it’s when I have major open questions about how to approach the task in the first place.
I just want to add, this is my experience too. I find that when I’m not being productive, one of the principle reasons is that I have a goal or a niggling guilty sense that I should do something (and very logical reasons too for doing that) but lack the fine-grain specifics or a plan how to do it. Other times the reason I’m unproductive is that while I do have a plan, but it seems so cockamamie and doomed to fail I procrastinate because the risk/reward ratio feels too low.
When my open questions about execution and approach are answered (often from serendipitous conversations or during procrastinating on other tasks), the hesitation and procrastination tends to melt away. I may even become excited to do the task.
I just want to add, this is my experience too. I find that when I’m not being productive, one of the principle reasons is that I have a goal or a niggling guilty sense that I should do something (and very logical reasons too for doing that) but lack the fine-grain specifics or a plan how to do it.
Other times the reason I’m unproductive is that while I do have a plan, but it seems so cockamamie and doomed to fail I procrastinate because the risk/reward ratio feels too low.
When my open questions about execution and approach are answered (often from serendipitous conversations or during procrastinating on other tasks), the hesitation and procrastination tends to melt away. I may even become excited to do the task.