Advice for Young People..
The truth of the matter is that you have a lot of potential
like a child, but none of that is capable of manifesting itself as freedom before
you become disciplined.
Discipline is a matter of the imposition of order. And the
order is necessary, especially for people who are hopeless and nihilistic.
And what does it mean?
Well, it doesn't mean, jeez, I hate getting up at eight
o'clock in the morning to get ready for work, that just means that you're not
very disciplined, you know, or, or maybe that it might mean something deeper.
But I'd start with lack of discipline before, you know, rearranging your whole
life.
Because you might say,
well, I hate getting up at eight o'clock and morning, no matter what I'm doing,
and then it's not your job. I don't mean, don't do difficult things. I mean,
watch yourself. And if you see that you're doing things that make you hate
yourself, then consider the cost of continuing. You know, if something's
valuable, you'll make sacrifices to attain it.
That discovery of sacrifice, I think that's what separates
you. And it's one of the primary factors separating human beings from animals.
Because we discovered that we could let go of something we value in the
present, and we would gain something we value even more in the future, lay a
disciplinary structure on ourselves, get the chaos, in check, and then you can
move towards a state that's freer. Because it's discipline first, like, Look, if
you're going to become a concert pianist, there's going to be several 1000
hours of extraordinarily disciplined practice.
That's the imposition of order on your potential that says,
what comes out of that is much grander freedom. And so in virtually every
freedom that you have in life, that's true freedom is purchased at the price of
discipline. But it's not some casual self-help doctrine, it's that if you don't
organize yourself properly, you'll pay for it in a big way. And so will the
people around you. And I would say, start where you can start, you know, if
something announces itself to you, as in need of repair, that you could
repair, you fix 100, things like that your
life will be a lot different.
Now, I often tell people to fix the things they repeat every
day because people tend to think of those as trivial. You get up, you brush
your teeth, you have your breakfast, you know, you have the routines that you
go through every day. Well, those probably constitute 50% of your life. And
people think, well, they're Monday and I don't need to pay attention to them.
It's like, No, that's exactly wrong.
The things you do every day, are the most important
things you do. Hands down. While there isn't anything better to have than a
problem that's worth solving. Like that's really worth solving. Right? And so
the more of that you take on the more you have a reason to get out of bed in
the morning, no matter what. I'm getting up, I'm trudging forward, doesn't
matter what I'm suffering from, I've got things that need to be done, they're
necessary. And that gives you that sense of purpose that is the antidote to
bitterness.
So, there are lots of reasons to you know, because I've thought
for a long time, imagine that, imagine you have a choice in front of you because
you do. So here's the choice. Your life, life is either meaningful or
meaningless. Okay, so let's go through the meaningless part first. If you think
well, of course, I don't want it to be meaningless.
on a second. Nothing you do matters. And so impulsive
pleasures, the order of the day, no responsibility. That's you can do whatever
you want. Like pleasure Island and Pinocchio. It's like Neverland. You're still
a kid. You can play all the time, impulsive pleasure, and no responsibility.
That's the reward for meaninglessness, but then the other side is okay let's
say you want your life to be meaningful.
It's like then what you do matters. It actually matters,
right? make mistake, hurts you, hurts family hurts the world in a deeper way
than you think. And you have to be awake to that. And then you have to take it
on yourself. So you're at a particular stage right now that stage would involve
a particular worldview and the behaviors that go along with that. So the
perceptions and behaviors, but it's not enough because you haven't mastered the
whole world, and you're making mistakes all the time. And then there are other
neurological mechanisms that a more left hemisphere phenomenon of the
instantiation of that identity. there are right hemisphere mechanisms that are
tracking your errors and sort of keeping track of them and the errors are an
indication that your theory is incomplete. So it acute the errors accumulate
and the information around the errors accumulate and another identity starts to
become formulated.
it solves all the
problems your previous identity did, but also some additional
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