Procrastination, Netflix, and Psychology (via You Are Not So Smart)

psychotherapy:

Netflix reveals something about your own behavior you should have noticed by now, something which keeps getting between you and the things you want to accomplish.

If you have Netflix, especially if you stream it to your TV, you tend to gradually accumulate a cache of hundreds of films you think you’ll watch one day. This is a bigger deal than you think.

Take a look at your queue. Why are there so damn many documentaries and dramatic epics collecting virtual dust in there? By now you could draw the cover art to “Dead Man Walking” from memory. Why do you keep passing over it?

Psychologists actually know the answer to this question, to why you keep adding movies you will never watch to your growing collection of future rentals, and its the same reason you believe you will eventually do what’s best for yourself in all the other parts of your life, but rarely do…

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    really depressing….Which means...probably won’t read it.
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    Great article. Worth reading the full thing.
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    article knows me or something.
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    I’ve read it all and found it amazing!
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    long but interesting read….. however I read...while procrastinating
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