Writing things down (how to know what to do next)
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Writing things down (how to know what to do next)
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#2I've learned a similar lesson, and incorporate a high-quality mechanical pencil and quad-ruled notepad in my personal workflow / productivity system. Thanks for sharing your insight, and good luck w/ ProjectPoll!
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#3Should link ProjectPoll in your post every-time you mention it, had to manually search :P
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#4Should link ProjectPoll in your post every-time you mention it, had to manually search :P
Very valid, thanks ;). I just added links, should be updated momentarily.
Re: Writing things down (how to know what to do next)
#5I've learned a similar lesson, and incorporate a high-quality mechanical pencil and quad-ruled notepad in my personal workflow / productivity system. Thanks for sharing your insight, and good luck w/ ProjectPoll!
Thanks! I appreciate the comment, and the good wishes :).
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#6I feel the same debilitating anxiety when it comes to planning out career. It's become so bad that I have started ignoring it and instead checking emails and Hacker News for solace. Questions that keep me up:
1. What to learn next?
2. Is this the right career?
3. Shouldn't I be a CTO by now? What a failure!
4. Dude, you forgot about your family!! (Gasping for air)
so on and so forth...
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#7What you describe sounds very similar to my take on the Rubber Ducky method, except with writing things down instead of talking out loud. I think what works is the act of putting your thoughts out into a form you can then turn out and think of as external, then respond to. This enables you to look at it from an "outside perspective" even if it's literally your own perspective. It's hard to challenge your own ideas if you don't put yourself into that seat.
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#8I feel the same debilitating anxiety when it comes to planning out career. It's become so bad that I have started ignoring it and instead checking emails and Hacker News for solace. Questions that keep me up: 1. What to learn next? 2. Is this the right career? 3. Shouldn't I be a CTO by now? What a failure! 4. Dude, you forgot about your family!! (Gasping for air) so on and so forth...
Life is not a race. Either nobody is judging you for your choices or whoever is judging you doesn't have the right to do so.
If you ask yourself what you want to do instead of asking yourself what you want to achieve, the conflicts that demand solace should be gone.
That said, it's still a nice game to try to achieve the most. But that's stressful and you should be in a position of choosing that stress, not submitting to it.
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#9I feel the same debilitating anxiety when it comes to planning out career. It's become so bad that I have started ignoring it and instead checking emails and Hacker News for solace. Questions that keep me up: 1. What to learn next? 2. Is this the right career? 3. Shouldn't I be a CTO by now? What a failure! 4. Dude, you forgot about your family!! (Gasping for air) so on and so forth...
>3. Shouldn't I be a CTO by now? What a failure!
Compared to how many billion people on earth?
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#10I feel the same debilitating anxiety when it comes to planning out career. It's become so bad that I have started ignoring it and instead checking emails and Hacker News for solace. Questions that keep me up: 1. What to learn next? 2. Is this the right career? 3. Shouldn't I be a CTO by now? What a failure! 4. Dude, you forgot about your family!! (Gasping for air) so on and so forth...
Life is not a race. Either nobody is judging you for your choices or whoever is judging you doesn't have the right to do so. If you ask yourself what you want to do instead of asking yourself what you want to achieve, the conflicts that demand solace should be gone. That said, it's still a nice game to try to achieve the most. But that's stressful and you should be in a position of choosing that stress, not submittin…
This might also be a good time to pitch the 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius again (a time-honoured classic that pops up very often in HN discussions). I cannot stress how much insight is contained in this book---it may help you achieve a healthy detachment from these things.