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>>316786
basically the law of attraction.

If you focus only on achievements, you will be unhappy. Instead, be curious and enjoy learning about yourself, your talents, and what doesn't work for you.
Taking the path of least resistance is actually pretty good, despite what the sigma grindset indoctrination wants you to believe. That doesn't mean you can succumb to brain rot and doom scrolling. A minimal, but organised life.

>>316788
I am a NEET with severe autism, so there is no such thing to my life.

>>316786
I can understand not finding optimism appealing, but you can still approach life from a new perspective.
I found spite to be a powerful motivator for me.
I've had people tell me to my face they don't believe in me, so I work hard to spite them.
It's not a positive mindset really, but it gets me moving.

>>316786
Which anxieties are ruling your soul right now?

>>316812
life after my parents die and the end of NEETdom.

bump for positivity


take your vitamins, wizards

>>316818
lucky you


you can always keep asking ChatGPT for advice and PerPLX to write you little story also

>>316818
A random positive thought: electronics are cheap these days; you will probably get your niche as a "prompt engineer". Autist's experience should help you to shape well thought, logical prompts - something neurotypicals with fluid speech seem to struggle with.

>>321548
>Autist's experience
Oh I don't think any positive application can be extracted from "Autistic experience"

>>321549
I always think is funny those delusional people that says "autism is my superpower" or "my high neuroticism or mental illness x is my super power", like bro, you have a disability, and it's called disability for a reason, the better route would be finding a way to minimize the illness effect on you.

>>321551
Because you zoomers were born at the worst time for nerds. There was a kernel of truth for that claim 15-20+ years back when not everything was automated and certain behavioural traits, generally associated with nerds/outcasts, were useful for certain tasks that normalfags either found boring or took a level of critical thinking and effort that was below their normalfag status.

Now that all those things are automated or the complexity has been taken out of the tasks, it's just a mental illness/disability with no upsides. It's even worse actually since back then nerds/outcasts didn't have normalfags claiming austism as a badge of honour.

>>321549
As an autist, I would not recommend the autistic experience

>>321553
Classic cope reply

>>321557
>Didn't even bother to read the post
>Just needed to be "right"

I'm not even all the way disagreeing with you, and even somewhat supporting your post. But you need to be win an internet argument.

>>321573
Point is, there's was never a age where having a disability was a net benefit, never was and never will be, the idea that autism was good back then is a cope plain and simple, nobody wants to working with a autistic person next to them, nor schizophrenia, drug addict or other types of mental issues.

>>316786
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
― Lao Tzu

Damn I wish my parents were like that. My parents are the most negative and pessimistic people I know. If I tell them about something I am considering doing they will just tell me all the ways it might go wrong.

This weekend I managed to fix my bicycle brakes which I am really happy about. I tried to repair the light system as well and it worked, but after going on a test ride and some asphalt bumps it stopped working again.

positivity that's something you chose. it's choice. your genes don't limit how often you are positive, your habit does, which you can override with something else and if you can hold it long enough, it will replace the old.

i would start like this: be in optimism for 1 minute every day until it becomes easy, then increase to 5 minutes.

what might help you is building systems that remember your worries for you and allow you to have worries and make decisions based on them without having to have them running in the head.

>>316786
what ended up happening op? are you optimistic now?

Damn, I wish I had parents that were like that. My parents are the most negative people I know. They always think of dozens of different ways anything might go wrong and just talk about them as if bringing them up is somehow helpful.

My parents and I got invited to go watch some music performance where children who were learning to play music performed and my parents just sat there criticizing every little mistake these kids made loudly and in ear shot of everyone who was watching them. I was mortified. I wish my parents could just be positive for one second of their lives. I think their constant negativity is one reason why I feel so much healthier when I'm not living with them.

>>325352
>I wish my parents could just be positive for one second of their lives.
This is going to sound like bullshit pseudo science, but I wonder if it's like an addition problem. Letting off steam by being critical of or otherwise whinging about something can make you feel better for a bit, but some people like your parents just keep doing it chasing a high that they won't feel again until they ease up on the negativity.

>>316786
The most important thing that modern ethos gets right is that gratitude is the key to eternal happiness.

I'm thankful for having been given a life. I'm thankful for having 2 arms and legs, and I'm thankful for every day that I'm given a new day of life to wake up in the morning. Every day I'm given the option to make my life a little more beautiful, and every day I'm given a new set of challenges to overcome. I'm thankful for the good that happened in my life and I'm thankful for the bad that happened in my life. I will never lead the life of a normal person but that's OK, because I'm me and I have been given a cosmic pen to write my own story.

You have to really dig down to some central core in your being to get to this true point though. I went through a lot of suffering to get where I am today, and I'm not sure if it's possible to get there if you haven't gone the flames yet. I suppose that is the story of life though. First you're given it, then you hopefully learn to appreciate it.