Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Art of Procrastination

This sounds strangely like me...

“Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.”- Structured Procrastination

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yep, that sums me up. I get more done when I am trying to avoid what I ought to be doing than I do when I have nothing to do at all.

Matt Churnock said...

I'll comment tomorrow.