Hustle Game, Melting Brain
One of the worst things that social media of the 21st Century has inflicted on us is the influencer. I think we can agree on that. But one of the worst forms of these influencers is the productivity/hustle mongers that tell you that the pathway to your dreams lies in not sleeping.
I have to be honest, it’s an alluring concept. To be able to find systems and processes that help someone like me keep track of what in the fuck I’m doing, and the idea that if I can do it — whatever it is — consistently from 5 pm to insomnia o’clock from now until the heat death of the universe I might get what I want out of my life just before my nervous breakdown and confinement in a rubber room.
The problem with that mindset is that for some of us, there’s no off switch, and circuits that are constantly energized eventually short and burn out. Bad enough when it’s the compressor switch on your refrigerator, that’s a week’s worth of food down the drain. When the switch is your brain, that’s another problem altogether. For me, a person that is simultaneously goal oriented and riddled with ADD, there’s a lot of self-loathing that occurs when I can see the thing, and I want to do the thing, but I’ve already failed at doing the thing in my head because I couldn’t keep up the pace of what I thought the thing requires. Take this podcast as an example, or the stories I’ve started writing, or the…
