Perhaps oddly, being threatened with a large negative consequence for inaction makes me even more paralyzed.
That’s not odd at all; it’s what I consider the normal definition of “pathological procrastinator”.
People who find this sort of forfeiture arrangement motivating are probably not pathological procrastinators, the way poor people in wealthy nations aren’t all that poor compared to relatively-well off people in poor countries. Doesn’t mean they don’t suffer from their problems, just that they’re really not in the same class of hurt.
Your claim that poor people in rich countries suffer less from poverty is fallacious and insensitive. Statistical information shows that standard of living (and about every other imaginable method of judging well-being) is tied to relative wealth rather than absolute wealth.
That’s not odd at all; it’s what I consider the normal definition of “pathological procrastinator”.
People who find this sort of forfeiture arrangement motivating are probably not pathological procrastinators, the way poor people in wealthy nations aren’t all that poor compared to relatively-well off people in poor countries. Doesn’t mean they don’t suffer from their problems, just that they’re really not in the same class of hurt.
Your claim that poor people in rich countries suffer less from poverty is fallacious and insensitive. Statistical information shows that standard of living (and about every other imaginable method of judging well-being) is tied to relative wealth rather than absolute wealth.