Well, I can empathise. I spent 1993 sitting on my extremely nice front porch drinking coffee, smoking Lucky Strikes and reading all the newspapers with my burnt-out ex-Communist housemate, and achieving 0. It was the right thing at the right time. I think.
26, had suffered recent horrible experience of working an actual day job, burnt out from doing an indie rock fanzine for several years. We didn’t have Internet then so I had to actually go see my friends or them come visit me. I got a job at the end of that year and then moved from Perth (which is like said porch the size of a city) to Melbourne.
Dude, you know what? That used to work for me! Back when … it worked for me. I don’t think all akrasias are made of the same stuff because that definitely works for some types of them. I just think you don’t know in advance which one and you only realize it’s not working after a wasted few months.
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Well, I can empathise. I spent 1993 sitting on my extremely nice front porch drinking coffee, smoking Lucky Strikes and reading all the newspapers with my burnt-out ex-Communist housemate, and achieving 0. It was the right thing at the right time. I think.
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26, had suffered recent horrible experience of working an actual day job, burnt out from doing an indie rock fanzine for several years. We didn’t have Internet then so I had to actually go see my friends or them come visit me. I got a job at the end of that year and then moved from Perth (which is like said porch the size of a city) to Melbourne.
Dude, you know what? That used to work for me! Back when … it worked for me. I don’t think all akrasias are made of the same stuff because that definitely works for some types of them. I just think you don’t know in advance which one and you only realize it’s not working after a wasted few months.
Cool, now I have something to blame my post-PhD akrasia on.