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(Reblogged from superamit)
Victor Hugo would write naked and tell his valet to hide his clothes so that he’d be unable to go outside when he was supposed to be writing.
What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker (via Instapaper)
Great article explaining different schools of thought on procrastination. Those described are:
- ignorance - if we act against our own interests, it must be because we don’t know what’s right
- the planning fallacy - people underestimate the time it will take them to complete a given task
- the divided self - the person who makes plans and the person who fails to carry them out are not really the same person
- lack of confidence - nuff said. sometimes coupled with unrealistic dreams of heroic success
- self-handicapping - rather than risk failure, we prefer to create conditions that make success impossible
- perfectionism - leads to excessive planning
Also described are ways to combat procrastination:
- employing “the extended will” - taking external measures to help parts of ourselves we want to work (as the quote describes)
- reframing - narrowing the gap between effort and reward, dividing projects into smaller, more defined sections
(Source: superamit)
