feeling like you have to do something is dopamine resistance.
Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
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Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
#62OK I'll read this, just gotta check facebook first...
Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's actually debatable. I certainly do rewarding things for myself when procrastinating. And my job honestly is a negative value to society. I am a salesman at a rent seeking corporation. I would literally do society more good if I wasn't driving a gas guzzler to work every day and sitting in a giant air conditioned office.
Time for a new job?
It took me a year to land this one! My expenses are pretty low and my savings are decent, but if I quit this, I would be on the streets pretty quickly.
I don't have many skills besides convincing people to buy something. These skills aren't particularly marketable in life :)
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#64Well, maybe sometimes this happens to me.. "I just go check the headlines on my favorite news sites and then I start my productive day.. and I drink this cup of coffee." .. 2 hours later. "Just this one headline, then I'm ready." .. 2 hours later. "Damn, where did the day go all of a sudden?" Of course the solution is to first do the work and then read the news.. but that's the rational part of my brain speaking - no…
I think habits are probably stronger when we're sleepy and have less "executive function". When you're awake, make plans to disrupt your sleepy self. Set a timer or block your news sites or something. Because trying to break a habit when you're sleepy is going to be tough.
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#65The iProcrastinate podcast (http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/) is really good. Some of the early episodes have audio issues, but they are worth listening to. The host has been researching procrastination for like 20+ years.
Their main website is http://www.procrastination.ca/
Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
#66Procrastination is the avoidance of activity due to a discomfort/fear/anxiety and subsequent inability to scale the discomfort wall that exists between you and the tasks' completion. Other comments mention a pointlessness or lack of purpose, which I consider secondary, since it's arguable if it's truly procrastination if the work is truly pointless. Procrastination as a term seems best applied to important/mandatory…
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#67The people in life that are most successful are usually the ones that are compelled to do a thing for whatever reason.
If you're procrastinating; it's simply an indication you don't want to do a thing. Sure, you can use hacks etc to get the thing done, but at the end of the day, there's no real, underlying driving will within yourself to get the thing done.
Perhaps spending time finding the things you willfully do rather than focusing on the things you tend to avoid might be great way to avoid procrastination.
I get it though. That buzzing lazy feeling of getting some things done but not all the things; or the things you need to get done while lazily avoiding the things you supposedly want to do.
I have noticed in my life that I willfully do some things to completion because I just have an underlying will to get it done.
Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
#68Procrastination is the avoidance of activity due to a discomfort/fear/anxiety and subsequent inability to scale the discomfort wall that exists between you and the tasks' completion. Other comments mention a pointlessness or lack of purpose, which I consider secondary, since it's arguable if it's truly procrastination if the work is truly pointless. Procrastination as a term seems best applied to important/mandatory…
I got back from a week long vacation and when i got back there were issues on github for open source projects i maintain. I was able to crush them quickly without that "discomfort/fear/anxiety". it makes me believe that those feeling start to occur when we need a break, which is why we are procrastinating in the first place.
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#69I know people hate to admit it and create these fancy terms for ages old behavior. Procrastinate is being lazy,as simple as that. Reading news and watching YouTube videos while you are getting paid to do work is being lazy with a capital L.
So yeah, please stop coming up with excuses if you procrastinate as if it is some sort of disease, drop the distractions and just get to work.
Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
#70I would perhaps argue that most modern procrastination is fundamentally due to tech and social media addiction.