Start Taking Life Seriously

[Logan]

Motivational speech to kick your ass into gear. Are you feeling stuck and lack the motivation to do what you’ve been putting off? If so, check out this video from a few years back. 

 

[LastThursday]

Caveat emptor.  What about play, love and laughing?

[tatsumaru]

1 hour ago, LastThursday said:

Caveat emptor.  What about play, love and laughing?

Play/love/joy are allowed by dispelling ignorance in my opinion. Taking care of others and guiding them towards play/love/joy arises out of love itself and should not be ignored. However if we are talking about taking becoming rich and famous seriously than that's just BS these are just lame-ass simulacra of meaning. Paradoxes only arise between truth and falsehood. There are no real contradictions.

Edited June 10, 2021 by tatsumaru

[LastThursday]

1 hour ago, tatsumaru said:

Taking care of others and guiding them towards play/love/joy arises out of love itself and should not be ignored.

I was talking about play, love and laughter for myself.  I wasn't aware that @Logan was talking about becoming rich and famous, he didn't actually mention it? He actually seems to be talking about motivation. Motivation for what exactly I don't know. Maybe motivation for play, love and laughter perhaps (I hope)?

Edited June 10, 2021 by LastThursday

[Logan]

Motivation to self actualize. Motivation to work on your life purpose. Motivation to become more conscious. Motivation for whatever you need to do... Watch the video and you'd know. Stop calling each other ignorant and wasting time with he said she said. 

[LastThursday]

2 hours ago, Logan said:

Stop calling each other ignorant and wasting time with he said she said. 

Ok. Sorry.

[LastThursday]

So I watched the video for the second time just now (after a 4 year hiatus). To make up for my egoic shortfalls and devilish behaviour, here's my summary of the video:

Success

You need:

• Spirit, engagement and connect directly with survival
• To seize control for your life back, live on the edge
• To Study diverse perspectives

Trust in:

• Truth, unconditional love, beauty
• Existential investigation
• Passion, focus, direction, vision
• A hard work ethic
• Commitment
• Mastery
• Spiral Dynamics

Re/connect emotions strongly with vision, so much it makes you cry.

Practise extreme ownership.

Learn and read hundreds of books.

The steps to success are:

1. Vision
2. Learning and research
3. Building momentum and focus
4. Hard work

It's dumb to believe that there's "nothing to do".

It's dumb to believe there's "nothing to chase".

You should challenge yourself deliberately.

Passion and consciousness should be like the oxygen you breathe.

When you feel like quitting, double down and work harder no matter what.

Stop looking for shortcuts.

Don't outsource your decision making.

And at 46:43:

"What does matter is that you're playing the game with seriousness. And yet at the same time you can joke about it."

 

My take away? It's a good video. But Leo missed out one crucial ingredient: play; not in the sense of playing the game, but in the sense of curiosity and playing with ideas and techniques. Why do I think it's important? Because seriousness can lock you into a singleminded rut. Only play can continually bounce you out of it.

 

Edited June 10, 2021 by LastThursday