The Unfair Advantage Of The 60 Second Procrastination Rule 

But if you have ADHD, how the fuck do you solve procrastination lmao (meds no work pls help)

@@Matt-jp6if throw phone away strat alongside me having setup my work/study computer to basically not let me do anything else definitely helped

If you have ADHD, youre put at a natural disadvantage and theres really no fixing it. Sorry to say, "buddy".

@@Matt-jp6if Well first off you are not alone and its more common then most people would like to admit. Secondly and the most unfortune is that procrastination will be a life long struggle if you have Inattentive ADHD. But there are lots of channels on RU-vid with tips and tricks on how to help you activate that dopamine and start doing stuff. First stop would be "HowToADHD". Jessica McCabe is fantastic and has lots of advice. Also when it comes to meds you may need to try different ones or even combos. Don't give up on it but talk to your doctor. Good luck and keep searching and trying new things. Just try and avoid the advice that is for neurotypical folks.

@@DoctorNastyy True, but you can manage it better and not feel like crap because advice designed for neurotypical people didn't work. ADHD has its own strengths too like hyperfocus. If you can channel it correctly its like a super power.

yep, I clicked on this due to its length too

He knows the fact the procrastinators will add this video to their Watch Later playlist if it was 3 mins or longer

i just finished my assignment after procrastinating for several weeks so i didnt even notice

Get out of my head! :)@@Akarsh-

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I've bookmarked this comment to read it later.

​@@davidcmpeterson I've bookmarked that I need to bookmark this video to watch it later

Definition of procrastination lol

Just bookmark ur phone to use it next year .

Il use my phone just to watch this now

Long enough for u too comment 😢

I feel the same way!

I know exactly what you are talking about. My favourite is that I even start doing pseudo usefull stuff to procrastinate which I can easier justify than straight up youtube.

Definitely still just as stressful! Not only are you worried about doing the thing, but the time limit (if it has one. Most things do, really) Getting distracted is only a minor save. You have the guilt of not doing stuff and avoiding it.

One way i try to get around it is simply making myself bored of whatever is distracting me. Often my phone. After a while you know you have to get to something and nothing is short or appealing enough to watch or check up on. You get bored and decide "well, i need to do this _anyway,_ should just do it, bite the bullet"

YES SAME

Damn bro, thanks for summarizing the 1.5min video, really don't know what to do with all the time I have saved

Fr though 🤣@@dzimi23

@@dzimi23 now you have more time to procrastinate :P

@@coralline5980 amen

TL;DR Count to 5, set up for 55 seconds, work for 2 minutes, continue working.

Dr. K said something like this i think.

@@SkyTheGuy8 exactly

Its easier to override a habit than to get rid of it. You will always fallback to your old behavior, so simply override it

@@Gebes if you fight with it while it is in unconsciousness, sure.

Yea, for example it feels so weird to conciously jack off, but we do it especially because we get subconcious and temporarily loose all our problems. You just think “wtf am I genuinely doing petting my snake to pixels of people I will never know like a fkn monkey”

Thank you, I definitely try to make videos digestible and short!

@@knsroom I have other anti-procrastination videos saved to watch later, but this is the one that I actually watched because it was short, haha. If it had been longer, i'd probably have put it off more!

​@@elyssapeters It truly shows how well he understands procrastination, doesn't it?

This is some serious main character energy

@@tallbit7794but it works. The one time it didn’t for me was when the internet shut down.

this is how I got hired at SpaceX. It works

I think the quickest fix is knowing you can do whatever the fuck you want without anything nagging in the back of your head once the set task is done

@@tallbit7794 im just built different

this is me, plus the slightly more shaky confidence that I could probably get away with doing it late without major repercussions

yeah, this is more of how I feel but then it eventually transitions into not being able to do it because of how close to the deadline it gets

I have trouble making myself do stuff unless I specifically plan the exact amount of time I need before the deadline. Need to write a paper? If it's 1000 words, I need 500 per 30 min typically, so it'll be an hour for that. Add 30 min for getting souce citations ready, and then another 30 min as a buffer in case anything takes too long. This results in me starting my 1000 word paper at 10 pm the night it's due and still almost always getting it done on time. The problem with fixing procrastination for me is that I still almost always get stuff done on time despite waiting until the last possible moment, so there's less incentive to change.

The thing is, I do actually end up succeeding so I never learn my lesson.

@@cynister7384 this is exactly my problem too, I just want to fail and learn my lesson one of these days

I am saving this comment, because it is SO TRUE!

How'd it go this year, OP? 2023 was my first NaNo and I actually made it all the way to 50k! And that's with a couple of nasty setbacks along the way, too. And my experience was pretty similar, both on the daily granular scale and in terms of the whole project--day 1 was the hardest day, and usually the first few minutes after sitting down were the hardest on any given day. Once I got some momentum going, though, it generally got easier. It also helped that I had some online friends that were willing to hear me talk about my progress all month LOL

English is my second language. Took me 15 seconds to realize that you really mean 'apt', not an abbreviation for something. 'Apt' is not a word I come across often. Anyways, good for you that this method works, I'm going to try it as well :)

@@life-destiny1196 Buckle up. I first participated in 2007, and every year I've found _some_ way to reach the 50k goal, whether or not the story was even complete after 30 days trying. This year's story: - It's a fantasy adventure starting when the main character got cursed by a dying fox (which turned _him_ into a fox), only for the fox to realize they cursed the wrong person but there's no takebacks on curses. Whoops! - Additionally, someone else seems to have started impersonating the main character as a human. - Everything is actually narrated from the POV of the fox who cursed the main character (and now exists as a separate voice in their head). Problems I ran into: - General scope/story creep - Lacking an overall outline / pantsing - General pacing issues - One week in, my laptop crashed & wiped my draft (10k words at the time) but fortunately, the online wordcounter tool I use keeps an autosave so ultimately I lost "only" one day (not the whole thing) - Two weeks in, my laptop crashed with disk errors which required ultimately 72 hours to fix the filesystem before it would boot normally again, but fortunately I know how to use recovery mode / command prompt so I could retrieve the file intact and just keep writing (on a different laptop), though I also had to spend time just backing up my user files in general The results: - Final wordcount: 54,500 words - End result: An incomplete story, but good enough for now - Ranked with previous years: mid-to-upper-tier

Hol up-I’ll get to you in a week and we can talk. seeya Tuesday fellow addict :)

@@intercakefederationhi, how it’s going?

@@Stilllifebutwhy Thank you for asking, I've actually got some solid news. It's gone beautifully, I have been cutting down on youtube by getting rid of the feed with a google extension, and picking videos from the subscriptions tab. I wrote poetry more often because I've always liked doing it, and then reading. Just by reading the first chapter of Paradise lost an evening irresponsibly late (which is what made it feel genuine) and loving it. I decided to stay up till midnight reading it even though I would be tired the next day because I needed to properly take advantage of this urge to read. The next day I watched tv for an hour before bed and when I went to bed I was just really pissed at myself because I realized that reading would have been more enjoyable and I wanted to read. After that I decided to actively cut down on internet stimulation because I prefer reading after mental silence. If my mind is too active I'll just draw until I'm ready. Something that unnerved me was how after working out without music it was hard to live with it, but I now felt as if the "joy" from music was just to distract me from the pain. I'm now thinking that most internet use is a form of escapism, even music, and I love music...A few days ago aI acted on my routinely strong impulse to go out in the evenings with music on and spend an hour biking, and after I felt mentally drained and satisfied, but also as if it drained away my creative motivation from my own creative expression. Like I could've spent that evening writing a poem that would have made my mind clear, and it would have been healthier, (and again, more enjoyable). One more thing...I did relapse in my porn addiction a few weeks ago and I wasn't quite ready to quit 2 addictions at once becauseI might have failed and drop to the bottom pitts again. Now that I've stabilized my creative outlets, ie reading, writing, & drawing, I'm fixing that. I just couldn't ignore that elephant in an update, again, thank you for asking.

Thank you so much for the support!!

idk my surface 6 overheats when i have just file explorer simultaniously to goodnotes open. it freaking doesnt respond forever and wont recover. Legit made me burnout last week due to maths deadlines. oh well now i skipped a whole week of classes and got twice the workload for tuesday 🤷‍♂help

surfaces are awful machines

“Has a surface” made me laugh idk why 😂

this is so true

For me it often still doesn't. Like 50% of the time I just stop, or even more.

Why study electronics if you hate it? You'll never be successful in your field

Thank you so much!

Exactly this! We just need to disguise the things we can’t start with simple achievable tasks

Yeah... I'm usually so motivated at the start of the year, but end up feeling completely burnt out right before the exams. Perhaps sometimes you just need a break, instead of "hacking" yourself into more productivity, which will make the burnout situation even worse.

Thank you!

We are here procrastinating subscribing.

Cuz he only has 6 videos

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