/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>19053217
Fuck this hit me hard. I have about 300 hours each for putting study into piano and chinese yet I am too lazy and just look at stocks and video games.

Fuck bros I want more out of life, I want to discover things. I just dont have it in me to follow through

>>19053217
You can spend the next 27 years regretting your past decisions or you can spend the next hour downloading Grindr and finding my cock to suck.

>>19053232
I literally forgot. I remember thinking this when I was like 17. I don't know how I forgot. What the fuck .

>>19053262
Rest my child. Jesus don't want you for a sunbeam. Sunbeams are not made like you.

>>19053217
how many hours have you spent on 4chan?

I've been here for like 8 years at about 4-6 hours a day. I've probably got a good 9-12k hours in shitposting atm

>>19053217
I mastered bating. The curve of my dick matches my stroking motion

>>19053262
stop weed lmao
or try planning and thinking

for me? it's half assing everything in life and never following through with anything persistently enough

>>19053262
Same, I had this mastery mindset as a teenager and I blink and I'm 26. Where does it all go.

nows time to put 20,000 into something

you still got this

*shakes fist like anime*

>>19053217
bro literally just cram for like the next week. you can fit a couple thousand hours in before the week ends

Being self aware is the hardest part. I was like this when I was 19. Smoked weed everyday and was a general fuckhead. I finally quit weed and started pumping 6 hours a day into art while working full time. Stop telling yourself you cant do things, that you lack drive etc etc. Your mind is an insanely powerful placebo tool and the thoughts you fill it with will make things you think a reality. The first step towards all growth is learning to control yourself.

>>19054627
>I finally quit weed and started pumping 6 hours a day into art while working full time

i want to do this but video games is the thing i have to quit

>>19053217
That's literally 5 years of 40 hours a week. Get to it nigga

>have browsed 4chan since 2006
>have known about and have been interested in bitcoin since it’s inception
>would read bitcoin threads constantly on /b/
>didn’t buy btc until 2018
This is my only regret in life

>>19054837
fucking this.
couldve bought bitcoin in 2009, 2011 and 2013. laziness did me in the first 2 times and i let my friends talk me out of it the third

>>19053254
based

Just get VTIQ on your stock watchlist and btw, you are a master of something. I bet you've spent 10,000 hours fapping, so you have that.

>>19053254
>hm

>>19053217
This whole faggy 10k hours to mastery idea was from a meme book called Outliers, and it's just arbitrary horse shit that's contradicted by reality every day. You can become very good at something you're cognitively/genetically predisposed to being good at in a fraction of that time, and you'll generally get better at ANY cognitive skill faster if you have a high IQ. So find what you're good at and do that, and stop falling for low effort self help memes.

>>19053217
>in my mid 20s
>spent 10,000+ hours playing videogames
>no other skills learned

>>19053217
Become a polymath.

Specialists are cucks who do. Generalists (more or less) are the bosses of specialists.

>>19053217
You can master 4channel
Just the right skills to be a Kleros juror too senpai

>>19053294
What does that mean?

>>19053294
Based

>>19053254
wish I would have been given this advice

>>19053217
nigga, 10k hours are 416 full days, that's over 3 years of putting daily 8 full hours into a hobby or study. uni students may do this, otherwise most people absolutely don't.
I think i spent this much on anime and manga.

>>19055636
I've actually only spent 2,000 hours fapping, not 10,000

>>19053254
Good post

>>19053232
So you put 10k hours on video games and stocks. At least it is something.

>>19054318
Why do you think that is?

>>19053217
Start now. Imagine having no skill at 35.

Go to libgen and type in what your interested in.
Spend half your time studying and half your time practicing.

When you've read enough books you'll need journal articles. Get a subscription to the library of a university in your city then use google scholar to search instead of libgen.

An alternative to the 10000 hour idea is that reading 50 books on a topic is equivalent to a PhD.

>>19053217
Who cares about 10,000 hours. Just acquire 10k LINK.

>>19055738
This, the 10k hours thing is a mental trap. It focuses on sports and music because unironically they are a lot like video games, they don't rely on lateral knowledge. When you read history, you get better at literature, when you read literature you get better at philosophy, when you read philosophy you get better at science etc. Instead of fixating on narrow skills focus on developing yourself as a whole and then speccing into charisma then talk your way into a career that involves decision making since decision making is a highly lateralised skill. I spent the last 10 years making a shit ton of bad choices but they all conveyed so much experience that I can routinely talk to people my senior both career wise and age wise and run circles around them.

>>19054884
If it is any consolation, you probably would've sold way too early.

>>19053217
>tfw when you put 10000 hours into multiple things (not video games) but failed anyways

>>19055766
Role playing games teach the most important business skills, talk to everyone and hoard everything.

>>19057006
It’s like an S curve really. If you can put in like 100 hours you can fake most things to look like a pro to most people. And 1000 hours you might be able to compete. It matters more how dedicated each practice session is. The people who put in 10000 hours mostly did it for fun, and so not all of those hours were intense practice sessions with the purpose of getting gud

>>19054344
Blink again and you will be 34, there's still time

I'm 18 and heading off to Stanford in the fall but over the past few years i've also had this same bullshit where I try to master something and I just get locked in this loop of fapping, video games, and hitting the dab pen.

I don't really even know what I should master. Martial Arts don't make money although I love them, I can't imagine coding for 10,000 hours, I lost my passion for my instrument. I've always wanted to paint but I feel as if it's wayy too late to start and become a competent artist as compared to those kids who have been training since like 5.

I do have a language that I've been practicing, but other than that boys what should I do?

>>19057006
I have done precisely this for a while. What careers would you recommend? I was planning on going into tech but I think I'd make a much better executive. I'm going to a pretty good school so I could flex that, but I dont know..

>>19057257
>thinks he’ll make a good executive
>can’t make decisions

>>19057282
baby i just want to make an informed decision from those older than me

>>19057006
incredibly based. Read the "Investing, the Last Liberal Art". Book inspired by Munger's ideas about using lateral knowledge to invest. Every chapter is a different discipline, physics, philospophy, mathematics, biology, literature etc...

>>19057305
That’s your problem. Most of the worst decisions I ever made were from following “advice from older people”. Unless you are getting some specific advice from a specific expert, like a chess master on how to get better at chess; then mentor thing is mostly a meme. You need to learn to think critically and weight the pros and cons of things.

>>19053217
I dont even care if I live or die anymore.
Fuck my retarded coal burning mother for ever creating me.

>>19053232
I will be getting on adderall soon. I will kill myself if I must.

>>19053254
Based

sucks to be you kid, I got about 2-3k hours into copywriting and already make 70k a year working remote plus royalties on every sale (about 4-5k last year). the top nibba Im working with already cleared 900k this year and its just may, I have no doubt I can get to that level in a couple of years.

>>19057257
Being a generalist is a lot about improvisation and opportunity seeking. Your mindset is already flawed if you're looking for a good career choice, you need to look around you, dig on job sites find a business, any business, apply and work on that. The beauty of the generalist is he thrives in adversity, the more challenging and unequipped for the task, the stronger he becomes. In the end it literally doesn't matter what career you start in, I met a guy on a plane who quit his job trading petroleum derived chemicals to become a short film director and after that trip I quit my job in financial planning and spent time working for a chemical company, now I work in sales for oil drilling equipment and I'll probably quit that job next year. The path of the generalist is suited for those who can embrace uncertainty. I will probably keep changing careers until I die or retire rich. It's a high risk/high reward approach to life.

>>19053217
I am 29 and I have put more than 10,000 hours in shitposting on 4chan. Was well worth it.

>>19053217
master keeping your hands iron, that way you can buy some LOKI now and sell a literal 1,000x. best part is, you literally don't have to do ANYTHING. that's how you win.

>>19053232
Learning to play music is a big loss of time, and chinese is useless unless you do business with chinamen and even then it's not worth to bother.
If you have time to throw learn to code or to draw

>>19058211
>learning to play music is a waste of time
>but learning to draw isnt

>>19057172
Based

>>19057243
>I've always wanted to paint but I feel as if it's wayy too late to start

Art is fucking weird though. It literally combines all the knowledge inside your head into an observable piece. Actually practicing painting/drawing/sculpting etc is necessary of course, but it is simply technique and a fraction of what goes into a piece of art.

Knowledge about history, society, mathematics etc can all be translated into captivating art if you just find the right way to express that knowledge. It will take time, but not 10 000 hours.

>>19053217
10k at 40hrs a week is less then 4years.

>>19058211
>Learning to play music is a big loss of time

>>19054884
Its that drive that made me literally all in bitcoin after similar situation though, I'm not as old I was like turning 14 when the genesis block was mined.

Its like life the sooner you go all in the better, just think if you a high iq autist didn't buy all that time, how the normie feels and that they regret not knowing about it, they live in denial and write bitcoin off as a scam or ponzi to make themselves feel better.

Deep down all you faggots bitcoin is going to grow long term and do it all again.

>>19057062
Most people would have sold after 10x if they reached it, regardless where they buy in. The risk of it dropping hard for the foreseeable future after that becomes too hard to hold.

>>19053217
>tfw I'm turning 29 and I'm already financial independent

>>19053217
Same. I wish videogames didn't exist.