Procrastination
As hx was procrastinating this morning, hx watched a TED talk on procrastination. (Classic, right?) Tim Urban distills this human tendancy from the perspectives of the ‘panic monster’ and the ‘instant gratification monkey.’ Very entertaining and actually correlates very well to our own 道心、人心
Panic monster gets awoken when there are deadlines, and helps us to contain our own procrastination. But when there are no deadlines, as is true for a lot of longitudinal projects (and our own Dao cultivation and propagation), panic monster stays asleep and some things that we know we need to do just never get done. Food for thought!
He shares a visual that hx finds helpful. Here is a life calendar, with each box representing one week of your life. How many boxes have we crossed out already, and how many boxes remain?
He offers a second version of this life calendar by showing you when some famous people died – well before 90. Mozart died at 35! Suddenly it seems like there’s a ‘dead’line for everything after all! 😧
What about you? Do you procrastinate? Have you had any realizations in your practice to bring forth the Dao heart and minimize the human heart?
