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Ewen Le BorgneExcellent and funny post by John Perry about the benefits of structured procrastination.
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Morten JustProcrastination and Perfectionism http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/light/perfectionism.php (http://bit.ly/fOFaBH)
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Mohit JustWhy do I have such fantasies? God knows. Or maybe my shrink. Perhaps my father did not praise me enough as a child. Or perhaps he heaped praise on me when once, accidentally no doubt, I accomplished some task extremely well. Perhaps it is genetic. But thi
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You have to get in the habit of forcing yourself to analyze, at the time you accept a task, to consider the costs and befits of doing a less than perfect job. You need to ask the questions: how useful would a perfect job be here? How much more useful than a merely adequate job? Or even a half-assed job? And you need to ask the questions: what is the probability that I will really do anything like a remotely perfect job on this? And you need to ask: what difference will it make to me, whether I do or not?
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will be that a less than perfect job will do just fine, and moreover it's all I am ever going to do anyway. So I give myself permission to do a less than perfect job, rather than waiting until it is overdue. I may as well do it now.
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A TriaMany procrastinators do not realize that they are perfectionists, for the simple reason that they have never done anything perfectly, or even nearly so. They have never been told that something they did was perfect. They have never themselves felt that an
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You have to get in the habit of forcing yourself to analyze, at the time you accept a task, to consider the costs and befits of doing a less than perfect job. You need to ask the questions: how useful would a perfect job be here? How much more useful than a merely adequate job? Or even a half-assed job? And you need to ask the questions: what is the probability that I will really do anything like a remotely perfect job on this? And you need to ask: what difference will it make to me, whether I do or not?
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Dan DascalescuHow to get other stuff done while you procrastinate about things you REALLY should so. "Here's how it works in my case. I am assigned some task, say, refereeing a manuscript for a publisher. I accept the task [...] Well, seven or eight hours later I am d
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Adam Crowe"You have to get in the habit of forcing yourself to analyze, at the time you accept a task, to consider the costs and benefits of doing a less than perfect job. You need to ask the questions: how useful would a perfect job be here? How much more useful
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Alberto FernandezMany procrastinators do not realize that they are perfectionists, for the simple reason that they have never done anything perfectly, or even nearly so. They have never been told that something they did was perfect. They have never themselves felt that an
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