u/DotLate4634

From a business owner who started this at 13 without even knowing what SR was. I just wanted to share what has worked for me and at the end of the post I will mention something else.

So a little context. When I was 13 I somehow went three months without any intention behind it. It just happened. Then I relapsed and kept relapsing over and over until around 2024 when I actually discovered SR as a deliberate practice. Since then my streaks got progressively longer and my longest has been 147 days.

Before that streak I made some pretty radical changes. Deleted all social media, Facebook, Instagram, everything. Cut the people in my life down to only those directly contributing to my growth or my business. And I mean everyone, including women. I used to be very focused on being with as many women as possible and for a couple of years that drained me more than I understood at the time. I was compensating with stimulants to stay productive, sleeping badly because of them, and basically running on fumes without realizing it.

So I cleaned all of that up. Started a ketogenic diet. Started prioritizing sleep, tracking it with my Apple Watch, aiming for at least 7.5 hours every night. Hitting the gym every weekday. Fasting 18 hours daily on weekdays and doing 30 hour fasts on weekends. Added nootropics to support cognitive performance. And of course the SR itself.

Something that became clear to me during that long streak was this idea of frozen attention. Every time you dedicate energy to something, that thing gets your full frozen attention, and what you get back reflects what you put in. When I stopped directing energy toward lustful things and started directing it toward meaningful work, my business improved, my mental clarity improved, and the people around me started noticing a different version of me.

One thing I want to be straightforward about because it took me a while to figure this out: willpower alone is not enough. If you rely purely on willpower you will fall at some point. What actually works is building an environment where the temptation is simply not present. No images, no videos, no women close by. Same logic as a diet. If there is no sugar in your house you will not eat sugar. Remove the stimulus and the whole thing becomes far more manageable.

SR is what keeps everything else in order for me. When I am solid on SR it becomes easier to fast, easier to train, easier to work, easier to say no to what does not serve me. It is the anchor for everything else. Now the second thing I wanted to mention. I already have good people around me. Business connections, smart people, driven people. But none of them practice SR and most are not aware of things like Hermetic knowledge, which I personally find very useful as a framework for understanding how energy and attention actually work in life. That gap is present and it is hard to fill in everyday circles.

So I am looking for a very small group of people, maybe five max so six total counting me, ideally business owners with similar practices or at least a similar way of thinking. Not a big community or forum thread, more like a tight small circle where we can share ideas, help each other's businesses, keep each other sharp on our practices and actually talk on a real level. Something with a bit of that old school brotherhood quality to it where everyone is actually contributing and nobody is just along for the ride.

Finding people like this in real life is hard. You cannot just walk into a room and find someone who practices SR, runs a business, and has any awareness of Hermetic principles. So this seemed like the right place to look.

I am also deep into stoicism and that shapes a lot of how I move through life.

If none of this is for you, no problem at all. Take whatever is useful from this and leave the rest. But if something here lines up with how you think and operate, feel free to reach out. And if anything here does not follow the rules of this subreddit just let me know and I will fix it. I just wanted to give something back to a community that has helped me a lot.

Thank you guys and Godspeed.