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Poll: When you procrastinate, upon introspection on subconscious factors, the root cause most often turns out to be:
  • Unpleasantness of task
    40.7%
  • Missing Aha! element
    13.6%
  • Preparedness doubt
    23.4%
  • Something not quite right
    22.4%
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currently hashing out a business plan based on a template from a government resource, "procrastinating"* because it is calibrated for like a coffee shop not what i'm doing (* actually i am disgorging something else that has been beaning around inside my head instead)
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For me, it's something like fear of concretizing failure. If I don't do the task, it might fail or might succeed, I can cling to hope/ keep it in superposition. If I do the task, it could definitely fail and that would feel really bad and demoralizing.
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These are all good/resonant. I am currently procrastinating due to preparedness doubt, but I could actually remedy my feelings of not being prepared, so then it's probably unpleasantness of admitting that I have procrastinated, so why then are we here? 🤔 Missing aha, probably.