/lit/ - Literature

Tried something like pic related, no screens, hid phone in a drawer in the other side of the house, turned off, DND, airplane mode and all that. Turned off laptop, only used it for word processing and internet searches for looking up information needed, TV limited to documentaries and the news though. Other than that just went for walks, sitting in the garden etc.

Still couldn't get the work ethic I was looking for, even when having no other option it seemed that I was still unwilling to do so, preferring at times to even sit and do nothing for hours, diving into the self and entering that stasis-like state of emptiness rather than do what I hoped I'd be doing with my new time.

Any advice? Would really like to develop a good work ethic, being able to accomplish the feats the likes of reading, studying, writing for 16 hours a day (only in potential, not an active goal) and other such worth-while activities

Literature on dopamine fasting, Asceticism etc? Has anyone tried it to kick bad habits or is it a meme?

>>15017984
I've responded to a similar thread about this before at >>15014926 ; here it is:

>Step 1: Dopamine fast, from /fit/ (or a milder version; quit porn if you watch, quit Instagram and social media. It's easier if you aren't that social.)
>Step 2: Don't feel sorry for yourself and beat yourself up.
>Step 3: Learn to skim through the beginnings of most books (unless they're incredibly strong at the start), to get to the gripping, better parts. I read Ready Player One (didn't like it, but finished it) and With The Old Breed (incredible); you can afford to read the beginnings of many books relatively quickly, and slow down at the middle.

>>15014570
>Step 1: Dopamine fast, from /fit/ (or a milder version; quit porn if you watch, quit Instagram and social media. It's easier if you aren't that social.)
>Step 2: Don't feel sorry for yourself and beat yourself up.
>Step 3: Learn to skim through the beginnings of most books (unless they're incredibly strong at the start), to get to the gripping, better parts. I read Ready Player One (didn't like it, but finished it) and With The Old Breed (incredible); you can afford to read the beginnings of many books relatively quickly, and slow down at the middle.

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>>13000494

Get ready for a red pill, some of you may understand this already but I think many of you do not. Read pic-related for another similar and related red pill.

If you want to achieve something as a writer or artist you should realize that basically everything about you is being influenced by your environment and much less by your nature/what you were born with.

You basically have to create a new identity for yourself by LARPing as who you fantasize about being until it becomes true. For this reason, things like your social groups (even just coworkers), intellectual friendships, and romantic relationships should all be approached with a clear and ambitious detachment. If you love that girl, but she gets annoyed that you want to go to writing groups instead of partying or watching netflix, you're gonna have a bad time. Many a career as a creative has been ruined by an unfortunate marriage or an unfruitful friendship.

You may feel like you don't have free will because of environmental influences, and you may be right. The reaction to that revelation should be to change your environment and influences as violently, drastically, and quickly as possible in a clear cut fashion. That may be moving to a new city, changing your entire image, or cutting yourself off from old friends.

This is one of the reasons why you find a lot of successful creatives, historical figures, and intellectuals who have become "larger than life" basically bury their past, change their name (Joseph Conrad, Bob Dylan, Pablo Neruda, Cary Grant, Harry Houdini) and have huge personality changes. They forced themselves into a violent and drastic change.

If you can be coldblooded with this you will be much more likely to succeed and make something of yourself. If you want to be a poet, don't just read poetry, surround yourself with poets, even if they are shit ones, and don't get attached or let people pull you down. Keep perfecting your environment and it will perfect you.

>Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
- Marcus Aurelius

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>>12795485

This is not /r9k/

But it sounds as though you really should stop visiting 4chan - your brain sounds like its full of loser-tier trash. You should attempt to cut off the supply and find a new way to chill.

It sounds like you have money, why not subscribe to the London Review of Books? Make good writing your meat and drink. May I also recommend "You are not a Gadget" by Jaron Lanier and FFS read this damned infographic.

There is still time to save yourself, anon.

>>12576173
This?

>>12554507

>>12553460
You need to do something drastic like this. Bad analogy, but I used to love milk chocolate. Now though, ever since I tried dark chocolate, I can't stand it sweeter. Even 72% cocoa is too sweet to me.

I'm paki too btw, I've noticed that almost all paki guys are like this, but no girls. Change your life man.

>>12545862
I replied in the last post you made 3 days ago or so that was taken down. I think I've changed since then. I've been a lot, lot more productive, I keep exercising, and I've given up junk food.

I followed the advice in pic related. You have to consciously assert your own thoughts when you don't feel like it. I'm pretty sure that I am, or was very similar to you, but one thing I am surprised by is that once you get started, it's not difficult to keep it up. Every day in the morning I don't feel like working and I tell myself I'll just do it tomorrow, but then I say that every day is a battle and you have to win every day. Take each day as it comes, set your own goals, and make sure no matter what that they are completed. I recommend reading "Discipline equals freedom" by Jocko Willinck

>>12142811
Do this OP I'm planning to