Posted by Questionmark on October 6, 2006, at 19:50:18
In reply to Apathy and no motivation, but otherwise fine, posted by HelenInCalif on September 20, 2006, at 3:08:44
I've had this problem for years, and quite bad. I think I'm a little better-- not sure why. Maybe my daily caffeine use now. I dunno.
But yeah I think that many people have this problem to some degree, too-- though not as much as you or I or some others. I think just about all chronic procrastinators suffer from this, and among many other things is caused by an inability to ***feel*** those almost necessary emotions of motivation, concentration and even desperation and whatever else even while intellecually *knowing* that they should do some particular task. The feelings that actually bring about action arrive too late and are brought about by the deadline that is looming all too soon.
There are many other factors that are often involved such as perfectionistic... ah forget it.You might wanna take a look at one of those self-help-for-procrastination books. As far as increasing the important feelings & decreasing apathy, though, I'm not sure.
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