Ryan Rosenblog

happy summer stuff!

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this is what every grizzly bear song is based on, i bet

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The guitar in the second half of this song is so fun and great

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It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth.

You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.

But in real life, you can’t avoid doing things. We have to earn a living, do our taxes, have difficult conversations sometimes. Human life requires confronting uncertainty and risk, so pressure mounts. Procrastination gives a person a temporary hit of relief from this pressure of “having to do” things, which is a self-rewarding behavior. So it continues and becomes the normal way to respond to these pressures.

Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them. Their older siblings may have been high achievers, leaving big shoes to fill, or their parents may have had neurotic and inhuman expectations of their own, or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.

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David Cain, “Procrastination Is Not Laziness” (via pawneeparksdepartment)

This totally justifies every excuse I’ve been giving myself from not doing that thing I’m supposed to do.

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Reading this gave me a sense of relief. Followed by a sense that now I have to worry about being one of those people who have “an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person.”

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is this the best song?

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almostshameless:

This game can be played with 2 or more people. The rules are fairly simple. Player A gives Player B the name of an actor or actress, say Eva Mendes. Player B’s objective is to think of a movie that said actor or actress is in that would also be featured on Netflix instant. Player A then…