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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 02:14:00 2020 No.12462445 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12462460 >>12462481 >>12462666 >>12463022 >>12463108 >>12463159

I've losty ability to think logically and learn. My mind is constantly in panicked schizo ADD mode.
It's like there's no time for anything. Read a book? Nonsense. You will not only not remember anything valuable from it, but the things you will learn will not be on the exam, and it will take up a great bunch of your "free time".
Learn guitar? Nonsense. It takes years to get good, and only if you dedicate your life to it, and practice 8 hours a day. You're just fooling yourself by thinking you can succeed at it.
Learn programming? Nooooo. Your code is not compact and readable enough to be worth half a dime, and it is not portable at all.
I'm a Valedictorian at my course, but I don't feel like I deserve any of this. I don't know how I succeeded, and I know I will fail at my future job. I don't know what to do.
Fucking hold me /sci/

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 02:18:07 No.12462460 Report

Quoted By: >>12462522

>>12462445
I don't know if this will be helpful to you but it has been helpful to me. First of all pick something you want to do. Play the guitar, read a book, whatever you want, just make it concrete. Once you picked it decide to stick with it and follow it through.
Then appeal to mathematical induction. You can open a book. You can read 1 sentence. Then you can read one more, total 2 sentences. Then you can read one more, total 3 sentences. Then you can read one more, total 4 sentences. Then you can read one more, total 5 sentences. Then you can read one more, total 6 sentences. Then you can read one more, total 7 sentences. Then you can read one more, total 8 sentences. By reading my post, you already have read more than 10 sentences. You're very good at this! It's not that hard, just take it one sentence at a time. By mathematical induction, you can read whatever number of sentences you like. Just keep reading one more sentence. Eventually, you will notice that you have read the whole book, and significantly progressed with your guitar skills.
Good luck bro!

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 02:26:29 No.12462481 Report

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>>12462445

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 02:39:19 No.12462522 Report

Quoted By: >>12462526 >>12463375

>>12462481
That's actually pretty descriptive.

>>12462460
I appreciate it.
But mathematical induction is nonsense outside of mathematical realm. There is no sense in assuming that every state holds true just because every state before it held true. This is just a way to fool yourself. And what point is there to not being honest with yourself, but to lie and deceive yourself, just to get a "cold turkey" when it all fails.

So far I am my own tyrant. Lying to myself to get me going, and bringing myself down at the same time. There is no inner peace for me.
And every jab at my nerve endings, every cramp reminds me of my mortal shell, of time flowing by. How can I ascend if I am to die.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 02:40:09 No.12462526 Report

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>>12462522
>This is just a way to fool yourself
It's called believing in yourself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 02:44:37 No.12462547 Report

Quoted By: >>12462597 >>12462599

>>12462526
Believing in yourself is a recursive nonsense. "Believing in" is a domain of people who are not me. And if they believe in me, they often expect from me, and the expectations are unreal given the circumstances.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 02:57:23 No.12462597 Report

Quoted By: >>12462610 >>12462657

>>12462547
Sounds like your thought processes are tainted by nihlism. This typically happens before a transformative period of self actualization, or cyclical regression. Without going through self actualization, you will fall onto regressive behaviors that have served as coping and comfort mechanisms up to this point in your life. You will be locked in to a certain stage of life, unable to escape. Most people get stuck into a regressive loop for the rest of their life at some point, as self actualization is a relatively difficult process.

My suggestion, and what has worked for myself and others in the past, is to study philosophy and harness what you learn in episodes of intense self reflection (i.e. meditation). Challenge your values, perceptions and perspectives. Challenge the narrative you are living your life by, and consider the ways in which it can be observed and changed by sheer will power.

Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Aurelius, Epictetus, the Upanishads, the Dhammapada, etc. After studying philosophy for two years and a really powerful meditative session on LSD, I overcame my hatred of all life and existence and set on the path to becoming who I was meant to be.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 02:57:55 No.12462599 Report

Quoted By: >>12462657

>>12462547
Try looking at yourself from the third person perspective. That can help motivate yourself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:01:29 No.12462610 Report

Quoted By: >>12462633 >>12462663

>>12462597
How did you self actualize?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:05:35 No.12462625 Report

Quoted By: >>12462657

Thus Spake Zarathustra, the most important book I ever read: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm#link2H_4_0006

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:07:16 No.12462633 Report

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>>12462610
Just download the update you dumbo, we live in the 2020s now

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:17:16 No.12462657 Report

Quoted By: >>12462702

>>12462599
Looking at myself from 3rd person perspective fills me with shame.

>>12462597
You had me in the first paragraph, but you went over to mind astronaut LSD-trip mumbo jumbo w/ philosophy and meditation. Yayaya it's 70's all over again and I'm going to question the truthfulness of my sober mind and and senses by dropping acid and greeting the avalanche current of neurons firing away inside the brain that had been turned into a pulp by philosophical babble as some kind of guidance. You are truly a fool.

>>12462625
I took a look, and it seems like a collection of proverb-like phrases with a twist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:20:07 No.12462663 Report

Quoted By: >>12462685

>>12462610
I closed my eyes, laid on my back and focused on my breathing. I started shaking uncontrollably as a cold chill washed over me. I continued to focus on breathing, and let the tremors pass. Progressively I felt less and less of my body as if I were disintegrating. When I lost feeling of my lungs, I couldn't verify whether I was still breathing or not, so I kept focus on sending the brain signals that *should* be moving my lungs. After I lost feeling of my head, I left my body and went through three visions.

I will try to keep it short. The first vision, I was floating through an infinitely deep tunnel of constantly morphing colors and forms. It was like a kaleidoscope tube spinning and pulling me in. I continued to focus on simply "being" and not reacting to the experience, and it shifted into a massive tree with bubbles of light on it's branches. I could zoom into each bubble of light and witness a discrete moment in time which contributed to the complexity of the universe, all the way up to the present day. Below the roots was complete darkness, and above the present, going toward the top of the tree was pure light. I could not see past the light due to its brightness, but I focused on it and wondered what it may be hiding. I then felt myself propelled into that light, where there was no space, or time, or form, or "me", or "you". It was only "one being" that felt like "us". It was the most intense feeling of love and hope I have ever felt. The sense of "us" began to communicate directly to the "me" that still existed in a human body via emotion and pure knowledge. I realized the nature of reality and our place in it, and I felt the negative values I held that were suppressing my positive aspect falling away. I was shown essentially, my bubble on that tree, where I fit in the cosmic order, and how I connect to the end goal of "becoming the light" which all being shares. It took me a few months but I began walking down that optimal path that I was shown.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:21:09 No.12462666 Report

Quoted By: >>12462685

>>12462445
get a concussion, then instead of panicked schizo ADD mode you're just retarded sleepy alzheimers mode when you try to htink logically and learn

t. confcusossion getter pro

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:27:56 No.12462685 Report

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>>12462663
>dude weed
>lmaO

I had more complex dreams when I was five. Metaphorically speaking of course.

>>12462666
Dear Satan, this is pretty much how do i feel. Have I had a concussion? Because I don't remember having one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:32:46 No.12462702 Report

Quoted By: >>12462730

>>12462657
By no means do I advocate taking psychedelics without proper consideration or respect for their potential affects. I was a hardcore materialist, and a staunch advocate of atheism before I ventured into "mumbo jumbo" land. Some of the greatest physicists of the past century have been advocates for studying philosophy and religion (in particular, Hindu philosophy). Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Oppenheimer, Tesla. That was the biggest eye opener for me that perhaps I was missing something in a larger picture.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:42:56 No.12462730 Report

Quoted By: >>12462752

>>12462702
Well there might be something to it, but I don't really care for it. At least now.

Don't get my attitude wrong though. I respect you and a person, but I can't respect your point of view.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:52:43 No.12462752 Report

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>>12462730
There is a short story written by Isaac Asimov which does a better job of getting across our place in the universe (IMO of course) than I ever can. Might take you 15 minutes to read, and it's pretty damn entertaining.

http://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 05:58:09 No.12463022 Report

Quoted By: >>12463164

>>12462445
>Learn guitar? Nonsense. It takes years to get good, and only if you dedicate your life to it, and practice 8 hours a day

Speaking from experience, this is objectively false. After a few months (of 30 minutes a day practicing) you'll reach a point where you can just improvise and have fun playing, and it stops feeling like work

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 06:46:08 No.12463108 Report

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>>12462445
Damn I have the same thoughts every day but I'm a loser with no accomplishments
Looks like you better snap out of this shit quick bro

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 07:10:54 No.12463159 Report

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>>12462445
you've reached your limit.
GL with that office job. Maybe get a hobby and a life outside of work

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 07:12:55 No.12463164 Report

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>>12463022
Hi, Lex Fridman

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 09:08:11 No.12463375 Report

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>>12462522

“Mathematical Induction” is literally deductive reasoning.

You prove that a sequential statement must be true whenever you know a previous statement is true. When you prove the base statement, it cascades into proving all statements in the chain.

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