Asmongold's Advice For People Who Feel Behind In Life

i have your a i'm i'm at your age and i

feel so far behind

good

then changing

what are you gonna do you're gonna worry

you're gonna sit around and twitch chat

all day and talk about how far behind

you are like everything you need to do

yeah good you you should feel far behind

thank god that you do

[ __ ] stu then that then start think

about why

if only it was that easy

how do you think about like this right

how do you get a physique

of uh you know like that's not a

bodybuilder right how do you get an s to

your physique

the main two things you do are eat right

and work out

it sounds really simple right

it sounds super [ __ ] simple oh all

you have to do is work out knee right

genetics play a big part absolutely

uh steroids play a big part absolutely

i've had friends have done steroids

but that

what i'm saying is like

sometimes simple answers for hard

questions

are not the wrong answer

it's just that people want to hear some

sort of like hidden knowledge they want

to have like a you know a button

combination

uh on a controller to enter in a cheat

code it's really not like that

it's like the whole dark souls thing oh

you're having trouble with the boss

we'll just roll

oh you can't beat this boss well roll

start rolling

just roll out of the attack

that's it it's actually that simple

yeah it's like you want to draw good

draw a lot yeah exactly

and so that's the thing being consistent

is very simple easy thing no it's not

but i think a lot of people that aren't

consistent aren't consistent because

they don't want to be

they want to do something else more

and i understand that you know like

that's

that's fine but like you have to be

honest with yourself

that's what the issue is is a lot of

people aren't honest with themself and

they lie to themselves

and i think that's what really [ __ ]

them up

there's an author right there nothing's

easy everything requires focus

discipline yeah exactly

like they'll try to like oh well it's

because oh well it's like this that the

other thing right oh i'm busy i'm busy

i've got all these things to do it's

like meanwhile like you're watching

twitch like three hours a day

like you're [ __ ] uh

like you're playing video games like

watching netflix two hours a day

like somebody who's driven and really

wants to get something they're gonna

work for that

all day

you know they're not gonna that's gonna

be what they do for a break

you know like consistency dedication and

discipline those are the cheat codes to

real life

if you have those three things

that's gonna make you more successful

than anything else

because there are people that are born

rich but sometimes they die poor

there's people that are you know

attractive

you don't see anybody who's 90 years old

80 years old is attractive

they get old and ugly because that's

what happens it goes away

the discipline and the focus and uh the

drive to do something is not something

that just goes away

and it's also not something that you

it's completely under your own control

it's what you prioritize is actually

important to you yeah exactly

you don't spend money on stuff yeah

exactly

well people are gross that's okay yeah i

think most old people look ugly as hell

like

you 90 years old and you know what they

don't give a [ __ ] about that you know

why because they [ __ ] 85 years old

you think they care

no

they don't care what they look like

they've been around the block they don't

give a [ __ ]

they're about to face death you think

they care about looking in a mirror

yeah it doesn't matter to them at all

it's like the same thing as like well i

remember like we would go to uh the gym

and there'd always be dudes there like

60 years old that would take off all

their clothes in the gym you'd see some

old flabby man with a fat beer belly and

he you know he works at a car dealership

and you know he's the manager there and

he's walking around with his dick out at

planet fitness it's no big deal

meanwhile you've got these guys that are

like 25 in the best shape of their life

you know you know like great great

physique and everything

sitting there with their arms hunched

over embarrassed

you know they're the ones that are you

know like that you know they're wearing

you know they're the towel and

everything you know put their shirt on

as soon as possible meanwhile these old

men just don't give a [ __ ] man

yeah he got his dick out man yeah

that's the truth

do you have the grind till you're

depressed to succeed do you think you

have to grind until you're depressed to

succeed no i think if you have to i

think if you're if you're getting

depressed grinding then you're grinding

the wrong thing

because if you enjoy what you're doing

you won't uh

you won't get depressed doing it

i think that it'll happen like you're

always gonna have like situations like

every streamer has this

every person has this more like there

will be times where they don't want to

do something right maybe they don't want

to go live maybe they don't want to do x

or y thing but they do

sure

yeah you're grinding wrong yeah farm

different mobs man

and the jurors broke out his experience

in a court case oh really

a lot of stuff in life they'll grind you

down it's your choice you chose to stay

down

because the end result is like nobody's

going to give a [ __ ] about you nobody's

got your best interest in mind nobody

cares about you

you only care about you and nobody else

is going to give a [ __ ] and so if it

doesn't matter like oh man like but this

is the you know this

the game like it's not fair like it's

not fair like of course it's not fair

[ __ ] shut up

like shut up like no who cares like

not yet okay and like now what

i'm actually aware what makes them happy

yeah i know

yeah and and it's just

like i i don't know

i wish more people said stuff like that

but i feel like there's so much of a

culture now to like coddle people and to

like reinforce like people's need

audiences of people that are donating

their stimulus checks to them that oh

you're trying as hard as you can while

you're masturbating eight hours a day

and playing games and impact and

spending your mom's money

like i'm sorry but like this is this is

a loser track of life you're going

nowhere you're not going to do anything

it's never going to pay off unless you

start streaming

and that's all there is to it

it means nothing

you're not trying

just being a loser

that's it

bullying yeah why are you attacking me

like that hey it is what it is

josh thanks for 10 subs i did that for

years right that's how i know

yeah it's also not uh

like a lot of things i talk about right

with stuff like this it's not like oh i

uh

you know like i'm talking down to people

like i've learned this from like direct

like personal first hand experience

it's not like oh i'm just talking about

this theoretically

i had this [ __ ] happen to me

or if you're happy doing it well then

keep doing it do whatever you

want but i'm talking about people that

aren't happy doing it and make excuses

for why they're not where they want to

be

yeah if you're happy doing it like i was

so happy playing video games all day

every day with no job you know trying to

scrape together money to buy a drink at

jack-in-the-box yeah i was really happy

doing that if i could go back to that

i'd probably do it

you know if i had a time machine but uh

you know i don't

i don't have the balls not being in

denial whatever it's called never shoot

yeah it's the same as like the thing is

that like if you if you can't

acknowledge like what uh

you can't acknowledge what you've uh

what you want to do what you've done

wrong you'll never be able to do

anything right because you'll just keep

making the same mistakes

most people want to be able to at least

support themselves well then you've got

to work for that

were you happier than though oh yeah abs

i mean in a lot of ways i was in some

ways i wasn't

it's always like i mean there's always

going to be good and bad you know bad

things in each point in life

it's the same as guys like they'll blame

like oh it's like you know girls don't

like me because x or y thing it's like

the thing is that

it's just like with anything else right

it's like a lot of people

don't have what they want

because they're not willing to put in

the effort for it

that's it

yeah and like if you don't like not like

why am i

uh well let me think

uh

like why do i not have a girlfriend

right for example like that's a good one

right well it's because i don't try i

put literally no effort into my

appearance

i don't go out of my way to try to you

know like

do anything like that i don't shower

i spend all day playing video games and

jerking off

and whenever i'm not doing that i'm on

stream talking about it

that's why

it's like why did i not have a job like

whenever i was younger like yeah it was

recession and everything but like a lot

of it too was like i put in really zero

effort to get it to get uh

to get certain jobs why would i want

that

i'm gonna say no yeah the only thing

yeah yeah

yeah the item level and bronze size

that's a that's about the level of

effort i put into it so like [ __ ] that

when you say that some people i know

i've been streaming for over a year to

almost no success how do you keep

motivated about something that's

streaming with the example nothing going

on about it

sometimes you gotta know when to hold

them and you gotta know when to fold

them

sometimes beating your head against the

wall to try to break through the wall is

no less honorable and i think is more

stupid than using a hammer to get

through the wall or sledgehammer instead

just because you spend a lot of time on

something and something is really hard

for you to do doesn't mean that you're

entitled to success in that one thing

sometimes you're just really bad at

doing what you're doing sometimes

streams for their whole year and they

don't really see any growth or success

or they're not making any money from it

maybe it's because they're a bad

streamer

maybe that's maybe maybe it's actually

just the simplest answer maybe they're

just bad at what they're doing

that's all it comes down to

and it's not the thing is like that

doesn't mean you shouldn't be a streamer

like it means you need to understand

like what you're doing wrong

actively realize that

and then change it

you see what i'm saying

yeah like that's it's good to know that

you're not you're not doing well

apparently strong in washington want to

drop out well i felt my family down it's

toxic man no i don't drop out just

finished the degree

in 20 years or 30 years you'll be glad

that you finished the degree you

probably have nothing else going on man

like just finish the [ __ ] degree man

yeah just finish the degree you'll be

you'll be glad you did it in 15 years

you'll be glad that you took the easy

way out for the next 15 days

maybe a year and a half

like if you've got some you know some

other like [ __ ] hustle that you're

doing and it's doing really well like i

i quit uh you know i quit because of uh

what do you call them youtube right

like then i it's a completely different

thing

and i was only like

uh [ __ ] like

like six classes away like 12 credits or

something like that i don't remember

i was pretty much there

such a saturated field right now you can

be a good streamer not getting audiences

literally thousands other people doing

the same thing people don't scroll down

to zero viewer andy's

there's going to be someone who's

popular

in two years from now

and the reason why he's popular is

because he doesn't agree with you

and that's not going to be you

yeah yeah that there's going to be a guy

and he he came up

and you know he started streaming

and he popped off and

that's going to be it one out of how

many

um

thousands

and if you're not working as hard as you

can you're going to be one of the people

that didn't make it

you don't have to be one out of a

thousand with everything you just have

to be one out of a thousand with

something

yeah there's always room for one more

yeah exactly

it's harder and harder to pop off with

every passing year no it's not

not for the people that pop off it's not

yeah it's like also success exists on a

success exists on a spectrum

it's not like the only two like you can

only be

uh you know a [ __ ]

like 100k andy you can only have 20 000

subs or two subs there are a lot of

people who

have

three thousand subscribers they have an

active viewer base of one to two

thousand people and they make six

figures

you don't have to be me

you don't have to be a big streamer

yeah you can still be successful you

don't have to be number

number one number two number five number

20.

you can be number 375 you can be under

3075.

you probably still be doing all right

it's in the documentary 200 meals no i

haven't seen it

it's a self-defeating mindset yeah it is

is there anything you shouldn't do

whenever you start streaming

uh there's a lot of things but like i

don't really know i would really list

out

it's hard for me really to say

still a ridiculously small portion of

streamers yeah and if you think about it

and that perspective

then you're gonna not be part of it

yeah don't say the n word

can people view streaming as easy sure

card don't get everyone isn't made for

it etc no of course not right and that's

what i said about andrew callahan

whenever i was watching a documentary

about him how people don't ever see the

grind that somebody does they only see

the end product

sort of psychological [ __ ] this

disregarding the material reality of

things

uh i don't know if that's for her

against what i'm saying

yeah i'm not sure

people assume a big streamer always had

it easy

well of course they do because if they

don't then

the thing is here's why people assume

that stuff

it's because if they can assume that it

rationalizes in their mind why they're

not in that same position

that's the reason

uh we're society results not the

progress of the result yeah nobody gives

a [ __ ] about how hard you work oh i work

so hard who cares

if what you do sucks who cares how hard

you were

oh man i'm trying so hard nobody cares

how hard you try

it doesn't matter to me at all

uh remember someone told me a way to get

people to find you appealing is be

knowledgeable about something and also

be passionate about it oh yeah it works

for sure absolutely

no clip documentary touches this topic

you still want to watch it

yeah um i think that i'll probably watch

it a couple of days before i start final

fantasy

do or do not there's no try well

sometimes like for example like i tried

really hard to be good at fbs games and

i wasn't good at them

despite how hard i tried i put in

hundreds of hours like collectively

thousands of hours

i still was not good at them

and i stopped and i put my effort in

something that i was better at naturally

jersey walk with the five get the

community subs i appreciate that

yeah because i i

yeah i just wasn't like i'm okay you

know sure but like that's it

you gave up i did i gave up

and i think sometimes that's the right

decision

stop trying to hammer a nail into a

piece of wood with your head

sometimes you just walk away from the

nail

find something else to do instead

a lot of people want to see uh metal

gear revengeance

uh yeah i mean i thought about doing

that this weekend like we got a lot of

stuff going on it would be really cool

if i could knock that out in a couple of

days but i i am going to do it i think

maybe i'll probably play it

realistically i don't really want to

play it before final fantasy because

i've put it off so many times and i'd

like to just kind of get it started but

i think i might do the metal gear

revengeance in between uh stormblood and

shadowbringers i think that'll be a good

idea

pure case with the focus of the subs

thank you man

people see people uh like tim tatman to

see success don't remember where he

started out with the webcam literally

duct taped on a wall yeah that's soda

soda poppins mod

someone loves to do a thing and he can't

uh he can't but but uh he wants to what

can he do

well you take steps towards that

direction

that's all you gotta do just take steps

towards that direction