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Procrastination vs Distraction | #shorts


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00:00:00.000 | procrastination is not a problem with doing the work.
00:00:02.520 | Procrastination is a problem with starting the work. Because
00:00:05.600 | usually once you've gotten started with something, it's
00:00:07.800 | generally easy enough to keep on going. You know, Newton's first
00:00:10.680 | law, the law of inertia, it takes energy to get the flywheel
00:00:13.480 | going. But once it's going, it's like, oh, you know, you're into
00:00:16.080 | the swing of things, you're enjoying the thing that you're
00:00:17.600 | doing, you're getting energy from it. And it's, it's usually
00:00:19.800 | not so bad. Does that broadly vibe with your experience of
00:00:23.080 | kind of procrastinating as well?
00:00:24.480 | Yeah, I think it's probably two part, it's hard to get started.
00:00:28.920 | And then it's hard to avoid the shiny objects that pop in front
00:00:33.120 | of you like an email or a news, some alert or something. So I
00:00:37.480 | think it's those those two are big for me.
00:00:39.560 | Yes, exactly. Yeah. So the way I think of them is I separate out
00:00:43.240 | procrastination, which is the getting started problem from
00:00:45.480 | distraction, which is the how do I focus once I've already gotten