Today Jimmy sent me an article that stitched together various ideas I'd had about my severe procrastination into one coherent explanation
( Read more... )
That was a good article. I wonder, though. It seems to slight the people who feel a need to do many tasks in a day, overload themselves with tasks, and then not have time to do them all (the article talks about how many people just shuffle around mid-priority tasks for higher-priority tasks, and that doesn't count as "procrastinating.") However, when we, as a society, are pushed to accomplish so much all the time, and when we are unable to accomplish all that's expected of us, we feel like procrastinators. This article says that's not procrastination--just having lots to do and not having time to do it; however, it seems like people *believe* they're procrastinating since they *don't* accomplish it all...and then you feel guilty because you're a "procrastinator." So it almost seems like a culturally-induced psychological state. Like, faux procrastination. But it feels real
( ... )
Comments 1
Reply
Leave a comment