Thanks for the feedback. Zenda, that post was extremely informative. Thank you.
I want to avoid labeling my lack of focus as 'ADHD' unless I must. It would be nice to power through drudgery on an adderall fueled buzz, but, I think that would be the easy way out. If there's an underlying problem that I can identify and attack, I would like to do that first.
Perhaps it's as simple as senioritis, or as Zenda pointed out, transitioning from a student in to a workerbee and fear of the unknown and rejection from job applications.
I was wondering if perhaps, it's also because I have less to lose now? I remember in undergrad, it was really easy to push myself to work even when I did not want to, for fear of losing my near straight-A transcript. Now, with mostly Bs (every JD has a 3.0), I feel I have less to lose.
Or am I having unrealistic expectations?
Regardless, thanks for humoring me as I try to figure out why I've lost motivation.
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Man the fuck up, Sir.
Task, condition, standards with purpose, direction, motivation.
*Think: serial killers, tenth degree black belts, Toyota's PR people and really cheery Subway sandwich artists.
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That might work. Been sucking it up and hitting the books for the past two years.
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And seriously... I felt that way the entire time I was in college. Nobody sane* focuses 100% on work. It doesn't happen. Accept it. Move on.
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Might be due to the different workload. Easy to focus 100% on work for a week, maybe a month during finals, then it's back to a happy medium of workload until the next battery of tests and papers come around.
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All in all, it might boil down to a cost benefit analysis--the amount of work I put in the past 2 years of law school did not result in the results I wanted.
It would be a nice to reframe my goals and find my motivation.