User blog:CharCharChar/Avoiding doing the work

My brain is surprisingly adept at offering me alternative fun things to occupy myself with, when I really really really need to do the work.

Create a brain game for my cat involving many treats, a pair of scissors, and an empty tissue box. Socialize with study group friends. Read up on what the new American Gods show is about. Write a blog post for the Habitica wiki.

There is a tireless supply of more enjoyable, and more importantly easier, tasks to do first.

I subscribe to the thinking of 'fear of failure'. I am afraid my project won't meet my professor's expectations. If I don't put 100% into the project, then it is my personality not my ability that is to blame. If I put in 100% and don't do extremely well, I have failed. But if you go around blaming your personality for your failures that's not great either.

Now go do the work :D