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Thanks, that meshes with my experiences. There's definitely a theme of "unlearning" for me. I don't see it as stickiness, I see it more as effortlessness, beca

by flir 3y ago

Thanks, that meshes with my experiences. There's definitely a theme of "unlearning" for me. I don't see it as stickiness, I see it more as effortlessness, because it's so easy to continue working on something, but I recognise the description. I'm dealing with it by exporting the "what am I doing?" question to text - in other words, being really really explicit about my thinking by writing it down. I have a log running in a Slack window that often has things like "ok, we're gonna take a step back, and think about the steps we need to take to accomplish the goal. First we X, then we Y, etc". I'm essentially rubber ducking my executive function.

TeMPOraL 3y ago
Huh, I'm doing the exact same thing, though off-line - I keep a "running log" in Org Mode. A new file every month, and in that file, a new heading for every day, and under that heading, I just type. 90% of it is just me talking with myself. I do it both at work and for personal stuff (two different set of files on two different computers, of course). It's the only thing that I know can reliably ground me, that can keep me focused to at least some degree, no matter how bad I feel, and that can help me process and deal with emotions.