Why Your Life Feels So Boring (And How to Fix It)

Wake up. Work. Distract. Sleep. Repeat.

This is the routine of the dead. You're not learning, not improving, not changing. You're stagnant. This is what dead people do.

But sadly, this routine occupies 95% of most people's lives. It's boring. The same mundane activities, day in, day out. Nothing exciting. Nothing beautiful. Nothing gives you a sense of "awe".

You collect no new stories. It's like watching a movie for the hundredth time. It was good for the first time, maybe even the second, but now it's just bad. Really bad.

This makes you deficient in an important vitamin. Vitamin life. It numbs the beauty of it. You need novelty, challenge, excitement and wonder. We all do.

Why even live when you're just doing the same thing every day? Isn't it enough to watch the movie once? Why watch it hundreds, hell, even thousands of times? The movie wont change unless you switch the dvd.

But how do we change it? How do we finally life a life worth living and not just the same bad dream every day?

1. Take risks.

Most people think of risks as something bad. Something to avoid. But it's the exact opposite.

Embrace risks. Seek them out. Try to risk more, every day.

You know the guys walking up to a man in a Ferrari and asking "What do you do for a living?". Do they EVER say "Oh I got into a very safe business and worked comfortably." NO. They always talk about some insane risk they took, some bold move they made, some stupid thing that worked out.

High risk = high reward. Risk-taking is life on steroids. The institute of broscienceology says that risks increase your testosterone by 200%.

Let's look at it this way: You take big risk. Either you fail, or you succeed. Success → Good. Fail → Also good.

When you fail, you get a good story to tell your grandchildren one day. Failing is the best way to learn and grow even more. Fail as much as you can. Loose everything. Doesn’t matter. Rock bottom is a fucking trampoline. In any case, you win.

Taking risks raises the stakes, which will make it far more likely to actually succeed at something than not having anything to worry about. Burn the ships. Take the risk.

2. Go on adventures

Most people never have adventures. They don't create memories or stories to tell. They never experience the feeling of driving full speed into the unknown. The feeling of: "Now it counts."

Adventures are a great way to:

• See the world

• Make memories

• Meet new people

• Experience something new

• Get away from everyday stress

Pack a backpack, go into the mountains, hike up one, set up a camp, cook over a campfire and sleep under the stars.

Buy a train or bus ticket to a new country and travel for 2-4 weeks with just your backpack and no plan.

Are you gonna tell your grandchildren about how you worked at your job every day? Or rather about how you traveled to foreign countries without money, escaped snow storms in the mountains and smoked a cigar with an old mountain man with a big white beard who hasn't seen a person in weeks?

Go on adventures. And the less things you take with you the better it gets.

3. New people, new places, new things

Everyone these days sees the same places, the same people and the same things each and every day.

Think about it: When have you last explored a new part of where you live? When have you gone into a new café you've never been to?

This seems small but it's what humans need. Humans always seek novelty. New places, new people, new things.

We all have this desire for novelty, but most fulfill this desire with their phones. A new video, a new trend, a new funny meme or some new drama. They fulfill their desire for novelty through the internet.

This obviously isn't the way to go. We're supposed to fulfill this desire by doing real shit in the real world.

Go explore. Go meet new people. Go to a new country. Just see new things.

4. Random competition

Competition is the number one driver of testosterone, which is why the majority of men today of disturbingly low testosterone. Competition is not only good for your testosterone levels but also for:

• Having fun

• Making leaps of progress

• Bringing excitement into life

• Building bonds with other men

You should have competition as often as possible. This could be anything: Sprint races, armwrestling, boxing match, playing chess, car races and so on. It doesn't really matter.

5. Side-quest maxxing

If you aren't familiar with the term side-quest, it's basically a task or something small to do, that mixes up your everyday life.

Have more mini-adventures basically.

Last week, my grandma called me. She travelled to Italy with a bus, but the driver accidentally left her luggage outside of the bus. So there she was in Italy with nothing but the things she was wearing. I went to the place the bus started and asked for her luggage. They luckily had it and we send it with the next bus to her.

Something that in the moment seemed a bit annoying to me actually pulled me out of my routine in a good way.

I think spontaneous things like side-quests are God trying to show you a different path or new opportunities. You can't see that when you're doing the same thing every day.

Now you've got the steps to make life more exciting and fun and become a more interesting person along the way.

Obviously, routines are necessary when you want to make lots of progress in a certain part of your life, but you shouldn't grind your precious time away in a routine.

This first and foremost is a letter to myself, because I always find myself back in the same routine. These are the steps I have taken and will continue taking to make life exciting.

It's not that hard. Life comes from living. When your not living, you aren't alive.

Few.

Stay on the search for the truth,

F.S.

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