motvation

[Jay76]

Is quite funny. I find the more people I run into that are negative and BS all day, un motivated, complain all the time and make excuses why thier life is not so great and how thier training is bad, etc, etc, etc

All this makes me train harder and motivates me even more......I find it quite twisted in a way :shock: :twisted:

Anyone else have this or go threw this too?

[maxmoon]

its not always a funny thing :wink:

not everyone can open their eyes fully.

recently ive been very good at abserving some people i know and how they try to impliment their fears on others.

i live in this lil getto building here where every one sees alot of eachother.
and everytime me and my partner train out doors we always get certain looks and remarks mainly from the youth,lol who are deeply caught up in limited thinking.
its every where these days and they seem to get uneasy when they see people trying to grow and expand.or do somthing other then standing around trying to act cool,smoking spitting ,clubbing(not clubbbelling :lol: ),partying.the very limiting life styles that cover my inviernmet.image is important to so many so if they see u do somthing new(difrent)that looks odd ,for example clubbells they may have a fearfull reaction and label u as weird,lol oh its true.

but i also have garbage that needs to be droped at the dump so i must keep working hard and not get to upset by the negitive people that try to damper my days.

max

[rbibbs]

Individuals probably wouldn't do/harbor these negative things/attitudes on their own. They 'learn' it from poorly-chosen role models... media, marketing, "leadership".

Media and marketing try very hard to splinter the culture into cliques who will "fall in line" and do, buy, or accept what they're told. They divide us by age, race, socioeconomic status, chosen activities, and then ridicule the opposite of the group they're marketing to.

Baby-boomers fell for this hook, line and sinker. We were gullible, trustful that nobody would deliberately mislead us to gain a manipulative edge. Gen X and Gen Y folks are a lot more skeptical, which may be our salvation. But the "masses" are still fooled and manipulated by it.

Then add in the masters of divisiveness, politicians. They spin and slant every issue so that their followers develop an attitude of "you're either with us or against us". Nobody wants to be "left out", so they follow one group or the other. Catch being, both groups are wrong almost all the time.

Ultimately, sociological evolution may favor the free-thinking, objective mode. Meanwhile, it's going to be pretty distracting for the masses. They will "buy into" programs, behaviors, methodologies, just because so much effort is being expended to persuade them to do so. Not everyone is really equipped to separate "what they're being sold" from "what's good for them". Those of us who are can consider ourselves blessed. And do the best we can to help others who are understandably 'lost', and to find and support others who are members of the same...
tribe.

[Lumpy Gravy]

I dunno. I kind of feel that this is just man's survival mechanism gone astray. We naturally stay away from strenuous activity or anything taxing at all. Like water, most living things on this planet naturally travel the path of least resistance. Why bother thinking when the media can think for you? You can be told how to live and how to be happy rather than going through the tedium of figuring this out for yourself. You complain about your job rather than leaving that job for something else. The conslusion is unknown and could cause great instability, so we naturally stay with the stable and known thing. Most people are just sleep walking through life rather than really living.

I think you're a better person than me if this doesn't appeal to you in some sense. I'm a workout fanatic, but there isn't a week that goes by where I'm not laying in bed in the morning fighting with myself about how much easier it'd be to go to bed and sleep another two hours. I'll occasionally go through bouts of heavy TV watching because it's easier than going out and doing something after a long day at work. I just think this inherient lazyness is instinctual not only in humans, but most other organisms as well.

For me at least, it's a contant battle between my concious self that knows what working out will do for me, that knows how good I'll feel, that knows how much fun it is to be outdoors playing sports, the knows the sense of accomplishment of picking up a new skill or learning about something new and my instinctual self that knows how much more comfortable it is laying in bed, that knows the couch will be a lot easier on my body than mountain biking, that "knows" the path of least resistance is the way to survive.