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sdoctor on Aug 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dear procrastinator

how often do you procrastinate on making the list? by the time you've started making the list, you weren't going to procrastinate any longer anyway.

silverbax88 on Aug 16, 2011 [–]

it turns out, never. Making a list is one of the things we, or at least I, do as 'busy work' to avoid real work. In this case, it turns out that once we have a detailed step-by-step course to resolution, hard tasks suddenly seem quite easy.

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