[pacemkr]

Thinking like this helps me center.

Whenever I find myself down and my productivity low, I stop and think of how insignificant all this is, on a cosmic scale. We're here, and then we're not.

You'd guess that this thinking would make you feel nihilistic: what is the point of what I'm doing? Ironically, I only feel like that when thinking on a human scale, of life, of what I want to accomplish, of how unattainable it all seem in the moment. Then I step back, and I see that we are a spec in time and all this self-doubt and torture is unnecessary. At the end of this game, there are no winners. Enjoying the sport is your personal victory.