Kind of amazing how when you have a headache your frustration threshold drops BELOW zero :) Not helpful :)
"Frustration Threshold" is actually a good way to term it...
@feoh "Frustration Threshold" is actually a good way to term it.
And as extra info comment interested about threshold and how I see it:
For me these ill times actually 'helps' me in a way look at solving usually things! In a good way too (since I might have a bit less energy but I heave heaps more WILL power which gives me more mental will power).
A bit like risking being more ill or YOLO (You Only Live Once Feeling).
Else specific things might never get done or thought of!
The ability to use illness as resistance basically, to really got to battle with something that perhaps you wouldn't normally so (like I have stuff lying around but when ill clear it... so I have some healthy resistance battling illness and diverting that to smoething else..,. else I might never do it too fast!)..
So allows one to focus and be determined in a strange way a bit like being under the influence of chemicals but less extreme.
Get well though and do what might help you see what you don't normally do, and happy recovery :)
re: "Frustration Threshold" is actually a good way to term it...
@freeschool So, hold on a sec. Trying to understand where you're coming from here.
Pain is a drug through which I can improve my performance?
I deal with some fairly annoying (but mostly not life threatening thank goodness) medical crap.
Where do I sign up for understanding this particular philosophy? :)
I've heard and read about the idea that mindfulness can conquer pain and allow the wielder to be able to maintain focus and concentration THROUGH it but never what you're saying.
re: "Frustration Threshold" is actually a good way to term it...
@feoh
(sorry was pasted wrong before and appreciate it's long but take what you can and let me know!)
Most of it you got there.
It's more the unwillingness to allow it to 'defeat' you is the feeling, psychology or inspiration due to being limited by it, so you go about doing what you can and sometimes even more than usual!...
The image of what an angry ape might help go around doing things while frustrated but more as clever human the destroying of the tasks one sets for themself in retaliation and really 'killing' the task off than making a mess. You're normal 'too comfortable' self comparably might mean being lesser in some tasks or too much in the middle and indecisive. The sense of more-real urgency from being ill or even needing something to do. Being ill or limited helps realise that again and isn't too dissimilar to being at war with one's self, the illness or others.
The pain (within various acceptable amounts and for various types of people) gives the state of body and mind a different character for a bit. And you can take advantage of that consciously (rather than stay victim also is an important thing) ... so less tolerance becomes "these things have been left way too long, I'm sick of it"" :) and in your ill phase those feelings are perhaps more likely to have a knock on effect towards doing (like giving them away or leaving it out on your wall for others to take... or actually making something with it.)
Illness shifts the frame of perspective or feeling about what you see (again lying around and what is undone is my example which could be related to not wanting to be disappointed with ones self...)
A kind reverse psychology or testing yourself too I think is in effect here, calling yourself out because you actually might never do it anyway and would feel more disappointed, so to avoid being depressed about you nip it in the bud earlier, like fixing something before it all breaks.
"bugger it, might not turn out the best now, but if not now when?".. and "will I really do it later?"
(basically courage and reality check is what was needed to do it)
And separately a lot of other things can be decided, including considering how others feel better when in different state and what to do about as ideas for others... (being quieter or respecting how others feel after working in a bad job, but not until you get one and are tired / ill / unrelaxed yourself).
You also asked "Where do I sign up for understanding this particular philosophy? :)
...and the answer is already here on the Fediverse, and you've already signed up when I accepted your follow request :). Congrats :thumbsup_hmn_g1:
More if interested follows...
I think being too comfortable is similar to discomfort but more in the comfort spectrum where being too comfortable is perhaps naturally not seeing why the need why to do things and falling behind naturally.
Things tend to get sorted based on need and that can be purely mental or purely physical and then many things need the right combination of both. A key if you will. 🔑
but not to risk myself completely all the time) like:
Even while being ill one can consciously say 'ok I'm ill so now is the time to execute those things I said I'd need to do now... (grab the list and do)
- sewing those buttons on my shirt that came off and keep passing by on the chair
-I have make notes for the audio podcast, that in turn I need to send when I'm better to that guy I said I would'.
- (etc)...
A nice chain of things can arise from smaller things achieved which illness tends to allow scope and focus.
