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Procrastination is a BS detector.
by juskrey 7y ago
Procrastination is a BS detector.
- onion2k 7y agoIf that's true then all my school work and university assignments were BS.
- arkadiytehgraet 7y agoThey very well could be, and most probably were indeed BS?
- matheusmoreira 7y agoMost likely.
- juskrey 7y agoBingo
- adrianmonk 7y agoThis BS detector has a notoriously high false-positive rate. (Which, furthermore, acts as an enabler for making excuses.) But it actually does detect BS sometimes. Sometimes it even tells you that your mind is in conflict with itself. In the case of school work, maybe some part of you believes the material is useful to understand, but some other part of you is not convinced. Sometimes that feeling can even nudge you toward harmonizing those parts of your mind. Which can be nice. (But not always truly necessarily.) For example, my CS degree required a digital circuit design (EE) class that I didn't enjoy at all. But in hindsight, I am now absolutely convinced of its usefulness and relevance. If I could have been convinced of that while I was taking it, it might have been easier to do the work. Although I wouldn't assume that's a realistic approach because maybe I needed to learn it first and then apply it before I could appreciate why it's useful. Sometimes you need to just power through even though you're not feeling it. Still, the point is that procrastination served as a kind of an indicator that I felt it was BS. It doesn't necessarily fix anything to know that, but it's not wrong either.
- thecatspaw 7y agoI disagree, I also procrastinate on things I want to do
- juskrey 7y agoMany of your desires may well be acquired preferences
- aryamaan 7y agoProcrastination is and should have definitely more into it. Inaction brings convenience with it and inaction is the only child of procrastination. So, it's due to our inclination to convenience and doesn't say anything yet about the task at hand. That's the reason people procrastinate on the things at one moment which they don't at others.
- burntoutfire 7y agoJordan Peterson had a nice distinction about this: there are things you want to do and things you want to BE WANTING to do. I.e. you want to eat a cookie, but you want to be wanting to go to the gym. In reality, it's pretty hard to consciously make yourself want something (at least for most people), as our conscious brain does not have that much of an effect on our emotions. In practice, what I've found out I (my conscious brain) can do is alter my circumstances - don't store nice food at house so that it's harder to snack, work from the office (not from home) so that it's harder to procrastinate or get so fat that I no longer feel good in my body.
- codingmess 7y agoOr that you think you want to do, but your subconsciousness knows better.
- Brave-Steak 7y agoMy subconsciousness wants to eat, sleep, fuck and play video games. I'm not sure I want to be taking its advice.