On procrastination (also known as the tendency to take naps or shop online or find out from Buzzfeed which city you really should be living in the minute you have a mountain of work pending): The authors of the Bible, who probably only got it written because Instagram and Angry Birds hadnt been invented yet, understood that procrastination stemmed both from an inability to think ahead … and disorder of the will. The Greeks called this tendency akrasia, though Socrates insisted that no one who either knows or believes that there is another possible course of action, better than the one he is following, will ever continue on his present course, which leads me to suspect that he didnt get out of the house much. … I still continued to turn in work late. One recently published long-form profile took me so long to complete that, afterwards, I sat down with a calculator and figured out that I could have earned three times as much working the same number of hours at McDonalds. - Adam Green
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:48:12 +0000
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