This sounds like a list of ways to make your life worse, not better, especially if you’re a chronic procrastinator. If you’re a chronic procrastinator, increasing pressure increases procrastination, rather than decreasing it.
These sorts of approaches are much more useful for optimists than pessimists, as optimists won’t treat any failures as personal or devastating, and they won’t experience risk paralysis.
But chronic procrastinators already assign so much personal blame and social shame to even trivial failures, that for them these approaches would be like recommending that alcoholics drink more as a way of getting sober. That is, it’s more of precisely what they already have way too much of.
This sounds like a list of ways to make your life worse, not better, especially if you’re a chronic procrastinator. If you’re a chronic procrastinator, increasing pressure increases procrastination, rather than decreasing it.
These sorts of approaches are much more useful for optimists than pessimists, as optimists won’t treat any failures as personal or devastating, and they won’t experience risk paralysis.
But chronic procrastinators already assign so much personal blame and social shame to even trivial failures, that for them these approaches would be like recommending that alcoholics drink more as a way of getting sober. That is, it’s more of precisely what they already have way too much of.
Yea, I think you’re right.
Dealing with chronic procrastinators is a completely different issue.