“Where Do You Draw the Line Between Mindset and Reality?”

[Hardkill]

Responding to Leo's recent IG video on "The economy is never why you aren't wealthy":

I get the value of pushing people toward extreme personal responsibility.

But how do you avoid collapsing everything into “it’s just your mindset”?

At what point do you acknowledge that system-level constraints are the dominant factor—like during the Great Depression—

rather than individual psychology?

What’s your actual method for separating the two in real life?

[enchanted]

He says that because Mindset is the only variable factor whereas reality can't be changed. It's useless to focus on changing reality and so mindset becomes the only thing that really matters. 

But in truth success depends on a nebulous mixture of both. The less conducive reality is to success the more important mindset becomes but also success becomes less probable. 

Edited Sunday at 02:01 PM by enchanted

[Basman]

Mindset over matter because it's what you can control. Doomerism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Doesn't mean you can't be pessimistic. Too much optimism minimizes risks too much. You can succeed the way you are, you just need to find what works for you. In general, you want to be tough with yourself when it comes to living your life. No excuses. If times are hard, you endure it and without too much whining and complaining.

That said, it's not that bad currently. Could've been a lot worse. Even politically it doesn't compare too how things where during the two world wars in terms of societal collapse. Even covid was child's play compared to tuberculosis or the plague. Mfs getting sad because they got nothing to do but play video games, Netflix and fap all day.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

It is neither about mindset nor the "oppressive" system. There are always ways to create a shitload of value in this society (or at least perceived value), and make yourself rich in the process, however, to put it in the most simple and general terms, most people (which possibly includes us as well) just don't have what it takes. And that's mostly not really their fault actually. It's just how reality works. But then most people would rather like to bend or adjust this uncompromising reality with their socialist policies, which is understandable. But you can only do that to a certain reasonable degree until you get reminded how things really work