Working Like an Idiot Makes You an Idiot

...Please let me explain, as this title might be misleading.

When approaching work, don't you ever think about the differences between adjectives like "concentration," "enthusiasm," and "immersion"?

In short, it is a point of discussion regarding "what kind of attitude should one have when approaching work?"

Certainly, when thinking from this perspective, it becomes possible to give meaning to the work in front of you, and if you replace it with "what kind of person do I want to become?", you might be able to look at your current self by working backward from the person you want to be.

However, not all the work in front of you is important or urgent.

In extreme terms, there is also "useless work."

Even so, if you work with "what kind of attitude should I have?" as your axis, a fixed idea that "work is something to be completed" may be born.

Actually, I am writing this article because I felt that I might be the one caught in this fixed idea.

For the past few months, I have been living a life where I feel like I am being chased by work from the moment I wake up until I go to sleep.

The goal had become "to complete it."

As a result, what I, the current me a few months later, have obtained is only a catharsis of "I don't really know what it was, but I worked desperately."

Originally, aren't learning and realization "learning from gaps" and "noticing gaps"?

"Gap" refers to the "sense of discomfort" with your current self.

When talking to someone, when we feel a "gap" while having certain commonalities between the other person's values and our own, we recognize that "gap" as a "sense of discomfort" and become interested and concerned.

And when we chew on the "gap" in our own way, doesn't it lead to our growth as learning and realization?

When your eyes are only on the work in front of you, whether that state is "concentration," "enthusiasm," or "immersion," there is no "gap."

In other words, because you consume time without recognizing the "sense of discomfort," it means there is no learning there.

It is just a personal feeling, but I really feel that "working like an idiot makes you an idiot," so I want to keep in mind the mental leeway and antennas to the surroundings to always perceive "gaps" and "senses of discomfort."

With that said, thank you for reading until the end.

That is all for this post.