keccers
@keccers.eth
Life is a long, long game. Your job is to stay alive. When Steve — or anyone else — encourages well roundedness, he’s not saying you can do less, or phone it in. He’s saying obsessive, singular focus cannot be sustained over long periods of time, and you need to find hobbies, outlets— other things to comprise your identity, besides your One Thing When he tells the story of the runner who successfully made the transition from college to Olympic level athletics by taking up knitting, he doesn’t mean she practiced or trained less. She just had a way to take a break for once. You can’t go at 100 forever. The grindset narrative is in part a propaganda tool of capital to get more out of you than they deserve. They want you to be a slave — Capital doesn’t care about your long term well being. Capital doesn’t care about you making it through the game. To them you are a fungible unit, not a precious human life.
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Jason
@jachian
I’ve learned to interpret it as.. you can have it all, but not all at once
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keccers
@keccers.eth
I think there’s an element where it’s not even about “having it all” — it’s like, you will stop IMPROVING if you don’t chill out.
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Jason
@jachian
Tbh it’s something that’s been built into my system that it’s second nature. When I get pushed to that boundary my body will make me “chill out” for me. Glad that that’s manifested in sleeping for 14 hours straight instead of a trip to the hospital
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keccers
@keccers.eth
I’d love for you to find your knitting rather than cycles of push yourself to the edge and then full day crash outs 🥲
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