![]() ![]() Don’t Allow Fear to Destroy Your Dreams.How do I stop living a life of quiet desperation? They do not have any time to look inwards and are constantly living with anxiety and self-doubts. Basically, what he says is that men are not enjoying their lives. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them.” This comes from the first chapter Economy in Walden. What does Thoreau mean when he says that the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation Is this still true today pg 6 explain? ![]() Quietly desperate lives are frustrated, passive, and apathetic. Quiet desperation is acceptance of–and surrendering to–circumstances. Thoreau’s famous quote - “The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation” - is most frequently used as a reason for following one’s passion and achieving a life which avoids the mediocrity of playing it small and attains to extra-ordinary success. You gotta have discipline – that’s what most people don’t have, those things, most people don’t understand what it’s like to really go for something and to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific.33 What was Thoreau's views of news and the mail? What does most men live a life of quiet desperation mean? That one and a half hours a day that you have to write – god damn – you better be caffeinated and motivated. ![]() MOST MEN LIVE LIVES OF QUIET DESPERATION PLUSWhether it is…if you’re going to try and be an author and you’re working 8 hours a day, plus commuting, plus family responsibilities plus whatever else you have, whatever time that you have, you have to attack like you’re trying to save the world, like you’re trying to save your life, you don’t want to drown. And then you have to have a plan, and you have to spend all your waking hours outside of whatever shit job you do planning your escape, and you have to come to the realization very clearly, that you fucked up – you got yourself stuck, so whatever you’re doing you have to do it like your life depends on it. The way to make that change is you have to put aside enough money to give yourself a window. JR: “Yes, yes you can, but you have to plan it out. You’re selling insurance or some other shit that you care zero about.”ĪJ: “But can people just make that change?” ![]() And the safe path leaves you stuck in ‘quiet desperation’ almost every time. You have to take a path that’s dangerous and most people want to take the safe path. That’s the only way that you ever get where you want to go. “The only way I could be this person now is if I took that chance when I was 21, when I was dead broke and had my cars repossessed and all that stuff. Like, if I as a 51 year old, father of 3, married man, pays taxes, has a house and mortgage and a business and all that jazz, if I had to quit everything now and struggle the way I struggled as a standup comedian – it would never work.” Your options are severely limited the more you gather responsibilities. JR: “Well, the opportunity takes place, usually when you’re young and you have no responsibility. You have your this, you have your that…and that’s where it all comes from.”ĪJ: “Where do you think opportunity plays into that?” You have an apartment to pay for, you have a car you leased, you have a wife that you have to feed, you have a child you have to raise. You’re just in this world where you just can’t wait to run away.”Īnnie Jacobsen: “And how do people get stuck there – how do you think they get stuck there?” Joe Rogan: “That’s Thoreau’s quote – that ‘most men live lives of quiet desperation’ – that’s one of my favorite quotes ever, because it’s true – and I’ve been that guy. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” -Henry David Thoreau There is no play in them, for this comes after work. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. ![]()
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