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I feel the same thing Valakas is describing. Which of the "you"'s is remembering the next time, "yeah but 30 minutes that's not how it went last time"? (also,

• cgriswald 7y ago
  Body-You will say anything to get what it wants, including “We don’t have time.” I’m calling it Body-You but, at least for me, it’s really a collection of parts of my mind that are against the action. As for the “lying”, Body-You knows it is not a lie but doesn’t care. If You believes You is lying, Body-You is more than happy to use that as yet another excuse.
  • NoodleIncident 7y ago
    Personally I call these two people the "Planner" and the "Doer". Neither of them start out with bad intentions, but only one of them has to actually do things in the present moment, so resentment can definitely build up between the two.
    • nhoughto 7y ago
      Feels like higher mind vs primitive mind https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/fire-light.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/fire-light.html Loong but great read
      • oAlbe 7y ago
        Tim Urban, the author of waitbutwhy, did a talk about that same topic (pretty much about the same article). https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...