<story><title>Resistance to Being Productive</title><url>https://listed.standardnotes.org/@mo/408/why-you-re-resistant-to-being-productive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrik</author><text>I was hoping for something more scientific or at least psychological, but alas.&lt;p&gt;I would say these reasons don&amp;#x27;t line up with my observances at all.&lt;p&gt;For instance, one of mine is &amp;quot;this project is so big, I don&amp;#x27;t know where to start&amp;quot;. Once I find a piece that seems like something I can get done quickly and ease me in, things tend to go a lot easier.&lt;p&gt;Another is &amp;quot;I have so many (different) things to do that I don&amp;#x27;t want to do any&amp;quot;. Presumably this is not so different than the earlier one, and it&amp;#x27;s hard to get started without an obvious plan of attack that having only one or more tasks ahead of you brings with it.&lt;p&gt;Lastly, as a lifelong procrastinator, I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that waiting until the last minute to do something you need to do OFTEN results in never having to do it at all. You end up doing only things that &lt;i&gt;really needed&lt;/i&gt; to get done.&lt;p&gt;In the end, I don&amp;#x27;t really worry about it, or I hunt for tiny tasks to get my momentum going.&lt;p&gt;As for the article&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not sure how doing that work will take me to the next step&amp;quot; I guess? Maybe? But &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not sure what I would do after I finish that work (what the next step is)&amp;quot; I don&amp;#x27;t believe has every been a factor a single time in my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m convincing myself that a lot of cases of procrastination, especially at work, are just from bad management. There&amp;#x27;s a lot of bad self-management too, but for those of us in organizations with explicit management, I think there&amp;#x27;s a lot of productivity gains that could be had by having more competent management... Software really needs someone who gets Deming&amp;#x27;s management ideas but who can fully integrate them with the unique differences in software development... For &amp;quot;this project is so big, I don&amp;#x27;t know where to start&amp;quot;: if you admitted that to some managers, they&amp;#x27;d think &amp;quot;oh this person is incompetent&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;how can I help them start?&amp;quot; (to which there are many answers)</text></comment>
<story><title>Resistance to Being Productive</title><url>https://listed.standardnotes.org/@mo/408/why-you-re-resistant-to-being-productive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>larrik</author><text>I was hoping for something more scientific or at least psychological, but alas.&lt;p&gt;I would say these reasons don&amp;#x27;t line up with my observances at all.&lt;p&gt;For instance, one of mine is &amp;quot;this project is so big, I don&amp;#x27;t know where to start&amp;quot;. Once I find a piece that seems like something I can get done quickly and ease me in, things tend to go a lot easier.&lt;p&gt;Another is &amp;quot;I have so many (different) things to do that I don&amp;#x27;t want to do any&amp;quot;. Presumably this is not so different than the earlier one, and it&amp;#x27;s hard to get started without an obvious plan of attack that having only one or more tasks ahead of you brings with it.&lt;p&gt;Lastly, as a lifelong procrastinator, I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that waiting until the last minute to do something you need to do OFTEN results in never having to do it at all. You end up doing only things that &lt;i&gt;really needed&lt;/i&gt; to get done.&lt;p&gt;In the end, I don&amp;#x27;t really worry about it, or I hunt for tiny tasks to get my momentum going.&lt;p&gt;As for the article&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not sure how doing that work will take me to the next step&amp;quot; I guess? Maybe? But &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not sure what I would do after I finish that work (what the next step is)&amp;quot; I don&amp;#x27;t believe has every been a factor a single time in my life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that waiting until the last minute to do something you need to do OFTEN results in never having to do it at all. You end up doing only things that really needed to get done.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t tell my boss this, but I have noticed it too.</text></comment>