Basically, I always used to procrastinate with what needed to be done in genera, but mainly with important school projects -- and cleaning the house.
Cleaning isn't normally something I have trouble with, but certain roommates have tended to butt heads with me on this point. When I created it for the first time, I was living with a woman who was a packrat, and her "my way or the highway" attitude to what needed to be cleaned -- and how to do it! -- just pissed me off. Normally, I like my area clean, Spartan even, and I like to have space. Living with a stubborn controlling packrat produced serious conflict, and the result was a deadlock: she refused to clean because she insisted that I wasn't doing my share, and I refused to clean because I do things my way (and who cares how I do it, as long as it gets done?!), and I couldn't stand the clutter and crap she insisted on having in every room. Why am I spending an hour dusting when the job takes 15 minutes as long as you don't have piles of shit on top of everything, which must be moved and then replaced! But get rid of those piles of shit, and she would go ballistic. Basically, I created the program to get me to stop procrastinating so she would stop her constant complaining.
How did I know it was working? One day I simply said to myself, "The house is dirty, and the job needs to be done. Bullshit aside, I'm just going to do what needs to be done."
The program does what it does by disengaging the mechanism that causes procrastination. Basically, what happens is that somewhere you end up with a disagreement between your conscious and sbconscious minds, in which one says "No!" and the other says "Yes!". When the subconscious says "No!" you don't get very far.
So... the program works my getting you to subconsciously choose to do what needs to be done, instead of refusing to do it.
Cleaning isn't normally something I have trouble with, but certain roommates have tended to butt heads with me on this point. When I created it for the first time, I was living with a woman who was a packrat, and her "my way or the highway" attitude to what needed to be cleaned -- and how to do it! -- just pissed me off. Normally, I like my area clean, Spartan even, and I like to have space. Living with a stubborn controlling packrat produced serious conflict, and the result was a deadlock: she refused to clean because she insisted that I wasn't doing my share, and I refused to clean because I do things my way (and who cares how I do it, as long as it gets done?!), and I couldn't stand the clutter and crap she insisted on having in every room. Why am I spending an hour dusting when the job takes 15 minutes as long as you don't have piles of shit on top of everything, which must be moved and then replaced! But get rid of those piles of shit, and she would go ballistic. Basically, I created the program to get me to stop procrastinating so she would stop her constant complaining.
How did I know it was working? One day I simply said to myself, "The house is dirty, and the job needs to be done. Bullshit aside, I'm just going to do what needs to be done."
The program does what it does by disengaging the mechanism that causes procrastination. Basically, what happens is that somewhere you end up with a disagreement between your conscious and sbconscious minds, in which one says "No!" and the other says "Yes!". When the subconscious says "No!" you don't get very far.
So... the program works my getting you to subconsciously choose to do what needs to be done, instead of refusing to do it.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
