On twitter, there's just too many self help accounts by people who haven't achieved anything in their life than create self help accounts and make money off it by selling self help to people who want to help themselves but don't know where to start.
These guys/gals have practically done nothing significant in their lives, are a bunch of 20 somethings usually, and just go on and on about motivation, sometimes talking in a tone that comes off as them putting themselves at a superior place and you at an inferior place.
"If you're timid, get in the gym.
Fix that shit."
I pulled this quote from one such quotes. Reeks of complex doesn't it? And these kind of accounts amass thousands of followers, who are also similar age as them, but are stupider, and have no idea where motivation comes from.
Fix that shit."
I pulled this quote from one such quotes. Reeks of complex doesn't it? And these kind of accounts amass thousands of followers, who are also similar age as them, but are stupider, and have no idea where motivation comes from.
There are two schools of thought. Let me just ignore the first school of thought coz it hasn't worked out for me. Having just passion or excitement isn't enough for motivation. Coz if you depend on being excited/passionate to get things done, you'll never get anywhere.
The second school of thought is this. You don't focus on the outcome, you focus on the process, you cultivate work ethic, put in the work day in and day out, and strive to be consistently improving yourself wrt your craft. In the midst of doing this, passion/excitement catches up
And once they catch up slowly, you gain some momentum seeing small short term wins. As you start seeing these small wins as part of your consistent work ethic and hard work, you gain more momentum, and you keep rolling. If you hit a plateau, your process keeps you going until you
hit momentum again. This is similar to support and resistance, expansion and consolidation. Life is not a straight up or straight down journey in any craft. There will be times when it feels like you're going up, times when you're staying at the same place, times when you're
going down. Just focus on one thing and only one thing at any point in life with laser sharp singular minded focus, and make a habit out of doing it. Once you make it a habit, focus on keeping that habit. Coz no matter what these shitty self help account say, even if you spend
21 or 30 or 63 or 90 days or whatever number of days, good habits are easy to break, bad habits are easy to fall back into. You could work out for 3 years straight and the one week you slack and eat junk food could set you off by a lot, by having you slack more and fall back into
not exercising or not following that habit. Bad habits are easy to catch on, sneaking an ice cream here, a drink there, a coke here, a burger there, thinking you'll burn off those calories during workout, or even by just walking - it's very difficult to make and keep good habits.
That's also why very few people succeed. Successful people found a way to make and keep good habits, by having superior self control and the right circle of people who are conducive to keeping those habits. If you want to workout and be fit and shredded, and you're constantly
around obese people who do nothing for their bodies, eat junk, eat anything they like, indulge in pleasure of the sense of taste, and live like there's no tomorrow - guess what? Your defenses will come down sooner or later due to being close with such people, and you'll start
slacking on your self-control, slacking on your rigorous diet, sneaking an ice cream here, a soda there, and so on - until you start observing changes in your body in a subtle manner. Again, the people you have in your life, the habits you build are the two things that will take
you higher up in the social ladder and the ladder of mastery of the field you pick up to work with. Motivation is just a way people found to make money off youtube videos, overpriced books and courses. Motivation comes from within, period. External motivation is useless.
No matter how many videos you watch on youtube of ET the hip hop preacher, or Tony Robbins, if you're not motivated from within, no amount of watching/hearing those motivational videos is going to change you. If you're driven and motivated from within, with a fire up your ass,
You will need no motivation in form of videos, books, etc. Simple fact, but most tend to miss this. If you're watching those motivational videos - I'm pretty sure you're still only watching and haven't done much in life about the things you think you wanted to do something about.
So, get off motivation twitter and all those three worded accounts, and the haughty speaking accounts - for they serve no purpose to you. Read good quality books, set some goals for yourself, and work towards them strategically. Everything else is just noise.
If you still wanna watch one motivational video - and only one you can watch ever in your life, and you're in your early 20s or any 20-something, it should be this.
