Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
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i need to wake up and get out of my mental rut, i keep going back to this video by harper o connor and he quotes what i think is marx about how "theory without practice is sterile," and to become a person on the left that people look up to and want to emulate.
it reminds me a bit of why hasan piker generally tend to be a figure that people are generally receptive to, because he is a person that by cultural hegemon, most people can find likeable; works out, well spoken, articulate, clean.
i could speak about my ill formulated life and the incoherent structure, but as this is a public forum - i will not allow for viewers to paint with a broad brush and, allow for the embarrassment of my ideological peers.
That reminds me of this quote by Brace Belden.
And I agree about Hasan, a lot of it just comes down to the fact that he's tall, strong and attractive. Matt Christman has a much deeper understanding of the world but his streams never got a fraction of Hasan's views.
What are your ideas on how to get out of a rut?
hey, thanks for the response, i've been thiking about how to respond the last couple days - got pulled into the news cycle with the recent aggression on iran.
i think i need to start to act like i am somebody i am taking care of. or do the things i think somebody is taking care of.
i like the video you linked, thank you for that.
recently was audiobooking atomic habits - hoping to incorporate some of that.
I've read Atomic Habits, it's a solid book! If you're into that topic, I recommend Buddha's Brain. The basic premise of the book is that "the neurons which fire together, wire together". The author is a neuroscientist who suggests that we can use our neuroplasticity in order to strengthen the parts of our brain which are responsible for well-being. The book has a lot of practical and actionable advice, which I'm a big fan of.
I also recommend taking this self-compassion test. I think that self-compassion is an essential skill in capitalism. We're all being oppressed by a hostile economic system, no need to oppress ourselves on top of that. We're all internalizing the capitalist oppression in the form of the inner critic and beating ourselves up. That's why it's critical for leftists to develop self-compassion.