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Re:Do whatever you can't stop thinking about by joeberon on Sunday March 08, 2020 @01:07PM (#22519137)
I definitely think that attitudes like "only do what you love/is automatically motivating" is a huge source of imposter syndrome, depression, and anxiety in me as a grad student
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Re:Do whatever you can't stop thinking about by Dansvidania on Sunday March 08, 2020 @03:36PM (#22520032)
Thank you. I have had the same exact problem with imposter syndrome and innumerable motivation issues with things I felt like I loved (and still love).

The "do what you love" narrative that our generation has been fed, I am not sure how and by whom, caused me to doubt my decisions much more than I think it's healthy, just because "I am not loving this, is this what I should be doing?". This applied to my university career, to my profession, to the jobs I took.

Luckily through lots of work on myself I am able now to look at these feelings with more lucidity and to work through them.

Thanks for sharing.

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