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How Do You Get Work Done?
canuck asks: "I am currently a university student and have a major problem: being able to simply sit down and get work done. I can set aside a day to work, whether it is homework or contract work, and I will be lucky to have an hour done before dinner time. The only time I can actually get solid work done seems to be after midnight under a lot of pressure (ie. a deadline the next day). This has led to too many 5 a.m. nights and turning down too many invitations to go out only to stay in and accomplish nothing. I have stopped playing games, stopped watching TV, tried reading the Seven Habits book, and am currently seeing what classical music does for me. I don't think I have ADHD, and I am not sure what else to try. If it is computer work, the web is always a click away, and I can always escape to my imagination. I know many of you will have had the same problem. Can anyone please give advice on how to overcome this problem, be it a little trick, medication, or anything else?"
It'll save you all kinds of time...
-- Alastair
Well, first I check /. and see if there is anything interesting. Then I surf around and check the various blogs and newsites I read. After that I check /. again and maybe post a comment to an interesting article.
/. journal (which everyone should read, cuz it is full of wierd bullshit). Then I surf some more. That is how I get my w........
If, while I am surfing around, I find something cool I post a link to it to me
Never mind.
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Are you an SF Fan? Are you a Tru-Fan?
> I'm sure that the code produced are of real high quality.
I'm sure the sentence produced are are of real high quality.
Recommend exercise on /.? R u nutz?
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I would recommend some of this. But remember, use it sparingly, dont drink it direclty from the bottle!
you'd be amazed at what getting rid of a global distraction can do :)
Okay, snorting ritalin isn't for everyone, but it helps. I also reccomend exercise as a way to focus your mind. It's effects are hard to explain, but ever since I started biking i've found a tuned body helps the mind. (Sounds like new age shit but, hey, it works.)
Also try downtempo music, much like what you can find on SomaFM
Recursive (adj.): see 'Recursive'
Recommend exercise on /.? R u nutz?
ya u r right, we dun like even typing in all the lettrs.
spelling..
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
I wonder how much of that stuff you'd have to drink straight in order to kill yourself...
Like 1, 2 teaspoons?
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I learned a long time ago to pay attention while eating Chinese take-out:
1-Discipline and commitment are the paths to organization and accomplishment.
2-Dedication is a secret weapon and the enemy of distraction.
3-Personal responsibility is not optional.
Pass the noodles.
'Code' can be a plural.
Sure it can. Just ask Darl (All Your Code Are Belong To Us) McBride of SCO...
-- Alastair
that I often get distracted too but I disagree. I think it's more a case of
Yeah, dotslash is a pretty good site.
I'm sorry to say but, my inner greed trumps my inner lazy. Often times greed bitch slaps lazy because lazy doesn't seem to understand we have bills to pay.
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One is born into aristocracy, but mediocrity can only be achieved through hard work.
I LOVE the fact that I'm sitting here procrastinating by reading an article about overcoming procrastination by way of anecdotal evidence. Seriously, at what point in human evolution did life become this easy?
-Rylfaeth
Have you tried Methamphetamines? If not I would highly recommend it. After going though every pill in the book I came across Ice one day and it has completly changed my life for the better. I can sit and focus on anything without being distracted whereas before I couldn't. Just don't overdue it. :)
Sadly, no one, but we are eager to start again. No luck yet. Maybe John Carmack has ADD?? Some ritalin for JC might be good for gamers??
Before I read this story I was segmenting my logins like you suggest. I am adding "force" to that by encrypting the full access login with a key that can be bruteforced in a known period of time (Ill try just a few hours at first, maybe 8 or 24)
Stop posting to slashdot asking why you aren't getting work done.
Definitely. Cocaine is much cheaper and easier to come by, and you don't need a Doctor's prescription.
So now to fit into our "civilization" we must take drugs just to be able to bare the mind numbing boredom?
Almost everyone uses stimulants (Coffee) to keep their hours that they need for work and school.
Of course the bourgeoisie can sleep late and do whatever they fancy, it's just us, the workers, who have to take drugs just to get through the drudgery that makes the bourgeoisie rich.
Toil all day, needing drugs just to get through all the shit, for what? A little paycheck where all the product of your labor goes to make the ruling class rich?
Since it's not legal to beat the workers anymore now they tell us we are "defective" and give us drugs to make us work harder. Fuck that shit!
Damn! You're on your way to either a Nobel prize, or violent mental breakdown. In either case don't you think your solution is a bit too sociopathic?
120 character sigs suck. Make it 250.
Doctorr: So if you press this button, the life support system will dispense Morphine.
Patient: Well, what does this button do?
Doctor: Oh, don't press that. That's the caffeine button.
(Patient pushes button).
Patient: Ah yes, that's the stuff.
Doctor: Jeez! Are you crazy!?! In your condition?
(Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, beep, beep, beep, beep, beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....)
120 character sigs suck. Make it 250.
Yeah, That's my problem too. I really have to do something about it. Starting tomorrow, I will procrastinate no further!
Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
"It's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care." -- Peter Gibbons
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Alan! What the blazes are you doing surfing slashdot? Get back to work!
cat >> /etc/hosts.deny
slashdot.org
^D
Um, yeah ... right. That makes sense.
The real Captain Avatar is a fictional character, so I suppose he doesn't mind if I impersonate him.
BEER.
OK, well I can speak from experience that I do my finest work under pressure. I've tried this non-procrastination route you speak of, and it hasn't gotten me anywhere. Some people work better when the heat is turned up.
Seriously I think it is just hard-wired into our psyche. As computer geeks, our minds are working on many levels all the time... multi-tasking if you will. This constant flow of information, and the pursuit of more, leads to this hyper ADHD type personality. It's always been that way, and I don't think it is going to change any time soon. Just face the music, you've become one of us.
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The problem is that hard work pays off in the long run, but laziness pays off now.
All you need is a beautiful wife to watch over your shoulder to make sure you're doing work and not watching porn / homestar runner. Plus you get to sleep with her. That's exercise *and* stress relief, rolled into one! And someone talked about delayed gratification? Random reinforcement? Baby you'll get that by the truckload :)