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(nods) For my own part, it's frequently worse than random... when I don't attend to what I'm doing, I frequently berate or otherwise punish myself for attempts to achieve a target that fall short of that target, and I'm more likely to do that the more I value achieving the target. Which is a great way to extinguish the behaviors I value.
Yoiks! This may well be why my procrastination at work has increased and increased over the decades. I almost always (habitually?) feel like my efforts are not good enough, will be criticized negatively.
(nods) That's a pretty common result of relying on punishment to shape behavior.