The Onion theory of procrastination
well, procrastination has become an art form. And there are many forms but only a few of these are succesful.
This is the technique I use.
Basically, you have the thing you really should be doing, but don't want to, let's use writing a report as an example. now normally, you'd find one thing to do, like cleaning your desk. But, as soon as that's finished you now have to find something else to do to procrastinate further.
So, what I do is i think of a few things, like clean my desk, post pics to DA, check the forums, go and chat to people, send email, and post a blog entry. now, I prioritise them. This way, I know that even when I finish the one thing, I still have another, and the another thing to do.
You see, Layers of pracrastination. It's a far less guilt inducing method, and also wastes less time on the determining of the specifics for the work avoidance behaviour.
This is the technique I use.
Basically, you have the thing you really should be doing, but don't want to, let's use writing a report as an example. now normally, you'd find one thing to do, like cleaning your desk. But, as soon as that's finished you now have to find something else to do to procrastinate further.
So, what I do is i think of a few things, like clean my desk, post pics to DA, check the forums, go and chat to people, send email, and post a blog entry. now, I prioritise them. This way, I know that even when I finish the one thing, I still have another, and the another thing to do.
You see, Layers of pracrastination. It's a far less guilt inducing method, and also wastes less time on the determining of the specifics for the work avoidance behaviour.
posted by Gaz | 11:26 AM
5 Comments:
Hahahahaha
Hmm.
I was about to write "you should publish that on the web somewhere", then I remembered where I was. Silly me :)
Self-realised procrastination. Interesting. Perhaps you should write a technical paper on this technique of yours, throwing in some empirical evidence and the like.
I use a very similar technique.
It's more formally known as structured procrastination, and works along the premise of, as long as you have something to procrastinate against, you can be productive doing 'lesser' important tasks.
It works with a priority list too, with the number 1 item, being the one you procrastinate against. It becomes fun manipulating the list, and essentially playing mind games with yourself, by changing the number 1 item.
Read about it here: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
Oh dear. Teh intarwubs beat you to it, Gareth ;)
"Author practices jumping rope with seaweed while work awaits."
Classic!
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