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Korea (South)1897 Posts
Confidence is a mind set that allows you to compete when there are set-backs and when the road is tough and tortured, it gives you hope; while you may not be the best now, you will learn, you will try and you will be better.
But when it comes down to the execution of it, this is a game of intensity, stamina and effectiveness.
Value of Intensity
REGARDLESS how more skilled someone is, or more talented, intensity can make up the ground for it.
One of my favorite movies of all time is Gattaca, I actually named my son after the actor Ethan Hawke for this movie and 2 others (before sunset, before sunrise). In the movie, Ethan is the older brother who was born 'naturally' in a time where genetic birth modification was possible; he is born with a heart defect and relatively short for that time period; whereas his younger brother was born with the optimal genetic combination of both their parents.
I won't get into the plot, but Ethan's younger brother does everything better than Ethan and they always played this game of chicken where they would see who could swim out the farthest to the sea. Ethan's younger brother always won, except one day, one day Ethan won that race and actually carried his brother back and then disappear after than and followed his own dreams.
At the end of the film, after many years later, they reunite and Ethan's brother asks, 'how did you beat me that day?' And Ethan says, 'I never saved anything for the swim back...' Intensity...
Intensity makes up for lack of talent
When I was in high school, I was small, and I went out for 7's rugby union as a freshman in the fall; but there was an issue that, there wasn't a junior team, only a senior team, so I had to train with the seniors and while I would never play 7's, I was guaranteed a spot on the 15's in the Spring. I got destroyed, the physical difference between a 17/18 year and a 13/14 year old is considerable and they didn't hold back. But I learned quickly and was a star, the thing I had most though from that first year, was intensity, I was the smallest the weakest, but I never accepted that I couldn't play with the the big boys, I knew I wasn't going to score, but I could contribute and as long as people didn't know I was weak, I wasn't a liability on the pitch/field.
By the time I was a senior, I was eating kids for breakfast, by the time was varsity in university, I had a reputation for playing as if I was 2 people. And all this time, I thought I was really talented, but in fact, I wasn't. By the time I was 24 or so, I realized that after a game, I took much more time to recover and I had many more injuries than some other star players on the team. By the time I was 26, I knew I wasn't talented enough to be at an international level for more than a couple of years, simply because my body couldn't handle the punishment. By 27 my career was over. But during my time, it was my intensity which allowed me to play at the highest level, to play with ex-internationals and for them to respect me as one of their own. By that time, I knew I wasn't the most talented, I didn't have that innate ability to get the best performance and come out unhurt. No, I might have looked like a tough sonavabitch after a game, but damn I did not want to get into any bar fights, I could barely move my neck at times. But I had that intensity of walking on that field and saying, 'I'm here, and I don't care if I live or die on this pitch, this is war.'
So, intensity is short is the ability to put a true 100% effort every time you work, which is actually quite a feat. Imagine every time you lifted weights you did it until complete failure, or you run a race to place or you are running from the North Koreans who are going to shoot you, trust me, you'll actually be running at 100%. So we want to be 100% in what we do, but, we really don't put in 100% into nearly everything we do, but when we do, it covers a lot of competitive space.
Stamina via Routine
When you compete, part of discipline is this Intensity, but intensity is impossible to maintain over long periods of time by 'force of will'. Sure we can hype ourselves up, listen to some heavy metal or gangster rap or pretend we are rocky or something like that, but in the end, you just burn out. Intensity needs to be on a foundation of Stamina.
Stamina, its the ability to maintain the same level of performance over a long period of time. In professional dog fighting, they have 2 terms: mouth and game. If a dog got 'mouth' then he can finish a fight, he got the bite power, he smart, when get locks on, the only reason why he unlocks his jaw is to get a deeper bite; and there is 'game' if a dog got game, he can keep attacking and attacking endlessly to get that opportunity to use his 'mouth'.
Now in the case of stamina for competition, it is ONLY gain through ROUTINE. I don't care how smart you are, how much you can focus, if you don't have a daily competitive routine in your life, then you will burn out or you will not be consistent. I'm not talking about time management here, I'm talking about making the every day things you do in a routine regular way so that it allows you to be in a stable frame of mind and health so that when you turn on that intensity, its not a leap from zero to sixty, but you're always at that 30 mark, just ready to kick it into high gear, but its an easy 30, you're just cruising at that speed, no wasted gas or effort.
A Routine to Clear and Balance Yourself
At many of the top fortune 500 companies, the CEO and the top executives work out or run 5 miles in the morning, every morning before 7:30. The eat breakfast at the same time, they get into the office and have a very minor routine of things they do first, email, paper, coffee.
Now this all sounds so boring, but what it does is that it eliminates any minor distractions and things that do come up unexpectedly can be dealt with, with their full attention. It as though, you're always prepared to simply leave everything as it is and go right into the issue.
When you're not routine, all the little things in life add up, you can't work now cause your hungry, you feel bloated cause you didn't work out for 3 days, you're tired cause you when to bed at 3 am, just because. And when there is an issue that requires your intensity, all these little things either nag you at the back of your mind or else will effect your overall performance, because you're not at your best.
No Routine, Welcome to Burnout Country
The reality is for most people who are competitive and don't have routine is that they are walking time bombs. The only way to be truly competitive is to have some type of stable routine in your life, and those people who are competitive without it, they usually simply take on more and more tasks, until the tasks force them to be routine in a kind of perverse way.
It's perverse because instead of you making a routine, you've let the number of project deadlines and email requests dictate your schedule, thus, you do get in a routine, but its not productive and the intensity you put into dealing with all these projects is not focused and in the end a sure way to burn out. You check email 15 times a day to respond to, you have a really important deadline each week, because you have 6 different projects going on, etc.
Needless to say, work shouldn't be like that all the time, a major deadline once a month, or major deadlines in a single intense project every week for just 2 months, but not a deadline every week for the entire year, that is just nuts, and I'm not talking about some task, I mean a deadline that if it is not executed properly, you fuck up your firm's bottom line or can fuck up your career.
We Need Routine as Organic Beings
So, routine, life is just easier with it and it builds stamina because at the end of the day, there is only so much the body can handle and if we are always living as if we are problem solving even the minor things in our life (which are as important for us to function as physical mental humans, like eating right, exercise, maintaining good relationships with others, even entertaining ourselves); then how long do you expect to be able to perform at your best when all the little things are just building up.
So what to do, how to start.
1. One time, just go to bed at 9:30 pm, just one time.
2. You'll wake up at 5 or 6 am, you may say, I'm not a morning person, bullshit, everyone is a morning person, its just that they haven't woken up that early since they were 6 years old.
3. Stretch and do a set of exercises that you can do over the next week for 15 mins; 10 push ups, 10 sit ups X 5 (or whatever you can handle)
4. See what time it is: take a shower
5. Get a coffee or tea or whatever, sit down, get out a note book, and write out all things you need to do today and put the time it takes and when you are going to do it.
6. leave you house and do your day, keep note of when you leave.
Now repeat for a week. Try to get up at the same time, do the same thing, and leave the house at the same time.
Eventually that note book's tasks will become more accurate, eventually your routine will extend throughout the day, and you'll tweak your exercises etc.
Do it for 3 weeks, it will be a habit for life and I tend to do that when its time for me to start working like a mofo, when I'm relaxing at home or on vacation or whatever, I don't have routine and I get fat, lazy and disorganized, when I take one good nights early sleep and start it, I'm a freaking competitive monster in about 2 weeks.
Discipline's result is Effectiveness
The last point here is effectiveness, ok so you've got your intensity, you get on your task and you just do it and you have a great routine so when it's time to work, you have no distractions and you always have a good idea of what to do; now effectiveness is ensuring that you've optimize your intensity/stamina for your tasks.
1. You touch something, you finish it. don't fucking open the email and say I'll do it afterwards, no you open that email, you reply to it. And if you say, well what if it requires more time and thought? then I say, think faster you idiot, wtf kind of excuse is that, if they send you something in a email text, then how long will it really take.
2. Only do 5 major tasks a day. You may have 10 or 15 things to do, but if you try, you can't do them all properly, break down the task into 5 key things you must fucking do. And trust me, even 5 is a lot.
3. Don't waste time complaining, take a blank sheet of paper, write out the time you have left in the day in 30 min increments then put in your tasks and then try to stick to it and then when you do it, cross it off. Try to be generous in your estimates, then try to beat the time you've put allotted down, its the same thing as setting your clock 5 mins faster, you know it's 5 mins faster, but hell, it still helps you to be on time, cause it reminds you that you are normally a late mofo.
4. If you don't know what you are doing, then say, I DON'T KNOW and figure it out. If it is a creative task and you are stumped, go do something else and before you go to bed, write out the problem on a blank sheet of paper, when you wake up you'll have the solution. If you just don't have all the data, stop everything and find as much source documentation you can, then print it all out, and read it all first. If someone isn't working hard enough, don't be nice, say, 'I need you to do this and this, and I need by this time' be clear, people are not as competitive or attentive, if they want to be like that, its fine, but you can't expect everyone to be a superstar, just be clear with your expectations and deadlines.
Consistent High Level Performance ftw
So, this is all discipline, why, because it requires you maintain some level of consistent performance. You need to be intense in what you do, but if you just do it on force of will, you won't know when you've step over that line of being professional intense or just a burned out psychotic workaholic (I obviously I have been the latter most of my professional life) and you are engaged in a highly competitive environment, NO ONE IS THAT GOOD, that they can do this without some kind of routine to provide mental and physical stability for the stamina to keep on doing it at the same level. And lastly, if you got lots of game, but no mouth, then how the hell are you gonna get those results? that 'mouth' is that effectiveness, you have a task, break it down and take real steps forward, or else you will be just caught up in your own workload of doing dick all.
Everything I write here, it is hard to begin, but once you do it, it become easier until it's just natural. The flip side is to become to routine, but I don't think that really applies here to those who are naturally more intelligent and who would play 3 hours of SC anyways. Thing is, you will have years where you are routine, then something crazy happens then you need to get back into the routine, its life, it will happen, but you need to get back on that horse of discipline eventually and the sooner you do it, the better because Discipline is only things saving your ass from burn out.
Life is Nuts, but Sometimes you can Leave the Nuts Behind
My last point is this; sometimes in life, we have people who fuck up our routine because they are crazy or miserable or just want us to fail so they will do anything they can to fuck us up, either your mom just is nuts or your friends like to go out at night and do random dumb things. Sometimes in life, you have to make a decision to cut yourself off from these kinds of distractions and get your routine down and then slowly let them back in. You shouldn't hang out with miserable unfortunate people as friends unless you are their aid worker and if you want to move up, then you do it.
The movie 8 miles with Eminem has him trying to score it big and when he finally does, his boys say, lets go out and celebrate, and you know what he says, 'sorry boys, I gotta go back and work at the factory and keep my shift'.
Boys, don't hang out with the losers and when you got your routine, its an engine that will take you step by step closer to wherever you wanna go.
Cheers.
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interesting read as usual, Gattaca is a awesome movie. Its time I got myself a routine of my own, I always feel like utter crap in the morning, but I know its because of my sleeping patterns, I will have to figure out a way to go to sleep at 22 or 23 without being drunk heh.
So, are we set to go this month ?
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
On November 03 2010 01:21 besiger wrote:
interesting read as usual, Gattaca is a awesome movie. Its time I got myself a routine of my own, I always feel like utter crap in the morning, but I know its because of my sleeping patterns, I will have to figure out a way to go to sleep at 22 or 23 without being drunk heh.
So, are we set to go this month ?
^^ yes, finally...waiting on a logo, then we're off and running...what a sik wait.
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As I was reading it, I was thinking "What if you have the intensity but can't maintain it?" and then you answered it a few paragraphs later 
Thats usually the case for pretty much everything for me. I believe I have the intensity/mentality, but I get burned out way too quick. In college I was busy forcing myself to meet new people and socialize (I'm a bit of an introvert) and usually by the time break rolls around, I burn out and literally sleep for 14 hours a day for weeks. It's the same thing as work, I'd tell myself that I'd be the best out of everyone there and that keeps me focused... but usually I end up burning out after a while. I thought it was more like not knowing my own limits but I'm going to give the routine thing and see what happens
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Exceptionally good read, very inspirational. Loved Gattaca as well.
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Hm, gotta watch Gattaca.
Great blog, as always.
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
OutlaW- ^^ my pleasure
s.a.y yeah you do, watch it, such a great movie
crazeman seriously give it a go, people forget we are organic creatures, we do not live on force of will alone
Naz miss you bro, I hope you're wreaking it in NY
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15's union is the best sport ever <3
Playing with 18 years old when you are 14 is quite scary though...
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Did wake up at 2pm dont eat till 8pm, drink a sh!tload of coffe make me a worse player than i can actually be if i have a good hygiene?
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you sound just like my dad. i've started slowly creating my daily routine since i got to uni. it takes real determination to follow a self-made schedule. thanks for the blog/advice man.
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
Boblion: still remember the hits and its been like 20 years.. lol
SlynZ: since you boil my entire post down to having good hygiene then I reckon you're better off waking up at 2 pm and drink a shitload of coffee and see how far its going to take you. gl hf!
mardi: just start off with a couple of things; if you do too much first to get into that routine, the it is by your force of will and not by a comfortable easing habit, which actually is counter productive and another stress in your life, its basically the clean room mentality...if you are routined then the room is always and naturally clean, if you're not, then you expend a lot of energy to clean it and keep it clean.
In the case with SlynZ, I know it is hard to take this seriously because it #1 seems obvious and simple minded and #2 it feels like we are just becoming regular #3 and we don't to believe it to be true, because we like how we live life now. There is mindless routine, and there is routine that is a necessity because we push ourselves that hard. Playing SC2 or SCBW on ladder is one thing, but trying to make a few million annually and have people depend on their livelihood on you, is something else.
But, if you're living off your natural talents, it all depends how naturally talented you really are, but in my experience there are very few people that can slide by life at the highest competitive levels on talent alone, the only person that I really know that has done it is Giyom, but he was like 1 in a million, literally..
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Hyrule19045 Posts
Sooooo much to read. I'm only in the section about routine (near the beginning :O) but it's quality as usual.
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I love your blogs. They are always full of good advices. Not just the typical parental advice(rather obvious that you either can do it or not), just pain good advices which you took from your own experience.
When I read such inspiring storys I always feel like my life is the most boring and nothing ever happens, but when I think about it for a longer time I realize how much I've been through(not just big life changing stuff, but important moments in general).
So now it's time for me to take your advice somehow. Think I'm gonna pick up a sport for this semester. Got a lot of free time and university soccer league is only in the summer. There is this feeling of achievement and ownage just sport can give. I could be in the top 200 but I'll always know that scoring a goal in a competitive match will be more satisfying.
Keep the good blogs coming.
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Just recently had a small burnout after a 16/7 month which was not really rewarded the way i would have liked. Gonna try to get some stamina, alarm set to 5:30, thanks a lot Sir
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Thanks a lot, I really took something from that. Love your blogs btw, hope to see more of them.
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How do you deal with weekends?
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
tofucake, d1v: gamsah ^^
Mavkar: gogo ^^
Aqui: my pleasure ^^
KurtistheTurtle: work of course keke, nah, fridays get wasted, can't wake up early if going to bed a 5 am.
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As a university student, i appreciate all your blogs as they reaffirm my beliefs
However this blog in particular struck it home, I am severely in need of a routine.
All my life, whenever i tried i would beat valedictorian test grades(high school), outleveled my friends in mmorpgs(haha silly i know but i always viewed it as competitive), and was a social animal, made several very good friends that thought very well of me.
But eventually, everything would fall apart, I would sleep in when i needed to study, i would skip classes which lead to me falling behind in class. I would get tired of playing and do other things, so even my 20 level advantage would lose. And all my old friends i would get sick of getting out of my room to go to parties, would rather stay in, and they eventually drifted away.
So far in university im doing very well, near the top of my class. but i just feel like history is going to repeat itself.
The problem i have is, i don't care for anything money has to offer. I have lived simple my entire life and i like it that way, Aka i would not mind working as a bag boy for the rest of my life.
Therefore whenever i try this "routine" i get sick of it,
It's boring and typical and whenever i try it i am 100% unhappy.
Therefore, I have been trying to find a job/profession where my style of "intensity" can apply, such as an architecture working on a project for months- but when its done he can stop until the next one.
Also, i'd have to add , that i've been diagnosed with sleep apnea, which is basically one part insomnia and one part sleep paralysis. It's also a bitch for my acne. In my case, i literally have 30 hour days. I can do the whole sleep at 9pm thing wake up at 5;30 easy. In fact i can sleep whenever the fuck i want give or take 15 minutes probably. However, give a week or so, and i CANNOT sleep until i've stayed up a certain period, period. I've tried not sleeping 8 hours ( only getting like 5 hours or so every night), shit just makes me go crazy.
Anyways, maybe i haven't tried enough, or haven't disciplined myself enough, or don't know something that everyone else in the world knows, but i cannot get a routine going.
They also gave me this machine im supposed to wear at night, Kinda like an oxygen mask, but i ripped it off that shit every night for a week (unconsciously), until i just gave up on it.
I have to say the conventional methods don't work as well, the whole don't stare at lcd screens an hour before u sleep, i dont even drink caffeine , ever anymore, i work out regularly, and i definitely plan out my coursework, etc etc stuff like that.
I also got counseling , the mental kind, they told me i was fine, so meh.
/rant.
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What about people that think the want to overact and get sad when they not do like the others?
For example, in a game like Trackmania, I have to practise a lot of maps, but sometimes I'm not happy with my personal records on a track (I think it's too slow for my level). Which makes me sad and I consider why I still play a game why I don't improve (which is not actually).
I was wondering how you can get the feeling back : You can't do better then the best you can.
Greets
rOB
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I'll confess I bookmarked this blog.
Good read. 
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
On November 03 2010 15:16 HeavOnEarth wrote:
As a university student, i appreciate all your blogs as they reaffirm my beliefs
However this blog in particular struck it home, I am severely in need of a routine.
All my life, whenever i tried i would beat valedictorian test grades(high school), outleveled my friends in mmorpgs(haha silly i know but i always viewed it as competitive), and was a social animal, made several very good friends that thought very well of me.
But eventually, everything would fall apart, I would sleep in when i needed to study, i would skip classes which lead to me falling behind in class. I would get tired of playing and do other things, so even my 20 level advantage would lose. And all my old friends i would get sick of getting out of my room to go to parties, would rather stay in, and they eventually drifted away.
So far in university im doing very well, near the top of my class. but i just feel like history is going to repeat itself.
The problem i have is, i don't care for anything money has to offer. I have lived simple my entire life and i like it that way, Aka i would not mind working as a bag boy for the rest of my life.
Therefore whenever i try this "routine" i get sick of it,
It's boring and typical and whenever i try it i am 100% unhappy.
Therefore, I have been trying to find a job/profession where my style of "intensity" can apply, such as an architecture working on a project for months- but when its done he can stop until the next one.
Also, i'd have to add , that i've been diagnosed with sleep apnea, which is basically one part insomnia and one part sleep paralysis. It's also a bitch for my acne. In my case, i literally have 30 hour days. I can do the whole sleep at 9pm thing wake up at 5;30 easy. In fact i can sleep whenever the fuck i want give or take 15 minutes probably. However, give a week or so, and i CANNOT sleep until i've stayed up a certain period, period. I've tried not sleeping 8 hours ( only getting like 5 hours or so every night), shit just makes me go crazy.
Anyways, maybe i haven't tried enough, or haven't disciplined myself enough, or don't know something that everyone else in the world knows, but i cannot get a routine going.
They also gave me this machine im supposed to wear at night, Kinda like an oxygen mask, but i ripped it off that shit every night for a week (unconsciously), until i just gave up on it.
I have to say the conventional methods don't work as well, the whole don't stare at lcd screens an hour before u sleep, i dont even drink caffeine , ever anymore, i work out regularly, and i definitely plan out my coursework, etc etc stuff like that.
I also got counseling , the mental kind, they told me i was fine, so meh.
/rant.
I have to say, I followed everything up to the 6th paragraph, had something in my mind to give you a response, then for last 2, well, it kinda put quite the complex spin on everything.
1. Just because you can do everything, doesn't mean you should do everything. There is this concept of sustainability in your productivity. Again, this is more of an insightful comment because it seems very obvious when pointed out, but not so obvious when you're actually in the middle of it. A lot of companies or people can do an obscene amount of growth or work, obscene amount of profit and results and when they fail, they fail spectacularly, epic fail. Simply because they are not accounting for the 'sustainability' of their actions. So in this case, no amount of routine will assist you because you're already doing too much in the first place and their is no room for a routine because it the routine would actually INTERFERE with your existing projects. Thus, you adding a routine where there is not time for it, well, that even fucks shit up more. Imagine, you're already in the trenches and their is enemy fire 24/7, you think having a routine at that point is helpful? No, in fact, if your captain would say, its time for tea time now, you'd wouldn't even be able to enjoy the tea and it would give you more stress as you try to pretend this routine is helping you be stable.
2. Simulation, some people need more simulation than others, some of it is natural, some of it is self-induced. The natural kind, is simply you need more simulation, but for some, unless it is completely different change of environment ie. moving to a different country or to a more urban setting, they simply are not ever full, its like an artist moving to NY from Iowa for more inspiration, for like minded people. Other times, unnatural need for simulation occurs when you simply speculation too much on topics and build personal theories on theories and so forth, like deciding if a girl likes you, then having never spoken to that girl, going through scenario on scenario about her until you write her some strange love note that comes out of the blue and you expect reciprocation on it, but she's only seen you twice and you spent 10 whole days thinking about her.
Project based work, as in architecture or consulting or even TV production, is intense and in that time frame, is it the best way to live? Not sure, to each their own, but in the context of competing, you will need some type of routine to give you some stability to simply have more stamina.
Again, there is a mindless routine or a routine that is just too much and give you stress and their is a routine which brings stability and balance to your mental and physical self. Lets say you want to keep burning the midnight oil, if you have a routine, it will allow you to gauge yourself and allow you to realize that you could simply wake up at 5:30 in the morning and start again and you'd likely have a higher level of output/performance that pulling 2 all nighters and feeling like a superstar to just have your health and social life fall apart.
There was a 1 month period where I only slept 4 hours a night and would take a 20 min nap during the day, simply because the stakes were high and no one was able to handle it in such a short period of time. Most people will never experience this unless they are war or running away from pirates, but for 4 months after, I had cough that would not go away and I would cough these little coughs all day long for 4 months and I gained 5 permanent kilograms in that period (like 12 pounds). I mean I had serious health issues after that period of work and I couldn't sleep properly, I would sleep 8 hours, but I never felt comfortable. Some times like is like that, but you can't live your entire life in those kinds of cycles because if you extend that over a 5 year period, the one who has more routine and sustainability/stamina in their performance will out perform your herculean achievements.
Maybe you are a combination of the above, maybe not, but what I would suggest is perhaps getting more exposure to new things, like really new things and then something will catch your interest, like travel to the East/West/South or wherever, try a sport you would never normally try like touch rugby or something, but get yourself exposed to something; and if it matches with you, then you will feel inherently comfortable, and you will have a good nights rest after that exposure. Because I reckon, your issue isn't the routine, it is something more of a simulation issue.
Cheers
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
On November 04 2010 01:17 RobJ wrote:
What about people that think the want to overact and get sad when they not do like the others?
For example, in a game like Trackmania, I have to practise a lot of maps, but sometimes I'm not happy with my personal records on a track (I think it's too slow for my level). Which makes me sad and I consider why I still play a game why I don't improve (which is not actually).
I was wondering how you can get the feeling back : You can't do better then the best you can.
Greets
rOB
Confidence, it's a growth process, and its natural to loss it, no answer how to get it back, but when it kicks back in with your determination to simply set a goal for yourself and to accept it for what it is, then at least you won't be sad anymore. I'm not great at everything, not even close, but I know myself where I can be that 'go to guy' for the game point; as long as you know you are as good as you can be then its enough, but just remember in business, your best isn't good enough, no one cares, its only the results that matter. But don't beat yourself up, remember, you score is in the context of time, even though you know you are doing better, you're own expectations are fucking you up; so let go of them and just say, this is a game I play over a period of time and next week and the week after I will be better so why care about my score/record now?
Cheers
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
On November 04 2010 01:21 EsX_Raptor wrote:I'll confess I bookmarked this blog. Good read.
ㄳ ^^ thanks!
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The best point you make is that everyone should watch Gattaca ASAP 
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Very nice series of blogs. This definitely makes me look twice at how I'm currently living my life. A very good read :D
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I had a question if you're still reading through these comments.
When you say leave those guys that are holding you back- what do you mean exactly?
I'll trade a lot for friendship and family
And i'd give up anything for someone i love.
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This whole series of blogs is really appreciated man. It's just what I needed at the right time... been succumbing to stress and falling into self pity lately. Discipline and routine are pretty crucial in keeping me out of that. Random question, what do you find are good activities to schedule in to the afternoon? I find I'm really productive and focused in the morning, but the afternoon hours feel extremely long and I'm always anxious and exhausted during that time. Right now I do studying and exercise in the morning, school is early afternoon but I have trouble filling that time before dinner.
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Thanks for this. It's very inspiring. I've read every single one of your entries so far!
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Canada606 Posts
Five stars and bookmarked. The greatest obstacle to one's success is themselves.
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