I will admit I hate doing handyman shit now. Used to be proud to be able to do basic stuff as a teenager but jeez it’s high effort, low (psychological) reward. I’d get bored to tears if I had to do full time handyman work like minor maintenance and repairs in a building all day.
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Replying to @vgr
Try treating it like a meditation. Focus on the task, on your breath. When you get distracted, bring your attention back to the task and your breathing.
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I’d rather read Zen and the Art of Making Enough Money to be Able to Afford to Outsource all Motorcycle Maintenance to Phaedrus
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If I had to pick ‘change a lightbulb’ or ‘work out who I need to hire, contact them, get a quote, pay them to change my lightbulb’ the first task is way less frustrating.
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Although maybe ‘hire someone whose job it is to think about all things lightbulb-complexity-level and lower’ would be preferable to either?
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If only The Maintenance Life stopped at lightbulbs. Unfortunately it acquires a creeping complexity and overwhelming tediousness as you grow older, and gather more baggage (physical, intrapersonal, interpersonal...). At some point it turns into All Lightbulbs All The Time.
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