I once read someone make a point (more eloquently than me) that procrastination is your brain’s internal bullshit detector. For example, if a lion were to break into your room right now, you would get the fuck up and flee no matter how lazy/neet you may be. Therefore the matters you procrastinate on are a big old bag of hooey (according to your mind).
Anon practices time management
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sazey@lemmy.world 4 months ago
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I procrastinate on cooking and then complain that I’m hungry and there’s no time to make food. I think my brain is broken.
shneancy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
your brain is fully aware that you can just have two handful of nuts and be good for a couple of hours. Just because your brain also believes that you gotta have a proper meal doesn’t matter
sazey@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not missing a meal (or a few even) won’t kill you, try getting to a starving state and then see if your brain let’s you park your ass on the couch.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 months ago
I definitely have never done this before, no sir, not even once
Gamerman153@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
There’s a Ted talk on this called panic monkey.
jagungal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I watched it instead of doing an assignment in high school. Made a lot of sense and little difference.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Just looked it up. It’s a talk based on the Wait But Why? blog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU
FYI, the name for the thing he’s describing is ADHD. The “rational decision maker” is called executive function.
Gamerman153@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Glorious, never knew about the post. Thanks
pelletbucket@lemm.ee 4 months ago
adrenaline is nature’s Adderall.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
If you leave it till the last minute, it only takes a minute!
Wanderer@lemm.ee 4 months ago
quixotic120@lemmy.world 4 months ago
executives call a variation this “optimization”. oh it took you four weeks instead of five? do it in four next time. give me a 300,000 dollar bonus please
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
As a software engineer, the trick is to never tell them it takes four weeks, you promise 5 weeks, procrastinate for 4, and do it in 2, blaming the extra on software being hard. Most execs understand that, and only being a week late is pretty good (my boss adds 2 weeks to all my estimates for his own reporting).
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s no way to live.
Logical@lemmy.world 4 months ago
True. I have a tendency to behave like this when it comes to work like this, and whenever I do it almost always leads to a bunch of unnecessary stress. It has genuinely made me better at solving problems on the fly, but I don’t need that skill as much when I just plan a little better and actually stick to it.
JATtho@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes, It’s horrible, and can lead to minimizing any responsibilities you have. Even if you consciously want to accept a new responsibility/task, and have pre-planned how to do it well; Yet, you’ll struggle to keep the promise to yourself. Self-blame will only make it worse.
Near the deadline the brain has (at best) already done all the work subconsciously, and you only to manifest the thing into reality. Don’t doubt this, trashing the subconscious work is the worst thing you can do to yourself in a such situation.
(I’m not 100% sure I’m talking about the same subject, but anyway.)
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Welcome to ADHD lol
arin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is me but i only manage 50% and fail
notaviking@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Anon used ChatGPT to do the assignment, didn’t they
sparkle@lemm.ee 4 months ago
no they just have ADHD
reflectedodds@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Standard operating procedure for high school
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And grad school.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 months ago
And experienced professional 😐