Re:Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home?
by superbcarrot on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:07PM
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I don't see how this helps anyone who is struggling. Purpose isn't something that you can just go and get more of.
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Re:Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home?
by TheAdamAndChe on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:17PM
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I disagree, a sense of purpose is absolutely pursuable. It's merely a state of mind, a sense that what you're doing has meaning or makes progress towards a larger goal. What that meaning or goal is can be molded by conscious processes.
Re:Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home?
by superbcarrot on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:42PM
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Everything in your comment can be true and the advice can still be useless. People need specific, small, actionable steps that they can realistically take. Generic stuff like "you need purpose" is either completely meaningless or inspirational in the short-term but with no real consequences.
Re:Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home?
by cferr on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:00PM
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We can't tell OP what their purpose is.
Re:Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home?
by obsequiosity on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:20PM
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True. We could tell them a strategy to discover their personal values and strengths which would suggest an ideal purpose, however.