Team environments contain lots of activities (meetings, answering questions, reports, etc) which are quite tricky because they’re *sometimes* very valuable. And that makes it easy not to notice when you’re only doing them to hide when feeling aversion to tough creative problems.
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I’ve noticed that displacement activities are much more obvious when working alone. There’s no mailing list of questions to answer, so hiding often look more like surfing the internet, cleaning the house, etc. It’s much harder to accidentally convince yourself that that’s work!
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It’s funny: if I get into a good awareness state while in the middle of some tough creative work, I can feel a noticeable “baud rate” of aversive impulses, graspings for easy escapes, etc. Many times a minute! Usually can’t de-identify enough to see that.
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Like the past few minutes, while I’ve been intending to read some very dense 19th century psychology papers, I suddenly felt it was very important to write on Twitter about a totally unrelated topic. w̸̩͊h̴̻̔a̴̲̎t̴̼̔ ̵̝͘ả̴̧ ̸͕̿s̶̭͊u̴͔̽r̸͎͝p̵̖͂r̵̥̂i̶̻͆s̵̉ͅe̵̺͝
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Sometimes I feel like there's a 7-year-old inside my brain making up the silliest excuses. "Can't write this essay yet...because I really need to cut my nails first" ???
When I'm aware enough to be the teacher on the other side, can't help but laugh at the absurdity
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yes exactly
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procrastinating by reading/writing about productivity is a real and hilarious case!
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I think it’s what 99% of reading/writing “life hacking” and productivity tips is about!
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I like the philosophy of leaning into it (within reason): structuredprocrastination.com
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To use your example: need to clean the house? Better come up with a tough creative problem 😂
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