Check out a couple of amusing – and terrifyingly insightful – essays on procrastination, here and here, by philosopher John Perry (author of the best of the Hackett dialogues).
I’m posting this instead of grading term papers.
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I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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And when you’ve read those, he has a few more. So hurry up!
Kind of creepy how in the second article he says that procrastinating is a way of giving a perfectionist permission to do a less-than-perfect job.
thanks for posting this – these two essays essentially sum up my entire manner of living. I am glad i have a name for it now.
Thanks for posting this.
I am using this reply to put off doing something else right now.