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Let's assume that you have followed the advice to check if your health is fine, and it is (or you have found ways to improve it).

On a high level, what's going on in your life may not be considered the best by some "social standards", but it's not necessarily "bad".

You can start by checking if your desires are in line with the standards, or if you would rather have a more "unconventional" way of being, accept it, and try to find ways to work and relate to people from there.

The next part is that a lot of what you see as the problems are skills and you can learn them.

* Emotional regulation is a skill, it has to be learned and practiced.

* Concentration is a skill; some meditation practices are a way to develop it.

* Thinking is a skill; "real" thinking can be difficult and uncomfortable, especially at first.

* Building coherent models of reality is an advanced skill and requires thinking, modeling, verification, self-reflection, and other skills.

* Being a successful entrepreneur is a very advanced skill, requiring all of the above and much more.

Next, you can define your skill learning priorities and decide for which skills you can use some help from professionals and which skills you can train yourself.

If you do your work and come back to the same topic in a year, you will have more experience and better understanding. Identify what you're missing and keep going. Eventually you will be in the much better state.

Good luck!




What are you referring to with "'real' thinking can be difficult at first"?




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