The Trap of “I Need to Do an Amazing Job”
Devotion to one’s craft is wonderful but obsessing over results is debilitating. This Is a Trap That’s Easy to Fall Into I’ve spent much of
Devotion to one’s craft is wonderful but obsessing over results is debilitating. This Is a Trap That’s Easy to Fall Into I’ve spent much of
Active addiction is an internal war. One one side you have the attraction of the senses towards the object. And on the other hand you have the internal resistance to indulging. That’s the essence of the battle. Sometimes the senses dominate, leading to indulgence. Sometimes resistance dominates, leading to abstinence. And round and round it goes.
The ego has many strategies for not dropping into question one of The Work. One of those strategies is trying to answer the question with the intellect.
If I believe that the world is suffering, I suffer. When I see that I’m causing my own suffering, the need to change the world goes away. But just because the need to change the world is gone, doesn’t mean that I have to stop doing things to change the world. It’s totally ironic.
Many people find that identifying stressful thoughts to question is challenging for them. When I hear this, I immediately check to see if they are holding a motive in doing The Work.
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