I used to be a clever procrastinator. I could dream up all sorts of “reasons” for not doing a task. I gave up the habit about 20 years ago. Now I do the hard dull stuff first because it frees me to do creative and productive things with no threat darkening the horizon.
When I start backsliding, Doris Lessing’s quote helps:
If you’re meant to do it, do it now. Conditions are always impossible.
Congress is beating my old talent every day. Old and young, D and R, work together in joyous unison to develop new “reasons” for not working. Today’s bizarre soap opera removed the speaker, who has no function, but because of “rules” the entire mess is incapable of even meeting until they find a new meaningless speaker, which may take several months.
Bravo! Innovative Disruption at its best! Keep things in total chaos to halt the slightest chance of work or learning or thinking!
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Self-calibrating: I appreciated and praised the ability of the British parliament to replace its prime minister. What’s the difference? Function.
The PM is the leader of the country, recognized as such by media and bureaucrats and foreign powers. His agenda moves the entire country, and Sunak is moving Britain in an amazingly good direction.
The speaker of the house has no effect, so replacing him changes nothing. Bureaucrats can safely ignore such a fake “change”; in fact this “change” increases the power of the permanent bureaucracy by postponing the slightest chance of interference by Congress, which didn’t exist anyway.
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