Many people have many theories concerning procrastination. Some claim, "I always procrastinate", as if it's in-vogue. Some people talk of using procrastination to at least get some second-rank jobs done and out of the way, because the first-rank jobs will be done anyway when they start piling on top of your head.
This is a great read, talking of "good" and "bad" procrastination. It also draws from You and Your Research by Richard Hamming. My mind does resonate with these thoughts, though sometimes these directives seem to border on the extreme.
However, I seem to be exercising another form of procrastination, completely orthogonal to anything I have read about. I call it the "germination" or "gestation" period. Get an idea, think over it, beat it around a bit and then leave it to germinate. Re-visit later. You can see that every time you re-visit it, you think of something new. On the contrary, if you had finalized it the very first time you thought of it, maybe you wouldn't have hit upon the second or third novel idea that you had later on.
Disclaimer is warranted that this technique probably will not work for geniuses. They probably can and will think everything through on the first try itself. :D
@All the rest: All the best!
Frozen Impact
1 day ago
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I wait for the right motivation. I call my technique : last-minute-panic.
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