I disagree. I often procrastinate on the things that I really really want to do.<p>My explanation for that is not the fundamental lack of interest in the project, but the hidden fear of failure that accompanies every project that I work on.<p>I&#x27;ve worked on so many failed projects that I&#x27;ve kind of lost hope of actually producing something that won&#x27;t be forgotten immediately.<p>(Mind that this is not necessarily true - some of my work (as a comedian&#x2F;writer&#x2F;actor) has been viewed millions of times, while some of the code I&#x27;ve written is being executed by millions of machines every day, but I still feel like I&#x27;ve failed at everything, because that was just &quot;blind luck&quot; ).<p>If all this effort results in disappointment and depression, why bother waste energy on it now - this is the kind of hidden thought process that&#x27;s going on in my head and I guess in many other&#x27;s people&#x27;s heads too.<p>Paradoxically, this is the thought process that also disarms you a little bit every day, until the task becomes painful and not worth pursuing and once again you&#x27;ve failed to accomplished what you&#x27;ve set out to.<p>It&#x27;s a self-fulfilling prophecy, but also hard to break since it&#x27;s not happening on a &quot;rational&quot; level, but on a lower &quot;fight or flight&quot; subconscious level, which is very hard to control.