RE: Better You #3 : Investing $1000 in Steem. Inside suffering is the seed of change.
Hi, William. Nice to read you again.
Investing in Steem is a very reasonable idea. This platform has such a huge room for growth! At the moment there are 60K active users. And 10K came only last month. Imagine what will be in a year. Or what will be, when the active user base will grow up to 1M! No wonder Mark Zuckerberg and Co are getting nervous xD.
As for ideas of suffering, pleasure, happiness, learning etc, It will take me an evening just to start writing about all of this. But right now I can provide a quick useful tip from my own experience for learning. If you really need or want something (to learn, for example), you will do it no matter how hard or painful it will be. Having information you need in form of a book is simply an excuse. It is another question whether you need it or not. But generally, If you really desire, want or need something, you will get through any given obstacles on the way. You just need to be persistent enough and believe in yourself.
I totally agree with Naval Ravikant`s definition of 'happiness'. I just want to add that happiness is all around us. We just need to learn to notice it.
Yeah as you are pointing out, I honestly believe we can go nowhere but up. Mark should be shaking 😉
I agree a 100%, also would like to add, as you say in your final sentence in your mid paragraph You just need to be persistent enough and believe in yourself. a true but sad story is that many people lack these fundamental requirements. Their overrun by the surface layer of their consciousness or by their ego (or however you want to put it) and simply can't get themselves to accomplish anything in life other than short-term gratification, in a sense this is a disease resulting from our current society and its environment.
One might then argue, "Well but then they desire to gain short-term gratification rather than their goals", and by response is; do they really want it? Or is it merely a result of having lost the connection within ourselves?
Obviously no definite answer, but it poses and interesting discussion, as you say, I could rave all morning about this 🙌🏼
+1 for another excellent comment brother🙏🏼