With school just getting back in, I find myself continuously saying “I’ll do my work at X o’clock” where X is always multiple hours in the future, and then when I get to that time, I find myself saying the same thing. It’s like I forget that my future self is just like me.
So that this comment has more than epsilon information, I’ll also provide the heuristic I’m going to use this semester. Hopefully it works, etc., etc.: Every time I find myself pushing the “get to work time” on my future self, assume I will not work at all that day. Maybe this motivates me to work immediately, maybe not. If not, at least I don’t get the guilt and stress of deluding myself into thinking I’ll get to work X hours from now.
this is literally the best solution I could think of
So awfully true.
With school just getting back in, I find myself continuously saying “I’ll do my work at X o’clock” where X is always multiple hours in the future, and then when I get to that time, I find myself saying the same thing. It’s like I forget that my future self is just like me.
So that this comment has more than epsilon information, I’ll also provide the heuristic I’m going to use this semester. Hopefully it works, etc., etc.:
Every time I find myself pushing the “get to work time” on my future self, assume I will not work at all that day. Maybe this motivates me to work immediately, maybe not. If not, at least I don’t get the guilt and stress of deluding myself into thinking I’ll get to work X hours from now.
this is literally the best solution I could think of
Your future self will have less time to do the tasks. He will at least not be able to postpone those with the same rationalization as you can.
And this your present self knows.