Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 43

I'm really into weird creature design. This video showcases all the weird creatures in the Star Wars universe.

This tiny little scene from Return Of The Jedi outside Jabba's Palace with Worrt is one of my favorite scenes in all of Star Wars. It's so understated yet more evocative and inspiring than mountains of bombastic CGI crap. When I saw this scene as a kid is was like discovering a new world:

(The video works, but on YouTube only)

Just from that one 10 second scene I could know that I love creature design. One scene is all it can take to discover your life purpose.

You can turn creature design into a life purpose. You could make a whole YT channel devoted to how you design weird alien creatures and use that as your portfolio and parlay that into a career as a creature design expert for film, games, etc. What a fun career that would be! What is stopping you from becoming the world's leading creature design expert?

Be bold with your life purpose and think outside standard career choices.

One simple duck is the best thing that's happened to chess since Fischer Random.

The genius of the duck revolutionizes chess.

It's amazing how these machines were designed and built before the computer age.

I highly recommend that you teach yourself how to dance.

I don't mean any kind formal dancing. I mean Pure Dance. Pure Dance is spontaneous and unchoreographed.

How do you learn it? Just by doing it over and over again for hundreds of hours. You turn on some music that you genuinely love, you shut off your mind, you feel into it, and you start to move with the feeling. It's all about feeling. This is why women are naturals at dance, because they live in their feelings while men live in their logical minds. So this is harder to learn for men, especially introverted men. But that makes it all the more worthwhile.

The most important thing is to shut off your mind, don't think about how you look, don't try to look cool, don't try to copy others' moves, but just FEEL and move to your feelings. Pure Dance is about surrender to your feelings, to your body. If you do this you will start to invent your own dance moves and you will build dance skill. But it takes lots of practice and experimentation. Practice in the shower. Keep doing this over and over again for hundreds of hours over the course of a year or two and you will eventually become good. And then you'll have this skill for the rest of your life. Don't go asking someone else to teach you how to dance. Let your feelings teach you. Invent Pure Dance for yourself.

This is one of those soft skills that no one teaches you growing up, but it's so powerful for dealing with women. You can use dance to guide a woman's emotions and moods. But beyond that, it's powerful just for yourself.

Pure Dance is a test of your ability to feel. Are you able to take the stick out of your own ass? That's not as easy as it seems — to be able to do it sober, at will — especially if you are a serious intellect.

Note: A trap here would be to develop a choreographed dance routine. You have to let that go and develop spontaneous dance skill, which is a different thing.

This channel has some amazing videos about General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and theoretical physics. I recommend you watch them all. They are some of the best explanations of physics you'll ever find.

It's important that you understand some of the fundamental insights at the heart of General Relativity, because relativity has much broader implications in epistemology and metaphysics. It's important that you understand that distance, time, velocity, position, and rotation are relative.

The physical length of material objects is relative because the very notion of "length" is a human construct! Length is not a discrete notion because length is so entangled with the speed of light. Length cannot exist by itself without light! Because the only way you can know that anything has length is through light. To understand this is fucking profound.

It's astounding that people believe that their morality, worldview, and epistemology is not relative when science says that length, time, and velocity are relative. Physical space is relative! Yet Christians believe that their religion and morality is not relative. Physical space is relative! Yet scientists believe that their science is not relative. Physical space is relative! Yet progressives believe that the wrongness of racism is not relative. What an intellectual embarrassment.

Humans are so disconnected from reality. The implications of General Relativity are so radical, yet nobody understands them or takes them seriously. Relativity is baked into the very fabric of space-time, yet humans go around acting like their stupid human constructions and narratives are not relative. The blindness and incoherence is stunning. You really believe that your view of reality, your ideology, your morality, your spirituality, your science, your philosophy, is in any way absolute or objective?

Humans are not intellectually serious creatures.

Don't overlook how corrupting pure success is. The more success you get, the more out of touch and delusional your mind gets, as you get both insulated from survival and at the same time entirely dependent on one narrow kind of survival which brought you your success. Your ego will use your success to rationalize its own greatness and illusions to itself. If ego got you this far, how can ego be wrong? If illusions got you this far, how can they be illusions?

And as you gain success you will start to socialize with other successful people who are doing the same thing as you, so you will all rationalize together about how great you are and how valid your worldview is. And as you are starstruck by famous successful people, you will take their delusional and immature ideas seriously, because they are even more successful and famous than you. After all, how can the world's most famous, admired, and successful people be wrong? And just to maintain friendship with these famous people you will have to serve them, benefit them in some way. So you will not want to say or even think anything that challenges or questions their authority and position in society, since as soon as you do, they will get offended, outraged, and cut you off. And they will tell all their successful and famous friends that you are bad, since you are a traitor their class.

And so, in this way, you will become profoundly corrupt and disconnected from reality. Nothing is a more potent source of self-deception and fantasy than success. The ego will use success to insulate itself from truth. Who cares about truth when you got endless success and endless access to circles of successful and famous people?

The suffering that comes with failure forces you to confront your illusions, fantasies, and false ideas. Success has the opposite effect, lulling you into sleep. This is why the world's most successful and famous people are some of the most delusional. In many cases their success was built on a foundation of delusion. Famous people are not famous because they are the most developed, mature, conscious, intelligent people, but because they have created a deep illusion around themselves, which they are now obligated to maintain, since their would life would lose all meaning if they stopped. And of course, such people are not even conscious enough to understand that this is their existential situation. They are just lost in success.

Notice that this profound issue is not taught anywhere. Nobody in school, university, the business world, or the celebrity world teaches you about this trap, so you won't even know it exists. The reason they don't teach it is because they are too unsuccessful to know about it, or they are too successful to care about it.

In this way the world is run by sick and corrupt minds.

Whether you are rich or poor, famous or not, your mind is not free. The mind is corrupted by both poverty and wealth, failure and success. So this is way deeper than anyone understands. Anywhere you turn, any path you take, corruption will haunt you. Corruption will follow you into the boardroom, into the nightclub, into the cubicle, into the church, into the classroom, into the laboratory, into the White House, into podcasting, into the bedroom. Corruption sleeps in your bed.

That is the genius of the Devil.