This mentality has kept me from most productive skills and is keeping me away from fitness.
How do I stop this mentality?
This mentality has kept me from most productive skills and is keeping me away from fitness. How do I stop this mentality?
This mentality has kept me from most productive skills and is keeping me away from fitness.
How do I stop this mentality?
Stop thinking so highly of yourself and accept that you're going to suck for awhile.
Don’t look at the results themselves but rather how they improve with each iteration of whatever it is you do.
For lifting, don’t complain about not being able to RDL 4pl during the first week, just make sure you’re adding weight every week. Even if the increments are small, you’ll eventually reach your goal. Every week is a victorious one if you added weight in some compound.
If you do Calisthenics the goalposts can be new forms and refinements in old ones. Achieving the perfect pause pull-up or your first pistol squat is hell of a goal, make sure to savor it.
I guess that’s the word, savor. Find things to be happy about each day, things you can now do better than before, or things you could previously not do, it applies to all of life.
i delude myself into thinking I have Ronnie Coleman's-tier genetics
But if you're not good at something immediately, why even bother?
Because if you're immediately good at the thing, it's not worth doing it, there's no skill involved.
Anything worth doing, you'll suck initially.
It's only when you put more time and effort than it is normal, that you can develop outstanding skills.
I just do it cause I want to.
Imagine letting your brain control you lol
your brain is you, you are your brain, dipshit
No it's not, stupid. I am not my brain, I am the owner of my brain
without your brain, you cease to exist and your body will not function. therefore, you are your brain
>without your heart, you cease to exist and your body will not function. therefore, you are your heart
>without your liver, you cease to exist and your body will not function. therefore, you are your liver
>without your blood, you cease to exist and your body will not function. therefore, you are your blood
>can replace all those organs with machines and still exist at extremely lower quality of life
>take away the brain and nothing matters
therefore, you are your brain
>take away half of your brain
>put it in a brainless body
>now there are 2 bodies, each containing half your brain
Which one is you?
neither, you cease to exist since that is physically not possible
none cuz you're fricking dead
you can ask that question ~500 years in the future tho when this shit will be possible
>when its possible
still neither, brain is not symmetrical in function and is required in its entirety. therefore, you are your brain
500 years ago common folk like us believed that earth is flat, therefore stfu
Nta, but you could conceivably exist without your heart or liver, either with someone else's transplanted or in some scenario where your brain is kept nourished and living outside your body. If you somehow replaced your brain with someone elses, it would be then in your body
I mean the way you think, feel, and act is processed all by your brain. None of your organs or blood controls what you will say next and how you react.
just lift dipshit
I dont think you will ever leave this mentality. Its almost like narcissism. I had a friend who thought he was the best at everything, even if it was his first time doing it. He had this mentality in middle school, he still has it as an adult. He is still benching 115lbs and thinks he is very fit
Always think baby steps.
From week to week nothing is going to happen, but in a year you'll be much further.
This mentality is actually you sabotaging yourself in not doing things that are hard and comparing yourself to others who are much further than you, instead of viewing them as the fact that smart practice and time will get you where they are.
lose the ego
kek, my approach is even worse
>want to learn some skill
>ok, it's too hard for me, how the frick masters of this skill even do that shit?
>give up before even starting
Change your flight instinct to a fight instinct. Instead of running away from the hard thing get angry at it for daring to not bow to your greatness and then learn it inside and out. Also even if you run away once you can come back and work on it later, one failure is not the end.
You're self-obsessed
>learning violin as an adult
>teacher is having a recital
>I'm at least twice as old as all the other students
>"h-h-h-hello my name is anon and I will be playing blah blah blah"
>knees and arms are shaking so bad I can barely hold the bow
I once saw a 60 year old dude learning piano and playing his first recital, very poorly
You have to be willing to look stupid, then learn the basics.
Learn how to learn then youll be better at measuring your progress. This will be make it more rewarding even if youre taking babby steps
>Shrooms for a factory reset.
>get a prescription of Ritalin.
>Learn how to learn.
>use GPT4 to give you the key topics of the subject.
>buy a textbook on the subject.
>cross off each dot point once you’re able to explain it in your own words.
I find learning the history of a subject is a good way to understand something as a narrative, as opposed to a list of facts.