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How to quickly ruin your life
Step 1, eliminate your goals.
Don’t orient yourself towards a north star, and don’t develop a vision for what your life could be like. Doing this will make it impossible to progress in life, because, without a goal, how do you know you’re progressing?
Eliminate any desire to get yourself out of a suboptimal situation, subscribe to the idea that this is just the way life is, and this is all I can be. It’s not hopelessness, it’s self-acceptance.
Use loving yourself as an excuse to spin your wheels and mentally deteriorate. Confuse self-love with self-neglect, wander aimlessly through life not really knowing why you’re here.
Step 2, stay inside.
Don’t expose yourself to the light, don’t be a person in the world, stay hidden, and operate in the shadows. Never subject yourself to the judgment of others, and close yourself off from new information and new perspectives, let algorithms create deep grooves of repeated behavior and topics, catering only to your already limited interests until you’re viewing the same things and thinking the same thoughts for the rest of your life.
Allow your mind to shrink, and with it, your world.
