Sunday, October 10, 2010

How to fight procrastination

A recent article in the New Yorker about procrastination mentions the following strategies:

1) Write naked! Victor Hugo, the French novelist who wrote Les Miserables, used to have his valet hide his clothes while he wrote. That way, he figured, he would be far less likely to go outside when he should be inside writing.

2) Turn off the internet. Freedom software allows you to turn off and lock your computer's access to the internet for a period of time that you set. The idea is that you'll get a lot more work done if you aren't chatting on Facebook or downloading Katy Perry songs. If you change your mind, you can turn the internet back on, but you have to reboot.

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