Re: procrastinating on horrible task

[sdwa]

Nellie – Good for you. Boredom didn’t kill you? After I read your post I forced myself to go through my class. After an hour it became intolerable, and I needed to break it up, get up, walk around, do other things, and come back to it in smaller chunks, I really felt disgusted, frustrated, insanely bored – but I finally finished it (except for the test). What kills me is that it takes 15 hours to do what is supposed to be a three-hour class.

No Dopamine – Yup, I hear that. Not knowing how long things will take, wanting an intellectual challenge, diving in without thinking through the long-term results. Le sigh. And, like you, don’t want to commit to projects that are not in my area – EVER AGAIN. It’s bad enough trying to get myself into the mindset to do things I’m good at and actually like.

Zaidyma – There are days when every step goes on a list and is checked off as it’s completed – even if my brain is so gone that I have to remind myself in writing to photocopy a single document. What got hard for me was jumping back and forth between two screens, trying to remember what was on one page while making notes on another. I can remember about three words at a time. But similar to what you describe – once I get started, even if it’s on something I hate, it’s still hard to stop. Which can be good when something obnoxious needs to be finished right away. Without a looming deadline, I tend to space out.

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