“Victor Hugo would write naked and tell his valet to hide his clothes so that he’d be unable to go outside when he was supposed to be writing.”
—What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker
And furthermore:
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.
I would love to become a procrastination researcher, if only as a gift to my high school English teachers.
File Under: Discipline, Nudity In Service Of
