MD Is Not A Curse. You’re Just Not Using It Correctly.

Kaan Can Calkan
3 min readOct 4, 2021

Greetings everyone. I keep telling people about Maladaptive Daydreaming in my life. If you haven’t read my previous post, please do. The link is here.

Since that article, I have reached the level I want in business life by using Maladaptive Daydreaming. In my private life, I went through a process where I repeated my old mistakes. Right now, I am using the same superpower while trying to leave those mistakes behind.

First of all, a person should ask himself these questions. What kind of person am I now? What kind of person do I want to be in 1 year? What do I want to accomplish? I will answer this question with great honesty. And you should ask yourself these questions every year.

I am currently a successful person in business life, but in my private life, I have taken too many wrong people into my life and have not been able to fully discipline myself. After 1 year, I want to be a person who is much more successful in business life and has taken firm steps towards self-realization. What I want to achieve is to improve my coding skills at work, to have a fit basketball player’s body, to be someone who takes the right people into his life and to speak Spanish fluently.

As you can imagine, I dream of the person with the features I have listed every morning. Then, when I go to the computer and start working, I dream of people who want me to get better and people who want me to get worse every day.

While my friends support my work, my enemies shout that you can’t do it, stop. On the other hand, I look at my friends and say, I will do what I have to do today for myself and then for you. I say to my enemies that you cannot intimidate me. I dream so violently that it is as if those people are really there with me every day at the gym, at my desk.

When I go to bed at night, I have an imaginary conversation with my friends and enemies. While my friends are proud of me telling me that I am working great today and getting closer to my goals every day, my enemies say that I am inadequate that I will one day quit. And this cycle repeats every day.

Here, I am actually balancing the people who make me happy with the people who make me unhappy. Every day, the people I love support me in my head, while the people I dislike remind me why I shouldn’t let go. All-day long I feel neither too happy nor too unhappy thanks to MD.

The dreams I have do not change according to my mood that day. I change my mood that day with the dreams I have. Being too happy or too unhappy will hurt me in the long run. I know this.

I do not have any MD friends who have used this tactic and did not get any results. Only this tactic requires great discipline, patience and dedication. Unfortunately, most people do not have these things. Because living in the castle with the prince or princess you dream of is much easier than thinking about someone who has always upset you after 9 years of effort while doing 60 kg leg extension (it’s not something everyone can do :D).

Get out of the victim mentality. You are not a victim, you are a criminal. You are betraying yourself. As time passes, being emotional and doing something in your own imagination does not add anything to you or to humanity. Hope to see you in new articles.

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Kaan Can Calkan

Former Web Developer , SAP HCM and Oracle Technical Consultant . Currently working as a SAP HCM Full Stack Dev .Sharing my learning path with you.