While avoiding doing…any number of things, I came across yet another piece on productive (or “structured”) procrastination−this time as an audio file (good to listen to while, uh, scrubbing that bathtub). This call-in radio show explores some of the more complex aspects of procrastination: perfectionism, creativity, avoidance, fear of failure, performance anxiety, compulsion, etc: NPR [...]
Aren’t online quizzes fun? If you’re bored with your work, in the spirit of productive procrastination, I offer two that can give you a sense of what kind of learner you are. This one has you click a bunch of boxes and spits out your results, so it’s a little more user-friendly than this one, which requires [...]
The following are two of the (very very very many) videos on YouTube that play with the theme of procrastination—but that also, implicitly, show how procrastination can nudge you (as it obviously did the authors of these videos) into producing work that is actually pretty creative. So, sit back, put aside whatever it is that [...]
Ever noticed how when you’re avoiding something important, you become really prolific at something else? For example, when I used to work as a freelance writer and editor, my bathroom sparkled, especially if I had a difficult major job to work on. Perhaps that’s not all bad. Sometimes burying ourselves too deep in our work [...]
