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>So, you're not even treading water?
Come on man, this is an extremely lazy reply. Or you have a magical solution that will literary stop your brain from dying?
>That's a meaningless statement.
No, it's not, it's supposed to force you to make a case for conversations being productive, by presenting and/or explaining your case.
>Depends on the content of the conversation, who you're talking to
For your presented example
>like talking to anons about vidya
my assertion for conversation being absolutely unproductive and almost meaningless was reasonable. Thus I'm also making an argument that anything else, that is at least within my reach is also meaningless.
Now, interactions, use of connections can be positive, but that doesn't require much social ability, but a mindset for squeezing profit out of things, which doesn't come from a simple act of social interaction.
>playing more video games will not level up your personality/charisma/awareness beyond what you can achieve from having more conversations
1. If we assume that vidya does rise your problem solving ability, then it does influence anything that requires problem detecting and problem solving, including leveling up of personal characteristics that would make a bigger points gain from less interactions.
2. Multiplayer interaction, be it strategical cooperation or just getting absolutely wasted online. You can include videogame conversation into it too!
3. Personality/charisma/awareness may not be the desired values one wants or needs to rise, be it because there is literary no demand or for example because they are high enough from initial stat distribution.
>No event in life is sure
>that's a certainty
If you can't be sure, how can anything be a certainty 🤔
>if you are not pursuing the most you believe yourself to be capable of then you are trading what you want most for what you want now
My argument flew completely over your head it seems.
What if what you'd persuade yourself to strive for now is fucking retarded, be it because you have poor judgment abilities or because you didn't get to know yourself enough? Or maybe because it's completely undesirable in the world outside of your head and pursue of that goal would crush you and make you completely miserable? It's obviously more profitable to wither away infront of your PC than, after, for example, religiously pursuing for social self realization goal being cucked to the point where you die from an STD and leave nothing but your property inherited to your wife's child.
Your statements hold truth only if a person isn't retarded, he knows his goals and those goals are realistically possible for the said person, the combination of which is rarely the case. Plus it relies on assumption, that complete failure in reaching your goal is redeemed by the mere fact of trying, which is obvious to be wrong, but is required to be taken as granted to make one force himself to risk.
>…is definitely a waste of time.
With high enough goal your current actions compared to all the opportunities you lose every second are always a waste of time.
I'm no defeatist, but if you can't beat the person in conversation on his own logic or feeling terms(especially if they are nuanced and overall cancel anything into 0), then it's pointless trying to communicate anything. You could try finding objective truths, but how would you do so when everything is subjective? That's where my core argument prevails: anything that you do is justified by what your own feeling and judgment tells you. Meaning that you can't just tell someone they are living wrong because so and so, but you can do so believing, feeling that you are justified to do so, which let's them a reason to dismiss your claims, since they feel their own way.