Reflection
Okay, so I am a procrastinator. No doubts about that, all people whom I have ever met (especially the people who taught me) can testify for that. Recently, the problem has got worse. All that I have done till date has been driven either by adrenaline or force. Sometimes, a bad mix of both. So, the start is always good and then I slack the way through. The slack is also full of guilt, want to do better and stress.
On reading pg’s essay on the subject, I found something new. There is also a “Good Procrastination” and most of the great people he met were the good procrastinators. To summarize, there are three kinds of procrastinators, who put off work doing,
A. Nothing
B. Something less important
C. Something more important
Needless to say, all of us want be the C-Type. So, now the definition of “what is important” lies on what is really important! And the importance of something is always fuzzy and depends from person to person. For example, playing Tetris two hours before the exam is less important and completely stupid for a sane student. For me it is not, tetris gets me in the flow! On day of the “Theory of Computation” exam, I did just that and the paper went fine (and was damn easy too!). What I am trying to say here is that the importance of what you do is something that you dont know and will never know. What you do during the time you are procrastinating is something that makes you (slacker/hacker/gamer/blogger/reader/cyclist/etc).
Thus, what I have decided is that I will always do something and not do it if it is not interesting; hoping that whatever I do is important.
