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There’s something to be said that manual labor is probably less anxiety-inducing or at least less easy to shirk than abstract work.
by Apocryphon 4y ago
There’s something to be said that manual labor is probably less anxiety-inducing or at least less easy to shirk than abstract work.
- k__ 4y agoI love procrastinate my "abstract work" with "manual labour". Somehow it's more obvious that it will yield results (at all) and soon.
- nickjj 4y agoI think in a lot of cases manual labor is extremely ironed out because the workflow is defined before the work is done. - Pick up shovel - Move dirt from pile A to pile B There's not much else to think about, you do it and you know you're doing the right thing so there's no opportunities to second guess yourself into not doing it. Compare that to a vague action of "build xyz app". There's a million things to think about and you can easily talk yourself out of it because maybe you're doing what you think is the wrong thing (note: the "what you think" is a really important phrase here). But if you break that down to "open up code editor" and "design user registration page" that at least starts to get less vague. Eventually you get into precise actionable tasks like "create user model with an email, password and username" which you can start progressing on without much distraction.