CHAPTER 4
ProcrastiNations
How modern life ensures distraction
Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilisations are written the pathetic words: Too Late. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
OUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE present moment is at the root of procrastination. The fact that we tend to be more impetuous than reasonable is an evolutionary heirloom handed down through a thousand generations. But we can’t blame our neurobiology entirely. Every distraction the modern world offers also exacerbates the mismatch between who we are and what we need to be. This chapter diagnoses the growing divergence between our plans and our impulses. To better write it, I reacquainted myself with an old distraction, purposefully re-infecting myself with ...
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