The trend of ‘fidget toys’ and other similar things is interesting, because to me, fidgeting with something has always made me more anxious, more unsettled, more uncomfortable, and eventually I get the urge to throw it across the room or something like that. I’ve tried a fidget spinner and a fidget cube and just toying around with whatever’s lying on my desk, and it just… makes me feel burned out and unfulfilled. Like scrolling on tiktok for hours, or having the same song stuck in my head for days. Apparently it helps other people to toy with these things, so I wonder if I’m just unique in the way my brain processes the fidgeting, or something.
People are different, but I wonder: do you play with the fidget toy while working, or instead of working?
For me, the proper protocol would be instead of working—the idea is that when I feel some bad emotions about the work, I stop working and start playing, and when I start feeling bad emotions about the toy, I stop playing and start working again.
The trend of ‘fidget toys’ and other similar things is interesting, because to me, fidgeting with something has always made me more anxious, more unsettled, more uncomfortable, and eventually I get the urge to throw it across the room or something like that. I’ve tried a fidget spinner and a fidget cube and just toying around with whatever’s lying on my desk, and it just… makes me feel burned out and unfulfilled. Like scrolling on tiktok for hours, or having the same song stuck in my head for days. Apparently it helps other people to toy with these things, so I wonder if I’m just unique in the way my brain processes the fidgeting, or something.
People are different, but I wonder: do you play with the fidget toy while working, or instead of working?
For me, the proper protocol would be instead of working—the idea is that when I feel some bad emotions about the work, I stop working and start playing, and when I start feeling bad emotions about the toy, I stop playing and start working again.