Procrastination can be caused by any number of things separate from a lack of discipline. It can be a subconscious signal that we doubt the importance of a tas

Procrastination can be caused by any number of things separate from a lack of discipline. It can be a subconscious signal that we doubt the importance of a task. It can be a signal that we unconsciously know we aren't prepared for a task. Maybe it's a strategy to wait until the last possible moment so we have the best possible information and maybe even find an alternative task that is better. I don't believe "discipline" is a useful concept for everyone. We all have different brains and different circumstances. Some are motivated by discipline and duty, others by novelty and randomness. To an extent most of us can exert our will to build more of one side or the other, but it's much more efficient to exploit our supposed weaknesses at the same time as we build our strengths. I feel like I've seen examples of the "discipline" crowd and let's call it the "gamification" crowd preaching their one true way, so it's clear that both seem to work for some people, and maybe we can all try to apply some of each to solving problems of motivation and procrastination. But speaking for myself, discipline is rarely the tool that works for me, and it's just that after some amount of waiting I suddenly feel ready to take on whatever it was I was delaying. I think that some kind of randomness might actually help if I can summon the discipline to do just one thing if I don't yet know what it is (I haven't read the article yet so I don't know if what they describe is similar to what I've been noodling on the back burner of ideas).