How to Stop Procrastinating
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Why didn't I think of this, before? I've been procrastinating for two days. I have to write code for a feature that is very much the same as a feature that I created several months ago. I can't reuse and modify my other code, and the feature I have to create is so different that I'll have to code it from scratch. At the same time, it conceptually does the same thing. Having already done this before, doing it again is painfully dull to even think about. Then I realized something. You can only procrastinate if you have the intention of doing something. If you have no plan to do something, then how can you put it off? By choosing not to do something at all, it eliminates procrastination. If you don't procrastinate, then you can't be considered to be an irresponsible person. I choose to be responsible. I'll simply just not do it at all.
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Why didn't I think of this, before? I've been procrastinating for two days. I have to write code for a feature that is very much the same as a feature that I created several months ago. I can't reuse and modify my other code, and the feature I have to create is so different that I'll have to code it from scratch. At the same time, it conceptually does the same thing. Having already done this before, doing it again is painfully dull to even think about. Then I realized something. You can only procrastinate if you have the intention of doing something. If you have no plan to do something, then how can you put it off? By choosing not to do something at all, it eliminates procrastination. If you don't procrastinate, then you can't be considered to be an irresponsible person. I choose to be responsible. I'll simply just not do it at all.
tl;dr - how to procrastinate without admitting you are procrastinating. :laugh:
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
- Thomas SowellA day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes) -
tl;dr - how to procrastinate without admitting you are procrastinating. :laugh:
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
- Thomas SowellA day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes) -
If you have no intention to do something, it's impossible to procrastinate. How do you prevent yourself from doing something that will never happen? :confused:
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Easy, stop thinking
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Easy, stop thinking
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Why didn't I think of this, before? I've been procrastinating for two days. I have to write code for a feature that is very much the same as a feature that I created several months ago. I can't reuse and modify my other code, and the feature I have to create is so different that I'll have to code it from scratch. At the same time, it conceptually does the same thing. Having already done this before, doing it again is painfully dull to even think about. Then I realized something. You can only procrastinate if you have the intention of doing something. If you have no plan to do something, then how can you put it off? By choosing not to do something at all, it eliminates procrastination. If you don't procrastinate, then you can't be considered to be an irresponsible person. I choose to be responsible. I'll simply just not do it at all.
You subclass and / or hide the previous code (in a dll).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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You subclass and / or hide the previous code (in a dll).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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If you have no intention to do something, it's impossible to procrastinate. How do you prevent yourself from doing something that will never happen? :confused:
From your purely theoretical point I agree. I will never eat liver, I have no intention of ever eating liver, therefore you are correct, I am not procrastinating from eating liver. I was speaking from the preamble of your point, that this realization came from you procrastinating about something you don't want to do but you do intend to do regardless of how boring you think it will be. In that singular case, you are procrastinating, yes?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
- Thomas SowellA day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes) -
Gerry Schmitz wrote:
You subclass and / or hide the previous code (in a dll).
That's a good idea, but the code I'm writing is all client-side JavaScript.
Steve Raw wrote:
the code I'm writing is all client-side JavaScript
The horra! I would procastinate, too.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
- Thomas SowellA day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes) -
Why didn't I think of this, before? I've been procrastinating for two days. I have to write code for a feature that is very much the same as a feature that I created several months ago. I can't reuse and modify my other code, and the feature I have to create is so different that I'll have to code it from scratch. At the same time, it conceptually does the same thing. Having already done this before, doing it again is painfully dull to even think about. Then I realized something. You can only procrastinate if you have the intention of doing something. If you have no plan to do something, then how can you put it off? By choosing not to do something at all, it eliminates procrastination. If you don't procrastinate, then you can't be considered to be an irresponsible person. I choose to be responsible. I'll simply just not do it at all.
I'll read this post tomorrow.
Jeremy Falcon
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Easy, stop thinking
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
But you'll stop being.
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Why didn't I think of this, before? I've been procrastinating for two days. I have to write code for a feature that is very much the same as a feature that I created several months ago. I can't reuse and modify my other code, and the feature I have to create is so different that I'll have to code it from scratch. At the same time, it conceptually does the same thing. Having already done this before, doing it again is painfully dull to even think about. Then I realized something. You can only procrastinate if you have the intention of doing something. If you have no plan to do something, then how can you put it off? By choosing not to do something at all, it eliminates procrastination. If you don't procrastinate, then you can't be considered to be an irresponsible person. I choose to be responsible. I'll simply just not do it at all.
