Do Hard Things Carefully

Re:Do Hard Things Carefully by fifilura on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:46PM (#42009360)

Edges are cool. But they do have a dark side, often forgotten when talked about in public.

I have once been on the edge of chaos for too long and eventually when it flipped over it took years to recover. Possibly even decades. Or possibly a lifetime.

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Re:Do Hard Things Carefully by chankstein38 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:03PM (#42010267)

Agreed. Crunch times at work, 10+ hour days for years left me burnt out even after being out of that for 5 years. Too much edge of your comfort zone can ruin your life!

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Re:Do Hard Things Carefully by fifilura on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:39PM (#42010666)

For me it was not crunch time but constantly challenging myself. Did I hope to see something on the other side?

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Re:Do Hard Things Carefully by Jerrrrrrry on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:19PM (#42012870)

For me, the work was so easy, easy things became impossible, and I, complacent.

  >Too much edge of your comfort zone can ruin your life!

too much comfort can lead to not being able to deal with trivial, and more trivial, tasks.

its the easy tasks, procrastinating into a wave, that accumulate exponentially the quickest.

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