Humans have become perfect little capitalist soldiers. They even declare everything a “challenge” — the 52 books a year challenge, the one film per night challenge, discovering new music challenges, map challenges, writing challenges, walking/hiking challenges — you know what I mean, right?
Why don’t people just simply *do* things without giving them deadlines, goals, and trying to “validate” them by making them look like work?
@babumenos oh, partially it is just a force of habbit. Or creating one. Sometimes it's conscious - if I let people at 52frames (the wekly photography challenge that I do) schedule challenges for me, I just go out and _do_ things. That said, the deadlines are sometimes a bit pushy.
But that second part is where my stubbornness comes in, even in my work and everything else, I treat these things (deadlines, goals, validations) as flexible, and only a framework to talk in, rather than fixed schedules that I must obey. Also, I don't do many "challenges", I do a lot of things by just doing them, but for some, I want some external way of looking at my progress.
That said, I don't think many people (myself included) are aware of many of the little things that they do under the often hidden pressure of these challenges and I totally agree with you: we should teach people to be more aware of it.
@babumenos oh, partially it is just a force of habbit. Or creating one. Sometimes it's conscious - if I let people at 52frames (the wekly photography challenge that I do) schedule challenges for me, I just go out and _do_ things. That said, the deadlines are sometimes a bit pushy.
But that second part is where my stubbornness comes in, even in my work and everything else, I treat these things (deadlines, goals, validations) as flexible, and only a framework to talk in, rather than fixed schedules...
@babumenos It’s entirely possible that people structure activities they enjoy (or want to enjoy the fruits of) in ways that encourage interaction with one another. It’s entirely possible that people enjoy interacting with one another and learn from each other when they discuss the things they are doing, have done, and want to do.
I mean, you had an interesting and thought-provoking observation there. Why didn’t you just let the idea be sufficient? Why share it on social media?
@babumenos i mean. Perhaps if you don't read as much as you want to it can help to keep yourself accountable. Idk. This is a weird vibe.