What are you guys doing to improve yourselves and the world? Let's leave the depression and self-pity out of this thread.
I made the infographic here with some basic self-improvement action ideas, if you have any others please post em.
I am on tier three myself, looking forward to starting college soon for computer science. We're all going to make it, robots.
>>24364872
>Tier 3
>Participate in the world
>>24364872
>mfw I have done literally everything on this chart and am still a worthless loser piece of shit
You also forgot "beeeeee yourself"
>>24364872
Genetics is everything. Fuck the self-improvement myth.
Either you were born a winner or you were not, whether that's IQ, attractiveness, etc.
>>24364917
if tier 3 didn't exist you wouldn't be enjoying the internet, electricity, photostock images, and so many other luxuries that take for granted.
>>24364945
>still a worthless loser piece of shit
Why do you think that?
>>24364872
stop while you're ahead, noone on r9k wants to know anything about self improvement
Source: I used to make these threads daily for about 3 weeks, gave up after that.
>>24364964
I know, it was just funny how normalfaggotish it is.
>>24364945
This too
>tfw such a beta I'm throwing myself into constant anxiety working at a retail job where no one likes me and I'm afraid to ask to cut my hours because it would inconvenience the manager.
>lifting weights improves your worth as a person
This is the most retarded shit. Lifting weights is done for women or narcissistic purposes. Nothing more, nothing less.
>>24364970
>stupid, friendless autist despite years of volunteering, working, steady jobs, school (hs, college, law school), joining sports leagues.
>still depressed despite years of therapy, meds, meditating, self help books
All the "putting yourself out there" doesn't mean shit if you're of below average intelligence, awkward, depressed and a spaghetti spilling autist
>>24365171
Lifting makes you feel good and improves your health. The fact that it makes you look good is secondary in my opinion.
>>24365279
>makes you feel good
No it doesn't. Don't generalize.
>improves your health
Cardio is many times better for your health, but almost no one does it. This is becausd lifting is done primarily for women.
>>24365174
So everything you've done in life was just to get friends?
>>24365344
Well any exercise is better than nothing. The only good exercise is the one you actually do.
>>24365344
>Cardio is many times better for your health
No it's not lol.
>>24364961
>if tier 3 didn't exist you wouldn't be enjoying the internet, electricity, photostock images, an
I've got really good genetics and have proven myself that I can be successful, having done so in the past.
I'm still a reclusive with no income nor social interactions, and am extremely unhappy.
What does that make me
>>24365355
Did you just miss the entire part about being depressed and having zero self worth? If I could actually change into someone worth a shit I wouldn't care about friends.
>>24364872
>tfw had haircut today for the first time this year
i-i'm gonna make it
>>24365344
Lifting and running are natural cures for depression senpai. Try it out, you don't have to be good at it to get the benefits. Even just do some pushups every once in awhile. it's something to do
>>24366150
Shut up faggot. I run 5ks nightly and am still suicidally depressed.
I run them in 21 minutes. So it's not like I'm walking.
>>24366150
>Lifting and running are natural cures for depression senpai.
Perhaps for meme depression. I've had a period were I ran 3 times a week and lifted twice a week and I still was miserable. I also didn't lose weight because it gave me massive hunger pangs.
>>24364872
>Tfw full blown phobia of getting my hair cut by anyone other than my mom.
I'm doing alright in all other aspects though.
This is good guide, thank you OP.
Inspires me to clean the apartment and try to get my bf to shave and clip his nails.
>>24364872
>meditate
Do you guys think doing taichi with weights on your limbs (Increase by a 1-2lbs every week) is an "easy" way to increase strength and endurance?
>>24366394
No wonder why you're here.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-it/201309/20-scientific-reasons-start-meditating-today
>>24366463
not him but I want to do that. I wish there was a guide written specifically for robots without any of the fad-loving housewife woo bullshit.
desu i always wanted to be a Tibetan monk.
>write a journal
I should probably do that
What are good exercises for a nerd who has never exercised in his life?
>>24366544
well this came up when i typed in no bullshit meditation on google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wirV265ZYSw
>>24366626
I used to keep a dream journal. Pretty fun to re-read them from time to time
>>24366150
They produce endorphins, pham, that's it. They're not "cures", they just make you forget the pain for a little while.
>>24366544
see a book called Waking Up
>>24364872
>tfw skipped 1 and 2
>>24366692
increases blood oxygen which improves concentration, reduces fatigue, increases the amount of time you can spend studying or working, improves mood which unless you have herculean willpower is a factor, reduces down times when ill, lowers risk of heart disease
if you have ADHD the release of norepinephrine and dopamine can help
>>24366780
>>24366234 here
It certainly beats doing no exercise at all but it doesn't cure adhd or depression. It will just masks it as that guy said.
>>24366697
Read that shit
>fuck religion
>i know more than religious people
>Now let use their theories
Sam Harris is such a faggot
I seem to be an un-awakable person because i don't get shit from meditation
And the thread is officially dead.
Good video here, based monk teaches meditation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH2sEqrCza4
>>24364872
How will any of this make me white and taller?
>inb4 not taking action
I'm fir and getting plastic surgery for my fucked up face and braces for my fucked up teeth, now that i have a programming job after finishing my CS degree.
who ever wrote #2 probably looks like this
just switch "lift weights" with exercise.
>>24366639
Try any of these, they don't require any special equipment
>>24367160
Would wearing ankle/wrist/vest weights increase my results?
>>24364872
>>24364872
you guys are sad
get on my level
>finishing PhD
>in long term relationship with regular sex
>active, healthy lifestyle
>good physical health
>lots of travel and vacation
>tons of friends and social relationships
>good job, nice collection of suits
>great dog
in short. if you fucks are happy being pathetic neckbeards. you be you.
>>24366639
jump squats
lunges
pushups
planks
flutterkicks
dips
mountain climbers
bear walk
v-ups
yin yoga and other stretching as well.
>>24367404
Anon, do you know where you are right now?
>>24367303
That should speed up your results, but if you're just starting you probably don't need any weights, just your own bodyweight will be enough.
no thanks, I'm good senpai
>>24367482
Heaven for trolling mate. All I have to do is be honest and it does its own magic.
>>24366626
I've tried it before I could never keep it up for more than two weeks before I started missing days and then it just fell apart. on my third journal, bought the first one in 2010. just regular moleskines even.
>>24364872
>meditation
>journaling
>travel
>le learn a foreign language meme
Got any other overrated useless advice, Normie McNormington?
I already do most of that shit. Except flossing(and Tier 3), do normies actually do that shit?
>>24367578
2D guy here
You're delusional
>>24364917
Sure we all love how "good" these services are, theyre run by jews waiting for the next chance to take your money be it your phone, internet, taxes vice versa. Maybe if Tesla put up that electric wifi we'd be enjoying and not destroying everything and commercializing everything anyway. Fuck services they're money leechers. Pay and pray it stays the same price
>>24364872
>develop a useful skill
>talk to people
I dont see the connection op.
>>24367632
I've got some for you. Enjoy the sex when you do those things and stop loving being a neet little neckbeard.
>>24367662
Yes. Twice a day. Dental Hygiene is sexy.
and brush your fucking tongue too. That shit gets nasty looking and nobody wants to smell your halitosis.
Flossing is a meme
>>24367578
.
in 2D, delusion and happiness would increase and then plateau and always have the possiblity of plummeting
and money would stay untouched until delusion reaches a point where you're spending money on your waifu's franchise
>>24367874
and gum disease is a meme too amirite
>>24367632
traveling doesnt even have to be something big. You could go to some part of your city you haven't been.
>>24367941
Mouth wash
>>24367404
Do you really think that anything you mentioned has any value at all? If so, I feel sad for you.
I'm doing all the shit in OP except for volunteering because I don't have time for useless activities and I hate everyone.
I feel no better. Actually I feel worse. I"ve always been a dandy with hygeine and fitness, but getting a job and socializing have been the worst things I"ve ever done. I still do it for some reason. I"m hoping it's an acquired taste but I don't see how anyone likes socializing. It's all so fucking randoms. Normies change the rules like they exchange body fluids and stds.
I'm better than everyone else, and that's good enough for me. I don't need self improvement per se, I just want to be happier. I often think some people just weren't meant to be happy. Kind of like some people are cursed with atheism, some people just have a congenital mild anhedonia. I mean I like fapping and sometimes I can get into my little projects like writing, designing shit, or animu, but its not often, and always over as fast as it started.
>>24368005
Not that anon, but I'm chiming in. I've got some mild gingivitis as a result of never fucking flossing. I do it once in a blue moon now, but that's better than never doing it at all.
Floss + Brush + Rinse
>>24364872
So far in my life I seem to have achieved some random shit off this chart.
I'm generally clean and don't smell, shaven and trimmed nails, etc. Fat tho.
My flat is a fucking pigs nest. I don't really have anyone over, ever.
My mind is a fucking mess of sadness and anxiety.
Body is shit.
Decent job, volunteer, travel but don't really have anyone to travel with.
>>24368425
Shit just doesn't get caught in my teeth, I think I got a strip of steak in it them once years ago. It never yields anything for me. Go to the dentist twice a year and they've never said anything about my gums being shitty.
>>24365171
>he hasn't taken the Milk Pill
>>24366639
the ones outlined in SS
>>24365279
>wanting to live LONGER
Heart attack at 40 please
>>24367578
>money decreases in a relationship with 3D
I love this meme
>>24364872
jon kavat zinn is my teacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oKWQiEWYs
>>24368675
but it's literal math. You'll have to pay for shit for her (dates, gifts, etc)
>>24368755
then kids, school, college, house, etc.
>>24368755
not necessarily, she can pay for her own stuff
>>24368952
>2015
>girl even offering to pay for her own stuff
Are you fucking memeing me, dude?
Been working on losing weight. I'm about a month into a diet and exercise regimen. Haven't had time to workout all that much in the past week or so due to exams/papers to write, but I feel like I'm doing well. I don't weigh myself because the scale freaks me out, but I know my caloric deficit is in order and my pants feel slightly looser, though that might just be a placebo effect.
It's actually not THAT hard to diet if you count calories properly. I used to think dieting was "eat nothing but chicken breasts and rabbit food", but I've actually been able to go out for fast food every one in awhile. I just skip the soda and get a small fry instead of a large one with my burger.
>>24367700
>criticizing tesla.
He was the solution
The jews were and still are the problem
Die faggot.
>>24364872
Whoa, this is beyond stupid, it has to be bait.
You can't have someone out there who actually treats life as a videogame. Wowowow
>>24369130
Im 99.9% sure he's talking about the company Tesla, dumbass.
>>24369047
who says she has to offer? just don't pay for her own shit
>>24369167
I'm 9999.9% sure you have fucking autism
>>24369047
not memeing, I'm posting reality as I see it senpai
>>24369192
That's not an option for 99% of women in any major city
>>24369195
Rather be an autist than a fucking retard who can't into reading comprehension
>>24369246
>That's not an option for 99% of women in any major city
and why wouldn't it be?
>>24369350
where do you live and have you ever even experienced dating(long-term or otherwise)?
>>24369373
>where do you live
ohio
>and have you ever even experienced dating(long-term or otherwise)?
no
why do you ask?
>>24369601
>no , why do you ask?
because if you did, you'd understand how dumb the shit youre saying is.
Sure id love to live in a world where you have to pay only for your stuff but that's not in the collective normie mentality yet
>>24369752
>you'd understand how dumb the shit youre saying is.
how is it dumb?
>>24364872
Half of these seem useless from an improvement perspective. Like meditation is extremely effective for some people and doesn't do jack shit for others. Also how the fuck is travel supposed to help if you're not interested in it?
>>24367404
I almost responded to this seriously. You almost got me with the whole "being proud of a collection of suits."
Breddy gud, 5/10.
>>24369828
>Also how the fuck is travel supposed to help if you're not interested in it?
most people who aren't interested in travel haven't tried it, and even those who have will usually find some benefit to it. mostly from learning and experiencing new things and being outside of one's comfort zone.
>>24364872
>implying I need improvement
Fucking normie fools you don't realize I LIKE being a robot. It's who I am.
>>24365344
Actually a balance of cardio and strength training is optimal for your health.
>>24369837
maybe it's ReviewBrah
fixed desu
>>24364961
Yeah man, there are no happy people in the world that weren't born with 10/10 genetics, and there are no unhappy incredibly smart or attractive people, at all. Like how Jim Morrison, an incredibly talented man considered to be a sex symbol of his time, lived to a ripe old age with his wife and kids, right?
If you don't want to improve yourself, just say that, don't try to blame some shit out of your control, might as well say it's patriarchies fault if you're going to do that.
>>24365344
>No it doesn't
So, you've never actually lifted? Setting a new PR or breaking through a plateau is incredibly satisfying.
Also, you're kind of a hypocrite man, telling people not to generalise and then saying that lifting is done primarily for women. Your teenage buddies might do some stupid bro-split for women, but people who actually seriously lift tend to do it more because they enjoy it.
is a journal really helpful? anyone here actively keep one?
>>24369848
>being outside of one's comfort zone.
That's exactly what's stopping me from travelling.
I signed up for student exchange few months before leaving, but few days before, I got depressed about leaving my comfort zone. Still, I had to do it.
Now everyone here is socialising, making friends, travelling together, and I'm staying in the dorm for the weekend because no money (eastern europe -> korea, the difference in any given price is often 2-3x, and I wasn't exactly rich in my home country), no ability to have friends, no reason to travel, so just living with an annoying as fuck roommate just draining my life force...
I will probably regret my decisions further in life. Because then everything will seem easy. "Oh, should've just left one day, hitchhike and eat grass for a week".
Thankfully, none of it will matter after I die.
>>24370274
Yes, even just keeping simple notes about your ideas or observations is very helpful.
>>24364872
>nailed the fuck out of everything on all 3 tiers
>25 y.o. virgin
people say i'm a good person, but at the back of my mind is that constant reminder that i'm 100% worthless as a human. i don't trust any compliment (not that there a ton to reject) and i'm just waiting on my mom to die and it'll all be over
>>24370546
There is your problem, try telling yourself that you're worthwhile instead.
>>24365174
You went to law school? That's pretty dope. How did you even get in if you're below average intelligence?
>>24370546
Gotta find something that satisfies you man, not what society says is satisfying. These lists are just a guide as to what to do to get to where you're able to function well enough to find out what does make you happy. Once you've done this stuff, you've gotta specialise, find your niche, and just try to be social with those things (any hobby has the potential to be social, anime isn't a hobby), that's the only way to truly be happy.
>>24365174
>blah blee bloo
If you're man enough you'll bend people to your will. If you're a giant faggot you will constantly spill spaghetti.
>Be yourself
Fuck that noise and simultaneously fuck you for thinking that this advice is useless. The reason that ">be yourself" is the go to is because it works. Unless your interests are mutilated babies or unit 7japanfuckedup, nobody actually cares and what your shut-in status means is that you've just shut everyone else out. Most people WELCOME oddities and quirks. Most people want the person they spend time with to be a little different. Most people don't care how big your cock is, how many times you've had sex, or if you hate the blacks or not. Most people just want you to want them. If you're a beta then good news! Chad left them and only your pride keeps you from having your irl waifu. Only your personal hang ups keep you from enjoying life. Stop being giant h8fun faggots and just go live. Explore every avenue and stop giving up.
I mean that
Stop giving up
/exrobot/ chiming in.
Oh yea, this too
>but degenerates
then tighten your criteria but put yourself out there. you won't find your perfect aryan virgin if you don't look for her. do you really expect her to come for you?
idiots.
>>24364872
Word this is a nice info graph saved. Man hopefully I can climb out of this hole
>>24370179
Why did you use Jim Morrison in your example?
>>24371675
Because he was incredibly successful, and as I said, was considered a sex symbol, yet died of an overdose. Plus, I've been playing a fair bit of Doors covers recently.
>>24371370
>Most people WELCOME oddities and quirks
You should right movies, not give advise.
>>24371736
All you're saying is Chads have great lives. I don't understand.
>>24371738
And you should work on your spelling, good sir.
green i already do regularly, yellow i do sometimes/in some form
how am i?
>>24371760
Honest mistake. It happens. Still doesn't change the fact you give horrible advise and set people up for disappointments.
I guess I have cut my nails on the checklist today
>>24371778
>>24371938
Same as anon
>>24365344
I do Olympic weightlifting because I enjoy it and it makes me strong as fuck. I like being strong as fuck because it means I can beat people up if they fuck with me.
>>24371754
No, I'm saying that being attractive or even talented isn't a guarantee to living happily, as I said, he overdosed on heroin in a hotel room at 27, not exactly a great way to go, ignoring that he lived as an adult.
>>24372553
>as an adult
Fuck, I'm tired, I meant addict.
>Goals
That's where I've been stuck for years.
>>24372836
looks like he's having a barrel of fun
>>24366120
post before/after
I can't even study. I try to study and I re-read some sentences 4 or 5 times just to try and take them in. It's like I read them but I am thinking of something else. Even when I do spend the 2 or 3 hours it takes to get through one section of my math book I end up forgetting what I just read and don't have the energy to go on.
What's the point in trying if I'm just going to fail? I don't have the social skills to be a normie anyway, and the prognosis for Avoidant Personality Disorder isn't good regardless.
>assuming social mobility is a skill you can easily grind out
>assuming you can lift away physical defects
Shit chart to be honest senpai
>>24364872
L O L
>Mommy's guide to life
The only thing more pathetic than you sperging out is trying to fit into the normie life style
This isn't a "self-improvement" chart, it's a "steps to becoming a normie chart"
>Clean my room
>my mom comes and tears it apart
>she's schizophrenic and thinks I'm hiding heroin from her
Help me please....
>>24364872
>putting meditation and lifting before getting a fucking job
into the garbage
I don't have enough money for a haircut though
>>24373885
so you can't focus, bad memory? meditation is known to help for that
>>24374499
move out, move far away
>>24374521
you can start meditation right now
can you find a job quicker than that?
>>24374617
I've tried meditation. I spent like a month every night before bed trying to meditate, but it didn't do much. I was reading up on various methods and trying them. I don't remember the names but it wasn't just going in without knowing what I was supposed to do.
>>24374633
>found a job
>meditation doesn't do shit for me
>>24374641
>>24374664
it takes time for your brain to change though.. neuroplasticity is slow. if you get too focused on seeing quick results, you get demotivated fast (this is true for any activity basically)
some people are lucky and have good first experiences with meditation and keep doing it, others don't notice much at first. I don't know, because I'm no expert, but I think making meditation a daily habit will deliver positive results in the long run, since it is basically training your prefrontal cortex to have more control over the rest of your brain.
I've started and failed so many self improvement initiatives. I don't know how to succeed. Is it possible that I'm simply not capable of doing better?
>>24374962
stop taking on too much at one time
just focus on one thing, like showering once a day. Once you've been doing that long enough for it to become a habit, move on to something new.
I wonder if cyborgs like myself could help coach, offer councel and give support to robots to help them get up and get out.
Honestly from what I've experienced what girls what from a man are confidence and goal-orientation. They don't just latch onto successful or attractive people for relationships. They look for guys who are doing things and feeling good excited about it.
Anyway I wonder if forming a friendship with someone here to help them out into the world would be beneficial to both parties. Getting to know someone, having conversation and having something to look forward to could foster those attributes to occur more prevelantly in future social settings. Then maybe I'd find may way up and out and the robot could lvl up to cyborg and sponsor his own robot.
Train up, send out?
>>24374817
So i'm pretty much fucked? I need to do this shit for an entire year to get something from it?
>>24369962
The only time I ever got qt gf was right after I came back from 2 months on my own traveling. I had confidence out the ass from surviving alone in a foreign country. However, I quickly fell into old routines and lost her.
>>24364986
That's why this place is cancer.
>>24376619
If the thread was actually helpful more people will be interested.
The previous self-improvement threads could be described as a circlejerk where everyone is patting each other's backs
Might be useful if there were names for different kinds of robots. We have clinically depressed, people with severe social anxiety, people who lack self respect, people without any empathy or trust, professional procrastinators, alcoholics, etc etc
The path to self improvement/self-acceptance depends on who you are and what's important to you.
Maybe add reading books, meaningful me-time (not for the sake of building a skill, but exploring a hobby you care about). Also whatever activity gets put on the guide needs to be motivated. Why meditate, journal, excise, etc? For self improvement? That's too vague. You won't stick with something unless you know what it's for.
What book changed you?
>>24369848
travelling sounds horrible desu i don't even know how i could possibly enjoy it. not to mention it costs money
