Who cares?
I am procrastinating. I should be overlaying six sets of electrical conductivity data that I took over a year ago to figure out what spatial differences exist over the flooded season of my wetland field site. I say this not to make me sound smart. Because instead of actually doing the work I should be doing, I find myself wondering who really cares if there are any spatial differences in EC at my wetland. I'm sure you guys don't care. At the moment, I'm over it. My advisor might care, but that's only because he wants me to publish a paper with his name on it. I think I have come to a point where I have lost all interest in my own work. I guess I still care about the big picture stuff, but the minutiae is driving me slowly batty. And right now, that is freaking the crap out of me. It is hard enough to make myself sit down to work, how am I supposed to do it if I don't care. And what does that say about me that I don't care? I'm not a don't carer. At least not normally. I actually used to get excited about this stuff. What I need to be doing is powering through, motivating, putting my nose to the grindestone. But I am having the hardest time doing it! I just can't get into it. And that is a problem.
I seem to have lost my motivation. Has anyone seen it?
I seem to have lost my motivation. Has anyone seen it?
posted by khh at
9:52 PM
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It's LuLu -- stupid new google blogger isn't letting me sign in. ARGH!!!!
Well, I'll start with the very astute comment that I don't even know what a spatial difference is!
I haven't noticed that you've lost your motivation, but I think that it's pretty typical for most of us. Personally, I have a very hard time focusing on the minute details of anything for too long. I get sick of it and want to move on to a new topic. I find this with my cases all the time. They are really interesting at first -- new facts, new arguments, new opposing counsel, etc . . . But by the time the case has been litigating for a few years, I'm tired of it and want to work on something new.
I'm not sure if there is a way to regain motivation easily. Sometimes the best thing might be to give it a rest. If it excited you at one point in time, it's likely to again. And if it doesn't, and you choose not to finish your dissertation, well, that's not the end of the world either. Why waste precious time on something that doesn't excite you?
there are so many double entendres and so much innuendo in this post, my mouth is dry and i am blushing.
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Who is Michael?
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