> The answer is because it's easier to attend to something that has a deadline, than to do something limitless and unstructured. It can also be more daunting to

> The answer is because it's easier to attend to something that has a deadline, than to do something limitless and unstructured. It can also be more daunting to attend to the things we feel confident doing, than to the things we are unsure about. This is very similar to John Cleese’s lecture on creativity - “Because, as we all know, it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do, than to start on big things that we're not so sure about.” It’s a good talk if you’ve never seen it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g