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Very interesting points! Thank you for that counter :) And yes, Taleb has shown to be a very confident writer...

I just so happen to be currently reading about this in The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. He says:

"From predator-prey models (the so-called Lotka-Volterra type of population dynamics), I knew that populations experience [potentially high] variability, hence predators will necessarily go through periods of feast and famine. That's us, humans--we had to have been designed to experience extreme hunger and extreme abundance.

... So where on earth does this idea of "steady" exercise come from? Nobody in the Pleistocene jogged for forty-two minutes three days a week, lifted weights every Teusday and Friday, etc... Not hunters. We swung between extremes: we sprinted when chased or when chasing (once in a while in an extremely exerting way), and walked about aimlessly the rest of the time."

That's what he thinks anyway. We are complex, yo.

Something that I've been learning lately is that balance is vital to survival.

I'm a student, and I had a burnout a couple months ago. Thankfully, I was able to learn important things about myself, namely certain limits of mine (and I was studying limits at the time for calc class). I was far behind and yet I was struggling everyday to grasp the material. I ended up having to drop two out of three classes and managed to save the one I didn't drop.

I had been ignoring other parts of my life, like social interaction, and with my thoughts always running I eventually developed delusions(I have mental disabilities also). Since then I've put away social media and have been making time to go outside and around people to try to make connections, as well as yard work (can be therapeutic).

Now I see imbalances in my life more clearly than before. So, like a problem solver, I'll see what I can do about it. :)

I think there is absolutely a place and time for writing the way you talk and that the same goes for writing formally.

The discussion of when and where for either case is a topic in and of itself.

We plebs are fully aware that the odds are stacked against us. I don't expect it to change soon, if ever. And if anything, it just makes us harder than our marshmallow-like upper-class counterparts.

Yeah, I want to be successful and make "fuck you" money; but that's not the only reason I study hard.

Pleb power.

I'm in the same boat, It's really been a boon for self-improvement. There is a lot of value in being your own harshest critic.

I bought the pro version a couple months ago and I'm sure it's already paid for itself.

In the past I couldn't even have games installed on my computer for fear of getting sucked in for hours on end. Now I don't have to worry, I can be productive and still enjoy games at the end of the day.

Highly recommended for people that work from their personal computers.

I'm just another chronic procrastinator and from what I've experienced there is no single "cure". Here's where I stand in trying to solve my own procrastination problems:

- Removed myself from things that enable procrastination; I installed software (Coldturkey) that blocks websites and programs on my computer(games), and I won't be able to change the configuration of Coldturkey for another couple weeks.

- I have a calendar next to my work area, I get a red X on days that I do a reasonable amount of work; I got this from Jerry Seinfeld's method of getting better at something, "Don't break the chain!" of red X's.

- I often ask myself "what sort of person do you want to be? Do you want to be remembered as someone that did a half-assed job most of the time? Or do you want to be remembered as someone that killed it any chance he got?"; that sometimes gives me a little push to get stuff done.

- I am always behind in my mind.

- I've been working on making a habit of following through to the end anything that I am tasked with; I have unfinished stuff but there is less than there used to be.

This is just what I've come up with for myself. It's just come down to not trusting myself, so I try to make it so I don't have to.

I work on an Ubuntu vm, the only reason I use Windows, really, is for games and likely just out of habit.

I don't think it will be much longer until I actually make the switch.

I recently switched from Bitdefender to AVG, and like you just uninstalled AVG.

I'm not sure where to go from here.

This. At the end of the day it's up to you to find/make the time to balance your life out. I've been learning a lot lately about balance, it's more important than I used to think.

FIND BALANCE!

That is common in Japan among jobs from office workers to mechanics.

I was stationed there for some years and when we were in port the Japanese workers on the base would all line up outside their offices, sometimes turn on a little workout music, and one or two would lead in stretching and movement exercises.

I'm sure they saw all the sailors looking and some laughing, but I think the joke was on us, ha!

I'm in the same boat man. We just need a little tamper-proof dispenser that only allows us a certain amount for a given period of time.

Like you, I'm better off without it. But I do miss it.

I am one of those college students and actually I have been smoking way too much. I just recently stopped and now I sleep much better, getting up in the morning is way easier, I just have more energy.

It's hard for me to have access to it and not smoke it, both my parents were addicts so I'm supposedly predisposed to addictive behavior. I would smoke all day, every day, even when I didn't feel like it.

I'm a little turned off by it now since I found it was having negative effects on my life, but I'm sure that is because I was simply smoking way too much.

Anyways, don't smoke too much.