as corporate hits you with a stick and itemizes all your weaknesses to puppeteer you with them, one gets stressed and burnt out therefore it is the new fad for hip corporate to suggest meditation, yoga, mindfulness, etc stuff

have you encountered any of your co-workers going so hardcore into meditation they started to think they were aliens or gods or something? what's up with that?

When you need such stuff you're already not doing alright imho. Better take your work with a grain of salt in that case like 80% does.

@whimsical Seconded, and preferably start it with a holiday just to kick start that "brain relax" mode

@BordedDev but i'm like you, it's hard to take work with a grain of salt, i actually do care. What really takes off some load is having some competent co-workers.

@whimsical For sure, then you can also feel safe to take a proper holiday. But the point here is that you force yourself to not think about work and not care about it so you can bring that when you're back to work. Of course, it's also dependent on how bad your situation is, for me christmas/new year holidays were great to recoup

@whimsical > 'What really takes off some load is having some competent co-workers.'

Completely agree.

"have you encountered any of your co-workers going so hardcore into meditation they started to think they were aliens or gods or something? what's up with that?"

Brains can be full of strange thoughts.

The important thing is to ask "does this actually change anything immediately?"

Once read a story about a family, who, after their grandfather died, discovered a journal, documenting in detail, how he had thought he was jesus for 40 something years.

No indication whatsoever that he was holding onto this belief.

What I generally do for everything, and I mean everything, is assign a probability score to it, using a rule of thumb.

"Does it sound like woo? Even if I believe it?"

Assign a 1 in a billion chance.

"Does it sound like wood and I don't believe it?"

Assign a 1 in a 100 million chance.

etc.

You'll have to adjust the numbers to suit you, but its always worked for me when it comes to unlikely beliefs.