Now I know why some of you are sexist...

[Jog On]

Good one for cracking all those. Hope you don't go back to them. Or worse, go back to them and combine them in a massive binge. Thus is the modus operandi of the addict.

I wouldn't get into trading if you have an addictive thing. Trading at home is basically gambling. And that's addictive.

The way forward from addiction is self discipline. Start with fitness and nutrition.

Cheers

I gave up smoking 15 years ago,
Drinking 6 years ago (drugs about the same time)
pr0n and gaming are more recent - 4-5 months
Meat - about a year ago.

Trading I've been doing for years now - had all the harsh lessons and developed the mindset so buckling down to do it professionally now. Racking up 10k hours on the simulator (forex tester) developing pattern recognition and executing thousands of trades following process/rules etc. It's only pure gambling when you don't know what you're doing and approach it like a casino.

Nutrition and fitness are pretty much replacing pr0n and gaming, and somewhere in all that there needs to be time for music as well...

[SueEllen]

I gave up smoking 15 years ago,
Drinking 6 years ago (drugs about the same time)
pr0n and gaming are more recent - 4-5 months
Meat - about a year ago.

Trading I've been doing for years now - had all the harsh lessons and developed the mindset so buckling down to do it professionally now. Racking up 10k hours on the simulator (forex tester) developing pattern recognition and executing thousands of trades following process/rules etc. It's only pure gambling when you don't know what you're doing and approach it like a casino.

Nutrition and fitness are pretty much replacing pr0n and gaming, and somewhere in all that there needs to be time for music as well...

What kind of fitness? MMA? Boxing? Martial arts? Becoming a MAMIL?

[vetran]

What kind of fitness? MMA? Boxing? Martial arts? Becoming a MAMIL?

SueEllen is not sure whether she wants to imagine you in tight shorts or Lycra!

[xoggoth]

Porn doesn't make me objectify women generally, just their bottoms.

[Jog On]

What kind of fitness? MMA? Boxing? Martial arts? Becoming a MAMIL?

Martial arts, weights and circuit (kettle bells etc) type stuff.

[SueEllen]

Porn doesn't make me objectify women generally, just their bottoms.

You don't need porn to do that.

[mudskipper]

I gave up smoking 15 years ago,
Drinking 6 years ago (drugs about the same time)
pr0n and gaming are more recent - 4-5 months
Meat - about a year ago.

No wonder you were feeling unhappy!

[greenlake]

Porn doesn't make me objectify women generally, just their bottoms.

For those days when you can't get fresh ones....

[cojak]

I think there are single nice guys and relationship nice guys, both using 'covert contracts' exhibiting certain "nice" behaviours with the expectation of something in return.

I was relationship nice guy until recently (probably why I'm a bit obsessed with the topic) and the hen pecking and arguing has stopped considerably and we're both a lot happier for it.

I read in another book by David Deida (the way of the superior man) that hen pecking and 'testing' is just a woman's way of saying "man! man! there's a man in there somewhere goddammit, I don't want a jellyfish I want a man! - prod prod prod..."

Something to do with evolutionary wiring where she needs to know he is able to protect the cave while she's nursing the kids and as soon as he stops displaying that reassurance she has to whip him into shape..

What strange ideas! I would widen your reading list if I were you...

[MrMarkyMark]

Stoicism is something I've read a bit about in the red pill of all places...

So far I've given up:

• smoking
• drugs
• drinking
• pr0n
• video gaming

There is an underlying addictive personality there that I'm forceably weaning onto fitness, music and trading. Will see how that works out...

Just sounds like a pure case of mid life crisis to me.

Especially when you mention the hair loss and the increasing gut