Fundamental shift in my relationship with coffee: light to moderate doses have completely stopped feeling distracting.
Sharpens everything.
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Still get restless leg syndrome, though.
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I tend to think a lot of our pathologizing of coffe comes from frayed attention.
Increased dopamine gets messy in an undecided mind.
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yes, the relationship between attention and intention is ignored too often. Attention is incredibly important, but one must be aware of the way in which it is regulated and inclined by intention.
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This is the number one issue I saw with colleagues in a work environment with repetitive tasks, calling people and responding to emails.
They seemed completely incapable of maintaining intention in order to regulate attention, coupled with low capacity, led to 50% productivity.
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50% is a very rough guess, but based on other employees with the exact same amount of tasks, same/less time, and accurate metrics to measure basic task completion (call logs, email data, sale closes, etc).
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Considering when I wasn't undergoing major depression, I maintained 190% of KPIs in such a work environment, that seems about right.
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(I did not consider myself good at my job, but my colleagues were downright sleepwalking.
A *very* lazy friend was constistently hovering 130-170%.)
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That is funny you should say that. I too, never considered myself to be very good or well suited to that role, and yet managers loved me because I consistently outperformed my colleagues, according to those very narrow metrics.
They should have looked more at cohesion, morale.
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I did not have the same experience. Frustrated the hell out of managers (lots of "potential", allegedly, but constantly depressed by the 9-6 experience).
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(Doing years of insight practice without a teacher or any strong grounding in equanimity was probably a bit foolish, in retrospect.)