[qq4]

What is the rational behind your first sentence? Solving problems is progress, and that is anything but bleak.

> Don’t waste cycles on the emotions of having problems.

I don't think you're reading what the parent comment is actually saying. Finding purpose, not burning out, etc are all categorically problems and the common goal is to solve them. Don't get buried in emotion due to _having_ the problems.

[theIntuitionist]

How much satisfaction do you really get from checking something off the list? There was some motivation that put the item on the list in the first place, and 9 time out of 10, that motivation goes back to an emotional drive of some sort. Ignoring that motivation during the process of satisfying it is fundamentally missing the point.

[qq4]

A lot. I love seeing that check and looking back on other ones along with the work that I did.