Dionysus was the Greek god of…
Wine
Fertility
Ritual madness
Religious ecstasy

To the sensible modern Western mind, one of the six words listed above may seem a little out of place — Religious. When we hear the word religious, almost invariably we think sobering thoughts; we reflect on our personal experiences with these institutions and systems of morality.

From How to Be Cross Eyed: Thriving Despite Your Physical Imperfection — a mémoire and lifehacking manifesto

I had given up my aspiration of becoming a pseudo-Berliner, moved out of my flat near Alexanderplatz, and embarked toward the Slavic east. I only had a few days left on my Schengen visa so I didn’t linger long in Poland. As the night bus crossed the Ukrainian border it bumped noisily over a piece of cold metal that let out an eerie metallic groan into the dark. I was now a denizen of the wild, wild east.

The city is a nice change of pace from the dreary capitals of Eastern Europe where I’ve been spending time.

The center of the city is quite clean and scenic with the beautiful Sava river, wide pedestrian streets, and elegant orthodox churches.

Men are irresistibly drawn, arguably thanks to evolutionary psychology, to travel to foreign lands and conquer sexually there. Many women travelers, applying the "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" logic, see travel as a time to let the inner slut out. Indeed, the prospect of hooking up with a curvaceous, exotic local, the sexy novelty of hearing lovemaking moans in a foreign accent, and living out our fantasies about having a French, Korean, Italian, English, or Brazilian partner are a big factor of the motivation to swipe our credit cards and go see the world.

This article will analyze the two ends of the spectrum and make the case that sex tourism is at its core unethical, harmful, and shameful while love tourism can be a beautiful cultural experience, more economical, and good adult fun.

For flirting, banter, and building rapport en Espanol during the day or night…

I had the pleasure of living in one of the sexiest cities in the world — Medellin, Colombia for over a year.

During this time I cross-trained learning game and mastering a second language, Spanish. I also spent time in Central America and lived in Valencia, on the sun-kissed southern coast of Spain, which (by the way) is a better place to pick up chicas than Barcelona.

This episode covers some powerful tools and tech to accelerate your language learning.

Along with how to be charming in a language you barely know and I finish up by sharing two awesomely embarrassing moments of culture shock.

My adventures and misadventures living in and ultimately getting kicked out of Colombia...
Traveling through the San Blas Islands
Getting robbed by a pig in Capurgana
The beautiful women of Medellin
Dating a politician's daughter
Overstaying a tourist VISA
Starting a digital nomad business
Skinny dipping at a "Finca" party in the mountains
Going to a no phone/no clothes swingers party
Jonathan on Ayahuasca (Yage in Colombia)
Meditation and Dual N-Back Pro
Personal development, travel, and procrastination?
Caballo the Smart Drug for Cognitive Capital

Next to skydiving on a frigid winter morning over the Colorado Rockies, coconuts are an excellent solution to vanquishing hangovers.

Check out this funny video of me doing an exceptionally bad job of explaining this and showing how to open a coconut in three seconds...

This is a compilation of charming and friendly sayings in various languages, that I learned while traveling in Central and South America.

For the sayings, you'll see the language, the spelling in that language, the phonetic spelling as it sounds to an English speaker along with the memory association I used to memorize it. You can borrow my memory associations or make up your own, just remember the more bizarre your memory associations are, the easier to remember they will be to recall.

Before we talk about accelerated language acquisition, using some exciting technologies, Memory Systems, Dual N-Back, and SuperMemo, let's talk about accelerated personal development.

Why is it that some people languish in personal development purgatory for years or decades while other people read a book, take a course, listen to a podcast, apply the knowledge, and get meaningful (or profitable!) results fast?

The most practical, measurable, and non-woo-woo answer to this conundrum is that the person who gets more results faster has a mind with healthier Neuroplasticity mechanisms. Neuroplasticity is a chemical process that occurs on the molecular and cellular levels of our brain's grey matter, it results in new brain cells being manufactured and synaptic connections forming in the mind.