But then why are you feeling so frustrated at the very moment your energy has to replenish? It almost, if not directly, makes you experience guilt for doing so.

In my opinion, not only from observing people in my surroundings, but from personal viewpoint, it has to do with one of the three things:

—You have to do something really big really quick, because of some perceived sense of danger if you fail to accomplish it. Think about, and I know it’s gonna sound bad, but this actually perfectly illustrates what I am trying to say, you took money from someone without their knowledge, there is a high chance they got to know quite soon and you are worried about facing terrible consequences and now you have to do shit tones of work to restore the missing money in time.

—You’ve formed an identity of a person who is always busy with something that usually feels like a burden to other people. Most of the time, we are talking about workaholic lads, but that’s not necessarily the only expression of this variant. If you let go of that, you lose your identity, you lose yourself and you no longer know who you are. You are sustaining a model that requires unhealthy amount of labour to stay intact.

—You are jealous that somebody has more than you, more money, more real estate, better physique and so on… Therefore, you feel distress at any given moment where you are not catching up to them.

All of these scenarios have something in common. One bigger and more influential emotion conquers another and the former pushes you to act in a certain direction.

—Fear of being exposed conquers tiredness —Fear of being judged or misaligned with yourself conquers tiredness —Fear of being socially marginalised, losing social capital, not being thought highly of by others conquers tiredness.

In all or those cases emotion x prevails over the desire to rest. But do you know what else is universal for all of those cases? The irrationality behind the choice of the method to get you where you want to be. Think about this, if can’t function optimally, would it matter how much labour and work you put in given endeavour? No, because not only the quality will drop faster than you can say your name, your health will be subjected to a serious strain. In other word, you’d die much sooner than you’d otherwise want….

Those might seem obvious, but the trick is to think of those at the very moment you are most inclined to act in a way you’d regret later. In this tread, I’m not saying anything new, I just hope that my articulation of the problem gives rise to powerful enough associations and clears the rumination landscape, so that you stop being a victim of processes that you only vaguely understand.

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Okay, let’s play into it, they lack information, fine. I’ll proceed by asking: “What kind of information exactly do you lack?” They can’t say that the lack of sheer volume is the problem, I’ll just respond with: “Look at all the LLMs available to wide public, advanced like never before, you are telling me that your case is so peculiar that they can’t give you answers?”

Then where it is? Let’s consider predictions, everyone wants to know what will happen with whatever they took on now and this seems to be the major concern of those who are normally hesitant to initiate new stuff…. But have you actually considered how complex a prediction-making process is…. It’ll be easier for you to grasp how multifaceted it truly is when you not only pronounce it, but actually let it sit for a while….. You are not the sole variable in the equation. Let me repeat it once again. You are not the sole variable in the equation. Think about how difficult is to assess yourself, your thoughts and feelings for a singular situation, just one. Think about how nothing is truly disconnected. How everything forms an interesting causal chain. That time when you yelled at somebody you are usually affectionate towards and the other time when you were affectionate to someone you are usually not. How many biological, neurological and environmental factors were at play there. What made you react differently than usual?

You are probably asking yourself “Brother, what the hell are you talking about and how does this connect to procrastination?” Without further ado, I am answering this straightforwardly. You are clearly not lacking informational volume, we have that in abundance. You are demanding guarantee that your efforts will be rewarded accordingly. But do you still think that’s possible in the light of what I already said? I doubt it. Not only that immediate engagement is necessary for the reward you cherish so much, but immediate engagement provides structurally indispensable information, because the experience is constituted by constant transformation of eventual to actual. You enter everything with a preconceived idea of how it will go, only when you step in you get to know if you are actually correct. That should be the ideal of everyone who demands certainty, and if you refuse to do it, because you “have enough of a certainty to know how things would go”, then don’t pretend you demand certainty, you only demanded reason to preemptively quit, because every prediction is based on a methodology, and the predictive power is relative to what the model quantifies over….

I hope that albeit my obscure and at moments disconnected writing style, you understood what needs to be understood, that the information you are looking for is idiosyncratic to experience and that predictive models cannot possibly quantify over everything that has to be taken into account, and that the “90% fail” your prediction machinery outputs might be less trustworthy than it’s comfortable to admit.

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