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Sorry but reading articles online is not procrastinating productively. I would accept procrastinating productively as tasks that are important but not urgent.
Pomodoro technique helps here: 25 min. focused work/flow. Then, 5 min. break. After 4 Pomodoros, take a longer break I noticed I also stress less and standing up during break energize me
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With this kind of metacommentary in mind, you may be intrigued/horrified by some of the Black Mirror-esque ideas that come up in transhumanist scifi now and again of future people creating automation for themselves for given activities, and that automation when sufficiently advanced emulating the person well enough to create automation for itself for given activities, and that automation when sufficiently advanced...…
Sounds like the Rick & Morty episode 'The Ricks must be crazy'
When I started working long hours in front of a computer,alone, I had to stop doing it. It was impossible to continue after some time doing that.
I though it was procrastination. Then I learn about the lymphatic system and how the body needs to move every single day or else you will feel miserable.
So I started doing exercise every day and suddenly I could work for long hours. There was something wrong and the body acted like a baby that does not know what is wrong but knows something is wrong and cries.
Any procrastination technique that does not consider the root of the problem will fail.
I also put my computer in front of my eyes while standing up, added physical objects to my work, devices that react to touch(3d mouses) or movement.... and my live improved enormously. The reason they work is even longer and more complex that the lymphatic system.
Another very useful thing was recording in a piece of paper the time(hours of real work) and intensity of my work(in a color scale). I realized I called "procastination" when I tried to do too much work (8 hours a day) of work that at the end of the day was super intensive.
It was kind of ridiculous. It is like considering that because you could walk for 8 hours that you could run a marathon with the same velocity and intensity as a sprints. And then do it every single day after that.
Being young, I could do one day(or two) this way, but after that I did burn out.
Computers are very antinatural objects for human beings. If you try to adapt yourself to the computer instead of the other way around,(making the computer speak for example) you are going to suffer enormously.
[...] what procrastination looks like for most people: - Think about working. - Immediately feel the urge to procrastinate. - Start beating themselves up with a bunch of negative self-talk for wanting to procrastinate (I’m such a procrastinator, why can’t you just stay focused?) - Feel badly, including a bunch of negative emotions like shame and disappointment, on top of the already-strong urge to procrastinate. - Pr…
Sorry but reading articles online is not procrastinating productively. I would accept procrastinating productively as tasks that are important but not urgent.
Developing your knowledge (which you can do by reading articles online) is important but not urgent.
Until that time I've no idea why these things (and many more I didn't mention) tickle that part of my brain which makes me want to learn everything there is to know about a subject.
At some point, you have to stop fiddling and finish what you started. Even if you procrastinate productively, spending ten minutes on a musical instrument, then another ten on reading an article, and then delving somewhere else is marginally better than binging on Youtube and Netflix. The constant context switching prevents you from going deep. All you gain is superficial knowledge. This, in my opinion, the bad "good…
I agree with this when it comes to learning but not so much when it comes to just executing on something already known. There is not a lot of "going deep" when what you need to get done is write an article on a topic you already know.