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Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Re: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Post by toyg »

rvz wrote: post #35

If you are going to procrastinate somewhere, you might as well do it here on HN. At least you can be inspired about other people's projects, tutorials and learn something etc. But reading generic news articles like this about procrastination? I don't think so.

> At least you can be inspired about other people's projects

Or get nauseous at everyone's apparent ability to ship wonderful weekend projects at 25, while you can't finish a damn project in 6 months with twice the work experience.

HN is the geek's social media but it should still be treated as social media for all intents and purposes.

Re: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Post by idclip »

emmanuel_1234 wrote: post #64
idclip wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you considered meditation?

I'd pay some seriously good money for some information about how to efficiently meditate with ADD. From my experience, it is a poor tool to improve one's condition, and ADD makes it nigh impossible to efficiently meditate anyway. I have done some googling on that topic and only find lame "meditation for wellbeing" BS all around, but nothing clearly targeted for ADD.

Lookup a 10 day vipassana retreat /with a good teacher/ (important! Bad vipassana can cause psychosis esp. if teacher is rigid. And uve a traumatic past)

In the beginning, you will fight your ego, certain traumas will surface, you learn to accept alot about urself too. The less that disturbs the ego, the calmer it is.

Even to this my meditation is disturbed, but im a much calmer person.

Mind you its complex too, could be a food habits/mild allergy contributing to existing factors. Did you try a water fast with some power coffee?

You can dm me and we can talk more about this.

Re: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Post by walterkrankheit »

Is procrastination really the biggest ailment we suffer in today's world? There's an awful lot of concern over it. Although remote working is possibly its biggest contributor when it comes to professional procrastination. I mean, when in an office surrounded by others, sure, you could, but only if everyone else is and that's not likely to be the case.

Re: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Post by mikelyons »

neuronic wrote: post #75
trianglem wrote: post #62

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>to feel something This is a phrase I hear in American discourse a lot. What does it mean?

The question is a bit odd if you are human, but let me explain this in short terms. Modern lifestyle has stripped many of us of essential, real problems. By far not all, of course, but definitely the generally well-paid IT crowd on HN. So instead of hustling to survive like a maid in 1929 Berlin (I am watching Babylon Berlin right now) what's left over are luxury problems, especially if you're in the double income no…

This is quite a good description of it.

I'm so tired of existing. I don't have a brain that's wired in such a way that I'll ever really create something worthwhile.

I am equally unlikely to ever find a partner who would want children with me.

Why even maintain this existence...?

Re: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Post by toyg »

Sepova wrote: post #85

The article is written by Captain Obvious but I really enjoy the quality comments here!

Some topics on HN really need little more than a title to trigger a good comment thread. A lot of people don't even read TFA anyway and the best comments come from personal experience. Sometimes I think a random topic generator would suffice - which is almost what Ask HN is, but not quite.

Re: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Post by toyg »

temporaryvector wrote: post #4
adamnemecek wrote: post #2

Procrastination 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…

> Medication does make it a lot better

If it's not too personal, could you give me a rough idea of what sort of medication you are on? In the last couple of years I started thinking maybe I should try something... Meditation has helped a lot but there are still weeks when my emotions get a bit out of control and nothing gets done.

Re: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Post by m-i-l »

sambe wrote: post #79

I can't believe the state-of-the-art thinking was genuinely that it's a time management problem. Surely some self-awareness of the mental battle goes a long way to quashing that quickly. I'm not thinking "I estimate this will take 1 hour". I'm thinking "I don't want to do this", and there's a tension between inevitability and the unpleasantness.

Same here. Long ago I realised that I have a tendency to procrastinate when faced with having to do things I don't want to do (while conversely being quite good at being focussed on the things I do want to do). Time management only comes into it in the the sense that I want to spend less time doing things I don't like and more time doing the things I do like. Doesn't seem a particularly surprising piece of self-insight to be honest. So, when I realise I'm procrastinating, i.e. faced with something I don't want to do, questions are: Do I really have to do it? If I really have to do it, why don't I want to do it and can I make it any less bad? And if I have to do it and can't turn it into something I really want to do, why can't I simply just get it done and out of the way so I can get on with the other things I actually want to do instead? I wouldn't be surprised if this was generally applicable to some or many other people too.

Re: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Post by k__ »

gexla wrote: post #59

I have been remote working for many years. And I have done a handful of office working. I would have considered myself (probably wrongly) the worst procrastinator. It seemed like most of the people I worked with were able to get things done better than I could. And I have been on the "overwork" part of the spectrum where I'm all about working until burnout. It's about emotions, yes. But that's not very specific. This…

"I have been remote working for many years. And I have done a handful of office working. I would have considered myself (probably wrongly) the worst procrastinator."

Same here.

I have the feeling the trick is to get guidance but not too much.

I have many "startup ideas" but I never execute them.

I hate it if I get a manager above me that makes too much decisions for me.

But working with some nice people who let me do my job without imposing some working hours, tech stack or whatever on me and only give me some interesting problems to work on and I stop procrastinating.

Re: Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

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Post by chpmrc »

adamnemecek wrote: post #8
chpmrc wrote: post #5

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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?

Who doesn't? If we didn't there wouldn't be a whole industry dedicated to helping you do it.
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