Certain types of hard thinking do this to me, others are invigorating. When it feels like what I’m doing is artificial difficulty or memorization, or is mostly about tracking too many things at once, this will happen. When the complexity level can go arbitrarily high without enough decay in value of information, this will happen. I stopped playing Go because this happened to me when playing, in a way it doesn’t happen with basically any other game. Whereas when I do deliberate practice in Magic, or play even a very slow and intense game of Chess, it doesn’t happen.
Most annoying is that I get this when I’m trying to code and struggling with syntax or bugs.
I have a revealed preference for maximizing the amount of thinking I can do that doesn’t do this and is invigorating, and minimizing the headache-causing type even at very large expense.
Certain types of hard thinking do this to me, others are invigorating. When it feels like what I’m doing is artificial difficulty or memorization, or is mostly about tracking too many things at once, this will happen. When the complexity level can go arbitrarily high without enough decay in value of information, this will happen. I stopped playing Go because this happened to me when playing, in a way it doesn’t happen with basically any other game. Whereas when I do deliberate practice in Magic, or play even a very slow and intense game of Chess, it doesn’t happen.
Most annoying is that I get this when I’m trying to code and struggling with syntax or bugs.
I have a revealed preference for maximizing the amount of thinking I can do that doesn’t do this and is invigorating, and minimizing the headache-causing type even at very large expense.
Interesting – does deliberate practice (at least with Magic) for you cause mental fatigue or anything of the like?