Humans are naturally wired to seek instant gratification. They tend to do something new for a few months and quit when they see no results or right after a few setbacks. As a result, people develop a fixed mindset believing that their abilities are static, causing them to quit faster. People return to their baseline level of comfort zones following negative events and start seeking new shortcuts for instant gratification. This is primarily why many people fail, they are not prepared for the long game. Success is so exaggerated today that the marketing makes people more wired to quick ways to making money. For example, estimates suggest that over 50% of YouTube channels have fewer than 1,000 subscribers and many of these channels stop uploading content regularly after an initial burst of activity. The numbers speak for themselves. So instead of wasting your time on new shortcuts, what can you do to prosper at your work and create something that withstands generations to come?

It’s better to invest your attention in being the “Last Man Standing.” This is a powerful mindset that has the potential to transform the way you see life and work. Always be determined to create meaningful work for so long that you become the last person to do it decades from now. That’s years of consistency and discipline stacked into one long-term project. Never underestimate the power of compounding, that’s where most people fail. You often overestimate what you can achieve in a year and totally underestimate what you can achieve in a decade. This is what separates the wheat from the chaff. You have to do things for a long time so that you have enough evidence to support why you are good. And the lessons you have learned from years of consistent work cannot be taught otherwise. It’s true wisdom that you cannot acquire without these years under your belt.

There is a lovely book by Angela Duckworth called "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.” In this book, Duckworth formulates beautiful arguments of how passion for long-term goals, combined with persistent effort, leads to greater achievements and fulfillment and how sustained efforts over time is a critical factor for success. Success is not just about innate talent but also about the sustained effort and persistence that individuals apply to their goals. That’s a exquisite takeaway to hold onto.

We must be willing to make the sacrifices and have the patience to believe that it would work out fine in the end. It is impossible to predict how things will turn out in the long run so have some faith in the power of compounding. Calming the storms in your head is the most difficult thing because we are constantly exposed to so much of noise all around us. So cut through those noises and keep doing what you do. We are all on a unique journey of our own to experience extraordinary encounters throughout our life span. And if you do not take the time to see the beauty in it, you will miss out because time waits for nobody.

Until next time, stay curious and keep questioning!

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I'm searching for recommendations on solutions that can help manage plans, add, edit, or cancel events, and even perform web research directly within the messenger app. It's like having Google right at your fingertips! The goal is to simplify tasks without the need to switch between screens. Any suggestions?

I'm in the process of writing my first novel, something I've been slowly building on for years, but my problem is that I have a very visual, emotionally heavy, imagination.I know exactly how I want everything to feel, the mood, themes, character relationships and interactions, etc. However, whenever I put it to paper, it always feels underwhelming, as if I just can't do justice to the images in my head.

It's really disheartening, so if anyone has any advice or tips, I'd be so grateful :)

To be honest, I've never really been interested in books nor have I been interested in movies either, but I have always been fascinated by creating my own stories, stories I've made up in my mind, and how they play out is fascinating to me, I want to start writing since I have so many stories in my mind and want to express them or even just to let it out but I don't know how to, English is not my first language and like I said I don't really read a lot of books I have no idea how to write, I've tried reading some when I was a teen but never really finish them because I am always procrastinating so they ended up collecting dust in my room, don't get me wrong I still want to read but never really find the time to.

I guess my question is how do I start? how do I start finding the motivation to do them, and since I have nowhere else to ask this, I decided to ask it here.

We now live in a world that provides us with a plethora of options for everything. Man has become so comfortable, that even the slightest thought of discomfort and inconvenience is vehemently dismissed. The abundance of options are a key element of our creative work today, because options are created for the sole purpose of programming our consumption habits to maximize profits. You provide yourselves with too many options which ultimately leads you to anxiety and decreased satisfaction. This is famously called The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. So why must you limit your options if you are intending to put forward meaningful creative work?

Options are killing results when it comes to creative work and limitations enable you to push boundaries. When we are gifted with the luxury of time (referring to lack of deadlines), often times we tend to spend most of it procrastinating on making the right choices from our ocean of options. As a result, we are unable to finish our work and most importantly degrade it’s quality due to external factors such as anxiety, overwhelm, brain fog, etc. This is also the act of sacrificing your mental energy for the futile things that do not add up in hindsight.

Limitations on the other hand, drives you to search for ways that makes things work, even if it doesn’t seem to. It’s like a search into the unknown, where you come out with findings you could never acquire otherwise. Constraints help you generate innovate solutions and creativity. It helps you discover unique characteristics and authentic beauty within your work. Most profound and beautiful creative works are a result of the boundaries people pushed from within their limitations.

The argument I am trying to formulate is that, it’s an important thing to reduce your options and expose yourself to challenging constraints so that they can bring out the best in you. The true beauty of your work is reflected, at it’s highest potential, when you intentionally teach yourself to be comfortable in being uncomfortable consistently.

Until next time, stay curious and keep questioning!

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Alright - we all have things we love about content creation but there are certain things that are just tiring and repeatitive or just plain old boring.

What annoys you the most about content creation? What is about dealing with data or information that is painstakingly withholding your progress.

I just want to learn more about this industry and what are the little nuances that I’m missing out on from just being a viewer/reader.

Cheers!

You have the potential to achieve amazing things. Every day is a new chance to make progress and get closer to your goals. Don't be discouraged by setbacks; they are just stepping stones on your journey. Embrace the challenges, learn from them, and keep moving forward. Remember, you are capable of more than you think. Keep going—you’re doing great!

I have terrible anxiety along with depression, adhd, all the good stuff that makes us creative. I struggle so much with even telling people I like to write for fear of criticism, I also have a lot of cptsd from growing up with a mentally ill narcissist mother. My point is, has anyone struggled with this level of fear of criticism and if so how did you overcome it?

I'm in therapy and it has helped me get to the point where I've started my book and have told my husband but I still have to force myself to share the most basic information with him. I want to eventually try to be published or at least self publish but I feel frozen at the thought of letting people actually read my work. So what's worked for you?

Okay, so it has been a few years since I have actually published anything. This is simply because life and family came first. I am trying to get back into writing and want to get to it pretty consistently. I don't have the best encouragement and support at home, so I am curious what everyone out there does to stay accountable and reach their goals. Do you have a support person or support group? Do you use any type of writing aid? What are your tips for staying on track? Are there any good groups that can motivate and keep you accountable?

Humans make a lot of mistakes, good ones and bad. The act of making these mistakes can be seen as a compelling evidence of our mortality because it shows how imperfect we are, apart from those fools who are ignorant to live their lives as though they are immortal.

However, the prideful nature within you never allows you to admit your mistakes. It can only come from a point of humility. That’s why having proper rituals and belief systems are extremely vital to keeping your humility in check, otherwise you’d be walking through the dessert in the midst of chaos. And because of this pride, you also throw away the opportunity to analyze and learn from your mistakes. If that’s your case, then congratulations! You are now travelling in a path towards becoming a horrendous and resentful human being, the road to hell.

Develop the humility to admit your ignorance and examine your mistakes carefully so that you learn from them. List out all your mistakes in your imagination and bring together all the evidences you can gather, so that you don’t punish yourself more than you need to. Introspect about what you did wrong, what you could have done better, and what can be done in the future.

The devil in your mind that is still accusing might be saying “What you did is so awful that you should never be forgiven.” If that was the criteria for judgement, then everyone’s doomed because everyone makes mistakes in the lives — some of which are unforgiveable too.

So equip yourself to have the humility to admit your shortcomings, have the wisdom to scrutinize your mistakes deliberately and take the proper actions to make sure it’s not repeated again. In this way you get to develop properly and make peace with your inner storms.

Until next time, stay curious and keep questioning!

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I have a few ideas for some action fantasy let's say power systems and one large one if someone would want too try too see if they could actually use it or not. I'm just gonna list them no particular order just ideas.

---A power system in where the main idea is more of a caliber type of idea. Think of Glock compared too barret 50 cal.. or think of how people think they can fight and then there's martial artists. So the idea would be world were magic exists and there the normal field of everyday utility magic. But then let's say the main character or a world event reveal the existence of higher caliber magic. Like let's say people in the streets are using fantasy fireball for self defense and then there are people out there using sol beams that can Pearce through steel like a light saber. Seeing how a world would have too deal with that dynamic seems cool too me.

--- Another interesting idea would be too let's say have a mutation go around in the world that would cause a person too have one of there senses heightened too the extreme. Exploring the upper limits of that would be pretty interesting. Just imagine some guy just suddenly one day able too perceive the subtle colors that you give off during different emotional states. Or somebody one day being able too smell different chemicals apart. Even too the point of being able too smell bombs. That sounds crazy.

--- here's the crazy one that I was talking about. This one came from a long binge of reading and watching isekai, video game , reincarnation manga and anime. But I thought one day how would I make that story. The one thing that was always common in those stories is that it was always a one to one representation of a videogame in real life. That's cool but what I thought was what if it was a bit more realistic. Like someone really got taken too a video game world and everything that comes with a video game was added naturally. I'm saying there literally being a health bar coming out of there forearm. A world were sword art online is a bit more hardcore in terms of how the video game elements are presented. Like you can see a stats screen if you meditate. On the idea of the stat screen. That type of realisms I guess you could say. __ I did choose a video game too base this off of though and I very much like my choice. I chose the souls style of video game. So I wanted too somehow naturally explain that type of world. With it's bonfires and reviving players as well as enemies. Like what would you describe and actual level up too feel like.

Here's a tiny bit of the vision that I'm seeing with this world/story idea. Just imagine that one day your sitting at home and 3 weird veiny but weirdly straight lines appear on your forearm. One red,one green,one purple. You may think it's weird but you don't seem too have anything wrong with you. Soy you think nothing of it. Then one day on your way too work you trip and fall down a flight of stairs. You fall hard. But somehow you feel only a bit of pain. Your fairly bruised up though so it's odd too you. It seems that you can walk fine and everything... Strange. Then you notice the red line on your arm became shorter and were it was full is now black. Very strange. You suddenly remember oh I have too go too work so you bolt out the door. Too you car. You feel surprising light today. You get in you car. It won't start. What now. You start too run it's only 2 miles away if you hurry you might make it in time. So you run as fast as you can at top speed. Your somehow running and it feels like your walking almost. Not exactly. It's as if you have no fatigue. So you look down at your arm the green bar is steadily falling.

I'm not an author. Or plan too be one. This entire video game world idea thing comes with it's own power system and everything. I usually just add stuffy too some notes about the idea on my free time. It gets pretty occulty as the entire power system is based on occult mysticism. Which I am still trying too figure out how too work out.

Just putting ideas out in the ether is all..

“How to” guides are also welcome. I’m new to this. Thanks

Life in some real sense is a network of paths, like the branches underneath a tree. Numerous variations but more or less the same outcome expectations. Why do people prefer taking the known and safer paths often, when all they have is one short life? The complexity and diversity of human nature make it difficult to find a single compelling explanation to this.

However, if you orient yourself properly to the highest order, become attentive and open enough to see the burning bush in the midst of the dessert, and step out for a journey with the spirit that calls you into adventure, then I have some advice for you.

If you want to take a path that nobody has taken, then you must be willing to suffer the pain that nobody has suffered. If it was going to be easy wouldn’t everyone work towards reaching their highest potential in every imaginable spectrum? It takes an unreal amount of courage and commitment to live a life through an undiscovered path.

But why should you even consider trying? Well, what about the immense potential you have within you that you are unable to tap into? How then can you create beauty that has the power to transcend time and space? Think about it and make a good argument to yourself and see if it’s worth not living up to your fullest potential.

There is much more to life than your conventional thinking. Let down the pride of thinking you are always right and be open to the possibility of the highest order that calls you into adventure. Like how God called the already rich and prosperous Abraham to leave his father’s house for a journey into the unknown. That was what it took to eventually become the “Father of Nations.”

Tap into your highest potential and gather the courage and strength to walk in the paths unknown.

Until next time, stay curious and keep questioning!

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Hello Friends,

Been there, done that with the whole "waking up feels like a chore" and "everything just seems pointless" routine. It's rough. Trust me, I know. But guess what? You can crawl out of that dark hole, and here's why:

Reaching Out is HARD, But Powerful.

I get it. Talking about depression can feel like admitting defeat. But here's the thing: it's actually a sign of strength. We all need help sometimes, and the people who care about you want to be there.

Start with Your Inner Circle.

Do you have a friend you can trust? A supportive family member? They might be the first people you reach out to. Sometimes all it takes is venting to someone who listens without judgment.

Expand Your Support System.

Maybe your close circle isn't quite enough right now. That's okay! There's a whole world of people out there who understand what you're going through. Consider joining a support group, either online or in person. There are tons of resources available, and sometimes talking to strangers who "get it" can be incredibly helpful.

feelsojoy.com is a great online community I found specifically focused on battling depression. They have live calls for support, chats, and even mindfulness exercises, all aimed at helping people overcome those dark days.

Remember, You Deserve to Feel Better.

This journey won't be a walk in the park. There will be setbacks. But you are strong, and you are worthy of happiness. Don't be afraid to ask for help, and don't give up on yourself.

To those of you established authors, this seems pretty juvenile, and it is. It’s only like 10% of a fantasy book. It’s also my first, so it’s pretty crap honestly. However, I’m just here to say that: for anyone lurking but too scared to write, the barrier of entry is very low. You just need a laptop and some time to kill, and also 0 extra dollars. Also, write for yourself, not others. The best work can be produced that way.

So, take this as motivation. If me, some random dude, can start doing this, you can as well.

Hi I've been working on this fantasy story for almost 2 years now. I have made some progress but slowly. I keep losing motivation to write. I enjoy writing and am invested in my story but I don't know how to keep my focus on it for long periods of time. Is there anything I could do to keep my focus? What I usually do and works some what is to listen to music, while snacking on some food and have a nice drink by myside. Some days I can sit for 3 hours working on it other days I last 20 minutes if I'm lucky.

The title says it all. Anyone down for joining a discord fantasy writing server? It will be a fun way of getting to know each other and offering advices to one another. We can share our ideas there and discuss about anything related to fantasy writing. It will be a great opportunity to offer support and gain experience from discussing fantasy-related topics. Any member is welcome💖

Who knows, we might potentially become close friends! :)

Hello, folks! I am new here. I sought out this subreddit because I have been a writer my whole life, but over the last couple of years, I have let that creative side of my life slide. I would like to get back into it, but I am not sure where to start. I was wondering wether anyone here can relate, and/or would be willing to offer advice.

I can’t be alone in this! For the past two years I have had two stories in my head that couldn’t be more different. A high school murder mystery and a dark fantasy, and for two years I have written NOTHING for either!! Every time I decide to knuckle down on one, I end up getting distracted with my other story. I’m not a professional and I won’t ever try to publish them, it’s only for myself, but my brain just won’t let me complete one! Any advice??

I'm curious if people here have tried 'morning pages' journaling from The Artist's Way, and whether it helped!

https://www.quillow.me/blog/what-are-morning-pages-and-why-you-should-do-them-in-2024

I’m a 22y french college student. I used to study film bc i wanted to become a screenwriter, didn’t get into the cinema school i wanted to enter and am now graduating from my chinese major this year. My chinese is C1 level, i lived in Taiwan for a year and i’m staying one more to keep improving. I’ve been diagnosed with GAD and depression last year. I’m in a pretty bad mental space rn but I noticed that every time it happens I keep having the same thoughts over and over again. I desperately want to write but i can’t seem to write anything unless i’m under pressure. I feel like i’m missing on the only thing that would make me feel good, I always wanted to be a writer. Most of my friends are artists and I admire them so much. I wish I could pursue my dream just like them but it seems i’ve got crippling perfectionism. I do have a lot of time on my hands but the thought of writing makes me feel so bad even though I desperately want to do it. I really don’t know how to get out of this situation bc I definitely feel like if I don’t write anything in this life time i would have thrown my life away.

I am working with a small team to develop an app to allow people to motivate themselves and increase their motivation in the long term. Think headspace for motivation. The app is based on academic literature, and our initial testing has produced some very good results immediately after use. Users have also anecdotally reported higher average levels of motivation after a week of use.

I am looking to expand the app to more users while in the testing phase to optimize the app. If you are interested, the link to join the alpha is below:

https://forms.gle/raViuv15FTMHpzgv7

If you have any questions, please send me a message or post them below.

https://medium.com/@sammynaicker/the-life-of-a-writer-d2e0e70e821d

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Hi guys. I'm really bad at achieving goals. I want to write a book by the end of the year, maybe by March of 2025. Depends on novella vs novel. Anyways. I've always started books and then never finished them and I really really want to get this goal. Does anyone have any advice for keeping track and staying focused for someone one with AuDHD and mildly forgetful?