The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Progress Update -
I am now close to 6 hours of work daily which includes math(mathacademy), frontend(learning web design by jennifer niederst robbins) and backend (boot.dev). This is maybe the first time I have been able to do STEM-related stuff for over a month regularly without spinning my wheels. I will aim for 6-8 hours daily by next week, I would earlier have impossible aims like working 12 hours a day for 7 days a week which was quite stupid. I have two accountability partners who keep a track and I cannot thank them enough for it.
Meds and stuff -
I started incorporating 5-minute micro sits in my day besides my main sit of 24 minutes. My concerta prescription got renewed, still 36 mg, enough to make a difference, my psychiatrist noted that I came off less fidgety than when I first met her over a month ago. The med is important because it helps in everything, when I was off last week, reality felt a little blurry, now I can listen to music again and feel calm.
Miscellaneous -
I was quite stressed recently due to my previous co-founders and finding ways where I can stay friends with them but move on to other things in life. In hindsight, I was wrong to LARP as a founder for over a year when I lacked any basic hard skills. In case anyone here wishes to work as one in tech, I hope you have good technical chops, I did not and ended up being the least potent guy since we never did have even a pre-alpha product nor did I get paid a dime which I don't blame them for. They meant well, I don't wish to burn bridges with them. This sounds trivial but kept me up for the past few days. People get really pissed if you try things a different way, I don't want them to give me any input for the next 2-3 months but don't know how to say it.
An even weirder thing is telling people who meet me "what I do". I am not alone in this, a former high school buddy recently came back to my town from Delhi and he went to the Yale Law equivalent here. Life will be alright, just need to keep working for now, see ya guys next week.
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