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I like your comment on smart phone usage. For over 10 years I would tell people "alcohol acts just like the 'fast forward button' on Adam Sandler's remote control in the movie 'Click.'" Nobody listens thought.

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That's because we don't have anything to do with our lives but to avoid pain until death.

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>you suddenly find that whole hours have disappeared in minutes

Well I don't have anything to do with my life. I never understood how other people have goals. I think my parents did not teach me to want things. My upbringing was largely about that I must study and then I must work because being poor is shameful. My parents entire life was about trying to not be poor, succeeding with very hard work, and then just relaxing in front of the TV.

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> as a man, your path to becoming less of a loser will be either (a) stripping back all the things that make you a loser to reveal a cool guy beneath, or (b) a total reworking of what's underneath

See also Reveal vs. Restructure¹.

¹: https://krauserpua.com/2016/04/30/reveal-vs-restructure/

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