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[onokentauros]

At Sea (2/?)

I'm finding it hard to focus.

I get up early in the morning, go running, shower, eat. After that my day is wide open. There are things I want to do and there are things I should be doing, the most important of which is grinding through the pile of secondary applications on my desk. Ideally I am capable of finishing two to three per

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[dejalemming]

I'd say a combination of self-motivation and humility is the key: you have to be puffed up enough to have that sense of drive, while still knowing you're not the universe's answer to medicine. The good ones, the really good ones, accept their essential humanness and imperfections while still pushing to always be better.

The ones that think they can do no wrong, whose motivation has taken them to where they want to go and now they rely on ego and pomposity to get them anywhere else, those are the ones that get themselves into trouble.

Find your motivation, and I think you'll be fine. You're not the sort to get a big head.

As for the "I-want-to-be-somewhere-else" mentality during the app process, I am with you on that one. It's mind-numbing after the first three or four, and downright painful after number eight.

[werido85]

I know you wrote this a while back, but it makes me think of how not to think of other things (aka, work, stuff to do) when I'm having fun times. Bad habit for me I suppose.

Ever come up with a way to not feel that "guilt"?

Have a good week this week :)