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• 28 Sep 18
  

  R Mills

  education timemanagement procrastination

• 16 Nov 17
  

  Rita Zerrizuela
  • The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators.
  • There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well.
  • There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination.
    
  • That's the sense in which the most impressive people I know are all procrastinators. They're type-C procrastinators: they put off working on small stuff to work on big stuff.
    
    What's "small stuff?" Roughly, work that has zero chance of being mentioned in your obituary.
  • Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.
    
  • The mildest seeming people, if they want to do real work, all have a certain degree of ruthlessness when it comes to avoiding errands.
  • The reason it pays to put off even those errands is that real work needs two things errands don't: big chunks of time, and the right mood. If you get inspired by some project, it can be a net win to blow off everything you were supposed to do for the next few days to work on it.
  • In fact, it may not be a difference in degree, but a difference in kind. There may be types of work that can only be done in long, uninterrupted stretches, when inspiration hits, rather than dutifully in scheduled little slices.
  • Conversely, forcing someone to perform errands synchronously is bound to limit their productivity. The cost of an interruption is not just the time it takes, but that it breaks the time on either side in half.
  • it may be better to be overworked than interrupted. Once you dilute a startup with ordinary office workers—with type-B procrastinators—the whole company starts to resonate at their frequency. They're interrupt-driven, and soon you are too.
  • Errands are so effective at killing great projects that a lot of people use them for that purpose.
  • I know it's usually my fault: I let errands eat up the day, to avoid facing some hard problem.
  • The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination, because it doesn't feel like procrastination. You're "getting things done." Just the wrong things.
  • Unless you're working on the biggest things you could be working on, you're type-B procrastinating, no matter how much you're getting done.
  • Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions: 
     
    1. What are the most important problems in your field?
       
       
    2. Are you working on one of them?
       
       
    3. Why not? 
  • whatever your capacities, there are projects that stretch them. So Hamming's exercise can be generalized to: 

      What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't  you?
  • The trouble is, you may end up hooking a very big fish with this bait. To do good work, you need to do more than find good projects. Once you've found them, you have to get yourself to work on them, and that can be hard. The bigger the problem, the harder it is to get yourself to work on it.
    
    Of course, the main reason people find it difficult to work on a particular problem is that they don't  enjoy it.
  • But even when you like what you're working on, it's easier to get yourself to work on small problems than big ones. Why? Why is it so hard to work on big problems? One reason is that you may not get any reward in the forseeable future.
  • If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
  • Another reason people don't work on big projects is, ironically, fear of wasting time. What if they fail? Then all the time they spent on it will be wasted. (In fact it probably won't be, because work on hard projects almost always leads somewhere.)
  • There's more to it than that. Big problems are terrifying. There's an almost physical pain in facing them.
  • You can't look a big problem too directly in the eye. You have to approach it somewhat obliquely. But you have to adjust the angle just right: you have to be facing the big problem directly enough that you catch some of the excitement radiating from it, but not so much that it paralyzes you. You can tighten the angle once you get going
  • If you want to work on big things, you seem to have to trick yourself into doing it. You have to work on small things that could grow into big things, or work on successively larger things, or split the moral load with collaborators. It's not a sign of weakness to depend on such tricks. The very best work has been done this way.
  • When I talk to people who've managed to make themselves work on big things, I find that all blow off errands
  • So someone doing the best work they can is inevitably going to leave a lot of errands undone.
  • I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you'll leave the right things undone.

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• 07 Oct 17
  

  Kenyth Zeng

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• 11 Apr 17
  

  asrai0fire
  • Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions: 
     
    1. What are the most important problems in your field?
       
       
    2. Are you working on one of them?
       
       
    3. Why not?
  • Why is it so hard to work on big problems? One reason is that you may not get any reward in the forseeable future. If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
  • Big problems are terrifying. There's an almost physical pain in facing them
  • you have to adjust the angle just right: you have to be facing the big problem directly enough that you catch some of the excitement radiating from it, but not so much that it paralyzes you

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• 10 Apr 17
  

  cherri chew
  • I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you.
  • I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you.
• 22 Apr 16
  

  Anusha A
  • That's the "absent-minded professor," who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he's going while he's thinking about some interesting question. His mind is absent from the everyday world because it's hard at work in another.
    
  • What's "small stuff?" Roughly, work that has zero chance of being mentioned in your obituary.
  • there's a whole class of tasks you can safely rule out: shaving, doing your laundry, cleaning the house, writing thank-you notes—anything that might be called an errand.
  • Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.
  • The mildest seeming people, if they want to do real work, all have a certain degree of ruthlessness when it comes to avoiding errands.
    
  • When I think of the people I know who've done great things, I don't imagine them dutifully crossing items off to-do lists. I imagine them sneaking off to work on some new idea.
  • better to be overworked than interrupted. Once you dilute a startup with ordinary office workers—with type-B procrastinators—the whole company starts to resonate at their frequency. They're interrupt-driven, and soon you are too.
  • I've learned a lot of tricks for making myself work over the last 20 years, but even now I don't win consistently. Some days I get real work done. Other days are eaten up by errands. And I know it's usually my fault: I let errands eat up the day, to avoid facing some hard problem.
  • you ask yourself three questions: 
     
    1. What are the most important problems in your field?
       
       
    2. Are you working on one of them?
       
       
    3. Why not?
  • To do good work, you need to do more than find good projects. Once you've found them, you have to get yourself to work on them, and that can be hard. The bigger the problem, the harder it is to get yourself to work on it.
  • If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
  • Another reason people don't work on big projects is, ironically, fear of wasting time. What if they fail? Then all the time they spent on it will be wasted. (In fact it probably won't be, because work on hard projects almost always leads somewhere.)
  • Big problems are terrifying. There's an almost physical pain in facing them. It's like having a vacuum cleaner hooked up to your imagination. All your initial ideas get sucked out immediately, and you don't have any more, and yet the vacuum cleaner is still sucking.
  • You can't look a big problem too directly in the eye. You have to approach it somewhat obliquely. But you have to adjust the angle just right: you have to be facing the big problem directly enough that you catch some of the excitement radiating from it, but not so much that it paralyzes you. You can tighten the angle once you get going, just as a sailboat can sail closer to the wind once it gets underway.
  • If you want to work on big things, you seem to have to trick yourself into doing it. You have to work on small things that could grow into big things, or work on successively larger things, or split the moral load with collaborators. It's not a sign of weakness to depend on such tricks. The very best work has been done this way.
  • I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you'll leave the right things undone.

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• 06 Mar 16
  

  janharold

  The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn't always bad? Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are a…

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• 30 Nov 15
  

  mineofnuggets

  Nuolatinis darbas ties techninių darbų sąrašu - vienas blogiausių procrastination variantų, nes tavo energija nueina neesminiams dalykams ir nesuvoki, kad "procrastinuoji".
  
  There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination.
  
  That's the "absent-minded professor," who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he's going while he's thinking about some interesting question. His mind is absent from the everyday world because it's hard at work in another.
  
  That's the sense in which the most impressive people I know are all procrastinators. They're type-C procrastinators: they put off working on small stuff to work on big stuff.
  
  "If you want to work on BIG THINGS, you seem to have to trick yourself into doing it. You have to work on small things that could grow into big things, or work on successively larger things, or split the moral load with collaborators. It's not a sign of weakness to depend on such tricks. The very best work has been done this way."

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• 05 Aug 15
  

  rblimey

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• 26 Sep 14
  

  Jean-Monazi Chang
  • Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.
    
  • I've wondered a lot about why  startups are most productive at the very beginning, when they're just a couple guys in an apartment. The main reason may be that there's no one to interrupt them yet. In theory it's good when the founders finally get enough money to hire people to do some of the work for them. But it may be better to be overworked than interrupted. Once you dilute a startup with ordinary office workers—with type-B procrastinators—the whole company starts to resonate at their frequency. They're interrupt-driven, and soon you are too.
    
  • The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination, because it doesn't feel like procrastination. You're "getting things done." Just the wrong things.
    
    Any advice about procrastination that concentrates on crossing things off your to-do list is not only incomplete, but positively misleading, if it doesn't consider the possibility that the to-do list is itself a form of type-B procrastination. In fact, possibility is too weak a word. Nearly everyone's is. Unless you're working on the biggest things you could be working on, you're type-B procrastinating, no matter how much you're getting done.
  • Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions: 
     
    1. What are the most important problems in your field?
       
       
    2. Are you working on one of them?
       
       
    3. Why not?
  • You can't look a big problem too directly in the eye. You have to approach it somewhat obliquely. But you have to adjust the angle just right: you have to be facing the big problem directly enough that you catch some of the excitement radiating from it, but not so much that it paralyzes you. You can tighten the angle once you get going, just as a sailboat can sail closer to the wind once it gets underway.
    
    If you want to work on big things, you seem to have to trick yourself into doing it. You have to work on small things that could grow into big things, or work on successively larger things, or split the moral load with collaborators. It's not a sign of weakness to depend on such tricks. The very best work has been done this way.

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• 04 Jan 14
  

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• 20 Dec 13
  

  gbradz
  • Errands are so effective at killing great projects that a lot of people use them for that purpose.
  • If you want to work on big things, you seem to have to trick yourself into doing it. You have to work on small things that could grow into big things, or work on successively larger things, or split the moral load with collaborators.
  • let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you

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• 31 Oct 13
  

  Jenny S

  hm "the way to 'solve' problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you" http://t.co/7K6U4CFocM

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• 12 Oct 13
  

  Andrew Pascoe

  "In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on), Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions:
  What are the most important problems in your field?
  
  Are you working on one of them?
  
  Why not?"

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• 26 Aug 13
  

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  • There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important.
  • When I think of the people I know who've done great things, I don't imagine them dutifully crossing items off to-do lists. I imagine them sneaking off to work on some new idea.
  • Any advice about procrastination that concentrates on crossing things off your to-do list is not only incomplete, but positively misleading
  • Unless you're working on the biggest things you could be working on, you're type-B procrastinating, no matter how much you're getting done.
  • What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't  you?
  • If you want to work on big things, you seem to have to trick yourself into doing it. You have to work on small things that could grow into big things, or work on successively larger things, or split the moral load with collaborators.
  • I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you'll leave the right things undone.

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• 03 Aug 13
  

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• 27 Nov 12
  

  Gavin van
  • You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they're unable to work on hard problems at all.
• 08 Nov 12
  

  Eugene Loy

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  • There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important.
  • Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.
  • Conversely, forcing someone to perform errands synchronously is bound to limit their productivity.
  • I've wondered a lot about why  startups are most productive at the very beginning, when they're just a couple guys in an apartment. The main reason may be that there's no one to interrupt them yet.
  • In theory it's good when the founders finally get enough money to hire people to do some of the work for them. But it may be better to be overworked than interrupted.
  • Once you dilute a startup with ordinary office workers—with type-B procrastinators—the whole company starts to resonate at their frequency. They're interrupt-driven, and soon you are too.
  • The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination, because it doesn't feel like procrastination. You're "getting things done." Just the wrong things.
  • • What are the most important problems in your field?
      
      
    • Are you working on one of them?
      
      
    • Why not? 
  • What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't  you?
  • The bigger the problem, the harder it is to get yourself to work on it.
  • Of course, the main reason people find it difficult to work on a particular problem is that they don't  enjoy it.
  • But the trouble with big problems can't be just that they promise no immediate reward and might cause you to waste a lot of time. If that were all, they'd be no worse than going to visit your in-laws. There's more to it than that. Big problems are terrifying
  • You can't look a big problem too directly in the eye. You have to approach it somewhat obliquely. But you have to adjust the angle just right: you have to be facing the big problem directly enough that you catch some of the excitement radiating from it, but not so much that it paralyzes you.
  • You have to work on small things that could grow into big things, or work on successively larger things, or split the moral load with collaborators. It's not a sign of weakness to depend on such tricks.
  • the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you

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• 24 Sep 12
  

  Konstantinos

  "The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn't always bad?"

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• 28 Aug 12
  

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  "The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn't always bad?"

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• 25 Aug 12
  

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• 18 May 12
  

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  • The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators.
  • Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well.
  • There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination.
  • That's the "absent-minded professor," who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he's going while he's thinking about some interesting question. His mind is absent from the everyday world because it's hard at work in another.
  • What's "small stuff?" Roughly, work that has zero chance of being mentioned in your obituary.
  • but there's a whole class of tasks you can safely rule out: shaving, doing your laundry, cleaning the house, writing thank-you notes—anything that might be called an errand.
  • Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work.
    
  • Good in a sense, at least. The people who want you to do the errands won't think it's good. But you probably have to annoy them if you want to get anything done. The mildest seeming people, if they want to do real work, all have a certain degree of ruthlessness when it comes to avoiding errands.

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• 02 Mar 12
  

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• 16 Jan 12
  

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  • you may not get any reward in the forseeable future
  • fear of wasting time. What if they fail?
  • Big problems are terrifying.
  • You can't look a big problem too directly in the eye. You have to approach it somewhat obliquely.
  • catch some of the excitement radiating from it, but not so much that it paralyzes you.
  • work on small things that could grow into big things,
  • all blow off errands, and all feel guilty about it.
  • let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you.

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  • And I know it's usually my fault: I let errands eat up the day, to avoid facing some hard problem.
  • Another reason people don't work on big projects is, ironically, fear of wasting time. What if they fail? Then all the time they spent on it will be wasted. (In fact it probably won't be, because work on hard projects almost always leads somewhere.)
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  • In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I  recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on), Richard  Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions:  
     
    1. What are the most important problems in your field?
       
        
    2. Are you working on one of them?
       
        
    3. Why not?
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  • In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I  recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on), Richard  Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions:
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  • When I talk to people who've managed to make themselves work on big things, I find that all blow off errands, and all feel guilty about it. I don't think they should feel guilty. There's more to do than anyone could. So someone doing the best work they can is inevitably going to leave a lot of errands undone. It seems a mistake to feel bad about that.
    
    I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you'll leave the right things undone.
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  • The reason it pays to put off even those errands is that real work needs two things errands don't: big chunks of time, and the right mood. If you get inspired by some project, it can be a net win to blow off everything you were supposed to do for the next few days to work on it. Yes, those errands may cost you more time when you finally get around to them. But if you get a lot done during those few days, you will be net more productive.
  • What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't  you?
  • I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you'll leave the right things undone.

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  A great essay about procrastination and priority setting (in the most simple sense). I'm going to be great by following this advice. :)

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• 
  Nbr on 2006-04-29
  This is actually not a good way of thinking about procrastination if you have a genuine problem with it.
• 
  Kallu Kalakar on 2008-08-04
  Easier said than done...
  
  p.s. oops... :)

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