Procrastination

Don't fall for the industrious meme.

You're doing just fine.

I moved out long ago and I'm still a massive procastinator, but I did become more independent. You'll be forced to get a job, pay bills, take care of your living space, and generally have more responsibility, and that gives you even less time to blow off things like school and your future.

There's one thing that motivated me to work out for the past 3 months , but didn't really help with procrastination in general. It's that I got scared of dying without ever accomplishing anything. I'm 24 and close to finishing uni, so I think I'm having a small existential crisis because I realized University is like the only thing I can be proud of.

Anyway, there's a fitness youtuber (scooby) who says we're creatures of instant gratification, and if you want to commit to something longterm, you need to be able to feel gratification short-term as well.
So basically, ask yourself what you would gain from not procrastinating. How would it make you feel better?

>It's that I got scared of dying without ever accomplishing anything. I'm 24 and close to finishing uni,

I finished uni, but it didn't help. Parents passed away, inherited house. Now 47 and still working in a grocery store.

This.

I think it's something fundamental in the brain where as long as you know for a fact that basic necessities will be the provided no matter what, your brain doesent attach any subconscious importance to doing work that to it is arbitrary and useless.

If you make it such that basic necessities depend on your work, the brand will on longer think that the work is useless.

Get a job.
Seriously. I failed college when I was a full-time student. Mostly because procrastination and vidya.

Now I work full-time and go to uni and I'm actually succeeding.

>If you make it such that basic necessities depend on your work, the brand will on longer think that the work is useless.

But then you only need to do the minimum

I suggest you hold onto somthing becouse what im about to tell you is goiing to blwo you fucking away. Listen up user, i wa the same but hen i started sippin on tha lean

this seems like it might be a good idea

everyone I know that has a job does really well in school; I always just figured they were extra disciplined people

Not really, if you are not a brainlet, you can find a job that pays largely the price of your apartment, internet connexion, food, alcohol, and sparetime expenses, while still economizing half of your salary.
I just came back from living 2 years alone, I procrastinated more than ever.

>all the good goy eternal renters in this thread

I still do it to some extent, but I'm a lot better about it now. Part of it is just getting older and maturing, and the other part is seeing how much more you can get done by being active. Once you start knocking out projects in succession, you get addicted to the feeling.

Do a test drive on some small piece of homework due in about a week. Finish it right away, even if you have to spend a little longer to look up things that are unfamiliar. It will feel great to do something early; start to adjust to your new habit gradually.

saved

unfortunately my last assignment is due tomorrow, so I'll have to wait to try it out

it's because it puts them in the habit of waking up early in the morning and going to sleep at night, two of the most important things to master in school

Add I get older my procrastination gets worse. When I was in middle school I would get to my work straight away and finish it before I did anything fun. Throughout high school it got worse and worse and now in college I can't start on assignments before midnight the day before they are due. I've seen a therapist but he didn't do shit. Halp

didn't help for me

Same problem here.
I tried everything, moving out, working 35 hours a week, even working out before studying, and I procrastinated just as bad.
Then I got a perscription for amphetamines and am GETTING EVERYTHING DONE.

Drop out. Clearly you're not really interested in the subject anymore (assuming you once were).
If you spend 90% of your time procrastinating, you don't learn much, and you are not having fun either because of the constant anxiety.

If your parents only support you if you pretend to study, then keep pretending. But spend your time on something else, something you still enjoy. Don't try to salvage your self-worth with it though; doing so only makes it another thing you will procrastinate on.

>I'll have to wait to try out not procrastinating
kek

>tfw reading this thread while procrastinating
Time to get back to work.

what job and what city/country?

I'm reading in the middle of a workout, which I was supposed to do early in the day, send help.

Don't fall for the productivity meme. You will end being a slave of some industry or some research, so enjoy while you can.

>Clearly you're not really interested
This is meme-tier advice. People like OP procrastinate everything, so it's not like they just chose to study the wrong thing.

>asking this here when the only reason 90% of us are here RIGHT NOW is to procrastinate

Do you realize that humans are not produced in a factory each having a clearly defined function in life?

You need to get away from industrial society for a while, go to Nepal or India, forget this place and its constant demands. You may return with a different perspective.

I had an old friend like you, highly intelligent, but with no sense of purpose. He spent years drifing around Tibet. It wasn't until his thirties that he even begun to get focused.

He's now the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

Procrastination is not a problem that has to be solved, it just means you have a certain personality type. Procrastinating is still a means of doing the work. As long as it gets done and you're satisfied with the product, no one could give a flying fuck how you got it finished.

Sounds pretty cool. Good advice to high schoolers.

Not so much those of us with crippling debt though, unfortunately.

Expect that your friend is not the CEO of any big company.

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Join us, we have a how to in the pinned messages. If you need help ask retardedidiotfaggot or some other mod for help.

>fortune 500 company

Come on brainlet, do you even google?

try working out. If you get in the mindset that I WILL WORKOUT TODAY NO MATTER WHAT, and you actually do it, that dedication and training your mind to do something it doesn't want to can translate over to many things. Worked for me at least.

>25 in grad school
>live alone
>TA to pay rent/bills and buy food
>drink alone at night often (cutting back)
>slightly underweight
>joints hurt, feel 40
>procrastination getting so bad might actually fail first class/out of school
>no balls for suicide

Best way to get work done is to not think of it as work. The people who really succeed and make breakthroughs are the ones spending late nights and their free time doing the research, not so they can pass a class but because they think it's fucking awesome in itself. If you don't enjoy the work it's going to feel like work and you're going to procrastinate.

Also get some other hobbies, because you will get bored of your studies and you need to take breaks.

You cut off the word "anymore" from the quote, which changes the meaning to something which everyone knows is false. Here's what I said:
>Clearly you're not really interested in the subject anymore

People like OP turn a hobby into an obligation and connect their self-worth to success. This makes it big and scary, and they procrastinate. So they lose progress and enjoyment. I agree: they do this with everything.

The solution is to be cynical about income: either exploit your parents, or get a mentally undemanding
job you don't care about to pay the bills. This means you can't fail, and you can selfishly pursue your hobbies in your spare time.

It's important to stress this: don't ever think you will catch up to your peers. You won't. You have to accept your defeat. You will not be a scientist. Don't let the sunk cost bias get you. Unless you want to continue like this for the rest of your life.

(You probably have connected this subject to obligation. This will make it difficult to do this thing you used to love without going into ambitious-procrastination-mode. So it's probably best to put your mind to something else for a while, until you can let go of your goals. Then, can you rediscover your primary interest (or not, it doesn't matter at that point).)

>The people who really succeed and make breakthroughs are the ones spending late nights and their free time doing the research
Agreed. But OP is too deep into the slave mentality to think about achieving anything.

I didn't cut the anymore part off on purpose, I just didn't find it important. University is a lot harder than high school, so it's not like people's interest fades over time, they just collapse under the huge workload.
And the core problem is lack of willpower to do anything that does not come with an instant gratification. Who gives a shit about university, leading a life like that will lead to a life of regrets. I, for example, will never rediscover my primary interests, unless they were something magical that gives huge results at almost no effort, but even then I would be constantly thinking "what if I had done X". And I also know for a fact that what I think are my interests are actually my interests based on those few times when I actually successfully understood or did something. This rediscovery part is the one I referred to as a meme, since people often confuse lack of discipline with lack of interest. If it really was lack of interest, I would be a person not interested in anything, which would still be a huge problem.
Your advice of accepting failure would make sense if we lived forever, but we don't, and I don't want to think constantly about wasted potential when I'm 70.

I've come to this stage too.
I believe everyone should at least give these methods a try before ordering drugs but at some point you have to give up and recognize you're mentally ill and need expensive treatment/chemical enhancements.

I was several years ahead in mathematics in high school, although I didn't study efficienty (didn't have good textbooks, just random webpages). I have always procrastinated extremely much on everything that I had to do. This didn't include math, because I knew everything already. When I went to university, my enjoyment of mathematics was replaced with anxiety, so I went from doing just math to doing nothing at all. I could enjoy other things, such as learning a language. But then I started to derive my sense of self-worth from that, and there was the pressure again, and it caused me to lose interest in the language. It went like this with everything, until everything generated anxiety, even video games.

Being in a depressed state for a while makes one really cynical. Everyone knows how irrelevant e.g. the Riemann Hypothesis is to human progress. But human progress itself is very abstract. I care about myself and a few people close to me, but not humanity in general. "Progress" is mostly a meme that exists because there are people who make a living perpetuating it. etc.

But if you get cynical enough and succeed in losing hope completely, then there's no pressure anymore. So I did rediscover math. My energy is limited, so I only study a few hours per day, but that's the way it has always been. I could go back to university, but it's not organized in a way that's helpful to me. I could do my other hobbies as well now, but I like math the most. Because math is mostly collaborative these days, it's unlikely I will contribute anything meaningful to it, except maybe writing expository material. I don't have any will power, but doing math makes me feel better than watching YouTube.

Instead of being regretful when you're 70, you can be anxious about "being regretful when you're 70" now. By the time you're 70, you may not even have good memory. I read that people on their death bed often regret having been too ambitious and not social enough (idk if that's true).

This type of thinking doesn't do anything for you, and isn't grounded in where you actually are at this moment in time aka the only vector of time you can reliably influence.

Think about the story of Hercules; a tale fraught with danger and challenge. But it is precisely this challenge that gives life meaning. Don't worry about random bullshit.