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I can definitely relate to that. I don't think it's necessarily an effect of your brain 'figuring out the trick', but more an issue of a part of your 'identity'

by mckirk 3y ago

I can definitely relate to that. I don't think it's necessarily an effect of your brain 'figuring out the trick', but more an issue of a part of your 'identity' getting shifted in an unhelpful direction. When I was younger, I was absolutely sure that I'd pull off whatever was required of me, even if that meant doing everything under a ton of pressure. But at some point, the circumstances just didn't allow that anymore... And after the first time that this paradigm didn't work out anymore, I didn't have this reassuring surety anymore either, which was a big part of why it always did work out before I think. So now I just tell people to be careful with their personal 'axioms', and to not stress them to a breaking point.

wholinator2 3y ago
I can also relate that pulling off all nighters at school tended to be at least a little rewarding. Either i was learning something interesting or building something cool but the similar calibre problems at work don't have the same allure. If I'm doing the same at work it either means work was incorrectly planned and now I'm expected to fix that, or someone else broke something unnecessarily and now I'm expected to fix that. It's just an entirely negative context to extra work now. I'm not really learning anything, I'm not getting paid more, I'm not getting a cool project out of it. It's just an accidentally (sometimes) manufactured catastrophe that someone with more money or power has declared is my fault or responsibility. I definitely do much better in academia