my TED-talk.