Motivation wierdness

[ixat_totep]

Recently I was feeling quite down for a while and it seemed like I desparately needed to be doing something other than computer programming with my life. Specifically, something or things more creative. I had lots of schemes, but no energy to get going on them

Comments

[marasca]

One does spend an awful amount of time at work so it's not surprising that many poets would be about it.

What kind of more creative work were you thinking of?

I don't know how it is for other people, but for me, the really big changes pretty much always come from desperation. If you're reasonably happy most of the time, or even content a lot of the time, there's not much impetus to change, right? It's only when you slip past that balance point of happy and unhappy that a big change will seem really compelling.

[ixat_totep]

Re: desperation: Yes, that's the real motivator. Unfortunately, getting more energetic seems to go with the desperation submerging beneath surface happiness. Its still really there underneath and when I listen I can hear it. But I'm a little too good at finding comfort in the good parts of my situation (and there are quite a few) when my mood isn't complete depressive crap. I suppose one could argue that I'm not really that desparate, then. But I don't feel that's quite the right way to look at it. Obviously I'm not at wit's end, but I think ignoring the underlying tug of whatever it is would be very bad for me in the long run