2022-09-08 How to Become a Loser

Lack of worldly success doesn’t make you a loser. Being broke doesn’t make you a loser. Not having an ultimate-life passion doesn’t make you one either.

Nor does being out of shape, watching Netflix, playing video games, watching porn, binging reality TV, smoking piles of weed, getting drunk, or any number of vices a loser typically engages in.

It’s not what you do, but how and why you do it.

You’re a loser if you do a few things simultaneously:

• You don’t work on yourself
• You cause unnecessary preventable harm to yourself mentally and physically
• The most important part — you take no responsibility for it, have no plans to change, and blame others for your problems

The last bullet point irks me and makes me label people as losers. If you want to ruin your life, that’s fine. If you want to engage in counterproductive activities, cool.

But don’t complain either. And don’t make it my problem that you’re fucking up your life. I worked at my craft for nearly a decade and went through tons of psychological pain to earn what’s mine. It doesn’t belong to you.

“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” — Thomas Sowell

Thought you didn’t like capitalism anyway, so why are you counting my pockets?

The moment you start acting as if something else aside from your own behaviors is causing you to fail, you’re a loser.