You've discovered the motivational industrial complex. I think this nicely sums up the content of many magazines.
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Productivity porn
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#152"im not productive" === "im not happy / socially isolated and my self esteem is low" this statement probably holds true for 99% who "relate" to this shite.
Stop lying to yourself, more work wont make you happy - It didnt the first time.
There is no easy fix, disabling social media wont fix it. Most gains of that nature are short lived.
For real results its long term work on yourself and changes to your environment (I'm just getting started on my journey of solving this dont take it from me, talk to people > 10 years old than you or read a philosophy book > 500 years old)
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Parent poster is referring to the people that take "healthy and productive", condense it, distill it, then shoot it into their veins. At some threshold it becomes an obsession, which is not great.
why would anybody want to be unhealthy and unproductive? what is to be gained from those two characteristics?
I don't think that's a reasonable take on the comment you're replying to.
The answer to mindless obsession with health, productivity and success fads for entrepreneurs is not to become unhealthy and unproductive.
Though, on that note, what do these "productivity" and "success" even mean? Why is being extremely productive a worthy goal? Leisure is good, too.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not qualified to comment on the health factor. In general striving to be healthy is good, no contest there. But regarding working those long and hard hours (which then cannot be spent on other things) maybe we should heed the advice of the dying: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-fiv... > 2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard. > > "This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed th…
For anybody who is just scrolling by and not clicking any links: Top five regrets of the dying 1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard. 3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings. 4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. 5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
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#155Hustle and grind. Create 7 streams of income. Work 18 hour days - anything less and you're a loser destined for mediocrity. Read 5 books a week. Start trading stocks and crypto. Take cold showers, hit the gym. Optimize your schedule, log every minute spent. Ditch your loser friends and only hang out with likeminded - success breeds success. Sigma grindset. Moon or bust. If you're not worth $1 million liquid before 30…
18 hours a day? Telsa ran on 4 hours sleep, stop slacking. Putting you on PIP for this attitude, not very "big org" mindset.
You can shave some slacking off time by skipping lunch and dinner and instead chugging some Silicon Valley energy drink mix, marketed with a fancy name.
Wasting time with meals is for unsuccessful losers!
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#156If you peruse instagram accounts that post tutorials of how to do things (cooking, art, engineering, etc.) you will quickly realize that there are thousands of positive comments and likes on instructional videos that teach things completely wrong. Anyone attempting to follow the video would be baffled. This article definitely comes up with a good term for the phenomenon behind the success of those videos.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like to read self-help. I think it can actually change your life. The problem is finding actual good self-help. Most stuff is garbage or dives too deep into a specific topic. One of my favorite authors is Orison Swett Marden ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orison_Swett_Marden ) who writes well-rounded self-help and founded a magazine ironically called "Success". There's also Samuel Smiles who wrote the original tit…
> You can go as far back as to the tao te ching, meditations, or even the bible. The Tao Te Ching with the adjonction of its commentaries is a book on Confucian moral and ethic. The Meditations is a journal and also mostly a book about ethics. I think linking them to modern self-help books is somewhat disingenuous. I deeply believe that if people actually stopped reading self-help books and read books about ethics in…
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Valuing hard work, reading and trying to be financially successful is something completely unrelated to trying to do 18 hour work days, skimming several books a day, and running the hamster wheel off the peg and into the frying pan. Hard work is often what is required to be successful, but just mindlessly toiling away is not the key ingredient to success. Also, what good is a friend who wouldn't come to your aid in t…
> Valuing hard work, reading and trying to be financially successful is something completely unrelated to trying to do 18 hour work days Are you trying to say "it's easy to be financially successful by working 8 hours a day instead of 18 hours"? like... it's "overstated" that people think they need to "work more/work harder" to become successful?
Easy, no. Easier, yes. People absolutely overvalue putting in more time/effort, which actually has pretty poor returns.
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#159Hustle and grind. Create 7 streams of income. Work 18 hour days - anything less and you're a loser destined for mediocrity. Read 5 books a week. Start trading stocks and crypto. Take cold showers, hit the gym. Optimize your schedule, log every minute spent. Ditch your loser friends and only hang out with likeminded - success breeds success. Sigma grindset. Moon or bust. If you're not worth $1 million liquid before 30…
Reminds me of this awesome video - The Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
“Read Marcus Aurelius - meditations. didn’t understand shit”
LOL
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
The real deal folks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjfwxZcsKoI
The funniest part about this video is how he gets absolutely nothing done professionally except read two emails. Driving around to flash his expensive (leased) car doesn't count.
These kinds of windows into a life explain how some entrepreneur/CEO types can be owner and/or CEO of like three businesses, on the board of a couple others, in some kind of advisory role on a couple startups, and so on, and still always seem to be starting or trying to get a hand in some new thing: it's because they don't really do jack shit.
Meanwhile the peons get an anti-moonlighting clause and absurd claims over any work done in off-hours.