I love this new CD and I love this song… Life Story.
It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth.
You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.
But in real life, you can’t avoid doing things. We have to earn a living, do our taxes, have difficult conversations sometimes. Human life requires confronting uncertainty and risk, so pressure mounts. Procrastination gives a person a temporary hit of relief from this pressure of “having to do” things, which is a self-rewarding behavior. So it continues and becomes the normal way to respond to these pressures.
Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them. Their older siblings may have been high achievers, leaving big shoes to fill, or their parents may have had neurotic and inhuman expectations of their own, or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.
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David Cain, “Procrastination Is Not Laziness” (via pawneeparksdepartment) This totally justifies every excuse I’ve been giving myself from not doing that thing I’m supposed to do. (via aaronmoles) |
Nathan Fillion [photographed by Christopher Beyer]
This is awesome! Nathan Fillion as Harrison Ford.
Awesome
It’s One Of The Craziest Internet Rumors About Guns. And As It Turns Out, It’s True.
It’s a fact so jaw-dropping it’s unbelievable — people thought it was a crazy Internet rumor until Politifact verified it. But it’s true: More Americans have died just since 1960 from gun incidents — suicides, accidents, and homicides — than died in every war in U.S. history. The deadliest war the U.S. has ever had is the war we waged against ourselves.
The reality is that we had low debt and no fiscal problem before Reagan; then an unprecedented surge in peacetime, non-depression deficits under Reagan/Bush; then a major improvement under Clinton; then a squandering of the Clinton surplus via tax cuts and unfunded wars of choice under Bush. And yes, a surge in debt once the Great Recession hit, but that’s exactly when you should be running deficits.
The point about the fake history that expunges the Clinton years is that it turns the budget into a story in which nobody is at fault because everyone is at fault, and the problem is a generic issue of runaway spending. No, it isn’t; we would have come into this crisis with very little debt if the GOP hadn’t always insisted on tax cuts.
This is not complicated.
This is the trailer for Orphan Black, premiering after Doctor Who on March 30.
It is possibly relevant to your interests. We base this assumption on the fact that we just watched it five times in a row.
The definitely relevant news released with this trailer is this bit here:
Doctor Who U.S. season premiere airtime set for 8:00pm ET/PT March 30.
Now our calendar is complete.
Here is the first full trailer for the new BBC America sci-fi series ORPHAN BLACK.The full March 30 BBC America #SupernaturalSaturday lineup goes like this:
- Doctor Who at 8:00pm ET/PT
- Orphan Black at 9:00pm ET/PT
- The Nerdist at 10:00pm ET/PT
We like the Orphan Black Tumblrers. Follow their Tumblr here.
Hmm.
