Hi comrades, welcome to the Improvement Megathread! 
I plan to post a new weekly megathread here every Sunday. I think Sunday is a good day to review the previous week and make some plans for the following week. If somebody else wants to post a new megathread anytime, just let me know.
Here are some ideas for discussion:
- Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week?
Even if you did only 1 push-up, read 1 page, meditated for 1 minute, or touched 1 blade of grass, let us know about it. When it comes to making progress, everything counts. The most important thing is to make progress, no matter how small.
- What would you like to do next week?
- What aspect of life would you like to improve?
- Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
- If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
- Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?
Of course, this is not a definitive list. And feel free to make a separate post in the comm for any of these topics. This is just a megathread for all the stuff that you want to share but don't feel like making a new post.
Let me know if you have any suggestions.
And remember the Golden Rule of Hexbear:
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My true opinion is environment. You'll learn a lot without really practicing if you're doing it all the time with people. The idea of practicing is to make yourself better as a type of weight lifting. A baby can learn multiple languages organically just by using them, music is the same.
In my opinion, due to academia and horrible western culture, we have it backwards. Practicing is how you get good and environment is an after thought. That being said the reason why we practice the way we do is a response to our environment, there's not enough environment so we must practice.
It's unavoidable as a westoid and partly explains why we have many people who are completely illiterate with music but still have people who are absolute masters of the craft. Reality should be more flat where mostly everyone can atleast participate.
Nothing can stop you from getting good at anything as long as you do the following things:
Practice with intensity and sincerity, use your senses to figure out what is wrong with whatever you're doing.
Find a community, no one lasts long in a bubble. Find other people who are doing the thing and resist the pressures of the world together.
Find a mentor, you learn how to talk from Mom and Dad primarily and also your community, getting good at anything is the same. If you want to be good at basketball, do not shoot 3 pters in isolation all day. If you want to be good at street fighter, find people who play street fighter. Japanese guys arent good at Street Fighter because theyre Japanese or they have a Hadouken bone in their brain, theyre good because theyve had a) The most amount of time with the game. B) The most amount of time with a competitive scene. D) These guys meet up in person and fucking talk about and play street fighter.
Develop a tough skin and resolute sense of grit. I've paid off massive amounts of student loans, failed horribly in more times and ways than I can count or possibly remember. I've wanted to quit many times but ultimately I stuck with it.
Lastly, live your life that's consistent with what you want. Don't be a guy who works 80 hrs a week if you want to get good at something that's not work. All of my major life choices have been in service of: I want to be a musician and I'm not playing around. That being said, I'm realistic, I know what I am and am not and can't just insert myself into the New York scene.
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Rhythm and time are something we should be getting from our parents and our communities, we should all be able to naturally sing and dance many Westoids have this issue, including myself.
The good thing is that you can develop and get better at it overtime, I'm living proof of it.
thanks. I think I don't have the energy for learning music right now, but I like doing languages very much and I think you make very insightful and important points that I can copy for a lot of things. I never really understood how important sensual perception and the ability to enjoy what I am doing are until very recently.
For sure, music isn't impossible for you or anyone as long as you are earnest with your intentions.
I will pick it up eventually, maybe, hopefully. now that I am not doing video games anymore, I have way more time lol