Life is short.

Some people die at birth. Some people live forever.


I know a man, a person close to me. He’s been my room mate of 10 months, and I will never have that privilege again coming next month when we part ways. Here is a man who was born into a good family, a very wealthy family. Growing up he had everything taken care of. His college was paid for, as well as 4 years of med school to become an eye doctor. Here he is, 35 years old, and the proud owner of 2 condos in beautiful downtown Chicago. He is dead.

Faith is what turns an ordinary thought into a rich, vibrant reality.

This is not meant to bash my room mate. In fact, if anything, he is the normal one, I am the outcast. I am the one with the faith. I am the one that has aspirations. I do not know a human being who has studied/bought more self-help products than the one I currently live with.

He gets drunk 4x a week, and has been doing so since age 18 (His quote). He studies self help 20 hours a week, but never puts anything into action. He is afraid. He lives in fear, in fear of himself. He will live in a state of “what if” for the remainder of his life, because he is too scared to leave his cushy lifestyle to take a chance. Once again, there is nothing wrong with this, if anything it makes you very normal.


What you are looking for you will not find on this board. You'll only find it within yourself. Everything in life comes down to flipping a switch. The more answers you look for the further from your goal you will stray. It will only keep you from further facing your fear.


Most men go through life dead. They never strive for anything. They never see a wall and run straight through it. They spend years trying to find a way around it, and they give up when the easiest way is facing that fear and going right through it.


Life is not that hard. We just make it hard, because it's a lot easier to accept failure when your ego is not involved. I’ve lived in my car, had no money, no anything. It still was not that hard. Now that I’ve made something out of myself I can easily realize that. When you look for tactics any ways to get around something, it is not your fault when you fail. When you look your fear in the eye and go right at it, it is you any only you. And when that becomes your reality you will become the man you want to become.

When you flip that switch you will never ask for advice again. You will become the smartest man you know, and you will reap the rewards.

Very few men ever encounter this. But the ones that do, you never forget. They live forever. They never die.

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Reality is only what your mind tells you it is. Most of us spend our entire lifetime inside our little heads.

Everything you said is true. This is exactly what many guys out there suffer from.

Thank you for sharing.... this is one of the most insightful things I have ever read.

The truth.

Is, or is not.

Simple, yet the most difficult.

An easy choice, the most strenuous habit.
How strenuous it is...depends on how streneuous you view it.

Everything else is the eye of the beholder.
We are trained to place meaning and extra "options" on a relatively simple choice:

Yes
No


That's it.

I think about this story every day and for me, it's a huge motivation to go for what I want regardless of what's standing in front of me. This post was personal and it wa really something I thought about for a long time.

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Reality is only what your mind tells you it is. Most of us spend our entire lifetime inside our little heads.

Just saw this post. Respect to you TheRexStyle.

I enjoyed it, even though not good circumstances. It made me think a little, and that's good.

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I don't quite agree. The board can become like a mirror. The question is whether one will use it like a mirror, as part of one's internal dialogue, or just use it as a way to escape from oneself. I agree that once you realize you are looking in a mirror, that suddenly there aren't so many articles worth reading anymore. You don't need every technique, every analysis, every nugget of info anymore.
I flipped my own switch a few days ago. It happened when I ran up against a contradiction in my personal values. I realized in all seriousness that I was a Hater of people who aren't very intelligent. Yet I do not value being a Hater. I find it to be a slightly repulsive ideological position, to simply Hate. It unraveled a lot of the ways that I hate, whether people, or myself, or the computer industry. It diminished the hate, it made it more appropriate. It removed fears. On the other hand, it solidified things that I definitely dislike, and I wasn't expecting that.
Not necessarily. One of the more interesting things that computer science teaches, is that algorithms are undecidable. You cannot know whether a program will halt or not, there is no program that will determine this.
I would prefer the words "fearful" or "limited."
"Never" is a strong word. Detaching from others is not wisdom.

I can't argue with Rex. I've worked with the guy and I know exactly where he is coming from on this subject.

He's done quite a bit to help me realize potential within me without me attributing my potential to pick up on some material shit like an Affliction shirt.

In a way I have to disagree with Bvanevery.

Not really on the context of what you mentioned....but I think you chopped it up too much. It's just a post on knowing who you are internally as a great and driven man.
No drama.
No BS.

Just being expressive and honest.

I like that.

Deuces, Rex.

No hard Feelings, B.
You're all right. I don't care what the boss man says. (I used to have a manager that said that to me when I had my high-school wal-mart job.)

Shala.

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I like how you worded that and especially how you have now established that a lot of intelligence is relative and just having this specific intelligence is nothing unless you go about life applying it with you being happy.

No good being skilled in something, spending years of studying and dedication on it. Only to also realize that you are not happy as you have no girlfriends, no confidence, no value etc etc

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