Philosophy
Every notice that the people who spend all that time and energy raking up every last leaf off the lawn in the fall are the same people who spend all that time and energy putting fertilizer on the lawn in the spring? Leave the leaves and what do they become? Fertilizer. That's self-fulfilling procrastination -- something that if you didn't actively do it, it would get done anyway.
I've always thought that drying dishes was an odd activity for exactly that reason. I mean if you didn't go through the hassle and just left those wet dishes sit out, why you'd just end up with dry dishes the next day.
Other examples of self-fulfilling procrastination?
- Best Potluck Dish
Off today to the kids' end of school year picnic at a park near their school. It is pot luck, although different grades get assigned different courses. This year, we are desserts, so I worked up pina colada and black forest trifles. I find trifles...
- How Much Vacation Is The Right Amount?
Travel anywhere and you will find lots of Europeans, especially Germans who get much more vacation than American workers. Two weeks a year certainly does not lend itself to human flourishing. How much vacation would be appropriate? How much time off would...
- Procrastination...guilty As Charged
"Philosopher Muses on “The Art of Procrastination”" UC Riverside’s John Perry publishes philosophical self-help book for procrastinators by Bettye Miller August 31st, 2012 UCR Today Procrastinators have a reputation as loafers, laggards...
- Jorge Cham's "piled Higher And Deeper: Life (or Lack Thereof)"=phd
Some trials, tribulations, and humor of young academics. "Piled higher and deeper" Jorge Cham's popular comic strip about the lives of hapless grad students takes him to the Large Hadron Collider-and launches a series of comics that explains the...
- Einstein And The Bird
Gillett Griffin [curator of the Princeton University Art Museum] offers a tale involving acceptance into the Einstein fold via a toy bird. [Note the European male attitude of a certain domestic chore.]: In 1954 an invitation to dinner at the Einstein...
Philosophy
Self-Fulfilling Procrastination
Every notice that the people who spend all that time and energy raking up every last leaf off the lawn in the fall are the same people who spend all that time and energy putting fertilizer on the lawn in the spring? Leave the leaves and what do they become? Fertilizer. That's self-fulfilling procrastination -- something that if you didn't actively do it, it would get done anyway.
I've always thought that drying dishes was an odd activity for exactly that reason. I mean if you didn't go through the hassle and just left those wet dishes sit out, why you'd just end up with dry dishes the next day.
Other examples of self-fulfilling procrastination?
- Best Potluck Dish
Off today to the kids' end of school year picnic at a park near their school. It is pot luck, although different grades get assigned different courses. This year, we are desserts, so I worked up pina colada and black forest trifles. I find trifles...
- How Much Vacation Is The Right Amount?
Travel anywhere and you will find lots of Europeans, especially Germans who get much more vacation than American workers. Two weeks a year certainly does not lend itself to human flourishing. How much vacation would be appropriate? How much time off would...
- Procrastination...guilty As Charged
"Philosopher Muses on “The Art of Procrastination”" UC Riverside’s John Perry publishes philosophical self-help book for procrastinators by Bettye Miller August 31st, 2012 UCR Today Procrastinators have a reputation as loafers, laggards...
- Jorge Cham's "piled Higher And Deeper: Life (or Lack Thereof)"=phd
Some trials, tribulations, and humor of young academics. "Piled higher and deeper" Jorge Cham's popular comic strip about the lives of hapless grad students takes him to the Large Hadron Collider-and launches a series of comics that explains the...
- Einstein And The Bird
Gillett Griffin [curator of the Princeton University Art Museum] offers a tale involving acceptance into the Einstein fold via a toy bird. [Note the European male attitude of a certain domestic chore.]: In 1954 an invitation to dinner at the Einstein...