I've always had a problem with homework when I was in school and now.
Even when it's something I enjoy doing while I'm doing it, I always seem to shy away from being productive - for example, when I have an important project or the book I'm writing, it's immensely difficult for me to get myself to start working on it like I have some deep-seated aversion to it.
I'm not even sure why this happens - it's like I have 'productivity ADD'. I'm trying to write a book right now, for example, but it's difficult to sit down and begin work on it without allowing myself to become distracted. This has caused me to allow my own grades to suffer regardless of how much I may want or even need to get things done.
I've tried everything to counter this and it doesn't seem to matter if it's something I'm interested in doing or not.
Even when it's something I enjoy doing while I'm doing it, I always seem to shy away from being productive - for example, when I have an important project or the book I'm writing, it's immensely difficult for me to get myself to start working on it like I have some deep-seated aversion to it.
I'm not even sure why this happens - it's like I have 'productivity ADD'. I'm trying to write a book right now, for example, but it's difficult to sit down and begin work on it without allowing myself to become distracted. This has caused me to allow my own grades to suffer regardless of how much I may want or even need to get things done.
I've tried everything to counter this and it doesn't seem to matter if it's something I'm interested in doing or not.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
