And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, you need to change something

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just bust another nut

wtf don't put me in a box

My only issue with this is that you can't always be doing things that you want to do, it's one of the caveats to society. If you're working towards something that is very beneficial to you in the long run but you don't want to do the work that doesn't mean you should stop working towards it. You just gotta figure out how to make the means to do the things that you enjoy doing but not focus too much on just doing the things you enjoy or the work you have to do to get there. Theres a reason why Buddha said "Life is suffering".

Let me put u in a box baby

the alley is there, but I'm boxed out for the oop smh. no foul either. harden drops 14 again.

I understand where you're coming from, but I don't buy it and it still sounds like an excuse. For the vast majority of us, there is work we want to do that will bring use true fulfilment as while as well as meeting our basic needs, but for whatever reason (fear of failure or embarrassment, procrastination, self-doubt, anxiety, etc), we don't do it.

This is the rest of the speech by the way:

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”

It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

You are already naked.

There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.

sorry f***ed up the quoting above, see again^ @PapiChampu

How do you take this perspective to empower you?

I put it on a post card and I’m going to ask myself this every morning when I look at myself in the mirror

Personally it's usually 3 days. Once it hits day 3, it becomes a concept that has to be examined. It's best not to make drastic changes but to seek what needs updating. Grow from there. Upkeeping.

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Dude what

Probably meditate and come to terms with it

When I get to day 3 of saying "No, this isn't the direction I'm headed" that's when that No changes from a 'bad day or two' to a concept that needs improvement.

Why would I go to class if I'm about to die

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Well the problem with this line of thinking is say for example; high school sucks and is in largely a large waste of time. Majority of what I learned has not been something that I use on the daily, at this point my life experience has been more beneficial not the diploma from high school. However that doesn't mean that I should have dropped out. This is because a high school diploma is a necessary evil in order to get into college.

The same thing applies to college degrees too, and in many cases people overwork themselves to death to maintain high gpa. In the real world once you've graduated and have your degree no one cares about your gpa unless you're planning on going to grad school. Again, this doesn't mean you shouldn't get the degree because many classes and graduation requirements are arbitrary.

All of this is to say that working towards something that you may not 100% like is fine. Even if you were being paid to do something you love you will eventually become jaded from it because you're not exactly doing it the way you want. Youtubers are easy examples of people persuing creative endeavors that they love but in order to make the video it almost always has to have advertising and all that other bs that is very far removed from making the video. Ex. thumbnails, editing, video tags, etc. If you didn't do any of that stuff no one will watch your video unless it goes viral.

The same also applies to doing things for the people you care about. If a family member asks me to help with something that I absolutely despise why would I say no? It gets to a point where you don't realize that you have to make sacrifices of your time for people who aren't you.

Life is suffering. Even pleasure is suffering because you know at some point it will end. There is pain in love in knowing that it will pass but that doesn't make it not worth it to go through. Life having a lack of entire fufillment is what drives humans. This is because you've fooled yourself if you believe you are entirely fufilled. If we never learn to sacrifice for others, then we are missing a very major part of the real meaning of life. There is no way to escape the suffering that will always exist through life so why not enjoy the ride? Living like that doesn't mean that the suffering ceases to exist but merely that you accept the suffering as a part of the experience.

you're one to talk mr. nb!!