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Procrastination or Magic? The Paradox of Doing Without Doing.
Or, how to create something from nothing, without doing any work ;-)
The Back-Burner Effect
I love bringing groups together because ideas coalesce in new and different ways. This week’s call on procrastination was no exception, and, this in particular seems worth sharing: the seeming paradox of ‘who’ is doing the doing and how come things happen when we don’t do anything.
One of the callers brought this up in relation to a discussion we were having about ‘important’ things, legal matters and so on, and where things appear to be ‘high stakes’.
It isn’t that I don’t do anything, or that I put it off. I’m not scared to look at something, but then I put it down and ideas come to me over the next hours and days.
It’s what we coined ‘the back burner effect’, I see it too and it’s what I do-it’s what we all do but you may not be doing it consciously so you may not be taking full effect of the power of your ‘magic’ helpers.
It’s Not About the ‘Time’…
When it comes to events like the one where this conversation was held, for example, I’m usually inspired to create something around a topic, but the details are pretty vague, or at least unformed. I’ll write a blurb…
