Re:How to Do the Thing You've Been Avoiding
by TeMPOraL on Friday June 23, 2023 @06:31PM
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Huh, I'm doing the exact same thing, though off-line - I keep a "running log" in Org Mode. A new file every month, and in that file, a new heading for every day, and under that heading, I just type. 90% of it is just me talking with myself. I do it both at work and for personal stuff (two different set of files on two different computers, of course). It's the only thing that I know can reliably ground me, that can keep me focused to at least some degree, no matter how bad I feel, and that can help me process and deal with emotions.
I don't see it as stickiness, I see it more as effortlessness, because it's so easy to continue working on something, but I recognise the description. I'm dealing with it by exporting the "what am I doing?" question to text - in other words, being really really explicit about my thinking by writing it down. I have a log running in a Slack window that often has things like "ok, we're gonna take a step back, and think about the steps we need to take to accomplish the goal. First we X, then we Y, etc". I'm essentially rubber ducking my executive function.