To answer the thread title, yes.
Last night I worked on myself and read for 5 hours. The night before I was in the research common for another 4 hours digging up old bones. I'm dead serious about this; I'm ready to jump into the fire!:evil:
Good, but...look at what I have italicised. What is wrong with these things?
I really want to be a playboy w/ pimp tight game. I just feel, gut feeling, that I may too deep into it and should say here, but ease of with other hobbies. I may have takin this knowledge to seriously, because since I was 17, and I'm 22 now, I've always been reading, analyzing, and pushing myself (not a very relaxing couple of years).
Again, good.....but....reading in a library will not make you a pimp tight playboy. Go out into the field- Observe,
be, experience, come back to the notes aaannnnd Go out into the field - Observe,
be, experience, apply your knowledge/theories and repeat. Analysing before the experience is stagnation.
My mindset right now goes as such in order from priority: empowering myself, school, friends/girls (family is obviously in the after myself).
Good. Friends, girls and Family should be after-thoughts.
And, sadly I don't have a harem of girls to show for it; meaning I'm probably doing something wrong.
And sadly, you are too attached to an idea. What do you really want? If it is a harem, then why? Ask yourself this, I'm not asking because I need to know.
But if that is what you want, then you are too attached to the
idea of it and the attainment of it. Get me?
Back to the first quote- Reading is just that, an activity. It can help, but working on yourself entails putting away the books which have been written as a culmination of the thoughts of OTHER people, and to just be with yourself. Dig where you need to dig, and keep searching within yourself, not within an external reference. I think you may fear an actual experience, which is why you hide in literature and the opinions of others.
In my humble motherfucking opinion.