If you're not actively engaged in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
Peter McWilliams.
Most platitudes are such a wank, yours certainly is.
This one isn't:
"If work was so good the rich would take more of it for themselves".
It's funny that you should say that, because every self made man and woman that I have ever met was certainly not afraid of hard work, and they were very actively engaged in getting what they wanted.
40 hour weeks are for the disengaged freewheelers. Most successful people will happily work 80 hours or more - so work must be good based on that criteria. If you think that good things will just happen for you, then your best shot in life is a lotto ticket.
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What I have is CONFLICTING DESIRES. There are two things I really want, but one of them I want more by a small margin. But that doesn't diminish my desire for the other, only suppresses it.
But I guess that is too complex for a Tony-Robbins-Unlimited-Positive-Thinking-About-All-The-Free-Money-The-Government-Will-Give-Me kinda world.
40 hour weeks are for the disengaged freewheelers. Most successful people will happily work 80 hours or more - so work must be good based on that criteria. If you think that good things will just happen for you, then your best shot in life is a lotto ticket.
Yep, I heard Bill Gates worked 512,820 hours a week to earn his 2 billion a year. If I was willing to work just 600 hours per week I would be a millionaire.
40 hour weeks are for the disengaged freewheelers. Most successful people will happily work 80 hours or more - so work must be good based on that criteria. If you think that good things will just happen for you, then your best shot in life is a lotto ticket.
Yep, I heard Bill Gates worked 512,820 hours a week to earn his 2 billion a year. If I was willing to work just 600 hours per week I would be a millionaire.
Yes, if you work 512,820 hours every week for 45 years, I predict that you might make it.
Best of luck.
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No - if you really wanted extramarital pussy you would actively seek it.
But you want your relationship more, so you're actively engaged in getting that together.
No, you're still not getting it. I know it's a difficult concept to understand. Especially when you come from a generation that gives no mind to the consequences of their actions.
Having a one to one correlation between what you desire and what you actively seek is a philosophy of hedonism. It's a philosophy your generation has pursued irregardless of consequences. You desire something, so you seek it out.
There are other philosophies however in which one can have a desire, even a strong desire, but not actively seek it out. Temperance, Prudence, Responsibility. One day they may come back into fashion.
No - if you really wanted extramarital pussy you would actively seek it.
But you want your relationship more, so you're actively engaged in getting that together.
No, you're still not getting it. I know it's a difficult concept to understand. Especially when you come from a generation that gives no mind to the consequences of their actions.
Having a one to one correlation between what you desire and what you actively seek is a philosophy of hedonism. It's a philosophy your generation has pursued irregardless of consequences. You desire something, so you seek it out.
There are other philosophies however in which one can have a desire, even a strong desire, but not actively seek it out. Temperance, Prudence, Responsibility. One day they may come back into fashion.
Oh I think that I understand the difference, but you are beginning to take yourself too seriously, so I'll leave it at that.
Cheers...
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It's funny that you should say that, because every self made man and woman that I have ever met was certainly not afraid of hard work, and they were very actively engaged in getting what they wanted.
40 hour weeks are for the disengaged freewheelers. Most successful people will happily work 80 hours or more - so work must be good based on that criteria. If you think that good things will just happen for you, then your best shot in life is a lotto ticket.
Most mega rich people I know had a mega injection of luck. So when they became successful and were making way above the average they enjoyed work. Which you would. But clearly most of the mega rich are old money. They don't do anything, they "invest", and get the government to do their bidding.
"If you think that good things will just happen for you, then your best shot in life is a lotto ticket"
Another lame attempt to shut me down. You're a child.
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Oh I think that I understand the difference, but you are beginning to take yourself too seriously, so I'll leave it at that.
Maybe. I really hate mindless platitudes.
I have friends in all of the generations mentioned in this thread, as well as some younger than the generations mentioned. I have also known older generations as well, though they have passed on now.
I found them all to be worthwhile people and citizens that I'm genuinely proud to share my country with. So I have no beef with any generation per se.
I meet and tallk to a lot of people, many who were genuinly downtrodden in life, but most don't complain. They just want solutions, and they will work hard to get the things that many take for granted. I don;t find their lives to be mindless platitudes. They are people who want to get ahead, or at least try to have the life that they see others enjoying.
Whenever I meet people who for whatever reason blame others for their apparently poor lot in life, I do find myself asking some hard questions about their stated circumstance. Have they really had it tough, or are they self loathing prima donna's.
I'm quite sure that you will answer that question for me.
Any expressed market opinion is my own and is not to be taken as financial advice
It's funny that you should say that, because every self made man and woman that I have ever met was certainly not afraid of hard work, and they were very actively engaged in getting what they wanted.
40 hour weeks are for the disengaged freewheelers. Most successful people will happily work 80 hours or more - so work must be good based on that criteria. If you think that good things will just happen for you, then your best shot in life is a lotto ticket.
Most mega rich people I know had a mega injection of luck. So when they became successful and were making way above the average they enjoyed work. Which you would. But clearly most of the mega rich are old money. They don't do anything, they "invest", and get the government to do their bidding.
"If you think that good things will just happen for you, then your best shot in life is a lotto ticket"
Another lame attempt to shut me down. You're a child.
Get serious moops, you don't hang out with the mega rich, and you don't know them.
Any expressed market opinion is my own and is not to be taken as financial advice
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