“MY MAIN WORK TOOL: MYSELF” AAAAAAAAAAAAAHhttps://twitter.com/syswarren/status/1177207445556518913 …
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i'm struggling to express my horror here without being mean to the OP i don't know who needs to hear this but: please consider the possibility that relating to yourself primarily as a tool for "work" is inevitably going to cause burnout no matter how good you get at self-care
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broke: hustle culture, work hella hard woke: self-care culture, take care of myself so i can work bespoke: take care of myself because i'm a human and i matter
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in fact, getting better at self-care might make the problem worse, by staving off the crisis that would cause you to seriously reflect on how you relate to "work" as a source of meaning, validation, etc.
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this has been a theme of my thoughts lately, how lots of advice is about improving coping mechanisms in a way that delays crisis, and how this isn't obviously good in the long run kinda think people would be better off having crises as quickly as they have the resources for
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@utotranslucence said once that she didn't trust anybody who hadn't gone through at least 3 crises and i think there's a lot to that, especially in the choice of 3 specifically after your 1st or 2nd crisis you might think you're done but after #3 you're like "oh. i see."Show this thread
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*raises hand* Me. I need to hear this. Thank you for saying it.
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you're very welcome, and thank you for replying
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Gonna talk about semantics because it's important here. What does "work" mean? Self-care involves work too. One of the essential aspects of (self)-work is to develop a positive relationship with the notion of work generally.
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I hope it's clear that when I say "work" I don't mean "employment"
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But I think this is a subtle misreading of the original tweet. There's a difference between your main work tool being your self and your self mainly being your work tool; the former doesn't exclude the self from being other things.
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