NUMBER 1: It is one of the following seasons: Summer / Autumn / Winter / Spring
Let’s face it: It is NEVER a good time to study. All of the seasons are our favorites. Summer wants us out under the sun, battling skin cancer and fighting with all the other people on their short vacation leaves, aggressively claiming right of territory to any camping spot, any mountain trail, any shade on the beach. Nights are hot, and the fan is making too much noise to let us indulge into some self improvement. Winter? Finally, some chill weather to do some training, maybe play in the snow, enjoy nature without anybody else. Nights are spent getting those precious calories, which will better help us deal with the cold. Spring, Autumn? PLEASE… The nature at its best, the forest alive and vibrant with colors, the pool waiting for us to shed all that weight we got consuming all that ice cream (in the summer) or all that un-necessary fat we instinctively got through the winter
NUMBER 2: Unable to Focus
Despite being totally the wrong season, you set the training course on the right screen, and Gmail to the left screen. Roughly 1 minute into the course, a Hangout message or an email (from a site that complains you have not used it for ages) is enough to disrupt the force and have you thinking of supermarket duties in no time. Or what about the painful moment at work, that miraculously comes back to mind, the moment you attempt to dive into your course? And are all the bills of the month paid?
NUMBER 3: There is Always Tomorrow
…until, 4 months later, you realize you have been dutifully paying your online subscription, for no reason whatsoever
NUMBER 4: The Speaker Allegedly Sucks
Listening to somebody speak in public, whether it is an office meeting room, an auditorium, a car or a living room, is vastly different from having somebody directly inject sound into your ears, through headphones or speakers. It is a much more direct and personal communication, which might seem intrusive. And that without saying anything about speech tempo, voice pitch and any passive sounds that get into the recording (breathing, environment noises, bodily sounds) that might be off-putting for a certain listener
NUMBER 5: Rationalizing Incorrect Decisions
We have all done it, right? Did something wrong, then tried to convince ourselves that it was right. One of those “adult” traits, to bind ourselves to a habit in the fear of replacing it with something worse. I try to think of it like this: If I am attempting to decide in the opposite way of something I have already decided in the past upon, then I am rationalizing an incorrect decision. Getting OFF a schedule in the end, proves as equally painful as staying ON the schedule, with the added problem that no progress is being made
Here is how Dr. Sketch, the good genie of this blog, puts it:
