Book Rec: If this is you:
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justalurkr`. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949,
...then there is a book you need to get around to reading/listening to and that is The Art of Procrastination by John Perry.
It's a two hour listen, so presumably a quick read. (For reference, most popular novels are between 10 and 15 hours and the non-fiction I listen to starts around 20 hours and I think 39 hours is the longest in my audible.com library.) The book is all about identifying oneself as a "structured procrastinator" and leveraging that brain quirk to advantage.
Read the essay that became the first chapter here. I really can't come up with better reasons to read/listen to the book that aren't made abundantly clear (to the right people, though there's certainly not much shame in not being a procrastinator if that's the way your brain rolls) in that essay.
...then there is a book you need to get around to reading/listening to and that is The Art of Procrastination by John Perry.
It's a two hour listen, so presumably a quick read. (For reference, most popular novels are between 10 and 15 hours and the non-fiction I listen to starts around 20 hours and I think 39 hours is the longest in my audible.com library.) The book is all about identifying oneself as a "structured procrastinator" and leveraging that brain quirk to advantage.
Read the essay that became the first chapter here. I really can't come up with better reasons to read/listen to the book that aren't made abundantly clear (to the right people, though there's certainly no
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