Procrastination

Hi all-

Just read this:

A New Yorker article on procrastination

I think everyone grapples with procrastination, and I'm sure there are many reasons why one does it. What things do you put off, and why? And since there are so many creative folks, how does that relate to your creativity? And how has it changed over the years?

When I was in college, I would often write songs before going to class. Putting off class made writing seem so much more important, and time-sensitive since I had to go so soon.

Now I find myself putting off creative stuff - setting up my recording stuff - in favor of cleaning my room. I'm playing guitar, but not recording.

I'll leave off with a quotation from the article I really like:

The philosopher Mark Kingwell puts it in existential terms: “Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.”