Procrastination

Hey Sup Forumsuys,

My procrastination has been getting worse for the past few years.

If I have a deadline due at midnight on the day of, I will literally waste my time on the internet as the hours count down until I panic enough to start the work.

If it is not due the day of, I still waste all of my time on the internet (with breaks in between for meals and washroom breaks) while telling myself that it's fine, I'll totally start doing it tomorrow.

As you can imagine, this means that I get almost nothing done until deadlines come along, which you might think would galvanize me into pulling all-nighters...but no. I just keep procrastinating, surfing Sup Forums, albeit, in a more stressed mindset. It's a vicious cycle I'm trying to break out of.

Any of you Sup Forumsuys suffering from procrastination like me?

>If I have a deadline due at midnight on the day of, I will literally waste my time on the internet as the hours count down until I panic enough to start the work.
kek that's nothing. i'll literally start after the deadline and accept all the late marks

Sort of like negative interest rate?

My motto is: "if it cannot be done in one day, it's not worth doing"

I'm currently on Sup Forums and procrastinating actual programming work for my startup that I am the sole dev of. I have to do a week's worth of shit by tomorrow night.

You just need to quit being a wankstain and commit to success. Or don't and end up crying into your anime pillow when you hit 40.

Take matters into your own hands and do the work. There are no magic fixes. End of story.

drink bleach

Don't know what to tell you. There aren't any magic tricks to stop procrastinating. There's nothing physically stopping you from sending neuron signals to your muscles in such a way that you do whatever you're supposed to be doing. You're just giving in to your emotions and making shitty excuses for why you're not doing the thing.

You need to put yourself in perspective. You think your procrastination is this huge fundamental problem with yourself that must have a complex solution. So you go out and seek that solution. Ironically, this is just another form of procrastination. You see, normal people realize that this whole thing is a non-issue in the grand scheme of things. They sit down and get the work done even if they don't feel like it, because they know (or believe) that getting the work done is more important than their ephemeral emotions.

It actually has a sweet taste. A drop of Domestos accidentally fell into my mouth once.

I have found out that you procrastinate because deep down your brain know that you wont die when you miss the deadline.

And also found out it is hard to procrastinate at work when other people are working around you (open space). Even if i know they are doing shit all day, their sole presence makes me perform well. Also you want to separate your home from your work.

When you are used to sleep, shitpost and play games in your room, you bet that working in that same place will be impossible.

Consider getting some hardware where only work oriented stuff is installed or do dual boot so the icon of W3 isnt next to VS.

Also i know story of one dude who hired woman, whose job was to check him every ~10 minutes and if it looked like he was procrastinating to talk to him to start working again.

I used to have a project i was procastrinating of for three years
then a couple weeks ago i went and told everyone who i regularily talk to that i now write a program and that i will finish it around end of the year and that i want them to test it,

this way i had an incentive
also i set for myself that i have to wrote even if it´s only a one liner per week (this mostly because my problem is that i can´t start but once i get going i can work all day without realising it)

I only procrastinate on things I don't want to do.

For example, I have a 5-page paper on feminism due today. More specifically, I must explain why the main female character in this feminist play is objectively right always, and why all the men in her life are misogynist pieces of shit, despite actually thinking the main character was a selfish dumbass. I can't use any references other than the ones the professor (female) gave, and i can't choose anything else. This is worth about 80% of my grade. I just started heading my page. Don't go to school in New York.

tl;dr: Fucking just pretend you give a shit.

I've heard this twice now

Lol it's like that at most schools nowadays hombre. I love those feminist professors because they're so easy to please. Literally just turn your brain off and write like you would if you were trying to bait someone on Sup Forums, you can be as logically inconsistent and off topic as you want, as long as you throw in every buzzword and hot topic of feminism. Don't be too over-the-top with it, but definitely don't be scared to just blame all problems on men. I did a paper on the wage-gap even though it's a fucking myth. Easy.

I've had projects like that and sometimes its better to be criticial and put in some work. If the teacher is bad but sees you've put an effort, you'll get about pity 70 percent depending on the grade inflation.

Mark where you are right now on pic related and realize that a human life is short as fuck and you're not getting any younger. Get that shit done before you hit the ground.

>Literally just turn your brain off and write like you would if you were trying to bait someone on Sup Forums
>state of education in the 21st century

Hmm let's think.

You have a device (or more likely - devices) at your disposal which are connected to the Internet.
Instant dopamine bursts are only a few clicks away with no immediate or intermediate negative reaction with millions of websites and video games to download.

Your brain has the choice of getting an instant dopamine burst (immediate reward) for surfing/playing video games or getting no dopamine burst for working with only a possible (not even guaranteed because your essay might be shit regardless) delayed reward.

Since our brains are not good at thinking into the future, naturally it will pick the instant reward.

You need to counter-act that actively and no, it's not easy, there are no magic tricks, you just need to to the work, period.

Go to a library or something. In public you're less likely to browse porn sites or even Sup Forums.

Fuck.

great, now I have to fill in hundreds of boxes before i can start working.

Didn't read what you wrote, but I saved the thread in the bookmarks for later, since my procrastination has been preventing me from working for the past 2 years, and I might find some useful tips here, but can't be bothered to read it now.

>mfw I'm completely serious.

Went through the same thing. Procrastination got worse and worse until I finally ended up missing deadlines. I thought that that would be a wake up call for me but no. I sweet talked my boss and made promises that eventually I failed to deliver on and ended up getting washed out.
Looking back I think that it was probably due to burn out (actual burn out, not the burn out you see faggots complain on here sometimes for playing computer games too much).
Problem is I'm basically fucked. My nerves are fried and I have no reprieve. No sense in trying to defend yourself trying to convince people you were the victim of a fantasy condition.
Just take good care of yourself while you can. Eat regular healthy meals, exercise, get enough sleep and learn to manage your time effectively.

>overcoming your immediate emotions and mental states and the ability to plan ahead cannot be hindered by a major underlying problem

that's a load of crap, user

Not really.
I got myself a sweet sleep schedule. I go to sleep at around 9pm, wake up at about 6am and either go to uni and afterwards do my homework. On weekends I spent basically all day either preparing for next week or doing some writeups of past labs. Feels pretty good tbqh.

Bump

It's a sign that you shouldn't be doing that. Your body and mind is telling you that.

I've been procrastinating for the past 13 years

Me omfg. It's CRIPPLING

You are literally describing my situation.
I wrote my bachelor degree in 3 days.
It doesn't get better bois, I'm 44 now, and this is getting worse by the month.

It's time we start sorting ourselves out

>tfw less than a week left to do my entire bachelor's thesis
will I make it?

I can only imagine how good it feels to do shit at a relaxed pace and have confidence in the end result. Good for you user.

what the fuck are you studying? And how the hell can you listen to that crap without bitch-slapping your prof and mark your territory?

fuck you, I was not ready for this
lel

do you need to write the thesis or just prepare the defence?

Yes, you're part of the majority unfortunately.

I myself am also a procrastinator with about no discipline so I have to set binary blocks for myself to get shit done.

I downloaded a blocker program named Cold Turkey to block all the websites and apps (usually steam) I waste my time on instead of doing work. You set a schedule for yourself allowing yourself some time to screw off and it blocks apps based on that schedule. Also you can set it so that you can never remove these blocks (unless you uninstall the software which they made it difficult to do because they know you're a shithead and will try).

I'm not saying this one will work for you, but I'm definitely saying you should try out some type of blocker software at least once.

Write the thesis. But I have a pretty clear idea of what I'm going to do, so that's something I guess.

Recursively break down the problems down to smaller problems until you find them small enough to work them out.
Set yourself a reasonable goal of how many problems you want to solve, and if you can't do that -- just do one problem and be done. Next day try to do two problems etc.

THANKS OP, you just motivated me to clean my flat, wash the dishes and wash my clothes

I haven't had motivation to do anything in years.
Part of that is because I've been living at home and literally have no where else to go.

>because they know (or believe) that getting the work done is more important than their ephemeral emotions
This is fundamentally wrong, they do it because they are afraid of the consequences of not. When user procrastinates to the last possible minute he is actually tempting fate, as if to say "what if I don't do this??"

What kind of millennial loving school doesn't give you zero for late work?

You can, and you probably will.
I wrote mine in 3 days, I've been thinking about why we keep repeating this pattern. My conclusion is we do it because we get away with it, over and over again, until we don't, but then we're fuck'd and nobody cares anyway.
You can do it, and next time you will do the same fucking thing again.

>we

Stop projecting.

Ok, you then.

welp guess im not sleeping tonight

delet dis!!!

You've been too accustomed to free time. You're addicted to it like a drug. The only way to stop procrastination is to improve your work ethic.

Who cares, dude. Procrastinate all you want. We've already guaranteed the technological singularity as a species. Just enjoy the ride. Nothing is serious.

There's this dude at my workplace who has one monitor showing youtube videos while another monitor shows the actual work he's doing. I'm pretty sure my boss is fully aware of it, but he never broke his habit.