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I trick my well-developed procrastination skills

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Post by chownie »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #87
m463 wrote: post #56

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Reminds me a little of: "I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now." "After I remove the icepack, I use a deep pore-cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser, then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliatin…

'Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now!' Fun fact, apparently the creator of American psycho said that if it were to be remade today it would be about SV instead of Wall Street. Having been around the tech block for some years now and rubbing shoulders with various people from the industry I'm really starting to buy this.

What is SV? I don't know this initialism

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Post by wila »

chownie wrote: post #121
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #87

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'Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now!' Fun fact, apparently the creator of American psycho said that if it were to be remade today it would be about SV instead of Wall Street. Having been around the tech block for some years now and rubbing shoulders with various people from the industry I'm really starting to buy this.

What is SV? I don't know this initialism

Silicon Valley

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Post by _0ffh »

rishav_sharan wrote: post #90
dghughes wrote: post #71

I am King Procrastinator. I've been off work since October 2019 and have done essentially nothing. I planned on doing a lot like getting my CCNA, practice programming, overall practice of an IT stuff. But I deflate into a blob on a chair and argue with people on social media. It used to be gaming but now it's social media that fills hours of my day. I don't even like it. My task to study networking to keep up my skil…

"My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh , where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about tw…

"Although, if I were to fight, I wouldn't lose to anyone." :D

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Post by james_s_tayler »

kls wrote: post #92
james_s_tayler wrote: post #79

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Are the meds effective long-term? I'm kinda terrified of the idea of being able to just turn normal on, but then one day having to turn it off.

I have been on them for several years, had to go up in dose in the first 6 months but after that they have worked ever since. I take an obscure and old ADHD medicine called Desoxen and my dosage is 15 MG twice a day, it has been the same dose for over 4 years, Desoxen had less side effects for me than some of the other meds like Adderall. Also if you do have ADHD, that is exactly what it is like, turning normal on. I…

Really appreciate the reply.

A couple of months ago I came across this article / HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22129777

I walked away from it with this notion that it all sounded a little too familiar. But it was just a curiosity in the back of my mind. I wasn't really brave enough to take a proper look. Then during lockdown working remotely the difference became quite visible to me. I started to do a bunch of research and read about others experience/description. Penny after penny after penny started to drop. Still dropping tbh. I always knew I was a little different. I always thought to myself "if only I knew the name of whatever this is then I could get my wife to understand why I just can't seem to do the damn dishes". I booked an appointment to get a proper Dx but still have to wait a few weeks. I'm fine with diagnosis, but the meds I'm still not sure about.

Again, really appreciate the data point. Glad to hear it has such a positive effect on you.

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Post by creamyhorror »

chownie wrote: post #121
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now!' Fun fact, apparently the creator of American psycho said that if it were to be remade today it would be about SV instead of Wall Street. Having been around the tech block for some years now and rubbing shoulders with various people from the industry I'm really starting to buy this.

What is SV? I don't know this initialism

Sillycon, ahem, Silicon Valley.

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Post by eugene-s »

dijit wrote: post #15

I'm a master procrastinator. Mostly because I have so many things I could do that I have this background feeling that I'm neglecting everything else if I focus on one thing. And I get distracted easily and I hate trying to come back in the middle of something. However, for some things, I have systems to cope. I make -very- simple unbreakable rules. I got fat, decided I needed to fix it, so now I set an alarm at 6am e…

I've heard about something similar in The Science of Well Being course (currently free on coursera, highly recommend.

I remember these as "if-then rules" for the mind. If you have some complicated challenge ahead you can mentally prepare for it thinking about the goal, then about how great it will be to achieve it and then about potential challenges and problems. You can set these rules ahead before you start. So when the need occurs it will take less effort for the mind to follow up (as you have some rules in place for the situation already)

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Post by creamyhorror »

jamiepenney wrote: post #58
njsubedi wrote: post #52

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Ditto! As soon as I am on the desk for working, I unconsciously open Firefox and my fingers go "Cmd+L ne [Enter]"

My procrastination loop! Cmd+T re [Enter] Cmd+W ... Cmd+T new [Enter] Cmd+W ... Cmd+T re [Enter]

Cmd+W, you actually close tabs, that's advanced!

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Post by stared »

I used Remember The Milk for years, on and off (I live its interface, clean and up-to-the-point). However, each time I stopped because of the "wall of shame" of unfinished tasks.

Is there a way around it?

Right now (1.5 year) I use Evernote, in a Bullet Journal-like style, that is - if I don't do a task, it is gone. Only if I take a conscious effort to write it down again, it is a task again.

This 1.5 year time means a lot. As a person virtually resistant to routine (vide https://twitter.com/tricina/status/1261690289812467712), it is a single exception that works.

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Post by easymodex »

notenoughhorses wrote: post #76
pbrb wrote: post #65

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This hits really close to home. It's not that I enjoy the thrill... it's that I know I can do it, so that's what I do. A few years ago I had an incredible run of insane productivity in grad school and at a startup afterwards, but I think it's solely because I had so much to do that I was genuinely interested in that I was crushing through work without it being a last minute delivery (though, there were still a lot of…

I think I’ve got some similar experience. I always had underlying focus issues, but managed to excel at school and first job because I really cared. First work experiences led me to become pretty cynical about office life, and I find that my motivation ultimately gets sapped because I don’t think what I do is that important. I’ve been soul searching for months about this, including trying a different workplace, etc.…

Where I work it's like if you do a bad job and screw something up everyone notices and it's a whole lot of drama involved, but if you do a good job and fix something before it blows up, no one notices and no one cares. So all the bad without the good. I guess you get used to it after a while but I would love a metaphorical pat on the back and a "good job" every now and then.

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Post by lemonberry »

Years ago Merlin Mann, on his website, recommended Niel Fiore's book.

I just reread it recently and it's a gold mine, for me anyway.

My biggest takeaways were:

1. Recognize how I procrastinate ( more research, figure out the best place to start, another meeting, etc. ) and when

2. Chunk things: I can't build the whole project now, but I can work on feature x, y or z right now.

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