Would you accept being locked in an empty room...

[QUOTE=Gambler23]That's if you do just stare at the walls. You should keep your mind and body active throughout. Once you can find enough things you can do with your mind and body for just 1 day, you can set yourself a daily routine that will last you months.[/QUOTE]

Once again, I think people underestimate how long 12-16 hours per day is with no mental or physical stimuli. There's only so many pushups and mind scenarios one can go through. Say what you will, but there's a reason $10 million is associated with what has so far been deemed as an "easy task"

I could do a month standing on my head. My mental strength is great.

Who deemed it an "easy task"?

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Would be a lot easier with some vicodin.

[QUOTE=Jackass18]I could do a month standing on my head. My mental strength is great.

Who deemed it an "easy task"?[/QUOTE]

The fact that 90% of posters have said they could do it makes me think that the general consensus is that ISH thinks its a no-brainer.

I guarantee that if once you accepted, you couldn't be let out until 365 days had passed, that [B]at least[/B] 30% of the posters that said they could do it would come out at least half-crazy.

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Would be a lot easier with some vicodin.[/QUOTE]

Yeah it would also be easy with unlimited library access and sexy women.

[B]Not the point, idiot.[/B] :rolleyes:

Basically asking would you do a year of solitary in prison for 10 mil. Solitary is apparently excruciating, but I would definitely give it a go for 10 million.

[QUOTE=BankShot]Once again, I think people underestimate how long 12-16 hours per day is with no mental or physical stimuli. There's only so many pushups and mind scenarios one can go through. Say what you will, but there's a reason $10 million is associated with what has so far been deemed as an "easy task"[/QUOTE]

It's not an easy task by any means. Most would have difficulties and fail. Their approach to it would be something like yours and eventually drive themselves insane.


Here's a different approach. Semi-convince yourself you are here forever. Convince yourself you are being punished similar to someone who is in jail for the rest of their lives. What would you do? You wouldn't think about getting out, keeping track of time, using that $10 million dollars, your family, any of that. You would sit around, lie down, close your eyes, and repeat this again and again. Depressing? Yes. Insane? No. Because you are accepting it. You are not eager to get out and worrying about time. Add in some physical activities, and there you have it. Before you know it, you will be out of there.

The approach basically asks you to convince yourself you are here forever, and if you can do that, you will be out [B]quicker[/B] than you think. Being in there for a year can't be worse than actually going to jail for life. Think how these prisoners feel. But they still last.

Im not sure if i could do that, i mean no nothing just a empty room and the basics. I think i might be able to last a amonth or 2 before i start to crack. Give me at least a baskeball or some books or some pens and paper and i think that will at LEAST double my chances of doing it. 10 mil is great but you would have to be f'd up in the head already to make it a whole year.

Though ultimately, it comes down to how your mind approaches it. If you come in with the wrong mind-set, you will suffer. If you come in with the right mind-set, you will come out happier than you ever have been and totally sane. It might require some self-trickery, but it will be worth it, big time.

The less eager you are to get out, the less time you will spend thinking about getting out, and the less insane you will become.

[QUOTE=Gambler23]f there.

The approach basically asks you to convince yourself you are here forever, and if you can do that, you will be out [B]quicker[/B] than you think. Being in there for a year can't be worse than actually going to jail for life. [B]Think how these prisoners feel. But they still last.[/B][/QUOTE]

Dont get me wrong, I understand where you're going with this. However, your [B]average prisoner[/B] has social interactions with fellow inmates, guards, and visitors. They have access to at least a pen and paper, if not a select library of books. They get to leave their cell for portions of the day. They can experience sunlight.

Here's my reasoning for why I could do it, I've went over a month before(while being depressed) with just sitting in my bed doing nothing, no tv, internet, phone, ipod, nothing. Just eating, if i actually did that, and leaving to go to the bathroom. I really think I could do it based on that fact. while it was obviously under a different circumstance, i think it's basically how you mentally approach it.

[QUOTE=DatDudeD]Im not sure if i could do that, i mean no nothing just a empty room and the basics. I think i might be able to last a amonth or 2 before i start to crack. [B]Give me at least a baskeball or some books or some pens and paper and i think that will at LEAST double my chances of doing it. [/B]10 mil is great but you would have to be f'd up in the head already to make it a whole year.[/QUOTE]

Do people really not grasp the challenge thats being presented?? The point of this exercise is that you have [B][I]nothing[/I][/B] but essentials for life, and the space you are enclosed in. Nothing else. No paper, no books, no basketball, no contact with anyone. Nothing. :confusedshrug:

[QUOTE=BankShot]Dont get me wrong, I understand where you're going with this. However, your [B]average prisoner[/B] has social interactions with fellow inmates, guards, and visitors. They have access to at least a pen and paper, if not a select library of books. They get to leave their cell for portions of the day. They can experience sunlight.[/QUOTE]

I see what you are saying but you would still rather NOT spend your life in jail than a year in that empty room. But you get what I'm saying. On a day-to-day basis, the less hope you have, the less eager you are to get released, the quicker time will fly by.

I think some of you are underestimating how much $10,000,000 is. I'm living fine now, but like someone said, no problem giving up that 1 yr of my life, knowing that the remaining yrs will be so much better. I am an introvert anyways so being by myself is not new, foreign, or scary to me at all.

I would probably treat it the same way I do long plan rides and car rides and try to sleep through as much of it as possible.

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I would probably treat it the same way I do long plan rides and car rides and try to sleep through as much of it as possible.[/QUOTE]

These are the kind of comments that make me realize how naive people can be. :roll: