Structured Procrastination
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- Structured procrastination is a strategy where procrastinators use their tendency to delay important tasks to accomplish other useful tasks.
- Procrastinators often do marginally useful tasks to avoid more important ones, which can lead to productivity in other areas.
- The key to structured procrastination is having a list of tasks ordered by importance, allowing less important tasks to be completed as a way of avoiding the most important ones.
- Procrastinators should avoid minimizing commitments, as having fewer tasks can lead to inactivity rather than productivity.
- Ideal tasks for the top of the list should seem important and urgent but actually aren't, allowing procrastinators to feel motivated to complete other tasks.
- Examples include writing letters to avoid working on articles or filling out book order forms as a way of not doing more pressing tasks.
- Structured procrastination requires self-deception, as one must believe in the inflated importance of certain tasks to stay motivated.