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One thing is that I know I will regret my decisions in the future if I don't do whatever I want to do. Get to where you can affort to work normal hours 80% of the time and if you work more, then get either compensation or go earlier the next day. Then you don't need that much motivation any more. Make lil Projects with a strict deadline and look if you get it done. If yes, cool. If no, then ask what can be made better. What to sacrifice and so on - and then do it. Embrace the suck.

if;) true, this is the ideal i strieve towards as well:)

You should have at the bare minimum 12 Months wort of Money in your Bankaccount. Subtract that amount from your savings. The Rest is ready to invest. First rule of investing (in yourself, stocks, bitcoin, etfs...): Do NOT invest into what you don't understand. My Advice is to read a few books and to not do any quick moves because someone tells you "That's the chance to make big buck!" - see for yourself instead regards

The bad Thing is that you will run into boss-type persons everywhere (and they are not always wrong just because they tend to disturb the flow). Even as a self-employd person you have clients or partners who fill that role. In my mind one has to learn to handle it and I don't mean accept it. Say it like it is. The good Thing is that thre are pattern of what you can do to increase your chance to become more free in your work: learn what is in demand, hard to understand and not high in supply (math, programming, chemistry...) spend less money or become a minimalist, save and invest work your ass off as you are still young and play later.. (normal people play while they are young and work stupid jobs because they don't know an exit) there are no cheatcodes

you mean 10h? if you sleep 8h, eat for a minimum of 1h and do other stuff like cleaning and hygiene a minimum of 1h.. it's 70% i don't do it unless i'd get much much money or learn important stuff In my Opinion we would generally do better with less busy work and more planning.. but that's a complex issue

@The0Self To me the point is not that people work many hours AND get shit done, the point is that workaholics work STUPID for many hours while achieving not much AND stressing all the people like hell. In my mind this is one prime problem in the work world today. People work too much, get not much done and stressing the adjacent people

@Average Investor on point. Working all day, but for what? A 40h week is more than enough. @Eternal Unity to answer emails and make sport, lol? That's where being self employed or highly skilled (with no supply for your skills on the market) comes in handy. I call it (based on Eckhart Tolle) "The Power of No" , hahaha.. Have a nice day guys

@reves Exactly. I do a more spiritual Hatha* Yoga Style with my addition from whatever I find useful. If I need much relaxation for 1-2 hours. If I'm fine I make only 30 minutes. I don't do yoga very often because I make resistance training as well, which is relaxing too (well, in another way). But it matches very good as a endroutine after a particular stressing day. *Most school I saw that claimed they would teach hatha yoga would actually teach just stretching and breathing. Just words regards

@Jordan94 and @Consilience , thanks for the recommendation of “The Mind Illuminated”, I'll look at it now. Hey @Raptorsin7, for concentration as a skill to get something done I experienced the following as very rewarding: Plan out every detail in you mind before you begin. If you plan repetetive Task this way, you become more focused and effective. Little building blocks one at the time. Stop after some time (like 30 Minutes) and make a short Mediatation. I wrote about the benefits of that in this thread. However, this scope of that thread was more on the getting things done level, so it might not that interesting to you as you seek enlightenment as you told in your first post. regards

Update: I'm still doing my Routine, but now mixed a little Yoga in. It's crazy: I 'lose' maybe 2h a day, but I feel much much better and get greater things accomplished. I now want to pitch Meditation Meetings in the company I work in , because I know Management would likely approve and some people are already into it. Especially if we are back in the Office I wouldn't want to change my Routine because that would mean extra hours, bad results and the grindy normal I experienced before where everyone gets quicker and quicker but not much meaningful work can be done (you need that silence) regards

never thought about it that way. i thought that psychological diseases are a issue seperate from the stage one individual is in, even though I would also say that the trend is higher the stage, the more sane i would guess a individual (other factors unknown) do you think a new sort of psychotherapy could heal all of that after working on these traumas? regards

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Has anyone else the problem to get logged off when you press 'forum':

it won't make it worse;) Sure! I love to tell you this I want to make the best Learning Material in the World. My Dream is a company where books, audiobooks, apps and what else not get made in the best way people can understand it. For example you get a presentation matching your learning or MBTI type - every student can choose from the variants!! And for free on donation basis. I would like even to make material for schools (Apps, Presentations for Teachers with ready made Tests)

@Understander i turned a add-on off and on and it works now

I had roughly the same Issue and I decided to boil it down to the Essence. Could it be the case that all that bullet points have something in common? Even vaguely? Something that you can't name right now? Do your smalls bets and see how it evolves and how it feels... I'm on the same path, just with different bullet points regards

Why some decisions (good and bad) birth decades of development before the chance is there to change again, like in Fall of Communism.. you can't easily change modern Russia again... people want stability Why we can't easily re-engineer system like the legal system Why people and organizations resist fundamental change because they would need make clear that they were wrong all the time Why we can't re-engineer everything from scratch (because where is so much wisdom and nuance in the systems we can't understand)... it lead to tragedies like the proverbial reinvention of the wheel

@intotheblack nice Information:) First of all this is very subjective. Any of us here discussing could seen as toxic by another person. Or a person you see as toxic is seen as perfectly healthy by her family. I can't define what is toxic in general, but If I meet someone that will proof to be toxic I get a hit of Intuition. But I wait, because I'm also often false. And this is what I can give in this discussion. Maybe many who we quickly classify as toxic are just unconscious people in bad engineered social systems?

Nothing, but likely you lose yourself in the course of the way and have no integrity to simply come back to.. also would you give anything away after a 20+ Years struggle?^^

@mandyjw Isn't it?:) after most of my stands I have some worthwhile Ideas. I just let the Ideas come by and catch them like a fish from the water

Hello fellas, I can help you during corona to learn programming! I can recommend books, we can do QnA. If your are already skilled feel free to teach as well. Everything is debate able like what medium we use, you can write as well if you want to learn something else We could even think about a general mentor program for many skills like playing music, any science or even drawing beautiful pictures. We have so many skilled people here AND we have the time to share our skills!!! I want to inspire YOU. Why I want to do this: My way to help others. Who am I & what to expect: I learned programming (as a non-cs student) more or less in the last 2 years. I'm not very good yet, but I'm good enough to earn a living wage with it. I'm not a master. I can help you to start and answer all you newbie questions in pm :):)

@Raphael the skill to sell a product

@xxxx but generally it's true that some kind of software skill is mandatory;)

@xxxx i think he's cool with software development. look at the text under the line in his post;)