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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Let's see, what are some of the truly innumerable ways in which I have procrastinated? |
0:11.0 | Okay, there is level one procrastination, which is like, let's check my email, let's |
0:18.0 | check Slack, let's check Reddit, let's check YouTube, let's check Instagram, let's keep |
0:23.6 | looking, why is my phone in my hand again? |
0:26.2 | This is sort of your standard, constant background procrastination. |
0:31.5 | Then there's level two procrastination. |
0:33.8 | This weirdly can be kind of useful, it is the, God, this room is really messy, I can't |
0:39.9 | do this work until this room is clean procrastination. |
0:43.6 | This is the windexing, the windows and mirrors procrastination, it is the folding your |
0:48.6 | clothes procrastination, it is the organizing, your collection of travel related coffee |
0:54.3 | mugs, it must happen now. |
0:59.2 | And finally, there is the mode of procrastination, which verges on desperation. |
1:06.2 | This is the procrastination where you do things you don't want to do that you have been |
1:11.0 | procrastinating on, so you don't have to do the main thing. |
1:14.3 | This is the making an appointment at the DMV, this is the going to the dentist procrastination, |
1:20.1 | anything to keep you from having to do the thing. |
1:26.6 | And it's not just me, I think everyone knows this feeling, you're working on something, |
1:30.6 | you've got a deadline coming, you just cannot focus, your mind refuses to let you do the |
1:37.0 | thing you need to be doing. |
1:39.9 | But what if, what if there were a place that you could go and prevent all of this madness, |
1:48.8 | a place that would keep you on track, a place where you could not leave, you were actually |
1:56.0 | not allowed to leave until your work was done. |
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