How do you control your obsessions

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13 Aug 2006, 9:34 pm

It's hard for me to get over electronics

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13 Aug 2006, 9:51 pm

Could you make a career out of it somehow? My obsession is music and I am doing a music degree. I plan to make a living form teaching music, playing in an orchestra and a chamber group, and composing.

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13 Aug 2006, 9:59 pm

You'll need a career someday. Go get a EE.

The key to my survival and success was not controlling my obsessions, but choosing to fix on one for the remainder of my life and make it the focus of my work. So far, it's worked reasonably well.

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13 Aug 2006, 11:30 pm

yeah same with me, mine is fashion and i'd like to do fashion design

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13 Aug 2006, 11:32 pm

The only way I can control my obsessions is to have more than one. It can be really dangerous for me to have just one current obsession because it consumes my whole life. If there is more than one obsession, my focus is diffused and it's not so painful.

So if I find myself in an obsession that's starting to consume me, I will consciously try to focus on another one. (It doesn't always work.)

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