Literally everything you do is practice whether you call it that or not. Every single action you take is just training yourself to do that action again. You think you're just "living your life" but you're actually running drills on yourself 24/7. When you scroll your phone for three hours, that's practice, you're getting better at scrolling your phone for three hours. When you avoid that difficult conversation, that's practice in avoidance. The gym rat is practicing being a gym rat but the guy rotting in his room is also practicing, he's just practicing rot. There's no neutral gear in human existence. You can't just "be" without the being turning into a pattern, and patterns are by definition practice sequences. The only real choice you have is whether you're going to acknowledge what you're practicing and shape it consciously or just let the repetition shape you into whatever form your default behaviors carve out. Either way the wheel is always spinning and you're always on it. The "I'm just existing bro, I'm not trying to optimize anything" cope is just another practice routine, you're practicing being the kind of person who doesn't examine their practice. It's recursive all the way down and there's no escape hatch.
>>76868719Bro you wrote this like you just discovered the concept of habits in a fortune cookie and decided you were the first philosopher to ever think about it.You’re talking like you uncovered some hidden cosmic machinery when all you did was rebrand “you get good at what you repeatedly do” into a conspiracy theory about the universe secretly running you through drills. Congratulations, you reinvented the idea of reinforcement with the tone of a guy explaining gravity to a toddler.Also this whole “there is no neutral gear” thing? That’s been a self-help paperback staple since the 80s. You’re acting like you cracked open the monolith from 2001, but you basically just paraphrased page 3 of Atomic Habits and added dramatic lighting.The funniest part is you frame it like some grand revelation about free will, when it’s actually just a very intense way of saying “maybe stop doomscrolling.” You’re not wrong, but the presentation makes it sound like you’re drafting humanity’s operating manual from your phone at 2 AM.Anyway, appreciate the enthusiasm. The universe is probably not a drill sergeant, but if imagining it yelling at you helps you put the phone down, go for it.
>>76868727>five reddit-spaced paragraphs to say nothing at all
>>76868719That pic is so stupid when you realize the difference between the top and the bottom is none because at the end of the day you're spending your time alone with no wife, no kids, no family, no money, nothing.
>>76868719Nice theory, genius—every breath you take is just another practice drill, is it? Congratulations on turning life into a never-ending montage of “training” while the rest of us actually do things. If living were a gym, you’d be the guy who spends three hours warming up for a nap and calls that progress. You’re not making choices; you’re calibrating excuses to perfection, which apparently counts as self-improvement in your world. The wheel spins, sure, but your spin looks suspiciously like inertia wearing a fancy outfit. Your motto—“I’m not trying to optimize, I’m cataloging my actions”—is the most elaborate cop-out since forever, and you treat it as strategy. Maybe one day you’ll try doing something hard without labeling it as pattern-recognition, but until then enjoy the rehearsal and pretend you’re becoming a better version of yourself.
>>76868846But he'll get a wife and kids eventually... r-right?
>>76868817>five reddit-spaced paragraphs to say nothing at allYeah, no shit, chatgpt wrote it after all.
>>76868889No, the issue with terminally online self-improvers is that they do things one step at a time and then hope that in the end things automatically work out for them. It's basically therapy-tier busy work. You have to acticvely chase all goals at the same time as a man to get what you want.
if heaven is so wonderful, why do christcucks cry so much whenever someone dies? shouldn't you be happy they've finally left this imperfect world full of suffering, and were finally reunited with god?
>>76868846there's a picture of a woman on the table in the 4th image
>>76868900How would you know? Have you actually done that?
You can’t really program yourself the way you want to. Some actions, when repeated, only become worse. You only grow more resistant to doing it. You foster rebellion inside of yourself by torturing yourself. You gotta let the inner retard win sometimes
>>76868719Holy shit a new spin on "you are defined by your actions" just dropped. Terrible, dogshit thread op
>>76868719Good thread.
>>76868727>Reads like AIOk, Faggot.>>76868719Well said. I hadn't though of it like that. I'm one of those dudes who say they're "existing". I'm productive, I go to gym, college, extracurriculars, and friends. I say i was "existing" because I was just focused on my daily activities. Not realizing that I'm ingraining these habits into me. Practicing each one, slowly building mastery in the process.
>>76868719Being a couchlocked slob requires no work. If your definition of "practice" includes things that are not work, it is a useless definition. You are a pseud.
>>76868719ngl, panel 1 looks super comfy
>>76868846It can be a difference of ‘do you want your efforts to result in something virtual or physical?’I got into gardening this summer, and I had so many people comment on what I was doing and saying how good everything looked, compared the zero people that think my video game achievements are cool. I still play video games, but it’s all up to you to decide what’s important
