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Ask HN: How do you care, not too much or too little, just enough?

3 pointsby rootsofallevilabout 4 years ago
I normally really care about work, about doing things right, or at least my version of right, anyway, but something odd happened last year, I moved companies just as the lockdown started and the onboarding process was a mess, to cut a very long story short, expectations were set very low with my manager apologising to me almost on a daily basis and I just went along with it and realized that I didn&#x27;t care. I didn&#x27;t argue, to the point of, if somebody suggested that I do things differently, I&#x27;d change them even if it didn&#x27;t think it was a great idea, on the basis of it not being worth the hassle.<p>Now I&#x27;m sort of back to my normal self where I do care, where I argue, where you have to provide compelling arguments for me to do things differently and I find it exhausting but at the same time, I can&#x27;t just go back to not caring, I&#x27;ve tried but I find myself reverting to my old caring self.<p>So I just wonder how people care the right amount<p>Note, I do realize that the right amount is entirely subjective and my level of care might be the right amount, it just doesn&#x27;t feel that way.<p>Thanks

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