Good reading re: procrastination

[snousle]

Here's an unusually lucid and interesting article on motivation and procrastination:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/21r/pain_and_gain_motivation/

The linked video is worth watching, and the comments are lengthy and very good as well. I haven't been thinking very clearly about the problem of "negative motivation", and I suffer it in spades.

My own procrastination issues, though, may run deeper. I suffer from deep uncertainty about the very purpose of life, what goals are worthwhile, and so forth. Aside from what is actually possible to achieve, I sincerely and honestly cannot decide whether it's better to be a jet-setting millionaire or a monk with a begging bowl. With that depth of indecision, it's a miracle I get anything done.

Comments

[darkphuque.livejournal.com]

A jet setter can be a monk with his begging bowl at will, but the reverse is not true.

[snousle.livejournal.com]

A jet setter can pretend to be a monk with a begging bowl, but they obviously took very different paths to get there.

[broduke2000.livejournal.com]

A jet setter can enter all the expensive gay clubs in New York and LA, and be surrounded by the glitterati.

A monk has good, close friends where ever he goes, but no worldly wealth.

Someone in the middle has the capability to have the best of both worlds.

[barbarian-rat.livejournal.com]

How about something in between .... like a gay catering biker.....