Ecclesiastes (Bible)

The Problem of Procrastination

What is my problem?

I trust God. But I don't really trust myself.

That, in some sense, is how it ought to be.

But, say, when it comes to writing my essay, or sermon, I feel like I need to rely on something. Coffee. Alcohol. Or else I procrastinate, because I don't trust myself to start. Because I want to do things at the last minute. Because I don't have the discipline, the guts, the stickability to stick at the job.

There is nothing new to Googlewhack under the sun.

I was reflecting just now (and I don't really know where it came from; I just woke up in the middle of the night and it was there), that our very common response to a problem (for instance, "Why is a a laser red?" or "Will a Wii play DVDs?") is to Google it (probably through your iPhone).

So much so that "to google" has become a verb, from the proper noun ("Google").

What you invariably find is that someone has asked the question before, in some form or other.

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