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Factorio will not help you develop skills to deal with procrastination. A source of procrastination is doing things only based on how urgent they are, not how i

Factorio will not help you develop skills to deal with procrastination. A source of procrastination is doing things only based on how urgent they are, not how important. So you do urgent, non-important tasks and drop the ball on non-urgent, important tasks. Playing a video game that streams urgent, non-important tasks at you will not help. Things that have worked for me: 1. Spending 30 minutes most days on whatever my oldest tasks are, regardless of how important. I just go with the oldest first. 2. Meeting a project manager for 30 minutes each week to talk about what's going on in my life. [0] 3. Quitting video games. (Civ 5, really). 4. In the morning, I throw on some clothes, go for a five minute walk, and then work for 2 hours on my core work (for me, coding). [0] If you hire a life coach to do this in the US to do this in the US it's very pricey. And I tend to dislike the type of person who wants to be a life coach. A PM in Latin America is much cheaper.

Ancapistani 6y ago
My biggest problem isn't procrastination per se, but that I often find that I have little control over where my focus is directed. If I'm not focused on something, it takes me (often, literally) exponentially more time and effort to accomplish it. As a result of that, I optimize first for curating focus on the things that matter by putting myself in places (mentally and physically) where those things are the most interesting presence and likely to "naturally" draw my focus. I've spoken to many counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists about this, and while some have been supportive of my approach none have seemed to really understand the importance of exploiting my "natural" focus over overriding it via willpower. Of all places, I recently found that a lot of people on TikTok with self-professed ADHD describe very similar challenges and coping mechanisms. In short, ADHD seems to not be a deficiency in the ability to focus. Indeed, it comes with the ability and tendency to engage in extreme focus for long periods. The problem is that I don't get to consciously choose the target of that focus, and that it's extremely difficult to break it once I'm focused on the wrong thing.

Ancapistani 6y ago

My biggest problem isn't procrastination per se, but that I often find that I have little control over where my focus is directed. If I'm not focused on something, it takes me (often, literally) exponentially more time and effort to accomplish it. As a result of that, I optimize first for curating focus on the things that matter by putting myself in places (mentally and physically) where those things are the most interesting presence and likely to "naturally" draw my focus. I've spoken to many counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists about this, and while some have been supportive of my approach none have seemed to really understand the importance of exploiting my "natural" focus over overriding it via willpower. Of all places, I recently found that a lot of people on TikTok with self-professed ADHD describe very similar challenges and coping mechanisms. In short, ADHD seems to not be a deficiency in the ability to focus. Indeed, it comes with the ability and tendency to engage in extreme focus for long periods. The problem is that I don't get to consciously choose the target of that focus, and that it's extremely difficult to break it once I'm focused on the wrong thing.