46: Creative Procrastination

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From the discussion it is not entirely clear if Dima and Slava talk about procrastination that gets in the way of them accomplishing creative endeavours or all the creative they find to postpone working on hard and important things.

• Dima did a bit of research on "Lord of the Rings" and J. R. R. Tolkien and he came to appreciate the amount of effort and rigor that went into creation of that fantasy universe
• Dima also read "Some Desperate Glory" by Emily Tesh, the novel that won the Hugo Award in 2024, and found it a better story, but also not beyond reproach
• Slava's fall of nucleus
• Cognitive distortions that lead to procrastination and passive and active procrastinators
• Writing is (un?)surprisingly challenging for everyone
• Is procrastination are result of our mismatched exceptions?
• How does one recognize they are procrastinating?
• Common theme for how procrastination creeps in: big ambiguous task is replaced with a small and easy win
• Self-help and social methods for getting oneself out of the procrastination trap
• Reassertion using positive feedback on your prior work
• Create a crystallization point to start working on a big daunting tasks