I second your anecdotal account. I’ll procrastinate forever if I have little to do, and will become a zealous workaholic when I have endless work piled up. I call it hard-core mode.
I wonder to what extent this relates to Yvain’s post on Typical Psyche Fallacy?
“All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.”
I second your anecdotal account. I’ll procrastinate forever if I have little to do, and will become a zealous workaholic when I have endless work piled up. I call it hard-core mode.
I wonder to what extent this relates to Yvain’s post on Typical Psyche Fallacy?
Reminds me a lot of Structured Procrastination:
Quite a lot, which I plan to use to help inform my next post on akrasia.