October 12, 2008

The same stuff

After several different occasions I'm convinced that taking on challenging commitments in order to force yourself to improve your work ethics is a wrong approach. But the opposite works even worse - you just can't motivate yourself for things that look graspable at the very beginning. Been there, done that.

2 comments:

vienuolika said...

until you actually are forced into working on these things and then realized that on a closer look the problem is far more complex than assumed (and then spend hours defending your work to people telling: oh, that's easy, just do this and that!) :)

Žāūčō said...

Actually it's the stage that I'm willing to be in - being forced to struggle through, the problem is that I mostly find some miserable roundabouts before even getting to that stage. And then straightforward it is to ask whether it even makes sense to try to put yourself into a new picture, when you hardly ever face the challenges you've been committed to.