Guide 8: The Reason (10,000 Hour Theory)

Guide 8: The Reason (10,000 Hour Theory)

by neverforget_3118 days

I have some really great topics lined up for this week that will require a little research but I’d like to start off with my compelling reasons to stop the PMO cycle not only for 90 days but for life. I often see people try to beat around this addiction & wonder “When can I or can I ever start PMOing again.” Now we’ve already talked about why you shouldn’t because of the pathway of addiction that has been created for life in your brain, but if here is another compelling reason for you.

  • 10,000 Hour Theory: A study was done by Anders Ericsson to find a common denominator amongst people who reached high levels of performance in their field. (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, The Beatles, Famous Athletes, Beethoven, Issac Newton, Ray Thomas, ext.) What he found was that all of these people that have achieved greatness had committed an average of 10,000 hours into their field starting at an early age, none of these examples started off experts in their field, in fact a lot of them were considered failures (Issac Newton, Beethoven, Walt Disney, Michael Jordan, Steve Jobs, ext.) But despite their failures they continually persisted their goals & invested hour upon hour of grinding to achieve what they were born to do.
  • The Breakdown: 10,000 hours can be broken down into 2 hours a day for 15 years. Now I haven’t done an actual study but for myself & what I tend to see on post is that most people have been addicted to PMO for about 10-20 years. Do you see were I am getting at with this? To put it simple we have all most likely invested 10,000 hours (more or less) in becoming a PMO Master if you will. Think about that for a second, think of your dream job or dream profession whether you actually realistically ever conceived that it was something you could actually do. Now of course their is other factors like proper habits, & “deliberate practice” that account for level of expertise certain people reach but that doesn’t change the fact that their is a certain amount of hours one must invest to achieve greatness. While we practically jerked ourselves out of extinction, there were people no different than us achieving greatness with that time.
  • Defense Mechanism: Please don’t bother playing the victim or offended “card” & begin talking about what you have gone through or how you weren’t born with the necessary “advantages”. Take the time to really read the background stories of people who achieved greatness, see that they are no different then you, that they too have been born into disadvantaged backgrounds, that they too have risen from abusive families, that they too had lived lives no different then that of you, your friends, or your loved ones. There is no excuse to not live to your full potential my friend, it is your responsibility as someone who has the privilege of good health & a working body & a functioning mind to use them to their full potential because there are a lot of people out their who aren’t so fortunate. So often we focus on what we don’t have that we don’t realize everything we do have.

Please forgive for the lack of sunshine & flowers, but I am trying to ingrain a compelling reason, heavy shit if you will, to not only beat any and all addictions but to live like you were meant to live. Why not see what you are capable of, because I believe that you have much more potential then you could ever imagine. Scratch that, I KNOW that you can do more much more then you had planned.

  • The Point: Now the point of this isn’t to pile some more regret on how we’ve spent the past decade, life is a journey & that past decade has lead you here & if you are here then you are ready to change and grow. do not dwell on what you haven’t done but instead focus on what you outta begin to do. Let’s not feel remorse for what we could’ve done with those 10,000 hours of PMO but what we will be able to do with those extra 10,000 hours we will have from never PMOing again!

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble & the sculptor. -Alexis Carrel

  • What about my Needs? You can masturbate in the future that isn’t the problem, but lets be honest I doubt you’ve ever spent two hours simply masturbating, that must get boring & if you have that kind of patience you really do have potential my friend. Though when your living YOUR LIFE you wont feel the need to masturbate, you’ll be to busy being awesome, giving back & being a loving partner to your significant other or future significant other. You won’t find your SO in your pants you’ll find her by living.
  • Get to it: I want you to write down all the things you have ever dreamed of doing, choose a couple or the most meaningful goal that you thought of & begin to spend your next 10,000 hours making that dream a reality. I don’t care how old your are, how much money you have, what shape your in, just begin & keep going because there is nothing inside of your that make you different from anyone else who has achieved greatness the only difference is your *Mindset. So get to it my friend.

Remember, we my friends can make our wildest dreams a reality.