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Sorry to hear. I've felt like this at times too. A couple of thoughts... 1. I think it's normal yeah. Social media and advertising make us think everyone else
by jmfldn 6y ago
Sorry to hear. I've felt like this at times too. A couple of thoughts...
1. I think it's normal yeah. Social media and advertising make us think everyone else is a super achiever but that's mainly nonsense. Us modern humans are over-stimulated mentally to an extent that would have been unrecognisable to our ancestors. We're not adapted to be thinking, talking, reading, studying, watching things all day. It would be exhausting to not sit down all day right? The mind isn't so different. Find ways to enjoy doing nothing. Could be meditation, gentle slow yoga, listening to some quiet music, nothing too mentally taxing. Your mind needs time to idle and reset, it's almost like your mind's 'garbage collection" kicks in and clears out the junk. It can't be processing all the time. Take time for being, it's incredibly restorative.
2. I'm a big believer in hobbies. As a father of two very young children my time is limited to I rely on the little and often approach. Don't knock the power of small daily incremental practice. I've made good progress with programming and piano in this way from very little time.
3. Doing non "thinking" hobbies is also important to me. I'm a bit addicted to over-thinking (like many of us I suspect) and something like piano is a counterforce to that. Find fun hobbies that you do for the pure intrinsic joy.
4. Assuming like many of us you're a covid home worker, don't knock the massive effect this has had. All of my colleagues seem to be feeling burnout to one degree or another. Again self care and self compassion are key here.
5. Check in with your doctor. You might have a deficiency, maybe you have a bit of low lying depression or something like that. Very common in both cases but it's good to seek help just to eliminate these things.
- blaser-waffle 6y ago> 4. Assuming like many of us you're a covid home worker, don't knock the massive effect this has had. All of my colleagues seem to be feeling burnout to one degree or another. Again self care and self compassion are key here. This has been a trend I've noticed with all of my friends who are work-at-home due to COVID. Everyone is pretty fried and feeling heavy burnout. I was 100% remote before COVID and even though my work life hasn't changed I'm still feeling it as well, both due to not having places to go (gym, bar, theater, etc), as well as just via secondhand stress; e.g. the boss is burnt and takes it out on you.