05-28-2019, 01:59 PM
Day 36 (2)
My thoughts exactly @EvolvingPhoenix , for the most part. NoFap is great and all, but when you spend more willpower fighting your urges than the profit you gain from NoFap it becomes... counter-productive I guess. Some people would try to prove me wrong, but then again some people are wrong
I think (and it tides to @Zane comment) that real profits of NoFap come not from semen retention or cleaning your head or whatever. They come from the positive feedback I described a couple of posts before. When you read stories there are many success stories, but there are also many stories describing how mediocre the results are and how nothing really changed in their lives. Confidence, motivation, social skills etc. are not caused by NoFap, they are reinforced by it. It's like supplement you take during the diet - it helps, but you still need to diet.
Funny thing happened today. I went with my friend to see "John Wick 3". For those who don't know it's a great action movie starring Keanu Reeves. I love movies like that, testosterone filling cinema. What's great about the main character however is not that he kills people with pencils, but how he handles himself, his suits and style, the respect he projects. He's not only skilled, he's knowledgeable, he speaks many languages, he has great memory. You obviously don't WANT to be him, but you WANT to be like him. I started thinking about how much time I outright waste throughout the day and how much closer I'd be to a "perfect me" if I were to stop with wastage.
And it's funny because I'd estimate I waste maybe 50% time less than I used to. For example half a year ago I would be able to waste entire day. Today I wasted maybe 1-2 hours of my life? Those are extreme examples to be sure, but my time management and (especially) motivation to move my ass and do stuff increased a lot recently. Did I mention that I love it? Because I sure love it
(05-27-2019, 03:35 PM)EvolvingPhoenix Wrote: Whatever. There's nothing wrong with masturbating, especially if you're doing it sparingly. I think people focus way too much on going for as long as possible without fapping when really, that just sets them up for failure because they're gonna fap eventually and if they don't well, you're body getting used to not being aroused around arousig stimuli will translate into not getting it up when you've got a hot naked chick in front of you. So I say don't worry so much about it, but then I don't do NoFap anyway. Still, I think my 2 cents have validity to them.
My thoughts exactly @EvolvingPhoenix , for the most part. NoFap is great and all, but when you spend more willpower fighting your urges than the profit you gain from NoFap it becomes... counter-productive I guess. Some people would try to prove me wrong, but then again some people are wrong
I think (and it tides to @Zane comment) that real profits of NoFap come not from semen retention or cleaning your head or whatever. They come from the positive feedback I described a couple of posts before. When you read stories there are many success stories, but there are also many stories describing how mediocre the results are and how nothing really changed in their lives. Confidence, motivation, social skills etc. are not caused by NoFap, they are reinforced by it. It's like supplement you take during the diet - it helps, but you still need to diet.
Funny thing happened today. I went with my friend to see "John Wick 3". For those who don't know it's a great action movie starring Keanu Reeves. I love movies like that, testosterone filling cinema. What's great about the main character however is not that he kills people with pencils, but how he handles himself, his suits and style, the respect he projects. He's not only skilled, he's knowledgeable, he speaks many languages, he has great memory. You obviously don't WANT to be him, but you WANT to be like him. I started thinking about how much time I outright waste throughout the day and how much closer I'd be to a "perfect me" if I were to stop with wastage.
And it's funny because I'd estimate I waste maybe 50% time less than I used to. For example half a year ago I would be able to waste entire day. Today I wasted maybe 1-2 hours of my life? Those are extreme examples to be sure, but my time management and (especially) motivation to move my ass and do stuff increased a lot recently. Did I mention that I love it? Because I sure love it
For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4
