What are you waiting for? For someone to hand you a new life? Listen: you aren't born, you are BUILT. You are the product of your practice, the result of your repetitions. The future isn't some foggy idea; the future is forged in the fire of your exercise, right now. Everything you do is an operation on yourself, a way to level up for the next fight. There is a command echoing inside of you, a law that screams, "You must change your life!" It's a pull from a higher version of yourself, a stronger you that's waiting. Are you going to answer it, or are you going to stay stuck in the mud of the ordinary? This is a battle against your own inertia, a war against the lazy, automatic habits that have you in chains. You have to wake up and pay attention to the battle inside, break away from your past, and declare war on who you used to be. It's time for a total reversal, a change of trainer. Fire the coach in your head that tells you you're weak. Find a new master, a new code, a new plan, and follow it with everything you've got. The greats, the masters, the champions: they are the blueprint, the living proof of what's possible when you stop making excuses and start working on yourself. You are the project. You are the sculptor and the stone. The goal isn't just to get better; it's the total production of a New Human Being, a virtuoso of living, an artist whose masterpiece is their own damn life. Stop waiting to be transformed. Go and transform yourself.
nah, the people at the top were either born into it or didn't have to 'change' they just got there eventually. You're fucked
>>24557434 (OP)Bro, I'm an incel neet with rotten teeth that stays up all night looking for the most vile pornography that I can find, i'ts fucking over for me.
>>24557463>>24557469tat doesn't mean effort is meaningless. The mistake is thinking that because the game isn't fair, you might as well quit playing. That mindset doesn't hurt the system, it only hurts you. The truth is, most people who rise from nothing didn’t do it because the odds were fair, they did it because they refused to accept that being "fucked" was the end of their story. No, you might not become a billionaire or change the whole world, but you can absolutely change your own world. The people who do "get there eventually" usually aren't sitting around waiting. They're building, failing, learning, practicing. Saying the game is rigged doesn't free you and it excuses inaction. The climb is hard, unfair, even brutal, but you're still allowed to climb. And if you're already convinced you're doomed, then what do you have to lose by trying anyway?
>>24557434 (OP)Now tell that to someone who was born and lives in Gaza or South Sudan.
That doesn't mean effort is meaningless. The mistake is thinking that because the game isn't fair, you might as well quit playing. That mindset doesn't hurt the system, it only hurts you. The truth is, most people who rise from nothing didn't do it because the odds were fair, they did it because they refused to accept that being "fucked" was the end of their story. No, you might not become a billionaire or change the whole world, but you can absolutely change your own world. The people who do "get there eventually" usually aren't sitting around waiting. They're building, failing, learning, practicing. Saying the game is rigged doesn't free you and it excuses inaction. The climb is hard, unfair, even brutal, but you're still allowed to climb. And if you're already convinced you're doomed, then what do you have to lose by trying anyway?
>>24557491Recognizing suffering elsewhere should fuel gratitude, humility, and motivation. Not apathy.
No pussy no work
No pussy no taxes
>>24557469It is important to make sober assessments of one’s situation, but a more optimistic read of your situation might be: “It hasn’t even begun.” Peace be with you.
>>24557434 (OP)All these books base themselves on the supposition of free-will. 99% percent of actions are conditioning masquerading as personal will. Investigate yourself and you will discover that we react to the world, not the other way around. The only thing we are masters of are our own internal reactions. The truth is simply that we are not special, nor important, nor does anything matter. Humanity's elevation will only come when we stop being so fucking arrogant and humble ourselves as one of countless other equally worthy and worthless beings.
>>24558098Nta but might as well be, but I'm 40
>it hasn't even begunJesus, what a horrifying thought. Kill me now.
>>24558107Look anon, you're not entirely wrong but you're missing the forest for the trees here. Yeah, 99% of what we do is conditioning and mechanical repetition, the book literally confirms this with
>"99.9 per cent of our existence comprises repetitions, mostly of a strictly mechanical nature."But here's where you're being a brainlet: the entire point of "anthropotechnics" as discussed in the book is that humans are the species that can break out of this conditioning through deliberate practice and self-shaping. You're basically arguing for giving up at the exact moment when the real work begins. The concept of "ethical distinction" is about recognizing that some people hear the imperative to change and others don't, creating natural hierarchies of those who practice versus those who remain stuck in their automatisms. Your "humble ourselves as equally worthless beings" cope is literally what Nietzsche called the last man mentality: the comfort-seeking, meaning-avoiding mindset that stops vertical striving after the death of traditional values. The book shows that even Stoics, who focused on internal reactions like you suggest, were still engaged in "perpetual exercise" and self-mastery, not passive acceptance of worthlessness. Sure, we react to the world, but "anthropotechnics" means we can shape how we react through training and repetition. You're confusing recognition of conditioning with fatalistic surrender, which is peak midwit behavior desu.
>>24557434 (OP)This is a great book. That introductery chapter where he uses the life of a late 19th century armless dude who by sheer force made himself play the violin with his feet, becoming a virtuoso, has always stuck with me.
>>24558098>>24558232yeah being too early is as bad as being too late
>>24557434 (OP)Is this book good? How jargon laded is it and do I have to do some pre-requisite reading? I've been interested in Sloterdijk since Zizek said that Sloterdijk isn't an idiot
