<story><title>Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion</title><url>https://cognitiontoday.com/2019/05/you-procrastinate-because-of-emotions-not-laziness-regulate-them-to-stop-procrastinating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hashberry</author><text>Procrastination is an addiction because it offers relief from anxiety and instant gratification. Also, being a chronic procrastinator and a skilled developer is a deadly combination. I&amp;#x27;ve been praised for my excellent work and rewarded with raises and bonuses, even though I often procrastinate until the very last minute.&lt;p&gt;Tip: to make your git logs look socially acceptable to co-workers and management, don&amp;#x27;t commit at 3AM Monday morning, wait until 9AM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Benjammer</author><text>I definitely feel it like an addiction, and I often try to describe it like a drug. I build up this anxiety for a task, in small increments throughout the day. Then, finally, mercifully, at some point, my brain finds a way out. I find something easy to replace the thing I was worried about, or I find a somewhat valid justification for why I can do it tomorrow, and the anxiety just vanishes and I get this hit of dopamine that feels a tiny bit like weed, honestly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion</title><url>https://cognitiontoday.com/2019/05/you-procrastinate-because-of-emotions-not-laziness-regulate-them-to-stop-procrastinating/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hashberry</author><text>Procrastination is an addiction because it offers relief from anxiety and instant gratification. Also, being a chronic procrastinator and a skilled developer is a deadly combination. I&amp;#x27;ve been praised for my excellent work and rewarded with raises and bonuses, even though I often procrastinate until the very last minute.&lt;p&gt;Tip: to make your git logs look socially acceptable to co-workers and management, don&amp;#x27;t commit at 3AM Monday morning, wait until 9AM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>Are you sure you don&amp;#x27;t have ADHD? Because that sounds a lot like what you&amp;#x27;re describing.&lt;p&gt;ADHD is an addiction to procrastination in a sense. It could be that you missed diagnoses at a young age due to being intelligent enough to cruise through school and university with little effort, so your problem was never picked up as you never suffered any serious negative effects from ADHD due to your intelligence and ability to get tasks done quickly.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s basically what happened to me. I&amp;#x27;d be able to do an assignment that would take people several days, in half a day. So I&amp;#x27;d be able to procrastinate and delay up to the last minute and still manage to pull through, usually not with great grades, but I&amp;#x27;d pass. I always thought I was lazy, and never considered the fact that it could be a deeper neurological problem.</text></comment>