Rec | CONSUME ART AND/OR GET PISSED OFF ABOUT SOMETHING YOU CAR...

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consume art and/or get pissed off about something you care about

I'm not sure what your essays or other assignments are about (and maybe they're just highkey boring idk). But for me (I also have severe executive dysfunction) I have to EXTREMELY care about whatever I'm writing/creating to even find an inkling of motivation. So I seek out cool shit to read, watch, listen to, or look at to motivate me to tell a story/make art/yada yada. (this is different from doomscrolling I swear). Seeing other people make cool stuff makes me want to make cool stuff!! Maybe this is where parallel play can be helpful too. OR I get pissed off about something I care about. It's honestly about generating energy. I watched Drew Gooden's video about AI art and it got me so pissed off I finished a project I was procrastinating. or also also. do some other activity/chore u on your to do list to get u into the ~grindset~ im sorry if this wasn't very helpful lol

@ajspeanuts

Mar 23, 2025

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@raniya-khan

thank you so much ahhh and yes it was helpful! Honestly I’m at the point where anything helps! I do this too sometimes, where I’ll watch content or video essays or some sort of think piece about issues that annoy me, recently I’ve been falling down a rabbit hole about the issues surrounding “nonchalant-ness” and cringe culture and it’s really got me motivated to just begin engaging in some sort of critical analysis, even if it isn’t the topic of my paper it helps!

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