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How have you changed in the last 5 years?

9360 sats \ 56 comments \ @k00b 17 Sep 2023 meta

I spent some of this morning stalking a few old friends on social. Part of what struck me was how little most of them (and how significantly some of them) have changed. It's like people vary in the ability to self-edit.

Have you changed in the last 5 years?

How? Any thoughts as to why you changed?

Do you have any plans for how you'd like to change in the next 5 years?

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1622 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 17 Sep 2023

Removed myself (and my stack) from an abusive relationship.

Reconnected with family and old friends.

Got introduced today to a friend of a friend as "the least judgemental person you'll ever meet". Made me ckoke up more than I was prepared for.

1617 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 17 Sep 2023

I did the stalking at old friends thing last week, many of them are either married or even have kids, yet I am still exploring. Sometimes, I would doubt if I am doing the right thing? But at least I am growing, and I have changed a lot in the last 5 years:

from a tech noob to be able to make my own sites
from an average English speaker to creating content in English
from wanting to acquire/conquer outside things to wanting to master myself
from working in trad fi to seeing through fiat scams, then became a Bitcoiner
from a spoiled city girl to striving to be self-sufficient

Any thoughts as to why you changed?

I feel when I sensed something wrong in the direction I was heading, I often felt unhappy inside, and then somehow, I would meet someone to guide or influence me in a better direction, and then I would keep trying.

Do you have any plans for how you'd like to change in the next 5 years?

No plans, but I would focus on doing more of the things that bring me joy and peace.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 18 Sep 2023

Nice to see, hope you the best.

1273 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 17 Sep 2023

I feel like throughout my life about every 5 years or so I've experienced an intellectual puberty (an awkward and uncomfortable period of change). I can also sense "me" converging on a certain self as I age yet I do hope to maintain self-disruptive plasticity.

This last 5 years were marked by a significant shift in intellectual patience, needing certainly less and even preferring to grapple with things I don't understand. I've meaningfully reduced, seemingly, the rush to conclusion ... which seems to allow evidence to accumulate before decision making.

I've also begun to accept sacrifice as a payment for progress as I've run out of trivial things to sacrifice. I would normally hoard all that I found sacred but I've learned that traveling lighter might help me get farther faster.

I mostly just hope to continue to get better at the things I care about over the next 5 years. I wish I knew what that looked like but historically I don't.

1689 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw 17 Sep 2023

I’ve also experienced the 5 year pivots. It almost feels like a natural cycle some of us go through.

Most of my pivots have been defined by external achievements and changes in environment. I hope the next will be more defined by internal growth, success and the same for those I surround myself with.

This last 5 years has seen me become:

More creative in my career & technical pursuits
More thoughtful & spiritual - seeking more knowledge & perspective
More aware and at peace with the ills of the world
More conscious of legacy
More focused on community
Located somewhere that brings me peace & supports the above

The prior 5 years I was ignoring and sabotaging many areas of myself, prioritising others. I feel wiser for it and calm about whatever twist awaits in these next 5.

918 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 17 Sep 2023

Have you changed in the last 5 years?

Oh yeah, a lot.

How? Any thoughts as to why you changed?

I discovered the biggest lie of the whole humanity: how people are enslaved, without even know it. That changed me forever. And I became fearless. Fear of unknown is the biggest threat to humans.

Do you have any plans for how you'd like to change in the next 5 years?

Yes, to be a better man, helping others with my knowledge and live in peace in my humble citadel. I do not want anything more from my life. Once my citadel will be ready... I am ready to go too. My mission on this planet will be done. And I will have peace.

854 sats \ 4 replies \ @Car 17 Sep 2023

Gosh if I am being honest with myself I feel I have changed more in the past 5 months than in any other point in my life.

But yes totally different guy than in 2018.

Hopefully both are for the better.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 18 Sep 2023

How though?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 18 Sep 2023

check out my orange flow series on: https://www.thrillerbitcoin.com/tag/sunday-orange-flow/

I have chronicled it thoroughly.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 17 Sep 2023

It’s been really cool to see!

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 18 Sep 2023

This is heart warming

1377 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 18 Sep 2023

I became a parent in the past 5 years. It's hard to describe how profoundly that changes you. It's a whole new existence.

210 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 18 Sep 2023

I feel the exact same way. Except that you are more succinct than me lol

1633 sats \ 0 replies \ @tom335 17 Sep 2023

That's a hard one. I feel like a chameleon which changes everytime. Ok, we have deep roots that couldn't change easily, like personality and stuff. But I do my best to keep moving.

But five years is a lot of time. You can do whatever you mind, it's time for learning a new profession, or switch to another country, learn 2, 3 languages at once, more if you're a beast.

For me particularly, the last 5 years were a proof of humiliation, not complaining at all. I'm pretty sure that lessons must be like this, even if we think we don't need it. I thought I was humble and easy-going, but I'm not. I learned a lot about myself.

True knowledge tend to be deep, it's not "passive", you must think about it. You must dig deeper, and when you thing it's done, go beyond, go even deeper.

After some nice years, contrary to so many positive feedbacks I had on my career, I saw everything going down. Not sure why and how, just saw it. Things start to happen fast and unfortunately you notice that is too late to act upon it.

I also figured how our work is strongly attached to our personal lives; much because of that, my relationship also ended. And many other things followed then.

Now, I'm building everything from the ashes. But it feels like another life is possible. Many positive things came from chaos. I discovered spirituallity again, and improved self-criticism to a wealthier level.

I started to recover my steem and desire to work and learn again. Lost 44 pounds after getting back to running, and many other things.

Five years, it's an entire life guys. Never quit. Never forget what you've learned. Keep going.

1633 sats \ 0 replies \ @danieltapa 17 Sep 2023

I was anxious to sell my 2 years old startup and make some money.

Today i don't care that much if my 7 years old company will be bought someday or not, the project grew slow and solid, i can get honest returns with it, plus i started to see many other positive aspects of beeing part of long-lasting projects. I also can manage to work part-time in new stuff. My view on entrepreneurship changed a lot.

aaaand i was orange-pilled 2 years ago wich is obviously a huge change!

374 sats \ 1 reply \ @aoeu 18 Sep 2023

5 years ago I was all about the dividend investing and other traditional investments. I still see value in stock investing and particularly in investing in start-up companies, but I now base all my investments on how it would compare to just buying bitcoin. 99% of the time, the answer is don't buy that stock and instead but the money into bitcoin.

I can't wait for the day when bitcoin becomes legal tender in more places. It will finally get humanity off the fiat hamster-wheel and we will be able to finally be able to save, plan for long-term, and get back to celebrating life with family and friends.

Living with fiat, even in the US and Europe with relatively low inflation, we still are being forced into working longer hours, taking second jobs, or doing jobs in fields that we don't love in order to make ends meet.

My mentality now is bitcoin first. A change from 5 years ago.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 18 Sep 2023

The inflation is low until we look at how the inflation is calculated and how quality of life deteriorates. The dollar has lost 84% of its purchasing power from 1949 to 1995. In old movies like The Grapes of Wrath (1940), I could be wrong but I think even with a cent the protagonists were buying food. In The Wrong Man (1956) same thing, the amount of money used to go to the dentist was not in par with nowadays. The most striking example I have heard was with the Japanese currency. 100 JPY to go from Manchuria to Kobe by boat after the Second World War (numbers I got from an interview with Mifune Toshiro, an actor). Nowadays 100 JPY is worth less than $1.

689 sats \ 1 reply \ @Zepasta 17 Sep 2023

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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 17 Sep 2023

Congrats! Those all sound like YUGE and good changes

307 sats \ 2 replies \ @orthwyrm 18 Sep 2023

Around 4 years ago I met the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with. I think being in a serious relationship has done wonders for me really, and many of the insecurities that came with early adulthood seem to have washed away.

There have been other things that have influenced me for the better, Bitcoin among them, but that's probably the biggest.

60 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 18 Sep 2023

Congratulations!

210 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 18 Sep 2023

Likewise. :)

544 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 18 Sep 2023

I'm quite different, I would say I'm living a completely different life every 6 years or so.

Attention is really the key here.

What you pay attention to defines your thoughts, which defines your actions, which defines your life.

I've been paying attention to different things over the years.

It helps to not follow mainstream media, so that you can choose exactly what you want to pay attention to, instead of just being fed what somebody else wants you to pay attention to now.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 18 Sep 2023

I totally agree. Brave values time with their cryptocurrency, I try to value my attention in terms of books. Like how much less I will be able to read if I read or listen to this shitty story/video. From there, I think Twitter and other similar platforms could be well worth 100 books for negligeable returns (which means it is too expensive to look at).

544 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 18 Sep 2023

In the last five years I became kind of a big deal in a certain community, then, for reasons larger than myself and out of my control, became 'nobody' again.

In the fallout, it was remarkable how much I had grown acclimated to playing my role, how my identity had slowly grown around it, like a vine creeping up a brick wall, sending tendrils into the cracks. Was humbling to have the vine burn up, the wall crumble. Brought some things into perspective.

Now, it's very easy to look around and see the same thing everywhere. So many people investing so much of themselves in presentation management. Into their 'brand.' Only a psychopath doesn't care what other people think, but there's a lot of room to curate the set of people whose opinions matter, and why.

Next 5 years: be a 10x maker, prolific, creative. Keep getting better at seeing the world as it is and not just what I want to see.

531 sats \ 0 replies \ @rleed 18 Sep 2023

Definitely changed. Not sure I want to itemize how...I'm curious how one's own answer would compare vs. the observations of others. As to why I've changed, partly I guess because of the realization that I'm getting older, part by Bitcoin, part by other factors. In the next 5 years I'd like to become more other-centered.

531 sats \ 0 replies \ @sb 18 Sep 2023

There were plenty of times where I was sure I was right and turns out I was dead wrong. I've learned to assume that I don't have all the information I need to be correct now. It's helped me take a step back, reduce my stress levels and stay detached from my political positions

531 sats \ 0 replies \ @JoeNakamoto 18 Sep 2023

2018 me was very lost.

Would be nice to grab him by the scruff of the neck and be like “mate, life can always get worse but it can also get a lot better.”

531 sats \ 0 replies \ @Ge 17 Sep 2023

Looking back I started to change 5 years ago becoming more aware of what's really going on in the world and focused more on becoming a producer rather than a consumer falling down the bitcoin rabbit hole on a mission to build infrastructure in my city and make others around me great excited to see what these next 5 years bring as I continue to build and grow

531 sats \ 6 replies \ @justBrian 17 Sep 2023

I found bitcoin and realized progressive politics in practice is a farce.

293 sats \ 3 replies \ @aoeu 18 Sep 2023

Did you read The Progressive's Case for Bitcoin? It is on my shelf of things to read, not because I'm liberal but because I think it will be good for myself to better understand how they think and be able to address concerns that they have.

I was wearing a bitcoin hat while hiking last spring and one guy asked me what I thought of the price of bitcoin (I told him that this is a great time to buy) and his wife told me that her grandson told her that she should buy eth instead because it uses much less energy. I didn't have the time or energy to talk sense to her, but I feel that it is that kind of FUD that the more liberal people drink up and believe.

31 sats \ 2 replies \ @justBrian 18 Sep 2023

I have read it. Its OK, the energy chapter is good for dispelling energy fud to progressives.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @aoeu 18 Sep 2023

Yeah, I feel that a lot of the FUD around bitcoin's energy use, which was a huge talking point for the eth and POS people, has already started to be toned down. I think the narrative around it is changing for the better. I don't think the book had much to do with it, but might still be helpful in convincing the more hardcore environmental people.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justBrian 18 Sep 2023

Ya, it could help a few independent thinkers get over the hump 🤙

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 17 Sep 2023

That's a pretty big flip!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justBrian 17 Sep 2023

Ya, thanks :)

242 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 18 Sep 2023

My boy is now 4 years old, so this means that I wasn’t a father yet five years ago.

Oh I have changed so much in these five years. I didn’t use to care all that much about money because I considered myself a free-spirited person who could make do with less and stretch my dollar by being resourceful. But the birth of my son made me gulp - I could no longer live the way I did. I don’t aspire to give him all that he wants because I think children born with a silver spoon are likely to not hone their fighting spirit but I don’t want him to suffer unnecessarily either.

That’s how I actually got into Bitcoin. I was quite skeptical about it honestly but because I believed that it would grow in prominence in time to come, I felt compelled to buckle my shoes and learn about it so that I could show my boy the ropes one day. I can’t wait to set up his cold wallet for him!

Five years from now, I hope to establish myself as a credible and unique writer who can deliver BTC pressing issues and trending developments. I don’t think that I am that talented like Vitalik Buterin (who was the editor in chief of Bitcoin Magazine) but hey the pie is big enough for all of us. xP

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 18 Sep 2023

What kind of writings do you do?

119 sats \ 2 replies \ @fm 18 Sep 2023

People who change too much seam lost. If you are tuned to your inner self, you just make small changes. i changed my sat balance a lot :p

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 18 Sep 2023

People who change too much seam lost.

It probably does seem that way from the outside.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoinisawesome 18 Sep 2023

and seemingly the only way you can really see the seam is from the inside. We must look inward.

119 sats \ 0 replies \ @kenn_b 18 Sep 2023

hehe, yes: balder more chubby more wrinkles gloomier outlook on the world and have more bitcoin :)

139 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiracDelta 17 Sep 2023

Me 5 years ago: bitcoin fixes everything, fiat will hit 0 relatively soon.

Me now: bitcoin fixes everything, fiat will hit 0 relatively soon... aaaaaaand shits even more unimaginably fucked up, plus a great many bitcoiners are astonishingly retarded so the true start of civilization may lag behind hyperbitcoinization by many decades.

196 sats \ 3 replies \ @TheWildHustle 17 Sep 2023

5 years ago, all I cared about was sex drugs and rock and roll........

115 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 17 Sep 2023

just add bitcoin to that and you are good to go, no worry. Smile, tomorrow will be worse.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 17 Sep 2023

Sounds like a blast! But makes sense it got old

1603 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 17 Sep 2023

Its more like, bitcoin hit me in the face. Most people around me are primarily focused on partying, drugs, video games, bread and circuses etc.

Got together with some friends not too long ago, and they were dumfounded when I told them I dont play video games do coke or keep up with the NBA season......

114 sats \ 0 replies \ @m00ninite 17 Sep 2023

I change every 5 years. So far, anyway. Change is good.

Occasional psychedelic trips keep my mind malleable and ready for introspection. I really don't generally enjoy them, but about once a year, I give it another go to "re-enter" and reflect. It's more medicine than a fun time. For me, anyway.

104 sats \ 0 replies \ @21e6 17 Sep 2023

So much changes in life. I’ve escaped from fiat world, sold some properties, cars, small business and totally all in bitcoin. I really look broke from outside and almost no friends.

104 sats \ 0 replies \ @saltykate 17 Sep 2023

Same at core…but saltier! Had to do a fair bit of social pruning of folks that were not aligned with my values - very thankful that response to the plague laid bare the kinds of prople I will share my time

104 sats \ 0 replies \ @knorozov 17 Sep 2023

For me it was more a confirmation that previous changes I made were correct.

104 sats \ 0 replies \ @teodor 17 Sep 2023

I didn't change very much, but I did exchange a lot of sats! :))

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @lightwalker 18 Sep 2023

From zero Bitcoin knowledge to Bitcoiner From crypto and fiat scams, to complete freedom in Bitcoin and eventually a Bitcoiner From censored and restrictive social media to freedom of speech in Nostr From being dependent on centralized systems, to being independent and focused. Thanks for Satoshi and Fiatjaf

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @phygit 17 Sep 2023

I got 5 years older.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 17 Sep 2023

I don't mean to imply it's either good or bad to change. I'd guess we all change regardless and pretty much all of the good ways we change probably aren't detectible on social media.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 18 Sep 2023

Before the corona virus I was watching YouTube and was looking briefly at the headline of news. At 60 years old I thought I would retire thanks to the welfare state (I am not joking). After the corona virus, 180° change. Now I understand better why Jews who lived the second world war just make Jew friends.