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15613964 No.15613964 [Reply] [Original]

what’s the alternative for a young man that wants to get his s*** together?

>> No.15614340
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>> No.15614353

>>15613964
the alternative is to put the books down and actually start getting your shit together

>> No.15614384

Not really a lit question so >>15613964 get a not really lit answer. The military.

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These

>> No.15614401

>>15614384

Lol yeah just become an indentured servant to the state bro. The comradery and discipline will definitely be worth the PTSD and alienation from regular society. Great advice.

>> No.15614424

>>15613964
Prometheus Rising.

>> No.15614431

Whenever I see either of these two on /lit/ I have to remind myself that most people here are 19 year old shut ins

>> No.15614438

#Kaliacc on twitter will set you free

>> No.15614449

>>15613964
>>>/fit/

>> No.15614452

>>15613964
Mark Rippetoe

>> No.15614456

>>15613964
Nothing. Maximize income while minimizing time spent on/at work, and then figure out the rest. All this basic-ass self-help "getting your shit together" is a fancy way of saying "I have too little money". So find a better job, start a side hustle or learn a high income skill.

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I hate that I'm still fucking stupid enough to take these questions seriously... yet here we are.

Getting your shit together isn't an end goal. You can be more (kind|productive|creative) than you were yesterday, and when you slip up and have a setback it doesn't prevent you from being (kind|productive|creative) today or tomorrow.

For some people, productivity measured in wealth is the thing. For some people, it's physical or mental development. It's different for everyone and it will be different for you in three months or ten years.

What would make you happy? Move toward that goal. Along the way, you'll discover that you actually want something else whether you attain that goal or not. It's the human condition.

>> No.15614506

>>15614452
based and milkpilled

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>>15614502
We've reached the point where cleaning your room and washing your cock is a milestone achievement.

>> No.15614575

>>15613964
Hang out with people who /do/ have their shit together, and minimize contact with people who don't. Emulate the former group.

>> No.15614590

>You gotta work on yourself

To what end?

>> No.15614604

>>15614532
There are men who will not wash their sack and crack because a male hand going near their ass and balls is hella homosexual.

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>>15614424
Second.

>> No.15614629

>>15614401
Just do a noncombat role fag. Like a useless fueler or some shit. That way you can get the same benefits as the combatbois and still be as useless as you are now.
If someone can't figure out for themselves what to do in life at least the military will baby them and force them into a direction

>> No.15614644

>>15614604
>a male hand going near their ass and balls is hella homosexual.
I don't see how you could argue it isn't. A real Chad would have his girl do it for him

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Take the Jünger pill

>> No.15614698

>>15613964
>Anonymous
Tbh refer to the pic u put like seriously listen and read some Zizek to get ur shit together stay the fuck away from peterson tho

>> No.15614813

>>15614340
FPBP

>> No.15615941

>>15613964
I know JBP is memed but he touches on something important: theory without application is useless. Stop looking for new empowering books, just do something. You are fuking tired of jerking off? Stop. You wanna learn to code? Do it.
Hard work and hustling is a habit, not a genetic thing. Its much harder to do the older you are, but you can still reset your mindset to that if you want to

>> No.15616272

>>15614532
honest question: where did the wash your penis meme come from? Did Peterson ever say it?

>> No.15616302

>>15616272
No, what he said is "clean your room and get your house in order." It is just a silly nonsense command that shows the utter meaninglessness of his platitudes.

>> No.15616444

>>15613964
therapy
+
having friends

>> No.15616624

>>15614456
>just enslave yourself to money bro

>> No.15616640

>>15616302
it makes perfect sense in the context of 20 year old doomers fretting about civilization decline while living in an actual garbage pile

>> No.15616740

>>15616624
If you are poor and you preach the virtues of poverty and asceticism, you're a fraud. I only take you seriously if you are rich and then you admit money doesn't make you happy. In the same way, Seneca was not a hypocrite for being rich and also preaching stoic detachment from money, but virtuous precisely because he was rich. The hobo shouting at you how money doesn't buy happiness is not some great sage.

>> No.15616755

>>15616740
presuming that every poor person secretly wants to be rich and are necessarily lying when they say otherwise is the bourgeois fantasy par excellence

>> No.15616757

>>15613964
Clonazepam and a diet of only meat.

>> No.15616758
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>>15616640
Can confirm, was peak doomer with no goals and afraid to even attempt my dreams for a few years until I started simple routines like making my bed in the morning. I'm finding a lot more motivation to do other things and life's still getting better.

>> No.15616773

>>15616755
The concept of sour grapes has been around for longer than "bourgeois fantasies"

>> No.15616775

>>15615941
What's the theory behind cleaning my room?

>> No.15616788

>>15613964
The military, foreign aid, hospice/nursing work

>> No.15616792

>>15614353
this, lad.

>> No.15616802

>>15616775
loving yourself and treating yourself well and having as excellent an environment as you can.
if you have to fucking ask . . .

>> No.15616826

>>15616640
A bit off topic but in the Protagoras dialogue, Socrates asks him what Sophistry is and how is he good at it and he literally replies " I help people get their houses in order" and it made me kek.

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>>15613964

>> No.15616920

>>15616802
So in order to love myself, I can't have anything except furniture and carpets on the floor?

>> No.15617748

Bunperino

>> No.15617876

>>15613964
I prefer a dirty room and no brain-damaging pill habits, over a clean room and permanently fucking my brain with pills.

>> No.15617956

>>15616775
Psychologically prioritizing and organizing tasks.

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>>15614401
>he thinks combat deployments are still a real thing

>> No.15618113

>>15613964
JP is blind. If a man cannot clean his room or deal with his shit it is because man itself is someone elses property, someone elses shit, like wife or parents.

>> No.15618131

>>15613964
Just eat lots of fiber and cut off amerifat-like fodder.

>> No.15618198

>>15616758
good for you, anon. order is built from the ground up

>> No.15618203

>>15616740
>if you practice what you preach you're a fraud
wat

>> No.15618301

zizek isn't a self help author
i dont know how these two became 'conflicting authors'. Even in their debate they agreed on a lot.
go read dale carnegie or eckart tolle or the bible
better yet, dont get your shit together.
even better yet, if you're reading this it's over.

>> No.15618407

>>15616755
Someone can be both factually correct and coping at the same time.

Self-help is just one of the strange philosophies that has been arranged out of social media's ability to create cult-like behavior naturally and people coping with the fact that they're not going to live as well as the boomers.

>leftist extremism copes with distraction: ignore your material life getting worse, focus on the moral arc of history bending towards ever more progress
>rightist extremism copes with ascetism: ackshually, the boomers were bad for having better material conditions and life should be a romaticization of the sisphyean nature of suffering and hard work. Wants to be a peasant without a master, despite this being an aberration
>neoliberalism copes by ignoring the problem entirely or comparing to worse off cultures: self-explanatory
>self-help copes by making it a matter of "deserving" or not: akshually, the boomers were better people than you and you don't deserve to have the same conditions as you are now

Most philosophies have nuggets of truth in them

>> No.15618414

>>15616272
Murdoch Murdoch, or at least that far-right sphere of the internet.

>> No.15618422

>>15614384
Fuck off, zionist rat.

>> No.15618461

>>15614424
>>15614617
This is definitely going to be my next read. Thank you you wonderful beings

>> No.15618514

>>15614604
That's how you get Fournier’s gangrene, bruh.

>> No.15618539

>>15614353
There is no other answer than this, you already know all you need to know in terms of getting your shit together. It’s a matter of figuring out how to act right. And this it not achieved through thinking.

>> No.15618548

>>15618407
>leftist extremism copes with distraction: ignore your material life getting worse
No, Leftism = pointing out the fact that material life IS getting worse, and attempting to rally people to solve the problem.

>> No.15618563

>>15618548
That's a very small subset of modern leftism, it has no power and its ultimate solution is a fantasy of "trad" peasant life with no masters just like the far-right is.
You simply cannot fix a problem of surplus aristocrats, outside of say a massive near infinite resource pool being found, and even then that's a temporary solution, so everything goes back to fighting for power to see who gets to be the master and who gets to be the peasant beholden to a God of some type.

>> No.15618621

Buddhism.

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They hated him because he told the truth.

>> No.15618938

>>15616758
proud of you anon

>> No.15619001

>>15618748
All I read here is a loser coping. Coping so hard he needed 3 paragraphs. Coping so hard I bet that wasn't even enough

>> No.15619015

>>15619001
People dislike genetic determinism because it's scary and feels bad, even if it is the truth.

>> No.15619096

>>15617876
That's an interesting dichotomy you have invented for yourself to divert from achieving all positive ends.

>> No.15619755

>>15619096
I reject the idea that man must be perfect.
We used to have these things called families and communities. They existed to cover up for weaknesses.
Now the family is an aberration and the invidiual must be made as marketable as possible before they can dare to go outside.

>> No.15619762

>>15614353
bro just stop being depressed

>> No.15619774

>>15613964
The Qur'an

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>>15614424
I looked at this and from my perspecitve its massively outdated because it doesnt take into account modern technology being used to manipulate people or control your mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAPI6mv2O-U&t=1s

I mean you could use subliminals and binural beats on youtube along with some basic common sense and completely nullify this stupid book.

I mean its ok for what 1984 when it was printed and its amusing to read but I know some of the stuff in it was just plain wrong or misguided when you know what actually goes on in the world.

>> No.15620695

>>15618013
The modern soldier is so soft, merely being in the military gives them PTSD.

>> No.15621512

Ritalin

>> No.15621560

See a doctor

>> No.15621584

>>15614449
This + the stoics

>> No.15621598

>>15618748
it may be true, so what's the alternative? Just kys? it's the same garbage as telling someone "Ur amazing the way you are there's nothing wrong with you :))" and be a miserable useless human being that cannot improve but feels entitled because someone said so, the opposite is true, you could feel incredibly useless and pathetic and feel like you deserve nothing, both scenarios get you nowhere. Also pretending that a normie isn't insecure and doesn't try to improve is just stupid, they go through the motions like everybody else, they just take more risks and don't remove themselves from socializing because something went wrong with their lives or someone rejected them, they struggle, but they're the optimistic kind that doesn't shit on people or minorities and doesn't resent much than the generic idea of the big brother, so he spends less time bitching and more time enjoying life and sharing that joy to people that he cares about, he/she/it gets the same in return.
Some of us may never reach that, but you can at least try as long as you possibly can.

>> No.15622016

>>15613964
First of all you need to reset your mind and body. Reading a book alone will not be sufficient. You need to physically remove yourself of that which is actively doing you harm. I imagine you feel sedated, despondent, unmotivated and impotent? You need to radically simplify and un-domesticate your life in order to heal. Get away from technology, social media, your phone and your computer. The bight lights, your comfy sofa and your comfort foods.

Modern industrial society makes man impotent through technology and instant gratification. A traumatic break from that will help you along the road to self-actualisation. Think of it like a drug withdrawal, like you're getting off a bad smack addiction. It will take time.

Reading is not a transformative action, only experience through embodied practice is. I prescribe an extended stay at a bothy (or whatever you country's equivalent is) or camping expedition, for a month at least. No phone. No computer. Take with you some of the books recommended in this thread. Your brain will begin to heal and form new connections. You'll synchronise with the natural ebb and flow of the day, the sun. Write about your experience has you're having it. Reflect on how you'd like to live your life when you return home (you already know what that would look like).

Stack rocks, build dens, gather wood, draw in the sand, explore the environment. FREE YOURSELF. You will begin to feel a vitalism within yourself again, like how you were as a child.

>> No.15622029

>>15619096
Actually, JP invented that dichotomy when he decided to be a fucking retard and nuke his pill-addled brain into primordial soup.

>> No.15622052

>>15622016
I would also recommend a psychochemical reset. If you drink coffee, smoke/vape, use alcohol or any other drugs - stop. Allow your mind to return to its unadulterated state. Put yourself in a position where you don't have access to them. When was the last time you were truly sober? When was the last time you saw the world through an unstimulated mind? How do you know those substances aren't playing a role in your impotence?

>> No.15622865

>>15613964
Work out what you want to do and move towards that thing.
There's no book that will give you the magic pill that will enable you to do the thing without actually doing the thing.

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>ctrl + F
>sloterdijk
>not found

/lit/ im disappointed in you

>> No.15623011

test: onions

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>>15613964
Hitler silly

>> No.15623044

>>15622999
Thats the most fucking beautiful picture Ive ever seen of him.

Vertikalspannung, baby!

>> No.15623052

>>15613964
Try helping people irl

>> No.15623078

>>15622999
'You Must Change Your Life' plus
>>15622016
>>15622052
Will set you straight Anon

>> No.15623164

>>15613964
If you're looking for the spiritual stuff Peterson hints at just read Jung directly instead of reading a watered down conservative daddy issue version. If the daddy issues are precisely what youre looking for and you need something to give some structure and order, maybe stop reading books and go do a teamsport or join the army or some shit.

>> No.15623557

>>15613964
It's still Nietzsche

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>>15618748

Nihilistic cop-out. You absolutely can improve your station in life with conscious effort and self-examination. Clearly, sociable, attractive people tend to be more likely to get ahead without the need to consciously improve as much. But, this kind of Elliot Rodger-tier thinking helps no-one.

Imagine a person here were to detail their life, their problems, and where they would like to be. I have no doubt that anons here could collectively come up with a plan that, if followed, would improve that person's life to a degree they would find acceptable. One of the first steps in my opinion would be to remove the negative thinking patterns that enable such ideas, i.e. by working through pic related, which personally helped me a lot.

>> No.15624158

>>15613964
1/13
PREFACE
Many of you need a wake-up-call. A slap in the face. A bucket of cold water. To snap out of this fucking phase of laziness and procrastination. To light a fucking fire under your asses.

The Internet offers all the advice you could ever need on how to get your life together. You have websites, you have books, you have the advice of other people, and you even know yourself what the fuck you have to do. But you don't know how the fuck to take action. You know how to swim, but you're too fucking scared to dive in the deep end.

So here I am to explain to you clearly why the fuck you aren’t taking action towards your goals. And how to fix it.

>> No.15624171

>>15614340
Amen

>> No.15624170

>>15624158
2/13
INTRODUCTION
You always know what you need to do. If you could only follow it, you’d start seeing results. There’s no debate there. If you take action and systematically work towards your goals, you’re going to see progress. That’s just how life works.

Succeeding in most areas of life isn’t actually that difficult. 90% of success is showing up. If you can maintain a clear head and do what you need to do, work consistently towards your goals, and make steady progress, success isn't that hard to come by.

But people just aren’t willing to put in the work. Why? We’re too ugly. We’re too tired. We’re too lazy. We fear failure. We’d rather sit back and click through Netflix to watch a show we don’t even enjoy. We’d rather play another game of Fortnite and waste away our precious time here on a meaningless game. We’d rather sleep another two hours. We’d rather watch that hot pornstar get fucked by a BBC and then jack off.

Don’t lie. It’s what you do. But in reality, it’s what all of society does.

But just because everyone else does it doesn’t mean that you should. Stop living like the rest of the sheep out there and reclaim your independence. Start respecting yourself. Take responsibility for your own life. And don’t live your life like one of the many mindless drones out there indoctrinated into society, pawns to corporations and business, wasting your finite existence on a hodgepodge of meaningless and unfulfilling technological stimulation.

>> No.15624180

>>15624170
3/13
THE VICE OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Most guys here live in a perpetual state of over-analysis. You read a hundred posts on 4chan, you read a couple more articles with click-bait titles, you read a couple self-help books, you watch Youtube videos, and you keep pretending like you’re taking massive action. Every once in a while, you feel like you have a fucking epiphany, and this makes you feel as if you’re learning and moving forward. When in reality, you’re stagnating and making zero progress.

“Self-improvement is masturbation.” You can thank our lord and savior Tyler Durden for this underrated piece of gold. You’re pretending to yourself that you're making progress without actually changing anything. Instead of being a pathetic, miserable fuck who does nothing, you're just a pathetic, miserable fuck who reads feel-good self-help bullshit, goes to the gym, and repeats affirmations to himself in the mirror.

In other words, stop covering yourself in layer after layer of fake pretenses, motives, and qualities. Stop searching endlessly for that next epiphany, and for that next piece of meaningless, external motivation.

Look within. Ask yourself what you truly want, what you truly desire out of life, and how the fuck you are truly going to change.

Don’t “improve” your current self. Change who you are.

>> No.15624185

>>15624180
4/13
THE PLAGUE OF INACTION
I’ll take a wild guess and throw this out there—if you could list 10 things you could do right now to move towards your goals, you could easily rattle them off.

You all know what the fuck you should be doing. You all know you should ask that girl out, study fucking harder, hit the gym, open that business… you know you need to fucking do it. You know you it’d be good for you and you know it’s the right thing—but you don’t fucking do it!

You just sit around in a haze of useless procrastination and perpetual laziness, telling yourself you’re going to do that fucking thing tomorrow. And then tomorrow comes. You’ve woke up late, you’re feeling like shit, and something else came up. And so you put it off until tomorrow. And so on.

A few weeks or months later you look back and you realize that all that valuable fucking time has passed and is never coming back. And you’re no closer to your goals.

And the more this happens, the more you rationalize to yourself that nothing good will ever come of actually taking action, the more you decide to devolve into escapism, the more you condition yourself to accept defeat, and the more you fall deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit of defeatism.

You tell yourself that there’s no point in trying anyway. You never feel like doing anything. All you want to do is saturate your empty mind with a bunch of stimulating, pixelated nonsense and try to distract yourself away from your valueless existence through video games, porn, TV, and the endless stream of distractions at your fingertips.

>> No.15624189

>>15624185
5/13
We have a psychological term for that—“learned helplessness.” In a famous experiment, scientists gave electrical shocks to two groups of dogs—one that could stop the shocks by pressing a lever and one that couldn’t. Later, when given the chance to escape by jumping over a small barrier, the ones who had been able to press the lever immediately escaped. The group of dogs who had no lever just lay down on the floor and whined as they were being shocked.

The same effect is one of the major causes of depression. You repeatedly fail, learn that you’ll always be a failure, and struggle without escape. And when you’re actually presented with the chance to take action and change your life, you’d rather just stay defeated and mire in your own misery.

You’re probably realizing right now that everything I’m saying applies to you. And I’m going to tell you how to break free from this self-imposed prison.

FEAR OF FAILURE
If you were 100% guaranteed to succeed if you asked that girl out, started your business, and started lifting regularly, would you hesitate to go ahead with your goals? Absolutely not. You’d immediately do it.

You’re afraid to commit. You don’t want to tell yourself you’re going to quit porn and video games. You don’t want to commit to starting a new life. You don’t want to commit to breaking free from your endless cycle of procrastination. You don’t want to commit to anything.

Why? Because you’re afraid of failure. You don’t want to try and fail. What’s the point of trying anyway if you’re probably going to fail? Right?

Let me tell you something. You’re going to fucking die. You’ve only got one life. Every second you waste living below your potential is never coming back. Ever. You’re the youngest you ever will be right now. Think about that for a second.

>> No.15624205

>>15624189
6/13
If you keep allowing this pathetic fear of failure to control you, you’re going to live out a sad, depressing, miserable existence for the rest of your days. And you’ll be buried six feet under and everybody will be glad you’re finally fucking gone.

So, what do you do?

Make a goddamn fucking decision. Silence the voices of self-doubt and avoidance rationalization, and just do it. Commit to the decision. Write it in a journal. Tell a friend for accountability. Change your fucking environment.

Stop rationalizing, stop watching motivational Youtube videos, stop reading Reddit posts, and stop passively wasting your time waiting for that time to come when everything suddenly changes and you realize it’s time to start taking action. That time will never come. Ever.

Tell all those inner voices to shut the fuck up and just make the FUCKING DECISION!

Start small and spiral upwards. Turn the shower cold for 30 seconds. And then a minute. And then go full fucking Bond and don’t turn it warm. Talk to one stranger a day. And then two. And so on. Go in small incremental steps that will exponentially push you further forwards.

>> No.15624215

>>15624205
7/13
COMFORT ZONE/FEARING DISCOMFORT
Yeah, it’s fucking easy to wake up at noon each day, throw a pack of instant noodles on the stove, and sit back and binge ten episodes of Breaking Bad every day. Yeah, it’s fucking easy to just sit home, play Call of Duty, and avoid the gym.

It’s all you’ve ever done. And will do, if you keep living this way.

Your brain literally rewires itself to continue your habits, ways of life, and normal routines if you repeat them over long periods of time.

What you do, you become. And what you are, you do. It’s a positive feedback loop that spirals in whichever direction you choose. If you continue to act like a fucking buffoon, you will become one. Just like we say here that you shouldn’t look at what girls say, but at what they do—you are what you do, not what you say.

You tell yourself you’re going to start a Fortune 500 company, but you can’t even get out of the bed in the morning. You tell yourself you’re going to be fucking Casanova but you can’t approach that pretty girl at Starbucks drinking her fucking vanilla Frappucino. Stop deluding yourself and face reality.

So, what do you do?

Train yourself to appreciate discomfort. “Get comfortable being uncomfortable.”

You’ll never get anywhere in life if you do whatever you feel like doing. Love the discomfort and embrace the thrill. The pain of regret is worse than the pain of discipline. And ironically, putting yourself through discomfort will make your life miles better than you could ever imagined it to be.

How can you train yourself? Take cold showers every morning. Sleep on the floor with nothing but a blanket and a pillow. Dance in public. Intentionally force yourself to take risks.

Facing your fears head-on and pushing through discomfort is the fastest and most effective way to self-mastery.

Rewire your brain to be excited for new challenges. “The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.” - Meister Eckhart

>> No.15624227

>>15614438
If anything you'll end up simping after a 30y/o trust fund baby from Cali.

>> No.15624232

>>15624180
>Look within. Ask yourself what you truly want, what you truly desire out of life, and how the fuck you are truly going to change.

People don't come equipped for self reflection or self-actualization. As if any boy automatically knows how to raise themself!

>> No.15624249

>>15624215

Bro stop this is some serious cringe

>> No.15624262

>>15624215
8/13
Successful people love discomfort. They embrace the challenges. Without it, they would have nothing to live for. It’s what keeps them going.

Your “comfort” zone isn’t really “comfortable.” It’s just a place of stagnant procrastination and lack of progress where you just sit around, rotting internally and corrupting your potential. You only choose to stay in it because your fear of the unknown overwhelms your current discomfort.

No progress in life ever comes without pain and suffering. None.

PROCRASTINATION
The average person wastes 8-10 hours a day. Video games, Netflix, mindless browsing, cheap dopamine hits, etc. It doesn’t really matter. All procrastination comes from the same root cause—thinking that you have more time.

When you have a paper due in an hour, you’ll fucking finish it. If the bar is closing in ten minutes, you’re going to have ask the girl back to your place. If you have a terminal illness and have just days to live, you’re not going to be fucking watching TV or doing any of the other bullshit that we fill our lives up with.

When there is a deadline, you’ll get it done. Apply Parkinson’s law to dramatically increase productivity in your life:

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

In other words, however much time you get to complete a task will be how much time you take to actually finish it. If you are given three weeks to finish a process paper, you’ll likely procrastinate the first two and half weeks and finish it on the last few days. If you are given two hours, you’ll fucking crank it out. It’s just how we work.

You think you have tomorrow. You always do. And how often do you actually do what you told yourself you were going to do when the day comes?

>> No.15624271

>>15624262
9/13
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.” - Seneca, the great Stoic philosopher

You don’t have the future. So stop expecting to do things in the future and stop looking forward. You only have today. Don’t fall into the trap of telling yourself that you’ll have time later. When that time actually comes, you’ve likely forgotten all about that goal and you’re even busier.

So what do you do?

Write down your fucking goals. I can’t overemphasize this. Writing your goals down has been scientifically proven to dramatically increase the chances that you meet them. Articulate them, describe them in fine detail, and journal about them frequently. Every morning.

Create positive feedback and accountability. Write out a checklist. Nothing will feel better than taking your pen and drawing a line crossing out the goal you’ve just accomplished. Nothing will feel better than having a checklist completely crossed off at the end of the day. And then taking the paper, crumpling it into a ball, and tossing it in the trashcan like Kobe in his prime.

Set a time limit. You don’t have infinite time available to you. How you allocate the finite expanse allocated to you is significant beyond measure. Force yourself to meet the goal by a deadline. Set a date. Whether it’s a few days, weeks, or months from now, set a date. A specific date. Don’t make it unrealistic. But don’t be lenient on yourself either. If you’re not serious about meeting your goals, you never will.

>> No.15624279

>>15624271
10/13
WAKE UP TO REALITY
Consider this scenario for a second: “Imagine for a second that you have a senior thesis paper due at midnight tonight. It’s five o’clock in the afternoon, and you have thirty more pages to write. You’re sitting at your desk, exhausted, tired, and absolutely spent. You’re coming off an all-nighter and all you want to do is hop in bed. Bags of Doritos and chips are strewn across the floor around you. Seven more hours, you think! How the hell am I going to fucking get through this?

But you do. Even though you’re feeling like absolute shit, you push forward. You only get one chance to finish this thesis paper, and if you don’t, you’re fucked, you’re going to fail, and your life will turn to shit. You won’t graduate college and everything will head downhill. So you finish it.

For the next six months after you graduate, you have your own personal goals to wake up at five every morning, lift four times a week, start your own business, and lose thirty pounds.

But of course, what the fuck happens? You fear failure. You fall back into your routines. You fall back into your comfort zone. Your behavioral addictions begin to control you. Six months pass, and instead of being closer to goals, you’re even farther away from achieving them then you were before.

As a result of your failures, you’re set forth on a downward spiral in which you get a shitty career, marry someone you hate, stay overweight, have a financial crisis, become mired in existential anxiety, and fall into depression. Your life has turned upside down, and you consider suicide. Everything falls down around you, all your friends and family leave you, and you try to drug yourself senseless to numb yourself to the pain. Eventually, you die of an overdose.”

>> No.15624292

>>15624279
11/13
Failure was not an option with the fucking thesis paper, was it? Failure is never an option when you have a job, is it? If your boss tells you to whip up a two-page report on the company’s financial status by tomorrow, you’re going to do it. If you have an opportunity to get a promotion, are you going to waste it?

So why the hell is failure an option with regards to your own goals? Why are the goals society imposes upon you more important than your own?!

Why does getting to class on time matter more to you than heading to the gym? Why does sitting in your little office cubicle in your 9-to-5 job matter more than getting your fucking life together? Why is an essay due date more important to you than living up to your own life potential?

So get off your ass and start moving!

THE FINAL FRONTIER
You get 5,200 weeks in your life. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to live to the ripe old age of one hundred.

Not many weeks, is it? You might be an eight, a fourth, a third, or maybe even half of the way through that. But it doesn’t matter. This is all you get.

You don’t get to live another life. All you will ever see and think in this world is happening right before your eyes. And you’re just wasting it away.

Billions of years of random atomic collisions and lucky mutations have led to your very fucking existence, and you’re wasting it on critically-acclaimed TV shows and video games. It doesn’t matter if you believe in an afterlife or not—you know that this is all you will ever get, here.

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” - Charles Darwin

You’ll never be twenty years, five months, and three days, six hours, and two minutes old ever again. Every moment in our lifetimes is a once-in-a-lifetime moment. We’re the only organisms capable of understanding our own mortality and the value of our existence, and we do nothing about it.

>> No.15624299

>>15624292
12/13
None of you truly understand how fucking short your life is. How this is the only chance you’ll ever get to exist here. You only have one childhood. You only have one youth. You only have one chance to live your twenties. And your thirties. And so on. You only get to choose a career once. There are no second chances, no rewinds, and no redos.

You’re on a train hurtling in only one direction—towards the end of your life.

You think you “understand” that we’re all going to die, that you only get one life, and blah blah so on. Right? Fuck no. You don’t understand it one bit.

If you truly understood the fucking value of your own existence, the shortness of life, and have internalized and accepted your own mortality, you’d be living a completely different life than you are now.

Let your fear of death and your understanding of your ephemeral, finite existence here push you to greater heights than you could have ever fathomed. After all, it is the only chance you will get.

What do you have to lose?

CLOSING THOUGHTS
Hopefully I sparked a fucking fire within your minds. That's what you need. You need to absolutely obsessed with success. Or you will get nowhere.

If you think motivation doesn't last, is bullshit, and doesn't work, you're not motivating yourself properly. Stop buying into other people's opinions and think for yourself. Of course you’re not going to feel like working all the time. But that’s what motivation is for.

People understand motivation wrong.

Motivation isn’t always something that makes energy and vitality course through your veins. Motivation doesn't mean waking up in the morning, feeling on top of the world, and ready to crush anything in your path. Motivation doesn’t always make you want to fucking fight gorillas. It doesn’t make you want to climb fucking skyscrapers. In fact, it doesn’t even mean that you feel great.

>> No.15624414

>>15624299
13/13
Motivation is knowing that you have to do something no matter what the fucking cost, and then going ahead and doing it. Even if you're tired, cold, and depressed, you’ll do it. Nothing ever happens without motivation.

”Discipline” is just motivation when you’re feeling like shit. Motivation isn’t just a fickle emotion. It’s the knowledge, and drive, with the full force and strength of your being, that regardless of consequences, you must achieve something.

And life's fucking hard. Nobody is disagreeing with you. But it's time for you to stop letting life passively control you, and for you to become the master of yourself and fucking destroy life once-and-for-all.

You can complain all you want, play victim, and cry about how unlucky you are. About how shit the cards you were given in life are. Go ahead. But nothing will change, and you’ll go on living a pathetic life you are.

Man the fuck up, I say.

It’s all on you. Nobody will change your life except you. No book, no Internet article, no quote, no video, and no philosophy will help you change your life, unless you choose to.

You’re dying right now. Stop sleepwalking through life and wake the fuck up.

How long are you going to wait before you start living the life you’ve dreamt of?
So, get out there, WAKE THE FUCK UP AND TAKE MASSIVE ACTION!

>> No.15624457

>>15614340
how based can one post be?

>> No.15625007

>>15624414
Holy shit, thanks. This was a nice read.

>> No.15625108

>>15616775

Start with something that is clearly, undoubtedly beneficial, and that you are actually able and willing to do. Keep going from there, from literal cleaning to more metaphorical applications of the same idea.