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The problem is that I can't stop like that. If I try to stop in the middle the problem just haunts me until I come back and finish it.
I believe that is the point.
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I believe that is the point.
Not when you can't think about much else until you come back to it. I'm trying to get out of the habit of thinking about work 24/7. Leaving unfinished problems does not help my goal.
If you have something on your mind, write it down - but don't actually finish the work.
For me, procrastination always come from a lack of having a digestible plan of attack. When you find yourself procrastinating, figure out a single next step for your project, one single feature, or one single task in that feature that needs to be done. If you know what your next step in the project is, you'll have this urge to jump back in and do that task. If you can't find that task, then you need to step back and…
> If you know what your next step in the project is, you'll have this urge to jump back in and do that task. For me it is the next interesting and possibly rewarding step. Just simply knowing what's do be done next doesn't cut it for me when I perceive it as a dull task. Even if I know it can be done in a few minutes I tend to avoid even starting to work on it. I have lots of these little boring things piling up for…