Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 7
This is a nice, chill ambient album from musician Eric Wollo.
If you like this style, he has many similar albums. It makes for good contemplation music.
Over the last 13 years I've read nearly every negative thing that's ever been written or said about me. Why? Because I am serious about feedback. Being open to feedback as you become successful and famous is very important, otherwise you quickly fall into self-deception. Feedback keeps you honest. Surrounding yourself with yes-men is a big trap.
Here's the biggest thing I learned from being a public figure and dealing with near-daily criticism for 13 years:
The key is to be non-reactive. As soon as you react emotionally, you've failed. As a public figure, you will get criticized a lot, no matter what you do. You will never please everyone. Many will love you, and some will hate you. Low consciousness, low development people will try to bait you into traps. The trap is emotional reactivity. You will be tempted to react to their negativity, judgment, ignorance, gaslighting, immaturity, low intelligence, and unconsciousness. The key is to not even take their negativity seriously. Whatever you do, if you react emotionally, you've failed the test. Don't respond on their level. You have to not be emotionally reactive. However, this does not mean that you don't read or listen to feedback. You take in all the comments, but you never react to it emotionally and you never try to wrestle with negativity. Do not wrestle with pigs because they win just by hijacking your attention and breaking your poise. As any kind of public figure you have to be wise to this mega-trap. Your job is to maintain poise. Poise is a powerful concept in this work. It's a game of maintaining poise.
You need to be open to feedback without breaking poise. That's very challenging because your instinct is to react emotionally. This require years of overriding that instinct just to become non-reactive. The more famous you become, the more ignorant and unconscious people will shit-test you.
But remember, ignorant people will try to abuse your openness to feedback. They will use your openness to gaslight you even further. So this gets very tricky.
I was listening to an expert giving advice on the biggest mistakes in fiction writing. I found it amusing when he said the biggest mistake is to end your story with, "it was all just a dream". People get pissed when a book or a film ends that way. Why? In his words, "Nothing happened. It undermines any sort of consequences. There has to be consequences. We go all the way back to square one and it's as if the book never happened."
It's so funny that that is exactly how your life works.
The denial of the dream goes so deep that people are even upset when they see it in fiction. Imagine how upset they will be when they realize that their life ends that way.
How ironic that Truth is too strange to be believable in fiction.
Imagine a scientist realizing that all of science was just his personal dream. What a self-own.
So whatever you do, don't you dare include Awakening in your fiction.
What kills fiction? Truth.
This is a nice explanation of the racial origins of Hindus, clearing up old myths.
This is an AI-generated video. This is not actually Richard Feynman speaking. I don't like sharing AI videos. However, the content of the speech is so good that I had to share it. It is a profound explanation of the speed of light. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rayman for the PS1 is one of my favorite games of all time. It was one of the games that got me into game development as a kid. It is one of the best platforming games ever made. The art style is just magical.
I recently discovered that there exists a player made re-make of Rayman for the PC. It recreates the entire game from the ground up in a new engine but plays just like the original. But it also adds additional extras like widescreen, various resolutions, and various other things like extra gameplay options, extra levels, extra bosses, new difficulty modes, a level editor, and more. And it's free! You can download it below.
Rayman Redemption Level Editor
I was amazed that one guy made this.
Wrote 8,000 words today. Words fly. Writing is easier than making new videos. My videos require hours of exhausting contemplation. Writing doesn't.