(Part 2) Top products from r/entp

It's a good question - a lot of people just assume they can't ever be rich.

No you don't need to get a degree. You don't need to get a high-paying job. You don't need to be Elon Musk unless we're talking billionaire rich.

Making money is about delivering value at scale. Either deliver a little bit of value to a lot of people, or deliver a lot of value to a few people. Or do both to rake it in - but this is usually harder.

The most accessible way to deliver value at scale is by building a business.

You also need to figure out why you want to be rich and what kind of rich. Do you want to build a massive empire and make hundreds of millions or does making a couple of million a year and getting to travel whenever you want sound better?

The basic steps are pretty simple. You've got to start by reprogramming your brain a fair bit. Rich people - especially entrepreneurs, don't think about the world in the same way as most people do. More on how to do this later.

After that you'll want to start exploring the opportunities open to you at the moment. There are lots of business models you can replicate and do really well with - you don't need to start completely from scratch and build something the world has never seen before. You would not believe the ridiculously niched business models people make stupid money from. Example - I know a guy who built an online health and safety testing form for oil rig workers that was making $20,000 a month.

When you're starting out it's a good idea to keep things simple and use it as a way to build your skills. You don't want to be trying to build the next Facebook while trying to learn the basics of business. You're probably not as smart as Mark Zuckerberg.

The point is you have to keep learning and learning and learning. You know the business section of the book store you've probably never looked at? Pick the right books and you can pretty much learn anything.

You've been fed a lot of bullshit your whole life - so you need to read:

BOOKS FOR REPROGRAMMING YOUR HEAD

• The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
  It's pretty incredible how many successful people I've spoken to in the last few years have said something along the lines of "well it all started when I read the 4-Hour Work Week...". This is a great book that will give you a huge mindset adjustment and also a bunch of practical ideas and case studies of what you can do.
  
  
• The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco Yeah the book title sucks. But it's gold. MJ has quite a different approach to Tim Ferriss - so that's why I put it here. It's good to get multiple perspectives. The first hundred or so pages rip traditional thinking on wealth as well as guru advice to pieces - it's pretty funny.
  
  
• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason This is a quick and easy read but it's got some great core lessons.
  
  Those will give you a good start. Once you've picked something to work on, you'll want to start reading up on learning sales, mindset, strategy, mindset, business management, mindset and some more mindset. If you jump in you'll quickly find the hardest thing about business is usually dealing with yourself.
  
  Hit me up if you take action on this and I'll be happy to recommend where to go next :)
  
  

I'm reading a very interesting and pretty relevant to this book called The Underground Girls of Kabul. It's about a phenomenon in Afghanistan where if a family has no sons, they sometimes decide to dress a daughter up as a boy and pretend she is a boy (this is called "bacha posh"). This is because in the culture of the country women are effectively seen as having no value unless they are able to bear sons, and therefore there is a lot of pressure on the family to have sons to present to the world. It's a practice that is in a lot of ways tacitly accepted, even though it seems to go against the strict gender roles of the society.



Through the author's research she found that girls who dressed up as boys during their young childhood but changed back before puberty seemed to adapt to womanhood just fine. However, women who for whatever reason went through puberty while remaining a boy, and only "changed back" to being women at say, age 20, it seemed they could never fully adapt to being "natural women." They reported "feeling like a man" on the inside even when older. Of course Afghanistan is a culture with VERY strict separation of men's and women's roles, and women are even discouraged from, say, walking on the street alone, so it is a huge shift in behavior.



One of the women argues in the book that even sets of habits we think are set in stone, like gender, have all just come out of the habits we've formed and the environments we are raised in. This woman grew up learning to blend in as a boy, and then suddenly had to change that and learn to blend in as a woman. But she doesn't think she was actually predisposed to either behavior set, that it was all based on context. And there is a good amount of research to support that nurture can almost "create" nature, that habits that seem natural to us are actually just formed.



Anyways, this is why I agree with the above post--you shouldn't label yourself "the kind of person that does X" because being "that kind of person" is likely very strongly a result of your environment and culture. Even in terms of something as strong as gender, and definitely in terms of habits like your fitness level. We are all more fluid than we think... we shouldn't be afraid to try removing ourselves from all context whenever we can (this is why I like long-term travel!)

So the post was actually about existential loneliness. I don't suffer from a lack of people in my life.

tldr version: I want people to know me as I often feel I know them. I want people to predict my thoughts and jump from them to new places.

Here's the depressing shit I sent to OP, with a minor edit:

Hey thanks for the posting re: loneliness. I mostly deleted it out of the realization that the kind of loneliness I often feel is likely intrinsic to the human condition. If you've not read it I highly recommend http://www.amazon.com/Unbearable-Lightness-Being-Milan-Kundera/dp/0060932139

And in case you haven't there is, as I recall, a short chapter specifically about this melancholy. That as we age and grow as people the more we grow the further we grow from others. That as we grow in complexity the more difficult it becomes to speak the same language as other people. For a simplified example: when I say "balloon" that word is tied to a thousand thoughts which are in turn tied to a thousand more each. It would be impossible to take another person on that journey with me. To pull them into the simulated reality of my mind and let them smell the air, feel the hum, watch the reflections dance and so on. The best that I can hope for is to approximate. It feels like describing color to a blind person most of the time.

That said, with some few people I am able to share parts of my neural net and for fleeting moments it feels as though they can see through my eyes. Their responses not only show that they perfectly understand my perspective on what we are discussing, but that they have new thoughts to add. Those moments are like the best drug.

And I feel as though I have devoted a great portion of my life to chasing that dragon. It gets harder and harder to find those rushes.

I do work in one of the smartest cities on the planet, and I am certainly not the most intelligent person here.

Yet where I find intellect I so very often find a soul which has been sheltered from the world. I can discuss science, or food, or history and really enjoy it! But there are those darker parts of life which, for those who have experienced them, can be so integral to who you are as a person. The darker parts of life are like pillars that the web weaves around and through. Adversity truly does define us in many ways and often not for the worse.

Finally where there is a cultivated intellect there is also usually a paucity of general real world experience. So very often the erudite among us haven't even so much as waited tables or ever worried if they would be able to eat. I suppose I'm again speaking of adversity, but also glorious exposure to the 99% of the world that struggles and rages and suffers in cages. The salt.

I feel like an expat everywhere I go.

Maybe the doctor bag can be from Goodwill?

Ok for creativity:
maybe a blank canvas? what about an old typewriter so he can write letters to clients and his customers for his screen buisness, as well as his other stuff? I know it's kinda big and heavy, but maybe just maybe one on craigslist or something? This was pretty cool my SO got me funny cig eject button

For a night out I'm thinking why reinvent the wheel, if he likes to smoke get him a monthly supply of RAW joints cheaper than retail too,

For the day in , here's a organic face mask... and my Dear Lady friend, DO NOT GET THE FLESHLIGHT. YOU ARE HIS FLESH LIGHT!~ we value authentic stuff, authentic personalities and people who are real to themselves. No silicone will replace your beauty <3

> How did you come from

Simple. I'm interested in the structure of myth, the structure of what Jung called the unconscious archetypes, and why the brain creates them, perhaps as some consequence of the human realization that we are destined to die. The dread of non-existence.

Most "pagan" religions in practice were deliberately invented in the 1960s. So to me they're not very interesting in that regard. The Wicca I've knowns are interested in is what color candle one should use to cast a love spell, and pretending that the Christians killed off the so-called Mother Goddess Witch Cult in the Middle Ages, rather than realizing Margaret Murray was just dead wrong about her theories.

> Have you been involved in nepoaganism? Do you know the research that goes into the recontruction of each branch? The books they base their research on?

You can't reconstruct what never existed in the first place. Wicca, the most popular form of modern paganism, is a sham. As is anything with "druid" in the name.

There are very few sources of authentic non-Christian religious practices from medieval Europe, never mind earlier. Most of the Norse sagas are all filtered through Christian tradition. The Slav religion is mostly lost to history except for a handful of names. Everything that survives is corrupted by Christianity.

With other gods? Well you cannot worship Aztec gods unless you perform blood letting and human sacrifice. Huitzilopochtli demands it to make the sun move. If you're not doing that, you're not "authentic".

If you argue that the gods can "update" what they want and no longer require scarification, bloodletting or ripping out the heart of a willing sacrifice, then any historical "reconstruction" is pointless to begin with -- because the gods may want something new or have changed over the centuries. So why bother? It's also a very convenient excuse to get rid of the parts you don't like (human sacrifice, which incidentally the Norse also are known to have practiced) and stick in parts you do. Of course, Christians have been doing this same thing for centuries.

> I mean, had you been a profane I would've brushed it aside, but you studied these things, you have no excuse.

Lol, a "profane"? Sounds good. One of my favorite scholars in this regard.

> You studied the documents upon which Hellenists and Asatruars base their knowledge.
And somehow, somehow you managed to dismiss them altogether.

Somehow? More like exactly because. I can actually read ancient Greek, and I know enough Old English to pretend I can read Old Norse :D

I contend it's actually impossible for anyone in the West to believe in these gods in the way they were historically worshiped, simply because we no longer live in a world where the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane was distinct. We humans of the 21st century cannot ignore our knowledge of the universe.

That is why these are merely "toy" religions. People light candles and say "norse prayers" and ask to get a job promotion, an easier pregnancy, do well on an exam.

For people practicing these religions in the Iron Age and later, their worship was a matter of absolute survival against the supernatural. For them, human sacrifice and other such barbarities was a necessity.


> Mind if I ask you exactly what you studied in occultism and Greek religion? You sound like someone who hasn't studied it.

Well, just looking at that bookshelf I count about 40 scholarly books on what I deem "mythology". So take that as you will. Most of what i know about Greek religion is about Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, which are of course later developments of the Eleusian mysteries, etc., and intercalated with earlier Christianity.

> It's not like Occultism is one singular path. Hermeticism, LaVeyanism, the Greek mysteries....get particular. What did you study?

Anton LeVey was an atheist and Hedonist. He uses Satan as a symbol in one part to represent hedonism, and in a second part to annoy the fuck out of Christians.

Otherwise I'm not sure what you're asking. I'm interested in the history and the myth, not in digging a pit in my back yard to do the taurobolium. Anton LeVey's Necronomicon is gibberish. I should know, because I've seen the real thing.

Yup, works very well when you have to memorize something in a short period of time and long-term retention seems to work better than any other method I know of.

Personally, I just use places I know well (e.g. my house). Much easier than constructing an imaginary place.

If you're interested, Moonwalking with Einstein is an entertaining book about memory and memorization technique that deals a lot with memory palaces.

Here's the thing, though. Most famous writers don't have great discipline. Earlier this year I read a book called Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. Some of the writers in the book were organized, but some also went on methamphetamine-fueled writing streaks, and many simply waited for inspiration to strike.

In fact, what struck me most was the lack of a stereotypical routine. It varied from artist to artist. And each artist's routine reflected his or her personality. The ones who were naturally more rigid had more rigid routines. The ones who were naturally more free-spirited—probably Ne and Ni doms—structured their lives to give them lots and lots of free time so their ideas could simmer and they could write when inspiration struck.

>However, the only way a book can train Ti is if it somehow teaches you to reason differently.

u/lightfive addressed it already, but I have no idea how you reached this conclusion. Reading teaches you to think. Personally, my Te is nonexistent, but I can still make a living editing books. My Ne helps me see the big picture of the narrative, and my Ti helps me enforce the consistency of that narrative.

Yep, it is the Frizz. That's all we need - problem solved. Close the comments.

You know what the world needs, we need to be redirecting the R&D of humanity toward developing the Magic School Bus IRL. Then our race will have truely transcended.

Would it have to run on a giant supercomputer that could calculate the rearangement of space-time itself so we could manipulate the scales of all mass? - likely. But that would be the kind of world I would want to live in.

Also, I would hazard a guess that the Frizz her self is a genius, so we ought to start on some eugenic explorations of breeding super ENTP-Matriarchs to head the project of the supercomputer Magic School Bus. So we might have to accept cloning and some other eugenic practice into the zietgeist. I think Ill start seeding Ideas now.

Related Reading:https://www.amazon.ca/Sea-Full-Stars-Jack-Chalker/dp/0345394860/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Sea+is+Full+of+Stars&qid=1555859804&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr

The Frizz is our last hope to shore up humanity against the oncoming reign and swarm of envitable Ruling Class AI. We need to pull together on this.

An upvote for me is an Upvote for Generation FRIZZLE (AKA GenFrizz)

This book is good. It gets quite repetitive, but it is exciting and it certainly makes me want to work for Ideo.

This book is absolutely fascinating. Despite a title and cover that markets it as such, it isn't only about sex. It discusses how and why human sexuality, social structures and societies have changed over time, and explores what our natural social and sexual tendencies are (or may be). To this end, it explores a wide variety of human societies over the course of our existence, and compares us to are nearest genetic relatives--chimps and bonobos.

If anyone's interested, I can post some of the most revelatory ideas proposed in it so far. I'm not finished reading it yet.

Yeah, I hear you. I also had my fair share of awful high school teachers.

As for Feynman, he is indeed a great inspiration. Lately I considered buying [his three volume lectures on physics] (http://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Physics-Set/dp/0201021153/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=) but I found it a little expensive. Fortunately it’s available online as well.

Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke

Also The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and it is excellent!

I learned it from these dudes.

Elon Musk's biography, https://www.amazon.fr/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future/dp/0062301233

Critical Thinking: Theory of Knowledge; IB Course Textbook.

I've only read this one book specifically on the subject of critical thinking. Also, it was for coursework so I would have to re-read some of it before I could vouch for this as a good read or not. But it is written with the explicit intent to help HS students learn about what reasoning is and how to do it. So, it should be accessible and since you had no others listed, perhaps it can be an interim placeholder.

Epistemic relativism and how to argue against it. Just ordered Boghossian's Fear of Knowledge.