Help me Jow Forums how do I stop myself from continuing to decline?
Some background: used to be somewhat intelligent- programmed for fun, studied math, music, read constantly. Even though I dropped out of high school I still worked on my own projects and I had a lot of energy and curiosity. Eventually I entered the workforce, got married, and have gotten successively better jobs every year or so. Now have a decent job, wife, and a little bit of security but in the process I've found that my capacity for studying and learning new things has plummeted. I don't even have the attention span to read any sort of academic literature. Can't get back into my old hobbies. Each time I try I just give up by the end of the day and go back to my current lifestyle of wasting my time and being unproductive.
Can I still change myself for the better? What do?
Age, user? I hit 30 recently and can tell Im not as sharp as I was 5+ years ago. Im trying to stack enough to retire before I become obsolete.
Nathaniel Moore
Still in early twenties and already not sharp.
Christian Barnes
bungee jumping with 30+ is essentially a meme. op, life is not supposed to be adrenalin filled piece of pink woojaks. you are doing fine and adjusting to the abundance of money. motivation lazyness among priviledged non-starving white folk is common, you just gotta embrace it rather than seeing it the negative way. take a few days off for yourself and brainstorm whats most important for your next decades.
tldr - my advise: hang a lil longer in there, save as much as possible, 20% crypto, 30% conservative shit and rest dividend paying stocks. once you are able to sustain an appropriate level of living through passively earned dividends, you should be having excess capital. after that you take time off work and put more time into recreational creative stuff, smoke weed and sell nude paintings of your gf while accumulating wealth by the second.
tldr buy btc
Noah Lee
>got married lol retard. here is the issue.
Landon Gutierrez
Early 20s with a wife and better jobs every year? What the duck is up with you? Faggot.
Christopher Reed
>passive income True, this is the only thing that seems motivate me at this point in my life.
Probably also true.
Zachary King
bump
Nathan Anderson
Get a kid
Counterintuitive, I know.
But spending every waking moment taking care of another human being will make you appreciate how precious spare time is and how much of it you used to have.
The downside is that you won't be able to do productive shit until kid is old enough for daycare.