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Hey waddup y’all, Tyler here.
I’ve just updated my blog for the first time in a long time.
http://realsocialdynamics.blogspot.com
There’s a good 30 page article on there that includes:
-My most intense adventures of the past year.
-Bizarre pics of me with a FULLY SHAVED head (I sported it for six months!!)
-Official news of my girlfriend being pregnant, and my son being born this March.
-Photos of the vicious car accident I got into later that same week, which I thought was going to kill me.
-And all the cool self help related projects I had going this past year.
The blog was a major focus of mine for a long time, and I’m approached constantly about why I don’t update it.
Honestly I’m probably not ready to update it regularly again, but I wanted to write something to make it up to everyone who used to follow it.
If you never read it in the past, you may want to check out the classic articles, as I’m very proud of them, and I think you’ll learn a lot of immediately implementable information on how to achieve your goals.
Here’s a link to the blog, and happy New Years!!
http://realsocialdynamics.blogspot.com
Tyler
PS:
The blog was probably the single biggest thing that people mentioned to me for about two years when they’d see me on the street. I used to put a LOT of time into it.
Check out the article I just put up TODAY, and see what you were missing.
http://realsocialdynamics.blogspot.com
I’ve just updated my blog for the first time in a long time.
http://realsocialdynamics.blogspot.com
There’s a good 30 page article on there that includes:
-My most intense adventures of the past year.
-Bizarre pics of me with a FULLY SHAVED head (I sported it for six months!!)
-Official news of my girlfriend being pregnant, and my son being born this March.
-Photos of the vicious car accident I got into later that same week, which I thought was going to kill me.
-And all the cool self help related projects I had going this past year.
The blog was a major focus of mine for a long time, and I’m approached constantly about why I don’t update it.
Honestly I’m probably not ready to update it regularly again, but I wanted to write something to make it up to everyone who used to follow it.
If you never read it in the past, you may want to check out the classic articles, as I’m very proud of them, and I think you’ll learn a lot of immediately implementable information on how to achieve your goals.
Here’s a link to the blog, and happy New Years!!
http://realsocialdynamics.blogspot.com
Tyler
PS:
The blog was probably the single biggest thing that people mentioned to me for about two years when they’d see me on the street. I used to put a LOT of time into it.
Check out the article I just put up TODAY, and see what you were missing.
http://realsocialdynamics.blogspot.com
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Firewater
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Join Date: 07/17/2008 | Posts: 1187
Ugh, I got halfway through, then skimmed the rest. I'll be back to read the rest. I promise. I got a big night ahead of me. Thanks for cracking me out of my shell.
The words flow really well in that article. Your writing has improved tremendously.
ChinaBoy
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Join Date: 02/20/2009 | Posts: 128
really looking forward to your regular posting on your blog.
Quality stuff.
Congrats, going from a needy chode to a cool guy who lives his life to the fullest. Massive change. Makes me cry.
Thanks for the contribution to this world.
SocialGuy
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Awsawm tyler keep it up
yehlord
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Drama
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WireySpindell
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Your work has had an impact on so many people, thanks so much. Congrats on a great year, all the best for the future!
~cavalheiro
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Who's your dady!
Congrats Owen!! If I had saw this at other site I wouldn't believe!
This little boy / girl will be the most lucky son in the world ;]
Hey Tyler thanks for the pics - i never told, i guess- but ** I AM ** the guy who put the translation at portuguese - Brazil in my country at the very first time at brazilian foruns while people only knew the guy with fun magic hat and his shaved writter friend, making you know and loved here.
(the pdf was Tyler Durden - Ramblings)
This 'world summit event' and you took a year of preparation is the one that nobody could record in any way shape or form? I feel really sorry for this
Reeeeeeeally thanks for the all transformation that you made in all our lives
I really dunno what would be of me if I hadn't found this TD ramblings.pdf back in 2004 (i guess)
See ya
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Surfer Peligroso
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Your preggo girlfriend is kinda hot too.
Superiorcaveman86
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I fucking love it.
It's a really motivating and postive piece.
I just went on a 1week trip to NYC to visit my folks, and this retreat allowed me to see the perspectives of my purpose back at home (Europe)...it was quite tough at first becaus I felt very lost, and had nothing to "hold on to" mentally.
It took me a few days to resolve this, and really find out wtf was going on...
To make a long story short, I had the realization that exactly coincide with the stuff you've written in your blog. Basically living that all-round gratifying life that's moving forward in actual actions on all scales of life: health, purpose, career and such. So that's what I've been doing. Bought and actually following the "abs diet book", a book on yoga, and a book on sustainable-development (the "area of expertise" Im studying for...and living my life towards).
OFCOURSE I "knew" that stuff already, I'd read it hundreds of times in this community, and I even THOUGHT I was living it....but I wasn't. It caught up to me....and that's always when epiphanies hit: when they catch up to you.
This time it was a bunch of NYC Hipsters that triggered it lols .
There's this book I can recommend that's called "Real Men do Yoga." You should check it out. All of you reading this. :].
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Men-Yoga-Flexibility-Performance/dp/0757301126
cheerios & thanks for the writeup Tyler.
Looking forward to your relationship & blueprint books like a motherbrother.
Superiorcaveman86
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I fucking love it.
It's a really motivating and postive piece.
I just went on a 1week trip to NYC to visit my folks, and this retreat allowed me to see the perspectives of my purpose back at home (Europe)...it was quite tough at first becaus I felt very lost, and had nothing to "hold on to" mentally.
It took me a few days to resolve this, and really find out wtf was going on...
To make a long story short, I had the realization that exactly coincide with the stuff you've written in your blog. Basically living that all-round gratifying life that's moving forward in actual actions on all scales of life: health, purpose, career and such. So that's what I've been doing. Bought and actually following the "abs diet book", a book on yoga, and a book on sustainable-development (the "area of expertise" Im studying for...and living my life towards).
There's this book I can recommend that's called "Real Men do Yoga." You should check it out. All of you reading this. :].
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Men-Yoga-Flexibility-Performance/dp/0757301126
cheerios & thanks for the writeup Tyler.
Looking forward to your relationship & blueprint books like a motherbrother.
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Firewater
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7Hearts
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I'm just curios that's all jeez X_x
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The Boss
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good luck with everything man
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Popinjay
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MADE MY DAY
keep it pimpin, pimpin
(+) Amor
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One thing that caught my attention was you talking about the videos "legitimizing" the community. The problem is that as far as I know you'll be airing the videos to people who are already into the community rather than releasing them to a wider audience. In other words, you aren't really trying to show off much of what's possible to anyone outside of the community who doesn't attend the workshops.
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TightGame
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The reality is that infield video had been a big wave in 2008, part of the pickup 2.0 meme, which is more about demonstration and context-based learning than about gurus doing public speaking. Going into 2009, RSD was feeling increasing industry pressure, with people questioning whether the company could move beyond the "guru as public speaker" content materials. Your infield work was in reaction to where others in the industry had assumed leadership. Trying to position yourself as an innovator with infield video and pickup 2.0 is like Microsoft trying to position itself as an innovator in internet technology. That dog just don't hunt.
Then it gets better...
"Maybe just as important, I felt it (infield video) would do a lot to legitimize the industry- which is good for everyone, not just Real Social Dynamics."
Please, dude. There are at least three good online vaults that I know of with quality infield footage. As I observed a couple of months ago in a forum thread, the model that works is online access with a modest monthly subscription fee- and not being too stingy with download usage rights because students have various devices (think upcoming IPad). This is not an issue of industry legitimacy. The industry is plenty legit all right; the issue is RSD's legitimacy within the industry. The framework is pickup 2.0, and students want to see real interactions- not just flashy public speaking.
Interestingly, you admit in the article that the value of the videos came from watching them at home over and over on your computer and subconsiously identifying with the good interactions. That's what we've been saying- that the right place for this stuff is not as a live events product but as home study materials.
Not trying to be a hater here, Tyler. I just think it's a situation that needs to be called out.
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Gotcha, I see where that impression could come from, and thanks for the interest.
IMO come out to a free workshop in any major city this year -- see if any of the footage you've seen could be put in the same category as what you see there, or if you leave with the impression that this is something new. Draw your own conclusions.
If you learn a lot from what you see, you can also sign up for the full day courses where I break down everything in detail. If you want to see footage over and over, sign up for the other instructor's versions -- we've kept it extremely cheap.
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I also like Jed McKenna's "Enlightenment Trilogy" -- although like Tolle, take what resonates with your critical thinking, and ignore anything that's too based in spiritual woo-woo land.
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Haaa, thanks man.
I wrote it as a serious article but I guess my life is messed up enough to be funny. :)
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(So they ask you before if you choose to know.)
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But it gets better every year, and also, it's fairly normal when you're doing your own organization rather than working for someone else.
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I think very similar to you, and I'm TRYING to organize my life in the type of way you're talking about. I feel I've done it to semi success, but I'm moving in that direction.
Obviously you learn from your mistakes, and try to see where you're fucking up. I also got a lot of these ideas from Eben Pagan's program "Wake Up Productive" which I think is really fantastic.
Tyler
MoneyShot
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Out of curiosity have you done the Myres Briggs personality test? If so what personality type are you?
Without meeting you Ill put my money on you being "ENFP" or "ENFJ."
nex
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Just read the whole thing, nice writing style and also very inspiring. You also mentioned that you do a 20 minutes session of yoga every day. Whats your routine in that, just sitting up straight for 20 mins etc...?
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TightGame
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kambotsja
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I guess everyone mature towards these things anyway.
Kevin Stuart
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But all of us liked to hear sincere praises.
And I also want Owen Cook to say, that you are an inspiration for me.
I am not his/her fan. I am not his/her follower.
But I admit that you had a lot of positive influence in my life. I know that you are in a process of endless personal evolution, like this I am also.
You concerteza has many mentors that help him/it to develop, and I also learned a lot of many mentors also.
However the way like you affected my life stands out among all those mentors.
My respect and admiration to you and his/her constant evolution, continue the work. In few years that wave of men's evolution will have a great impact in our culture. And is finally MORE women finally they can live together with men like us.
Thank you!
Ray!
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anyway, thanks
The Libertine
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Strange to say I just about cried reading it. It's almost as if I can feel the clarity and emotional connection to the world that you've helped me obtain in such a short time must be within you, only unknowably more intense. I feel like I share your fortune, albeit in an infintely smaller way.
I thank you for all your diligent efforts in bringing all of us along, and could think of nobody alive more equipped to bring a life into the world.
Best Always.
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One thing I want to ask, I noticed you recommended Eben Pagan's program "Wake Up Productive" in a previous response to another member, which got me thinking - I'm sure all of you instructurs, yourself especially (being a Philosophy grad) read and watch a shit-ton of self-improvement/life books/seminars/programs.
I was wondering if you could ever make a post and put out like an exhaustive list of books/progrkeeams you recommend. I realize nothing, and none of them, is the "magic pill" or anything like that. I'm just looking for as many seeds as possible to plant to keep in mind in my day to day life. I already know of things like "the way of the superior man" and "the power of now" etc. There's bits and pieces of recommendations I've found on this forum already, but I'm takling about like an exhaustive list.
If this has already been done I'd appreciate if someone could point me to the link. Ultimitely this is a question for all other members/instructors as well:
What programs/books of any kind would you recommend are good for personal well-being?
Thanks,
Dan
Tyler, if you can't make an exhaustive list of books/programs on the forum or here (since there's like hundreds I'm sure), at least maybe mention a top 10??
ericmarion15
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Anyways I was wondering, you're girlfriend is cool with you going out and picking up girls? You were talking about getting the perfect shot, were you talking about doing the pickup yourself?
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Gratz For you tyler I hope you the best Man .
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Funny enough, I could see myself staying entertained by this way of teaching for a long time. As far as bootcamps go, that's infield so it's entertaining no matter what -- I love that shit.
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