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Re:To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emoti... by why-el on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @07:49AM (#10158565)
Well in this case are you really procrastinating? Clearly your brain is making relatively solid decisions, considering how your career is moving (upward).

In this situation I'd like to recall Bertrand Russel's great dictum: "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time". :) Totally changed how I think about my "procrastinating" time when I read that.

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Re:To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emoti... by ar-jan on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @09:35AM (#10159015)
Nice quote. I just looked it up and it looks like it's not Bertrand Russel's: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
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Re:To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emoti... by why-el on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @10:16AM (#10159279)
Hum, interesting. I guess I always thought it was his because he actually developed very similar ideas in his essay "In Praise of Idleness"[1].

[1] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

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