I think understanding & growing more skillful in this territory is extremely important (from an impact-maximizing perspective and from other perspectives too).
I think my professional and social spaces at this time both made this feeling worse (because others felt this too and there was feeding on each other’s angst cycle) and enabled me to get out of it/provided a healthy path forward (because others had navigated this before and gave me thoughtful and insightful advice, and also supported me as I made steps in this direction). I also think it’s a broader dynamic than my personal professional and social spaces—I was mostly within EA at this time, but I’ve seen this dynamic play out in a lot of other “do-gooder” friends from college who were never involved at all with EA.
Thank you for writing this fantastic post!
I think understanding & growing more skillful in this territory is extremely important (from an impact-maximizing perspective and from other perspectives too).
I’m reminded of some of the practices I listed here, and of Jessica’s post On hiding the source of knowledge as well.
How do you think the professional and social spaces you were participating in during this time interacted with the hamster-wheel feeling?
Thanks for the links!
I think my professional and social spaces at this time both made this feeling worse (because others felt this too and there was feeding on each other’s angst cycle) and enabled me to get out of it/provided a healthy path forward (because others had navigated this before and gave me thoughtful and insightful advice, and also supported me as I made steps in this direction). I also think it’s a broader dynamic than my personal professional and social spaces—I was mostly within EA at this time, but I’ve seen this dynamic play out in a lot of other “do-gooder” friends from college who were never involved at all with EA.