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18 Post author: PhilGoetz 26 March 2013 04:47AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 26 March 2013 06:48:10AM *  14 points [-]

This is related to a common problem among certain types of engineers and scientists, which is to think of anything easy to do as not enough fun and hence beneath oneself. Heck, I have this problem sometimes.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 March 2013 05:02:44PM *  7 points [-]

Heck, I have this problem sometimes.

Try working on easy stuff when too tired (i.e. willpower-depleted) to work on hard stuff. (This is called structured procrastination.)