Procrastination comes from lack of motivation. Address that first.
No, that's false.
How I Learned to Stop Procrastinating, and Love Letting Go
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#22Was I the only one expecting it to be a fun play on words and be about embracing golang?
Yeah, perfect title, just add a couple more words...
"How I Learned to Stop Procrastinating, and Love Letting Go Garbage Collect"
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#23Procrastination comes from lack of motivation. Address that first.
Hrm I thought this was true at first. Spending lots of time consuming materials on how to increase my motivation, etc. Nothing worked! But then, why would it? I'm obviously motivated to do what I want to do or else I wouldn't be trying so many different ways to stop putting off!
The best results I've had have been from a) just doing and b) reducing anxieties. Nothing I have tried has been sustainable but I still keep trying.
If I wasn't motivated, why would I keep trying?
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#24I feel like procrastinating is such a common human condition that it's really not about you but about the work you're putting off. When I was in college, I would put off doing lab reports until 6am in the morning. Watch youtube, surf the web for 30 minutes and actually work for 5 minutes. But there was a reason. It was boring drudgery. Now that I get to work on my own project, I code almost all day. When I eat, I thi…
My son's got an ADHD diagnosis and he seems like you. Whatever is slightly uninteresting is terribly difficult for him to focus on but if there's something interesting, he can maintain perfect focus for hours.
I imagine it might be days if he wasn't interrupted.
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#25You may want to not waste time reading this but instead use that time to read pg's essay on similar ideas, "How to Do What You Love" ( http://paulgraham.com/love.html ), which, if I had the power, I would have millions of copies printed and have every kid in the world read it. It explains (at least) two simple ideas very effectively: 1. The work versus fun dichotomy is taught very early: "The very idea is foreign to…
Just finished reading the essay, and one of his points about professors struck a chord with my personal experience back in college. It always felt like the classes that seem to offer the least "financial return" in the real world (i.e. theology, philosophy, or some obscure liberal arts subject) usually end up to be the ones with better qualified and more enthusiastic professors.
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#26I feel like procrastinating is such a common human condition that it's really not about you but about the work you're putting off. When I was in college, I would put off doing lab reports until 6am in the morning. Watch youtube, surf the web for 30 minutes and actually work for 5 minutes. But there was a reason. It was boring drudgery. Now that I get to work on my own project, I code almost all day. When I eat, I thi…
My son's got an ADHD diagnosis and he seems like you. Whatever is slightly uninteresting is terribly difficult for him to focus on but if there's something interesting, he can maintain perfect focus for hours. I imagine it might be days if he wasn't interrupted.
Indeed, I'm like this in that I am nearly non-functional for things that I'm not interested in, but highly functional in things that do interest me. I highly recommend speaking to a doctor about this, as I was able to find medication that's helped me tremendously (I still procrastinate, but I can also actually focus without crazy anxiety-ridden pressure).
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#27Procrastination comes from lack of motivation. Address that first.
Procrastination comes from many reasons. Motivation can be one of them but often it is not the reason
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#28I couldn't help but think I'm procrastinating while reading it (+ reading the comments) ... Ahhhh !!! I better get back to work !
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#29I feel like procrastinating is such a common human condition that it's really not about you but about the work you're putting off. When I was in college, I would put off doing lab reports until 6am in the morning. Watch youtube, surf the web for 30 minutes and actually work for 5 minutes. But there was a reason. It was boring drudgery. Now that I get to work on my own project, I code almost all day. When I eat, I thi…
My son's got an ADHD diagnosis and he seems like you. Whatever is slightly uninteresting is terribly difficult for him to focus on but if there's something interesting, he can maintain perfect focus for hours. I imagine it might be days if he wasn't interrupted.
* Whatever is slightly uninteresting is terribly difficult for him to focus on but if there's something interesting, he can maintain perfect focus for hours.
Aren't we all like that?
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#30I couldn't help but think I'm procrastinating while reading it (+ reading the comments) ... Ahhhh !!! I better get back to work !
uu, a lifehacker article! :)