I’m quite ambitious in the status/career sense. Rather averse to unnecessary effort (necessary effort I can handle, but I won’t work for the sake of working) and extremely averse to having goals that aren’t mine thrust upon me. I’m protective of my mental state and I don’t do things that cause me undue stress. That kind of goes against the rationalist ethic of “always push yourself, psychological pain is unimportant, tsuyoku naritai.” But meh. It’s what I want to do. So far, it seems that I can have fun in a way that advances my professional goals, and so I don’t have to be a martyr. Desperate efforts are for later, if ever.
It reminds me of the article on Ugh Fields. Though that doesn’t exactly say that ‘psychological pain is unimportant’, but more that ‘psychological pain is based on unreliable emotions, intuitions, and heuristics, and isn’t by itself a good reason not to do something’.
I’m quite ambitious in the status/career sense. Rather averse to unnecessary effort (necessary effort I can handle, but I won’t work for the sake of working) and extremely averse to having goals that aren’t mine thrust upon me. I’m protective of my mental state and I don’t do things that cause me undue stress. That kind of goes against the rationalist ethic of “always push yourself, psychological pain is unimportant, tsuyoku naritai.” But meh. It’s what I want to do. So far, it seems that I can have fun in a way that advances my professional goals, and so I don’t have to be a martyr. Desperate efforts are for later, if ever.
I haven’t encountered the rationalist ethic of “psychological pain is unimportant”. Can you link to it?
It reminds me of the article on Ugh Fields. Though that doesn’t exactly say that ‘psychological pain is unimportant’, but more that ‘psychological pain is based on unreliable emotions, intuitions, and heuristics, and isn’t by itself a good reason not to do something’.