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Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

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I wish had the time to procrastinate more. Ironically, my job, which is the reason for my lack of procrastination time, I got directly as a result of the many hours I procrastinated during the last year of university. Sometimes procrastination pays of, you just don't know it whilst procrastinating, which makes it valid procrastination at the time.

How did you procrastinate during your final university year?

Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

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Procrastination is the avoidance of activity due to a discomfort/fear/anxiety and subsequent inability to scale the discomfort wall that exists between you and the tasks' completion. Other comments mention a pointlessness or lack of purpose, which I consider secondary, since it's arguable if it's truly procrastination if the work is truly pointless. Procrastination as a term seems best applied to important/mandatory…

There can definitely be a strong connection between procrastination and anxiety. The following link, which I've posted before, rang so true for me:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-practice/201303/6...

Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

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I had pretty low expectations when I opened this, but was pleasantly surprised. It's not that the advice was that helpful (I enjoyed the reminder, but I've heard that all before), but simply asking me questions like "can you do successfully do this, once you start?" helped adjust my thinking.

By choosing "I can do this", I remembered that I can

Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

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post #115

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What's on your flow state playlist?

I would also like to echo this question, always interested in what people listen to while working.

Lately, I've been using https://playnoise.com/ with the following settings: Brown noise > More Options > Auto volume osc, slow, small.

Also, My "Code it and Load it" Playlist on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/bawigga/playlist/08wdT51daeQwc...

Finally, more brown noise/rain storms in my Focus Noise playlist on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/bawigga/playlist/1u2c1lK4YSnL1...

Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

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> Procrastination is the avoidance of activity due to a discomfort/fear/anxiety and subsequent inability to scale the discomfort wall that exists between you and the tasks' completion. Perhaps this is wrong, but I feel like another important (and possibly most common) source of procrastination is not avoidance, but rather simply getting more enjoyment (dopamine/etc) of other activities. Ie, I don't think I have to be…

Maybe there are 2 kinds or conscious expressions of procrastination: - One related to lust for fun. Like you describe. - One related to inhibition, fatigue, powerlessness, dread. You escape work even though you feel bad because you know you should be doing it to avoid an even worse situation. You do something else in the (false) hope to relax and to improve your mood and motivation for the task.

One fact that confirms that: avoiding the fun is not enough to solve inhibition.

Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

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post #121

I wish had the time to procrastinate more. Ironically, my job, which is the reason for my lack of procrastination time, I got directly as a result of the many hours I procrastinated during the last year of university. Sometimes procrastination pays of, you just don't know it whilst procrastinating, which makes it valid procrastination at the time.

How did you procrastinate during your final university year?

How: When the deadline for handing in your thesis is many months ahead and you spend countless hours in a quiet setting with an old laptop "in need of optimization", an okish internet connection and an endless array of Linux subjects (all terrifically more exciting than the thesis) to delve into, procrastination instead of writing said thesis was no problem at all and proved not to be in the long run.

N.b. I did actually hand in the thesis on time. The last push to get in done was excruciating hard due to time pressure - the price of procrastination I guess.

Re: Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination

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post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would also like to echo this question, always interested in what people listen to while working.

I work from home, sitting next to my partner, and this is responsible for ~80% of our work. No particular order. Late Night Tales Presents Sasha: Scene Delete [0] Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk: Passage [1] Jon Hopkins: Opalescent [2] HVOB & Winston Marshall: Silk [3] Anything at all by HVOB. HVOB is the golden stuff. All of Tycho's albums Any of Tycho's Burning Man mixes on SoundCloud [8] Kiasmos: Blurred [4] Vermont:…

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