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There are times I want to work on a project, but my subconscious makes me hesitate.
I've learned to listen to it. It is trying to tell me the immediate solution is not the best solution and that I need to think about it some more.
Not stare at it until I have a solution, but to somehow let the background processes mull it over while I do other things.
I generally find that when I do that, I come up with a much more elegant solution.
Sometimes I wake up and a new and novel solution is in the forefront of my mind.
I don't know how it works, it just does. Particularly on hard problems.
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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You do realise that the results of this survey will be heavily skewed because the true procrastinators will never have gotten around to completing it, right?
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Especially when you need to click twice and the second one can always be less important than anything else. 
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison
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Now and never.
Once I figured that out, the rest is just deciding which it is going to be.
Sometime the now part is committing the task to a list, but it has to be done now or it will not be done.
For me it is really about knowing who is looking back at me in the mirror.
Don
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Like I was fighting with my self if do I bother to write this post 
I am fighting with myself every early morning to get up and actually do something.
I am fighting with myself every evening to do not give up sleepiness and do some chores or something fun.
I am fighting with myself at work to stay productive and do not read CP
I am fighting with myself on vacation to do not lay half of the day and actually go outside and see some tourist attraction.
Yeah, I am lazy, but I am also smart enough to know that life is too short to do nothing so I am trying to do most with the time I have!
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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Let me do another important task first. Priority is important 
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Procrastination:[^]
Hard work often pays off after time,
but laziness always pays off now.
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Maybe it doesn't count as real procrastination, but I frequently put things off because I know I've got to let them rattle around in my head some more. I get much better results that way than if I force myself to push ahead before I'm really ready.
I'm amazed at how much my subconscious can figure out on its own. I'll come back to something I was previously struggling with and find that it has become easy, or the answer to some question will pop into my head when I'm working on something else.
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I agree with you, I wrote a post saying virtually the same thing.
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 do this all the time especially if I start getting frustrated with a problem. It's much easier if it isn't a critical fix to come back to it with a clean train of thought. And sometimes a solution pops into my head while I'm sitting at home so I email it to myself for work the next day
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I'll answer tomorrow!
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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No, you won't!
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 really meant to answer, but something else came up... I'll get to it later, I promise!!
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Careful, now you have a deadline. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Procrastinate--to drag one's ass in such a pathetic manner as to insure ones place in life as a loser ... Bobby Long
Thomas
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I'm just working on the design document...
in my head.
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That's why I paint little blue circles on my eyelids...
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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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.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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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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