I can procrastinate on a task a lot, like I know that I should do something, but at the same time I am afraid to start, because I am not sure about something or I expect a problem.
So, starting is a big problem for me. Stopping is not. What is done, is done. Maybe it sucks, but I have many other things to do (which doesn’t mean that I am actually doing those other things, maybe I am just procrastinating on them).
I know people who make a choice and then spend weeks thinking about whether it was the right choice, sometimes to the extent that they can’t focus on other things before them. I am not like that. I think a lot before doing a thing, not after it is done.
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Right now, our washing machine broke, and we need to buy a new one. So I wrote a list of criteria, found some machines in a shop that seem to fit them, downloaded their manuals, made screenshots of the pages that contain their programs (length, temperature, load). I have been preparing this for a week. Now I will give the summary information and screenshots to my wife and let her choose, and hopefully she will either choose quickly or leave the choice to me (I already have a preference), then I will buy it, and I will no longer think about “what if we bought a different one”.
As I know my wife, she will spend the following month second-guessing our choice (and it will be super annoying for me) and then hopefully she will get used to it.
Haha, I hope the laundry’s clean by now. I hadn’t realized that rumination isn’t just about dwelling on the past, but also about ruminating on future predictions… I don’t even know what to call overthinking, haha.
For example, I might spend more time considering washing machine options because I enjoy thinking about them. And it’s an easier problem to solve than others I work on. So I’d “ruminate” thinking about various aspects, like “which washing machine has the most comfortable button to press?”, and I’d stop working, so to speak.
Then, the more time and effort I put into planning my projects, the less time I spend procrastinating. Or does that not make sense?
So you don’t experience rumination?
I guess not much, compared to some people I know.
I can procrastinate on a task a lot, like I know that I should do something, but at the same time I am afraid to start, because I am not sure about something or I expect a problem.
So, starting is a big problem for me. Stopping is not. What is done, is done. Maybe it sucks, but I have many other things to do (which doesn’t mean that I am actually doing those other things, maybe I am just procrastinating on them).
I know people who make a choice and then spend weeks thinking about whether it was the right choice, sometimes to the extent that they can’t focus on other things before them. I am not like that. I think a lot before doing a thing, not after it is done.
.
Right now, our washing machine broke, and we need to buy a new one. So I wrote a list of criteria, found some machines in a shop that seem to fit them, downloaded their manuals, made screenshots of the pages that contain their programs (length, temperature, load). I have been preparing this for a week. Now I will give the summary information and screenshots to my wife and let her choose, and hopefully she will either choose quickly or leave the choice to me (I already have a preference), then I will buy it, and I will no longer think about “what if we bought a different one”.
As I know my wife, she will spend the following month second-guessing our choice (and it will be super annoying for me) and then hopefully she will get used to it.
Haha, I hope the laundry’s clean by now. I hadn’t realized that rumination isn’t just about dwelling on the past, but also about ruminating on future predictions… I don’t even know what to call overthinking, haha.
For example, I might spend more time considering washing machine options because I enjoy thinking about them. And it’s an easier problem to solve than others I work on. So I’d “ruminate” thinking about various aspects, like “which washing machine has the most comfortable button to press?”, and I’d stop working, so to speak.
Then, the more time and effort I put into planning my projects, the less time I spend procrastinating. Or does that not make sense?