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Ask HN: What inspires you to persevere through adversity?

14 points justanything | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 18:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source

Saw this question posted 8 years ago, and loved some of the responses. Would love to see what people have to say about it now.

Copying from the post: things you avoid while persevering?

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Ocerge ◴[07 Jul 25 22:39 UTC] No.44495310[source]▶
Depends on the adversity. If it's slogging through the work week (which is my main adversity these days):

My toxic tendency to remain completely independent is about all that motivates me to work. I don't have any real motivation anymore since I have built so many safety nets (financial or otherwise) for myself to handle that vast majority of professional failures.

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justanything ◴[08 Jul 25 06:43 UTC] No.44497683[source]▶
But how do you get yourself to do all the cognitively heavy work for your job, day in day out?
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1. Ocerge ◴[08 Jul 25 15:25 UTC] No.44500910[source]▶
Well I suppose in my current position there isn't much that is cognitively heavy, it's just...a slog. In previous jobs I had a bit more financial motivation when I worked on difficult things, but I made a change last year to migrate to an easier workload.