Procrastination
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Procrastination
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youtube.comPainter and visual artist Chuck Close on inspiration:
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are n... See more
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are n... See more
Superhuman
And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing. —Meditations 9.5
The Ju/’hoansi, for example, were often content to spontaneously take a day off from foraging simply because they didn’t feel like it. Even if they were hungry, they knew that putting off the food quest for a day would not have any serious ramifications. For farmers, by contrast, taking a day off just because they need a rest is rarely an option. N
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“The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.” - Yukio Mishima
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. – Anne Lamott
The most common disguises of procrastination Learning, researching, organizing, and building systems are the most tempting forms of procrastination. You can tell yourself that you're "making progress" only to avoid the point where you need to make a decision on what to do next. Even having to get feedback on every action you take is ultimately a fo
... See more“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” ~ Mark Twain