this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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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.
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About 30 days without video games. Biggest personal advancements: I have won a very small rhetorics/debate contest (less than 8 contestants, 30 viewers. I argued for a good talking point) and did guided tours about architecture and history professionally. I finally could afford a new top. Now that the weather is getting better, I hope to get into biking and then working out for general strength. My time schedule is significantly unfucked. I am thinking about setting aside one day/week for enjoyment only.
Emotionally still pretty rough, everybody else around me is doing awful. I feel like I am leeching everybody's luck sometimes. I am not superstitious, but I think this expresses my anxieties about sharing my small successes while other people face a lot of shit.