“How do people actually find motivation without hope? This isn’t a rhetorical question. I hope you offer some ideas in the comments.”
Let yourself get incredibly emotionally invested in what you’re fighting for.
Wait until your mounting failures explode into a full-blown existential crisis.
Remember when you used to take epistemology seriously. (I imagine “Remember that acid trip” might also do the job.)
Go full-on Daoist/Buddhist/nihilist, pick your flavour. Forget goodness, forget truth, notice beauty. Slow down. Chill out. Drift...
Remember when you felt that something actually mattered. Think “Eh. Come on, I’ve (like literally, tautologically) got nothing better to do.”
Nudge your life back in the direction of what you were fighting for. May take many nudges. That’s fine.
If ever you notice yourself getting worked up or a bit despair-y, juuuuust gently remind yourself that no one knows anything, everything’s basically out of everyone’s hands...but we may as well give it a jolly good go and laugh at the absurdity of it all on the way.
I’m afraid it’s a little idiosyncratic (n=1) and it took a few years and I may not recommend if you’re not already at 2. But that’s my story.
“How do people actually find motivation without hope? This isn’t a rhetorical question. I hope you offer some ideas in the comments.”
Let yourself get incredibly emotionally invested in what you’re fighting for.
Wait until your mounting failures explode into a full-blown existential crisis.
Remember when you used to take epistemology seriously. (I imagine “Remember that acid trip” might also do the job.)
Go full-on Daoist/Buddhist/nihilist, pick your flavour. Forget goodness, forget truth, notice beauty. Slow down. Chill out. Drift...
Remember when you felt that something actually mattered. Think “Eh. Come on, I’ve (like literally, tautologically) got nothing better to do.”
Nudge your life back in the direction of what you were fighting for. May take many nudges. That’s fine.
If ever you notice yourself getting worked up or a bit despair-y, juuuuust gently remind yourself that no one knows anything, everything’s basically out of everyone’s hands...but we may as well give it a jolly good go and laugh at the absurdity of it all on the way.
I’m afraid it’s a little idiosyncratic (n=1) and it took a few years and I may not recommend if you’re not already at 2. But that’s my story.