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How To Beat Procrastination
Eliminate distractions to stop time-wasting
As long as humans have roamed the planet, procrastination has been an ever-present companion.
We tend to think of procrastination as a modern phenomenon, but the truth is the great figures of the ancient world experienced it too.
The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius talked about in his notes to himself, Meditations. The philosopher Seneca was no stranger to procrastination either.
In his brilliant essay On The Shortness of Life, he describes it as follows:
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
