How to Procrastinate Productively
[...] what procrastination looks like for most people:- Think about working.- Immediately feel the urge to procrastinate.- Start beating themselves up with a bunch of negative self-talk for wanting to procrastinate (I’m such a procrastinator, why can’t you just stay focused?)- Feel badly, including a bunch of negative emotions like shame and disappointment, on top of the already-strong urge to procrastinate.- Procrastinate on something emotionally numbing.Is that really how it works for most people? I (and I always assumed that's how it is for most people) often just rationalize procrastination ("My tasks are not that important/interesting, I'll do them later", "Reading just one more article is fine, then back to work") without any negative thoughts at that time. Sometimes I do some research and suddenly realize I ended up on StackOverflow or HN and think "wait a minute, that's not work any more". But that's ok if I get all work done.I think that is the usual way of procrastination. What the article claims how most people procrastinate (negative thoughts, getting no work done) sounds like more extreme but rarer cases.