AntiLayfhaking why life is worth to live, and not a "hack"
Motivation / / December 19, 2019
Maybe you should not try to "hack" the life, thus simplifying it. Difficulties - that's fine. Build your career. Rich Roll
When Rolle Rich (Rich Roll) turned 40, he looked at himself in the mirror and was horrified. Overweight, shortness of breath... It's time to "hack" the system.
Today Rich Roll - known runner, behind which Ultraman (overcoming the 515-kilometer distance for three days triathlon disciplines) and Epic5 (daily for five days on IRONMAN athletes overcome distance), and in the asset achievements - bookWritten based on these events.
But Rich did not "hack" life. He chose to be a difficulty to face. Because only if you feel that you live.
What is life hacking and ANTIlayfhak?
The fact that such a life hacking, who coined the term and how to develop motion layfhakerstva, you can learn from this article.
Just recall that the life hacking - it is not the creation of new and original use of the existing one. How to simplify, accelerate and adapt life.
"Is it bad?" - you ask. Not.
Too bad that, at some point of life hacking movement, there was a substitution of concepts.
Famous "productivity guru" Timothy Ferriss (Timothy Ferriss) wrote book "How to work 4 hours a week, does not stick out in the office" from start to finish ", and thus to live anywhere and prosper."
He is not a hedonist, and not a slacker. Work 4 hours a week - does not mean not working, does not mean to create visibility work. I think Ferriss idea is to minimize the loss of time. Find the proverbial 25th hour in the day and dedicate it to self-realization, finding and solving the difficulties of life.
But the focus has shifted.
We live in a world of memes, hashtags and shortcodes. we suffer attention deficit disorder and can not tolerate hard monotonous work.
We want to "hack" the life, not to adapt, and to "rewind" the difficulties.
The term "life hacking" becomes the quintessence of an easy life. Life, where there is no space combat, failure, overcoming. How to be healthy and sporty without getting up from the couch? How to make a million, without leaving your home?
We become obsessed with the ideas of instant refreshment, light, but with many zeros earnings. We want to be at the click of your fingers all at once.
The program got off. Life hacking becomes ANTIlayfhakom.
We are not interested in the process and the result. We want to be strong, rich and successful without overcoming difficulties, not paving their way with sweat and blood.
Why the difficulty - this is life?
No useless work, and have useless people, who are not satisfied with any work. Ayn Rand "Atlas Shruggedยป
Imagine that you can achieve the goal, not sticking, not fail, not believing blindly in his dream. (Yes, it does not happen, but let's dream up.)
Imagine how you "Haka" task, one after another - only manage to delete from todo-list!
Presented? And whether you have experienced in this satisfaction, a sense of self-worth and feel whether you are building?
Work hard, fight, believe in the future and your life will be better - the postulate of the "American Dream."
But look on the cover of fashion magazines business. They uncles in elegant suits and titles - "the GTD", "productivity", "Optimize." The main purpose - to reach the goal. The process is too complicated? Do not worry - a pair of life hacking, and everything will be easier.
Hard work and struggle - today is not cool. Cool "hack" life.
If we draw an analogy, then, in my opinion, and layfhaking antilayfhaking can be illustrated by the example of the book Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggert - true layfhakery. Their whole life is a struggle. Struggle with difficulties and antilayfhakerami such as James Taggert and Co.
Difficulties in life - the only source of experience.
I remember how to take their final exams at the institute. I am well prepared, I know all the tickets, but the heart is still beating, and his hands are cold. No, it is not excitement. It's fear.
When you find yourself face to face with the obligations that it all depends on you (or break) when "crack" and "rewind" the difficulties will not work, it becomes really scary.
But this makes sense. If you're scared, then your life is something really significant.
As acknowledged by Rich Rolla, he could train at 20% less intense and still finished would Ultraman. But then he would not be able to answer the question: what he is really capable of?
Roll invested in full and understand:
Experience the value is directly proportional to the degree of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual involvement in the process.
(I would add also - degree awareness.)
Compare: You won a million in the lottery and have earned by their labor. And here and there - money. But which of them is more valuable?
Using life hacking, but rather antilayfhaki, you deprive yourself of the difficulties, and therefore experience.
You must dedicate his life to achieve one of two results: either you try and you will get, or you will die in the attempt, which is already in itself a formula for success. Casey Neistat
Correct, constructive message, originally inherent in the term "layfhaking" lost. Life hacking gets the prefix "anti". It is not just in the way of achieving the goal, and the shortest and most primitive method of achieving it, cut off from the awareness process.
Deep down we all know that without effort... But hashtags # diligence, patience # # difficult for some reason, do not go in trends.
But if you like Rich Roll, want to honestly answer the question "What am I really capable of?", Do not attempt to "hack" your life.
Set goals, but does not focus on the result, but on the process. Embedded in it to 100%. Overcome difficulties. Experience the thrill when the heart with fear embarking on tahikardichesky dance. Stuffed bumps. Fall and rise. Living life, making it better every day.