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The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?
Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.
The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.
While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.
You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.
Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.
