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I think that if there is something that defines me, is that I change hobbies quickly, after a deep dive. That's basically how I got where I am. Should I keep doing what I always did then?
>Start by digging into your own uneasiness. Where does it come from? What triggers it? You'll find some personal thing, most likely from childhood, tucked away in the recesses of your psyche that drives you. Meditation and self-honesty are key here.
I somehow feel like my "uneasiness" are the real engine that makes me go around so fast, honestly faster than most of the people I have around. Do I need a cure from it? I am not sure I am ready to kill the engine.
Yep, tried to follow a mix of passion and checklists.
> Do whatever.
love this. This is also the problem itself. I can do anything. But what will I miss out if I do x instead of y?
> Learn an instrument, buy a motorcycle, make a painting, become a scuba instructor, run a marathon, try drugs, move to another country, sit at a park/cafe and talk with people - you get the picture.
The instrument sounds good. I. did run a marathon, bought a motorcycle (and a sailboat), I can't paint, lived in 6 countries, drugs scary the shit out of me after teenage THC-related panic attacks.
Give me more.
> You'll find something that clicks, just get out of your checklist view of life.
Hahaha, some friend call me the "list man"... they also made a drawing of me holding a checklist at my wedding :
>enmesh yourself for a few weeks or months in all the possible paths you could focus yourself on
Can you expand a bit on this? Maybe provide some examples...
Because sometimes with the "pocking around, keeping myself busy, ..." I do have the illusion I am exploring some paths. In a very shallow way
Not really, you are right. Those things are culturally superimposed on a great extent.
>You can make art, draw, musik, sing, dance, sport, research.
Besides sport and research, which I basically practice daily, it's been ages since I last danced/sang/played an instrument. Let alone drawing and art :) Are you suggesting that I can find meaning by adding some of those to my weeks/days? It can be an improvement, but I don't feel it like a silver bullet.
> Love what you do
This sounds very cliche to me. Some day I'm loving programming, other days it feels like painful uselessness. The same applies to everything. "what I do" changes often, and so does the love I feel while doing it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32147496
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https://www.sadi.org.ar/novedades/item/931-covid-19-uso-de-c...
Wanted to say thanks, nice article, and you are very brave to open up that way ;)
could you please escape the whitespace? "hello world" returns me "hello+world" . Also I am trying to configure a nice template on zapier, so I'd need it to reckon "newline\n" last but not least, parse URLs please!
EDIT: looks way better if I send data in JSON instead that raw/form