[cylinder]

Isn't procrastination a way of converting painfully boring tasks into fun adrenaline rushes? It seems like a pretty good evolutionary adaption: I perform better when all my senses are elevated, so why not?

Problem arises when you don't have a hard deadline (I.e., you are only accountable to yourself).

[tmrmn]

>Isn't procrastination a way of converting painfully boring tasks into fun adrenaline rushes?

must be one of my new favourite quotes. Thanks for this gem

[thanatropism]

Which is why on the worst of days I set up timers. "Ok, I'm going to work for 15/20/30 minutes straight and then I'm kicking up my feet". I always keep going after the timer goes off.

[otoburb]

Adrenaline junkies injecting excitement into boring tasks makes a lot of intuitive sense for some of my own selectively chronic procrastination.

[ljf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514937