After seeing people younger than me on 4x my salary, I'm literally turning into this meme...

After seeing people younger than me on 4x my salary, I'm literally turning into this meme. What's the point of interacting with anyone if there's no self improvement involved? I've become completely antisocial and can only think about improoving. I need to work. I need to learn. I need to improov!

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120kg Bench isn't that impressive if you look like that

>baseing his entire self esteem off his salary
Strike one

war my dude. ebt is guaranteed so at least you wont starve. thanks joe brandon

I can't even do that, but I must continue to improve.

It's sad. I've always grown up not caring about money but I realised that's made me a lot less ambitious than others and had limited me in the bigger purchases I've wanted to make, like a car. Anyway, I've been feeling inadequate for a while and the journey/discipline to upskill myself and the pay off will help towards these negative feelings.

What's wrong with being less ambitious than others, exactly?
Live life by your own standards. Living the way you want to live is far more respectable than playing the rat race with normies.

>limiting yourself to what you can just achieve rather than raising the bar and expanding your own boundaries
Strike two

Yall still living in the states are about to get cbt anytime now lmao

I don't care. just because one guy has 4x your salary doesn't mean you can get there too. even if you get there, you're achieving it later than he did, so it's already over in a sense. you can't self-improve, it's a lie. you can only get lucky.

I get you, but I will very unlikely get into it by just seeing some people be far more successful then me. There are 15 year olds that are millionares. I will be concerned when I become bellow average rather then look at the top where there will always be some fucker better then me at something.

OP you're now competing in what is known as a rat race where wagies who have no life outside of their work pit against each other to see who is the better slave.

bahaha . Bro self-improving doesn't have to be so solitary. Self-improvement can include improving your social life ( if you see that as something needing improvement ) .

For me personally, I am improving ability to get a job and from there that's where I look to other aspects to find a permanent solution to this constant mental problem I have. Sure I can go to a doctor and med my brains out to solve issues but that is not how I want to do it at all. It is curing the symptom not the root of the problem which is my environment.

I now know how to get a girlfriend, friends and how to get a foot in the door for the job. Things I didn't know 8 months ago. Working on these things step by step is how you self-improve and if you really want to, do it all at once.

Explain how that is just a "meme" why on earth do you put a mocking image of people that are actually trying to get out of this other meme where you are a basement dwelling virgin at 40 years old.

About time you mfs woke up so proud of all of you rn

Let me tell you a story little robot, during boot we used to have room inspection and they would always find something wrong with my room no matter how fucking perfect I had it and you all know how much of a dick I can be about little things, the moral of the story is the drill sgts were doing to spite me on purpose just to fuck with me and why would the do something like that you ask? Because they were trying to teach me that you are never going to be perfect no matter how hard you try, so stop trying to be perfect and just be good because you will survive alot longer by simply being good and not worrying about things out of your control, take a deep breath things are gonna be alright user

>What's wrong with being less ambitious than others, exactly?
This a mindset that affects you in more areas than just work and often manifests itself as a form of laziness. I could be living better just by simply being "average", expecting more from my work or moving elsewhere for something better.

The issue is I'm not happy with the way I'm living either. So I'm poorer than I should be, which makes me feel inadequate, which makes me feel worse

How is self improving for more not expanding my own boundaries?? Please don't strike me again ENTJ-sama

Socialising just feels like a waste of time. I can't be bothered to hear their inane conversations and get drunk. It's a waste of time. The friend that tries to make me do more adventurous stuff just makes me think to myself, "what for? What a waste of time. There's better things I can be doing"

I put the meme pic because it is literally becoming an obsession. I don't want to think about anything else. I am cooming for improoving.

You have anxiety I can see that user, youre running too tight and just need to ease yourself out and find rhythm again, interesting what a man can do when hes not overthinking things

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We all get there, I'm trying to hit 180kg bench and it's just not happening. But hey my old best was 100kg and now that counts as a warm up for me

you've got it backwards, what the point of self-improving if there is nobody to interact with? Build up your muscles and read all those books, and then learn that nobody cares about your muscles, and you don't know how to communicate or connect with anyone on an emotional level. You're working harder not smarter. Start with the relationships you want to have, and improve to become sufficient to get the most from them, rather than improve for the sake of doing so and find that what you did still has you lacking for the place you want to have in life.

Just my thoughts

Of course I do. Even my little sister makes more than me, kek, and she managed to do it while popping babies. I don't have any responsibilities

Nah bro, socialising is not a waste of time and I will branch my friendships out further. I say it's not a waste of time because I know that's my head saying that not me. It feels like it is me as it is coming through my mouth but things in my head are telling me that.

What friends can do is , if they're good enough, can grab you before you fall into that cycle again and having to restart to self-improve again. That is why they are so important. They can check up on you and make sure you are okay.

Imagine you had your own gym buddy your own therapist your own cheerleader all at once bro. That's what friends can do. Better still you can make business or many many things. Don't think of them as a waste of time. Recognise it's your head that's saying it or be very very sure that it is not your head saying it. I assume it is

i don't see how isolating yourself from others and lifting weights is going to give you more responsibility.

I agree with you. I just think short-term, people are distracting me while I have this massive drive to self improve because I have a schedule and want to stick to it. They just mess up my schedule right now.

Not that it will give me responsibility. I was just saying me with no responsibilities and only needing to take care of myself have been overtaken by my younger sister who also has children to worry about.

If you don't have good genes (>5'11", weak jaw line, thin wrists, high pitched voice, any deformities, asymmetrical face, etc) then self-improvement is a waste of time. You can't sculpt a piece of shit. You can't improve on shit.

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you're being overtaken by those with more responsibilities because they have more responsibilities. more is asked of them and they rise to the challenge. nobody asks anything of you, and you won't even rise to the smallest task: listening to an acquaintance talk to you in an engaged way.

Ah okay, Then you don't think socialising is a waste of time, you just have other priorities right now. Then we're on the same page.

Yes that is exactly the spot I'm in right now, I don't go overboard with socialising because I really want to get that foot in the door to step on the career ladder.

Well good luck and remember that this drive is temporary so to make it permanent you need to keep moving relentlessly until you achieve your goals and form lasting solutions to your problems. That's how I view self-improvement, the drive is very temporary. Last time I had this drive to self improve was 6 years ago and lasted for about a year , I was very very close to getting what I want but I collapsed mentally for 6 years straight becoming a NEET