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Your age is really less, itâs really the time for you to nurture your thinking and make something good of your life, trust me, if you can control yourself now, youâll be the winner forver, this upper adolescent age is the age where you have no liabilities and everyone expects good from you, read books, I suggest you start with The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, donât go too political on that book but just be inspired by the protagonist, invest time in making yourself better, trust me, you can do brilliant in your life.
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Thanks, Iâll try to get my hands on that book, and Iâll try harder 
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Youâre calling Howard Roark the antagonist or Peter Keating an inspiration? 
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@pieterdebeer48 @speak.aditya.asia hehe 
sorry guys autocorrect got me bad, I meant protagonist, was in hurry so couldnât review the comment, thanks @speak.aditya.asia
@speak.aditya.asia reading a lotta Ayn rand? Keating is also a man of circumstances btw its not his fault, although he canât be considered a protagonist like Brutus in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare.
Yeah, read the fountainhead and atlas shrugged but her essays and letters are all the extensions of the same thoughts so had to stop reading âPhilosophy Who needs itâ midway⌠IMO Keating was a usual ambitious person similar to those amongst us, I tried to be piteous about his situation in the end but all I could remember was his opportunistic choices which led him to where he was⌠What do you think?
Yes sheâs monotonous and redundant, and Peter Keating must a survival expert given we know Theory of Natural Selection and Probability as taught by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Yes according to Taleb, roark is a clear loser.
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Adding to that, I just finished with 48 Laws of Power and I just hated every word of it because once you have read Ayn Rand then any such advices of acting shrewd and cunning and taking advantage of other people starts to look like a sin. Sometimes I think I shouldnât even have read Ayn Rand but thatâs the most beautiful peace of literature which I read.
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Try some of George Orwell, the metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, and a bit of Kurt Vonnegut for sure
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Iâll definitely find the audiobooks for these authors. You seem to be an avid reader. I have to study long hours for CFA and CS, dont get to read much but I listen to audiobooks when I am in the gym.
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I had been preparing for civil services, took a break from that a while, have a Kindle loaded with books I had wished to read, so gave it a chance. Thanks.
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Day 27. But I didnât relapse at all buddy. What was your point again ?
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Didnât know there was an atheist section here.
Finally people with similar thoughts and logical productive discussions.
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Youâre welcome! Stay strong!
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The most important thing is your integrity, your conviction broken is your essence broken.
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The impediment to action advances action,
What stands in the way becomes the way.
~Marcus Aurelius
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Watching more would harm you more. Observe the trickery of the brain to coax you to watch dirt saying âJust A Littleâ, a deep promise echoing in the head saying again and again âno just a little, I wonât masturbate, I wonât get wrong mindset, just a little wonât matterâ. Thus, gets convinced your subconscious brain and perhaps instantly to the idea which makes you watch that just a little stuff.
Hoping to quench the thirst you go the bank of the lust river thinking you need just some drops of it, but no, here you are, there is a whole river in front of you, itâs in your territory, youâve got what youâve ever wanted, there is nothing more good than this, there is no other thing more joyful and precious like this, itâs not bad, itâs beautiful, everybody is taking deep dive into it, why not I too do it, I havenât lost all what I have yet, why not make the most of the moment, why not enjoy the life to the fullest, I am not harming anyone, I am not taking anything from anyone, this is just me and my world, I must enjoy it, I want to immerse myself into it, why not completely soak myself into it.
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Youâve taken that fantasy bath, and now youâre physically and mentally squeezed, here comes the real world, the real objectives, the real things, the real motives, the real passions, the real feelings, the real people, the real interactions, the real breathing, the real sensations, the real situations, the real goals, the real aimsâŚbut youâre tired now and you got no power to face these affairs.
This is here, you say, all of that was an illusion, all of that was fake, all that was just a deception, all that was mere mindset.
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The most deplorable fact of your living is that you are an organic scum, you too have sensations, you too are just like other wild animals. Irony is yet you consider yourself worthy of something, yet you think youâre capable. Yet, you take pride in your inheritance. Why doesnât your mind revolt to animal instincts? Why doesnât it do what you want it to do? Why are you a slave of those desires like animals? Why do you have to submit each time a thought appears in you head? Why?
Discipline and observation, look at the people around you, most are done with what they can possibly think of achieving, you unlike them, had promised yourself a heaven, a heaven that you by your own work independently would build, and you think youâre capable of. Obstacles hence must be removed forever, of which the lust is the biggest. It doesnât deserve to snatch a single moment of your energy from you, No it doesnât deserve any of you.
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