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“After get­ting a lot of things done, intense­ly, through­out an entire day, it can feel at the end of the day like I haven’t done any­thing at all. Have you ever heard some­one else expe­ri­ence this, or is it just me?”

This was one of the many ques­tions I received after my lec­ture on struc­ture at Chalmers Stu­den­tkår’s (Chalmers Stu­dent Union) per­son­al devel­op­ment-themed day ​“Of Course.”

It’s not just you 

“Of course, I’ve heard about it, and I can rec­og­nize it in myself, too,” I replied.

“It’s because you’re very ambi­tious. And, there’s no end to how much you could do (study, in this case, I assume). The tasks nev­er end. There­fore, it would be espe­cial­ly valu­able for you to quan­ti­fy what you aim to achieve, to set a lim­it for what is enough.

Stretch a fin­ish line that you’ve crossed when you’re done. You can always run a bit more, but at the fin­ish line, you’re done — for today.”

What’s your best tip? 

And now I ask you: what’s your best tip for coun­ter­act­ing the feel­ing of insuf­fi­cien­cy after a day when you’ve worked hard and that feel­ing still appears?

Please write to me and let me know. I’m curi­ous to hear.

Thank you, Chalmers Studentkår! 

And, thank you for the invi­ta­tion, Chalmers Stu­den­tkår! It was a plea­sure to vis­it you!