I am extremely sympathetic to this post both because I too become uncomfortable when I don’t understand the low level details of things and also because I think it has a strictly better thesis and is much better written to the post I made here. I have long hoped that I would be able to solve enough real problems that I would feel accomplished in perpetuity and then be comfortable coasting and solving fun problems from then on. I don’t know if that is a realistic goal because my threshold for real seems pretty high and my brain might just not work in a way that lets me feel good about something I did a long time ago, but that is the only thing I can think of in terms of reprogramming oneself to feel god without working on real work.
I am extremely sympathetic to this post both because I too become uncomfortable when I don’t understand the low level details of things and also because I think it has a strictly better thesis and is much better written to the post I made here. I have long hoped that I would be able to solve enough real problems that I would feel accomplished in perpetuity and then be comfortable coasting and solving fun problems from then on. I don’t know if that is a realistic goal because my threshold for real seems pretty high and my brain might just not work in a way that lets me feel good about something I did a long time ago, but that is the only thing I can think of in terms of reprogramming oneself to feel god without working on real work.