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Quest for a Meaningful Life
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Ideas, inspiration, and support for meaningful living
What does a good, happy, or meaningful life mean to you?
What makes life good, happy, or meaningful?
What gets in the way of a good, happy, or meaningful life?
How can you make your life better?
How can we help each other live better lives?
I’m looking forward to hearing your perspectives.
Let’s help each other live the best lives we can.
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What does a good, happy, or meaningful life mean to you?
What makes life good, happy, or meaningful?
What gets in the way of a good, happy, or meaningful life?
How can you make your life better?
How can we help each other live better lives?
I’m looking forward to hearing your perspectives.
Let’s help each other live the best lives we can.
Website: questforameaningful.life
Discord: discord.gg/28Jp2ve
RUclips: ruclips.net/user/QuestforaMeaningfulLife
Buy Me a Coffee: bmc.link/questforameaningfullife
Instagram: questforameaningfullife
Twitter: QMeaningfulLife
Facebook: groups/questforameaningfullife
The music of life: Rhythm, harmony, melody
The thought I have for you today is this application of the idea of music.
Music is such a powerful basic thing that seems to connect in such a basic way with us and with the world, and there's something very fundamental about it.
And I think that it can be useful to kind of use that metaphor and that frame of thinking and applying to our lives.
So I look at ways of looking at the elements of music.
You see rhythm, harmony, melody.
And of course thythm: we can see that in time.
And music, of course, itself is something that exists in the dimension of time, just like our lives are in this dimension of time.
And the rhythm is how everything fits in time.
The pacing, the speed, the elements that rep...
Music is such a powerful basic thing that seems to connect in such a basic way with us and with the world, and there's something very fundamental about it.
And I think that it can be useful to kind of use that metaphor and that frame of thinking and applying to our lives.
So I look at ways of looking at the elements of music.
You see rhythm, harmony, melody.
And of course thythm: we can see that in time.
And music, of course, itself is something that exists in the dimension of time, just like our lives are in this dimension of time.
And the rhythm is how everything fits in time.
The pacing, the speed, the elements that rep...
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The spirit of exploration
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When I think about what brings meaning to my life, what makes life meaningful, often for me it comes back to this idea of exploration. Because the basic fact as I see it is just that life is a mystery. Everything around us, the whole universe, the fact that anything exists at all, is just such a fundamental mystery. And for some reason, I have curiosity about it, just a desire to know what's go...
Everybody is creative: We are filters for our experience
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One metaphor that I like for life is this model of a filter. In some way we seem to act as filters for what's around us. Like we have the environment that we are in, and we take things in. We experience the environment around us. And you could look at that as the input. It's coming in through our senses, everything that we see and hear and touch and experience, that's coming into us. And then t...
Don't forget to live
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In the world of self-development and all this talk about living a better life and improvement, all these kinds of things, there's very naturally a focus on work, because we actually have to change things. Life doesn't just automatically get better. We need to work in order to change the conditions that we're in. Either working around the things around us, so we can have shelter and food and all...
Minimalist knowledge: Life on a need-to-know basis
Просмотров 516Год назад
One of the themes I keep coming back to is simplicity. Minimalism. Looked at minimalism of my physical possessions, the clutter that is around me, having clear, open space physically. And could also look at that in the clearness of time, having not too much clutter filling time, so that there's open space in time, not trying to consume too many experiences and just fill up time with everything....
Minimalist self-development: We don't really need to "develop"
Просмотров 3022 года назад
It's now been three years since I started this channel, and one year of a video every day, one year of a video every week, one year of a video every month, and now going down to one video every quarter. So when I started this, I was motivated by this idea that I was not living my life correctly. I wasn't making use of the life that I had. Just sort of passively drifting through life, without re...
Move your worst piece
Просмотров 2502 года назад
So I now find myself back in the old place, piles of stuff everywhere, as I move back in and try to improve the situation here, try to make this the best home, the best living environment, that I can. And there's so many different pieces, so many different things, and the to-do list has just exploded. And this is even a relatively simple thing.I mean, I'm just fixing up basic things, moving in....
A good state of mind is like fresh air
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A good state of mind is like fresh air, and a bad state of mind is like being stuck in a stuffy room. And I like this metaphor because we've all had that experience of being in a room where the air is very stuffy and still, closed windows, no circulation. And maybe we get used to it, and it becomes normal, but it's always just a little bit uncomfortable and just makes everything a bit worse, ma...
Hours and seasons bring us back to the moment
Просмотров 1192 года назад
As I go on, I find that I have less and less to talk about, because things really become simpler. And looking for a meaningful life seems to be not so much about adding new things, finding something to add to basic life, but really more about removing distractions. So a lot of things that fill our minds and fill our thoughts, fill our time, fill up our energy, a lot of these things are simply n...
Home is a place shaped by love
Просмотров 1432 года назад
It was while travelling around, doing a bit of a road trip around my home area, southern Ontario, got to near the furthest point away from my home, right down in the southwestern corner of Ontario, and I started to think about what really makes a home. What is it about home that makes it different from any other place? It could be really interchangeable in some way. It doesn't have to have any ...
Spacious time: How would your time look as a space?
Просмотров 1562 года назад
Welcome to Quest for a Meaningful Life in the park, down here by the Toronto waterfront, and today I'm thinking about what it means to think about time as if it's space. If we think about the home that we live in, you can imagine a mental picture of what your house or apartment or whatever looks like. Maybe your town, your city. Your environment. You live in a certain environment of space. But ...
Permanent Daylight Saving Time: Disconnecting from the sun
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Permanent daylight savings time. [...] I find it very symbolic of the way that we interact with nature. [...] Someone had a clever idea that we could actually pretend that the time is different than what it is. We could actually just change the clocks, completely arbitrarily. The sun isn't changing. Still doing the same thing. But when it's actually 12 o'clock, we can pretend it's 1 o'clock. An...
Down the news hole: Finding meaning in history and world events
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When it comes to meaningful life, finding meaning in life, one of the themes that keeps coming back is this idea of connecting to something bigger, plugging into something that is bigger than ourselves and our everyday lives. And so this could be, of course, family, community, some sense of humanity, being plugged into some kind of a cause or a mission. Something that transcends ourselves, that...
Build your own community
Просмотров 1902 года назад
Welcome to Quest for a Meaningful Life on the road here in Quebec City where I'll be spending the winter, trying out this whole work from anywhere experience. Now that the lockdown of so much of organic real life has led to this opening up of working online, this idea of doing business through a screen, and in fact, doing almost everything through a screen. And this has led me to think about wh...
The minimalist platitude: Your chances are non-zero
Просмотров 2672 года назад
Original video: ruclips.net/video/YWnk3uR4SXk/видео.html One of my videos that got the most responses is about being in a mental hole. This feeling that there's nothing to look forward to in life, I'm just in a hole. And my point that I was trying to make was that there's always something outside the hole. When you're in the hole, it feels like that's the entire universe, that's the entire rang...
Buckminster Fuller: "To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete"
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Buckminster Fuller: "To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete"
Travel: Looking for meaning somewhere else
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Travel: Looking for meaning somewhere else
Minimalist time management: Default to doing nothing
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Minimalist time management: Default to doing nothing
Grounded in nature: Minimalism as mental self-defence
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Grounded in nature: Minimalism as mental self-defence
Mainstream vs alternative: Where do you stand?
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Mainstream vs alternative: Where do you stand?
Every day is a holiday: Your personal calendar
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Every day is a holiday: Your personal calendar
Stoic sports: Sports fandom as a mirror for life II
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Stoic sports: Sports fandom as a mirror for life II
Stoic sports: Sports fandom as a mirror for life I
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Stoic sports: Sports fandom as a mirror for life I
Architecture of life: Space and light
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Architecture of life: Space and light
I'm 14yo I haven't played games for 3 weeks but I started to feel bored cuz I want to play with my friends but at the same time I don't want to play video games so what should I choose?
Love your videos!
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Bro I never stop play video games I cant live without them Always I have negative things on my mind when come to real life
I've stop with videogames 1 year and 13 days ago! I was raised with videogames since as little kid. Now I am 26 and I used it as escapism. I mean going home after work, my mere purpose was playing videogames. No friends, no whatever. After I passed 20 I was feeling like videogames were not funny anymore, plus mostly of the videogames today are made to make you glued to the screen, surely some of the developers work with some neurologists that study how to maintain you addicted as much as you can.
Good luck and enjoy some of the other "games" out there in the real world!
Sometimes my mommy forgets to breathe, I keep telling her to go to doctor, but she won’t listen and says it’s not a big deal. last night, I had a dream that I was talking to my friends and then I was telling them about the situation with my mom. One of my friends told me that it may be the last I woke up sad I don’t think I can process the day, but my mom went to work already, so we couldn’t tell her about my dream. This video really helps. Remind my mom to do the simple exercises every day. Thank you so much.
Thank you for saying so! My video is about habits in general, and not about anything medical. So I don't know about this situation. But I do find it helpful for myself to call attention to my breathing and remind myself to breathe deeply.
What about the epileptic that are stuck?
I don't know. What is different in that case?
So how are you defining real when you lose it all in 100 years or less depending on factors ? my answer is there is not one verses video games the only real difference is in real life you for the most part don't get to pick when its over because most of us are never done but we leave it anyhow so how is that any less imaginary than a video game its not at a basic level its the same. its all about what you want out of life. you could work 100 hour weeks invest in stock or bitcoin or start your own business in real life to make time for what you really want to do witch is play video games or you could just play video games that's it really don't you worry about your future no the reality is we could have alzheimer's are dementia when we get older and lose all that you worked for or we could end young and not make it to old age or the stock market could crumble or bitcoin could lose 80% of its value and your more or less back where you started the key is to do everything in some degree of moderation (for maximum enjoyment of life) people shaming other people for there hobbies are just losers in life if you think life is for you and for you to maximize your enjoyment of life then what there telling you is just for there benefit not yours and to that I say good luck bro but the fact is it's just best to ignore them
There are certainly other "holes" that people can fall into other than video games. Obsessive work and money fixation might be no better. I just find for myself, I'm happier putting more energy into "the game of my life" and less into imaginary games. But it still leaves the question of what we really consider important in life. That might be love more than money.
No marriage no career Lost most of the friend relative cousin . Living a curse life . Whatever I do I end up crying shattered . Dependent on parents in forties
Thank you for taking the time and effort to speak to people who need to hear this kind of sentiment the most. We appreciate you
Thank you for saying so!
Nice video. I love music. It is so magical. I love the happiness I get from hearing my favorite songs even 20 or more years later.
Nothing like the direct emotional hit of music! I want to bring that out, emphasize it more in life overall.
I have great epic memories of my lost hobby 🤷🏻♂️
Sturgeon's Law is like a part of Pareto Principle.
Yes indeed, that whole distribution of things just seems to show up everywhere. 80/20 often is more like 90/10. And I also like looking at the next level of 80/20: the top 20% out of the 20%. So you might have 80% almost no value, 16% some value, 4% very high value.
Welcome back!
Sometimes there is no answer to the problem that's where I'm at I have never been this f***** up
The one message that can be either comforting or terrifying is that however things are now, they will soon be changing one way or another.
If I put in I feel like I have nothing left to live for I get a helpline.. when your son dies it's not easy... when you have nobody to help you and you have one leg and nowhere to move to it's really bad. When you pour your heart out on Facebook and ask for help and they give you the advice but not help no help. I really don't want to ask for help I just wish I could go to sleep and wake up with my son. I gave up after my son died I felt there's nothing left no reason to live.. it's severe dark depression. There is nowhere to move to I'd rather die than be homeless on the streets again near Buffalo with one leg I will not survive.. Section 8 there are no places nobody cares about people anymore they care about getting their money I am one of the poorest people in the United States and if I don't find a place I will lose my section 8 and be living on the street and I've been looking since February I've even been told I don't make enough money to be on Section 8 and get help from North Spruce Apartments Batavia Apartments Batavia where I live and they run everything these scumbag landlords the only place you can live is horrific not livable like where I am feces in the basement and it's section 8 approved and the immigration destroyed everything for the people who need a place that are United States citizens their second best now we can just go die while they help them they don't help homeless veterans they don't help homeless people they make it illegal.. I don't know how this video can help me maybe anything could help I have substandard workers at Independent Living they don't know anything they're not helping me while I go under they don't care they get paid to do nothing if I asked my Facebook friends for help it's called the senior center not I will help you that's where I'm at I don't care about anything anymore I don't want to clean I don't want to take a bath all I want to do is go to bed and wake up with my dead son that's it the end can't kill myself and I go to hell I wish God would take me so I don't have to suffer like this anymore anybody else ever feel like that it's the end there's no answer there's no way out there's nothing no family no friends no help just a living house suffering in pain everyday can't even get a f****** ride to the store there's nothing here to help me universe
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with all of us. I just wanted to let you know that you were my inspiration for starting my RUclips channel back in 2021. I remember watching your video on getting out of a mental hole at that time; it had stirred within me a desire to embark upon my own journey of spiritual growth. My RUclips channel would not exist if it hadn’t been for you. 🙏🌼✨
Thank you for saying so! And it's great to see you continue to share inspirational ideas on your channel.
Jeez. Welcome back!
Insightful. You really worded this well
Thank you! Glad to hear it.
I play video games in moderation. I still exercise every day. I still do other things besides gaming.
How do you keep it moderate and move on when you're deep in a game?
@@QuestforaMeaningfulLife It is weird for me I have never really got deep into a game. When I am playing games I am also thinking of ways to make my exercises more challenging. Or things I can do to make my job easier. And other things.
@@QuestforaMeaningfulLife at most I play twice a week. I have gone over a month without playing.
Amorality is freedom
I'm working on the right balance here. Dumping inherited moral baggage has certainly freed my mind, but I also see the dead-end foolishness of a lot of "villain" behaviour. So I think it's about sorting out my own "moral code" to live by.
@@QuestforaMeaningfulLife morality is subjective making it useless as far as measure of how humans ought to behave concerning human nature. Concerning human nature, nature is amoral and humans are animals, how we behave in whichever way is nature moving accordingly. Wisdom is a whole other matter. Pragmatism is a much better measurement of how humans ought to behave to achieve specific goals, especially individual & collective well being goals.
It would be interesting to see if codes of behaviour based on pragmatic wisdom can emerge to do the job that moral concepts once did.
@@QuestforaMeaningfulLife moral concepts continuously have failed us. Pragmatism is adaptive, set on effectiveness and that makes it superior
Just discovered your channel through a random recommendation and I wanted to tell you that your videos are fantastic. Hope you're doing well.
Thank you very much for saying so!
I’m 30 years old and used to play video games in order to ease my health issues and escape from my reality- family fights and calling me names. Now i’ve realised that what i did was only run away from my problems, not facing them, but i have no idea what to do with my life, no purpose no goals like am an empty shell. I don’t wish it upon anyone this feeling
Sounds like time for some moves in the real-world game.
Probably because every time I step out of my “hole” I get kicked in the teeth and reminded that nobody in the world wants me around.
But what do you want?
I’m 20 year old male In June 2024 i realise that i dont have autonomy in my life that i can’t that decisions myself as an adult Because my life was heavily controlled by my elder sister Which led to me falling in depression and suicidal tendencies
I imagine even just realizing this situation has already begun to change it.
I used to be addicated and it made me very anti social. Now i enjoy a good movie every now and again and go to the theater with friends. Great video.
Thanks! Enjoying entertainment together with friends just makes everything better.
People like to have agency in their job. Modern technological society is a machine that specializes people into specific tasks, which have the effect of alienating people from the value and result of that work. Most of us are far removed from the result chain and see the effect of our action first hand. Whether intentional or not, this is why people feel their job is meaningless because of the sheer complexity of technological society. Most jobs nowadays is so disconnected from what we evolved for, we are too far removed from nature, office jobs don't require us to exercise, factory job maybe have a little bit of physical in it but it so far removed from the value chain that the worker feel alienated from their result. The system simply grew too big too care about the individual, it grinds down the individual to their most basic function of being a cog inside a machine, purely to provide economic function.
Yes, and no one is going to automatically help us be anything different. Up to us to insist on something better.
I've wasted my life playing video games, I'm now 30 yo and I have nothing, I've stopped playing video games, but its too late, I don't know if there's any hope for me I feel like im too old to study now or to start a career i dont know what to do, everything is black
I was in my mid 30s when I started to feel I had "missed out" and needed to radically change my path in life. Now I'm in my mid 40s and enjoying life much more. So damn, 30 is fresh and full of options from my point of view.
Something I've noticed is in need the games to have an end. All these ever changing living worlds with endless grinds for gear. Or the "find match" after "find match" buttons are what kills me
I always liked sandbox games where there was never an end or even a clear path to follow. I would keep playing them until they became too predictable to be fun anymore.
I now think that the best approach is counting life in days, because years are too big and we tend to take time for granted somehow by counting that way. From there, months and weeks are more manageable but days are so even more. We sleep and wake up every day, so you can see every day as a rebirth of sorts, and take every day as an opportunity to have a good time. By focusing on today you take more consciousness of the hours that you have for each day to do your tasks and also enjoy.
Exactly. Counting days really changed how I look at my life. The day/night or wake/sleep cycle is the most basic and powerful rhythm of our lives (beyond heartbeat and breath of course).
I started doing this this month of August 2024 and I searched on RUclips to see if I was the only weirdo LOL. I'm glad I'm not
I first heard it mentioned in a documentary many years ago. I forget what it was. But someone said something like "We only have 30,000 days."
Can you show us a tour of your home? Looks interesting..
It's a one-bedroom apartment. This is my living room/office, with kitchen behind it, then bathroom and bedroom at the other end. I have an old video "A tour of my home library" that zooms in on the bookshelf.
Sometimes the dark hole is safe. I just can’t connect to anyone and nobody cares about me anymore. Reality is not kind to many people. Not sure if it’s worth living anymore.😢
When I get like this, I know it's time to take a little trip somewhere, do something different, experience a different corner of the world, just to remind myself of what's possible.
There is no place worth being if you’re unlovable. No experience worth having if you’re always alone. If you’re cut off from love, there is no hope.
Even the least of human beings are beautiful and amazing creatures. Certainly some are much easier to love than others, but I can't imagine anyone being completely unlovable.
I’m certain there are people you don’t love. If you’re incapable of imagining that a person is unlovable maybe you should look at the people you ignore and avoid in your own life.
I certainly don't love everybody. Most people are only really loved by a small number of people. For someone to be unlovable by anyone at all would take something pretty extreme... and then at least a few people are going to love that extremeness.
i prefer to have fun in virtual world than to bore myself in the real world.
What makes you choose your virtual world over the real world?
@@QuestforaMeaningfulLife i prefer it and i am a video game and manga creator.
@@raphaeltanguay2955 I think being a creator, and not only a consumer of others' creations, takes it to another level.
@@QuestforaMeaningfulLifewhat do you mean?
@@raphaeltanguay2955 I mean actually creating video games is a whole other level beyond just playing them. When you make a game, you have made something that is now part of the real world.
Thanks for sharing
Excellent point, and the world is set up this way. A small number of people are allowed to tell the rest of us, what is and what is not.
It's often easier to accept this authority than to try to figure things out ourselves.
This didnt help at all
I've achieved some personal life goals and during that time i had taken a long break from gaming. Recently i tried to game as a reward and 15 minutes into it i get extremely bored and irritated . No matter what game i used to love playing in the past, e.g Red dead, Last of us etc It's like my brain realizes now that those game rewards are bs. It's like eating shit your entire life (rewards from gaming)and you finally taste a 5 star meal(rewards from real life) for the first time and you don't want to go back. This is just from my own personal experience.
I once heard gaming described as being told to do chores in exchange for pretend rewards. Of course that doesn't capture all the fun aspects of gaming, but when I think of it as just made up tasks being assigned to me, it doesn't look so appealing.
I am a Railfanner and my story with being stuck in a hole is not being able to drive. I hoped to have my drivers license during my second year of college or after I graduated from college but it did not go as planned I get very depressed about it on a daily basis. 😢😭😓💔❤️🩹
I prefer bikes, trains, and boats myself ;)
I am bored at work because everyone fears to lose their job if they share their work with me 😊
Sounds like you're ready for a career move
Your work is sooo underrated!!! This vedio was really helpful for me almost like a God sent❤ Thank u very much sir and please continue this good work of yours. It may not affect now millions but it does affect lives! It affected positively mine And guess what, i feel sooo ALIVE right now
Thank you very much for the kind words! It's encouraging to hear that. Nothing like that alive feeling... something I think we should be feeling more often than not, yet it's so easily covered up by other thoughts and concerns weighing on our minds.
I have spent six years of my life playing piano. Another six doing Tae Kwon Do. I've dirt biked, and riden motorcycles. I've traveled to multiple countries, and seen multiple national parks. I've had the experience of both marriage, and divorce. I worked up to a six figure salary. Yet quality gaming (Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Last of Us, The Last of Us Part 2, God of War, Mass Effect Trilogy) has given me some of the best experiences that I could never have gotten in real life. Because yes, life does have its good experiences. But it is often boring.
That makes quite a side by side comparison of real world vs gaming experiences. What do you think it was that made those peak gaming experiences stand out from the regular/boring ones?
@@QuestforaMeaningfulLife Video games are simply one of the best modes of storytelling that allow the user to experience the story from the agency of the main character. They can also broaden your perspective and make you more sympathetic to other people that you never would have had sympathy for before. As a soldier, The Last of Us Part 2 made me see the war on terror in a whole new way. Not in that terrorism is good. But in a way that cycles of violence create compounded back and forth violence across generations. We are seeing that now in Israel/Gaza.
Good point, there is a certain kind of deeply immersed first-person perspective that games can provide more powerfully than any other media form.
Im 23 years, i want more for my life but i just still find myself doing the same thing all over again, its nobody's fault but mine..my mom is super supportive with money and stuff..it's me im the problem..and i know there's time but the time is going at the same time... i start losing hope cos, i don't believe in myself anymore sometimes because i don't do what i said I'll do and when i make another promise to myself i know deep down i will not get it done. Its scary cos nobody can save me except me.
I am imagining that feeling of lost trust from broken promises... makes me think, rather than believing on a promise about the future, I find comfort (in bad times) or discomfort (in good times) in the uncertainty of having no idea what's in store. Thank you for sharing.
I haven't left my home in days. I lost my job months ago. God I lived her so so much. I loved my job so much. I know there is more out there, I just wish some of it was for me. Even a little bit of it.
Thank you for sharing.
I disagree. Though it's true that rewards within videogames aren't existent in real life, experience value remains, though it really isn't very comparable to actual life experience, it might help to live through some difficult situations and find solutions that other people would struggle to find, even if it's really not that easy to apply in practice. Nowadays it should be at the very least considered as a means of therapy
I agree with this. Games can provide a useful break from real life concerns, and I would like to see their potential for therapy developed further.
It's always been about profit. No matter what the justification is, money will always be the driving factor. The ones in power (controlling the money) are the ones who are reaping the benefits. That is the sad and ultimate truth. Feelings are meaningless in this construct. I know first hand.
The whole idea of money is to be something that everyone can find value in. Not easy for anything else to compete with that.
I want to talk to you about my experience with video games and how I quit them for good. For the past 15 years. I've been addicted to playing video games. From computer and tablet games from a very young age to a crippling Xbox addiction. I've been all over the place. This video game addiction made me weak. I couldn't hold eye contact with girls and guys alike nor could I spark a conversation without sounding like a robot. This made me feel unwelcome and anti social, video games were my only measure for escape. Little did I know it was video games that were holding me back, whenever I wasn't at school it would be video games the entire day. This made me crave video games. Anytime I would go out with family or friends, my mind would be thinking about the video games. This lack of presence showed. I was an outcast and I felt like one too. It was from this point I realized I can't continue with this addiction, and for three years straight I would try to quit them. Lasting for a week at most before getting another burst of motivation. I didn't have what it truly took to quit, even though quitting was my primary goal, it had me trapped, unable to get out. Through this time I would watch loads of self improvement videos, thinking I was doing productive work. I was making no progress in anything. Until 5 months ago, 5 months ago I started my online business and started uploading to RUclips. This felt like a video game but it wasn't, it was something productive and it helped the world. 5 months later and I hadn't played a single video since, nor want or intend to. 🏆KEY TAKEAWAYS🏆 🔵 Make progress I craved video games because they provided me with a sense of progress. As a masculine man I desire to make progress and achieve things with my life. When I played video games I got that need satiated, but just like eating junk food as apposed to a steak. It was false nourishment. It left me feeling unfulfilled, unhappy by the end of the day. But since it was the easiest thing to make progress in, I continued, digging myself a deeper hole in the process. When I started my business and got coaching for such, I was making progress in a real life thing, therefore I no longer needed video games. If you are trying to quit video games by themselves it won't work. Your primal desire for progress and achievement is way too strong. Replacing where you get that sense of progress from is the quickest way to quitting video games entirely. Video games are the junk food, business is the steak. Get your nourishment from the right source and you are destined to succeed. 🔴 Fix your mental health The number one reason we do any bad habit is because we have such terrible mental health. When are you more likely to watch RUclips shorts? When you had a really productive day, full of business work, hit a hard workout, nice conversations with people. Or when you woke up late, missed your cold shower, had a dead workout or none at all. That's right, when you have the really nice day it's easy to keep the momentum rolling. That's why fixing your mental health is essential to quitting video games, if you feel like crap, you're not going to respect yourself enough to do the hard work that makes you progress in the real world. From now on, make it habit to go outside every morning and look at the sunlight. This does wonders for your mental health, and in turn makes you feel good about yourself. When you respect yourself, you are unlikely to do bad habits. That why we need to start our days off so well. ⚫️ Develop your self image You're in a group of other people who are on self improvement and improving their lives everyday. You're already better than 99% of people who don't do that. Yet you still do this habit that is playing video games. Have some respect for yourself. You believe yourself to be worse than you actually are, that's why you play video games. Have some confidence, and conviction. By being here, your already better than most, it's time to act like it. Prove it through action. Think back to a time where you had a major win, doesn't matter how big or small. Whenever you feel like playing video games, remember that win you made and this positive thought will make you happy. Being happy improves mental health which reduces your chance to play video games. As you make more progress in the real world, achieving impressive milestones, this mindset begins to manifest naturally. But until you get to that point, you have to force it. ⚪️ You're boring Your own life isn't fun that why you play video games. You want a fun life, you adventure and thrill. But you don't want to actually go out and do those things, you'd rather stay inside and be lazy. When you go explore into nature, or book a fun event with friends or family. You naturally get this sense of fun, adventure, and thrill. When you fulfill this desire, it make quitting video games easier because you're no longer drawn to have fun in the video game world as it starts to feel and become empty. I don't know about you but I don't want my day to feel empty by the end of it. You feel proud of your day when you do something meaningful. Video games are empty and soleless. Experiencing actual fun starts this shame feeling when you have a bad day with video games. This shame makes you not do it again, humans are inclined to escape pain, but never to chase pleasure. Force yourself to get to this point, you may not have any motivation, but when you do it make quitting 5 times easier. If you found the advice useful, but want someone to be there and give you advice the entire way through. Consider my 1 on 1 mentorship program dedicated to getting you results in your mission to quitting video games and living a fun healthy life. 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I am at a point where all throughout your 20's you keep saying to yourself "it is gonna get better, hang in there. can't get worse than this" like a make-believe tale. now I look back at my past and my possible future and I've come to realization that nothing will get significantly better from now on. i rationally don't see a future for myself to worth living. i haven't been able accomplish anything that i'm proud of, failed to sustain my close friendships over the years because of this mental sickness that's been chewing me out for the last decade and half. i pushed people away without intending to do so because of my overall bad mood and attitude. never had an emotionally close bond with my parents since my childhood because i got blamed and criticised for everything and not get trusted for anything and that forced me to "close in", don't tell anyone about anything so they can't hurt you. This illness caused me lose all types of human emotions on the spectrum. I don't feel joy, sadness or anger. I can't remember the last time I was happy since my childhood days. I can't cry or genuinely laugh. I don't think I'm capable to love someone and be loved either. There is just this void inside of me and it gets deeper and darker and larger by the day. I don't know how much I have left in me to push for another day, feel like the end is getting closer.
Thank you for sharing. Sounds like you have a high level of self-awareness about what's going on. Seems like a good sign.
I appreciate your uplifting content thank you
Thank you for your support!