Getting Stuck on Taking a Shower Before Starting Work
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Common issue (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
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The seemingly troublesome task of taking a shower becomes a hurdle, preventing progress.
- Introducing additional tasks like exercising before showering raises the hurdle even higher.
- Taking a shower tends to create dependencies with other tasks before and after.
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Looking for solutions
- Start with the Issue Bot
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“Taking a shower is a major hurdle when starting work.”
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“Exercise should be restructured as an independent activity rather than a task before showering.”
- Instead of getting stuck, it’s fine to take a shower as many times as needed (blu3mo)
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- “You must do this before taking a shower.”
- Start with the Issue Bot
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Currently, I am writing this without taking a shower.
- Why am I not going to shower?
- Because I can go anytime.
- Why do I want to go to the shower?
- Feeling sweaty is uncomfortable.
- I want to start Pomodoro after feeling refreshed.
- I don’t feel like going right now (for example, within 10 seconds), but I feel like going soon.
- Continuing this feeling leads to delaying taking a shower.
- There seems to be a bug in evaluating action choices.
- Why am I not going to shower?
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It feels like the idea of “choosing whether to go to the shower or not” is fundamentally wrong.
- It would be better to habitually think of showering as something to do as soon as possible.
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For now, if there’s time to write this article, why not go?