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Ch. 5 - Leaning Into Nothingness - Emotional Exhaustion: Learning to Play
Venturing often leaves me emotionally exhausted. The constant trade-off between today and tomorrow, between immediate comfort and uncertain future gains, rarely feels good. At the end of the day, I don’t feel triumphant—I feel drained.
The only way I’ve learned to cope with this exhaustion is to change how I view the work. I treat it as play, refusing to take what I’m doing too seriously. I ignore the weight of my surroundings and approach each step with humor or detachment. I try to see every small action as something that doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme, allowing me to block out the…
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