(Secret to actually becoming successful) Hyper focus monk mode

Mmm yeah, uh huh, right.

Grade 8: numerous sub 5s. Ended up with 4:53, then 2:14 an hour later.

445 freshman. 428 soph. 429 jr. 426 senior.

I always considered it a huge disappointment that my trajectory diminished as time went on. I did run some 4:30s closing in like 2:08 w/ 60 lap so I feel as part of the blame is on me.

Ok Goggins. Sounds good. They have a clinical word for when people spend all their time and effort anxiously trying to eat clean - orthorexia. Likewise, endlessly pushing yourself to get moving and 'improving' has a word too: antihedonia. I guess some people just can't cope with mixed motivations. They can't feel good about themselves unless they are trying to become 'not themselves', or at least a better version of themselves. Is that driven by fear? Or are you just on a free choice committed quest? Is that really a matter of trying to act like a true homo sapien? I'm supportive of the notion of "get up and do something!". But, why fight the system for a lifetime? When do you cross the line and become just an automaton, like a bee or an ant?

After thought: You might look into GTD (Get Things Done).

Here's a link that will give you a glimpse:

https://youtu.be/auXF0FK30VEhttps://youtu.be/auXF0FK30VE

So, since our "work world" expects us to practice good time management, be optimally attentive and engaged in our activity, we seek guidance on how to do a better job of dealing with our thoughts and motivations right now, in the moment. Otherwise, you end up with a pile of half- thought projects that you end up avoiding and feeling guilty about. You feel stuck and worthless. So, we try to avoid all of that crap by being obsessed with more concrete activity in our "free time". Seems like compensatory behavior, not true self authorship.

The link didn't work, but i looked into GTD a bit and it pretty much looks like it is a similar version in a book to get your to be more productive, this whole life view can be taken extremely the wrong way if you do not ease in to it and start gangbusters from day 1 cold turkey without an efficient method of understanding how your brain reacts or a system to help guide you through then you will 100% relapse before it becomes a "mental illness" unless you are on high doses of antipsychotics that trigger imbalanced serotonin and dopamine and happen to be extremely dysfunctional cognitively, which again those kinds of people wont even be able to understand this concept from the gecko, aside from that, it will take months to years to actually master this technique, you will certainly have countless retries over and over before you become self aware of your habits, once your brain becomes self aware, it is only then you actually realize "alright this is actually it, this is what it takes and I know what I have to do."

Also i don't understand how keeping your diet clean is a mental illness and most importantly I never once said you always have to improve yourself, rest is always assured that is what sleep and hobbies are for, maybe i didn't word myself correctly but this is from a reasoning standpoint.

People have a tendency to develop bad habbits and we may enjoy these bad habits temporarily but we will never be happy without them, the technique is designed to actually develop the dopamine that we call "happy" in our brains to keep us stimulated emotionally without having to rely on (minecraft, roblox, chips) For someone living in a modern world of everything available within a click of a button, our system is overdrive constantly and can't actually understand this feeling, Why? Because it is theoretically impossible to understand if you have never experienced it in the first place. It is why so few get to this moment of preservation. End the end it only matters what you want to do with yourself, if you are happy with who you are truly deep down then dosen't apply to you.

My message was mainly intended to the people who are lost or depressed, lazy and wander why they don't have this or that, they complain and wander why the world treats them so bad. They always want the short way out of things.

The reason why I have started this journey is because I did not like who I once was, i had a gut instinct telling me you have to make a choice, you can stay in your basement playing trolling in minecraft or you can start getting stuff done.

It basically only matters if you want to take the time and effort it to getting into the (preservation stage) Interestingly, lots of successful businessmen, athletes and warriors share develop this mode.

If you don't want to and are fine and it's not worth the extra 1 to 4 year stress then don't do it.

But it will always be available if you need it :)

my life became better once i started eating potato chips

tldr: eat potato chips, great life

TL; DR

Thanks for your efforts to prod everyone into developing habits that support healthy self-actualizing behaviours. Reading between the lines, I glean that its a variant of "success breeds success". The dopamine positive feedback signals that. In any case, it all falls into alignment with standard "achievement motivation". Once you succeed in doing something that was a struggle, it gives you inner strength to persevere when facing new struggles. I mean, runners are quite familier with this phenomenon. So, preaching "get off the couch" to runners seems a bit misdirected. But you seem to be suggesting that we should be proactive, to invite more challenges, that our easy slacker living is merely an over-weening existance, and an unnatural consequence of consumerism that we should overcome, to get 'woke' to?

The disfunctional link was for a video entitled "Avoid this BIG Beginner mistake with GTD"

OP, are you married? Have a family?

Seems like a super easy way to get burnt out fast.

Sorry everybody, I thought the OP was sharing original thoughts. Turns out he/she was just proselytizing about stuff he got from some book. Just an impressionable "true believer".

Your missing my point i think, all the stuff I just said is crap I made up in my head to reason with my sanity, i did not copy beliefs from a book, however after reflecting for years and analyzing phycological behavior of people, i came to realize 3 months ago what i believe to be the reason for there behavior.

This sounds crazy but i actually believe someone can achieve the limits of a sub 4 mile while achieving the limits of 550lb deadlift as well, maintaining overall mass of 180lbs although i don't know science can not back it up if this is physically possible or not, it dosen't matter because science once claimed just breaking the 4 minute mile is impossible, obviously they were wrong.

If there ever was an ultimate hybrid model athlete project where they could test this on people, that would be nice.. But unfortunately just like how Roger broke the 4 minute mile, Someone's going to have achieve the hybrid model athlete to show the world. In order to do that you have no choice but go into Hyperfocus monkmode, and at that point, luck in sustainability from not getting injured, genetics, etc and most importantly, strength of the human mind to achieve the hybrid model specimen.

I may or may never achieve this based on my preservation at the current moment, but this is my goal, and i am going to be considered stupid. And i very well maybe but hey who cares im only hurting myself.