idk exactly how, they just pop up to my mind easily. maybe because i am very aware of the things i’m disappointed about not having done. also, i can consult my todo list, which is effectively a list of things i will never do because i don’t have enough agency. like i’m going to set a timer for 10 minutes and write as many things as i can think of:
i’ve known that exercise is really important since forever but never really getting around to doing it
i keep procrastinating scheduling meetings with people i should meet with
i often have entire months of very low productivity where it’s a slog to do anything and in the past it never occurred to me to take any of that time off even though i have way more PTO than i need
there are many instances where i finished doing a thing and then realized i should have started doing some other thing in parallel instead of waiting on it.
there will be multiple times a month where i will realize my life would be easier if i had planned ahead even a little bit. for example i will forget to book a flight until the last minute, at which point it’s harder and more expensive to get good seats, even though i knew my travel plans much earlier.
i will often do things the hard way for way too long, even after i know there could be a better way, because i’m too used to the old process and don’t want to expend the trivial amount of effort needed to check if there’s a better way. for example it took me an embarassingly long time before i learned to use a debugger, because i was used to print-statement debugging
i often procrastinate things because there is a trivial amount of inconvenience required to do it. like it took me years to get around to various medical interventions which really only required me to do some googling and then talk to a doctor twice and whatever.
hopefully these examples help you think of similar things in your life
idk exactly how, they just pop up to my mind easily. maybe because i am very aware of the things i’m disappointed about not having done. also, i can consult my todo list, which is effectively a list of things i will never do because i don’t have enough agency. like i’m going to set a timer for 10 minutes and write as many things as i can think of:
i’ve known that exercise is really important since forever but never really getting around to doing it
i keep procrastinating scheduling meetings with people i should meet with
i often have entire months of very low productivity where it’s a slog to do anything and in the past it never occurred to me to take any of that time off even though i have way more PTO than i need
there are many instances where i finished doing a thing and then realized i should have started doing some other thing in parallel instead of waiting on it.
there will be multiple times a month where i will realize my life would be easier if i had planned ahead even a little bit. for example i will forget to book a flight until the last minute, at which point it’s harder and more expensive to get good seats, even though i knew my travel plans much earlier.
i will often do things the hard way for way too long, even after i know there could be a better way, because i’m too used to the old process and don’t want to expend the trivial amount of effort needed to check if there’s a better way. for example it took me an embarassingly long time before i learned to use a debugger, because i was used to print-statement debugging
i often procrastinate things because there is a trivial amount of inconvenience required to do it. like it took me years to get around to various medical interventions which really only required me to do some googling and then talk to a doctor twice and whatever.
hopefully these examples help you think of similar things in your life