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Are you able to elaborate?

• senectus1 7y ago
  Its hard to do so. It felt like a mental "click" but not like you get when you have been trying to solve a puzzle... it felt like a mental " gear change ". My thought processes changed order or priority, Things that I felt were important before were suddenly less important and I think I things from a different angle (not just life stuff but problem solving approaches.). its really hard to describe. What I can say is that having a second didnt do a damned thing... lol whatever change was going to happen only happened on the first.
  • jjakque 7y ago
    Do you mean like parental instinct? When you are in 'father mode', you physically and mentally geared up and ready to take up the role.
    • senectus1 7y ago
      My first thoughts were that it was like that, but I realized after a few weeks that I was thinking like that at work as well, when nowhere near the kid.
      • jjakque 7y ago
        I think you may have got better at managing both your tasks and time :) Very possible that been a father cornered you to think more pragmatically in daily life, and that translates to how you do things at work.
  • intothemild 7y ago
    For me.. this took around 8 months.. I was so overwrought with stress that I was numb to anything else.
  • cjrp 7y ago
    > Things that I felt were important before were suddenly less important I definitely felt a change in perspective like this. Sitting in a 1hr long meeting, going over something which could be done in 10 mins, and the whole time thinking "none of this even matters, there's a human life at home which I helped create!".