Remind Me Later.

Chapter 1

Waiting list.

If you are reading this book, just know that this book is different from other psychology books, as the author of this book is not a psychologist. This book doesn’t mean to be completely serious, I want to make this book a little bit funny. I’ve found that funnier books hook me in while the serious novels make me read one page and then I go to sleep. This book does not strive to give you a completely new understanding to life, but more simply to just share my opinions. As I write this, I want to give you a non-psychological approach to psychology. You do not have to do anything in this book, but I write this book to plant it in your brain for later.

When you try to come up with good ideas, it is like you are on a waiting list. You are stuck listening to the same jazz elevator music on the line while the insurance company holds. If you are a child reading this, maybe it is you waiting to watch the newest video by your favorite creator but an ad for a new agricultural blend of herbs for sale at a random convenience store pops up. Whatever is holding you back from coming up with good ideas, you should find a shortcut. Click the “Skip Ad” button on your video and hear me out.

There are many different ways to find this shortcut. For example, using phrases like for example when stating an example. This is just sticking to the thing you know the most. If you want to come up with a great idea, why not use an idea you’ve already come up with. For me, this means going the easy way around because it is a good idea. If you go the hard way around, you get twists and turns. This was my good idea when I came up with it. I made it my goal to always find the easiest way to do something. This was a very good idea for me. If I would have never had that idea, I would not be writing this book.

I am writing this book out of the pure spite of being bored and having nothing to do. I found that writing a book is the easiest way of getting out of boredom. Most people do not agree with the statement that the easiest way out of boredom is writing a book, but people are different. I see it as a way to express thought, whether it’s in a story, or a play. Writing is one thing I am not good at, but when I do not think, and let my fingers move to write words, it makes several paragraphs.

You coming up with a good idea one day can be the start of a generation. If this book gets published, which if you are reading it, you know the answer, that is my new generation. To conclude this chapter, I’ve always made it my goal to do something that will make me be remembered. The thought of being forgotten is scary.

Chapter 2

What’s their face?

If you are reading this chapter, I now know that you are willing to try to do something with your life. Whether it is something big, or to finish a book report and this was the first book you saw in the library. When we talked about trying to come up with good ideas last chapter, this main idea comes to mind when I think about my good ideas. That is to do something I will be remembered for. If you are reading this book off a shelf in your local town library, then I will be remembered as a writer. If you hear a song I sang on the radio, then I would be remembered as a singer. Being forgotten is scary.

Try to remember the life of the man Thomas Halaway when he became a wealthy coal miner. You probably sit to yourself thinking “Who is Thomas Halaway and how could you ever get wealthy off coal mining?” Well this could have been a real person with a a real life, but nobody knows who he is. If I ask you “Tell me about the life of the famous singer Elvis Presley.”, people could tell me about his style of music and his beautiful guitar and his back story. There are documentaries about the life of Elvis Presley because he did things to make people remember him. People do not make documentaries about Thomas Halaway. With this, I do not say that you are meaningless if you haven’t done anything great with your life, but I am trying to say that you should do something great in your life.

If you don’t want to be famous, do something great that won’t make you popular, but it gives you a historical record. Fred Armisen, a drummer and stand up comedian, once went to a concert in a different country. He watched a guy and had no idea who he was, but everyone cheered for them and clapped for them and loved them. To him, this guy just was a singer. He thought the singer was no one. You do not have to be international known to be famous. You don’t even have to be state known to be famous. As long as your word has spread around to a group of people, you are famous. As long as that group of people, whether big or small, remembers you, you’ve had to have done something great in your life.

To conclude this chapter, I would like to say that this paragraph was written last in this book. Things have been moved, chapters have been replaced, the copy and paste buttons have been severally worn and torn, but this paragraph, a paragraph in the second chapter of this book, is being written last. This also does not include slight edits nor revisions. The fact that I wrote this last doesn’t make sense, but in the next chapter, it will.

Chapter 3

Come Again.

As of writing this chapter, the last chapter of this book was chapter 4. This chapter and every chapter after this until the last chapter did not exist. Just because you cannot think of something at the moment does not mean you cannot ever have the idea that fills in the gaps or revolutionizes the whole idea itself. Coming back to something that is supposedly done is a smart move.

When trying to do something first try in one sitting, most of the time, it goes worse than you would like. You expect to finish something right when you start, not creating realistic boundaries. That is what I expected when I started writing this book. This book has definitely taken more than a day to write and I do not plan on finishing it today. I will not tell you how many days I have been writing this book because if I tell you, you’ll think it should take you how long it’s taken me to get to my point. You need to create realistic boundaries, and when I say realistic, I mean over the top.

For the people who do set realistic boundaries, I salute you. Whenever people set realistic boundaries, they always seem to be more than an actual boundary. If you set a realistic boundry of 6 months and it takes two weeks, you do not have a lot of pride in yourself. Whenever I think realistic boundary, I think that way. I don’t think realistic boundaries as being straight on the point.

To conclude this chapter, I want to say that whenever you are setting boundaries, do not compare yourself with others. Comparing yourself with others is a great way to make sure you lose all motivation in the thing or project you are doing. This is one of the worst ways something can make you quit.

Chapter 4

Better.

When you read the chapter names, you probably think “Oh, this one could be good.” or “What could this mean?” When reading this chapter name, you probably think “That is the most boring name I’ve heard.” I named this chapter “Better.” because that summed it up the best. Even thought my other chapter names are cooler, I thought this would be an easy approach. Other books might have better chapter names, but I don’t let that affect me.

When comparing yourself to others, 90% of the time, you say that there thing is better than yours. I have one thing to say: that is stupid. When I say “that is stupid.”, I don’t mean that their thing isn’t better, I am saying that you even comparing yourself to them is stupid. Comparing yourself to others is one of the worst things to do when you’re trying to finish something or getting better.

In Steal Like an Artist, It says that you should always try to get tips or use other people’s work as inspiration for yours. Let’s say you are trying to get better at writing screenplays. Instead of seeing how much better someone else’s screenplay is to yours, you should use that screenplay for tips. This not applicable to everything, but things where you can use it are harder in this sense. For beginners, you have the tendency to compare yourself to others, but you learn to use other people’s work over time.

To conclude this chapter, I’d like to say that every day, I get up not wanting to get up. All day I want to go to bed again. Then when I go to bed I cannot sleep and want to do things I could have done when it was daytime. You learn to regret wasting your time wanting something, and when you get that something, you want to use the time you had wanting the something you have right now, doing the thing you missed out on. If that didn’t make sense, I don’t blame you, but I will make it make sense next chapter.

Chapter 5

Waiting List 2: Electric Boogaloo.

We spend all day wanting one thing. If we don’t use that time to do the stuff that needs to be done, you wish all day you would have done the stuff that needed to be done once you get the one thing you wanted. We spend every second wanting something. It could be a paid vacation, or the newest car toy. Once we get that, we hear about something we could have done to make the waiting time shorter. Your name on the waiting list will go way up if you make an appointment or call first. What I mean by this is that if you make a plan what you want to do while you want something else, you use your time a lot better. This is the one thing in this book I do not do. You probably ask “Why?”, and my answer is simply “Because I am lazy and a procrastinator.”

It is harder to do things when you are like me, but for me, at random points, I just get the urge to do something while I wait for something else. For me right now, it is this book. My motivation spikes at random times, resulting in me doing things to not waste my time. I know it doesn’t sound like I am trying to make a point, but I am simply just putting it in my point of view. Yesterday, for example, I decided to clean my closet while waiting to leave for Florida. One day, I wrote a song because I was waiting for Easter the next day. Tomorrow, I might tap my fingers on my knees while I wait to get up and go somewhere. These examples are easy ways to occupy time. Did I plan ahead? No, but I did come up with a way to use my time effectively.

If you have watched the famous time travel shows or movies, you know that they always have time. They can get back time or skip it. They can even have time they’ve never had before. As people, we cannot get back time. Time is the most valuable resource in the world. Do not spend all your time in one place. Time is valuable in the sense that we can’t get it back, not as a currency. People do not go to pawn shops saying. “So I have this photograph of Ariana Grande, I’m thinking 8 hours.” It just cannot be done. Me writing this book is wasting time from me eating breakfast or me actually getting out of bed, but it is not wasting my time to do something valuable.

To conclude this chapter, I want to make this book sound like a teacher is teaching it to you. I want this book to be shorter than most psychology books. I don’t want this to be a psychology book. I don’t want to force you to do stuff you do not want to do. This book is not professionally written, as it has a very simple writing style. With this conclusion, I have been completely honest, and I made it very straightforward. For the next and last chapter, I just want to be honest and straightforward.

Chapter 6

Tall Hat.

This book is meant to be suggestive, and if you want to follow anything in this book, do it with pride. The last thing I want to say for this book is that when you are being honest, be straightforward. Make it make sense. When telling the truth, do not say “Well, yea, uh I did teach at Harvard, but it was more like a side job, but I was as a math teacher, but I can’t recall the actual part of math.”, say “I taught at Harvard as a calculus teacher.” Which one is easier to understand.

I hate bragging. Telling people things about your self and making them feel like they are worse than you makes me cringe. This means that when I tell people stuff, I leave out things like “I wrote a book!”, or “I am the best at this thing.” I like to tell people what they want to hear about me. With this, I don’t have to make up a lie that makes me sound better, I just can tell the truth straightforward.

These ending paragraphs will be smaller than the others. This is because I am simply having trouble coming up with ideas. With AI, people just ask it to come up with an idea or write a whole novel about un-psychological psychology, but when asked who did the assignment or who wrote the book, they take the credit. I know it may sound like I used AI to write this book, but I promised you I would not lie. For this next sentence, it will be AI generated to prove a point about me, which is that I am bad at writing.

“However, I strive to improve every day, finding my own voice and telling my own stories.” That sentence was written by AI. It is not like my writing style and is definitely not the grammar I use. “It lacks the raw, unfiltered authenticity I aim to convey.” If you couldn’t tell, that last sentence is also AI. Most people would include that in the text and not tell anyone it wasn’t them who wrote it. I take full credit.

To conclude this chapter and this book, I want to thank you for reading the whole thing. It is definitely a short book, and I’ve said that that is what I want. This shouldn’t be a 200 page book about what type of smoothie you should have in the morning, it should be a quick read you found of the shelf in a library. Maybe this is your book report book, and you had to read this. Maybe you just wanted to have a good, short, un-psychological book to read while you’re on your own waiting list. Just remember, be someone to remember.