Daniel
@dkazand • 4,382 subscribers
CEO Coach | Host of The Metagame: https://t.co/s0UnsKyitR Facilitating inner alignment.
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"It felt like I had died, but I was still alive." BREAKING: Guy facedoxxes on The Metagame We discuss his experiences with Stream Entry, why everything is a skill issue, and why you're constantly being psyopped 0:00 - Why is Guy showing his face now 3:15 - Shitposting is Jungian shadow work 7:25 - Being a weightlifting champion 8:45 - LessWrong and joining Leverage Research 10:15 - What happened at Leverage? 11:55 - Bringing unreasonable intensity to everything 18:00 - Dharma from lucid dreaming 24:00 - "Stream Entry" on the Jhourney retreat 32:10 - Why would u want Stream Entry? 35:09 - What it's like to suffer WAY less 39:40 - Gendlin's Focusing and Jordan Peterson 56:06 - Vasco's Knife: why couples stab each other 1:02:03 - How to stop being Reactive 1:10:14 - Samskaras, Fetters and Self as Hyperprior 1:15:14 - "Feel your feelings" just means "accept reality" 1:22:20 - Manipulation and adversarial epistemology 1:30:00 - Memetic warfare and the need for psyops 1:43:10 - How to do Focusing (psyop protection) 2:00:30 - Transformation can be easy/mundane 2:04:26 - Why safety-maxxing is a good start 2:12:58 - Vasco's book "Alignment Gone Strange" 2:16:03 - We live in "Hyperreality" 2:21:45 - Hyperamericana and BLM protests in Europe 2:26:35 - COVID propaganda, Russians and losing friends to Hyperreality 2:33:00 - How to exit Hyperreality YouTube, Spotify and Apple links in my bio.
Daniel22,089 görüntüleme • 16 gün önce
Your brain isn't built to show you reality. It's built to keep you alive Which means your "experience" is a semi-functional hallucination meant for prediction, not perception Here's neuroscientist Kathryn Devaney on what advanced meditation does to that machinery and what it feels like when it stops 0:00 Kati's story 2:32 The state of contemplative neuroscience 7:23 Nonduality, jhanas, and cessation 15:00 Kati's cessation experiences 21:40 Getting reality on your side 30:02 High ROI "woo" beliefs 35:35 Everything is just a story 37:31 Rewriting the operating system of the mind 44:03 How attention constructs the world 51:08 Groundlessness 1:00:35 How people actually change 1:04:12 How to restart ur meditation practice Look up The Metagame on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. Full episode in my bio.
Daniel27,465 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
The magic you're looking for is in the full-assed effort you're avoiding - Justin Skycak New episode on Math Academy and the science of skill issues links below 00:00 Welcome to The Metagame 00:28 Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem 08:49 The bitter pill when learning anything 13:18 Skill trees and knowledge graphs 18:00 The "meta knowledge graph" 21:26 How to BECOME CONSISTENT 38:23 You're bottlenecked on HUMILITY 40:12 The danger of identifying as smart 41:35 Justin's personal ideology 42:04 Keep your identity small (Paul Graham ) 48:56 How to find your Mission 49:42 The stages of Talent Development 56:47 Don't quit your job! (yet) 1:00:56 Take your hobbies seriously 1:15:40 How to build antifragile habit streaks 1:20:50 You have a right to the action, not the outcome 1:26:06 You need a gang! 1:30:55 The most legit findings in learning science 1:33:36 Active Learning (most important) 1:36:06 Forgetting curves and spaced repetition 1:38:43 Interleaving and Mixed Practice 1:45:59 The Testing Effect and Retrieval Practice 1:52:06 Final thoughts and takeaways
Daniel K63,328 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
New episode with Jake Orthwein On the Bayesian Brain, Karl Friston's free energy, psychedelics, pragmatic dharma, awakening and reconciling Jordan Peterson vs Sam Harris. 0:06 Jake's origin + the video essays 4:45 Aldous Huxley taking mescaline 8:31 Christopher Hitchens-maxxing? 13:24 Why psychedelics make you want to meditate 17:40 Awakening: it's already the case, so why practice? 25:30 Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle, explained 35:24 Predictive processing and the Bayesian Brain 45:40 Active inference 47:20 Peterson was early with Maps of Meaning 52:04 Reconciling Dr Jordan B Peterson and Sam Harris 1:05:11 The pagan continuity hypothesis 1:08:03 The entropic brain and the critical point 1:17:24 What's driving Jake now Look up The Metagame on YouTube, Apple or Spotify.
Daniel (SF May 14th)20,652 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Most "smart" people are just addicted to thinking Your inability to 'get out of your head' is bottlenecking your joy, connection and freedom Here's how Alex Olshonsky broke this cycle. From a full-blown drug addiction to healing the core wound: "I'm not enough" 00:00 Becoming a "professional drug addict" 02:50 The janitor's wife's painkillers 07:49 Scoring opiates in the Tenderloin 13:43 Six figures in debt and the Slack IPO 17:58 Daniel's friend lost $50M and almost suicided 22:10 Why do we keep doing what hurts us? 29:04 Overthinking is under-feeling 40:47 Thoughts are The Sixth Sense 46:48 A guided practice: see, hear, feel 53:02 The whole game is Noticing and Celebrating 58:00 "I am not enough" as a core wound 1:07:07 Will inner work make me lose my edge? 1:12:13 How to re-orient to your Purpose 1:19:34 What if no one loves you? 1:22:54 Prayer as a rational psychotechnology Look up The Metagame on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. Full episode in my bio.
Daniel (SF May 14th)11,792 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
new episode with RomeoStevens On how he reduced his neuroticism scores from 60th to 5th percentile as well as building self trust, Core Transformation, samskaras, pedagogy and the philosophy of intentionality links below 00:00 - Reducing neuroticism to 5th percentile 03:38 - Benefits of exploring safe forms of pain 04:56 - Suffering "set points" from childhood 05:30 - The limits of seeking comfort 07:09 - Why being firm with yourself is underrated 26:57 - Hitting critical thresholds of self-trust 34:18 - Intro to Core Transformation (better than IFS?) 48:37 - How to do Core Transformation with a friend 57:37 - Scaling trust to group dynamics (black pill) 1:05:06 - Intentionality, preference aggregation 1:17:34 - Pedagogy, flow frontiers, skill building 1:20:15 - Metalearning for practicing piano 1:26:28 - Playing The Metagame
Daniel K65,270 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
New episode! Do all religions point to the same thing? Alex Zhu & RomeoStevens debate The Perennial Philosophy Links below 1:26 Alex defines perennialism 14:21 Romeo's response begins 29:58 Is perennialism true, false, or unclear? 34:40 Top-down (jhanas) vs bottom-up (non-dual) paths 41:04 Why Huxley is annoying 47:34 The Moral Realism question 54:08 All utility functions converge w/ enough time? 56:27 Mike Levin's cancer cells on coordination 1:04:09 Locating the crux 1:17:22 Romeo finds a disagreement
Daniel15,421 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
new episode with Daniel Thorson on why Secure Attachment is upstream of ~everything links below 00:00 Welcome back to The Metagame 00:39 Reflections on 5yrs of monastic training 02:10 Fixing yourself presupposes you’re broken 06:22 Spirituality is Secure Attachment with reality 12:21 Collapsing ontology and phenomenology 13:19 The problem of "inferential distance" 14:46 Evoking the subjective experience of love 18:59 Attachment security is upstream of ~everything 21:54 The Mother Wound: safety and shame 33:20 The Father Wound: authority and value 38:01 Balancing order and freedom 39:29 On defragmenting conflicting parts 41:01 Why is it SO hard to know our true desires? 42:55 How to step into your own Authority 51:34 Start with healing the Mother Wound 51:51 Practical steps for healing 53:49 If love is so fundamental, why don't we see it? 59:05 Coaching, Ideal Parent Figure Protocol and using Claude 1:04:36 Why “more meditation” isn’t the answer 1:07:19 The metacrisis is an intimacy crisis 1:09:44 Do this one practical thing
Daniel (SF May 14th)24,811 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
most problems are people problems, which are really emotional regulation problems in this episode Chris Barber teaches us a concrete skill for processing emotions with words links bellow 00:00 Intro to Chris 00:52 What even is Emotional Regulation? 03:25 Why a successful founder focused his life on this 06:45 All problems are people problems 07:40 What is Resonance? 09:00 Attachment issues, mothers, and Resonance 10:57 Practical use cases for Resonance 13:33 What Resonance is *not* 15:32 How to do it: the three tools of Resonance 18:26 Live Demo: Copy Statements 20:40 Live Demo: Guess Statements 26:33 Live Demo: Exaggeration Statements 36:00 What it feels like when Resonance works 46:12 How to practice without becoming a weirdo 52:05 What about petulant people who weaponize emotion?? 57:09 Final reflections & invitation
Daniel K20,357 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
new episode with Dr. Tucker Peck integrating advanced meditation with psychotherapy links below 00:00 Advanced meditator AND psychologist 00:17 Dharma is being nobody. Therapy is being somebody 01:08 Ego is important 01:56 Lovingkindness without boundaries is bad 03:02 The Pre/Trans Fallacy and having a “healthy Ego” 04:55 Transcending the Ego is ~always temporary 06:18 Mental Processes (dharma) vs Mental Content (therapy) 09:34 Overrated or Underrated: IFS, Jhanas, Core Transformation, etc 14:27 Why Motivational Interviewing is GOATED 22:31 How to do “Emotional Processing” correctly 25:00 The “Inbox” approach to emotions (the sin of the God Realms) 27:00 When to stop processing your emotions 27:51 Spiritual bypassing 30:12 Emotional flatness is not enlightenment lmao 31:51 Is it repression? Or I just don’t have much to process?? 38:48 Sublimation and sexual energy after advanced meditation 41:39 Removing blockages to vital energy 47:36 Magical powers are real (but you’re not supposed to talk about it) 50:00 Tucker’s book: Sanity and Sainthood 50:26 Wtf even is “meditation?”
Daniel K16,320 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
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