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Parkinson's Law - "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"
And so procrastination is really just the art of maximizing free time.
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I thought it was "murphy's law" 
M.D.V. 
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Murphy's Law is quite different - "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong"
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Cyril Northcote Parkinson may not be confused with James Parkinson, but theirs analyses about degenerative things are common with Alzeimer's (Aloïs) "Forget today what you will forget tomorrow" that gives a good analogia procrastinate "Don't make today what you will not make tomorrow"
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Pualee wrote: And so procrastination is really just the art of maximizing free time.
Or just being a lazy b******.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Usually people tend postpone the boring tasks.
I try to do them as soon as possible. As soon as I get rid of them the sooner they stop messing with me 
In my private life tho I don't behave like this as often as I should and sometimes I have to deal with some troubles resulting from that. 
But oh well... that's life
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As with all unfinished business, it will still be there tomorrow. I'll get to it then.
I don't always delay doing things, not if they're fun. Now those reports that no one reads, they can wait.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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An interesting quote I once heard was "What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?"
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"Don't put off for tommorow what can be put off for the day after tomorrow."
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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"I'm on CodeProject, aren't I?"
So far my most productive timewaster...
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Spurious Correlations[^]
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I used to be under a boss who gave me a daily list of things to be done for a website. I hesitated to add most of those features because they really sound like a bad idea. Usually in the afternoon or next day, he would ask me to cancel those changes.
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Wong Shao Voon wrote:
I used to be under a boss who gave me a daily list of things to be done for a website. |
Hahahaha! I used to have a manager that practiced "Management by Crisis." He would come to me and tell me to drop everything I was working on because of some crisis.
We would talk over the problem and agree to a solution. These solutions would generally take about a week to implement.
Generally two or three days later, he'd come to me and tell me to drop everything to deal with a new crisis. [Repeat]
So I learned not to do anything because he would never let me finish a task before some other hot item would jump up and need to be fixed urgently.
Somehow, he never realized that none of them were ever being fixed.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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In my organization they assigned me task, after an couple of hours they assign me some 'URGENT' task and first task was procrastinated by a day, Again after couple of hours same process repeat
So I think its Depends upon priorities of task
Rating always..... WELCOME
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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We call this "feature-of-the-day", "bug-of-the-day", "[you-name-it]-of-the-day"...
I think the survey is about *your* work mode, not about your *companies* work mode.
Cheers
Andi
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I remembered that I had Bacon on the pan and needed to take care of it 
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Like just now - I'm in CP instead of working 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Ok, make that two things.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I was about to say "repost"
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But something came up, and you'll get round to it later?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yeah, I still have to think about what came around, but I will find something for sure
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Procrastination is merely the result of a deeper defect of mine...
The actual bugger which causes the procrastination is self-centred fear... E.g. I don't like doing that or I'm enjoying doing this so I'll do it later.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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Well, talking about a "defect" is probably not the right term - it's rather an instinct (as research shows with animals). It's about Displacement Activity[^]. I observe that we humans have similar "instincts" that let us do other things than we "should", especially if under pressure...! The stay-focussed behavioral pattern is rather a human conditioning by culture...  Some are better trained than others to behave against the instinct 
Cheers
Andi
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You need to think things through before acting...
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