It reminds me "investing gurus" selling books about how to hack the stock market to become billionaires. The only guys, however who become billionaires are those selling the books.
At least this story is for free...
Well, I was born in Russia and moved to Germany 20 years ago with my family, I was 11 then. Today I consider myself as German, so far the background.
What is really true, even if you speak native German and identify yourself with the people and the country, for most Germans, you are not German. I do not mean it in the negative way, I think it is just the way it is, if you have not a German name or look "Russian". But I do not have/ had any problems with it. Moreover I realized, that although people know you are originally not from Germany, you are valued on your skills (at school, job, sport, etc) and not by you ethnical background. And those people from Russia/Turkey or whatever who claim they are discriminated e.g while looking for a job I just can repeat, no, you just did not tried hard enough.
In Russia there is a saying: You are greeted by your look, but bid goodbyed for your skills. I think in Germany this is a very reality.
Please explain: if it keeps you alert, you also have to concentrate your thoughts on this. Isn't this in contradiction to let all thoghts go?
Thanks for an answer...
You make me want to go into Zen teachings now. So I will summarize them as much as I can:
What I meant:
Thoughts: Things going on.
Alert: Being aware of something. Observing something (can be thoughts)
Not being alert: You will drift off to sleep.
Meditation: Focusing (as in deliberative) and/ or Observing something that doesn't go on into endless thinking tank.
Let go of thoughts: that become an essay. Start thinking about Python and you can write an essay right now. Start listening to your breathing. And release any other thought that comes in. Yes you can keep repeating word Python and try to release thoughts that follow but it's easier with things like sound and mantras.
Sure there is much more to it than what I've written but hope you get the idea.
While the site itself is nice designed and I enjoy playing with various countries, I see that the main purpose for designing this site are the amazon links below the comparison. Am I right?
Of course the one hack that will actually improve the success with your desired gender is being downvoted. Because it would mean... going out and meeting people, how gruesome.
Yes, of course, it was downvoted because it means going outside.
Or maybe it's just because "LOLOL ONLINE DATING< WHAT LOSERS!" isn't very constructive. Different people meet people in different ways. I've done it both ways: it's all pretty much the same thing in the end.
Just because you use a website to meet people does not mean that you're some kind of troglodyte whose skin is burned by the sun.
Besides, doing _both_ would increase your chances even more...