- Make millions of money, own a big yacht with a copter on top of it
- go to jail, write a book
- let famous hero make a movie out of it and watch him take Oscar
- turn out a public speaker
not
- finish the graduation
- get a avg paying job
- ugly looking wife
- mediocre kids
- If someone ask, why you building yet another avg life on earth? reply him ” I like what I do and I am curious to learn, my goal in life is not to become great, my goal is just to live happy avg life”
To be frank, self convincing power saving lots of human lives on earth. Without it 90% human lives don’t have answer to why they live
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A convicted confidence artist. More crap to get peoples wheels spinning so they can one day imagine themselves at the top of the zero-sum heap. Do as you said and live to learn and experience.
“It don’t take much strength to pull a trigger
But try to get up every morning day after day and work for a living
Let’s see ’em try that
Then we’ll see who’s the real tough guy
The working man is a tough guy.”
lol… “confidence artist.”
i just find it humorous to see it spelled out.
I think this is fantastic advice. By default I’ve been (1st option) the one to find creative ways to get myself into trouble. However my parents and peers always pressure me to be this (2nd option) upstanding average citizen – but it is just not me. No wonder I am miserable – I hate the average mundane way of life.
Separately, I do not see the working man as a tough guy. I see him as wuss. Anyone can be subservient and hold down a 9-5 job – it takes balls to take risks and carve your own path.
I once knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy who ran a Ponzi scheme. He was wealthy as fuck but it didn’t end well for him, and he is now rotting in some American prison for the remainder of his days. He was a bastard, he deserved it. No sympathy here.
“Anyone can be subservient and hold down a 9-5 job…”
False.
I’m an example of what becomes of those who have neither of the two options described in the OP. I can’t “confidence trick” people into getting what i want, and i can’t “just get a job.” Not only is neither option acceptable to me, both are inaccessible.
I tend to agree with fro-not-so-zen’s quote. People who actually work for a living are tough. I tried, repeatedly, for a long time; i just can’t do it. And i can’t figure out an “easy way” either. I never had a chance to live a life at all… but i used to think i did, and losing that was what ruined what was left of me. Realizing i have no chance, never had a chance, and never will, was the single most damaging thing that has ever happened. People used to always tell me “figure it out.” Now that i have, no one seems to have much of anything useful to say.
I’m incapable of keeping to a routine so I could never hold down some vanilla 9-5 job either. Everything sucks anyway, so why bother trying.
@clevername It’s no strike against you to not find work in this conjob eCONomy. Had you not had the barriers set before you by the multitude of conjobbers I’m sure you would find some way to provide for yourself by mutual exchange. The world needs more of your kind of sense, not manipulation.
@eloquent Pride comes before the fall. And don’t go buying any bridges anytime soon.
“It’s no strike against you…”
but it kinda is; the “typical” opinions formed of me and my circumstances, by “typical” people, are arrived at by consensus, and that consensus is formed by typically errant judgment criteria. So while i may agree with you that “it’s not my fault,” i would have to say that it seems like “most people” believe otherwise, which means i am afflicted by their reactions to their own misinterpretation of me and my circumstances, regardless of whether i know better.
“The world needs more of your kind of sense, not manipulation.”
While i’m inclined to agree… that bitter, spiteful part of me, thinks that maybe what the world really needs is a overdose of its own medicine (ie: disproportionately severe counter-manipulation).
“If wants and needs divide me then i might as well be gone…” -MJK (Tool)
It seems as though “the world” is indeed divided by its wants and needs; it wants something other than what it needs, which actually prevents what it needs from occurring. “The world,” comprised of all those foolish and confidence-tricked people, wants what it wants. We can break it down to the most primitive of levels, and it’s easy to see why things are the ways they are.
Your articulating of “confidence artist” earlier, jogged something in my mind about confidence-correlations… how EVERYTHING is about “confidence,” or rather: gaining people’s trust, so you can benefit from what you stand to gain from doing so. This is at the root of my issues with women. They almost all cite “confidence” as the most important trait… as if blatantly admitting (and usually without realizing it) that they WANT and even NEED to be TRICKED into “pairing” with someone. They all are taught to need to be /tricked?/ They naturally /want/ to be /conned/ into trusting someone? They demand “confidence?”
…
“Confidence” is why i often feel as though almost everything in and about life, is a scam. We’ve mentioned “bullshit detectors” in the past… and SO MANY THINGS just set mine off. It sometimes gets simplified into the statement “everything is bullshit.”
I was doing some fuzzy math within the last day or so, regarding a series of calculations i’m often tempted to work out, but never actually get around to really digging into the details… but i realized that time is a factor in the “who can i meet? How many people do i have TIME to meet?” equation. So, there are actually far fewer people “in the world,” for each individual, than the actual total number of humans.
We can instantly cut ~8 billion in half, because i’m only interested in females.
4 billion, but only ~500 million people in the U.S., and i can’t travel anywhere else, so… boom, “8 billion” just became less than 250 million, because how many of america’s females are of age? From 18-50(i guess), how many are “in my range?”
Skipping all the tedious stuff, there are no more than 1 million females i could possibly encounter in my life… and i still can’t even force myself to believe there are even half a dozen who would be interested in me at all. I don’t have “confidence,” and more importantly: i don’t want to pursue someone i have to confidence-trick into thinking she likes who i could pretend to be… and it seems that’s what all of them want. So there are none… as far as i can tell. Plus, i have nothing to offer. And it’s all because i’m not tough enough to work for an actual living, and lack the skills to trick people into giving me what i want. The way i see and experience the world and my environment, makes me incompatible with everyone… and somehow, not even THAT can motivate me to want to pretend to be anyone else.
I am who i am, and that’s who i will be, regardless of whether anyone likes it; even me. I couldn’t be someone else if i tried. Maybe that was always the problem.