It is a filter against rotting in chronic/toxic/boring things.
Too bad people are trying to kill this instinct and rape themselves instead of using it to their own benefit.
Is that really the only way you could think of to describe this? Sexual assault is a horrible thing to go through, and I can't imagine it's a lot of fun to happen upon the idea in unexpected places like this. You could easily just replace it with fuck.
Seems like an unpopular opinion, but I also think procrastination is actually beneficial in this sense.
It can sometimes eliminate or reduce recurrent tasks, IE procrastinate getting a haircut: fewer haircuts / year. Procrastinate cleaning or laundry: less total time spent since you can do more at once.
There's always a small chance the task will entirely disappear (business priorities shift). In those cases, procrastination can actually be helpful.
It's an unpopular opinion because it isn't true for many (if not most) procrastinators, for at least two reasons. One, we procrastinate on tasks that we can't eliminate and which value scales linearly with doing them. Two, the time spent agonizing over it and the emotional cost it incurs is much greater than the savings from doing a recurring task less frequently.
For me, I find procrastination to be the exact opposite. Say I have a big project I want to complete, and I know I'll feel happy, proud, and accomplished if I complete the project, but I get stuck or frustrated with some intermediate step. Then what I usually end up distracting me is chronic or boring things. I'll organize my email inbox, or watch a million YouTube videos I'm not all that into, etc.
Maybe yours. My body is as dumb as a rock. It resists "entrapment" in any and all useful activities, whether self-directed or assigned by others. It's a constant struggle against the cat-like instinct of "yeah, I'd love to do that... no, I'm not doing that".
Chronic procrastinator here: I can partially agree - sometimes, in some situations. But having two dozens of dangling 30-70% projects lingering around is toxic to self-esteem and social interaction too. Hell, I've developing a growing anxiety going to a community meetup at the local hackspace that's more like a pub because I'm way behind some small projects that effect others because I'm into other small projects :/
To begin with, most people, entering the adulthood, are already mentally destroyed by 15 years of unnatural pseudo-competitive prisons full of long term pain and mostly delusional gain. Most of natural filters are pretty off by then.
