Pablo Neirotti

@Nahm thanks! I’ve actually been lurking for the past two years (since it opened?). I’d like to get a bit more active. Cheers!

In one of Leo’s videos I watched long time ago he talks about some sort of scale of “consciousness” defined by someone. I forgot the name. In essences this scale was defined by colors. I.e: I think orange was the current state of the materialistic world. Money, success, etc... then there was Green, the hippie, and so on... I wanted to read up on it but I can’t find it via guessing on google. What’s the name of this? Thank you in advance.

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Hello all! I was wishing two weeks ago this place had a forum to ask people in the same wavelength for advice. Good that it's here! After a lot of self improvement, very little gets me upset. However, getting a notification for an e-mail, a text message on my phone, a bouncing icon on the Mac's dock, anything that calls for my attention while working, just immediately pisses me off. It's not necessarily loud noises or flashing lights. I clearly have no issues with those. I can have a loud garbage truck outside, a police car parking outside with lights on, or people just being loud outside, and I don't get the same reaction. I don't even react to it. But a single bounce of an icon on the dock and I just raise my hands and go WTF. This is mostly when I am working, specifically when concentrated on a task. It isn't the case if I am not doing anything, or playing a game. But if I am "serious working", this just throws me out. Maybe I am not being that aware with my surroundings so much while working, so that being pulled from that state bothers me? (interestingly enough: a notification does not bother me while meditating, if I happen to forget the sound on). I wanted to know if anyone experience something similar, and have some insights of what is going on, or advice about how to properly deal with it. I've been digging a lot myself but somehow I can't pin point what the real problem or the real solution may be. If any. Heck, it may be I am just too tense while working. Thank you for your time. Cheers!

The last video by Leo, You're Not Happy Because You Don't Really Want To Be, came in timely as this touched on some of the things I've been dealing with for the past few weeks. It all started after I released my videogame, a never ending 2.5 years long project, finally published. For almost 3 years, I lived by postponing "true" happiness to "once I release my game" (we all know how this works). Once released, besides being exhausted to the point I was not even able to enjoy the launch, it naturally left the void we all would predict it did. Not only because true happiness wasn't around the corner of X, but also because that was my life for almost 3 years. It was quite an abrupt end to what I've been doing morning, evening and night. Fortunately I've been doing self-improvement work since the last 10 months or so (without counting what I've been figuring out on my own, before I knew this had a name), and very quickly started to dig in deeper into how to just be happy, now. This was a couple months ago. Just as I suspected, great example by Leo btw, you can be happy by just living in a box. The idea of detaching myself from everything I enjoy sounds harsh, but I've done it with so many things already, I do see it as a possibility. Which brings us to the main point on this post. I am questioning why would I wanna be successful in my endeavors, if all of this is for nothing? I can be happy without it. Any progress gets wiped once I die. Any impact on humanity I can make will get lost or wiped out eventually. Question & TL;DR: Why should I attempt to do great things if, not only it is all for nothing in the end, but now ALSO means that won't even bring me happiness? Why bother? (clearly I do want to bother, but something is not clicking right now) I would highly appreciate your insights. Thank you for your time!

@J. M. Wigglesworth Sounds about right. Thanks dude!

Hey guys! Thank you all for your responses. They have all been very insightful. @Mal: I do have to eat! Good point :P. @Telepresent: I would also do what I do even if I suddenly had millions of dollars (probably just do it with more budget!). And I definitely am taking "such ego-driven goals in mind" - this was a big issue (it still is, though lesser) back when I started this project. @J. M. Wigglesworth: You have a funny name for a cat. But anyways, I get tons of joys just doing what I do. I sometimes forget to experience it and instead attach happiness to the termination. Need to work more on that. Lastly: does it make sense to pursue inner happiness while also being an entrepreneur?

Hi @Mal! Thank you for the response. We are on the same page. Although my biggest concern right now is - what do I do with my career / goals / success? Is none of that worth working towards? Should I be a happy bum on the street?

Thank you guys! Rito, all of that was really helpful. I wanted to quote specially that bit. It's such a fundamental thing to bear in mind, that can easily improve a wide range of problems when taken into account. Next time I'll try to slow down whenever that happens. See if I can make it into a habit, sort of using it as an indicator when I am starting to stress. Thank you both again!