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How many times in your life have you let yourself down?
How many times have you disappointed yourself?
How many times have you chosen instant gratification over productive activities that would yield better long-term results?
Why is it so hard to do the right thing, and why do most people end up living a life of quiet desperation?
We do not have as much free will as we think we have.
Human behavior is so predictable, that we can build entire bodies of knowledge (psychology, marketing, etc.) just by observing what people have always done, and will always do.
All of us, with no exception, are walking through life with a very complex mathematical function that is always running inside our head. This function is used to make decisions and navigate through life.
Do we eat doughnuts or salad tonight?
Do we work on our business, or get distracted by bullshit?
Do we go to the gym, or stay home to watch Netflix?
Whenever you encounter a binary decision, the choice has already been made for you by the function.
You will then use your conscious mind to justify this decision, and claim it as your own choice. You think you are acting consciously, but 99/100 times, this decision is the automatic and unconscious output of the mathematical function.
As long as the function remains unchanged, it will always have the same output for a given input. Always.
You are a slave to cause and effect.
But just because 99% of your life is being determined by an algorithmic function, it doesn't mean that you are a victim of your own destiny.
Because this function... was written by you.
Your life is your own making.
Years, and years, and years of repeated thoughts, emotions, and actions have shaped you into the person that you are today. Patterns of repeated behavior have slowly built up this mathematical function, that is sometimes referred to as your "mindset" or "personality". It's the total sum of your beliefs, desires, fears, likes, dislikes, and habits.
If you do not like the way your life looks like right now, you have to understand very clearly the fact that the results of today are not happening because of what you've did this week, or this month, or even this year.
Today is the consequence of what you did 5, 10, 20 years ago. The payday has come.
If you truly want to change your life, you have to understand that you are the captain of the ship, and you also have to understand that there is a huge delay between the moment you turn the wheel, and the moment the ship starts to steer in the right direction.
You can do anything for a week:
But if you do it for 6 months, the first results are going to come.
And if you do it for 6 years, life can be so different you would not be able to believe it's happening for real.
And this brings us to the conclusion of this thread.
The only solution for getting in the driver's seat of our life, and be the creators of our own destiny, is to gradually and systematically rewrite this mathematical function and create better circumstances for ourselves, by executing a good process.
The process - is the one and only antidote for all the chaos.
Figure out what truly matters to you, figure out the kind of person you need to be, and start practicing being that person. Have a few core habits and actions that need to be performed every single day.
Do them religiously.
You will gradually become the things that you are doing.
And now the mathematical function will start working for, not against you. You will now choose the right thing by default. Because this is who you are - this is who you have become.
You get to decide your process.
And the process will decide your destiny.
How many times have you disappointed yourself?
How many times have you chosen instant gratification over productive activities that would yield better long-term results?
Why is it so hard to do the right thing, and why do most people end up living a life of quiet desperation?
We do not have as much free will as we think we have.
Human behavior is so predictable, that we can build entire bodies of knowledge (psychology, marketing, etc.) just by observing what people have always done, and will always do.
All of us, with no exception, are walking through life with a very complex mathematical function that is always running inside our head. This function is used to make decisions and navigate through life.
Do we eat doughnuts or salad tonight?
Do we work on our business, or get distracted by bullshit?
Do we go to the gym, or stay home to watch Netflix?
Whenever you encounter a binary decision, the choice has already been made for you by the function.
You will then use your conscious mind to justify this decision, and claim it as your own choice. You think you are acting consciously, but 99/100 times, this decision is the automatic and unconscious output of the mathematical function.
As long as the function remains unchanged, it will always have the same output for a given input. Always.
You are a slave to cause and effect.
But just because 99% of your life is being determined by an algorithmic function, it doesn't mean that you are a victim of your own destiny.
Because this function... was written by you.
Your life is your own making.
Years, and years, and years of repeated thoughts, emotions, and actions have shaped you into the person that you are today. Patterns of repeated behavior have slowly built up this mathematical function, that is sometimes referred to as your "mindset" or "personality". It's the total sum of your beliefs, desires, fears, likes, dislikes, and habits.
If you do not like the way your life looks like right now, you have to understand very clearly the fact that the results of today are not happening because of what you've did this week, or this month, or even this year.
Today is the consequence of what you did 5, 10, 20 years ago. The payday has come.
If you truly want to change your life, you have to understand that you are the captain of the ship, and you also have to understand that there is a huge delay between the moment you turn the wheel, and the moment the ship starts to steer in the right direction.
You can do anything for a week:
- start a diet
- start training
- start a business
But if you do it for 6 months, the first results are going to come.
And if you do it for 6 years, life can be so different you would not be able to believe it's happening for real.
And this brings us to the conclusion of this thread.
The only solution for getting in the driver's seat of our life, and be the creators of our own destiny, is to gradually and systematically rewrite this mathematical function and create better circumstances for ourselves, by executing a good process.
The process - is the one and only antidote for all the chaos.
Figure out what truly matters to you, figure out the kind of person you need to be, and start practicing being that person. Have a few core habits and actions that need to be performed every single day.
Do them religiously.
You will gradually become the things that you are doing.
And now the mathematical function will start working for, not against you. You will now choose the right thing by default. Because this is who you are - this is who you have become.
You get to decide your process.
And the process will decide your destiny.
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