Team environments contain lots of activities (meetings, answering questions, reports, etc) which are quite tricky because they’re *sometimes* very valuable. And that makes it easy not to notice when you’re only doing them to hide when feeling aversion to tough creative problems.
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I’ve noticed that displacement activities are much more obvious when working alone. There’s no mailing list of questions to answer, so hiding often look more like surfing the internet, cleaning the house, etc. It’s much harder to accidentally convince yourself that that’s work!
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It’s funny: if I get into a good awareness state while in the middle of some tough creative work, I can feel a noticeable “baud rate” of aversive impulses, graspings for easy escapes, etc. Many times a minute! Usually can’t de-identify enough to see that.
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Like the past few minutes, while I’ve been intending to read some very dense 19th century psychology papers, I suddenly felt it was very important to write on Twitter about a totally unrelated topic. w̸̩͊h̴̻̔a̴̲̎t̴̼̔ ̵̝͘ả̴̧ ̸͕̿s̶̭͊u̴͔̽r̸͎͝p̵̖͂r̵̥̂i̶̻͆s̵̉ͅe̵̺͝
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Interesting! I think the inverse of this is also true: part of why good team discussions sometimes result in so much progress is that they relieve a lot of the aversions that come up when working on a tough creative problem.
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any tips on how to break through and get good answers to the “tough creative problems” we’re so often avoiding?