I’m not sure I agree. Sure, there are lots of problems of the “papercut” kind, but I feel like the problems that concern me the most are much more of the “dragon kind”. For example:
There are lots of jobs in my career field in my city, but there don’t seem to be any that are actually do one of: do truly quality work, work on the latest technology where everything in the field will go in my opinion or produce a product/service that I care about. I’m not saying I can’t get those jobs, I’m saying in 15+ years working in this city I’ve never even heard of one. I could move across country and it might solve the job problem, but leaving my family and friends is a “dragon”.
Meeting women I want to date seems to be a dragon problem. I only know 2 women who I have met that meet my criteria.
I have projects I’d like to accomplish that will take many thousands of hours each. Given constraints of work, socializing, self care and trying to meet a girlfriend (see item 2), I’m looking at a really really long time before any of these projects nears completion even if I was able to be super dedicated to devoting a couple hours a day to them, which I have not been able to.
I’m not sure I agree. Sure, there are lots of problems of the “papercut” kind, but I feel like the problems that concern me the most are much more of the “dragon kind”. For example:
There are lots of jobs in my career field in my city, but there don’t seem to be any that are actually do one of: do truly quality work, work on the latest technology where everything in the field will go in my opinion or produce a product/service that I care about. I’m not saying I can’t get those jobs, I’m saying in 15+ years working in this city I’ve never even heard of one. I could move across country and it might solve the job problem, but leaving my family and friends is a “dragon”.
Meeting women I want to date seems to be a dragon problem. I only know 2 women who I have met that meet my criteria.
I have projects I’d like to accomplish that will take many thousands of hours each. Given constraints of work, socializing, self care and trying to meet a girlfriend (see item 2), I’m looking at a really really long time before any of these projects nears completion even if I was able to be super dedicated to devoting a couple hours a day to them, which I have not been able to.