Hard work

[tridianprime]

What are your opinions on hard work? What most people see as hard work and struggle to persuade themselves to do I never understand I.e. procrastination. To me, something can be exasperating but I just do it because there is nothing stopping me physically. I think this emotional detachment is very useful and why many aspies can excel in a career or area of interest. Do you agree? Do you find this?

An example of this is if I'm doing a maths problem like a couple of years ago when I did Michael spivaks calculus book, which is notorious for being rigorous, and a problem can get hard and make you tired but there is nothing physically stopping you from working on it for a long time so I can just detach myself from the emotions and persist.

 

[Licorice]

I don't feel like I'm emotionally detached from hard work, but the effort is always worth it in the end. I feel much worse when I find excuses to only do easy things than when I push through and complete tasks that take a lot of work or a long time. Both writing and math tend to be very rewarding things when you attain a level of skill, though, which probably makes them easier in a sense than cleaning a kitchen or returning a bunch of phone calls.

 

[tridianprime]

Good point.

 

[tridianprime]

I thought id mention it's 3AM here in London and i am still working on a mysql database plugin that I've been coding since 6AM yesterday. Maybe this hard work is in reality just overruling and uncontrollable enthusiasm.

 

[Judge]

I'm not quite sure what one would refer to as "hard work". If it involves inherently being meticulous and methodical about something, (more likely anything) in my own case I attribute it to OCD if not directly attributed to a specific work ethic. There are also things I enjoy doing that can be terribly complex at times...that could be considered a whole different animal as well.

Just this evening I found myself somewhat amused by how I prepare food....cut vegetables....just making an omelet. Hard work? No...but maybe there's madness in having intricate methodologies in benign things. At least I can laugh at myself on some levels.

Of course my OCD, unlike my AS is generally not something so easily shared or observed by others. At times I suppose at very close range I might unintentionally scare, intimidate or aggravate people...which makes me a little sad at times.

 

[tree]

The idea of 'hard work' makes me think of Salvador Dali's
response to an art patron who asked if it were hard to paint a picture.

Answer:

“No, it’s either easy or impossible.”