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Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
#312Most of the methods I see here involve a ritual used to change your mindset. A ritual can be anything, as long as it has to be done in a particular way. For example, taking a shower then changing the room lighting can be enough of a ritual to get you into "play" mode. The ritual needs to take some amount of time to do, a 10 second ritual probably won't work. The longer the ritual is the more reliably it may work. Meditation can work also. It's kind of like an open ended ritual that can continue until you get to where you want to be.
Re: Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not every character needs to be charismatic.
But every character needs to be "social enough" to work as a team. IE by definition, to participate in a team you can't min all stats but Strength for example. Because you need enough "social" to be part of a team in the first place. Otherwise they are a bunch of dissociated loners not playing the same game. Which could be an interesting novel to read if done well, but not your usual D&D session.
Not to get too far into the weeds of D&D rules, but personality is independent of Charisma score.
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
>A desk in a corner that you always work at, and don't use for anything but work? // Hmm, I don't have any friends wealthy enough to have enough room in their house for 2 desk spaces for themselves. Your comment seems like a 'they have no bread? why don't they eat brioche' kinda of comment; ignorant of how most people live. My boss, who makes about 50% more than me, works on a desk in his daughters bedroom; my boss'…
My friends are definitely not wealthy, many of them are struggling, but I guess my city is cheaper and people have more living space, most (not all) people I know have enough room to put a chair and small desk/table big enough for laptop use in the corner of a bedroom or living room. (I do not live in NYC. It's also true that most of my friends don't have children, which may be relevant to available space. I don't kn…
If you're using a computer outside of work hours, in the same room as your work desk, where would you set it up? Surely you need a desk for gaming, even just websurfing for any length of time.
No offense, of course. Perhaps the movies are right and minimum wage workers live alone in massive city loft apartments in USA (where I assume you are?).
Anyway none of this really helps [the OP]. My neighbour's water got cut off so I'm off to suggest he uses any sparkling, French mineral water his water-sommelier has in stock ;oP
Seriously though, as you say, removing or hiding work related items can be sufficient for some people - I've heard people put a bed sheet over the work computer to avoid its stare.
Re: Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
#315I take a hot bath at the end of my day. Sometimes I will play music, but otherwise no distractions, phone, or reading. Nothing else seems to do the trick.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not that strange. These are the kind of tricks I learned from NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and helps orient the psychology. It is certainly why I make my daughter dress for school and change out of it after the school day is done, even if it is online school.
I studied NLP recreationally back around my last year of college in maybe 1999? as part of http://www.pickupguide.com . That site along with the show Mad Men probably taught me more about relationships and the business world than I ever learned in school. Thankfully I was able to forget it and move on sometime in the mid 2000s haha. Anyway, something related that has helped me immensely is Cognitive Behavioral Therap…
I had a similar experience with extreme anxiety, negativity etc. And like you, NLP helped enormously. I would encourage anyone suffering from this sort of thing to seek out NLP/CBT help and techniques. Just the simple act of noticing and catching myself thinking negative thoughts and reframing them helped... thinking "what's the positive way to look at this". There is always a positive angle you can find. A lot of benefit can be felt just being conscious of, and changing how, you view the world.
Re: Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
#317My friend taught me this neat hack:
Put a bedsheet/bedspread on your monitor/workarea once you're done for the day.
I've found this reasonably useful
Re: Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
#318When it is time to finish I simply disconnect from all my work programs (email, IM,...).
I honestly always wondered why pepole find it so difficult to do that and need to rely on trucks like a walk, change of clothes etc.