Procrastinate Until You're Ready
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Procrastinate Until You're Ready
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#2Steven Pressfield (author of Gates of Fire and Legend of Bagger Vance) would disagree:
http://home.stevenpressfield.com/books/war_art.asp#excerpt
I highly recommend The War of Art, his book on overcoming procrastination for artists. Sit down every day and work.
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#3Wrong, possibly evil advice. Just my opinion.
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#4Procrastination is inversely correlated with motivation and is usually a sign of disinterest or misunderstanding of a task or project. Usually this problem can be diminished through setting realistic goals that one feels passionate about achieving. I believe an aura of constant mystery within a project is a key motivating factor for most individuals due to the intriguing unknowns and self discoveries that one constantly encounters throughout the process of development.
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#5No. Greatness is not achieved by waiting for the right moment for inspiration to strike - it's achieved by years of dedication, commitment and hard work.
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#6For me, I need both creativity and grunt work to make progress. And they depend on each other.
Sometimes that creative leap is only possible because I've done all the little stuff to put me at the point where I can finally "see the light".
OTOH, a creative breakthrough usually generates a whole bunch of tasks to be done in order to implement that creative idea.
I have never been able to "force creativity". It comes much more easily at certain times and in certain situations. So what do I do when the creative juices aren't flowing as much as I'd like? The grunt work, of course. There's always plenty of that.
Procrastination as a strategy? Never. As an excuse? Sure.
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#7Procrastination is inversely correlated with motivation and is usually a sign of disinterest or misunderstanding of a task or project. Usually this problem can be diminished through setting realistic goals that one feels passionate about achieving. I believe an aura of constant mystery within a project is a key motivating factor for most individuals due to the intriguing unknowns and self discoveries that one constan…
No, procrastination and slow pacing can be a sign that your creative batteries are recharging; it is a cycle. You abruptly plunge into intensive focus on a problem, rest, and repeat. On a long project you just take many, many cycles to finish, and the key to success is simply to be able to fight through the melancholy that occurs at the bottom of each wave, getting enough done to get back on the upward trajectory again.
If your motivations are intact this won't be a problem, though you may have feelings of self-loathing since this sloth is in conflict with the Puritan-style work ethic.
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#8Steven Pressfield (author of Gates of Fire and Legend of Bagger Vance) would disagree: http://home.stevenpressfield.com/books/war_art.asp#excerpt I highly recommend The War of Art, his book on overcoming procrastination for artists. Sit down every day and work.
Man do I love 'The War of Art'. Written by the author of 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and I find myself going back to it again and again and recommending it every chance I get.
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#9Natalie Goldberg, in Writing Down the Bones, described how for a while, whenever she sat down to write she would just have this immense feeling of inner peace flow through her, as if she were close to enlightenment, and she thought "Well, I will just sit here and meditate, because after all, this is the state of mind that writing is supposed to bring me to." She finally described her feelings to her Zen master, who said, "Oh, that's just laziness. Get to work."
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#10Note: This is not a business advise.