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Comments on: Performance anxiety http://www.splagkhna.org/performance-anxiety/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:04:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: Mike http://www.splagkhna.org/performance-anxiety/#comment-387 Mike Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:36:25 +0000 http://www.splagkhna.org/performance-anxiety/#comment-387 And the feeling of being behind quickens the panic. I've declared 'responsibility bankruptcy'. It was almost entirely a matter of perspective, rather than action. I got out a piece of paper and listed the <i>sine qua non</i> items of life, and separately, all of my entanglements. The <i>sine qua non</i> list was refreshingly small, but more demanding than I gave it credit for. 2x the time I gave it, commonly. That understood, eyes and stomach began to (were forced to) agree, and the entanglements were ranked and weeded. I've managed to keep my nose above water since, now and then scribbling out those lists to keep my head clear. I posited atheism once, to see what it might allow me to discard. Little. My thoughts and cares proceed 'from the ground up' when I am not in the thrall of some writer on metaphysics (most of college), so I wasn't too terribly surprised. And the feeling of being behind quickens the panic.

I’ve declared ‘responsibility bankruptcy’. It was almost entirely a matter of perspective, rather than action. I got out a piece of paper and listed the sine qua non items of life, and separately, all of my entanglements.

The sine qua non list was refreshingly small, but more demanding than I gave it credit for. 2x the time I gave it, commonly. That understood, eyes and stomach began to (were forced to) agree, and the entanglements were ranked and weeded.

I’ve managed to keep my nose above water since, now and then scribbling out those lists to keep my head clear.

I posited atheism once, to see what it might allow me to discard. Little. My thoughts and cares proceed ‘from the ground up’ when I am not in the thrall of some writer on metaphysics (most of college), so I wasn’t too terribly surprised.

]]> By: pamccf http://www.splagkhna.org/performance-anxiety/#comment-455 pamccf Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:32:37 +0000 http://www.splagkhna.org/performance-anxiety/#comment-455 Thanks for that. Tangential: I think I have a block in my mind that prohibits me from using lists or journals of any kind. I managed to keep a journal for two months last summer, a record for me, but then I lost it. Any lists I make will be incomplete or damaged or lost. I don't know if its psychological or psychological, if you follow the distinction, but I just don't do well with written records that intend to be true. Especially if I'm making them for myself. (Who's he? Oh, he'll remember.) Thanks for that. Tangential: I think I have a block in my mind that prohibits me from using lists or journals of any kind. I managed to keep a journal for two months last summer, a record for me, but then I lost it. Any lists I make will be incomplete or damaged or lost. I don’t know if its psychological or psychological, if you follow the distinction, but I just don’t do well with written records that intend to be true. Especially if I’m making them for myself. (Who’s he? Oh, he’ll remember.)

]]> By: Peter http://www.splagkhna.org/performance-anxiety/#comment-541 Peter Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:15:31 +0000 http://www.splagkhna.org/performance-anxiety/#comment-541 I like the sponge metaphor. I sort of closed my eyes and sighed after reading it. Then I thought maybe we are like sponges, each being saturated with our own talent and that we simply need to be squeezed so that we can drip all over the people and world around us. Ideally, many sponges are being saturated and squeezed constantly, both around and above us. Then can we squeeze ourselves? I have no doubt of it. I like the sponge metaphor. I sort of closed my eyes and sighed after reading it.

Then I thought maybe we are like sponges, each being saturated with our own talent and that we simply need to be squeezed so that we can drip all over the people and world around us. Ideally, many sponges are being saturated and squeezed constantly, both around and above us.

Then can we squeeze ourselves? I have no doubt of it.

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