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What does acedia even mean?
The word describes carelessness, untidiness and negligence, but also not wanting to do anything.
Laziness is often described as negative, but is it only evil?
sloth.
I really should, I say and yet–
The German book about a boy who keeps getting distracted by the sky and therefore labelled Johnny-look-in-the-air tells a story about distraction. The boy is so immersed in the sky that he keeps forgetting to look where he is walking, so he keeps falling.Sometimes I try to fix the smallest details, in these moments I would like to be distracted by the sky.Friederike Haug
Sometimes we will just look outside a window and admire how beautiful nature is. By no means is this a time where we miss out - that’s the time when our creativity awakens. What can you see outside your window?
I feel like it is easier to carry out smaller, predefined tasks. In creative jobs this is often not the case, the task is derived from the way you solve the task itself and there is no objective answer as to when your result is good enough for the task to be finished. You have to be in the right mindset, I feel like creativity comes and goes in phases, and when it’s not there it is hard to force it.
Interviewer: Friederike Haug
So laziness can be caused by mental illness. However, society doesn't consider if you are ill, sometimes it just about functioning. You don't have to end up burned out, a little work goes a long way.
Sometimes it is good to prioritize the tasks on your to-do list, which ones are actually necessary? Reach for less, but make it good quality, might be a good starting point for some perfectionists out there.
Get your work done.
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
excerpt from the Ted Talk by Tim Urban
"Now, the Dark Playground is a place that all of you procrastinators out there know very well. It's where leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening. The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn't actually fun, because it's completely unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, self-hatred -- all of those good procrastinator feelings. And the question is, in this situation, with the Monkey [the "monkey" is looking for entertainemnt, rather than work] behind the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone, a less pleasant place, but where really important things happen?
Well, turns out the procrastinator has a guardian angel, someone who's always looking down on him and watching over him in his darkest moments -- someone called the Panic Monster.
Now, the Panic Monster is dormant most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets too close or there's danger of public embarrassment, a career disaster or some other scary consequence. And importantly, he's the only thing the Monkey is terrified of."
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