Great breakdown! 'Brain freeze' - that's always been my own name for it, or sometimes 'brain paralysis'. When it hits hard, turning to the fluff, to stuff that frozen rigid brain with anything else bar the task at hand, becomes involuntary.
I am a doer, a disciplined doer, I may even say, and I'd never cast myself as someone lazy. But I procrastinate. A lot, and often.
For a long time, I didn't know why, until reading this essay made me really think hard about it.
I procrastinate because of fearāfear of the unknown: I don't know what the completed task would look like; I don't know how much time and effort it will take me to complete the task.
And so I procrastinate, and choose to do things that I know exactly how to complete instead.
Thank you so much for sharing this with me. I understand that feeling. Sometimes the unknown shape of a task becomes heavier than the task itself. Iām grateful the essay reached you in that way.š
This answered so much for me!!! It's as if I told you everything.
"Procrastination isnāt only caused by having too much to do. Itās caused by tasks whose edges are blurred. Things with no visible end become heavy. When something is heavy, you canāt start it. When you canāt start, it stays unfinished. And inside that loop, you start to blame yourself more and more."
I many times can't sleep because of thinking about things I should have accomplished that day. and always, ALWAYS blaming myself for being too lazy to do them :'(
Thank you so much for this, for helping me to understand! It means more than you know <3
Thank you so much for sharing this with me. Iām truly grateful that the words reached you in that way. Please donāt blame yourself too much. Sometimes it isnāt laziness, but something heavy that needs a little more clarity. <3
That really touched me and I cried. Well said
Thank you so much. Iām truly grateful that it touched you so deeply.š
I cried, too. I didn't realize it until I felt tears on my cheek.
Great breakdown! 'Brain freeze' - that's always been my own name for it, or sometimes 'brain paralysis'. When it hits hard, turning to the fluff, to stuff that frozen rigid brain with anything else bar the task at hand, becomes involuntary.
Thank you so much. Iām glad it resonated with you. Sometimes the mind protects itself in ways we donāt even notice.
I am a doer, a disciplined doer, I may even say, and I'd never cast myself as someone lazy. But I procrastinate. A lot, and often.
For a long time, I didn't know why, until reading this essay made me really think hard about it.
I procrastinate because of fearāfear of the unknown: I don't know what the completed task would look like; I don't know how much time and effort it will take me to complete the task.
And so I procrastinate, and choose to do things that I know exactly how to complete instead.
Thank you so much for sharing this with me. I understand that feeling. Sometimes the unknown shape of a task becomes heavier than the task itself. Iām grateful the essay reached you in that way.š
This answered so much for me!!! It's as if I told you everything.
"Procrastination isnāt only caused by having too much to do. Itās caused by tasks whose edges are blurred. Things with no visible end become heavy. When something is heavy, you canāt start it. When you canāt start, it stays unfinished. And inside that loop, you start to blame yourself more and more."
I many times can't sleep because of thinking about things I should have accomplished that day. and always, ALWAYS blaming myself for being too lazy to do them :'(
Thank you so much for this, for helping me to understand! It means more than you know <3
Thank you so much for sharing this with me. Iām truly grateful that the words reached you in that way. Please donāt blame yourself too much. Sometimes it isnāt laziness, but something heavy that needs a little more clarity. <3