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Lean into Procrastination
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoAtrocious advice. I think it's intended seriously, but perhaps this is satire? Also, that grey-on-white style is something to avoid. Low contrast doesn't help anyone.
- pattato 6y agoI think they are just trying to promote the two links near the end of the article.
- Bjartr 6y agoThis advice fails when you're like me and struggle with procrastinating the interesting stuff too.
- zepto 6y agoThe problem with this advice is there isn’t just one thing that gets called procrastination.
- robin21 6y agoI can relate. When I have done the research and figured out a plan and know exactly the way I can approach it and am even excited to do it when I day dream about it...that’s when procrastination strikes. It has turned from a challenge into an easy task. What usually happens though is when I finally start I realize there is a ton of stuff not clear and it becomes a nice challenge again without any easy obvious solution, and I regret my procrastination, and power on into flow. The power of procrastination for side projects it’s absolutely amazing. It’s always this “if only I had more time I could finish all of it!”. But then when you have the time you become lazy.
- the_only_law 6y ago> What usually happens though is when I finally start I realize there is a ton of stuff not clear and it becomes a nice challenge again without any easy obvious solution, and I regret my procrastination, and power on into flow. Ugh I’m currently “working” on a project and as soon as I think I finally understand and sit down to start doing work I find out something else that effectively puts me back into “I’m a complete idiot who doesn’t understand this at all” mode.
- Reflecticon 6y agoPerfect analysis!
- tracerbulletx 6y agoThe premise that procrastination implies you already know how to do a task does not seem right or justified to me.
- antonvs 6y agoIn fact that's a pretty classic rationalization.
- jdthedisciple 6y agoI think this advice is not 100 % serious but still has its merits. Sometimes, for me at least, this premise completely applies.
- egypturnash 6y agoWhen you procrastinate, your brain is sending you a message. It’s telling you that it has already solved the problem, or that it knows how to solve it. Only the execution remains. It will deliver when time comes; till then, there are more interesting things to do. My experience is quite the opposite. Most of the time procrastination means two things: either it is a task with a lot of stress and fear attached to it, or it is a task that the back of my brain knows damn well has some pre-requisites that need to be taken care of first, but the front of my brain doesn't want to admit that. These can combine. Stuff that has an unadmitted pre-requisite task that is also full of stress and fear is never gonna get done until the absolute last moment, with a lot of stress and pain and swearing. If it is ever done at all.
- the_only_law 6y agoFor me most of the times it means that the problem probably isn’t worth the work. Which in part is why I never understood the “solve a problem you have mentality” when it comes to writing software. On the occasion that I have an problem that a A) be solved by software and B) does not have a or existing solution that works well, it’ll typically just put it off or give up because the problem is not worth the effort it would take to solve it.
- snicker7 6y agoMy experience is that procrastination leads to anxiety and stress before I even start doing any work.
- olsgaarddk 6y agoThis reminds me of a joke I used to tell people, when I was writing my master thesis: "I wish I was doing my PhD thesis now. That way, I can finish writing my master thesis by procrastinating my PhD."