It’s also possible people are talking about mental fatigue when they’re really dealing with depression.

If you’re mentally exhausted from work then going for a walk through a park is relaxing enough to regain some energy. If you’re depressed then you would still be vegging out on the weekend.

Which isn’t to say vegging out sometimes is a bad sign. Watching TV is fun in moderation.

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that what I said is true.

> People can always find a reason to rationalize why they’re not doing what they say they want to be doing.

Believing that's true can help you decide if you are responsible for not reaching your goals or if you truly are the victim of circumstance.

What you wrote is true only in the narrowest sense: of course people “can” rationalize. People also “can” fly to the moon. That doesn’t mean that is what people are doing, and it comes across as deeply unempathetic to express as a default assumption.

It's not my default assumption. It's just true.

I understand that people can be legitimately held back by circumstances outside of their direct control. That is also true.

I believe that on average people tend to like to take credit for their accomplishments and find someone/something to blame for their lack of accomplishments.

Ask the people who would've gone pro if their high school coach hadn't been a dick. Or who got passed over for a promotion because of work politics.

Repeatedly claiming your opinion is true does not make it so.

It doesn’t make it false either.

If the other poster has some evidence for what he believes he can divine about what other people are thinking, I’d love to hear it.

Literally looking at the world and talking to people.

I get that you don't want it to be true but that doesn't make it false.

Saying "The sun rises in the east" over and over doesn't make it true. It's true because it's true no matter how many times I say it.

You can see the sun rise in the east. Despite what you seem to believe, you cannot see what is going on inside someone else’s head, which is essentially what you are claiming to be able to do.

I don't need to see into their heads. They have mouths and I have ears. I can literally hear people talk and not take accountability for their situations.

Perhaps internally they are taking accountability but all the evidence I have says that many do not.