CHAPTER 3
Wired for procrastination
Putting off is human nature
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself ‘I’ll do it tomorrow’, and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realise that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. MARCUS AURELIUS
EVERY DAY, WE EXPERIENCE OUR souls as being split.1 Who hasn’t struggled between a reasonable intention and an opposing pleasurable impulse? As the bakery window looms in sight, commitment starts to crumble in the heat of the internal battle of ‘I want to eat that cake, but I don’t want to want to eat cake’. Have you ever skipped ...
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