• kubica@fedia.io
    34·
    3 days ago

    We think that we have free will, but the brain has already made its decision.

  • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    Does it count as procastinating if you do other somewhat useful jobs instead of the main one? (Or is what I said the definition of procastination?)

      • kureta@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        And I am procrastinating my chores by learning linear algebra. I’m a musician.

    • businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      can you not just call me out by my full name here jeez

      my favorite procrastination strategy is to clean my apartment instead of doing the thing i need to do because hey now my apartment is clean thats pretty sweet ive been meaning to do that (not that a clean apartment helps me do the thing i actually need to do in any way)

      • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Ok I might or might havent dusted some stuff the other day which I had neglected doing for months, but you gotta believe me it was important to clean them cuz umm I had to you know

    • Bobo The Great@startrek.websiteEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Even if you are being productive in task Y, you are still procrastinating X while doing Y, assuming X should be done before Y, if they have to be done by the same deadline it’s not procrastinating

  • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    Every once in a while I’m able to convince myself to do just one tiny thing. Maybe it’s literally just looking at the thing I’m supposed to be working on, and from there I notice a thing that’s missing so I just grab it for when I start working on it, and then I might as well prepare and organize the materials for when I start working on it, and before I know it, I’m working on it. Otherwise it just never gets done until some sort of deadline is dangerously close to being hit.

    • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      A similar strategy works great for me, but I frame it slightly differently based on my personal anxieties:

      • I’m procrastinating this important task because it’s overwhelming
      • But I can’t think about anything else because I’m worried I’m going to forget to do part of the task/some important detail
      • To be able to relax about this, I’ll just write down a list of things I need to get done/don’t want to forget

      Then, often, I’ll realize there’s a small part of the project that I am motivated to get done now so it’s not looming over my head anymore. Or, if not, I’ve given myself a Hemingway Bridge to starting the task whenever I do have motivation.

  • Kwakigra@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Nah, I can think of a worse feeling. To me it feels worse that people without executive dysfunction have never had to deal with this even one time and many of these individuals have no patience for people who do. At the same time they are fully capable of not procrastinating and do it anyway for fun and can at any time come back around to whatever it is they intended to do effortlessly. Because this is their experience and they constantly benefit by going along with societal prejudices without having to think about them because their default is non-thought at all times, there are no consequences for them to believe the brain is magic and brain disabilities can’t exist.