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At the risk of sounding pretentious, I gameify all those chores and try to do them more perfectly each time I do them. I find this especially effective filling
by jv22222 7y ago
At the risk of sounding pretentious, I gameify all those chores and try to do them more perfectly each time I do them.
I find this especially effective filling up the dishwasher more perfectly optimizing the layout each time.
I guess I approach these chores like Zen gardens.
Anyway that’s how I tricked my brain into turning the chores into quality time. ;)
- jamiek88 7y agoMe too! If I'm going to clean, I might as well work towards being amazing at it. Same tetris with the dishwasher too as well as trying to find the correct amount of detergent to use per load over a period of time with different loads and soil levels. Sad I know!
- keyle 7y agoI do a sort of thing like that but it's more in the speed running genre. How fast can I do a reasonably good job at this, time starts now.
- nivenhuh 7y agoLol — I always joke with my partner (an artist) about how much chaos he brings when he loads the dishwasher. There’s a proper way!! I swear it!
- journalctl 7y agoYou jest, but it’s totally possible to screw up loading a dish washer. In the best case, you just wind up with dirty dishes. In the worst case, you end up with damage.
- Doxin 7y agoI think the trick here is that by trying to be ever better at a chore you stop filing it mentally as "obstacle in the way of a target I'm trying to reach" and instead as a target in its own right. The distinction is fairly small but at least for me personally it makes a gigantic difference in how much I like doing a task. If I'm woodworking I generally loathe sanding, it's repetitive, tiring, and dusty. But if I see the sanding as its own mini project I can spend hours getting it perfect.