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> by taking on more tasks than I can handle In contrast to your experience, I've found this to be an exceptionally poor strategy during uni. It led me to stay
by afarrell 10y ago
> by taking on more tasks than I can handle
In contrast to your experience, I've found this to be an exceptionally poor strategy during uni. It led me to stay up late and wake up early trying to get things done, then to fall asleep in lectures (I once had a professor throw chalk at me). It led me to ruin relationships as I imposed stress on others by failing to deliver on things. Doing this to people is a really shitty feeling.
The combination of sleep-deprivation and self-loathing made it very easy to fall into the escapism and thus more procrastination.
- jschwartzi 10y agoThe trick is to eventually start the more important stuff. If you never get anything done then it all falls apart.
- codesnik 10y agosleep-deprivation is the method I used when I was a bit younger. It shuts down cravings, because the only craving I'd have now is to sleep, made me dumb, but this allowed me to go through some really mundane but unavoidable and long-overdue task. Then 12-hour sleep and I'm back again to collecting new task debt.
- afarrell 10y ago> It shuts down cravings People are wildly different. It always exacerbated my cravings for news, sugar, etc.