“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."2 replies 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @QiaochuYuan @utotranslucence
Does it have to be a full 3 crises or does it count if you can just kind of stretch the first one out indefinitely?
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the important thing is that you don’t think you’re done 
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