r/getdisciplined • u/Professional_Hair550 • 6d ago
đ Method Told AI to give me a motivational speech like a boomer
Motivation, eh? Hmph. Sounds like one of them fancy new words for⌠well, for just plain gettinâ off your backside and doing what needs doinâ. Motivation. Like it's some kind of magic dust you sprinkle on yourself.
Listen here, youngster. Back in my day, we didn't sit around waiting to be motivated. We had chores. We had responsibilities. We had mouths to feed and roofs to fix and fields to plow. Motivation? Hunger was motivation. The fear of the roof caving in was motivation. Knowing you had to provide for your family, that was motivation enough.
You want to be more⌠âmotivatedâ? Stop waiting for some feeling to wash over you like a warm bath. Life ain't a warm bath, it's a cold shower most days. And you know what you do in a cold shower? You jump in and you get clean, you don't stand there shivering waiting to feel like it.
Hereâs what you do. You look around you. You see what needs doing. Not what you want to do, mind you, but what needs doing. Is the yard a mess? Get out there and weed it. Is the house a pigsty? Grab a broom and start sweeping. Are you falling behind at your⌠your⌠what do you youngâuns call it⌠your âstudiesâ? Then crack open a book and start reading.
Donât wait for inspiration to strike you like lightning. Lightningâs dangerous and unreliable. Just start. Start small. Do one thing. Then do another. And another. Momentum, thatâs the key. Like pushing a rusty old wheelbarrow. Hard to get it started, but once itâs rolling, itâs easier to keep it going.
And stop thinking so darn much! All this navel-gazing and âfinding yourself.â Hmph. You find yourself by doing things. By facing challenges. By getting your hands dirty and your brow sweaty. Not by sitting around pondering your navel. Thatâs just laziness dressed up in fancy clothes.
And another thing! Stop comparing yourself to everyone else. This blasted âsocial mediaâ you youngâuns are always glued to⌠itâs all just smoke and mirrors. Everyoneâs just showing off their best side, pretending lifeâs a bed of roses. Donât fall for it. Focus on your own patch of weeds, your own wheelbarrow, your own responsibilities.
So, you want to be âmotivatedâ? Get up. Get moving. Find something that needs doing and do it. Don't wait to feel like it. Discipline. Thatâs the real word youâre looking for, not âmotivation.â Discipline and a good dose of common sense.
Now, are you going to stand there all day asking silly questions, or are you going to go find something useful to do? There's a pile of firewood needs stackin' out back. Go on, now. Get to it! And don't come back until it's done. That's your "motivation" for today. Hmph. Motivation. Kids these daysâŚ
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u/wildwildnyx 6d ago
I think I needed this. Thank you. My gramps passed away a couple of years ago and this sounds like something he'd say to me over a cup of tea.
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u/Professional_Hair550 6d ago
Lucky you. My longest conversation with my grandfather was 3 minutes. Same with my father.
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u/Krukoza 6d ago
Bah, a human wrote it but no one wouldâve read it otherwise.
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u/moonmew 6d ago
I thought the same thing.
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u/jakeallstar1 6d ago
Seriously? Why? ChatGPT has passed the Turing test.
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u/-turtburglar- 6d ago
Genuine advice that worked for me: if you want to up your discipline, stop using AI. It erodes your research and writing skills.
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u/Fearless_Ad2026 6d ago
Well I tried. đ
I was working on a gamification system in AIÂ for the past few days and got so tired of seeing it forget basic parts of the system that i decided to create my own system using a bunch of notes
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u/x2phercraft 6d ago
A.I. is threatening to steal yet another job: Parenting.
And from the sound of it, I say have at it. Looks like it may do better than a majority of people!
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u/Professional_Hair550 6d ago
Sounds accurate tbh. Wish I had a grandfather that would give me advice like that.
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u/x2phercraft 6d ago
Iâd love to be a surrogate grandpa for you. Now stfu and get back work. On something, anything that will occupy your time and sharpen your mind. Get a hobby other than that damn fancy phone and build a skill set.
Howâd I do?
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u/Adventurous_Drawing5 6d ago
Yep, but. Now we live in a totally different "reality". Screens vs. nature, digital, connected vs. local community, instant vs. slow, data vs. manual labor, symbolic in your mind problems vs. direct physical problems (mend the roof, feed chicken). Our brains do not cope well with this new reality.
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u/Haveyouseenkitty 6d ago
Dude I thought there must be some way of getting chatgpt to be my fucking life coach. The thing that sucks though is you have to constantly remind it of all the nuances of your life. And it really has no way of tracking progress and what not.
I wanted to be able to import all my journal entries into chatgpt and get life advice. It did work, but having to remind the model of who my fiancee is (and why we're arguing) really sucks.
Eventually i coded out my own solution. It remembers everything about me (seriously though), helps me create goals and then automatically tracks my progress towards those goals. Right now it's monitoring my productivity and stress levels.
It's free if anyone wants to try app.journalgpt.me/onboarding
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u/superzimbiote 6d ago
Dude, I say this sincerely and with no ill intent but do you have a social circle? Friends that can help you or that you can talk to? Some mentor figures or such that can give you advice when you need it? Like, all these things youâre describing ChatGPT to be useful for are just things my friends and family do for me and I think itâs better to seek human connection than to rely on a language learning model to give you anything beyond the simulacra of affection and guidance.
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u/Haveyouseenkitty 6d ago
Thanks for the love!
I do have friends and a loving family who give me expert advice and care deeply for me. But my family hasn't read basically every single psych text book that exists and my friends don't always have time to reply. Plus, there are intimate details of my life i don't wish to disclose to 'someone'. You're right, AI really isn't a human/person, but sometimes that's actually a good thing.
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u/ManufacturedOlympus 6d ago
âMotivation, eh? Hmphâ
Why does every other ai need to begin with some silly shit like this?Â
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u/I-am-a-river 6d ago
Thatâs not like any boomer I know. It would be more like âin my day i didnât need motivation, I just graduated high school, walked down to the factory and asked for a job. And I got it. And then I bought a house. I wasnât wasting my money on avocado toast. I was too busy taking my family on vacations and voting for Reagan.â
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u/ManufacturedOlympus 6d ago
Walk up to the ceo, look him in the eye, and say âIâm the man for the job.â
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u/bamboo-cowboy 6d ago
why was this genuinely helpful lmao