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Sounds like a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. My main issue is to even get myself to sit and stare at the work to be done. It has been really frustrating seei
by terabytest 1y ago
Sounds like a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. My main issue is to even get myself to sit and stare at the work to be done. It has been really frustrating seeing the lengths I go to, consciously or unconsciously, to procrastinate.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoI used to work a non tech office job, one day it became so unbearable, I was literally falling asleep and was no longer able to bring myself to do the job at all, because of how much mental effort was required for even the smallest things. I stood up and quit.
- RangerScience 1y agoWhat’d you do after that?
- koakuma-chan 1y agoEndured condemnation from others while simultaneously looking for a proper tech job, took me 8 months to find.
- ljlolel 1y agoWhat was the job?
- koakuma-chan 1y agoData entry
- SoftTalker 1y agoI once had a job where I would sit in my car in the parking lot for 30 minutes every morning just mustering the will to walk into the office.
- siva7 1y agoYou're not alone.
- idiotsecant 1y agoBeen there. Man, that's a rough place to be.
- marginalia_nu 1y agoI think it's mostly about accepting that you are the one in control. The problem of "getting yourself to do something" is poorly formulated, as though some other person was in charge of your actions that you have to convince to do what you want. This confused conviction is the real problem. There is no other you to convince. The same you that you are bargaining with to do the thing is the same you that's doing the bargaining. You can at any moment just do it.
- zanellato19 1y agoThat's really nice but not really true. There is another you that you need to convince to do boring stuff. That's our own body fighting against doing that stuff. Will is a finite resource.