tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5959585701939155085.post3311611553000266827..comments2023-10-28T03:18:59.060-07:00Comments on Career Transition: Loss of Motive PowerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07479195212681003809noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5959585701939155085.post-87461794126993560672010-04-08T15:36:22.726-07:002010-04-08T15:36:22.726-07:00I was thinking specifically of the first aspect an...I was thinking specifically of the first aspect and not the second at all. I admit, the illustration is less than perfect. The primary point is that there is a temptation to become so deeply drawn into the thing that we primarily do (especially, in my case, my career) that it becomes the only thing we think of and tend to forget much of what else goes on in the world. We draw inspiration from our successes and goal achievement and feed that back into the work world, which draws us suductively ever deeper.<br /><br />If the whole thing falls apart, as it did in my case, you lose not only the narrow viewpoint of what 'the world' is, but the primary tool you used to generate motivation. You could be right that it just feels like there is no energy, because the 'other space' is alien and difficult to understand, and we culturally aren't good at this kind of a major life transition, because it "isn't supposed to happen like that". An alternate explanation is that you just need to look deeply inside for long enough to find another energy source.<br /><br />Not sure if either of these explanations is right or not, but it is very odd waking up in the morning with an absence of drive...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479195212681003809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5959585701939155085.post-52344784716742131222010-04-08T12:07:10.432-07:002010-04-08T12:07:10.432-07:00It strikes me that you are really describing two s...It strikes me that you are really describing two separate issues in the above post, but might be blurring the line between the two.<br /><br />The first appears to deal with the need for introspection. Do/should we live our lives in a manner that we have the time and peace available to introspectively examine ourselves to assist in day to day guidance of goals and time allocation? More specifically, do we allow the pace our life to interfere with the very activities that should be helping us to determine the correct pace of our life. I'm inclined to believe that for US culture the answer is too often that introspection is a lost art. Because we don't practice, we're not that good at it. Because we are not that good at it, our faltering activities initial feel very non-productive. Of course we are comparing this to the well polished approach we have to getting things done under pressure and at fast pace. I wonder how long it actually takes to become good at being introspective.<br /><br />The second issue appears to be how many wheels should we have going at any given time and how much attention is appropriate for each of these wheels. Life's balance - do we focus a one (or a few) things and become deep experts in a field; or do we generalize in many things, being the world's leader in none but competent in all. Regardless of which path is chosen, I suspect there is always a residual question of what might have been.<br /><br />A caution. I think there are problems with mixing the two issues above. How we examine ourselves and how we allocate ourselves to the world around us are distinctly different ideas, just like which bike you ride is not the same as how fast you ride it.Andy and Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09100286678424565350noreply@blogger.com