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Something Iāve noticed about this too is that there are a bunch of things that are not in my sweet spot of agency and interest, and Iāve noticed that it requires me extra energy to do those things. Iāve also noticed that if I force myself to do these things repeatedly and forcefully without being nice to myself and not take care of myself ā I burn out (in the short term or long terms) and so what Iāve noticed is that I have to figure out a way to regulate myself and my state and also manage the deadlines and timelines in a way that is sustainable for me. In the past, I used to think that I had to push through (self be damned) but Iāve burned out enough times to know that that just doesnāt work for me, congratulations if it works for you and by you I mean you all
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July
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So what is the answer? Itās both terrifyingly simple and easy to do. Listen to what you need. I think so much of burnout comes from not listening to yourself and overwriting what you need with what you think you should be doing or what you think you need. I mean, there are moments where you do have to push and it is worth pushing. I also think that itās sort of like a nitro boost for a car you can only do it for so long, a limited amount every race.
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By the way plenty of people I feel like are totally willing to sacrifice a few years of their life to be fully focused and burn themselves out and thatās fine. It takes tremendous amount of energy and discipline to be able to execute and do it within a timeframe and especially for things that you donāt wanna do. I get it. Iāve seen a few cases though where this has happened and Iāve seen the health problems that theyāve had in the quality of life that deteriorates from this and I just have realized that for myself this is not what I want to become I want to find success but I also donāt want to sacrifice the present for it constantly
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It ultimately comes back to this idea again ā what are you looking for in life what kind of life do you want how do you want to live it and what do you want to feel? what do you want to become? If you understand the risks and you are willing to accept the consequences. I think thatās what it ultimately is all about. I think thatās the question thatās ultimately more important
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(šŖreply from šļøapp) šÆšÆ and great thread / reflection. aligns with my philosophy of ābe the gradient descent of your lifeā; finding slopes down toward minimum loss in the infinite loss landscape of existenceā¦ at the same time: sometimes the Universe puts you at a local minimum on purpose. those plateaus arenāt bugs, theyāre features. the game knows when you need to integrate before the next descent we optimize for the wrong metrics (external validation, linear progress) when the real loss function is internal coherence. how aligned are you with your own source code? how much energy are you wasting fighting the gradient vs flowing with it? the most interesting humans i know have learned to read their own partial derivativesā¦ they know when theyāre stuck in local minima vs approaching something global. and hereās the plot twist ā the Universe literally codes us to minimize energy expenditure. every addiction, every dopamine hit, every scroll session is just gradient descent in action. but weāre often (and somnambulant) descending toward the wrong optima. hence why Waking Up. coke (aine | ola) feels like convergence because it is convergenceā¦ to a loss function that destroys the very system itās optimizing. same with doom scrolling, people pleasing, workaholism ā all perfectly rational descents down poisoned gradients the trick isnāt to stop following gradients (impossible, weāre optimization machines) but to debug your loss function. what are you actually minimizing? suffering? or growth? comfort? or aliveness? what if the goal isnāt finding the bottom but learning to understand + surf the topology?
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