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Originally Posted by Neophyte  I'm the type of person who doesn't do things until I'm in a hole and I have dig myself out of it; I guess it's saving myself from my hole when I feel most productive....{snip}... I overwhelm myself to avoid changing myself or attempting anything that I don't normally do. It's a way of avoiding failure. |
Neophyte -- that's it precisely. And you could also change that bolded phrase to zero in even closer on the real issue:
I guess it's saving myself from my hole when I feel most important
By and large -- people would rather be a stopped "somebody" and feel themselves as important and special by reflecting on how much they have to do, then to be the "nobody" they must agree to be in order to be productive.
It's so counter-intuitive... and yet so obviously true: To be productive I must be willing to be a nobody... undefined... unnoticed.