No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Procrastination’s Ass

Re:No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Proc... by hakanito on Thursday November 08, 2012 @08:38AM (#4757722)

I think it essentially is a question of personal character. I consider myself very lazy and procrastinate all the time, so it would not help to just cover the clocks for me to get things done. I would still procrastine, probably even more.

The change needs to happen on a completely different level to get out of the old routines of laziness and inability to focus. I'm talking about some kind of life-changing experience. For example, people being diagnosed with cancer often makes them appreciate life and spend their time more carefully -- or something else that has an impact on our core values and instincts.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Proc... by thirdtruck on Thursday November 08, 2012 @09:07AM (#4757805)

From what I can tell from a broad study of self improvement, the idea of personal character reduces to an abstraction of the training and habits that actually define us.

You can think of it as the difference between "that square way over there is green" and "that square is covered in tiny blue and yellow dots, with some a few reds ones for good measure".

Our brain performs that compression of "myriad behaviors to broad categorization" automatically, by the way, so we have to drum that mental compression with conscious effort.

[ Parent | on HN ]