Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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People who have time management skills let the clock become an intrusive thought so they develop an obsessive compulsion with being aware of the time. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 1 year ago by FizzlePopBerryTwist to c/showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People are too sensitive to be able to hear what you’re saying without getting triggered.

They think because obsession is written in books as a disease that you’re attacking time management on a moral level.

I know what you mean. You’ve got the technical definition of obsession, you’re thinking about what it means as a mental mechanism. It means constant re-pointing of the awareness to a particular topic.

A person who practices time management is said to be “time conscious”. Consciousness is something that’s only directed at a subset of things at a time, so when we say a person is conscious of a thing we mean they’re conscious of it for a large amount of time. Being conscious of something a large amount of the time is also, at its extreme, the definition of obsession.

I think that’s what you’re saying, right?

Someone who sticks to a schedule is like a mind that sticks to a thought.