The other day as I was working out I gave up after 2 sets because I could tell it was one of those bad days where I'm weak. I just lost all willpower at the prospect of struggling just to lift what I could easily do last week and so I just gave up. This happens in all areas of my life: sometimes I'll just stay up and fuck up my sleep schedule because I'll suddenly turn into another person who doesn't care about efforts, discipline, good habits etc. It's like on some days I just stop caring about my efforts and destroy everything I've built, this often happens after a minor setback. Obviously this is bad. How do I get an iron willpower?>inb4 muh "its not motivation its discipline hurrdurr"Yeah try being disciplined when your willpower is gone and you become temporarily completely apathetic to the outcome. You just stop caring and break your own rules
>>34396051>Obviously this is badis it? you'll be dead and forgotten in 100 years. be lazy, be free, enjoy yourself.
>>34396051It's called having a bad day, you're supposed to allow them. You just say "fuck it" and let yourself take a bad day and laze around doing nothing. When you allow bad days to happen, the bad days happen less frequently and less severely. Fighting them just makes it worse.
>>34396058>>34396059Sorry, forgot to mention but it's not just "oh let's take a lazy day, can't be arsed to do it today". It lasts indefinitely if I don't actively fight myself to correct it. For example I haven't worked out in like a week and haven't worked on my thesis in 2 months. One time I went full NEET and just didn't do anything for an entire year and only the threat of homelessness got me back into things
>>34396136what do you do with your time instead
Nothing leads to nothing. Not really a rocket science. Your body won't work on it's own. It needs your commands. Not a single successful person out there just snapped with its fingers and everything happened automatically. They went through the same hell like you. The only difference is, that you give up all over again and rather ask on 4chan "what is this thing" instead of just doing it.The hardest thing of doing something is starting. Once the rock is rolling, it will be easier. To not give up *while* doing shit, you have to override your thoughts. "Who the fuck cares about me" turns into "I care about me". "I feel weak today, I should stop." -> "I feel weak today - one reason more to do 2 extra sets."It's a mindset thing nobody else can help you with except yourself.
>>34396051The only way I know of motivating people with your condition is to punish them severely for not doing what they are supposed to. This works for a small portion of the people with your condition. For the rest, nothing will work. Our society frowns on such things though, so it’s not a practical solution.I don’t think there is a good solution because your problem feeds back onto itself in a vicious cycle. Every time you give up, you make it more likely that you will give up the next time.Sometimes I feel like giving up like you do, but I never give up on the things that I really care about. I gave up on working out and online dating, but I haven’t given up when it comes to my job or taking care of things around the house because those things are important to me.
>>34396051Take modafinil if you need to study something
https://troof.blog/posts/nootropics/
