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You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by ffhhj »

courtf wrote: post #100
n8cpdx wrote: post #68

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I really like society as it is. I, as rare as it is, identify as a neoliberal and I generally am invested in how things are. I like to see people working hard, I work hard myself, and aside from wanting a larger safety net, largely value the idea of a competitive market for labor. Those ideas, I suspect much more prevalent on HN than other sites, lead to defensiveness when antiwork or work-critical ideas are shared.…

Appreciate this comment, thank you. For many years I had a sort of ruthless determination to get ahead and work hard. It mostly helped me back then, as many obstacles then were the sort that could be brute-forced, and it was addictive in a way as well. I could feel myself improving, could see the progress happening etc. I made lots of money for a while, got myself and my husband ahead in life etc. A few things happen…

> My temporary solution has been to work on stuff that isn't programming, to become like a beginner again in some other field.

Well said. I can also recommend doing electronics along with 3D printing. Come up with simple ideas to ease your life around the house, make some experiments, build little devices. Embedded boards with the power of computers from 20 years ago have just a few centimeters.

Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by x0x0 »

codegeek wrote: post #52
bob33212 wrote: post #23

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This is my biggest problem with all the people promoting entrepreneurship for everyone. If everyone took two years off to start a company there would be no one keeping the lights on.

Doesnt' matter. Most people won't. I have worked professionally for 17 years now and last 6 running my own business. I can tell you with a guarantee that there are lot of people who just want a job, get a paycheck and get the f out (not that anything is wrong with that). They don't care about entrepreneurship or whatever. So there always will be "employees" for every "employer".

Everyone wants to earn the money salespeople make until eat what you kill really sinks in.

Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by LocalH »

_moof wrote: post #86
jokoon wrote: post #43

It's weird how we don't want to admit we are overworked. Competition is such a horror show. I really disagree with the whole "procrastination" thing. It's normal to feel depressed, it's part of nature of being tired, our brains are fragile and require a lot of energy and sleep. I bet that I would generally would be much happier working at a moderate pace in a farm rather than using my brain to do some other complex t…

Indeed. It’s amazing to me that in all the conversations about work/life balance, employers never consider the mind-blowingly innovative option of working less. Instead we all get free subscriptions to meditation apps now. Thanks for the stopwatch. Can I go outside now? I left the software industry for several years to do a job that required getting up and moving around, leaving the building, interacting with people.…

>Indeed. It’s amazing to me that in all the conversations about work/life balance, employers never consider the mind-blowingly innovative option of working less.

That's because the driving factor (at least in capitalist regions) seem to be to extract as much value from everyone while compensating them as little as possible. "Working less" isn't even on these people's radars. If they had their way, they'd own every minute of their employee's lives.

Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by qazxcvbnmlp »

jdgoesmarching wrote: post #101
laurent92 wrote: post #59

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In 2010 I went to prune trees in Australia. Immediately, my depression stopped. Almost as if using the full body made everything better than using only the brain and speaking to a computer all day.

It’s funny how many tech people are getting into trades or very manual hobbies. I keep ending up at the page for my local community college’s woodworking program. Most of my hobbies now are DIY projects.

I got back into woodworking at the start of the pandemic and couldn’t recommend it more. Something about working with your hands resets your brain in a way that computer work does not.

Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by anotherman554 »

bserge wrote: post #55

I've read sooooooo much of this kind of shiitake, I am sick of it. It is bullshit. Or rather, it's written by people who don't even take into account the biological nature of the brain. Let me check... of course he's a "coach"... If you can't do, teach, I guess. All of this shit will act as a bandaid, a crutch at best. It's like the bullshit "imagine you're wealthy and you will become wealthy". No, that doesn't work.…

Modern brain science cannot effectively treat every mental health problem with drugs and "good doctors" cannot effectively treat every patient. If you are benefitting from treatment by a "good doctor" then I'm happy for you, but this idea that science has a drug that actually works for all problems is far from the truth.

Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by navd »

This sounds a little hand wavy and honestly just comes across as a lack of discipline. In my experience when you feel resistance you can get really far just sitting down and devoting a bit of time to doing the task at hand. It's hard and unmotivating at FIRST, but it tends to go away. If it doesn't just try again tomorrow. At least you got some work done.

Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by HomeDeLaPot »

james-skemp wrote: post #114
vmladenov wrote: post #108

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I’m still not clear on why UBI won’t just raise the price floor on everything (rent in your example) to the point where it becomes ineffective again. In Mountain View, landlords raised rents when they heard companies were giving a bonus for people living within 15 miles. Some even included it in their advertising.

> Some even included it in their advertising. I'm really curious what the language/spin was to make that something that was included in the advertising.

I don't think OP means the rent hike was included. More like "We're within 15 miles of Google offices! Move now and qualify for their bonus!"

Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by bserge »

anotherman554 wrote: post #135
bserge wrote: post #55

I've read sooooooo much of this kind of shiitake, I am sick of it. It is bullshit. Or rather, it's written by people who don't even take into account the biological nature of the brain. Let me check... of course he's a "coach"... If you can't do, teach, I guess. All of this shit will act as a bandaid, a crutch at best. It's like the bullshit "imagine you're wealthy and you will become wealthy". No, that doesn't work.…

Modern brain science cannot effectively treat every mental health problem with drugs and "good doctors" cannot effectively treat every patient. If you are benefitting from treatment by a "good doctor" then I'm happy for you, but this idea that science has a drug that actually works for all problems is far from the truth.

I am benefitting?! I am desperate for a prescription more like. Doesn't matter, soon it might be over.

Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by james-skemp »

HomeDeLaPot wrote: post #137
james-skemp wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Some even included it in their advertising. I'm really curious what the language/spin was to make that something that was included in the advertising.

I don't think OP means the rent hike was included. More like "We're within 15 miles of Google offices! Move now and qualify for their bonus!"

That makes me feel better, if so.

Although reading it again ...

> In Mountain View, landlords raised rents when they heard companies were giving a bonus for people living within 15 miles. Some even included it in their advertising.

I've never been to the west coast, but I would assume that location to the various offices would already be part of the advertising. I regularly see it in this area for Epic and the University.

Re: You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance

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Post by gala8y »

zepto wrote: post #130
8jef wrote: post #125

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Back to the beginning, being forced to start again from scratch

Poster has edited their comment so it’s no longer ambiguous.

Yeah, I was throttled (too many comments in a short time and HN slows you down for a while).
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