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Does anybody feel like they’re actually good at maintenance? As in, healthy attitude, motivation, good dopamine loops around stuff like paperwork, chores, boring repairs where you learn nothing new, doctor appointments, code documentation, inbox clearing... What’s your secret?
I get that some people are driven by a strong sense of duty/responsibility/piety but what if you entirely lack those traits? I can do some guilt, fear, anxiety, panic, but they don’t seem like healthy ways to stay on top of maintenance work
A good measure of the amount of the non-routine maintenance you have in your life is the number of account numbers and passwords. Routine maintenance (eg. folding laundry) can be made pleasant. Non-routine is much harder.
Any maintenance that requires dealing with an account number/password is by definition a rare or exceptional kind of event, like filing taxes or calling customer service because a thing broke.
You can make it routine by investing in serious personal workflow systems (ie automation) but now you have 2 problems. I think that's why my disciplined GTD-ing from my 30s pretty much broke down in my 40s. Even something as simple as GTD for personal workflow can become too much
Yeah, this by Vaughn is really good.https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1353435507154276358 …
not being a man?
As a female, I could never stand it but met many men and women who were excellent. They tend to be very pained by chaos, uncertainty, conflict and messes. Very conscientious. Often found in operations
Some of that stuff is at just the right level of mindlessness that it feels like walking meditation. And by repetition you can get more and more efficient, saving motion which feels like a reward. Just like practice at any skill. William S. Burroughs wrote an essay about this
Here's the article, written by Burroughs' companion:https://tricycle.org/magazine/nothing-true-william-burroughs-and-buddhism/ …
I trained myself to enjoy the chores, and to ask questions about the mundane.
How did you train? Sounds more effective but cannot think of a good exercise for that
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