On Procrastination

If you think that it’s only natural that one would procrastinate on work, on taxes, homework, cleaning the apartment—think again.

Imagine an animal that had to overcome an inner struggle of procrastination every time it needed to hunt for food, every time it needed to look for shelter or train its young—how well adapted would such an animal be?

Our instinct for survival is our most natural motivation and only in modernity have we managed to separate the fruits of our labor from the actual labor far enough to experience procrastination towards the very things that keep us alive.

Don’t overcome procrastination, listen to it. Let it navigate you towards a lifestyle that’s more adapted to your ancestral wiring.

You need to make money to buy food to survive, but you don’t need to sit in a gray office for 8 hours every day to be able to make that money.