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Originally Posted by Max Power  The concept of struggle and hard work is a social condition enforced on the masses to sense self worth.
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Max I agree with this. No offense Advent Shade, and I am not saying that this is where YOU are coming from, but the whole concept seems very self-righteous.
I see it all over the place, "work hard, work hard, work hard little robot soldier".
Where did it all come from? In order to say "work hard" you've had to have heard those words before. And since everyone says it, that means everyone's heard it, which means they didn't come up with it, which means they heard it most likely from their parents, who heard it from their parents, on and on and on.
Wait that's the social conditioning Max is talking about. And I know Max doesn't mind if I basically just make Max's point all over again with slightly different words.
I'm going to erase this "work hard" stuff from my vocabulary. For whatever I want, I am going to "work" with passion and purpose, and not get sidetracked by the need to suffer for my success. That's not "hard" work. That's "cool" work.
edit-- now that I think of it, the successes that I have had in my life, have not been because of hard work, they have been in spite of hard work. It's been the times that I have been in the zone, where things have just clicked "hey I'm onto something! This is fun! I'm good at this! This is coming naturally to me!" has been when all the significant stuff has happened. Then I went around saying I was busting my ass, because that's what everyone thinks they have to do. It's almost a "sin" to say you're enjoying the process of achieving things.