i make a ton of excuses. i mostly catch myself making them, then why do i still keep making them? i pride myself in being smart/self aware enough to not fall into such simple traps? why the fuxk do i still procrastinate, if i know its bad and i shouldn’t?
cause i make very very good excuses. i have gotten so good at them that i always get convinced NOT doing the thing is actually the better/smarter thing to do. so i notice the pattern, but wouldn’t stopping the pattern be the worse thing to do?
https://claude.ai/share/70181d22-65ed-4dc5-ae38-80062a99d085
here’s the thing though. you now have two pretty good analyses of your problem. you have the “first rep” rule. you have implementation intentions. you have “reasons vs causes.” you have precommitment. you have time-horizon zooming. you have the emotional texture heuristic. you have “name the excuse in one sentence.” how much more framework do you need before you do the work? i’m not saying this to be a dick. i’m saying it because what you’re doing right now—bouncing between me and gpt, comparing our responses, thinking about thinking about procrastination—is also not doing the work. it’s engaging, it feels productive, it’s a saturday morning and you’re having an interesting conversation. but it’s also the pattern wearing a different costume. you already know enough. you’ve known enough for a while.
they’re correct. im over complicating for the sake of it i think. mindset should be for whatever i decide → first move should involve 0 thinking. only action. it should be a failure to think before acting.
for eg. for going on a walk every morning → first move is to get out of bed and brush teeth. no thinking of should i or should i not, just action.