The irony of focus (2)

A continuation of a previous post in Dutch, which was funny enough written during my Bachelor's thesis. The tl;dr is: postponing your work for procrastination is bad and you know it, but it works almost every time.

I want to add a simple sentence to that: but it works, when you know what you are doing. Taking that extra time and feeling bad about it does mean you often think about what it is what you have to do.

And that, my friends, turns out to be vital. Everyone knows that erratic pace of writing everything in one day for a week and doing nothing for two weeks. When giving the subject thought long enough, everything just lines up in your head and when you release the gates, a couple of pages rush out.

I noticed this in the last couple of weeks because I am already very familiar with the subject and its literature, but have problems structuring what I want to build up on that. I twist and turn for days and suddenly it all falls into place. BOOM, I am done.