I have been naughty boy. Learn me discipline!

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In the past couple weeks, I've noticed my resolve to work has all but disappeared. It's a crucial time, school-wise, on top of which other concerns have cropped up as well. And so I'm finding myself wasting a lot of time on the computer, doing nothing at all constructive. The very existence of this thread is indicative of my loss of discipline but I'm determined to make it useful in one way or another. Set simple goals of not cracking open the computer for X number of hours, for example?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Turn off the computer

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Lock thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Sell the gamecube

bury it in the backyard

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My problem here also has to do with how difficult I'm finding a lot of the reading, which frustrate me to the point where I give up and post stuff like this. I spent the last hour reading, and basically read 6 pages.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuvk it!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

leave your place and head to the library

bring tunez to block out sound

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you tried setting short-term goals for yourself in terms of assignments? Like, "this is where I want to be after half an hour", "this is where I want to be after another half an hour", etc.? Or how about using songs to keep pace? Like, "I want to be finished with [x] in [y[ songs," y'know? I'm not much help when it comes to English/creative-y assignments, but the short-term goals thing is what I do with my assignments and it works most of the time, but still, it even works when I'm dead tired and don't think I could do one more thing, so, um, yeah.

Unless you do that sort of thing already....

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and remember -- the computer will still be there at the end of the day. :)

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently it is not so much the allure of the computer so much as the repulsion of the work to be done. I would recommend a carrot and stick approach, to the degree you can trick yourself into accepting any conditions under which the ork may be faced.

Think of the everlasting shame of failure. Think of the relief of being done with it - the final resolution of your problem. Set your jaw and resolve to complete some easy step along the path - say, 10 more pages, or a section or a chapter. Dole out minor treats upon completion of each easy step. Then buckle down.

It is hard to manufacture motivation. That is what pain and pleasure are for. Try to learn at a lower cost in pain, if you can. Or chuck it over as hopeless and face the other pain - the consequences - squarely.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:50 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG. You are SOOOOO very OTM, Aimless. Yeah. That's a good philosophy.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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