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I’ll add a small insidious realization of what stress is. It’s one thing to work hard and feel tired after working hard, the causality is natural. It’s when you
by runawaybottle 5y ago
I’ll add a small insidious realization of what stress is. It’s one thing to work hard and feel tired after working hard, the causality is natural. It’s when you feel fatigue before you even start the work. Why am I tired before I even begin? That to me it’s a dead giveaway something is wrong.
How do you solve that? We mythologized grit, the strength to overcome this preemptive fatigue. But even that, is fatiguing.
Life’s a sport no matter what they say. Whoever doesn’t get tired of it, wins.
- seg_lol 5y agoGrit is a scam to extract more value out of people you have convinced to play your game. Scratch to win!
- runawaybottle 5y agoSounds like 1776, I hear a rebellion.
- giantg2 5y agoIf it's something you love doing, then it energizes you. When you see your job as hopeless, that's where the pre-existing tiredness comes from. Just like the dread of even logging on.
- danielheath 5y ago> How do you solve that? We mythologized grit, the strength to overcome this preemptive fatigue. Grit and flexibility are in tension with one another. Being able to accept an approach is unproductive and find another is valuable, in moderation (in excess you flit from task to task without completing any). Grit is the opposite; being unwilling to give up in the face of adversity is valuable in moderation, but in excess it prevents you from realising when your approach will never pay off.