Whenever I want to work on something, I’m just burdened by the fact that all my efforts will be useless, that the stuff won’t be done and that I’ll toil and toil and toil without accomplishing anything. Now, this sort of thing is pretty common for me—worries about my confidence and intelligence not withstanding.
Sometimes this pressure is really discouraging and overburdening that I want to avoid work just to avoid that horrible feeling of having made no progress.
So I want to have “work” days in which I’ll specifically experiment fruitlessly—I’ll just do what I want without any pressure about productivity.
Maybe I might have an explicit rule about not being productive.
This hopefully will allow me to experiment more and enjoy my work more…
But with strict deadlines looming, it seems difficult but we’ll see…
Here is something that I want to try:
Whenever I want to work on something, I’m just burdened by the fact that all my efforts will be useless, that the stuff won’t be done and that I’ll toil and toil and toil without accomplishing anything. Now, this sort of thing is pretty common for me—worries about my confidence and intelligence not withstanding.
Sometimes this pressure is really discouraging and overburdening that I want to avoid work just to avoid that horrible feeling of having made no progress.
So I want to have “work” days in which I’ll specifically experiment fruitlessly—I’ll just do what I want without any pressure about productivity.
Maybe I might have an explicit rule about not being productive.
This hopefully will allow me to experiment more and enjoy my work more…
But with strict deadlines looming, it seems difficult but we’ll see…