You’re Not Lazy or Unmotivated, You’re Simply “Unwilling”
Getting into a magical state of flow only takes a simple linguistic switch
It’s 2021. There are battlefields in Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. Wikipedia lists around 40 ongoing wars and conflicts this year.
But perhaps, the most consequential battle now being fought is in our minds.
Every day, we’re fighting a constant battle with abstract enemies — boredom, laziness, procrastination, and many other things. But the thing is, all these concepts are one and the same; these are all “shame terms” used for a variety of issues, caused by one simple thing.
In reality, we aren’t bored, lazy, or unmotivated — we’re simply unwilling.
Unwillingness is a trap
“A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge.” — China Mieville
We all procrastinate. Yet, according to research, while everybody may procrastinate, not everyone is a procrastinator.
A simple Google search gives the definition of procrastination as, “to delay doing something until a later time because you don’t want to do it, because you…
