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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.
How do I find out what I want to do with my life?
My 20s were supposed to be about exploration and self-discovery but I never got that opportunity. I keep getting bored and disinterested with anything and start thinking about doing other things as I try something. I keep changing my mind every two seconds and normal people don’t do that.,
I’m freaking out because I’m already running late on even getting started on a career path and so many mutually exclusive things are calling to me and I have to abandon all but one? But also I find everything to be boring and I immediately hate things the minute I try them. I can’t sit myself down to code even if I feel like it. Also, then what if I never become good enough for porky’s high standards for him to let me work for him. If you can’t make it a job, what’s the point of doing anything?
I’m sorry, this is stressing me out so much I have been paralyzed for years. And if I don’t force myself to hate everything about life except for one teeny tiny box and be obsessed with it, then I will never even have a career because employers expect you to have everything figured out when you’re a baby.
you don't. if you're lucky you find something you can live with that doesn't destroy your body and mental health.