#55: Inertia and your overthinking dick brain
The Academic Imperfectionist
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The Problem With Procrastinating About Making a Positive Change
Inertia, defined by Oxford languages, is a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line. It's not really because you don't think you're capable of making the change and getting it right but simply because you need a nudge in the right direction. Like when you tap a ball very gently with the tip of your shoe and set it off rolling down the hill. And I think that when you're procrastinating about making a positive change, feeling overwhelmed by it, thinking that it's better to leave things in their current not good enough state than risk any potentially imperfect improvements. When you're in the group of all
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