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@QiaochuYuan
“MY MAIN WORK TOOL: MYSELF” AAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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Julie
@syswarren
There is no trophy for burnout. It's not a medal you can wear proudly. When you do, it just sends this message: "I wasn't smart enough to take care of my main work tool: myself."
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@QiaochuYuan
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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@QiaochuYuan
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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@QiaochuYuan
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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@QiaochuYuan
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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@QiaochuYuan
@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."
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@QiaochuYuan
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@utotranslucence
off the cuff: a crisis is an experience where you see through an eternalism; that is, where you notice that there was some thing (a job, a relationship, an ideology, a religion, etc.) that you were taking implicitly as an ultimate source of meaning, and you see that it can't be
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