/sci/ - Science & Math

Option A: Drugs
Option B: You will work hard if you're interested in what you're doing. If you're not interested, then you need to consider Option A or Option C.

>>9657764
Proper sleep and willingness to delay gratification.

It you're 25 and male, it's cemented and we can't help you.

>>9657764
Buy some 2-FMA

>>9657764
Imagine yourself 20 or 30 years from now, still asking "Would you like fries with that?" (Sorry, in Britain that's "chips")
Concentrate on that image whenever you're not studying or doing whatever you should be doing.

>>9657764
typically it stems from an unhappy childhood

I personally believe that the reason I myself (and you perhaps) am incapable of working hard is simply because I have nothing which I am working towards. There is no clear, concrete, easily defined goal which I am trying to achieve; if you asked me where I wanted to be in 10 years, I would answer: with a lot of money in my bank account, and with no need to work.


Me doing my work isn't going to get me there, simply because "there" isn't a clear location. I'm taking steps towards somewhere, and I don't know where that somewhere is, so rather than travelling to somewhere I know nothing of, I prefer to simply not act at all.

Until you decide what you want, I don't think you will have any reason to work hard. Figure out what you want, figure out what steps you need to take to get there, and just work for it. If you want it badly enough, you will have no problem focusing.

>>9657764
What this anon said >>9658016
Start by doing one thing at a time. I started with making my bed every morning, and then I moved on to reading 15 pages of something that interested me per day, and eventually my situation improved. Do note that if you say I'll do it tomorrow you'll never actually do it.

>>9657893
>It you're 25 and male, it's cemented and we can't help you.
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>>9658040
>Start by doing one thing at a time

This is good advice to prevent being overwhelmed. Consistency and patience is important when you're working towards something.

>I started with making my bed every morning
>and then I moved on to reading 15 pages of something that interested me per day,

This doesn't align with my advice. These are steps being taken towards no particular end goal in mind. Sure OP could do these things, and no doubt, he would feel better after having organized his bed, or learning something new, but why should he? Both actions provide a "feel good" satisfaction, the pleasure of having accomplished something, but accomplishing something and accomplishing what you want are two different things.

It's for this reason that so many people go to the gym, eat well, save their money, abstain from X, and find no joy at the end of it. They are doing things that take effort, delay gratification, and provide pleasure; but not the pleasure they are looking for.

>Do note that if you say I'll do it tomorrow you'll never actually do it.

This advice is so difficult to heed, because it's generally understood that to get the things we want, we may have to do things we do not want to do; "Do you what you need to do, so you can do what you want to do."

When there's nothing you want to do, what's the point in doing things you "need" to do?

>>9657764
You'll be dead soon, stop thinking you have time to waste idiot. That's how. Create a "realization point" where any time your mind realizes "I'm wasting time" you IMMEDIATELY go work on something in your TODO list

Make a TODO list for this purpose. Just mindlessly pick the first thing in the list and do it when you realize you're wasting time. Become your own CPU scheduler, don't just let it meander around and hope it gets to the correct tasks at the right time, schedule your CPU

>>9657764
Eliminate distractions. Say to yourself
>I'm going to die within 70 years. Do I really want to spend 3 of those (an hour a day) posting on 4chan?

>>9658073
I meant to say that my response is separate from yours. I do things because I have to, not because I want to. Motivation? Don't need it. Satisfaction? Don't care for it. I simply live because I do. My situation is probably not different from OP's, but I simply do things because I have to. Is there any point in doing the things I do? Not at all.

>>9657764
Just take adderall.

>>9657764
you cant concentrate because you have excess nervous energy, you need to work out and maintain a sleep schedule and your focus will improve.

>>9657764
learn self sacrifice anon
You sacrifice pleasure now for the ultimate pleasure for something else later on

making this thread didnt help.

>>9658634
Stop being a lazy fuck, you dont "need motivation" to do jack shit. If you feel you want to do something go fucking do it, stop being a pussy and procrastinate, i'm not saying procrastination is bad but holy hell just get the fuck up and do something. You want to be a uber whatever the fuck then do it. If you need motivation but fucking sit there then you wont find shit. Read a fucking book about math, you dont like it? Biology? No? Onto the fucking next? You hands on? Yes? Ok, find something that interests you hands on. If its overwhelming tackle it, make it your bitch. Own it like a slave. Just dont go to make fucking thread asking for a how to step by step guide if you know youre gonna put it off cuck.

>>9658634
Go look for something you want to do, if you want a crowd to cheer you on then off yourself. Lazy sack of wasted breath. Plant a tree or some shit, make back the air you wasted, fill your house with plants, the more oxygen the better your mind works.

>>9658732
Motivated people just don't realize what they have, do they?

>>9658733
>>9658732
>anonymous imageboards are hard
not to dull your edge or anything faggot but that's probably not OP
back to plebbit young shitlord

>>9658740
The anon that posted that is ether purposely making it sound like they're the op or just a cuck. If it is then there you have it, if it isnt then the op is probably going to read what people have posted in this thread and read that
>implying i use reddit

Idk man I have no choice but to work hard. It is what it is. If I do ever go back to school I will just think of it as work. If you decide you have no choice you will do it

>>9657764
It's simple. Every morning when you wake up you should ask yourself: "am I going to be a man or a child today?". How you'll spend the rest of the day follows from that.
If you need motivation or learn how to be a man, then read ancient history.

people usually think the mental state is the cause, however your lack of motivation to work hard may simply be a symptom of shitty sleep, terrible diet and/or health in general

If your sleep is fine your diet is good and youre in a normal bmi range then its a mental issue

>>9658733
>fill your house with plants, the more oxygen the better your mind works.
If you filled the whole block with trees it still woulndt make a noticeable difference in the level of o2 around you, those are very VERy big scales

>>9660811
In a confined space I meant as in your room with closed windows, the amount of oxygen in the room would normally add up as theres not much places that it can escape through

>>9658378
>”everybody has access to hard drugs”

Kys

>>9658047
It's exactly this defeatist attitude and willingness to accept anything you read on the internet that has led to your life as it is now. Stop believing stupid shit

Its as easy as ordering yourself a bottle of these bad boys: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nexgen-AdderRx-ADHD-Alternative-Increase-Focus-Energy-Memory-and-Concentration/893989792

>>9660922
If your house was an airtight greenhouse the size of a city block filled to the brim with the most efficient oxygen producing plants youd still suffocate eventually.

seriously, you dont know the math stop pretending. In any non airtight room the air just replaces itself very quickly ast o make any difference in how many plants therea re they

>>9657764
Are you sure you don't have ADD?

>>9658004
What do you do if the 20 years go by, you are doing what you imagines, and you hate your life

>>9658075
>You'll be dead soon, stop thinking you have time to waste idiot
Implying anons or anyones time is worth anything

>>9658732
ok shia

>>9658378
good goy you are human capital, now buy this drug to try and compete.

>>9660969
Anon please dont do this to yourself, so youre gonna sit there and type away and tell me a city block filled with the most EFFICIENT oxygen producing plants i'd suffocate... Just ONE PERSON would suffocate eventually from a CITY block filled with PLANTS that produce O2 ID SUFFOCATE EVENTUALLY

>>9660969
They've done multiple experiments on this man, i've read through a couple. In a 10x12 room lets say the quality of air would rise slightly if you have a couple of plants it wont rise by a whole lot but the amount of o2 in the room would rise even if slightly. If you have the windows closed and lets say a little thingy that goes under the door I forgot the name that prevents air from leaving the amount of o2 would rise even if slightly. Think of it logically man, which room is gonna have more o2, a regular room without a couple of plants or a room with a couple of plants. Literally think about it. You can experiment too, go and try it.

>>9661551
You can always start doing nothing. But you cannot suddenly get 20 years of experience without doing enything.

>>9657764
You probably have ADHD.

I did not realized it myself for years. I'm 25 now and recently got it diagnosed

>>9657925
This desu.

>>9657893
What does being male have to do with that?