This thread endorses both physical and mental fitness in order to promote healthy living for everyone.
/sig/ Basics: >YOU are 100% responsible for the way you experience life. Not your parents, not your surroundings, not your ex, not your bully, not your future spouse. YOU. Complete, sincere acceptance of this is the most fundamental step to bettering yourself, and it is by far the hardest thing you'll ever do. >Work your way to becoming the best YOU you can be - one step at a time. >Set realistic Goals and have a Plan. Use short-term Goals to keep yourself going. >Learn helpful and effective daily/weekly/etc. routines, including mundane ones. >Have a steady sleeping rhythm - one that works for you, so long as you keep to it. Get 6-11 hours of sleep. More Info: pastebin.com/h4CDDtKu >Learn Mindfulnes Meditation. More Info: pastebin.com/0NMDEUNh >Learn to be Brutally Honest with yourself. Stop being a slave to your Ego. >Think critically. >If you need to put others down to feel good about yourself, you are putting yourself in a position where you are dependent on the people you look down on. >Focus on the essentials. If you try to do everything at once, you’ll burnout.
Imma repost this because it's important reading: >ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270213/ >Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms
tl;dr your microbiome controls your mind, weight gain, and weight loss, and changing it can shape your life to insane degrees.
Also, stay the fuck away from obese people, their fatness can literally be contagious.
What are your goals this year and what did you achieve already? Almost half time.
>1.) get the courage to break up my girlfriend To scared to tell her. I have a really hard time doing this. >2.) move out of my mommys house and get my own appartment got one, only have to sign the papers now >3.) start my business and go to business school creating business plan currently and sent application to uni >4.) lift 1/2/3/4 about half way there >5.) 100+ days of semen retention day 36, feeling very spiritual
This year? Get abs. I'd say I'm a month or two of dieting away.
Blake Davis
>worked on my life hardcore, ended eternal NEETlyf and got an engineering apprenticeship >initially was enthusiastic about it >now i've come to realise just how horrifically repetitive it is >love being outside yet now i have a job which involves me being indoors 8+ hours a day with no windows >job is taking its toll on my mental health, old patterns of thinking are returning >just found an ad for the perfect apprenticeship for me (organic gardening) >it's 80 miles away
I'm going to apply anyway, but what do you think the chances of a company taking on someone (or even just offering an interview) who currently lives 80 miles away, even if I am essentially a perfect candidate? I'm gonna explain to them that I can move location easily as I have no locational responsibilities and also have money saved up, are they likely to see my address and instantly trash my application?
I've had Pectus Excavatum since I was born and It has always bothered me and now I've been exercising for a while and It's affecting my ability to build muscle on my breasts. I tried to go to the doctor about it and was at the hospital, but they said it's so mild that they won't even consider the surgery. What do I do? I feel like I can't go to the doctor now and say it affects me psychologically because he'll think I'm just saying it to get the surgery.
>mfw one girl stayed over, pretty fit >"user, you need to exercise your chest more, it sucks" >mfw
self reflection but if you're shallow just look at instagram till you hate life
Jack Evans
A 90 minute commute isn't that far, I doubt they'll trash it just because you're willing to go the distance for it.
Adam Carter
>Stop responding to my ex, forget about her and move on. >Leave Jow Forums for good. >Heal my injury. >Apply for loans/grants. >Go to tradeschool. >Move out of my parents house.
Gabriel Cook
You don't belong on Jow Forums. Return to Jow Forums.
Asher Long
An hour and 10 minutes by car according to google maps! I was planning on living in my car though ,at least on the weekdays. I already live minimal as fuck and it would still be more enjoyable than my current job. Obviously I couldn't tell them that though.
Lucas Howard
I'm on Nofap rn, 1 month and 1 week in. It's so fucking hard. I want to fap so bad.
Carson Cook
>read news everyday More like pasta on how to become normalised.
Bentley Morris
So haven't had sex with your girlfriend in 36 days butyou didn't break up either? Oof.
Hey anons I had a really awful experience as a college freshman and my life sort of flew off the rails after getting betrayed by the therapists there. I'm trying to get my shit back together but haven't been able to focus and have had suicidal thoughts for years, but I haven't managed to ever really overpower them (especially with a fear of therapists). Anyone know any solid drugs to self-medicate with? I just want to try something that clears my mind long enough for me to latch onto a skill. I can write decently and type over 100wpm, but neither of those skills have landed me any work, even just digitizing paperwork.
Levi Evans
What do you think about the old Jow Forums's idea of making it? I mean hedonism, tattoos, drugs, alcohol, thots and all that stuff. Why did it change? Genuinely curious.
28 here. I'd like to think so even though it hasn't happened yet. I get stared at by girls a lot but I'm still too much of a pussy to say anything, but soon maybe. How proactive have you been in the hunt for gf?
Blake Morris
It lacks the aristocratic ideal. You can be a classy bohemian or you can be a degenerate. There's no accomplishment in any of what you mentioned.
Anthony Martin
I have been here for a very long time, like tinytrip days, scoobs, vitamind, tuna....
The only time that was the idea of making it was during the zyzz era because his followers were flooding this board listening to stupid techno shit, getting latin tattoos and being frat boys in general.
Aside from that Jow Forums has been anti hedonist, just having to cut kind of kills most hedonistic shit.
Lincoln Ward
So I assume that /sig/ is fundamentally against Determinism, correct?
Gabriel Diaz
>tinytrip days, scoobs, vitamind, tuna It was 6 years ago.
Nolan Gonzalez
Why?
Jayden Torres
Pick some fresh Psilocybe semilceata in the autumn?
Joshua Martin
read the first part of the OP.
>YOU are 100% responsible for the way you experience life. Not your parents, not your surroundings, not your ex, not your bully, not your future spouse. YOU. Complete, sincere acceptance of this is the most fundamental step to bettering yourself, and it is by far the hardest thing you'll ever do.
That is directly against determinism
Owen Wilson
It recognizes that there are limits on most things and certain rules and laws but it focuses on the fact that most people don't even get to perform to 50% of their potential for sustained periods of time
Joshua Gray
Read grit by duckworth and so good they can't ignore you by Newport
Alexander Murphy
Right but what stops those people from reaching that potential? If you subscribe to determinism, that's genetics and environment. Nothing to do with man's will. Yet to improve yourself, and going off the language of the OP, that is exactly what this thread is for; building your willpower to reach your potential. If not, then it is all for naught, right?
I just find it interesting because most of /lit/ subscribes to determinism.
Hudson Jackson
Yeah, it's a cheesy overcompensation. I don't think it's possible to be completely against determinism. Determinism does not mean there's no free will though.
Mason Robinson
My uncle was 40 when he married his 23yo wife. He's 50 now and has a great family, two boys and two girls. It's definitely possible. Just be patient.
Nicholas Flores
Determinism does mean there is no free will. If something is determined, then nothing has the will to change it.
John Hall
What if you were destined to read that, convince yourself that your fate is in your hands, then change your behavior accordingly? The universe can very well be deterministic and end up in you changing your behavior for the better every time.
You must understand that lots and lots of people in these threads come from r9k or reddit incels and they have the opposite problem, they blame everyone but themselves. It's a necessary overstatement.
Joseph Bennett
You'll be fine dude. I knew a guy with pec excavatum and he looked shredded after bulking for a year and half (he started from skelly). Just keep lifting.
Tyler Edwards
compatibilism is fence riding bullshit and you know it. You can't have your cake and eat it too. It's either determined or not. Anyone who studies Quantum Mechanics knows this.
Brandon Watson
There are multiple aspects of what holds people back. But yeah, sig focuses on what you CAN do which is the most important for improving your life because it's actually a surprisingly large portion. Large portions of lit don't subscribe to determinism actually there are plenty of existentialists and the line there plus sig is as focused on what can be done and witnessed and felt (utility) as lit is with obtuse abstractions
Easton Cox
>Be studyng for a importan exam like a madman, and thinking i m finally gonna do it. >Go to exam OMG this is so fucking easy all my hard work has been paid. >Starting to studyng for another exam i thought already suspendend, but knowing i can pass anything >Get the notificiation in mobile of the last exam while studyng >See a 1,7/10 Wtf bros, I tought hard job would be rewarded, i literally can t understand how i can suspendedn with so low calification, i would just acepted a 4 but .. a fucking 1.7/10 i feel like a pice of shit, and tomorrow have another exam, i think i m gonna suspend anyway, i m thinking on quiting college but what i could do i hate myself so much right now bros
John Taylor
>I just find it interesting because most of /lit/ subscribes to determinism. Jow Forums in general subscribes to many things without actually knowing what it means, that's why you find contradictions like this
Gavin Phillips
If convincing is going on, then that means I have free will.
>destined to read that Destined by what? By whom?
James Wright
Go the other doctor then the other then the other. If you can exercise without damaging your health do it. I don't even think that girl meant anything bad, all people have their limits.
Jason Ortiz
I hope you aren't getting your philosophy from /lit/.
Determinism is the system that makes the most empirical sense, but the fact that "free will" is indistinguishable from free will, you have to take a more pragmatic approach, like Lucretius (ayy lmao "swerve") or the Stoics. Regardless of the possibility of free choice, many things are out of your control. Thus, the only thing left is to alter - or 'feel like you're altering but really that's just what you were bornta do' - your actions to better yourself.
Compatibilism is absolute cope.
Jack Perry
You'll be fine, guy. I got out of a relationship a few months ago and I'm getting plenty of matches on the apps (I'm 29). Women in their late 20s are generally mature and better to talk to. Just avoid the ones who are looking to get knocked up and have a family.
Logan Ramirez
>If convincing is going on, then that means I have free will. No, it only means that your brain makes you think you have free will, but in reality all your choices are 100% determined by the sum of your genes and your experiences. You being convinced is a simple reaction to something that happened to you.
>Destined by what? By whom? By the detemrinistic nature of the universe.
Ian Mitchell
and *their ilk
Michael Morales
Does the source of free will and choice matter?
Lift some weights, muscles will grow. That's deterministic too
Connor Ramirez
That's semantics. Besides, you'd have to argue for global determinism. If you can't do that, then some things are willed and some are determined (according to your logic). Besides, there's not only free will, but also free won't to veto a (seemingly) determined action. Also, don't use QM in philosophical arguments, it makes me cringe.
Juan Green
I've been lifting for a while but as I said, because of the pec excavatum the chest doesn't exactly.. grow right? So even 70kg bench is a really, really hard struggle.
When I go over 70kg bench it makes it hard to breathe so It's a bit damaging I guess? Yeah she didn't mean anything by saying it, but it still affects my self image because I've been struggling with it for so long. It makes my stomach go farther out than my chest and I am thin as hell (13.4% fat)
Angel Jackson
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
Aaron Flores
When it is too late?
Josiah Edwards
When you die.
Daniel Moore
That's different for everyone and presumes the existence of a purpose. For me, I enjoy reading philosophy/critical theory/psychoanalysis, but maybe for you it will be something different. The important thing is to explore new things and see what's out there.
Charles Reed
At some more or less unknown point. EDIT: Thanks for the gold. EDIT2: XD
Charles Garcia
Theoretically, it is destined by the first arrangement of things when existence came into being. That's one of the cool things about the stoics: they understood that the universe works causally (A causes b causes c) and that, if there are laws of nature that govern those causes (physics, chemistry, biology), things will have only happened the way they were supposed to. At the same time, they thought this meant we were living in the most perfect arrangement of things precisely because everything can only operate in this one sequence.
Of course it doesn't matter. The only point I was trying to make is that free will (feeling like I'm choosing to type this post) and determinism (being causally forced to write this post) are indistinguishable. Thus, you should //try// to "act" as if you are free and make good choices, because you will never know which one is actually true.
Getting caught up in the gloom and doom of determinism made me suicidal, and then I got over it. Thanks Jow Forums
Ethan Martinez
When the waitress asked for my order I told her I didn't believe in free will. I went hungry but everyone elses' lunches looked good. It was at Chilis
Jeremiah Torres
>At the same time, they thought this meant we were living in the most perfect arrangement of things precisely because everything can only operate in this one sequence. Just because something can only exist in one way it doesn't mean it's the perfect way.
Juan Green
Sounds like you were determined to be autistic :^)
Michael Nelson
Today.
Bentley Robinson
That's very true. I just think it's a nice cope and a good way of thinking about the world given that there are very few things you can change about it. Plus, semantically, it is "perfect" in a way because everything can only do what it's able to do.
Evan Evans
Yeah. I personally like to subscribe to the philosophy of >everything sucks and there's nothing I can change about it, but let's pretend otherwise because it makes the only life we have better
Carson Russell
I liked old fit. I like tattoos, I don't believe in God or gods, I like vidya, I like to party, sometimes I fap, sometimes I watch porn, I don't browse pol, I've never been an incel, I don't care about niggers or faggots, or retards, live and let live. And now I don't have a place to go because it seems people like me are in minority and not welcome on 4ching's vietnamese basket weaving forum for disabled girls. And I don't know where else to go I just want everything to return to how it was before. I'm sad.
Went on a 2 night backpacking trip. Last time i did it was 2 years ago. I'm in such better shape. No problem with 50ish lbs but we didn't really go that far (inexperienced teens with us). I gotta say, i didn't really go to detox, but being in nature for 60 hours is amazing. I'd recommend it if you get the chance. You really take stock of the essentials and what it costs to bring luxuries. You also teach yourself to look around and admire the beauty of nature, a pleasant breeze here and there to lift your spirits.
Justin Bailey
It's fine to post here, dude. Just ignore the Jow Forums retards. They're extremely obnoxious and dumb. They basically occupy the same function that furries used to on old Jow Forums.
Dominic Ross
Different generation imo. Zyzz came up in the EDM era which was 10 years ago and lasted through about 2014. Feel like anyone who was in their early 20s then grew up on the tailend of the beginning of reality tv which really promoted a partying type of lifestyle.
I think Jow Forums just mirrors the changing of the times outside of Jow Forums. Back then it felt like everyone was a Peter Parker using lifting as a way to become their own Spiderman and breakout of their shell. Nowadays it seems everyone wants to be a master of their own universe like Don Draper with his perfect aryan wife enclosed in his little bubble.
Its a long distance relationship so I'm used to a month without sex.
Connor Sanders
why avoid the ones who wanna get knocked up and have a family?
Jace Johnson
Is it better to just take it and go with the ride, or prepare some big questions and try to concentrate on them?
Jeremiah Ramirez
Is confidence the key to success in life? Being confident about yourself and what you are and not apologizing or trying to earn respect through merits and being nice to everyone. Just be confident. Respect and trust yourself. This is the biggest self improvement I have ever done. I feel much better about myself and I am no more the guy who acts nice and taps everyone's shoulder all the time. I still need some practice, especially under social pressure and how to keep calm. I will start buy looking people at eyes and not shitting myself and staying 100% calm.
End of blog
Nicholas Butler
Literally when you are dead
Christopher Morris
Not him but even dogs are more intelligent.
Oliver Barnes
As long as it's fun and not your main way to spend free time, knock yourself out, mate. Just be careful, vidya is the biggest gains goblin.
Blake Sullivan
Because I don't want that right now and I'm not interested in talking to or dating someone who does. Particularly when they often have very little personality outside of "I want a family" because they wasted their youth and are now grasping for meaning in as they contend with their aging. If you're more traditional than by all means take those women off the market.
Blake Green
>being nice to everyone Struggling with this one. Some people just tick me off. Especially if they mumble and behave like opportunistic betas. Or if they're crude and vile.
Luis Reyes
Even if something bothers you, you can still address it in a productive way. I've found that being willing to be confrontational but nice about it has made way less beta over time. Most people will do anything to avoid confrontation.
Hunter Sanders
Here are the books that have been most significant for me. I read 50+ books a year, not including the books I teach as an English teacher.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Helped me to make social gains when I was 17-18.
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse helped me to stop being a fucking incel. It's hard for me to describe this book, but it helped me to stop taking myself so seriously.
"wherever you go, there you are" was my introduction to meditation and mindfulness.
Thus Spake Zarathustra helped me to leave Christianity even though I was fucking terrified to leave my family, my social group, and my fiancee.
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl- I have recently gone through some truly terrible medical shit. I went back to this book and it helped me to find meaning in my suffering.
I have a lot of books that have been specifically helpful to me as a teacher and a coach. But, i've been posting on fit since I was an incel in 2009, and these have helped me become a much happier, social, and /fit adult.
I'm trying to be calm and nice but firm to their face. It's that sometimes I let my frustration slip when talking to my friends and sometimes they know each other and that might come off as being gossipy. I'm trying to pay attention to what I say, but sometimes it just slips, you know?
Connor Cox
I wonder if just laughing it off and saying "alright" and maybe walking away if possible would be cool in that situation. I feel like it makes the other person feel foolish and they might regret their behaviour.
Set and setting, read up on that. And no, even if you prepare, you won't be able to concentrate on those questions, it's not how that one works. And get a sitter.
