The NEET Commandments (Part Two)
Living With Purpose and Meaning
Note: If you haven't read Part One of the Ten NEET Commandments yet, click here to read it now.
6. Thou Shalt Respect One's Surroundings
In order to live a truly free life, you don't want to be surrounded by mess and squalor.
Regardless of whether you live at home or have your own place, you should strive to have clean and tidy surroundings at all times.
If you spend your whole life in a dirty, messy home, it spikes your cortisol, increases your stress, and mentally taxes you. Beyond the negative impacts, you should also take pride in your surroundings. Spend 10-15 minutes a day doing household chores. Put things in their place so everything is organised and easy to find.
Over time, you will find enjoyment in doing chores. You may have had a bad experience growing up doing chores around the house, and it may take some time to adjust to new habits, but it will become effortless in no time.
Jordan Peterson is right. Clean your room and respect your surroundings. Only good can come from it.
7. Thou Shalt Not Consoom
Most normies and wagies live such boring, uneventful lives that they live vicariously through Netflix series.
There is nothing wrong with watching and enjoying movies, series, games, anime, and other forms of media. Even if they're mainstream and popular.
What becomes a problem is when you're binge-watching an entire season in one sitting, buying merchandise and plastic figurines, arguing with strangers online about fictional characters, and so on.
What's the point of becoming a NEET if you spend your whole life glued to a screen? You're no different than a normie who stares at a screen all day for work, only to come up and spend all their time on Facebook and Netflix.
There is a healthy middle ground which most people never seem to find. Due to the virality of streaming services and social media, which autoplay episodes and reels before your brain can even processed what happens, most normies get oneshotted and end up doomscrolling for hours every day.
If you're spending an abnormal amount of time in front of a screen, it's time to log off. Go for a walk, literally do anything besides sitting on the couch watching Netflix or doomscrolling reels.
You should rarely, if ever, spend any money on merchandise. Pokémon Cards were cool when you were in school. You're now a grown adult. Showing off a giant wall of Pop Figures, trading cards, and comic books isn't cool and never will be.
You can enjoy things without being obsessed. Just like a diet, you need to be careful of what and how much you consume. Always in moderation.
Consumption shouldn't be your default state. Social media algorithms are designed to keep you on the app for as long as possible so you can get milked for ad revenue.
As a band-aid fix, if you find yourself constantly distracted and always looking for short bursts of dopamine, to the point where you can't even eat a meal without watching YouTube, you need to take a break.
Uninstall social media apps. Unsubscribe from streaming services if you haven't already. Give your brain a break.
Take up a more productive habit, one that actually grows your attention span instead of destroying it, like learning an instrument, a language, or reading.
8. Thou Shalt Read Daily
Reading daily is probably the single most productive habit you can gain.
If there was ever an antidote to the endless dopamine that social media and consumption culture gives you, it would be reading.
Reading is relaxing. It boosts your concentration, improves your memory, and makes you a sharper, more creative person.
Reading non-fiction objectively makes you smarter. I've learned more from books than I have from formal qualifications like university degrees.
You'll also find a huge discrepancy between the quality of movies and books. Movies like The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) are enjoyable to watch, but teach you nothing. It's a great movie, but there's a huge emphasis on nudity, drugs, and dark humor to keep the audience engaged.
If you wanted to learn how events actually went down, The Wolf of Wall Street memoir (2007) provides insights into the specific fraud that Jordan Belfort committed, as well his drug addiction to cope with crippling back pain.
I find reality way more entertaining than fiction. I'd much rather learn about how a $200M investment scandal was started, operated and ended, than see Hollywood actors play it out on screen.
This is just one example. Once again, you can enjoy both movies and books. But there is hidden value in both fiction and non-fiction books.
If you can't pick up a book and read 10 pages without getting distracted, you're hurting yourself.
There's no cost either. With websites like libgen.is, you can access almost every single book ever written, online, for free, and have it downloaded to your device in seconds.
Make time every single day to read. It will only benefit you.
9. Thou Shalt Stay Fit
If you're a NEET and you're overweight or obese, you're objectively a loser.
There's nothing worse than being an overweight, basement-dwelling NEET who lives off Mountain Dew and Doritos.
The whole point of being a NEET is having free time to pursue whatever you want. Why would you nerf yourself by intentionally being overweight, unhealthy, and shortening your life span?
Make a conscious effort to exercise or train regularly. This will most likely involve joining and regularly going to the gym.
However, it's not a hard requirement. Engage in activities that keep you fit on your own schedule. Just make sure you do them consistently enough to see results.
While I enjoy going to the gym, I also enjoy running, swimming, boxing, playing soccer and squash, and doing gymnastics.
Don't let anyone else judge you. As long as you're staying fit and healthy, do what makes you feel good.
It's been discussed on forums like 4chan's fit ad nauseum on where and how to start. There are endless guides, workout plans, and tutorials on how to perform exercises.
Just like any other habit, it only becomes easier the more you do it. Your first time at the gym or your first run will suck. You will feel sore and it may take days for your muscles to recover. If you're consistent, you will see linear growth over time.
When starting, it will take a lot of momentum and motivation to go to the gym. Eventually, it will feel natural and easy.
The best time to start is today. Go to the gym, lift weights or do cardio, and live an active, healthy life. You will feel mentally and physically strong, calm, and relaxed if you make this a habit.
10. Thou Shalt Never Work
Time is your most valuable asset.
The last thing you want to do is waste your day with a 9-5. Every minute you shave off is a victory, more freedom over your life that you've reclaimed.
Think about how many people re-locate for their jobs. They live in tiny, shoebox apartments to live closer to the city and make their commute to work shorter.
It's never worth it. Your job simply does not care about you. They treat you as an economic unit. You bring in more perceived value than you're worth, and they pay you just enough to keep you around.
Promotions and bonuses are rarely worth it once you factor in the amount of extra time and effort you've put in.
You should be trying to impress your manager and go above and beyond. The only thing you'll get out of working harder is being tasked with more work.
The "dream job" is no work at all. If you're working a 9-5 because you need the money, try and reduce your hours from 40 as much as you can.
Start delegating work to AI or outsourcing it. Have your camera off during meetings and your attention elsewhere. Do the bare minimum, most of the time people aren't reading your slides or whatever work you're doing.
This is assuming you work a job that doesn't produce anything meaningful and doesn't treat you well, which is the case for 99% of jobs. If it's your own business or project, then you should absolutely put in your best work.
But 9 times out of 10, jobs pay you for your time and presence at a workplace. It's indentured servitude, a prison sentence you can't escape.
You shouldn't feel bad. Working 8 hours also doesn't guarantee productivity. It's a trap that keeps you occupied and demoralises you.
Real wealth is waking up without an alarm clock with a free, empty schedule. It's not posting on LinkedIn, pretending that you love your job. It's spending your time however you want.
Before you can fund your life as a NEET, you will need a source of income or savings. But you don't have to spend decades in a 9-5. If you need the money, you can work a job for a few months of the year, then take time off and pursue whatever you like.
Every time you work, you shouldn't be thinking "How can I get the most done in the next 8 hours?" Re-frame your thinking to "How little can I get done and still get paid?"
The people above you in any job aren't necessarily smarter than you. They didn't work harder in previous roles, and maybe they don't work harder now. Don't fall for the meme. Often just sticking around in a corporate job long enough and being likeable gets you enough experience to be either promoted or find a better job elsewhere.
If you enjoy what you do in a job, have the flexibility to work when you want, and get paid well for it? Great. So few jobs like this exist. More often than not, jobs are physically, mentally and spiritually taxing.
The best course of action at any given time while being employed? Do less work. Or better yet, no work.
Never Work.
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— NEETOCRACY
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