i haven’t attempted to “switch” modes per se before as i’ve just encountered OP’s framing. so i’ll reply about attempting to do particular things.
for me, attempting to do something is already a lot of the way there. my most common failure case after reaching ‘attempting’ is that i stop doing the thing i started, or only start in a symbolic way. and my actual starting point is not attempting, but the abstract recognizing/knowing that doing something would be (instrumentally) good. it is going from that to doing things (and instead of other, useless things) which i struggle with. (note: i have adhd/chronic fatigue.)
(i could write a fuller answer to ‘what happens’ with examples (many things can happen), but i tried and felt conflicted about sharing it publicly, in which case i have a heuristic not to until at least a day later.)
Not sure I quite parsed, but things that makes me think of:
first, if you’re bottlenecked on health (physical or mental), it may be that finding medication that helps is more important than your mindset.
try success spiralling – start doing small things, build up both a habit/muscle of doing things, and momentum in doing things, escalate to bigger things
if getting started is hard, maybe find a friend or pay a colleague to just sit with you and constantly be like “are you doing stuff?” and spray you with a water bottle if you look like you’re overthinking stuff, until you build up a success spiral / muscle of doing things.
try doing doing doing just fucking do it man and when you’re brain is like “idk that seems like a whole lotta doing what if we’re doing the wrong thing?” be like “it’s okay Thinky Brain this is an experiment we will learn from later so we evetually can calibrate on Optimal Think-to-Do Ratio”
i haven’t attempted to “switch” modes per se before as i’ve just encountered OP’s framing. so i’ll reply about attempting to do particular things.
for me, attempting to do something is already a lot of the way there. my most common failure case after reaching ‘attempting’ is that i stop doing the thing i started, or only start in a symbolic way. and my actual starting point is not attempting, but the abstract recognizing/knowing that doing something would be (instrumentally) good. it is going from that to doing things (and instead of other, useless things) which i struggle with. (note: i have adhd/chronic fatigue.)
(i could write a fuller answer to ‘what happens’ with examples (many things can happen), but i tried and felt conflicted about sharing it publicly, in which case i have a heuristic not to until at least a day later.)
Not sure I quite parsed, but things that makes me think of:
first, if you’re bottlenecked on health (physical or mental), it may be that finding medication that helps is more important than your mindset.
try success spiralling – start doing small things, build up both a habit/muscle of doing things, and momentum in doing things, escalate to bigger things
if getting started is hard, maybe find a friend or pay a colleague to just sit with you and constantly be like “are you doing stuff?” and spray you with a water bottle if you look like you’re overthinking stuff, until you build up a success spiral / muscle of doing things.
try doing doing doing just fucking do it man and when you’re brain is like “idk that seems like a whole lotta doing what if we’re doing the wrong thing?” be like “it’s okay Thinky Brain this is an experiment we will learn from later so we evetually can calibrate on Optimal Think-to-Do Ratio”