Does it? Do you really feel that way? Let me suggest that maybe that’s not an accurate description of what you feel.
I feel like I’m not committing to more than a few minutes, even though if I had thought of it, I would estimate I’d be spending more than a few minutes.
To me, the problem is in incrementalism. I read a tweet. I read another. No particular tweet is a huge time investment. (Just like no particular M&M makes you fat). So it’s tweet after tweet after tweet. I’m never facing one tweet that is going to be a big time investment. So it’s tweet after tweet after tweet.
Hmmm. And maybe that’s the secret. Getting fat eating M&Ms is easy to visualize. And conceptualize. I need a similarly meaningful vision of the lacking in accomplishment me, that eating tweets will turn me into.
Inverse procrastination
I like that. I saw it as procrastinating having fun with work. I would see the problem in that of making sure that work occurred while you didn’t watch the movie, instead of some useless past time. That’s not a problem for you?
There’s a similar strategy of “procastinating later”. “I’ll goof off a little later.” I think some argue that you get the satisfaction of the goof off in the anticipation of it, and that helps you continue.
Does it? Do you really feel that way? Let me suggest that maybe that’s not an accurate description of what you feel.
I feel like I’m not committing to more than a few minutes, even though if I had thought of it, I would estimate I’d be spending more than a few minutes.
To me, the problem is in incrementalism. I read a tweet. I read another. No particular tweet is a huge time investment. (Just like no particular M&M makes you fat). So it’s tweet after tweet after tweet. I’m never facing one tweet that is going to be a big time investment. So it’s tweet after tweet after tweet.
Hmmm. And maybe that’s the secret. Getting fat eating M&Ms is easy to visualize. And conceptualize. I need a similarly meaningful vision of the lacking in accomplishment me, that eating tweets will turn me into.
I like that. I saw it as procrastinating having fun with work. I would see the problem in that of making sure that work occurred while you didn’t watch the movie, instead of some useless past time. That’s not a problem for you?
There’s a similar strategy of “procastinating later”. “I’ll goof off a little later.” I think some argue that you get the satisfaction of the goof off in the anticipation of it, and that helps you continue.