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Saturday, 30 September 2017
[Text] Regret is too permanent a thing for something as temporary as life.
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[Text] "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor" -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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[Text] "What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do." - Kurt Vonnegut in 'A Man Without a Country' (2005, Steven Stories Press)
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[Text] [Meta] To those of you who post negative comments on every /r/GetMotivated post, I have a serious question, why are you here?
I honestly don't get it...for example, the top post right now is a quote:
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” - James N. Watkins
Basically the quote comes down to saying "Be persistent, don't give up too easily". That's it really. No need to read more into it. Here are the top 4 comments (in order):
• A river has a lot of time on on its hands
• Well... it's also very very powerful.
• People should be wary of that trend of being "persistent". Persistence isnt always adequate, when employed in the wrong direction or wrong purpose. Or both.
• Rivers cut because they carry small abrasives in the course of their flow, and because of power...It absolutely cuts through rock because of its power.
Now I understand that this subreddit will attract a whole slew of people, mostly those who want a bit of motivation. Along with that we're also going to attract a lot of miserable people looking to shut down anything positive. If you try to encompass a positive message in a sentence you could tear it down a 101 ways, but my question is really for you...the community...why are messages like this upvoted?
When I click a link, I want to see messages of stories where the quote was applied in their lives. I want to hear similar quotes, I want to hear examples of perserverance. Maybe I'm the minority here, but this subreddit gets the most depressive comments on almost every post that it's getting absurd.
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[Text] “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” - James N. Watkins
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Friday, 29 September 2017
[Text] The Key to Productivity
I have spent my whole life not knowing how to be efficient at getting things done. I have always felt fucking terrible when comparing myself to these people who seem to be good at everything, all the time. I have asked people with maximal "life efficiency" how they do it time and time again. Some answers I have received have been extremely underwhelming, some very informative. I've done a lot of research about this "efficiency" over the years. There was a recent reddit post asking how people who work out and study have time to socialize and other things, which inspired me to write this.
I have such an intense yearning to succeed, but never had the skills in time management, never the mental health and never the support to do everything well.
I have been working my ass off recently in everything I do and for everyone I know. I haven't gotten much reprieve recently, but nobody can tell me I haven't gotten a lot done. Part of this is because I have been forced to become more efficient due to my living circumstances in order to succeed. The other part, however, was finding the key. I used my understanding of how other people work so efficiently and have applied it to my own life, and it has helped immensely. I'd like to share it, and make it simple, because most people I've met who are extremely efficient seem to already have these skills naturally, or learned them very early on. Many (not all) grew up with proper families, people to support them, and a rigid schedule which was conducive to success. I have had absolutely none of that. I've felt pretty miserable over the years seeing people I grew up with succeed because they had opportunities I didn't and learned efficiency and hard core work ethic early on. Not catching on sooner was my fault, but I battled mental health issues for the longest time, which kept me far behind in the race.
I'll try to keep this post as short as possible. Props to everyone who reads every word of this. I'm not some motivational speaker, or some cheesy, happy go lucky guy trying to throw hip buzzwords at people to help them succeed. The name I came up for it just makes sense to me. I'm just a dude on reddit. I was thinking today about how to quantify this type of work ethic. What is it called? I have slowly been learning and becoming more efficient over the years, to the point where I'm almost as efficient as I always dreamed of. It took a few simple changes, but a long time to learn how to apply them.
I'd nevertheless like to share my philosophy, because why not? When I look up stuff like this, nobody seems to actually write the exact things they do. I wake up relatively early, start on what I have to do, which is pre planned, and don't stop until I'm about to go to bed. If I haven't finished something, that's okay because I've planned it in such a way that I still have time to do it. I go to bed relatively early, and do the same thing the next day. It's not the most fun, but it works, and I know by doing this, I won't be stuck my entire life as a zombie or a slave to something. To describe this process, I came up with something as simple as possible.
It's just four words:
Persistent consistency
and
Consistent persistence
Two phrases made of the same words, but both are entirely different philosophies of working. They need to be done together.
You need to always be consistent in your personal endeavors, whether that be exercise, proper study habits, or work. Do what you have to do properly, every time. But you must continue in those endeavors, persistently and without fail- that's where the long term progress is made.
Likewise, you need to always be persistent in maintaining consistency of these endeavors, which requires intense vigilance. This is the price of productivity.
Yeah, I know it's a lot of rhyming words, and that wasn't really intentional, but it makes sense. This whole thing is therefore more of a type of discipline, the very same that people that seem to be good at everything do. And that's really it. This is of course, greatly simplified. This requires a great degree of organization and planning. However, too many people call doing well "hard work". Like, no shit it's hard work- but what is the work specifically that's being done and how? There's no magic formula, no answer for everyone, but I feel like this philosophy can be broadly applied to most people.
The concepts and the implications that these words make though, is really the key, but the trick is to prioritize and stay organized in doing so, so I've written up a list of a few things to go along with this philosophy.
1- Health
I know how hard it is to try to be good at anything dealing with things like depression, PTSD, or any mental health issue. I've been there, and if you want to stalk my post history you can see the things I have written about that when I was at my worst- it was quite a while ago now. I was in agony. Absolute fucking agony, and alone. It took a long time and the most work I've ever put into anything. That's where prioritization comes in. Your mental health comes before anything, and you need to be vigilant in maintaining it. Easier said than done, I know. I know this more than I care to admit. But you are not alone. Self esteem is hard, but you need to believe that it will be okay because you are going to be doing everything you can to make it so. It will be okay.
2- Organization
Plan, plan, plan. Look ahead- Stay organized, force yourself to. I used to keep a well kept agenda, but I hated getting it out every 5 seconds and writing down words I couldn't read. So, I got two whiteboards, one blank for goals and to-do's, and one which is a calendar. Everything I do and need to do is on those. They're right in front of my bed on the wall. I see them every morning. I follow every bit what I have to do every day, and cross off things when I get home as I go. The rest of the things I have written are long term goals, which are broken into smaller, short term goals.
3- You are not defined by your efficiency. Yes, I am writing this post for me, too. Why? Because I have always felt like shit thinking about some of the people who manage to do just be amazing at everything with minimal effort. Some of these people are highly intelligent intellectually and not emotionally. Some aren't intelligent at all. Some are just so organized that it is sickeningly efficient. Some people I have asked who have an extremely impressive resume are just like "I dunno, I just did it". This doesn't fucking help people like me who don't have that luxury.
While I cannot speak for everyone's personal life, Recognize that statistically, some of the most efficient people that you may compare yourself to don't know what it's like to experience intense pain. They don't know what it is like to suffer, viscerally emotionally or physically. Some of those people have never had something terrible happen them or dealt with mental illness. Some of these people barely have to try at anything, and it's not fair. Don't compare yourself to these people.
Alas, you already have a leg up over people like this.
Two of the most efficient people I know were vain, cocky fucking pricks. These guys were born with brains that never had to study to do well, never had emotional health issues, supportive families, and wealth. They subsequently had time to exercise, socialize and still be extremely academically and successful. They are in great shape, with good jobs. But guess what? They're fucking assholes. All too aware of how much better at most things they are than other people, they have terrible personalities, and they always will be that way. I'd rather be suck at accomplishing things and not be a smarmy fucking bitch. Don't let the bastards get you down.
Also, recognize that some of the most efficient people don't have lives outside of getting things done- and are usually lacking in at least one area of their life in some way. Of course, that all depends on how you define "getting things done" as. Some people do pretty well and still have time to socialize, and that takes a bit of natural skill, but lots of organization. People that can do everything all the time 24/7 are an anomaly. People like me, who don't have natural skill at this must work for it.
4- Focus on the immediate circumstances and save time for yourself.
You need to put you first, and if you're having issues with your health that prevent you from moving forward, those need to be put first. If you are just trying to learn to be efficient like me, always make sure you schedule at least the smallest sliver of time for yourself, in whatever way you want. You are you and nobody can take that away, be proud of whatever it is you are- because nobody else is. You need some time have fun in your way, but also try to appreciate the little things more, because they will be more present in your life the less time you have.
5- It will be hard.
It's supposed to be. Nothing worth anything is easy to accomplish. Though, I prefer suffering with little free time feeling like a zombie and getting a lot done and improving myself a little bit every day than not trying at all.
6-This will take a long time.
My inspiration for trying to become efficient was two fold. I wanted to pursue the career I want, which is extremely difficult to get into, and wanted to get into shape. The gym is a great way to learn and employ this type of work ethic. If you're anything like me and never picked up on all this shit over the years, you can start now. Every once and a while, add another piece of small responsibility to your life, if you are able. This will force you to make time for things. Mine, for example, started with buying a fish tank. I purposely did this in order to add something else on my daily to do list to keep track of.
7- Be persistently consistent.
Time management is HUGE. Learn to make your responsibilities into time efficient routines and do them, don't half ass them, even when you feel like a shit load of fuck. However, if this is eating into your health, prioritize your health and sleep over pretty much everything. Shit can wait when you're sick.
8- Be consistently persistent.
Do what you have to do regularly. Always do the above, and always keep trying to improve, reorganize, clean, and plan. You will to your goal one day if you never stop fighting for it a little bit every day.
9- Get used to having less free time.
It hurts, but it is the price of working hard for what you want. This doesn't mean you have to sacrifice who you are. You just need to be you over shorter intervals while you work.
10- It's worth it.
All of this spread over a long period of time will net you the highest levels of productivity humanly possible. I have been trying to become one of those people for 4 years and I'm finally getting there. I had to make some small changes in how I organize and plan. But, I had to make big changes in what it was I was planning, or lack thereof. I focused on my health and went from there.
tl;dr: Always maintain persistent consistency and consistent persistence in the things you need to do, every. single. day. Make goals and keep to them this way- whether that's to focus on your health, study, or workout.
If you have any other tips for being good at everything, please share.
Really, I just hope this helps someone. Genuinely, that is my main joy in this life.
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[Text] The Man Who Moves a Mountain Begins By Carrying Away Small Stones - Confucius
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[Text] A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance | Hunter S. Thompson
April 22, 1958
57 Perry Street
New York City
Dear Hume, You ask advice: ah, what a very human and very dangerous thing to do! For to give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal—to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
I am not a fool, but I respect your sincerity in asking my advice. I ask you though, in listening to what I say, to remember that all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. I do not see life through your eyes, nor you through mine. If I were to attempt to give you specific advice, it would be too much like the blind leading the blind.
"To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles... " (Shakespeare)
And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives. So few people understand this! Think of any decision you've ever made which had a bearing on your future: I may be wrong, but I don't see how it could have been anything but a choice however indirect—between the two things I've mentioned: the floating or the swimming. But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty. So how does a man find a goal? Not a castle in the stars, but a real and tangible thing. How can a man be sure he's not after the "big rock candy mountain," the enticing sugar-candy goal that has little taste and no substance?
The answer—and, in a sense, the tragedy of life—is that we seek to understand the goal and not the man. We set up a goal which demands of us certain things: and we do these things. We adjust to the demands of a concept which CANNOT be valid. When you were young, let us say that you wanted to be a fireman. I feel reasonably safe in saying that you no longer want to be a fireman. Why? Because your perspective has changed. It's not the fireman who has changed, but you. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.
So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything other than galloping neurosis? The answer, then, must not deal with goals at all, or not with tangible goals, anyway. It would take reams of paper to develop this subject to fulfillment. God only knows how many books have been written on "the meaning of man" and that sort of thing, and god only knows how many people have pondered the subject. (I use the term "god only knows" purely as an expression.) There's very little sense in my trying to give it up to you in the proverbial nutshell, because I'm the first to admit my absolute lack of qualifications for reducing the meaning of life to one or two paragraphs.
I'm going to steer clear of the word "existentialism," but you might keep it in mind as a key of sorts. You might also try something called Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, and another little thing called Existentialism: From Dostoyevsky to Sartre. These are merely suggestions. If you're genuinely satisfied with what you are and what you're doing, then give those books a wide berth. (Let sleeping dogs lie.) But back to the answer. As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES.
But don't misunderstand me. I don't mean that we can't BE firemen, bankers, or doctors—but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal. In every man, heredity and environment have combined to produce a creature of certain abilities and desires—including a deeply ingrained need to function in such a way that his life will be MEANINGFUL. A man has to BE something; he has to matter.
As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal) he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it (rather than bending himself to meet the demands of that which he seeks, he has bent his goal to conform to his own abilities and desires).
In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important. And it seems almost ridiculous to say that a man MUST function in a pattern of his own choosing; for to let another man define your own goals is to give up one of the most meaningful aspects of life—the definitive act of will which makes a man an individual.
Let's assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all pre-defined paths, of course). And let's assume that you can't see any real purpose in any of the eight. THEN—and here is the essence of all I've said—you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH.
Naturally, it isn't as easy as it sounds. You've lived a relatively narrow life, a vertical rather than a horizontal existence. So it isn't any too difficult to understand why you seem to feel the way you do. But a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else. But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. But you say, "I don't know where to look; I don't know what to look for."
And there's the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I don't know—is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by DECIDING TO LOOK, you go a long way toward making the choice. If I don't call this to a halt, I'm going to find myself writing a book. I hope it's not as confusing as it looks at first glance. Keep in mind, of course, that this is MY WAY of looking at things. I happen to think that it's pretty generally applicable, but you may not. Each of us has to create our own credo—this merely happens to be mine. If any part of it doesn't seem to make sense, by all means call it to my attention. I'm not trying to send you out "on the road" in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that—no one HAS to do something he doesn't want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that's what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You'll have lots of company.
And that's it for now. Until I hear from you again, I remain,
your friend ...
Hunter
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