/wise/

Quit Vidya and alcohol
Quit TV and news

Reading more, becoming more responsible at work

Still struggle with binging and porn addiction

Still no gf

Watch some Peterson, read the magic of thinking big

>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
About 5 years ago I decided most media is harmful and that it was only hurting me. Some of it is "alright" but most of it is trash, ya.

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
I want a family and kids out in the country. Homeschool the children and live off the land.

>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
Probably mindfulness. The mind is everything, meditation, in my humble opinion, simply is not mentioned enough in the fitness world.

>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
Definitely money. I never have enough.

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
Most importantly is my new-found understanding of the law of attraction I found randomly on youtube. It really is incredible how powerful your mind is, and once you take control of it you control so much more about your reality. If you see the world as shit your life will be shit, so don't do that.

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
I still do this every now and then because I'm not an autist. You don't have to sequester yourself from everything popular to develop wisdom, you just need to not let it control or define your life.

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
After my suicide attempt several years ago.

>What would be your most important fitness aspect?
I absolutely need to work on endurance. Strength is easy for me because I enjoy training for it, and will do it as often as I can. But I have to specifically put aside time for cardio because I don't enjoy it near as much.

>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on
I'd say time management, but at the same time I am afforded quite a bit of flexibility in my life for now so I do enjoy working on my own terms

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
Back in one of my early acting courses, the instructor was trying to get us comfortable in being expressing true self in front of others. She told us that we may work to make ourselves more interesting, more attractive, to appear more than what we hold on the surface, but at the end of the day, as long as we are functional human beings we are all of those things and more. Every expression of ourselves and our actions must be rooted in our own presence, not in the minds of others. I know that's a pretty basic lesson that's such a platitude it's actually a meme (just b urself), but the way it was presented and how we had to engage with that sentiment really stuck with me, and it's helped me to stick to my own path despite questioning from others, as well as help me to get over questioning others' paths as long as it's not inherently detrimental.

>>41798296

I have reached Nirvana by cleaning my room

>>41798296
why is this evil bitch tormenting the poor who's trying to meditate

>>41798296
A guy I look up to found a psychology study that found the more someone watches tv the more they hate themselves.

Happiness is being picked to live this life and no one else's. Every heartbeat is a gift.

Be active at least 20minutes a day. I'm grateful I have the body to do it, a lot of people are crippled or fat.

I struggle with >tfw no gf

The Power of Self Discipline by Brian Tracy

>>41798377
Agree with this guy. Care to elaborate about that law of attraction thing? That a channel?

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
Just slowly stopped at around mid teenage years, just doesn't appeal to me.

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
I think I always knew, I just refined my definition of it over time. Ultimately, being content with yourself, satori, whatever.
>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
Diet probably, I've always been a skinny bitch and it really bothered me (still does).
>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
Being social in general, mainly women. I wouldn't care about being social if I was attractive enough to get women just sitting in the corner, to be honest, but as it stands, being social is pretty much a direct pre requisite to getting laid for me, and I'm a complete social autist, although I do have some good nights where I am as charming as James Bond.
>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
48 laws of power helped me learn how to interact with humans. I still rely on what I have learned, social interaction just doesn't come naturally to me.
Prometheus Rising was interesting in general, if a bit crazy towards the end.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHKIaFjxGPY

>>41798296
>Got divorced
>Went through a pseudo NEET phase where I would only work and then go home to smoke weed, beat off play vidja, browse /pol/ and wait to die
>Decided to give that all up and start going to the gym
>Get /fit/ and get two other jobs
>Making money but no free time to watch news, mainstream movies and TV only media I consume seems to be audio books and podcasts
>No longer care about politics as much and instead of worrying about possible happenings I work on conquering myself and rebuilding myself to be become a better man
>Less rage, less depression and less sadness. My happiness levels are better than they have been in years and my fear of the future lessens day after day.

>>41801951
Hell yeah man I have a similar story. If I had one thing to recommend to people struggling with anxiety and depression, the answer is not in a pill. You have to lift yourself up by the bootstraps. Get outside, get some sun, challenge your comfort zone. Grow! In any way shape or form just challenge yourself, even a bit. You'll feel fucking great and realize how silly it is to worry about petty things such as a failed pickup line. The fear of rejection is defeated by confidence, confidence is gained through repetition. Go out and fuck with people just for fun, for practice. Flex your weaknesses and they will become your strengths.

>t. man who was diagnosed by jew doctors with anxiety and depression at a young age, tried every pill to no avail, and realized they had victimized me and were simply making money off of it.

>>41802035
>You have to lift yourself up by the bootstraps

that's an old meme. it's a funny joke where you literally float in the air by pulling on your boot straps. like you're lifting yourself up.

it doesnt mean "put your big boy boots on"

>>41802067
Ya, now that you mention it it doesn't make much fucking sense. But you get what I mean. You have to pick yourself up when you're feeling shit and pretty much do things a healthy person would until it becomes autonomic and you 'are' a healthy person.

Fellow wise men, I'm in desperate need of counsel.
I am a feeler of that one feel, and sometimes when I get really horny all I can think of is going to prostitutes. I went twice before and to be honest, it wasn't anything otherworldy. How do I convince myself when I am horny no to go? There are so many prostitutes in my country and city it'sunbelievable.
The only way to tackle the need is by fapping to porn. And that is bad too. I just wish I was asexual.

What should I do? Please, help me.

>>41798296
>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
my life turned around when i realized that unhappiness comes from yourself
focusing on things you don't have and want doesn't get you anywhere
focus on what you do have and what you can do with it

>>41802160
What's wrong with going to prostitutes? Why are you trying to avoid it? It is not inherently degenerate to pay for sex, and if it were legal it would be infinitely safer to do so.

What are your other options? Fapping, which you are also trying to tame down. A sex doll? You could also get a qt3.14 gf or friend with benefits. What is stopping you from that? Confidence? Availability? Money?

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>>41802205
brilliant, bravo.

>>41802228
Prostitution is legal in my country lol. It's funny because even google marks you whorehouses and brothels.
I can'tget a gf because I am autistic and I don't really want to prostitutes because when I cum I feel like dying. Although I do fap to the memories later on. And no, I am quite poor so I can only really get the cheap ones. Which are not bad at all, but still...

>>41802268
The issue here is that you've got something emotional going on. You're craving sex but paying for it is causing a moral dilemma. You're having what I like to call post ejaculation regret syndrome.

Maybe you regret not being able to earn a women's affection and have to pay for it? If so you need to do general well-being maintenance and deserve that qt 3.14 gf.

I stopped basing my life on the other gender a long time ago, western women are pretty much all self-absorbed trash and there is a glimmer of hope that still twinkles inside me but I don't let it get out of control. You gotta see the situation for what it really is, most western women (I don't know how they are in your country) will only tear you don't and cause problems. So I just defeat those powerful natural emotions with powerful rationality.

>>41802312
Totally agree, man. Thanks for reminding me. It's just that sometimes, maybe a week every two months, I crave it like a junkie his drugs. A mixture of sex and having a gf.
The rest of the time I am 100% happy by myself. I would like a gf, but it doesn't really bother me at all.
And yeah, where I live, spain, girls tend to dress like sluts, so much that ten years ago they would be considered prostitutes. And they have diva attitudes. They think they are godesses and really like to get people horny and then nothing. They leave. They love doing that, and many more things like that. They are retty horrible.
But then come the qts who dont really adhere to this definition. But still, autism is not regarded as positive trait by anyone.

>>41802369
Sounds like cock-tease hell, man! Ya its tough, the instinct to reproduce can be overwhelming but you'll get better at overcoming it with rationality. Your dick can make you do stupid things. Most importantly for you is just to keep bettering yourself. Stronger, smarter, richer. If all goes well they will be the ones infatuated with you and you will hold all the cards. Like most things in life this is easier said than done, I know.

>>41802369
As far as the prostitution, I'd hope you stop regretting it so much. You do it quite moderately and since its legal there are probably health standards they follow. Just do it to tame your cravings as you better yourself and reach a place where you can have a legitimate relationship. I'm off to bed, hope all goes well!

>>41802418
Alright man. I will do that. Just keep going.Thanks alot. You really helped me see clearly :)

>>41802452
Yeah, but in the end it's a waste of money. I could by hundreds of books, games and albums, instead of half an hour of peepee pleasure.
Anyway, good night :)

>>41798296

>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?

I don't watch TV, I find it extremely boring. Mainstream music is sometimes ok to listen to, just learn to filter through the bullshit. I have a dj friend with superb taste in music, who recommends music to me every once in a while.

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?

Still looking for that, but I think I'm close. At the moment, I feel content with what I have and I'm looking to add to it.

>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?

Actually working out. Giving your 100% in every workout.

>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?

The aforementioned 100%. I admit I struggle to give it every time. I'm guilty of skipping abs from time to time, because I find their conditioning exercises dull. I don't have a relationship currently, but I never had a problem with women, had a good number of one-night-stands and 4 long-term relationships and I'm not even a Chad (1.75m, 82 kg, 11% bf, not much of a jaw). Thank god for the job I have, otherwise I'd have no money. Friends are all coming from abroad tomorrow so fun times are expected.

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.

Youtube: Jocko Podcast
Book: Way too many, my family always had a lot of books, and my grandfather was a historian-poet as a hobby. A book that would stand out is "Think and Grow rich" by Napoleon Hill, "War and Peace" for some wisdom and "Europe: A History" so as to understand where you came from.
Lesson: If you had to choose between vidya and a girl in a corset, choose the girl (credit to Koko).

>>41800934
I washed my bed sheets and assented to vahalla.

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This is me right now.

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Quit TV 5 years ago
Quit Video Games 1 year ago
Quit social media 5 months ago
Quit Pop and Electro garbage music 9 years ago

+

Dynamic Stretching+Warmup every single morning
Running or Walking for around 40min every morning
3-5x Gym mostly compound lifts and some isolation on biceps, neck, shoulder and some other body parts
Sleeping at least 6 hours, mostly 7
Eating completly clean, no added sugar or fat or anything that is processed


Struggles:
-Having Friends that are not beta and annoying as fuck. Someone I can drink a beer with at a bar and talk about life and not the most recent album or video game.

-Lerning in general, I'm about to start my bachelor as an computer engineer and I struggle to keep myself focused on lerning. I want to be fucking amazing at what I do.

>>41798296
>Wisdom Gains Thread
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
I'm 26 now and I stopped watching TV and movies when I was about 21. Even before that I didn't watch TV a lot. I only watch tv or movie with my girlfriend, before sex
>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
I still don't really know about this.
>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
I'd say diet and doing actual exercise.
Also meditation and stretching are important.
>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
I have some struggles with wasting time.
Have a bunch of projects to work on but usually only get a few hours of work done every few days.
I usually have a girlfriend but I also struggle with relationship and commitment a bit

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.

Don't waste semen.

>>41804662
> "I don't watch TV, but I watch TV."

u wot, m8

>>41798457
> i'm not an autist
> after my suicide attempt

LOL

>>41804598
Of course you can't find any friends, you cut out all of what you can find in common with 90% of the population.

>>41804671
I watch tv when I'm with a girl.

>>41802067
I never heard the phrase but instantly understood it as something like typing up those bootlaces is the first step to getting out there and being proactive in terms of bettering yourself

>>41804684

because I quit social media? I don't think I will find good friends using facebook and liking reposted garbage.

>>41804686
then you did not stop watching tv, m8y

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV
At some point I didn't have one and I just stopped caring about it
>quit listening to mainstream Music
Never did
>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
Once I got my diet on point results skyrocketed
>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women?
Socializing more, it's coming buy I still have to actively force myself to do so.
>a book
Philosophy in general but Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' in particular.
>any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
Realizing that pursuing a career for money and status was a mistake and to go do something I actually enjoy instead of being miserable behind a desk.

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Glad there is a thread like this on /fit/. Its important to take a step back and really assess certain aspects of your life. Sometimes we get so caught up in the rat-race everything becomes automatic. I wouldn't call it wisdom, it kind of is, but this thread is more based on self-reflection and sort of a personality test. Either way, thanks for the read.

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
I didn't I just learned to filter things, if you feel like you can't coexist with things because they threaten you than I think you're not in the right way.

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
When I started college and I realized I was completing the life long course to be a soulless peon working half of my life for no reason. It felt liberating, I still play my part in society but knowing that made me take the whole thing a lot less serious.
>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
Sleeping and meditating, peace of mind is the ultimate fitness goal.
>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
Work, I still want to find something I could enjoy and make money with.
>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
Impossible, I'm an evolving human, different things contributed to my growth throughout my life, I can't name one thing that stuck with me. But I guess the one thing I wish more people did was meditating, I learned it at young age when I was just a little brat that thought it could give me magic powers and it end up being the one thing that keeps me together as an adult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aBlrqcpvyM
Here, this music as been my definition of love for most of my adult life. And its one part of my life I have no problems, I just follow that song.

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>>41804995
>Impossible, I'm an evolving human, different things contributed to my growth throughout my life

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>>41805164

>>41798296
>OPs pic is me on nofap

>>41805236
how do I upvote this

>>41804502

I vacuumed my floor and reached God.

>>41805236
I meditate before sleeping daily and I don't think about sex during the day so my dreams are basically sexless. According to taoist teachings I have reached an advanced level as almost all practitioners lose their seed through nocturnal emissions in the first 100 days. The funny thing about all this is that the teachings say you that you will become highly attractive to women while retaining which I am definitely experiencing, I am getting eye fucked 24/7 and women are making moves on me constantly. The irony of it all

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?

Stopped doing that when I was a teenager (13-14) and started listening to Irish traditional music, metal, and prog music. After that, I never had any need to watch TV

>When did you realise what happiness meant to you?

After I grew the fuck up. My dad died when I was 11 and I think it made me mature a lot more quickly than other kids my age. The years of depression after this made me think of the things that truly make me happy and those things are my family, friends, and my own growth.

>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?

Routine routine routine. I don't do much actual exercise or anything too special to maintain myself but what I do do I do it consistently. Every morning at 6 I run for an hour, get breakfast at half seven, Do my work (university student) until 12, eat something small as long as it has peanuts in it, Lift weights (50kg) for an hour, Back to work until 6, Have dinner (protein out the ass), another run before bed and a shower.

I only change that schedule if there is anything special I need to go to like close friends birthday or my dads anniversary.

>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?

I wish to make more time for my girlfriend because she thinks it selfish to do this much work on myself and not spend much time with her. I spent a couple hours with her each week as it is and I've been seeing less of her due to the fact that she's doing exams in uni.
I'm thinking of ending it so I can work out more and do my own studies. (Math major)

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.

Reading Friedrich Nietzsche is general has been a great help. I think that Learning about the ubermensch made me think more about the way I conduct myself.

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>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
I didn't
>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
When I started balding I realized that my hair was everything
>
What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
LIFTAN
>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
everything
>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
I dunno

>>41806131
>I am getting eye fucked 24/7 and women are making moves on me constantly.

surely this isn't your bias making you think this is happening because you have read it will happen

surely the human mind would never, ever be subject to such easy manipulation

no, women can sense your magical tao chi energy, that's what it is.

>>41806760
>I wish to make more time for my girlfriend because she thinks it selfish to do this much work on myself and not spend much time with her.

then why isn't she in the gym with you? the girl isn't compatible and is a gains goblin

>>41806840
Guess I never thought about it like that. She does complain about being fat (despite the fact that she's skinny as fuck). My guess is that if I tell her to exercise with me she'll take offence to it.

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music?

So you still listen to music. What kind of music that isn't popular is enlightening to you?

>>41806828
It could also just be a self-fulfilling prophecy. i.e
>read that this will happen if you do this
>do this, believe that this will happen
>because you believe that this will happen your actions/body language etc. change as if it were already happening (e.g you appear more confident, happy, well-balanced--in short, attractive)
>other people pick up on these changes and react accordingly, fulfilling and reinforcing the belief

>>41804598
I've "come up" with a simple "system" for learning difficult technical material. It's based on the concepts of deliberate practice, timeboxing and spaced repetition.

If you (or anyone else) is interested I can post it here.

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
I've never listened to mainstream music--nothing against it, just don't enjoy it. I don't watch TV save for one or two shows
>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
Recently. For me, happiness has to be unconditional, anything else is a slippery slope
>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
I approach fitness from a cybernetics perspective, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Exercise leads to better sleep, better sleep leads to more effective exercise, better diet leads to weight loss (or muscle gain) which leads to safer exercise, etc.
>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
Definitely the social sphere, but I'm conflicted about this because it's difficult to find people I have anything in common with. The one thing I'd want to improve the most is to be less judgmental and more humble and more compassionate.
>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
Tao Te Ching and mindfulness meditation.

>>41798296

>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?

I was 13, it never fitted my kind of liking, I always liked speed metal and wonky cartoons/niche movies.

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?

I still don't know what happiness is for me, I just try to understand what can help me reach the happiness.

>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
All of them is important, but sleeping and diet are crucial.

>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?

Definitely money.

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.

none, I always had the answer but I was just too stupid to read it

>>41798332
>and alcohol
Fucking why? The inhibition it provides you leads to insight.

>>41801079
Not him but
http://www.thelawofattraction.com/what-is-the-law-of-attraction/
Its the belief that our feelings and thoughts attract what happens to us. Bear an open mind towards it, in my experience it does work but only if you balance it with action

>>41801187
Fuck I love listening to that guy. I always have to sit back and think about what he talks about, but I like the fact that he makes me think. Great stuff, I finished his Architect of Believe lecture on youtube. Great stuff.

>>41798457
This post really affected me anon. I'm glad to hear that you got better

>>41804917
I agree, I come here for advice but threads like these mean so much. This should become a regular thing

>>41806131
Can you clarify the meditation that you use?
I've been on nofap my whole life and I've been seeking to end my nocturnal emissions. They sap me of my energy and happiness

>>41810508
no you sap yourself of your energy and happiness

>>41810678
I feel great until I have a wet dream. Then I get better after a couple of days

>>41808834
Post method

>>41805242
you can hang yourself

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

>>41808834

POST IT

>>41810864
>>41810954
Discipline and Mental Toughness.

You're welcome.

>>41798296
Never watched tv; still listen to mainstream music because it's interesting to see why people like it and how it evolves

Long time ago it wasn't that hard; I actually LIKE being alone most of the time.

Sleep. I walk, run, and work out enough between job and free time that I can feel fine eating whatever; but then I don't like most shit food and fried things anyways.

Friends. Life is made better by having friends who also try to improve; so I'm trying to make better/make my current friends better.

You can't help someone that doesn't want to be helped, and it is both selfish and bad for your emotional health to try. Not a new lesson but among the best.

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>>41798296
Stopped watching TV when I got access to internet for obvious reasons, switched from mainstream to local underground rap because teen angst

About two years ago, first flirt that actually went somewhere (but ended up pretty badly). Have people that love you and you love back by your side. Do your best to stay alive and devote yourself to the things fulfill you.

Persistence

Self-discipline

Gojira's Vacuity lyrics, all fucked shit in your life start and end with you

>>41810864
>>41810954
Alright. It's actually pretty simple and, as I said, relies on deliberate practice, timeboxing and spaced repetition, things which have some scientific support behind them.

For this "system" you'll need a couple of things:
>A spaced repetition software (I use Anki)
>A timer (physical or electronic, doesn't matter; I use the Win 10 timer)
>A source of problems and their solutions (I recommend an electronic source to make things easier)
>A way to screencap the problems (I use greenshot, or a scanner for physical materials)

1. Set 30 minutes on the timer.
2. Work through problems, checking the solutions right after you finish a problem (the immediacy is important)
3a. If you did the problem correctly, move on to the next problem until the 30 minutes are up
3b. If you did the problem incorrectly and it was something conceptually wrong (i.e not a simple book-keeping mistake or miscalculation) screencap the problem and paraphrase the solution in your own words, then add it to Anki
3c. If the problem is too hard or you're stuck, give yourself a "hint" by peeking at part of the solutions
4. Once 30 minutes are up, set the timer to 5 minutes and a take break
5. Repeat 1-4 until you fatigue or run out of time
6. Review your Anki cards every day

Sources for "problems/solutions" are quite flexible. The easiest is just a textbook with its solutions manual (for popular textbooks you can usually find these in libgen). For something more procedural (like programming) you can take an existing, "correctly" written, program and consider each specific challenge in the implementation as a "problem". Then try to write some pseudocode to solve that challenge, then compare with the actual program. Another good source are online courses like MITocw which have problem sets/sample exams with their solutions.

(1/2)

>>41811208
Now let's break down what each piece actually does:

Solving problems promotes active learning (instead of passively reading the text or listening to lectures).
Solutions give you a source of feedback so you can self-correct. (the best scenario would be to have a live tutor, but this is not always possible)
Spaced repetition promotes active recall/deliberate practice of your mistakes and the hardest questions (and their solutions), in the optimal time, which ensures that you don't repeat those mistakes and that you understand the most difficult parts of the material (which generally leads to "real" understanding)
Timeboxing ensures that you are optimally focused while you work. You can get more done in 30 minutes of focused study than in 3 hours of inattentive wandering. The same is true of exercise as everyone here already knows.

(2/2)

I didn't stopping watching tv. The only way would be living in a place where there are not any tvs, or being too busy in daily life to even turn it on. I only watch tv when at night when I'm about to sleep and a bit in the evening so it's not that much though.

Mainstream music I just can't enjoy it because Im too cynical, or just too depresive. All I see is niggers and whores (women) abusing their freedom rights.
I only listen autistically to random songs I like including anime openings and endings. I like listenING to them when running in the treadmill for warm up at gym so its not that fucking boring and time passes faster.

>diet
I struggle to eat as much as I can everyday to hit the calories and protein values I need, while trying to avoid un healthy foods. I'm lactose intolerant, too.

>sleep
I take clonazepam otherwise I cant fall asleep. I try to go to sleep the earliest possible every night.

Women like me because I'm attractive. U have some good skills to seduce them too, but women are too degenerate and repulsive nowadays. They live in polygamy and seem to be okay with it. I want a virgin whose vagina hasnt been already corrupted by another faggot. Or at least a woman who knows what being loyal means

I technically only have two friends currently. Probably gonna lose them just like I lost many other friends in my life.

Money is the thing that would help me the most. I would be happy if I had a job I like doing even if pay is low.

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
I dont know what to answer to this question. I wish I had starting strenght but it's not sold in my country

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
3 months ago. Found that it was a waste of time and that the number of movies, tv shows, or songs I actually enjoyed were few and far between. Filling that time with other hobbies like /fit/, /k/, /lit/, /out/ is far more fun.

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
Hopefully soon

>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
Sleep, I find that allowing for 10 hours of sleep allows me to wake up without an alarm fully refreshed every day. I still set the alarm of course but I wake up on my own without it usually around the 9 hour mark.

>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
Have enough money since I went STEMEME in uni and have a good job now. My issues are that I have no friends to hang out with or gf.

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

It really put things into perspective for me. How an emperor from 2000 years ago was going through many of the same struggles I am today. It also got me into the stoic philosophy and other authors, ancient and modern in the area.

>>41802160
Prosties are a waste of money. Just fap or get a girlfriend.

>>41798332
Monks drank alcohol

>>41804684
Just find a hobby that involves other people like an amateur sport, or some sort of group activity.

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
Over 5 years ago. I didn't have time for it + I am always on my computer.

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
I used to think I knew happiness, now I am not so sure but I consider any pleasing stimuli as happiness.

>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
Exercise and Diet (still have a cheat day every one or two weeks)

>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
Porn addiction, maybe? I have a bit of trouble getting women but I do not fret myself with it.

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
Atlas Shrugged & Ego and his own

>>41810988
This?

https://www.amazon.com/Self-Discipline-Develop-Mindset-Mental-Toughness-ebook/dp/B01NAF6OY9

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https://youtu.be/RAcE8U8SWlo

The ultimate wisdom is found in the Prajnaparamita Sutra.

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If any of you are struggling to keep your space clean and tidy, I highly recommend Marie Kondo's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

Do everything this qt3.14 Japanese lady says and you'll never really have to clean again.

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>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
Probably around the time I discovered Twitch. Nothing really interesting came. (Assuming political addresses don't count)
>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
When I found out my anger issues could be focused into something constructive
>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
Discipline and Self-Control.
>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
Money. Life is generally more pleasant when you aren't stressed.
>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
Book: Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero by E. Paul Zehr
Person; Father figure-like Track Coach

why the fuck is this board so delusional?

>being so fucking autistic you spend all your time "working on yourself", yet take pride in the fact that you stop doing everything

what the hell do you retards even do then

>>41812937
i masturbate a lot

How do I give up vidya /fit/? I enjoy it but its taking too much of my life up and I just really want a change but everytime I try to stop I rebound within a day or two

>>41813014
Realize it's a waste of time, a waste of money, and that the virtual world of video games is not real. Also realize it's shameful to play video games if you're over the age of 12.

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>>41813050
>Realize it's a waste of time
What is time management?
>a waste of money
Paid $7 for the complete version of CivV, love that shit
>virtual world of video games is not real.
Should I also stop reading or watching movies?
>Also realize it's shameful to play video games if you're over the age of 12
Thanks, Mr. Thompson

>>41812937

are one of those pricks that cant even stay still without questioning your self-worth?

>>41813014
Play Morrowind. Focus on improving your character. Read the books. Come to understand that be reading you can come to understand who your character is, and how they fit into the world.
Realize you can do the same thing irl and it's way better.

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?
I was never a big TV fan. We have a nice 55 inch TV in the basement, but it only gets used occasionally for movies and to turn on when the weather turns south.

As to mainstream music, I never had a taste for it.
Juno Reactor, Shastro, Shpongle, Entheogenic, Yarn, Profundita are the shit I'm perpetually hooked on.

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?
When I met the man of my dreams and I knew I was going to marry him after the first date.

>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?
Keep moving.

>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?
Being content with what I have. We have a farm and I just work too god damn much. But we love it. I'm always struggling to find new ways to improve my income/acre margin and build a better life.

Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.
Growing your own food. Honestly, this has been the single most impactful lesson I've learned in my life. The thing that set us on this farming path was one of those spinach e-coli recalls 8 or 9 years ago. I checked the bags I had bought and had an effected bag that we'd already eaten half of it. That really scared me. Raising our own food has been an incredibly enlightening and empowering experience.

I never thought I'd be able to slaughter an animal I raised. But it has made me so much more aware of what I eat, and thankful for what I have. I am a spiritual person, studied buddhism for quite a while, my husband is an ex-catholic and our adopted children were lutherns before being dumped in the system. We took them to their church they were members of before their parents died but they lost interest. The oldest boy and girl like to sit with me while I meditate.

>>41811235
>Women like me because I'm attractive. U have some good skills to seduce them too, but women are too degenerate and repulsive nowadays. They live in polygamy and seem to be okay with it. I want a virgin whose vagina hasnt been already corrupted by another faggot. Or at least a woman who knows what being loyal means

>autist alert

>>41798296
what did the duck say to the goose? quack.
what did the goose say to the dog? honk.
what did the dog say to the owl? woof.
what did the owl say to the monkey? hoot.
what did the monkey say to the human?
ALL YOUR SHIT IS MINE NOW AND GOING TO RAPE AND KILL YOU
fuck your nuanced wisdoms, might is right, nature is god, god hates you, fuck you

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read every single article from this blog
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/

>>41811228
Seconded
did u take that mooc course on coursera?

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>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?

i was a /tv/fag for too long and made too many movie references. i teach teenagers as a tutor so it got to the point where they were too young to understand these references. realized i wasted WAY too much time watching 2-3 movies a day.


>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?

i'm still figuring this out. i think what really helped was writing in an excel calendar for 7 years - this allows me to see exactly what i was doing how i was feeling and a variety of other thigns like mood, focus level etc for any day in the past 7 yrs.

i realized that while i may feel shitty and like a waste of life one night, i can look back and see that i felt even worse in the past and that i am improving.

>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?

mental health. i have dysthymia and depression and any day NOT feeling that is a win.

it isn't just regular exercise that pulls me out of the rut. it's getting obsessive with my lifts, my cardio, my heart rate, my macros, my micros, weighing food on a scale, cooking my own meals, and reading more and more about fitness each and every day.


>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?

money mostly. i'm a student whose classes are finished and i have so much excess energy and lack of money that i am applying to many different jobs at the moment. must stay busy.

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.

eckhart tolle. realsocialdynamics. elon musk.

>>41798296
>When I was 13, I started to read a lot so I stoped liked TV

>I think you never find out what happiness means to you

>Working out, otherwise I wouldn't be able to handle frustration

>Mental Health

>The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

>>41798296
>When did you stop watching TV and listening to mainstream Music? Why?

around 23, the repetitiveness of movies, at my time it was growing up movies now its capeshit, music got tiring after the waves of "new rebels" and snowflakes in different clothing, after a while youve just seen enough fads to stay with classics or gradual, non scandalous artists

>When did you realize what happiness meant to you?

There is just the pursue of happiness, not happiness on its own, thats insanity

>What would be your most important fitness aspect? Sleep? Diet? Etc?

Continuity, nothing matters if you dont do it for a long time. Id rather be a bit less strong and aesthetic for 5 years than be almost perfect for 1

>Name one area you struggle with and want to improve on. Is it women? Friends? Money?

Id like to get inside more peoples heads. I get that a bit from art, books especially but thats still often contrived

>Name a book, youtube video, or any lesson that you've learned in general that has stuck with you and helped you grow as a person.

There is a lot. Right now it would probably be Infinite Jest, DFW was very interesting and thoughtful person, a rarity in todays world, where everything is such a fast entertainment. And he proved himself by becoming somewhat famous during his life in that world. It resonates even more with internet and cell phones, which definitely shortens attention span and blurs weeks into days

>>41812879
>Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero by E. Paul Zehr

When I found out my anger issues could be focused into something constructive

myniga.jpg

tell me about your anger issues and how you control them? i throw ridiculous temper tantrums and regret it 1000% the next morning.