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- the task is too simple which makes it boring to do - the task is too complex and needs an effort which I don’t want to face so I defer doing it.
Best scenario happens when a task is both exciting and is in the scope ( or slightly upper ) of my expertise
I developed a bad case of perfectionism-procrastination after working for a toxic boss. It didn't matter how polished our product was, he'd find a way to tear it apart. When he'd have a bad day, he'd start picking apart a random team's product. "Unbelievable!" he'd say in Slack, dropping a screen recording of the app that showed something we were supposed to be embarrassed about. It could be that the app took 3 secon…
Lol, imagining some bored unhappy middle aged neckbeard go with "unbeliavable...."
I developed a bad case of perfectionism-procrastination after working for a toxic boss. It didn't matter how polished our product was, he'd find a way to tear it apart. When he'd have a bad day, he'd start picking apart a random team's product. "Unbelievable!" he'd say in Slack, dropping a screen recording of the app that showed something we were supposed to be embarrassed about. It could be that the app took 3 secon…
Do you remember any of the thoughts or techniques you used to shake it?
The easiest antidote for procrastination is boredom. This may not work for everyone but for me it works exceptionally. Most often the reason why you don't want to work on something is because you find it too hard, too boring, or too irrelevant. But if you force yourself to be bored for a while, you will eventually crave some mental stimulation. And that's when you can pick up the task you have been avoiding and work…
So, I got diverted from a difficult task and spent time doing a task that created a very useful and time-saving tool but which I want being paid for and which I know I can't share because I was doing something other than my job ... it was rewarding in the sense of 'I created something useful' and so made me feel better about myself until I reflected that I was further behind on the task I was getting assessed for.
I found Tim Pychyl's writing/videos and http://www.procrastination.ca/ useful on this topic.
There is truth that at times procrastination is tied to perfectionism, but I'd wager that the cause of procrastination 9/10 times is that we choose to do something that is more enjoyable to us over something that is less.
When I procrastinate due to my perfectionism, I pretty much never do something enjoyable instead. Rather, I frequently lament that I don't have enough time for fun activities.
When I'm procrastinating in a WFH setup I could easily play video games, watch a show/movie, read a book instead, but don't. It's almost as like a punishment, rather than a reward.
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As I said in my post, I did not release it yet, and it will be very incomplete. But I am not alone, and some did assembly written printf like functions (gogol). The actual real way to work around the inappropriate complexity of that function is to remove it and switch to a brutal "put string" with string conversion functions (with space allocated on the stack). In the end it would be not that much more work in most c…
Ah, thanks. I wrongly guessed from your post that this printf was part of some larger, already published OSS project.
It is not going as fast as I wanted, since I wanted it be finished "yesterday", but I may focus next on, shell matcher and basic/extended regexp.
I still prefer to build a working prototype in private rather than flail in public, but the relative ease of integrating publicly-available sources means I get immediate leverage from ~publishing everything I depend on.
I've had less success extending that to writing, though.
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Is this true? Are bullies indiscriminate and swing in all directions or do they focus on where the power dynamic benefits them? I feel like I've seen both.
I'd call that the difference between bullies and sociopaths. At least to me, one of the defining bully characteristics is an inability to moderate their own behavior, even for their own benefit.