On Procrastination

[SL3]

Some of the best technical work I have ever done has usually been while procrastinating on other projects or more trivial things. Often, I hit a roadblock or grow bored with one project, stop, move to another, win there, restore morale, and return refreshed to the latter. At other times, I tend to get boggled down among trying to do too many things at once. Then, I have to trim them down and only a couple make it through in the end. Family, friends, dog, housework...all neglected.

Fear also tends to exist at the root of procrastination. Fear of failure. Fear of any number of things. One thing I noticed among an odd slowdown in my own free energy projects is that I was curiously procrastinating on finishing some trivial design tasks. Nothing hard. Rather boring duties, actually. Parts specification. Organization. Ordering parts. Things that actually push my work forward, and yet I have been oddly avoiding forward motion at times. Almost trashing that. Why? What is at the root? More so than boredom, there are many factors but one is that success only creates more work for oneself while I have been tired lately; In need of vacation from it. Many other factors I've had to reflect upon and counter just to move forward again.

Understanding procrastination is very handy....if one can sober himself up enough to admit when drunken in it.

It is common to us all so here is a handy article with many good points to learn from:

Good and Bad Procrastination

[Ted Ewert]

"Free" energy is never free and can be quite difficult to produce. There is nothing easy about this work.
Fear of failure is also a constant companion. If you can't take almost constant failure, you'll burn out quick. Of course it's not really failure, but it feels like it. I've produced a hell of a lot more humility than energy. But if you hang in there you start to learn. With each project you get a little closer to success.
I hop around from one project to the next too. Sometimes I hit a wall and can't get over it, so I go on to something else. Eventually I figure out how to get past the block and pick it up again from there. That's just seems to be the way it works.
Free energy research is not for the feint of heart.

Cheers,

Ted

[Inquorate]

Well said

Wonderful use of type two procrastination

[jibbguy]

Nice. I think it's related to the phenomena that, when we come back home from vacation or a fairly long business trip, everything looks a little different to us... And often we see ongoing projects in a new light (as well as other stuff such as interpersonal relationships); probably because the mental blocks and opinions that stopped us from viewing the thing objectively in the first place have been removed, or at least their "order" has been jumbled around and changed a bit.

I usually have several ongoing projects going simultaneously. It wastes a little time when getting settled-in and starting work productively on a particular one that way; but imo the accumulative benefit is greater because more ideas will flow that would not have otherwise if the jobs had been done serially. The more the task hinges on our "creativity" verses physical labor or some form of skilled but repetitive artisanship, the more important this is.

Lol, when working in the corporate world, i used to grumble about all the "multi-tasking" that was required; it seemed "unfair" to constantly have to put down a project and quickly "change gears" to turn to something new... And it would have been so much easier and personally satisfying to do everything one-at-a-time. But now i realize multi-tasking is often the most productive mode!

And the satisfaction from doing a job well done, from achieving goals, is critical. The ideal in most cases is to start a project, work on it for a short time, and complete it successfully: This gives us the most "boost" to our self-worth and validates us. Many people who have jobs that are on-going, where specific projects or duties are never-ending, or take so many months to complete that the goal is changed and forgotten by the time it's all over, burn out quickly. This is because they never get the satisfaction of seeing a task ended successfully. Wise bosses (or self-employed bosses lol), will set "mini-goals" that will allow their peeps to get some kind of sense of job satisfaction in these cases. Because without it, the whole thing can start to feel like hopeless useless drudgery; especially after a few inevitable setbacks or failures.

Imo this is the main reason why many who do things for others as their job or as volunteers, helping people in some positive way, lead very satisfying lives: They get the most boost and personal validation possible. But it is important to keep achievable goals in mind: We cannot always make a huge difference, but we certainly can make a small one if we work for it; such as we can't personally end poverty, but we can possibly help a person rise from it.

We can't end pollution and bring stability and prosperity to everyone.. Or can we lol? My mini-goal for today is to educate a person to the possibilities of free energy... So they can eventually help towards our goal of educating a hundred million more.

[Stealth]

If you are an inventor, or designer of FE systems, then you will encounter failure. It is how you learn what doesn't work that enables you to see what might work. It is the hardest part of this endeavor to keep energized, upbeat about a project when so many others have failed. Hang in there, success may be around the corner. Good Luck. Stealth

[SL3]

Mr. Procrastinator

Hi guys,

Yeah, with me I'd call it more of an avoidance of success. Done the FE thing. Seen it. Worked with it nicely. Even got a nice commercial device in the works and stuff for all of you, too. But, you know how it goes. Nobody has ever successfully commercialized FE. I have buyers ready and waiting. Some sympathetic MIB's and all that who want the high performance goodies for their other toys. Downgraded stuff I'll be making available for hobbyists and DIY kits. I've positioned pretty well and continue to do so, but you know how it goes on the world throwing stones at the FE inventor. Got a wicked little blitz set up that'll nicely carry it no matter what, but it's an uphill fight all the same. Probability of survival almost zero. Then again, I've been through such things before and am still here -- probably into old age, too.

Anyhow, downgraded cheesy stuff but things you can set up to run your house...you'll get it. High performance, wild goodies? Those I'm setting up restricted and very pricey per unit due to warfare applications. It'll be kinda like GPS or satellite images: High grade stuff to the MIB's. Useful, commercial stuff and DIY kits for the free market, but only as a niche thing. Not out to save the world. Not out to break the oil and energy rackets, but rather to tap markets they normally don't. Problem FE faces is that too much of our remaining national economic security hinges upon foreign oil purchases. That's all set up at high levels we Plebes can't change without Congress. Even trying to do so will crash the country. We're very well held hostage at the moment.

But, if you make FE things that do not step on the oil or energy cartel toes and, if you regulate supply and price on the things that do, there's at least a chance of gaining greater acceptance over time until the system better evolves. For the rest of you, you can at least build and experiment as you like. Stuff like that.

Well, back to work.