Writing · Underneath procrastination
It looks like distraction…
But who’s really doing the distracting? On the difference between being pulled and pulling yourself out.
You open the Slack tab in the middle of writing the doc. You weren’t pulled there by something interesting. You went there.
It happened the moment the doc hit the point where you didn’t know what the next sentence was going to say. Slack felt like work. It bought you twenty more seconds of avoiding the moment when you had to decide what to type next.
That’s not distraction. It’s avoidance dressed as distraction. The reframe matters: a focus app won’t help with the actual problem, because the actual problem isn’t that something pulled you away. It’s that you needed somewhere to go.