Oddbean new post about login | logout Stop looking for hits of dopamine and go for the ultimate jackpot in life: chasing and achieving your long-term goals and dreams. You’ll only continue to crater harder the more you chase the cheap stuff, friend. The low points are only going to get lower, the high points will thus only be higher.
That's the issue. I'm actively going for my long term goals and dreams. The only times I feel good are when I think I have it or I'm on the right path. Issue is that it's never the case and it's always, ALWAYS, a massive fake out. Like I'll be there for a minute but then immediately followed up by horrible news that both revokes what I achieved and puts me in a worse spot. It's like the harder I try the worse things get and not trying also makes things worse. Idk man.
Maybe instead of throwing the whole bucket of bait out and all ambition forward, you slowly invest yourself so you’re not throwing your whole self off the cliff you’re walking toward, lightly tapping your foot forward to see if the cliff won’t fall out from beneath you? You go into things with far too much investment, far too early.
Owl's right on this one. The whole "don't be selfish/do things for you" is a jewop, the moment you go self improvement, the rest of things just start falling into place.
@Radians @owl. @fishsticks "The Lord helps those who help themselves." If you're not going willing to put any emphasis on improving your life why should God or anyone else help you. That's why able bodied and relatively competent people living on the dole forever is so annoying, and antithetical to a healthy functioning society. I am only responding to this post, I haven't read the thread, so if what I'm saying is completely irrelevant, my bad.