Ask HN: How do I create that mental reset effect Monday has on me?

Re:Ask HN: How do I create that mental reset effect Monday h... by jasonv on Monday May 11, 2020 @12:04PM (#23143561)

If you work at a job where you don't feel the agency of your decision making and output, if you're working for "the man", it can be relatively demotivating.

If you're working for yourself, and you know why you're doing something, and how you'll benefit from your labor, you'll have a more direct link to your motivation.

If you're working for an institution and you don't feel that agency, you might need a meta-objective. This is where people look to climb the ladder, or learn a skill that allows them to bounce to another institution for more pay and responsibility, etc. If you can't see any of those paths, it can be very difficult to feel the motivation, unless you're intrinsically motivated and all the work you have in front of you feeds your needs.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I create that mental reset effect Monday h... by noobrunner on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:20PM (#23150278)

Didn't know what 'working for the man' meant and had to look it up. :P urban dictionary to the rescue ! What you say does make sense in general, but I was curious about what are the ways in which one could change(reduce) the reset clock interval. Plenty of general advice about meditation, exercise, task management etc i think will help but with following that do people start most days like fresh as Mondays or at least close to? Lot of traditional self-help advice is along the lines saying start every day as new without carrying baggage from earlier day, but it is hard and hasn't worked well for me. I probably sort of "procrastinate" and subconsciously look towards start of the week for that.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I create that mental reset effect Monday h... by glitchc on Monday May 11, 2020 @01:56PM (#23144966)

In addition, the vast majority of office workers will fall into:

Category a) Working for the man or

Category c) Working for the institution

Learning something while I'm working on a task seems to motivate me; the learning is the payoff for some of the drudgery.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I create that mental reset effect Monday h... by uoaei on Monday May 11, 2020 @04:52PM (#23146927)

Very interesting observation. So for folks who find no intrinsic value in the actual output of their jobs, they seek out other forms of motivation to keep from feeling bad about working in such a demoralizing field.

Not to toss around stereotypes but this sounds like every single MBA I've ever met.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I create that mental reset effect Monday h... by cbluth on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:38PM (#23147411)

> Not to toss around stereotypes but [..] like every single [..]

:eyeroll: are my eyes rolling out of my sockets or am i too drunk to be shitposting on hn?

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Re:Ask HN: How do I create that mental reset effect Monday h... by uoaei on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:08PM (#23147698)

I should have rephrased as "disclaimer: what follows is a stereotype, but..."

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