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oh yea, I forgot that we never heard what it was.

it probably involves tons of cocaine, or selling your body parts or some shit.

Cool Mod: What I’m about to explain might sound a little wiggly, but I’ve attempted to solidify the concepts with as much science as I can muster. So without further ado…

THE ENGINE: A TECHNIQUE TO SUPERCONDUCT YOUR PARADIGM.

 Part 1: Your brain is a gay little bitch.

 It’s true. I bet you’ve sat around and felt like a useless piece of shit more than once in your life. The reason for this is that every fiber of your being hates you, and wants you to fail. Fear of failure can stop you from starting something, and even fear of success (change) is scary on some subconscious level. Here’s a list of thoughts that have derailed me from approaching a task:

• I dont want to do it
  
• I’m kind of tired but not tired enough to sleep but too tired to do it
• I feel hot and squirmy for no reason
• I’ll do it later
• Is my cat in the dishwasher?
• Currently irrelevant future happenings
• I need closure on that dumb predictable anime show I started watching
• What’s the point?
• Is my cat in the dishwasher?
• I already finished something today, I’ll take the day off.
• Don’t want to hurt myself. (More on this later)
• Is my cat in the dishwasher?
• My shoes hurt!

So by now you’ve probably said, “Yes that sounds like me.” And it is you, if it isn’t you it’s just me. But for the sake of argument it’s you. Very few people are born firing on all cylinders. If you’re one of those nazi supermen you can just fuck right the fuck off.

Part 2: It always starts hard.

They say building habits makes it easier over time? No. That’s not correct. It makes you better at a task, yes. But it does not make that task easier to start or stick with. Your brain congeals every night when you go to sleep and sets you back at motivation level zero. It wants nothing to do with anything unless it’s personally interested (inspired), and that never lasts long.

 In my experience, I can say that the difficulty of maintaining good habits will actually INCREASE as you learn new things, and give your subconscious mind more ammunition that it can twist into devious methods for work stoppage. Because it’s a faggot and it doesn’t want to work. It wants to watch anime.

Realizing that you’re not ever magically going to come out of your shell and suddenly become endlessly productive is the first step to acknowledge. You, by default, are hard wired to be a fat lazy fat fucking fat failure.

Part 3: The trick to it…

…is not that you have to motivate yourself, your conscious acknowledgement of want should be motivation enough, that’s the idea right? Set your mind to something and get it done?

 You should be able to say “I want to learn Chinese” and the answer from your brain should be something like “Yeah okay why not.” And then you start learning fucking Chinese. See what happened there? My example featured no resistance to the command.

 This is why stupid boring people succeed at their stupid boring people tasks, and creative people fail at everything. Creative people have higher buffers for input and can hold more things actively in their mind at one time. Which means they consider and weigh everything against every other thing (it’s called the process of creation) and boring single minded tasks are quickly treated with disdain and made to feel as painful and unfulfilling as possible. One of the more important creative person impulses is the impulse to conserve energy. And your brain does that through kneecapping all of your endeavors.

 Stupid people on the other hand have a big green button in their minds that says “go” on it and they can slap that button whenever they want to work their way up to being the manager of a box factory. Their capacities are limited but just watch them work themselves to death!

 So the trick to it, is that instead of concentrating on motivating yourself, it’s to eliminate every shred of resistance that your beautiful creative mind idly shits out, so that the act of doing things is no longer painful or obstinate, and you can tear through tasks like a robot tears through the flesh of newborn babies. Unfeeling, and devoid of consideration, like an engine. Engines don’t care. They just go vroom when you stomp on the pedal.

Part 4: Preparation

 Well sit your ass down doing something you like, for example watching an anime. Perhaps a shounen anime, or maybe you’re a shoujo kind of guy like I am. After you’ve sat down and are watching your anime of choice and your brain has turned to mush, realize that your brain isn’t bitching at you at all. It’s happy being worthless and saying things like “uguu” and “itadakimasu”. Right now is where it’s off guard and showing it’s vulnerable red monkey ass to you.

 Now, take a snapshot of your mental state and how you feel, and try to quantify everything you’re thinking about and feeling to the most minute of impulses. (It shouldn’t be much because you’re in the anime zone, which is not heavy on thought.)

 Now immediately get up to do a chore, or a task, or of course most likely, try drawing your own anime so you can one day move to japan and become a famous mangaka. Notice how your UNGRATEFUL CUNT BRAIN twists and writhes and starts throwing a fit almost immediately. Every one of those feelings and thoughts that just sprang up, is allll the shit that you’ve been having to push through every time you’ve ever tried to get started on anything.

 Was this all obvious to you? Really? I bet you never noticed that you suddenly feel more tiiiired when approaching any task that isn’t fun and requires extended amounts of concentration, and the moment you go back to watching your precious animes, you become genki and full of excitement again. These layers and layers of justifications and excuses waiting in the wings, are your traitorous brain working hard to keep you from working hard.

Part 5: Selective Denial

The act of selective denial isn’t uncommon. Liberals do it all the time HA but seriously folks… 

 Selective denial is like gggkk. Anything you don’t like is suddenly pffsssz. Just grab it and blrrggzzhzh. You have to ffzzzk and so all you have left is the shit that helps you do things.

 That’s what selective denial is. Notice how I didn’t use real words because I didn’t want to make you think you’d be dealing with obvious rational constructs. Even if the mental problems sapping your motivation are entirely rational big real world concerns, you can’t treat them that way. If you try and grapple with them they’ll only become a bigger hindrance and they’ll never go away.  Willpower is for masochists who like prolonged battles with issues, and wasting their precious energy.

 The core of the technique is completely denying that these thoughts and feelings exist, and decisively erasing their presence by stripping them of any relevance and power.

 If I can use an SWC relevant analogy: Think about how you as our readers are more resistant to trolling than other readers of other blogs. It’s the same principle. Even if what is said to you is upsetting, you have hopefully learned how to let it blow over you through selective denial. Or how to negate your temper because it’s really the only way, so you thus become untrollable. It really is as simple as simply not acknowledging things that cause you problems.

 The more you do it, the deeper and more abstract the demotivating shit you’ll be able to detect. Some shit is so deep-seeded that it’s nearly invisible to you now. But once you can manage to get your mind around what you’re looking for, you can make it history in all of two seconds with just a little vvvvrrgght.

 Neuroscientifically speaking, memories, habits, feelings, and whatever else that lives in your brain lives solely by acknowledgement. It’s as simple as denying it is worth consideration, denying it even exists. And eventually it disappears. And little thoughts and feelings like the ones that you don’t consciously notice are really quick to suffocate.

 When the technique is executed properly, you can basically flush a toilet in your head and be completely focused and devoid of complaints with your conscious directive ready to party. And just watch with amazement how quickly your brain gets down to business.

 What’s most important is that you don’t care why you’re killing all these innocent subconscious stumbling blocks, you just do it.

Congratulations! You’re now Operating Thetan! You can approach and mindlessly endure any task you set yourself to!

Part 6: The deadly drawback.

For high concentration sensory tasks, such as drawing, which requires eyesight. You need to take breaks and have decompression periods where you watch animes. I need to do lots of looking and seeing and my eyeballs are very important to me. They are like my children, if my children were eyeballs.

 So right after figuring out the “technique”, I was so gonzo about it that I kept pushing myself harder and longer until my eye muscles eventually seized and broke down, and one day I woke up with double-vision that wouldn’t go away for a little over a week.

I hadn’t been taking breaks, twelve hour periods of work time with no blocks of rest, save for sleep, which I wasn’t getting a lot of, because I was being so fucking productive!

 I just so happened to recover okay, but this happened because I got overzealous and started using this newfound magic power to even tune out real fatigue as well as the fake subconscious made up fatigue.

 In reality, you only have so much juice to work with. Be productive in a reasonable regulated schedule, and don’t forget to give yourself plenty of time to watch animes.

 …And as for the name… well… really, YOU’RE the engine.

 It was inside you all along.