‘Sitting at your desk with no motivation to do anything’. Let’s frame this from a couple of different angles. - You have time/opportunity to do whatever you ch

‘Sitting at your desk with no motivation to do anything’. Let’s frame this from a couple of different angles. - You have time/opportunity to do whatever you choose to improve your life, and nothing feels worth trying, the time just runs out repeatedly. - Given a set of unstated constraints on your self-permitted behavior and potential pursuits, when you consider your options, nothing excites you, no pursuit resonates with emotional anticipation. If that captures it, what’s helped me in my life is to use an analogy of mathematical optimization: 1. the options you permit yourself are too narrow. Try things that other people seem to enjoy that you are unfamiliar with. ie expand your horizon by expanding the boundary of the domain. Give yourself more options. 2. you’re overconfident that different activities will provide negative/neutral benefit, assuming there is something that you’ll enjoy. This is a type of learned helplessness, similar to gradient ascent/descent in a flat zone. One strategy is to take random jumps into the unknown. ie commit more to what you try, try going all in where you’d otherwise be more cautious. 3. If you’re overstimulated on caffeine or red bull, or partially emotionally anaesthetized (through behavior like intellectualization or emotional immaturity) you may be insensitive to what is truly emotionally rewarding. I think this is like a faulty objective function. Try meditation, or removing stimulants, or read about maladaptive emotional coping mechanisms, or try a psychotherapist.