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Self-development
| I often ask other people for criticism. I ask, "How am I doing? Are there things I can do better?"
Other people can see my mistakes better than I can.
| Read books. Pursue your hobbies. Do sports. Improve work skills and be more efficient at what you do. Treat others like you would want them to treat you.
Do any of these or more than one of these and you surely will self develop.
| These are all good points.
I'm a writer IRL, so I self improve just by constantly reading or listening or following new stories, preferably ones that are well written. To this end, playing *good* vidya can also help in that respect, or at least vidya that allows me to make my own stories (roguelike's and 4x games, for instance).
However, by contrast, games that are the same old shit, like most online FPS shooters, do nothing for me and tend to make my mind feel like it's rotting.
| Sort of like sitting in front of a television watching shows/infomercials not because you want to, but because it's become a habit you do.
| Above all, you must do things that will keep you from becoming "stagnant" in any way. Stagnation leads to self destruction which eventually leads to a painful, depressing death. Whether that be actual user-death or a death of the soul.
Ever run into someone who just feels "empty" inside and doesn't have any driving motivation to keep living and feels like they're stuck in a purgatory? That's what happens when you don't constantly self improve. You'll become like that.
| Actually I consider TV a means to dumb you down, lower your attention span and in general contribute to the opposite of self development. The less tv is watched, the better your mind is.
| >>147482
I agree with you.
>my mind feel like it's rotting
That's why I dropped all videogames recently. For two years i've been in stagnation, searching for something attractive to me to learn to and found it finally. Now i feel much better.
| "How to Make Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie would be a good start.
See where it takes you from there.
| >>147525
Same, g/u/rl. I've banned the purchase of new vidya from my budget for this entire year, with smol exception to getting a friend Minecraft so we can play on a personal server together.
It's been a lot less depressing since, and I have a backlog of good RPG's to work through anyway... (such as Divinity: Original Sin, Dragon's Dogma [shit story but the combat requires thinking], The Witcher 3...)
| >>147493
Yeah, I agree. That's kind of what I was going for- bad video games also accomplish much of the same, especially since a lot of AAA games these days are specifically designed to appeal to short attention spans, have really dumbed down mechanics and passable story, and are designed to keep you at the computer spending money and playing, even if you're not really enjoying yourself. You're not getting anything positive from that "experience," its just destroying you.
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| How do you self-develop? What do you do to keep on learning? Do your exercices help you in your life?