your beta "friends" during improvement

BlackTemplar1989 · 2018-10-05T14:01:25+00:00

Even when I was the most beta slug, wasting my free time with excess gaming, porn and binge watching netflix, not even spending a single hour a day into self improvement I thought of myself as someone who would one day succeed in life. The guy everyone asks for advice all the time, that men want to be like and girls fight for.

In my head everything would be fine. One day I'd get up and simply have the motivation to do what it takes. Just not today, because you know it's friday. And also not tomorrow because I want to go raiding in WoW. Maybe on monday. Or the monday after. We'll see.

And now motivated little Lufti comes around, doing self improvement all day, producing noticeable results for others, getting buffed and educated and shit. You know what that makes me feel like? Like I'm wasting my time. But getting my fat arse up is painful, so I'd rather give him shit and drag him down to my level. Seeing him fail makes me even feel better, because it shows that I have plenty of time and no real competition.

And I can guarantee you I wasn't the only little snowflake out there, thinking everyone in life is waiting for him.

Ignore them all. Just do your thing. Your way to the top will be increasingly lonely, because the higher you climb, the more resistance you will recognise from your former peers. You may find that even your oldest and best friends are trying to sabotage you and it will hurt a lot. Move on.

Have you ever wondered why so many successful entrepreneurs and CEOs give out good advice for free and sometimes even offer great opportunities to people that are seemingly below themselves? Once they have adopted this sickening work ethic they found less and less people alike. So if they see someone with the same potential, they just want him to succeed.

Because it gets lonely at the top.

chazthundergut · 2018-10-06T01:47:41+00:00

If you meet a cunt on the way to the gym, you just met a cunt.

If everyone you meet is a cunt, then you are the cunt

EvanPetersDouble · 2018-10-05T13:13:28+00:00

Crabs in the bucket.

friendandadvisor · 2018-10-06T01:57:05+00:00

The problem is that you haven't beat the shit out of one of these bitches so severely that he went running to tell the rest of them.

I think.

Title	your beta "friends" during improvement
Author	Luftiwaffe
Upvotes	4
Comments	8
Date	October 5, 2018 1:07 PM UTC (7 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/askTRP
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