How much sleep do you guys get?

Depends.

During the winter months in Ohio, I'll just go to bed at 8:00. Full on hibernation.

I think I've slept like 8 hours total since Saturday right now though and it's 1:00 AM. If I sleep at all it'll be like 3 hours tonight because I want to lift.

You know what would really help you out though?

You need to read some good autobiographies. Richard Branson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nelson Mandela, Che Guevara. Not the academics or politicians, the people who have actually gone out and done shit in their life. People who have overcome many many obstacles and tackled adversity head on.

It'll really just put shit into perspective as far as the small discipline issues that you have, it's kind of hard to whine about AA when you hear about how Arnold completed military boot-camp, and on top of that he sacrificed 2-3 hours of sleep a night to lift more to achieve his goals.

Also, if you're under 5'10 you want to be eating everything you can and sleeping as much as you possibly can.

Oh and another thing. Make sure your interactions are fun and positive. I've always came from the frame of trying to create mentors for myself, and giving people who deserve it respect and learning what I can from them. Quick to compliment, genuinely interested in your life story. As I age, it's a very conceited thing to say but I really just feel like I've outgrown my quiet suburban community. Talk is just cheap as fuck, nobody has anything informative to say that I haven't heard a million times, everyone has some sob story about why they didn't achieve what they wanted to, and it's always followed by some unrealistic, un-reality checked goal with no accountability or strategic approach to getting shit done. I'm just at the point where I don't even want to hear your bullshit anymore. Stop coming to me with your negative point of view, complaining or having some delusional self-serving biased story that's obviously bullshit. I took some adderall today and that shit was so hard man, I almost told people to fuck off countless times today. I'm sure this will all go away when I hit college, but talking to people my age about anything other than in a way that I'm having fun is just intolerable at this point in my life. There's not a lot of like-minded people to bond with.

Stop looking to your environment to give you permission to have fun. Look no further than your own self-amusement as far as your standards of what to do and say. Keep conversation light, stay away from logic, and just have a good time. I'm sure you'll open up more when you've got some girls giggling at you and people are enjoying themselves. Esoteric ideas I know, but once they resonate it really just opens you up to a whole new level.

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