Deadline Dependency || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Delayed Decisions: Balancing Productivity and Pleasure || Acharya Prashant (2023)

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00:00I don't have any deadlines on my mind.

00:02I will do that whole day peacefully.

00:04Deadline just creates pressure on myself.

00:07If you could do it normally,

00:09then don't you think you would have probably

00:11already finished it by now?

00:12Why would you wait for the last hour or the last day?

00:16Surely nobody puts you on a deadline of one day.

00:20Whenever submission dates are there

00:22with respect to assignments,

00:24you get what, one week, 15 days, sometimes two months.

00:27So why would you be staring at the last day of submission?

00:32Had there really been love,

00:33you would have completed it well ahead of time

00:36and submitted it already.

00:38This means you need the deadline.

00:40This means that it is just an imaginative fancy

00:43that you would complete it even in absence of deadline.

00:47You remove the deadline and you find you will do nothing at all.