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Pressure to do something meaningful and useful
Lately I've been feeling what I think is too much pressure to do something meaningful and useful.
I've found it hard to focus on my regular work and other trivial tasks because they don't feel meaningful enough - but not just that!
It seems that even things that are at first glance meaningful, such as learning more about AI or getting into game development or testing SaaS ideas, have become not the "perfect" use of my time.
It seems like I'm not satisfied unless I find the holy grail of how to spend my time.
It might be that I spend too much time on my own and my brain is trying to tell me that I need to have more people around me and a shared purpose, otherwise the survival instinct of not being on my own in the woods kicks in.
I feel like I need to explore all the communities, know what's going on in every industry, think about the best way to help society & make money & save the planet at the same time, and what happens is I just end up browsing the internet and consuming other people's content instead of actually creating something.
There might be some value in consuming a lot of content I'm sure, but is not having any output because other people's output is already better a justification?
Have you guys dealt with this before? How do you accept that there's no perfect way to spend your time and doing anything is better than doing nothing at all?
- verdverm 7y agoYou need to explore the landscape to come to understand what a great solution to some problem could be. You might think of being "T" shaped in your knowledge and dive deep into a subject that interests you. Note that most things that would benefit society require a behavioral change. Whether the product is good enough to inspire this change, or even can, is another can of worms