EPTThe problem of needing constant mental stimulation - Page 3
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 I am currently having a lot of trouble with school, because I dont find it interesting enough.. I am considering quitting SC2 so that Ill get a massive need for mental stimulation and perhaps school will be more fun. Will I ever find a vocation that I find interesting enough to do it for years? I get a job but its only interesting the first 2 weeks. I also dont find people that interesting, I kinda have to be drunk to really enjoy their company for extended periods of time. I find it hard talking to someone for extended periods of time. But in a small timeframe I can talk a lot. I can rarely watch movies alone without getting bored and there are few books I can read, but the good ones like Atlas Shrugged I can read for seemingly forever.. The pattern I see here is also that the people in this thread consider themselves pretty intelligent (I do myself) and that may be the case. I feel like people with less analytical minds or whatever enjoy things like conversation more. And this is deffinately a thing that does not get better with time, only worse. | ||
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Poland680 Posts
Morfildur Germany. February 16 2011 16:07. Posts 464 PM Profile Quote # I have that, too, though it gets harder every day to get the mental stimulation. As soon as i find a pattern in something i get bored by it, and sadly i'm extremely fast with finding pattern. I learned programming because it's something complex, but now even that just bores me because for 99% of the problems i immedatly find the pattern and apply other patterns to solve them. It's just tedious work, no mental stimulation. Walking, working out, etc... just boring repetition, nothing to distract me. I think the main problem is that i'm trying to distract me from thinking thoughts i know i shouldn't be thinking (i have a serious depression), so i try to find anything that stimulates my brain to do something else than thinking, though i haven't found anything that works very long. This also causes problems when trying to sleep, since suddenly there is no more mental stimulation and it takes several hours for my brain to shut down. ok, this post is not very coherent, but well... maybe i'm too tired... Dude, im exactly the same O,o I was actually thinking about it some time ago, and come to some depressing conclusions ;( While watching some SCII streams I have to: eat - drink, browse net, read e-books or books (O,o) ,listen to music etc. While reading a book I like to listen to music or some lectures , streams etc. I can force myself to just focus on one thing like reading new book, however after 30 minutes my mind just need more so I turn on the GSL stream or smth. Sometimes Im really excited reading a certain book and after few minutes realize that I would be better reading the other one. Its hard to explain (+ Im better with reading english than writing) I have really hard time to focus on one book, usually I start one read about 50 pages than start another do the same and return to the first one etc. I got like 6 started books while on two of them Im almost finished and in the rest im in the middle. From history to politics, economy based, fantasy... I have problem with going to bed because I know I will have to: 1) silence my mind to fall asleep, which I find hard and frustrating 2) think about spent day (I often think I could spent it better) So I turn on my mp3 or watch some political / historical lecture on laptop till Im really "ready". So many things I find interesting and than quickly (for various reasons) Im just getting bored of. I got days in my job that I do more than I should and the other day Im lazy, focusing how to do less work. I lose "excitiment" quickly for some activities and later suddenly it comes back. Maybe my english skills are not good enough to express everything in few sentences or maybe I was just trying to write longer post wtf? Anyway, sorry for long post and bad english. | ||
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