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Florian Lau

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Born

in Germany

Website

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheSelfImprovementHub/

Genre

Spirituality, Self Help, Science

Member Since

June 2021

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I was born in Germany in 1990 and grew up in a relatively poor family. I finished school with medium grades at best and spent most of my teen years playing video games like World of Warcraft. While I was very good at it, I stopped when I started to
study computer science.

I spent the first few years continuing to play other video games, learning little. After that, I decided to take university seriously. With the help of my best friend(s), I made rapid progress. Without them, I
wouldn’t be where I am today, and I am deeply grateful for them.

I finished my bachelor’s degree in 2013 and my master’s degree in 2016 with ever-increasing grades. After that, I started working as
a research assistant and finished my Ph.D. thesis three to four years late I was born in Germany in 1990 and grew up in a relatively poor family. I finished school with medium grades at best and spent most of my teen years playing video games like World of Warcraft. While I was very good at it, I stopped when I started to
study computer science.

I spent the first few years continuing to play other video games, learning little. After that, I decided to take university seriously. With the help of my best friend(s), I made rapid progress. Without them, I
wouldn’t be where I am today, and I am deeply grateful for them.

I finished my bachelor’s degree in 2013 and my master’s degree in 2016 with ever-increasing grades. After that, I started working as
a research assistant and finished my Ph.D. thesis three to four years later, graded 1.0. I further received the KuVS award for the best Ph.D. thesis in 2020. During that time, I started meditating regularly, which
benefitted my academic performance tremendously.
Today I am working as a postdoctoral researcher and teacher at the university, a creator on YouTube, and an author in the pastime.

Since 2018, I have spent the majority of my leisure time studying Dhamma.
This means that I spend almost 4--8 hours each day either reading, meditating, or teaching in some way or another.
I have read a good 40 or more books on contemporary Buddhism but was left unsatisfied with the content/the translation, and the interpretations.
In the end, I started reading the Suttas from the Pali Canon itself.
Over time, the teachings suddenly started to make sense and became free from any contradiction.
From what I can tell, the way the Buddha himself expounded the Dhamma is utterly perfect.

While the time spent working on any subject is, at best, an approximate approach for estimating someone's wisdom, it is still better than nothing.
As I have no reputation myself, I have to borrow the credibility from my title and the Buddha himself.
Otherwise, people are seldomly willing to delay their disbelief to see for themselves as it would mean a big sacrifice of their valuable time.

I give you my word that everything the Buddha himself taught is true. ...more

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Work in Progress

Hey everyone!

The Self-Improvement Almanac is just the first version of a (hopefully) ongoing series of improvements I make.
The current plan is to release a new and refined version every year. On my Patreon, I release an update every 4 months, combined with a downloadable pdf file.

If you have any questions, let me know!

Cheers
Florian

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