Why is that piece dated in future?
It was probably published in another time zone, ahead of yours.
Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
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#12This is a gem of an article, I always looked at Procrastination from a logical approach, turns out the real reason is emotional.
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#14Procrastination is a signal that you hate what you are supposed to be doing. Don't ignore it.
Not sure why youre being downvoted. There us alot of truth to that. Not all cases, but i believe many
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was probably published in another time zone, ahead of yours.
Unlikely.. I am in Australia.. and its not 24/Jan/2020 anywhere on planet. Nevertheless, yes the comment was meant to be a joke.
it has written "23rd January 2020" on it when i fetch it and the URL suggests this article has been created (not necessarily written) 21st January 2020 on their CMS.
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#16Procrastination is a signal that you hate what you are supposed to be doing. Don't ignore it.
Not always true. I frequently procrastinate on things that I actively enjoy doing and want to do. There are times when I want nothing more than to be doing something and I still procrastinate doing it. This applies to things that aren't work or aren't productive just the same, things that take little effort like watching a series or playing a video game. Medication does make it a lot better and I don't procrastinate…
Have you considered meditation?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
That advice ignores the fact that we hate most of the things we should do to be healthy. Should we just give up fitness and healthy eating just because we don't like them (in the short term)?
Do you procrastinate On these?
An example might be to quit smoking. Anyone who quits will probably procrastinate that for a while. But no matter how much you are going to hate quitting, smoking just isn’t worth it.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might hate what you are doing in the short term but love what you will gain from doing that in the long term.
Not really. The odds are if hating it now, the odds of you hating it forever are pretty high.
Actually a disturbed ego will hate doing a good thing, and love doing a bad thing. Thats the basis of affective disorders. Is it hate, or is it aversion? The spectrum of emotion isn't a simple thing, and i have seen people change.
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#20Procrastination is a signal that you hate what you are supposed to be doing. Don't ignore it.
Not always true. I frequently procrastinate on things that I actively enjoy doing and want to do. There are times when I want nothing more than to be doing something and I still procrastinate doing it. This applies to things that aren't work or aren't productive just the same, things that take little effort like watching a series or playing a video game. Medication does make it a lot better and I don't procrastinate…
I don't take medication even though I'm diagnosed with ADD. I guess there is the procrastination from ADD and the one talked about in the article.
The one from ADD makes me do... nothing. I feel paralyzed somehow. I scream at myself in my mind to finally start the task, I know I have to but my body won't move. It's hard to explain.
Then there is the procrastination as described in the article. I think it makes me do something else instead that I have put off, like cleaning or the sudden urge to finally learn a new programming language / framework. Like, I feel better and worse at the same time! I did something productive, at the cost of what I should have done.
They might overlap, I guess.