I think I‘ve read something about the value of seemingly procrastinating behaviour a while ago.
Right now, I have plenty of work to do, yet I am reading your reply and answering.
Is this lost time or procrastination as commonly understood? I don‘t think so. It seems like meaningful exchange to me. And maybe updating my own self-model with the help of others is exactly what I really need right now to do better work later.
As for the feeling that something is going wrong with me: Increased awareness of the downward spiral does not easily translate into being able to stop or transform the process. It‘s part of my daily struggles.
You writing this message reflecting on if writing this message is procrastination is probably an indicator for that it is, at least not the worst form of procrastination, which would be about entering a mental state where you don’t think and in some sense really don’t want to think about if you are procrastinating because whatever procrastination you’re doing makes you feel good or whatever and provides escapism and some parts of your brain wouldn’t want to go away.
At least that’s my experience.
The longer and harder you think about if something is procrastination and come to the conclusion that it isn’t, the more evidence I would say this is that it isn’t procrastination (at least especially if you’re trying to correct for biases).
I think I‘ve read something about the value of seemingly procrastinating behaviour a while ago. Right now, I have plenty of work to do, yet I am reading your reply and answering. Is this lost time or procrastination as commonly understood? I don‘t think so. It seems like meaningful exchange to me. And maybe updating my own self-model with the help of others is exactly what I really need right now to do better work later.
As for the feeling that something is going wrong with me: Increased awareness of the downward spiral does not easily translate into being able to stop or transform the process. It‘s part of my daily struggles.
You writing this message reflecting on if writing this message is procrastination is probably an indicator for that it is, at least not the worst form of procrastination, which would be about entering a mental state where you don’t think and in some sense really don’t want to think about if you are procrastinating because whatever procrastination you’re doing makes you feel good or whatever and provides escapism and some parts of your brain wouldn’t want to go away.
At least that’s my experience.
The longer and harder you think about if something is procrastination and come to the conclusion that it isn’t, the more evidence I would say this is that it isn’t procrastination (at least especially if you’re trying to correct for biases).