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If I never quit and I never win, what do you want from me?

• unoti 14y ago
  If you honestly never win, then you have an excellent opportunity to develop amazing emotional strength. Here's what I would want from you, if we were friends and you asked me for advice: 1. Don't give up. 2. Never complain. Take the 30 day no complaining challenge[1]. Not complaining is about focusing your mind on positive things, because complaining and thinking about negative things is self-reinforcing and makes you more sad. The only way to go for 30 days straight without complaining is to re-form how you think, and it worked wonders for me. 3. Read Letters from a Stoic. [1] http://www.acomplaintfreeworld.org/ http://www.acomplaintfreeworld.org/
• brandall10 14y ago
  Winning? How do you define that? If it's one big goal - "I want to be an X" - well guess what, you're going to have to have a thousand smaller victories to get there. And by the time you do get there you're most certainly going to have bigger goals beyond that on the horizon. Otherwise life will get very boring. It's the messy room syndrome, for you only have two hands you can't will the whole thing into becoming clean at once. You have to pick some part of it that you can handle and make it clean, then move onto another part. As you make your way through interesting patterns will emerge that will allow you to clean smarter, so the first act of cleaning will go much slower than the last act. You still only have 2 hands, but you have something else - wisdom.
• circlefavshape 14y ago
  Hacker News, what have you done to this guy? sown - quit. Not everything is possible. Stop beating your head against a wall and try and enjoy your damn life