The best part: "Ironically, the thing delivering the wake-up message was productivity porn itself self-aware enough to surface the issue."
Productivity porn
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering tattooing "you are enough." on my inner wrist as a daily reminder.
Funny because if you NEED the tattoo, what does it imply...?
It implies that I need to remind myself of my sick way of thinking
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60456465-i-am-enough
https://medium.com/thrive-global/5-things-i-did-to-sober-up-...
https://www.caron.org/blog/when-the-lines-between-work-and-s...
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#213I wonder how many "successful" people actually read this stuff.
Zero. They're being successful, so they don't need this
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#214Theres a reason the subreddit is called powerwashingporn... It's very satisfactory to watch someone else do something to completion - ideally in a sped up manner.
Car detailing youtube channels, lawncare ("cleaned this disaster yard") channels, time lapse before/after renovations... They do very well for a reason.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
The guy spends so much time optimizing every minute of his day that he's functionally not "living." Also notice he has literally no human interaction.
what do we define as living? i have many friends who swear it is more fun to work than to "sit around watching netflix/hang out with friends passing time/drinking alcohol"
Did you watch the video? Not being antagonistic or anything, it’s just necessary for my response to make sense.
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#216The article itself explores the analogy to porn more deeply than the usual offhand reference to productivity porn, particularly with reference to energy-sapping and demotivating effects.
Porn helps me sleep. Boom. Done.
Also, a motivator because I sleep dreaming of having a nice gf one day :)
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Some people who push these values on social media care way more about the image of being a "successful person" than actually doing what it takes to achieve success (which rarely involves bragging about how hard you work on social media). Devil's advocate but you can measurably tell if you are financially successful (from working hard/long hours) and our healthy fitness wise (from going to the gym/eating clean/going…
I think time helps shape perspectives here. It can be really hard to tell someone's career or life trajectory in the moment or even in 1, 2, or 5 years. I'm 35 now so I have the benefit of hindsight looking back on the decisions different people my age have made and while I'd be the first to caution against potential bias in data I can say definitively that the people who were into FIRE or grindset or whatever before…
>the people who were into FIRE [...] have ended up markedly worse off by their own definition of success than people who took more traditional routes.
Can you please elaborate?
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of this awesome video - The Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
Or, from 2007, The Richter Scales - "Here Comes Another Bubble": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I "build yourself a rocket ship / blast off on an ego trip" – lmao
This was a trip haha
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#219While this term gets overused, I think what we're really saying is that we're addicted to success. Or the idea that we will be successful if we are overly productive. If you watch many of the people on social media who are "productivity gurus", you will notice that their philosophy of how to stay productive will shift as the content gets stale and they need something more novel to talk about with their growing audien…
I've come to realize that there is some kind of wisdom on not caring too much about outcomes, being in present and keeping things simple. For a long time, I believed in exactly opposite, success, over-optimize - whatever I do do it right way. Until during COVID, I found myself doing so many things, music, fitness, coding, photography, and later dating -- and you can constantly find endless amount of advise and new wa…
Humans humanned before the internet after all :-). And books/magazines/newspapers for that matter.
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think time helps shape perspectives here. It can be really hard to tell someone's career or life trajectory in the moment or even in 1, 2, or 5 years. I'm 35 now so I have the benefit of hindsight looking back on the decisions different people my age have made and while I'd be the first to caution against potential bias in data I can say definitively that the people who were into FIRE or grindset or whatever before…
I think you are forgetting to factor in risk, Those paths are much more risky, a few make it big most don't. But that's the trade off people willingly make, a small shot at making it big, or living a normal upper middle class fully employed lifestyle. The way I think about it is, if you are on a deserted island, but you have made a nice life for yourself, shelter, water, food. Do you risk pulling it all down to make…
But that's never how it's sold - "do all these things and maybe increase your chance of becoming phenomenally successful by 1%".
Almost by definition a tiny percentage of people will ever be "phenomenally" successful. And the ones that do probably would do so with or without these sorts of "tips".