Crosspost "How Men Have Accomplished Decades of Work" from /r/FriendlyTitan:

I previously discussed how you needed hate and discomfort to change as a person. I hated that my childhood and video games made me a loser for all of high school and left me with an empty 4 years of one of the most formative years of life.

This forced me to put in tremendous effort to change myself. I humiliated myself during freshman year trying to learn social dynamics in a situation where everyone was already well aware of how to socialize. During this I never stopped agonizing over how miserable my situation was.

While this endless dissatisfaction drove me to objectively improve my life, I was never happy for a moment. Looking back, I can see that it was the pursuit of the goal I had attained that brought joy, not when I attained it.

How do men put in decades of work on a single project and bring it to fruition?

It’s not a “burning desire for the end result.”

It’s the daily “monotony” of waking up and steadily chiseling away at the mountain.

It seems that people view life as a series of highlights. And because of this notion people are unhappy because they see their day as boring if nothing “exciting” happened.

But they are completely misguided

I guarantee that 4 out of 5 days (likely more) are going to be “tedious” and the same as always. The secret of men who are able to pull off decades of commitment THOROUGHLY ENJOY the “same old daily work” that their project requires.

Finding complete satisfaction in the daily grind is what separates average people and the exceptional.

Life is not miserable when there’s no novelty. It’s about enjoying the “repetitive” work we take for granted.

And for those who don’t enjoy how they work for a bulk of their lives, know that they are not bound to their current situation. Change is always guaranteed when one takes their life into their own hands.

Because these “boring old days” are what make up a majority of our lives. And it would be a pity wasting them away wishing we could be doing something more thrilling.

-Friendly Titan

Posted by AFriendlyTitan | 5 March 2021 | Link