How do I get over it and do the tasks I need to do? Anything helpful tips or advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
It’s all about decision-making. Check out Henry Hazlitt’s “A Way to Willpower” available Mises.org here http://mises.org/books/willpower.pdf. Oldie but a goodie.
Relevant to my interests.
P.S. Now I will procrastinate on reading it…
According to this article on game addiction mechanics: http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted_p2.html
To avoid procrastination, it is necessary to make activities fill the three criteria:
As shocking as this sounds, a whole lot of the “guy who failed all of his classes because he was playing WoW all the time” horror stories are really just about a dude who simply didn’t like his classes very much. This was never some dystopian mind control scheme by Blizzard. The games just filled a void.
Why do so many of us have that void? Because according to everything expert Malcolm Gladwell, to be satisfied with your job you need three things, and I bet most of you don’t even have two of them:
Autonomy (that is, you have some say in what you do day to day);
Complexity (so it’s not mind-numbing repetition);
Connection Between Effort and Reward (i.e. you actually see the awesome results of your hard work).
Also, Stef says the root of the evil is slavelike treatment by parents:
Molyneux is wrong; it’s might be a possible source in some relationships, but not every parent is a complete authoritarian, & not every child is completely innocent (i.e. the ones that get kicked out for not complying with rules despite many chances, meeting the legal criteria, which would probably change absent the state, granted, of being an adult, hence, parents not obligated to care for them, etc).
Should some completely irresponsible spawn be defended from the consequences of their own actions, because they feel their parents are “slave drivers”, hiding behind a revenge philosophy to hide their self-denial?
Reading some biology, not reducing everything to psychology, not assuming humanitarianism & generally keeping your wits about you will show why he is wrong. I would love for him to actually propose a way in which one can fight against every ounce of biologically influenced behavior found in the parents “parenting” that would prevent them from being authoritarians, short of pro-preferential eugenics, of course.
Adderall. (;
That comes at a cost to your health over time.
Google Eat That Frog and Getting Things Done
Both are available as ebooks, might also be available as podcasts. A little organization and early focus is a big help.
Also, Stef says the root of the evil is slavelike treatment by parents:
This man has 0 credentials and a dubious method of presenting information for such a topic. Procrastination could be caused by a plethora of problems, there is no magic bullet answer.
Molyneux is irritating as hell. He makes a few good points but his over-the-top, styrofoam emotionalism is probably counter-productive, on net. The State’s chief enemy - not it’s primary ally - is the family and I find it really disconcerting that a self-professed anarcho-capitalist spends his whole effort attacking the family. Logically, the two people most likely to care for a child’s well-being is its biological parents. Those biological parents who didn’t care for their children’s well-being or who destroyed their children did not spread their apathetic and/or destructive genes as well as those who took care of their children spread their caring genes. Ergo, we have far more reason to be confident that parents will care for their children vis-a-vis anyone else.
Also, egoism+NAP-absolutism leads to conclusions that I think are manifestly wrong. For example, a parent forcibly grabbing his child’s arm and yanking him from a street to prevent him from being hit would constitute “aggression” or “assault” if the ideas that Molyneux espouses were consistently followed. I think this illustrates that children are not self-owners and that non-aggression must be qualified. I could go on and on about this but I won’t.
Clayton -
He can be. Especially when he’s talking about de-fooing and that nonsense.
I disagree. He’s (presumably) brought a lot of people over to libertarianism. Different types of arguments get different people interested in liberty. I consider Molyneux an ally, and certainly not counter-productive. I have a lot of respect for the way he argued with Michael Badnarik about How Much Government Is Necessary. A high degree of emotionalism, yes, but still very persuasive.
Thanks for the book Jorge. I’ve already read many books and audio tapes on goal setting, etc., and by the table of contents it doesn’t seem like I’d learn anything new. I guess I’ll just try to refocus on my goals again.
The Molynuex vid didn’t help at all. But I do think parents are to blame for about 99.99% of problems or more. Babies are not born “spawns” for chirst sake. They are born with no doubts or fears whatsoever. Their environment, mostly their parents make them fear success or failure. Just look at the prison population. Most of the parents that raised them were horrible or nonexistent. To say it’s totally random how a child will end up is to deny these facts.
Just finished The Way To Will Power, amazing and inspiring book. Quite easy to read. Thanks.
Adderall
…brought to you in part by Adderall.
It’s funny that Molyneux pops up in this thread without his take on procrastination. Instead, it is something 100% unrelated.