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The Formula For Success 2017-08-29 03:49:40 Post No.39384457
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So I've spent a lot of time reading biographies of really successful people. I don't mean like your cousin who's a dermatologist, I mean the 'legend' types who are famous for being good at something.
The common denominators I've noticed are:
1. They knew what they liked really early.
This is probably the single biggest common denominator. All these 'famous for being successful' people had a passion that they were obsessed with by like age 10 at the latest, and they stuck with it.
2. They worked a fuckton.
Basically everybody who's famous for achievements is a workaholic. It comes up in every single bio I've read on the topic. They're all 100 hour a weekers, minimum.
3. If factor #1 or #2 is absent they were probably born rich or are insanely lucky.
I'm not kidding, everyone who's world class at something knew what they wanted at age 6 and has been working 100 hours a week at it for at least a decade. If you think you know an exception, I can almost guarantee you they're just some rich kid with connected parents. All the ho-hum hollywood stars who are famous but not especially talented are in this category.
It seems presumptuous to think you've found the formula for success, but I'm really pretty sure "get started young and work an obscene amount" is close.
The takeaway?
About half of this formula is inside your control, and half outside it. Whether you had a passion at a young age that you're still working on is decided at this point. But you have the ability to influence whether you'll be working a fuckton to for the rest of your life. So while you likely won't become a Warren Buffett or Steve Jobs tier achiever, you could probably turn your life around and maybe even do better than average, by working a fuckton.
It seems that spending huge amounts of time working is really crucial to this whole 'success' thing.
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It's weird you posted a picture that goes against your post.
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>>39384457
>1. They knew what they liked really early.
By early on I lost all my passions for shit because I realized I was retarded and shit at absolutely everything I tried. That, along with only negative reinforcement from parents and peers telling me I was bad at everything I tried which only further ruined any passion or aspirations I had.
>2. They worked a fuckton.
Not even gonna try to lie, I'm a lazy idiot with no motivation or drive to do anything; I can hardly even focus for longer than a few minutes.
I guess being a robot prevents you from being successful.
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in this case the word "work" is a mysterious euphemism for something else in which we have no idea what it means.
i agree with point number 1. you need to find your shit, your career, your skill early, as in some time in your 20s.
i knew i wanted to farm at an early age. i tried growing marijuana, succeeded at that. but now both of those have been hijacked by the state if you haven't noticed.
maybe you haven't seen one of the billion documentaries on farming, but lets just say it ain't what it used to be.
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I WANT HIM TO TAKE ME BACK TO THE PAST
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>tfw started watching one avgn episode before going to sleep
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>>39384328
To play the shitty games that suck ass?
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Never liked the poop jokes
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Always remember if you make a choice in life. its always a small end to something and something new begins. There are no bad decisions if you do something you think honestly its the right thing to do, every bad decision can also be the better outcome.
If you have no friends or whatsoever it made you into the person you are, you are good the way you are if you think you really tried. Even if you were lazy, learning from the experience makes you a better person.
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What if you are not learning anything from your mistakes and keep doing them over and over without the slightest incline to change anything about your life style?
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>>39384265
>really tried
>choices
Free will is an illusion, no choice you make is under your control. Making choices itself is an illusion, you are bound to react a certain way to certain stimulation and no amount of self-delusion is going to change that.
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>>39384265
hitler would be very proud
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>mfw I get friendzoned in my dream for the SECOND TIME this week
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When you see things in your dreams, it means the opposite will become the reality ;)
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>>39384245
>girl I'm romanitically attracted to tried to kill me out of hate
Makes me wonder...
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>>39384223
He can still sleep and dream
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Why does he trigger /pol/ so much?
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>>39384166
because he showed the incompetence of German leadership and won the war
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>>39384166
Why does pic related trigger foreskin vampires so much?
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>>39384166
What's his name? It's just on the tip of my tongue.
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Why do white people cultural appropriate so much?
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>>39384151
They want that big asian cock
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>>39384151
every culture appropriates
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Why do non-whites dedicate so much time to bitching about whites?
Who else here is tired of their life of decadence? I am so done with my hedonistic ways. I feel like I can finally see how toxic this is for me, for my soul.
Starting today I give up
>cheating on my wife
>flirting with coworkers and customers
>working at 20% efficiency
>drinking anything other than water and tea
>eating a meat based diet
And pledge to
>work out 4 times a week
>perform at 100% at work
>finally learn my wife's native language so i can bond with her family
>switch rice and potatoes for more vegetables
>be clear of all debt by 01/01/2018
What changes do you wish to make in your life anon?
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holy shit you sound like a real character.
reminds me of my grandpa. he would eat a fried steak filet for dinner then after that eat ice cream with expensive maple syrup poured on top of it.
he was diabetic and had polio, i gave him his insulin shots sometimes.
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>>39384144
What board do you think you're on right now? You realize this is r9k, right?
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>>39384144
Report back with rationalization as to why you won't be achieving any of these things
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why does it feel like the longer my life goes on the deeper I'm am descending into a hellish nightmare
It's like when I think I've hit rock bottom it's just the ceiling of a deeper realm.
just a couple of years ago I couldn't even conceive of the place I find my mental state in now
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The best time of life is until the end of puberties' second growth spurt, after that you only watch yourself being eroded both physically and mentally through the force of time for the entirety of your life, so it seems very rational to harbor bad feelings against this fact
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>>39384184
i'm only 23 though. and others seem to be flourishing with each passing year.
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>>39384247
Mate I'm 27 and everyone I ever knew seems to be in a much better position than I am. And right now I only really have one dude I still talk to regularly who'd I consider my only friend, but he is probably going to kill himself in 1-2 months, too.
Could be worse, I guess.
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>be extreme autist
>have to draw classmates to remember their names
>too distracted by Chad fitting Chad meme to remember his name/pay attention when he states his name
Shit, whoops.
How to trick classmates I missed into restating their names?
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>>39384114
Just call him Chad
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>ask someone want their name is
>Pretend to correct yourself as if your asking for their last name
Now you have e first and last name
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>>39384154
Everybody knows your true intention when you do this. Just say you are pretty good with faces but have a hard time remembering names so you could need to ask it a couple of times.
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I need advice of how to help a robot.
>Go to uni
>Use [reddit!to meet 5 people who want to share an apartment
>We decided to get student apartment together.
>Everybody is more or less normie expect one robot roommate.
>Everybody hate him because he doesn't leave his room and is kinda a sperg.
>They want a more social roommate
>They want to kick him out.
>I think he is a great roommate
How do I convince him to change a little bit so the other wont kick him out?
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Tell them that they're fucking retards if they think a guy who keeps to himself and doesn't bother anyone is a bad roommate. Of course they won't listen because they're fucking normalfags.
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>>39384074
Dude is also the only one beside myself to pay rent on time.
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>>39384037
>They want to kick him out.
Tell them to go kill themselves.
The fuck they think they are, to just kick out another guy?
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How the FUCK do "women" compete with goddesses like this?
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>>39384004
by being even superior goddesses
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>>39384004
>>39384394
both literally have manfaces, are you guys homos or some shit?
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>>39384987
>he doesnt like masculine women
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What's a good way to kill myself?
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>>39383965
Take some pills and alcohol with you and go in an isolated mountain or a forest in winter. A very peaceful way to pass out.
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>>39383965
If you can travel to a remote cold area, like most parts of Canada, you can just drink yourself until you are shit-faced then peacefully sleep in the snow. The cold will take care of the rest and you won't feel anything.
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>>39383965
Just buy a gun and shoot yourself in the back of the head near the base of the skull. It'll sever your brainstem and you'll die almost instantly with little to no feeling since your nerves will be severed.
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Manlets...will they ever learn?
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Learn what? That they can get pussy better than lanklets?
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>>39383905
I think it has been pretty much confirmed that they will never learn.
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>hating on X because of his height
are you 12?
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What's the proper term for someone afraid of everything?
>go outside
>afraid of an invasion happening or getting robbed
>afraid of eating fast food and getting fat
>afraid of being laughed at/ridiculed
>afraid of getting arrested for no reason
>stay inside
>afraid of missing out on something interesting outside
>afraid of home being broken into at night
>afraid of becoming homeless
I want to die. There's nothing I can do that I feel completely comfortable doing, based off an extremely small chance of anything and everything going wrong. Am I just fundamentally broken? How do I become less of a coward?
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You are, very likely, high in the neuroticism personality trait.
There's no convincing evidence that you can really change this personality trait in adults, but we know very little about this anyway, and it was only recently they discovered that you can change some personality traits, namely openness.
Personally, I am much less neurotic when I'm exposed often to the outside world. Most people's mind can't stay on high alert for that long.
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>>39383901
paranoid schizophrenic?
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>>39384086
I've never heard about this. Where can I read more on it?
>>39384129
God, I hope not but it seems likely...
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why do leftists push their ideology on you so hard and act so self righteous about it, Then proceed to attempt to shame you if you don't align with their beliefs and then freak out if you even hint at questioning any of them?
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>>39383900
They're bad people.
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>>39383900
>the irony of a /pol/tard posting this shit on /r9k/
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>>39383955
I don't go on /pol/ though