Comments by "FuzzyPanda16" (@fuzzypanda1684) on "Why You Have No Self Control" video.
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You can control your urges, get off social media, maintain a clean diet, workout consistently etc. But it doesn't mean you'll "stand out" from the crowd. I mean, yes you will stand out, but it doesn't mean getting a job, a partner or anything else will be any easier, everyone will just THINK it's easier for you, which can actually make them resent you and make things harder for you than if you were just a regular Joe.
Also, he's talking about cognitive behavioral therapy, the act of becoming consciously aware of your thoughts and when you start letting yourself go down a bad thought path. When Cole describes that little voice telling him to be lazy or procrastinate, understand that it's a LOT easier for him to fight that voice, because he's already successful. If I had a YouTube channel with half a million subs before I was 25, I'd be able to fight that voice too.
It's a lot harder to fight when you're 15 years older than that, have no successes to draw on, nothing going well in your life, and a long string of failures and bad outcomes to look back at.
Having successes, even small ones, is VITAL to shutting that voice up. When you literally cannot remember the last success you had, it's much, much harder.
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