The Spoon Theory (2003)
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The Spoon Theory (2003)
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#2> I explained that the difference in being sick and being healthy is having to make choices or to consciously think about things when the rest of the world doesn’t have to. The healthy have the luxury of a life without choices, a gift most people take for granted.
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#3It's a very catchy abstraction/metaphor. It did lodge itself in my brain quite firmly once I learned of it. It can feel defeatist to acknowledge such limits in concrete terms, but you gotta work with what you got...
I know people who are comfortable saying "i'm all out of spoons/only have a few spoons left"; it's pretty useful as frameworks go, and hard to express these things so succinctly in other ways. Just saying, e.g. "I'm drained" doesn't cover it when "drained" is the baseline.
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#4> I explained that the difference in being sick and being healthy is having to make choices or to consciously think about things when the rest of the world doesn’t have to. The healthy have the luxury of a life without choices, a gift most people take for granted.
The healthy stay healthy because they consciously make choices that maximizes the probability of staying healthy.
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#5> I explained that the difference in being sick and being healthy is having to make choices or to consciously think about things when the rest of the world doesn’t have to. The healthy have the luxury of a life without choices, a gift most people take for granted.
The healthy stay healthy because they consciously make choices that maximizes the probability of staying healthy.
like making the choice not to have an accident or being born a certain way?
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#6I used to work with someone who used to say “I’m all out of spoons today” when it was a bad day.
I understood, but I take it that it’s from this.
The article doesn’t say when it was published but it looks quite old.
Interesting that it’s surfaced here, now.
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#7> I explained that the difference in being sick and being healthy is having to make choices or to consciously think about things when the rest of the world doesn’t have to. The healthy have the luxury of a life without choices, a gift most people take for granted.
The healthy stay healthy because they consciously make choices that maximizes the probability of staying healthy.
Ah my consciousness must have really let me down when I got a crippling autoimmune disease at 35
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#8> I explained that the difference in being sick and being healthy is having to make choices or to consciously think about things when the rest of the world doesn’t have to. The healthy have the luxury of a life without choices, a gift most people take for granted.
The healthy stay healthy because they consciously make choices that maximizes the probability of staying healthy.
Oh my god, you're right. I'm cured! Thank you so much! No one has ever made this simple connection before and I'll never know how to thank you properly for your contributions.
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#9> I explained that the difference in being sick and being healthy is having to make choices or to consciously think about things when the rest of the world doesn’t have to. The healthy have the luxury of a life without choices, a gift most people take for granted.
The healthy stay healthy because they consciously make choices that maximizes the probability of staying healthy.
What nonsense. I did not choose to be born with a neurological condition.
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#10I used to work with someone who used to say “I’m all out of spoons today” when it was a bad day. I understood, but I take it that it’s from this. The article doesn’t say when it was published but it looks quite old. Interesting that it’s surfaced here, now.