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#56: You're not weak-willed, according to Socrates

The Academic Imperfectionist

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How to Get Your Writing Project Done

You're not weak-willed, remember. You just find stuff like this way more interesting and enticing than the writing project that you care deeply about. Your values are ditching as my kids would put it. In a lot of cases, they're attractive because they soothe the anxiety that arises because you value your writing project so much. Or perhaps you're taking too much of an all-or-nothing approach to getting your writing done. There's plenty of scope to make important progress in your writing, even when you're not working on your writing at all. I talked about that in episode 19. Not writing is an essential part of writing, and episode 20. Aside from the

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