r/GetMotivated • u/mantasmark • Dec 27 '22
IMAGE [Image] You are what you constantly think of 👨🏻🎨
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u/AAAUsernames Dec 28 '22
“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” - jury still out on who
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u/Patrick6002 Dec 28 '22
-Warren Siddhartha Albert Buffett Gautama Einstein. 158,637 BC
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u/dyingprinces Dec 28 '22
If our thoughts became our destiny then everyone who played the lottery would be a millionaire.
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u/BalrogPoop Dec 28 '22
Thinking about getting a lucky break and becoming a millionaire does not a millionaire make.
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u/Mr-Fleshcage Dec 28 '22
And thinking about yellow cars doesn't mean you'll see one.
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u/dyingprinces Dec 28 '22
Yes that was my point. Self-actualization is nonsense that rich people use to sell self help books.
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u/Jiktten Dec 28 '22
Nah the person who plays the lottery is the person who would rather fritter away their resources on a one in a million chance they cannot influence than put in the work to make the best they can of those resources themselves. That attitude will very likely bleed into other aspects of their life. Why do you think so many lottery winners end up broke again after a few years?
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u/dyingprinces Dec 28 '22 edited Dec 28 '22
Probably because self-actualization is nonsense and a ridiculous oversimplification of how the world actually works.
Also not sure why we're still taking advice from ancient Greek philosophers, who lived during a time where the most common way to die was shitting yourself to death.
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u/Count_Wolfgang Dec 28 '22
Did they have yellow cars back in Senecas day?
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u/muricabrb 18 Dec 28 '22
Look at their handle "cryptoseneca" puke
This is the kind of person to make up random stupid quotes and attribute them to random celebrities.
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u/Aetheus Dec 28 '22
Legit disgusting. Crypto speculation is an entire galaxy and a half away from the kind of ideals that Seneca espoused.
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u/Quey Dec 28 '22
I’ve just started reading Senecas Letters. Amazing writings that hold context today without having to change or mash them.
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u/Regalzack Dec 28 '22
Probably my fav read of the big 3.
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u/Aetheus Dec 28 '22
Definitely the most relatable of the 3, given how imperfect he is, and how he consistently stresses that he's really more of a "gym buddy in philosophy" instead of an authority on the subject.
Epictetus for instruction. Marcus Aurelius for inspiration. And Seneca for humanity.
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u/Regalzack Dec 28 '22
Accurate, I was thinking about how I would categorize them earlier.
Epictetus: Foundations
Aurelius: Accessibility
Seneca: I think Humanity is spot on.....3
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u/decrementsf Dec 28 '22
Why?
There's some research on why this works. Theory is that our senses are continuously bombarded with more information than our brain is able to process. The genius of our biology is acting as a filter on that torrent of information we're soaked in to highlight only the most important things.
If you're thinking of opportunities related to your field of study, your filter is fine tuned to pick out words related to it in a noisy room filled with conversation. If you hadn't primed your filter probably wouldn't have noticed in the conflicting noise.
Can use that lever to tune your focus to pick up things that are important to you at the moment. Increase the probability of noticing when the opportunity passes by. Understanding how it works give you some sense of what areas you might be able to use this lever of the control panel of your brain.
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u/cybrwire Dec 28 '22
That's some good shit. The mind is so powerful, wow. My friend introduced me to the idea of vision boards recently and it probably works on the same ideas in his talk!
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u/decrementsf Dec 28 '22
Appreciate the link, will check it out. I'm arriving to these ideas probably by way of Huberman Lab, probably clips from Rogan, and maybe Scott Adams.
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u/Wonderful_Warthog310 Dec 28 '22
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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u/Dickmusha Dec 27 '22
Dang I have been thinking about being rich for years and I am still poor.. what went wrong?
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Dec 28 '22
You think poorly, think like rich people. Invest your non-existing money so u can get lot of non-existing money in return.
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u/Dickmusha Dec 28 '22
Yeah I know a guy who does this. He owns a car company. Now he runs a social media site too.
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u/sodapops82 Dec 28 '22
Because you are thinking about that you want to be rich. Not that you are rich.
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u/Ksianth Dec 28 '22
Man, thank you, after reading this and practicing it only for an hour, my bank called me to notify that I have a million dollars in my bank account.
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u/EverythingFree Dec 28 '22
- you do not have any ideas that provide value.
- you haven’t contacted 1000s of people/month.
- you are simply too distracted in completing your tasks/ not sacrificing
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u/IthinkIllthink Dec 28 '22
It’s called confirmation bias.
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u/xheist Dec 28 '22
That but also practice.
If you're constantly exercising your anger, you'll get really good at it.
If you exercise your control, same.
What you spend time thinking about has a huge effect on your life.
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u/dyingprinces Dec 28 '22
We're all a reflection of our time and circumstances. It's much easier to change your circumstances by observing and analyzing the nature of your thoughts, than by simply striving for arbitrary positivity.
Anxiety, sadness, anger, etc are far more useful as catalysts for change than as things to avoid whenever we recognize them.
These emotions are often reflections of the world around us. Ignoring them won't bring about the change in our individual worlds that we need.
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u/must_not_forget_pwd Dec 28 '22
I thought it was the Baader-Meinhoff effect, which is a combination of confirmation bias and selective attention bias.
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u/IthinkIllthink Dec 28 '22
I’ve never heard of the Baader-Meinhoff effect. But my studies are now 20 years ago.
A quick look online and they appear the same but from different perspectives. - Baader-Meinhoff effect - psychological. - Confirmation Bias - scientific research.
Baader-Meinhoff effect seems more accurate considering the context of the meme.
Thanks for updating my knowledge!
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u/ImperialVizier Dec 28 '22
“CryptoSeneca”
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u/MercenaryBard Dec 28 '22
Well I mean. If you keep thinking you’re smarter than everyone and that Crypto is a genius money-making scheme, you’ll see that everywhere too, I guess.
Reality is a bitch though
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u/laiglem Dec 28 '22
I have become
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Dec 28 '22
I'm a pair of thunderously juicy thighs, so we're like 10% of the way to being a full person.
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Dec 28 '22
I constantly think about how hopeless life is for so many people. War, hunger, fucked politics. I see it all the time.
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u/PWNWTFBBQ Dec 28 '22
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon intensifies.
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u/EquivalentDig421 Dec 28 '22
I have been using the closed captioning a lot more while streaming these days… never knew how common “squelching” was when it came to sound effect noises… saw it once now I see it all the time
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Dec 28 '22
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u/FuckingKilljoy Dec 28 '22
Lmao this was giving me big "just turn that frown upside down" energy, like "well maybe if you weren't so negative all the time..." like damn sorry but my mind is kinda fucked
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u/SonicLoverDS Dec 28 '22
Balderdash. I constantly think about wolves, but I haven't turned into one yet.
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u/aleirbag Dec 28 '22
Thank you so much for this. It opened my eyes for a situation I am currently going thru.
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u/NoGoodDM Dec 28 '22
This post is dumb. I’ll illustrate by breaking down the four lines:
You notice what you think about.
You notice what you think about.
You notice what you think about.
Therefore, you are what you think about. Watch yourself.
I agree with the premise of the first three repetitive lines. I can back that up with psychology and some basic understanding of neurophysiology (seriously, check out the connection between what we fear and what we perceive. It’s interesting stuff.) But the last line is just made up garbage, a bait and switch; using the true statements of the first three lines to suggest that the fourth premise should also be true.
You notice what you think about. That’s fair. But you do not become what you think about. It takes more stuff than thought to cause change.
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u/ContriversalNews Dec 28 '22
Yeah, I think about writing in my book all the time, oh look at that the book is still not written, but yes Selective perception is a real thing.
But always thinking about getting things that are hard to get progress on done, and then proceeding to not get any progression since your head overpromises all of the things that you wanted to get done. It has led me to be quite critical of my own progression and then just beat myself up about it.
I guess what I am trying to say is don't overthink, and try your best, and don't beat yourself up for trying.
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u/tkdyo Dec 28 '22
Well, there is a lot to be mad about in society. You don't have to be "thinking about being mad" for that to be the case, especially if you are one of those people who face those issues every day. Even if you want to argue that's not what this guy is saying, this kind of logic is used all the time to downplay or deny societal issues.
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u/CompletelyPresent Dec 28 '22
But negative thinking is a real problem for some people.
My mom is very negative and complains often. She defends it by saying it's "realistic"...
But what it really is is shortsighted, lazy thinking. There's no benefit to always focusing on the bad things.
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Dec 28 '22
Any tips for breaking the cycle of negative thinking / "it's realistic" type thoughts?
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u/LeeKinanus Dec 28 '22
yeah anyone who lived in the 90s has heard of the book The Secret. It is basically this.
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u/redd-this Dec 28 '22
This is the basic premise of “the secret” and that shit made someone a lot of money.
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u/blissed_off Dec 28 '22
BS. I’ve been thinking about Salma Hayek since 1996 yet she still hasn’t materialized in my house.
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u/msnmck Dec 28 '22
This is horribly flawed logic. Even at my most optimistic I haven't found what I would consider "opportunities." Also yellow cars are rare. You could go days without seeing any.
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u/jovahkaveeta Dec 28 '22
Yeah the more rare something is the more effort you have to put in, being mindful and actively searching for them. If you want to find a yellow car you will have much better luck actively looking than otherwise.
It's not as though opportunity will manifest magically, it's just that opportunities that could have been missed won't be.
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Dec 28 '22
Busty Woman on Elevator: Everyone's been so nice to me.
Fletcher: Well thats cause you've got big jugs. I... I mean your boobs are huge. I mean, I want to squeeze them. I mean... ma ma.
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u/yesmrbevilaqua Dec 28 '22
After the mass killings but before Stalin of whatever idiotic social program you subscribe to shows
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u/yesmrbevilaqua Dec 28 '22
Have fun being poor, I have a yacht and 5 houses and never worked a day in my life
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u/-VILN- Dec 28 '22
I expect to see the dumbest shit from GetMotivated and I see the dumbest shit from GetMotivated.
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u/Cadmium_Aloy Dec 28 '22
Viewing situations in my life as opportunities instead of "why would this happen to me?" has vastly improved my outlook and feeling about life. It took a lot of hard work and therapy to get there, though. It has helped a lot to learn how to accept shitty things are always going to happen and focus instead on how I will react to shitty things happening.
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Dec 28 '22
I constantly think about being debt free, but every month I pay off less than the interest adds on.
Now what.
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u/MetalliTooL Dec 28 '22
Out of all the bullshit that gets posted here, this one is actually pretty good.
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u/Pijnappelklier Dec 28 '22
My a.d.d. Begs to differ. I am an associating machine and getting over my ex has been hell.
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u/HotVW Dec 28 '22 edited Apr 21 '24
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u/the_storm_rider Dec 28 '22
Explains why so many people are offended by everyday normal conversation these days.
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u/ReasonablePanda3 Dec 28 '22
Sounds dangerously like, just do this one thing to fix everything. As someone who has struggled, daily, with suicidal ideation since eay childhood, I'm still fucking here. Somedays, I consider that a good thing.
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u/chasesan Dec 28 '22
I'm usually thinking of beautiful women, but I'm still just some random ugly guy.
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u/fyzker Dec 28 '22
Then how come I keep thinking about men when I'm definitely not gay?
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u/dmartin716 Dec 27 '22
Does this work for money?