There are too many shiny objects and it is killing me

Post by akulbe » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 7:17 AM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #3

Something people forget is that we have a finite learning capacity and learning just for the sake of learning can wreck your mental health. I can read hundreds of pages a day but if I do this on a sustained basis it overcharges my brain and I have problems with anxiety and can't sleep. A modest dose of video games helps me chill out since I am working with the same patterns over and over again and not needing to sort…

Post by slight » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 7:34 AM UTC

iak8god wrote: post #82

scarygliders wrote: post #58

Forget what most here are saying about Adult ADHD, ADD or whatever fancy schmancy TLA is this era's Mental Illness Du Jour. You, my friend, are suffering from Procrastination. You have the idea - but you're putting SO MANY barriers in front of implementing that idea. You're finding excuses NOT to just sit down and write code. You're procrastinating. I know this because I too am guilty of it - been guilty of it all th…

Ctrl-f procrast > You, my friend, are suffering from Procrastination. 1000X this. I recognized this immediately because I see the same pattern in my own behavior. OP starts out doing a bunch of things that will need to be done eventually for the project to succeed, but that are essentially a waste of time and other resources at the initial stage. OP does this (I do too!) because those steps are familiar, easy, and ve…

Post by scarygliders » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 8:31 AM UTC

paul_milovanov wrote: post #151

scarygliders wrote: post #58

Forget what most here are saying about Adult ADHD, ADD or whatever fancy schmancy TLA is this era's Mental Illness Du Jour. You, my friend, are suffering from Procrastination. You have the idea - but you're putting SO MANY barriers in front of implementing that idea. You're finding excuses NOT to just sit down and write code. You're procrastinating. I know this because I too am guilty of it - been guilty of it all th…

Scarygliders is totally right! Indeed, forget about that fancy shmancy ADD, or all that bullshit the big pharma wants you to believe in like diabetes, heart disease, thyroid-affecting diseases, schizophrenia and cancer! No such thing! Just try harder and stop procrastinating and if you can't just go and off yourself, you loser. Works for me!!!

Post by Magpies » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 8:43 AM UTC

cityzen wrote: post #103

What do you all think of this: Https://getmadprops.com this is a project that I started, stopped, started, stopped, started and have committed to seeing it through. Just last night I stashed a bunch of changes I was working on because, you know, they were more important than getting customers. I have to force myself to just keep shipping and iterating. Once I'm in a rut and haven't shipped in awhile, I have to do it…

Post by danieltillett » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 10:15 AM UTC

mdekkers wrote: post #152

ben_pr wrote: post #129

It sounds like you are a right brain dominant person[1] with a Myers-Briggs personality of INTJ [2], same as me. Once I understood this about myself I was able to start bringing my life into balance. Part of it was by doing left-brained exercises that Dianne Craft teaches in her videos, also a large part was using essential oils to wake up my left brain which was pretty much in the deep freeze, and finally a few esse…

Are people still doing Myers-Briggs?[1] I had a job interview for a CTO job for a large multinational once, and when I got to the final 3 candidates round, had to take one of these. I had a very good idea what they were looking for, and aced it. The lady doing the testing told me I was a perfect match and would advise as such. I let her know these tests are easily fooled, something she seriously disagreed with. So I…