How to Find Focus

Re:How to Find Focus by amateurdev on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:57AM (#25468292)

This is actually good advise! Could you link the podcast episode? I've had a hard time with some of my hobby projects, but now I think my approach could be very different. The ones I've completed have sort of fit the notion 'Im doing it because I want to do it', not because I have to do it.

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Re:How to Find Focus by JesseMReeves on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:55AM (#25468984)

He briefly discusses it in this episode of „Das philosophische Radio“: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/wdr-5-das-philosophisc...

I went on listening to other interviews with him on Apple Podcasts where he touches this and other ideas, but eventually got one of his books that is specifically about burnout (“Vom Burnout zum Flow”) as an audiobook, where he describes such imagery exercises in detail. I also liked how he chooses his words very carefully.

It’s all in german however, a lot of his books have not been translated yet. He often mentions that C.G. Jung influenced him, but I’m not familiar with his writings at all.

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Re:How to Find Focus by amateurdev on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:59PM (#25471213)

Welp, I don't know German at all sadly! The idea you mentioned in the original comment is certainly helpful though. Something to chew on, so thanks anyway :)

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Re:How to Find Focus by rige on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:56PM (#25469855)

Thanks for the recommendation! That podcast episode sounds interesting - I'm always looking for new German shows to add to my podcast queue :)

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Re:How to Find Focus by rigmarole on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:59PM (#25471930)

This sounds similar to exercises in the book "Play it Away" by Charlie Hoehn; a book on recovering from burnout via play. In that book you look back and create a "play history" to find common elements for your recovery approach.

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