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I find myself procrastinating the most when I know what what I'm doing will likely be interrupted, even if it's hours down the line. For instance, even if I can work on a certain thing for 3 hours, when I get word that I'm probably going to have to work on something else for the rest of the day, chances are I'll take those 3 hours less seriously because I know that, when I come back to the task the following day, I'll have to mentally start over. Even if I consciously try to push through it, the back of my mind keeps shouting "What's the point?"



Yes yes yes. The treatment for this is to split your work into smaller tasks so you feel you can hit a milestone before the interruption.




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