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Trust your gut more when you procrastinate - there is a reason why your brain postpones the task instead of doing it for that jolt of dopamine you get when you
by redleader55 3y ago
Trust your gut more when you procrastinate - there is a reason why your brain postpones the task instead of doing it for that jolt of dopamine you get when you finish. Reasons include:
- it's not useful. If you have ADHD you are probably full of ideas, some of them pretty bad, some amazing. Don't work on the bad ones.
- you are mentally tired, probably because you are burned out from something else
- you don't have everything you need to do it: dependencies which are unmet, things you don't know that prevent you from doing it, etc
You need to get your dopamine some other way - go for a long run, and the clarity will come to you and you will figure out what's wrong and why you procrastinate.
- localimmigrant 3y agoTo add to that list; it could also be an emotional response. I sometimes find myself procrastinating if the task doesn't align with my emotional state.
- dboreham 3y agoAs others have noted, procrastination is all about emotion. It's your brain, typically quite reasonably, telling you that the task isn't one that you should be doing. Thie feels like, or in fact is, anxiety.