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 1 month ago
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I definitely have never done this before, no sir, not even once
Gamerman153@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
There’s a Ted talk on this called panic monkey.
jagungal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I watched it instead of doing an assignment in high school. Made a lot of sense and little difference.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
Glorious, never knew about the post. Thanks
pelletbucket@lemm.ee 1 month ago
adrenaline is nature’s Adderall.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
If you leave it till the last minute, it only takes a minute!
Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 month ago
quixotic120@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
It’s no way to live.
Logical@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Welcome to ADHD lol
notaviking@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anon used ChatGPT to do the assignment, didn’t they
sparkle@lemm.ee 1 month ago
no they just have ADHD
arin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is me but i only manage 50% and fail
reflectedodds@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Standard operating procedure for high school
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And grad school.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 month ago
And experienced professional 😐