The illusion of willpower.

Is hustling dependent on trauma?

Take a look at your social media feed. I’m sure you’ll find the aesthetic tiktok “hustle culture”niche with the CEO that wakes up at 4 in the morning, does cold plunges, a 3 hour workout, journals and does a million other things, before you’ve even woken up.
Being a “self-help guru” or creative motivational content in today’s world paints a picture of righteous people trying to help others do better, be better, look better, feel better and so on. What I believe it does, is feed into the illusion that average honest people cannot reach where their idols are because they do not have the willpower and are therefore incompetent and are often left feeling guilty or lazy and just negative.

I’m sure he must be healing now and the point I’m trying to make isn’t the same old boring, an artist must be depressed to create something meaningful or if you haven’t had an “struggles” that would be regarded as such by other people then that means you won’t do well in life…
The point I’m trying to make is that celebrities, idols and all famous hardworking people are the 1%. 
Most of them have made it largely because of necessity and partially because they want to.
James Clear had to develop a positive mindset to survive. All of these “hustlers” had to hustle reflexively so that they could survive, it’s simple natural selection. 
To expand, let’s take an example somebody morbidly obese climbing stairs as beads of sweat drop from their body, every fibre in their being hurts and it is becoming a threat to their life they have no option but to lose the weight. Or a person in an abusive or toxic household is left with no choice but to escape and someone whose family is dependent on them financially at a young age has no choice but to make it big.
It’s simply to stay alive.

Extreme discipline often emerges from extreme circumstances

This needs to be spoken about because over the recent years a new profitable market of “SELF HELP” (that I believe started off with the right intentions )has slowly become exploitative.
I mean, think about it.
Would your favourite wellness influencer or coach remain relevant if everyone had their problems fixed? I know this might be a stretch, but I believe there is this intricate loop that keeps you stuck. 
This market thrives on selling the idea of willpower being akin to a product, something you can manufacture if you want something badly enough. There is this insane notion that if you simply emulate the routines and habits of people you admire you will get results period.
The Achilles’ heel of this market is the cleverly left out aspect of context, personal experience and nuance behind the situation which makes all the difference.
Most of these people you look up to acted out of survival and not choice. Leaving out the pain, instability and pressure that made that extent of obsession necessary in the first place. 
Furthermore, Willpower is treated like a moral trait.
If you don’t have it, you’re a bunch of wonderful adjectives like lazy, weak, or a waste. The really frightening aspect to all this is prioritising feeding the ego. By ego I mean self-centered thinking that is marketed as “self-love” and “self-appreciation”. I admit these are very important things but it undermines the importance of connection and can sometimes overemphasizes being transactional over having a natural giving nature.

Essentially, 
Willpower isn’t evenly distributed because life isn’t evenly distributed.

So, to point out why I am discussing this is recently I’ve noticed that most people who are deemed average compared to extreme situations, we expect ourselves to operate at the same intensity as people whose lives demanded it. This creates a huge loss of self worth and it has an overall negative impact. 
I also want to be really careful that when I say average people I am referring to people who have their basics, like food, water, shelter, economic stability and other aspects.
I am aware of devastations like starvation and extreme poverty and the fact that they work extremely hard and experience traumatic events on the daily, they’re seemingly “functional”, this emphasies my point as, people sometimes use these examples to put themselves down, by comparing themselves to people surviving because they have to like children of war-stricken countries, or people born with illnesses.

And maybe the most radical thing in an optimization-obsessed world is accepting that

You don’t need to suffer first in order to deserve a meaningful life.

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Thank you for reading, this is a lot longer than I intended for it to be but, thanks anyway if you got through it :)

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