The combination of mentioning Judo and asking for specific examples reminded me of a think I’ve noticed myself doing subconsciously. My introspection isn’t clear enough to say if it works thou, or even if I’m really doing it as much as I think, but. Still here it is: Try to make your brain classify unproductive stuff as work, and productive stuff as play. Most important clues are if it’s voluntary and if it’s fun. So set up a schedule forcing yourself to do the kind of things usually procrastinate with in an optimised and work like way, then on your free time from that play around with things that also have productive side effects and you learn from.
If you’re doing it RIGHT you’ll always be doing things that are both fun and productive. If you do it wrong you’ll never have fun and do totally unproductive stuff half the time and productive stuff but inefficiently the rest.
More concrete example: “Ok, I have to finish these LW articles I’m behind with THEN I’m allowed to take a break and do some programming.”, then proceed to procrastinate the articles by doing writing exercises. source: all of the last few weeks. This is also why I haven’t been commenting on stuff in the discussion section lately.
The combination of mentioning Judo and asking for specific examples reminded me of a think I’ve noticed myself doing subconsciously. My introspection isn’t clear enough to say if it works thou, or even if I’m really doing it as much as I think, but. Still here it is: Try to make your brain classify unproductive stuff as work, and productive stuff as play. Most important clues are if it’s voluntary and if it’s fun. So set up a schedule forcing yourself to do the kind of things usually procrastinate with in an optimised and work like way, then on your free time from that play around with things that also have productive side effects and you learn from.
If you’re doing it RIGHT you’ll always be doing things that are both fun and productive. If you do it wrong you’ll never have fun and do totally unproductive stuff half the time and productive stuff but inefficiently the rest.
More concrete example: “Ok, I have to finish these LW articles I’m behind with THEN I’m allowed to take a break and do some programming.”, then proceed to procrastinate the articles by doing writing exercises. source: all of the last few weeks. This is also why I haven’t been commenting on stuff in the discussion section lately.