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@Ramanujan Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.

@Ero Can you explain that a little?

@UnbornTao Wouldn't that make your intention the motivation? If I intend to close my fist, that intention acts as the motivation for me to close my fist, doesn't it?

There is a reason behind why "you just have to," and that is your motivation. There is a narrative you've concocted on why you have to do that thing; this might not produce a natural drive that propels you into action, but you only get up and do the thing based on that narrative. The reframing as a life purpose didn't really work for me. I have a much stronger drive to do something if I align what I am doing with Learning and excellence, two of my highest values. Congratulations on your success! And I have been studying these two for a while now. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

@Nemra Where do you live?

@puporing At least you guys don't have malaria and constant power outages.

@Raze @CARDOZZO @Ulax Thanks for sharing

@Ero I am getting a feeling that you're taking my use of the term motivation in the wrong way. Because technically, you cannot do anything without motivation. Motivation is "the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way." I think it is essential to understand your motivational systems and develop the ability to control them intrinsically if you want to go anywhere in life. Discipline and life purpose are important, but they are closely tied to motivation. @Joshe The reason why you can work for longer on your projects is because you have a stronger motivation to work on them. Forcing yourself is just another term for motivating yourself.

@CoolDreamThanks What do you mean by idols?

@PurpleTree Technically true. But don't mix the absolute with the relative, especially with someone who is still in the process of developing their nervous system to meet the requirements of higher-level cognition.

@Kokorec Ideas are worthless if not put into action. Instead of just thinking and having 'AHA' moments, focus on creating tangible results. Otherwise, your self-esteem will suffer.

@Michael569 I truly appreciate you taking the time and sharing your wisdom. I will be saving this and coming back to this from time to time. Some of these are super relevant to my situation. We really do. Right now it's a messy situation in the nutrition world. Where are you right now in your journey, if you don't mind sharing?

@Realms of Wonder I took this approach and let go of spirituality, meditation, etc. But I have found that I slip into a chaotic mess as soon as I do that. It took me years and years to deconstruct my identity and see through its illusion. This left me with an emptiness inside, which is something that both terrified me and brought me immense joy. But as soon as I drift away from my spiritual practices, I tend to fill that emptiness with all sorts of hedonistic things. In other words, I am overly susceptible to addictions if I "let go."

@Princess Arabia Thanks for the response. I tend to make spirituality a chore when it's just a way of being. I needed to hear that.

@Leo Gura What about Jay Shetty or Dan Koe?

@Sandhu Wasn't expecting that lol. But well said my man, well said.

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@Keryo Koffa Yeah, It's fucked up. Most people can't understand this. And those who do can't do anything about it on a bigger scale.

@Leo Gura Post-modernism doesn't seem very psychologically advanced to me. Yet the world is still pretty much stuck on modernism. Is this mostly because of survival?

Don't think, quite your mind, your mind is the problem. All of this bullshit is insane. Instead of advising people on how to think better, the popular advice these days is to not think.

So, it’s about bringing awareness to thought, not to stop thinking. Inherently, it seems to me, there is nothing wrong with thought; it’s just how most people think (unconsciously) which is the problem. Hearing so much about of the anti-thought stuff made me slightly biased against it, which made it worse. It’s as if the more you try to silence it the more fights back. But once you surrender, paradoxically, you begin to have some control. I mean it makes sense too, how can you control something without understanding it? And how can you understand something when you are constantly judging it?

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@Princess ArabiaHey I have seen you have this sort of “Nothing really matters” attitude. I am not saying there anything wrong with it, or that you do in-fact have it, but if you do; how do you get things done? Like if at the end you just die, then why do anything at all?