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"You only have white belt and black belts and you never wash them" Old wives tale. Things don't have to be the way they were 10,000,000 years ago because "th
by FrontierPsych 4y ago
"You only have white belt and black belts and you never wash them"
Old wives tale.
Things don't have to be the way they were 10,000,000 years ago because
"that is the way they did it then."
If that was the case, we would still be diagnosing diseases using the 4 humors in medicine - black bile, blood, phlegm, and yellow bile.
In reality, it is good to give people feedback all the time, and it is good to give people a new belt as soon as they can do different levels of actions for each level. It's incentive to have a new belt every 2 or 3 months. It is a physical representation of progress.
I've read this a few times and don't get his analogy of martial arts belts to all companies are fucked up. It doesn't follow at all. I guess it means when you first start working after you graduate, you start at a white belt level and you keep working on getting into more fucked up companies as you go along until you find the one that is just as fucked up as you are in the same way you are, but this doesn't make sense because you also have levels of black belts - a 1st degree black belt is the same as a white belt to a 5th degree black belt. You never stop learning and getting better and higher belts. So I guess you need to keep finding more and more fucked up and worse companies for your whole life??? That fit you even better??? Because you learn to find more fucked up companies the more you practice finding fucked up companies?
I don't get what this guy is even talking about.
- whoknew1122 4y agoBetween that analogy and the toxic quote at the end... I have no idea what he's talking about either. I have an actual anxiety disorder. I'm also pretty successful. Acute anxiety is debilitating -- it isn't something to be 'harnessed' for 'productivity'.
- P_I_Staker 4y agoYeah, I have untreated ADHD, and this method of “harnessing anxiety” for productivity is extremely unhealthy in the long term. The anxiety itself can cause worse ADHD and/or stress symptoms. It’s a toxic strategy that mortgages your long term sanity for short term gains.
- whoknew1122 4y agoYup. It's how you get admitted to the hospital at 30 thinking you're having a heart attack. ADHD and anxiety are terrible. The harder you try to focus, the more anxiety you get. It's not something to trivialize like the article does.
- P_I_Staker 4y agoThe medical community is one of the most harmful forces for people with ADHD (I know it's not directly related to your comment but I always like to point this out) Your doctor/psych can really be your worst enemy. They watch their patients suffer horrible outcomes and death, while they do nothing and say "not my problem", and constantly spewing bigotry against people with the condition. I HAVE to use stress and anxiety to get my work done, and it's incredibly debilitating.