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What exactly should you be doing? I think a lot of people feel plagued by inaction, but they also feel like there’s basically nothing to do.

>>21906760
What do you mean by that?

>>21906763
I should be doing what I see myself doing (in my mind). Yet I'm here wasting my time doing stuff that isn't going to improve my life.
>>21906765
It is what it is.

>>21906760
Sadly, Porn is all about why you are incapable of action and explaining that there is no solution to this problem because to become capable of action would be an action

>>21906760
just walk around it helps a lot

>>21906801
Uh... ahn... eh... What?
>>21906816
Yeah, that sounds like it would help. It's the little things, right?

>>21906760
Do you believe in God? Your soul? The afterlife? Do you pray? If you answered yes to all of them then I'd happily discuss but my guess is you say no to all of them. I mean this seriously, go into a room with no one else, get on your knees, and ask God for help. Do it for one second or even three every day and you'll be okay.

>>21906928
Own, thanks. That so cute of you.

>>21906940
I mean given you are asking for advice and you do not think human beings are not divinely valuable then the only reason to help you is perceived personal gain or trolling you for not being able to do the absolutely most basic of all human tasks whatsoever that even animals can do.

>>21906984

How 'bout you try getting a job?

>>21907011
Have you considered not giving into your pedophilic appetites with loli? That might be a good start.

Take zinc before bed and start lifting 4-6 times a week, everything else will follow naturally

>>21907189
Should I actually be taking zinc? Why do I keep seeing this recommended

>>21907208
So to review, you think your issue is that you don't have enough trace minerals and not the wisdom of millenia of human beings on why you are inactive? Dude.

>>21906775
What is it you see yourself doing in your mind? You can be vague if you like. The reason I ask is because when I was younger, I used to feel like I just didn’t act but eventually I started to feel like there was nothing to act on.

>>21906894
It doesn’t help. You’ll become a walker and then you’ll walk a lot but it won’t get you to do anything else. You have to do the thing. It’s the only way.

>>21906928
I’ve done this but I didn’t feel like I got help or a sign. Today I feel like I may have gotten a sign after praying last night but I’m not sure.

>>21907215
Sorry, I’m a completely different anon. Just wondering if it’s worth considering.

>>21907208
Zinc is an essential mineral for hormone production, and if you’re an average modern man who jerks off every day you’re almost certainly deficient

>>21907228
Just do it every day. Don't seek signs but just keep doing it regardless of what happens. It only takes a couple seconds and that's truly all you need is one genuine second of prayer a day to sanctify your day.
>>21907234
You are better off taking multivitamins but often if you take them you will avoid fruits and vegetables and so they will lead to weight gain and you're better off being skinny and missing some micro nutrients that fat and having them. Overall, exercise is nice but you only need like 30 minutes of walking a day - I would highly recommend focusing on spiritual practice though but you get what I mean.

>>21906760
One of these might do:
a) getting a gf
b) having no money left
c) getting into an accident or having health problems

No book will help you get out of your state of inaction, because reading a book is in itself perpetuation of inaction. You can try, however, turning off all screens (phone, computer), and delving into utter boredom; your mind will look for a way out, with might lead, somehow, to action (going outside, meeting ppl, etc.)

>>21907087
Nooooooooooo.
>>21907218
Stuff like like drawing, writing composing songs, etc...
>>21907224
I guess you'd right.
>>21907638
>reading a book is in itself perpetuation of inaction.
I disagree, reading it's an active task. There's lot of books that can call people to act.
>You can try, however, turning off all screens (phone, computer), and delving into utter boredom; your mind will look for a way out, with might lead, somehow, to action (going outside, meeting ppl, etc.)
Yeah, that may be a good way to do what I gotta do.

>>21906760
I'm not even that far into The Anatomy of Melancholy and it's already gotten me off my ass a lot more nowadays. My previous read was The Alexiad as well, so I've been combining the two for my most recent productivity inspo

>>21906816
I spent basically a whole day doing a 50km walk around my town last year, expecting that it would change me as a person or something. Going for a 2 night tech-free camping trip in the woods didn't really change anything when I got home either. Touching grass doesn't work. Guess I just need to interact with people.

>>21906760
The book of Proverbs from the Bible

>>21908121
Why do you want to draw, write, compose songs?

>>21908807
The single biggest problem most young people have is tech addiction. Whether it’s video games, 4channel, TikTok or something else, the reason their lives suck and they’re miserable is because all of their time is sucked into tech.

Forget walking. Forget camping. If OP wants to draw, write, and compose music, the single best thing he can do is get off the browser and get off the apps, stop with the podcasts, stop with whatever it is that sucks up all of his time.

You mean procrastinating? Use the pomodoro tecnique

>>21908912
Tech addiction is a huge part of it, but also because they have no purchasing power. What used to afford a house, a housewife, 3 kids, a dog, and a station wagon now gets you rent for an apartment.
>stop buying new phones and netflix
This seems to be a gen X thing because millenials tend to pirate everything and usually hold onto their phones for awhile from what I've observed.

>>21909163
>Tech addiction is a huge part of it, but also because they have no purchasing power. What used to afford a house, a housewife, 3 kids, a dog, and a station wagon now gets you rent for an apartment.
This is more real for a very very specific type of man but not for most men. I would also say that if you are masturbating and or fornicating and or using the Lord's name in vain and you feel like you don't control your life you are totally correct because you have enslaved your soul to the devil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>>21906894
>>21906801

It’s an anti-meme book written by the greatest blogger of all time the infamous Last Psychiatrist. If you try to read this book you will get mad and give up. Only real niggas will read Sadly Porn and they will not enjoy it. For a more normie friendly book try Rene Girard.

This book might help you if you are a Peter Pan type

>>21909163
How much money you have doesn’t have so much to do with how you spend your time. Most people under 30 have literally wasted the majority of their lives on screens.

>>21906760
Do you like philosophy? If so, Being and Time is likely to help.

>>21909649
>Sadly Porn
It was a huge, deflating letdown.

>>21909649
TLP was a massive one trick pony

How do I become able to focus on one thing at a time again?

>>21910178
>>21906760
I've had this problem of inaction, procrastination, and lack of focus for a long time but I'm getting better at managing it.

Write the things you need/want to do, then break them down into smaller tasks. Do it a few times until you get to the point where it's silly, like "pick up a pen" or "open ms word".
Then pick one of these tiny tasks and do it, them write a check mark on your list.

>Write a short story about Pepe the frog pushing a boulder up a hill only for it to come back down.
>>Write a 2 page outline
>>>Write a 1 paragraph synopsis
>>>>Write a sentence logline
[X]>>>>>Open ms word

Don't allow yourself to play video games or watch TV or scroll through this site or other social media until you've done at least 2 tasks. I find I'm usually able to get a rhythm going once I've done two small things. Find a quite place where people won't interrupt you too. Also eat proper meals, not fast noodle shit. I was shocked how much more focused and energized I was once I ate better and drank more water. Literally it's better to just get some spam and cabbage, cut em up, throw them in a pan and add some salad sauce or spicy sauce with a bowl of rice. Not vastly healthy but better than pasta, fast noodles, and other junk that won't give you energy to focus or act on things.

>>21909649
I literally went mad halfway through the book and wound up in a psych ward. 9/10

stop jacking off and do things you're not comfortable with. no book is magically gonna solve your problems.

>>21910121
I liked it more than his blog content tbqh

>>21908676
Eat tha Frog! was able to make me create a list of things I have to do.
>>21908895
Because I like the idea of creating stuff.
>>21908912
>get off the browser and get off the apps, stop with the podcasts, stop with whatever it is that sucks up all of his time.
True.
>>21908924
I already used it some time ago, and it worked, but I didn't stick to it. I might try again.
>>21909652
I might have the Peter Pan syndrome so that looks interesting, thanks.
>>21909797
>Do you like philosophy?
Not a fan of reading philosophy (even though I haven't read much of it).
>>21911125
Yeah, I learned about that method reading Eat that Frog! and it really helped me to focus on what I had to do, for some days. I also need to try it again.

Have you read Faust OP?
Might help ye

>>21914173
No. Maybe I'll read it, someday...

>>21906928
>>21907215
>>21907365
I believe in an afterlife and in the soul. God, well, it depends. Which God? Can I entrust my spiritual development and prayers to a nebulous creating figure or must I follow dogma?

>>21907234
this artist...
God damn are they schizophrenic.

>>21906760

>>21906760
Doing Good Better

>>21906928
I stopped believing in God by 11th grade. Arguments from K-complexity and perceived simplicity just made it easier to reject the existence of any gods more robustly.

>>21906760
Read this culture-jamming masterpiece. It will change your life.

>>21915632
What do you think of this "steelmanned" argument for the existence of God? A technological singularity is a plausible mechanism for how gods could come into existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxYbA1pt8LA
https://vitrifyher.wordpress.com/2018/11/22/the-case-for-the-physical-existence-of-god/

>>21906894
Moving your body helps, undoubtably, but don't get too enthusiastic about HOW you move your body. That might do you some harm.
Treat it like an obligation – like the Jews treat sex. Call it an "onah."

>>21915644
science is fake and gay

>>21906760
Read something that gets you to reflect upon life. Not necessarily philosophy but something with philosophical elements.

tl;dr, read Yukio Mishima, I recommend Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

>>21917091
science is very real, scientists are fake and gay

>>21907151
>drawings depicting high-school girls
>loli
America-kun, I...