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Is obsession the best way to achieve success?
SPOILERS FOR "WHIPLASH", IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED IT GO WATCH IT IT'S A REALLY GOOD MOVIE. In the movie "Whiplash", Andrew Niemann wants to become a legendary drummer. Not just a really good drummer, but one that will go down in history as the best of the best. He wants to become the greatest drummer of all time. To do so, he lets himself basically get consumed by the craft. He obsesses over it, pushing himself to serious mental and physical distress, dedicating his entire body and soul to drumming. He lets every other part of his life just atrophy: he cuts of his girlfriend, he cuts off his family, he cuts off even himself and his well-being! The only thing he left in his life and in his identity was drumming. However, despite how unhealthy that may have sounded, it worked. Really well I may add, it worked so well. In the climax of the movie, Niemann preforms an objectively stunning solo, impressing even his mentor and world-class judges. There's the question: Do you think this type of obsession is the best way to achieve success? Is dedicating your entire being, forfeiting and giving up each and every aspect of you in favor of your goal, the way to truly excel at your craft?
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Is obsession the best way to achieve success?
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@Thomas Williams well, some people like Bobby Fischer said "fuck it" and decided to sacrafise his sanity and life to win chess lmao (dude did die with a sad ending )
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@Thomas Williams if he had not given it all after reaching his prime. I'd say he'd have been happy with a top 10 title
Dandy's
What if we all because Dandy's what do you guys think will happen to the world maybe we all would have harmony
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@Julian K perhaps, a utopian figure for him or sum
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@Julian K real 😔
Learning the works of "Friedrich Nietzsche"
Nietzsche is one philosopher that got great works made by him, that I see not being much appreciated these days. Though I learnt some bitz of his popular unique ideas thru a manga that was inspired by him, "Guts and Berserk", where i see all principles of that man being presented in that manga in a way I enjoyed it(manga's still got berserk shi going on tho). I don't really know much deep shi about him and his principles, so I'd be grateful if yll in this forum, would help me understand him(share yo views on this dude too ig).
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Damn the forum got real quite
Is it weird to talk to yourself?
my mom says it’s weird and my grandparents think it’s totally normal to talk to yourself. what do u guys think? does it classify you as a “psycho”.
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@Marsha Pumpkin not necessarily a psycho thingy, but sure, you are correct at sum acceptable extends
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@Marsha Pumpkin pick up the answer from the other comment in this post frfr
Do u really thing ur giving it ur all?
There have and always been a feeling a way where whenever I do my best or just follow my routine a whisper always arrives saying u can do more,ur wasting ur life,do more,achieve more, maybe it's obsession or maybe it's the desire to become strong but in the end men want everything but doesn't puts effort to achieving it
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Nah, our body limits our strength for maintenance reasons. So even if I was to lock tf in, I am not fully locking tf in, cuz if I was able to do that, my body would suffer extreme stress and allat shi, that can lead to my death. So i say we perform at a level our body can cope w or push thru (but not crossing that one specific limit for too long)
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