Listen to me,
I've come straight from fucking hell, so you know I have been there. You know I have been as low as human being can go and have looked satan dead in his eyes of burning coal. You and no one else on planet earth can question what I have endured, and you fucking know it. Listen to what I am saying: I know EXACTLY what is happening in your brain. I know EXACTLY what is going on in your subconscious, and the experience you are having.
I am going to tell you what I did when I was in a dark place suffering from extreme anxiety. This process took 2 years, I did it EVERY FUCKING DAY with grit and determination, worked my butt off, and became far more psychologically healthy. It's a binary decision, you do it, or you don't. Nothing else works so you can either do this, which is proven, or just flop around for years. I learned this from a week-long retreat with an amazing guy here in the UK and I paid him several thousands for this knowledge so you better appreciate I am giving it to you for free. This shit works and I went from being an anxious emotional wreck to elbowing my way up to Project Manager role developing Strategic Plans and managing 22 staff, starting from a shit job as a part-time Project Assistant whilst suffering from insane anxiety crying myself to sleep suffering loneliness and isolation to the core of my being. Years later, I am now living in the Canary Islands working remotely and supporting myself, training my arse off in the gym, learning Spanish, learning Digital Marketing, and believe me, come hell or high water I am going to find my soulmate and sail off into the horizon. I have good friends and a good relationship with my family and I found a drive inside of me that is simply savage. I am going to make it.
You need to do the following, right now:
Get a day diary. Get one from Amazon that is a day per page. So, every day has the date and a whole page that is broken down into hour long slots.
Fill EVERY HOUR with activity. Different types of activity that use different parts of your brain. An hour on playing music, an hour on music, an hour on learning languages, an hour learning about ancient history, an hour writing, etc. Get into maybe 5 new hobbies and begin flooding your brain with novel, new, stimulating data. Get into photography, do that for an hour a day, then mix in some other stuff, keep hammering your brain with data of all different types. This is called operant conditioning and anyone who overcome anything did it.
I can explain the neuroscience and what is happening in the limbic system but I genuinely never, ever, ever help people who are in a dark head space because when you do that, you are entangled with them, and they will suck you into the abyss too.
This is the one and only time I am going to break my rule, and it's for you and only you. I have friends who I know IRL who I cut off because they were complaining about life, that's how serious I am about managing my brain and gunning for victory in life. Because you have been on this forum for 2 years, I see that there is something inside of you that wants success, so I will try to nurture that part of you today but that is all I can do.
Example of a day diary:
7:00: Get up / Yoga / Listen to podcast
8:00 Breakfast / 30min walk listening to audiobook
9:00 Drawing & Listening to an artist I haven't heard before
10:00 Study music theory
11:00 Play an instrument, practice a song
12:00 Lunch / Watch documentary
1:00 Study German
Etc.
If you have work or University, that's cool, stick that in, and do it whilst PRETENDING to be very happy, positive, engaged and focused. This sends data into the subconscious and this is how you build your brain to be, to be the most focused, productive, capable person on planet earth.
You need to rewrite and restructure your psyche. You can go learn about neural plasticity if you want, or you can just take the practucak and distilled science I have laid out above and start fucking hammering your brain with new behaviours, activities, and stimulating data. Work your brain HARD. Study interesting theories in art, look at new documentaries, become a totally fascinating person. STARVE the old neural pathways and BUILD new ones.
Disconnect from everything you look at. Thankfully I didn't get into the black pill or whatever the fuck that is, I want to start a family too bad to go down that road. You need to disconnect completely, and through driving new data through your brain, you will FORGET the old.
Fuck loser cunts. Don't look at any of that content, like Medusa, it will turn you into stone. I don't look at ANY content apart from David Goggins, Andy and Radical from this forum. NOTHING ELSE. Forget those people exist, they are going nowhere and they will drag you into their hell. Become strong, driven, and hard-working, then connect with the baddest most driven motherfuckers you can find. Pay to be friends with them if you need to, I get up at 1am dead tired just to speak to Andy for an hour and connect with other determined men. You want peers like that. In the future, once I have set up a digital marketing company, I will be reaching out to guys like this to do joint ventures with them and we'll make bank. Forget ALL this bullshit about politics, society, etc. I did a degree in Political Science and it is a waste of time, I have friends who are literally working in parliament now, it's a losers game, let those people waste their lives - make money, travel, build businesses, achieve highly, complete difficult challenges, climb mountains, do iron man triathlons, learn to speak 10 languages, have sex with goddesses, get married, have children, WIN IN LIFE. Fuck everybody and everything else, just find your tribe and raise your swords together and wade in the blood of your enemies.
Shut the fuck up and do this for 30 days. Every day work your arse off and learn as much new exciting shit as possible until you are STOKED to be alive.
Unless you can control your brain, it's over. The mind is primary. It's the Bridge to the Universe. BEND IT TO YOUR WILL. Nothing in life can stop something that is relentless.
Other than working on neuralplasticity and reconditioning your brain, having good overall systemic health can also help: Study the work of Dr Konstantin Buteyko and learn about circadian biology. Retrain your breathing until you have a high oxygen brain and body, you can start to learn from Artour Rakhimov on YouTube, but the best will cost you money, I learned from an amazing guy in the US and paid a grip of money for his mentoring but it was worth it. Also, getting your circadian biology on point, becoming a mitochondriac and having a high energy body will help you. Get in bed at 10pm, use blackout curtains, and after 7pm wear blue blocking glasses. Get up with sunrise and go outside and look at the sky for 10 mins every morning. Respect natures law and nature will respect you.
This is a multiple year process and you are going to need to become a fucking warrior. Watch David Goggins every day. I do. I have listened to Can't Hurt Me countless times and will until the end of my days.
I broke a seriously important rule of mine in telling you this, so this will be the last time I ever read your thread.
You understand that I am getting older now and that part of my life is simply done, I am going to succeed come hell or high water and cannot become entangled in these sorts of problems anymore, but I like you quite a lot as a human being, so I am hurt by your suffering and out of compassion I'm sending you this.
I love and respect you, but you need to save yourself. I did. You can't even imagine where I was dude, many would not be able to last 5 minutes in the world I lived in. Now I am on the path to something very big, you'll see man. Everyone will see. I have probably 3 more years of extreme work, sacrifice, and pain, but I am going to make something out of myself. Matt, turn yourself into a warrior. Every man has that part of them in him, it takes years to really embody it, so fucking start now.
You can do this. All you need in life is the ability to grind. You need NOTHING ELSE. You can come from nothing and become something if you JUST develop the ability to grind.
Print this post out and read it. I have done that for many of Andy's articles. That's how serious you need to be. Get it done. No excuses.
Overpower your brain and overcome yourself every damn day for the next few years and in 5 years time when you are making 6 figures and married to your soul mate, we will sit at the winners table together. First round's on me.
Respectfully. that's me out. Good luck with it all my brother. I hope and pray that you find the strength that is within you.
MAC