BS: Procrastinators have their good points

Subject: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:45 AM

talk on TED.com

apparently there is a sweet spot between planners who have it all scheduled now and crammers who spend too much time with the Instant Gratification Monkey

Something about allowing space for ideas to develop in your head. And years I was told of a huge company that always wanted to be second to market with an idea, one assumes they wanted to see where the mistakes were made and make fewer of them themselves.

I was going to post this a day or two back but - you know - Farcebook, and the Irish session in the ...................... Ooh look what's on TV !

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:56 AM

I'll think about all this and get back to you later. I have some shopping to put off.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 09:00 AM

Oh, that! I think I thought about that already.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 09:31 AM

If I wait a few days before posting to this thread, there's a reasonable chance someone else will say roughly what I was going to say, thus saving me the effort.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 10:47 AM

I'm just not so sure...

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:42 PM

Put kettle on. There's no rush.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:50 PM

Procrastination is the thief of time, I always say.

I may call the authorities and report him... or not.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:52 PM

Do I agree with you? Dunno. I might ask around. Ah well, tea time soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:55 PM

I'm too busy. I will procrastinate tomorrow

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 01:37 PM

I was being serious but what the hell:

Did you hear about some Spanish trying to translate their text into Irish and they had trouble with the word manyana because they couldn't find an Irish word that had quite the same urgency!

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: BobL
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 04:47 AM

Not quite the same thing, but, Unpreparedness is the key to flexibility.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 04:52 AM

Anyone know where I can get a round tou-it ?
I have spent years on the net looking for one
I may post again when I get one

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 06:06 AM

Before I lost weight, Mrs Steve used to call me a round twit.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 06:21 AM

Always put off until tomorrow what you realise that what you put off yesterday until today was never going to put you off putting things off. That's my philosophy and I might get around to living by it sometime. Put kettle on love and mash a tea bag for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 09:20 AM

It's quarter past 2 in the afternoon, I just got out of bed..

what's going on then... have I got phone calls that need making...???

Oh sod that I'm still sleepy and my eyes are tired.. I'll have a mug of tea..

should I have something to eat or a shit first.. oh.. decisions.. decisions.... 😜

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Kampervan
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:36 AM

Steve, did you mean 'a round tuit'? Just asking, ??I'll understand if you can't be bothered to answer though.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 01:20 PM

Hmmmfff.. we amateur crastinators occasionally manage to put off stuff the pros never bother with!

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 01:39 PM

Nah, Kampervan, that was Kenny. I thnk. I'll check later. Maybe.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 01:41 PM

what.... nearly 7.00 pm already... ??

oh well.. I'll phone their offices tomorrow........

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Mr Red
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 01:48 PM

Unpreparedness is the key to flexibility
Very appropriate, and if you listen to the video, that is one of the tenets.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: meself
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 02:46 PM

Has anyone gotten 'round to watching this yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 03:17 PM

One good reason to procrastinate is that circumstances may change between now and a deadline. A good example is the change in circumstances produced by one's own death. If I have a month before something has to be done, why should I do it today when I might die tomorrow, in which case it's no longer my problem?

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 03:26 PM

Isnt a procrastinator the act before the Spanish dancers

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 10:55 PM

Well then! I... ahhh... never mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: michaelr
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 12:10 AM

On a related note: If you want something done efficiently, get a lazy man to do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: olddude
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 12:23 AM

I will put off dying for as long as I can

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 06:25 AM

I've been thinking about doing that myself for quite a long time now.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 08:32 AM

what about all that reincarnation business...
do you have to come back to Earth at regular intervals over the eons to set deadlines...
or does the cosmos give you a bit of leeway if you oversleep or get a bit distracted and lose track of time pottering about in the spirit world.. ???

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 08:52 AM

I don't believe in reincarnation. I didn't believe in it last time, either.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: olddude
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 03:30 PM

I think you can procrastinate for a while

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 03:52 PM

What, now??

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 06:17 AM

I look at all these home improvement and House building programs on TV where they construct an entire house inside 4 months and compare it to the seven years that we have spent changing and adjusting the layout of ours.
We would not have had anything like such a useful room layout if we had not waited and done things slowly changing our minds and inventing new bits.

Subject: RE: BS: Procrastinators have their good points
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 04:09 AM

We would not have had anything like such a useful room layout if we had not waited and done things slowly changing our minds and inventing new bits
Sort of sums up the advantage, though I think the timescale echoes Robert Louis Stevenson -
"Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour."

Which in finding that quotation was not the case, it took a lot of internet prodding to prove it wasn't Oscar Wilde (as I imagined). I wonder if my memory banks (Wilde stub) have re-booted.