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I get that part. What I don't get is how you deal with the fact that you know you are just scheming yourself?

• Apocryphon 10y ago
  If the placebo effect can work, even when the recipient knows it's a placebo, then maybe our capacity for self-deception is more powerful than you think.
• felideon 10y ago
  For me, the guilt comes from knowing I -could- do more, but never doing as much as I could theoretically do if I did not procrastinate, rather than the self-deception itself. And I don't think the self-deception for me is on purpose. It just happens to my natural, procrastinating self.
• state_less 10y ago
  You were already scheming, slacking off and feeling bad about it. Now you get some useful work done on the side.
  • charlieflowers 10y ago
    I think the self that you are scheming will see what you are doing, admire you for it, and agree to play along. You're both participating in the con because you both get what you want. Granted, this feels insane as I type it, but it also sounds like it might work quite well :)
• Scarblac 10y ago
  Procrastination involves constantly telling yourself that you'll start the important thing, right after this one short little other thing. So the thing we're fighting is also self-deceivement, and that doesn't make it easy to beat.