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I said this before in another post, but this article that I read in the New Yorker really hit home for me: The philosopher Mark Kingwell puts it in existential
by jayzee 15y ago
I said this before in another post, but this article that I read in the New Yorker really hit home for me:
The philosopher Mark Kingwell puts it in existential terms: “Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.”
In that sense, it might be useful to think about two kinds of procrastination: the kind that is genuinely akratic and the kind that’s telling you that what you’re supposed to be doing has, deep down, no real point.
And when you are in school often you are given tasks which seem to have no discernible purpose or meaning other than perhaps to take you off your parent's hands while they go make a living.
From: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/10/11/10101.. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/10/11/10101....
- markbao 15y ago>the kind that’s telling you that what you’re supposed to be doing has, deep down, no real point. Kind of like when I watched the Atlantis space shuttle launch and then go back to working on the code for a social bookmarking service. All joking aside, is he talking about an existential crisis, or something else? A common cause of existential crises is some kind of negative experience that prompts reflection and thinking as to why it happened, which sometimes leads to questioning the meaning of it all. The experience of which, if you went to school, you probably know pretty well. Most frequently after walking out of class after bombing a test. Working link for the aforementioned article: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/10/11/101011crbo_books_surowiecki?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/10/11/10101...
- sliverstorm 15y ago... then go back to working on the code for a social bookmarking service SpaceX is proving that if you want to do more than make a social bookmarking service, you can get involved in the future of space. Just sayin :) If you can't get them to hire you, figure out what they need. Contract out for them. There's possibilities.
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- TeMPOraL 15y ago> the kind that’s telling you that what you’re supposed to be doing has, deep down, no real point. I feel this description feels much closer to my problems with procrastination than the idea from the article.