Once I was facing akrasia and I kind of had the same thing happen. I knew what I needed to do, and I ruminated on why I wasn’t doing that.
I thought at first that I was just being lazy, but then I realized that I subconsciously knew that the strategy I was procrastinating from was actually pretty terrible. Once I realized that, I started thinking about how I might do it better, and then when I thought of something (which wasn’t immediate, to be sure) I was actually able to get up and do it.
Sometimes “laziness” is being aware on some level that your current plan does not work, but not knowing a better alternative… so you keep going, but you find yourself slowing down, and you can’t gather enough willpower to start running again.
Once I was facing akrasia and I kind of had the same thing happen. I knew what I needed to do, and I ruminated on why I wasn’t doing that.
I thought at first that I was just being lazy, but then I realized that I subconsciously knew that the strategy I was procrastinating from was actually pretty terrible. Once I realized that, I started thinking about how I might do it better, and then when I thought of something (which wasn’t immediate, to be sure) I was actually able to get up and do it.
Sometimes “laziness” is being aware on some level that your current plan does not work, but not knowing a better alternative… so you keep going, but you find yourself slowing down, and you can’t gather enough willpower to start running again.