Human Nature 101 (II)

Parents vs Teenagers

Every single parent used words like "Fuck", "shit" or "damn" when they are speaking to their friends. When they are back to home they avoid all those words like how a soldier avoid land mines. 

Every single teenager used words like "Fuck", "shit" or "damn" when they are speaking to their friends at schools. When they are back to home they avoid all those words like how a soldier avoid land mines.

As a result, two of the phenomena converge into one: A household without a single "bad word".

There are also a bonus of two assumptions that are spectacularly far from reality:
a) The parents extrapolated their kids as teenagers who have never spoken any vulgar words in life; and
b) The kids extrapolated their parents as adults who have never spoken any vulgar words in life. 

On Procrastination

Most humans have the superpower to avoid completing urgent tasks. 

The conventional advice to solve this problem is to muster up discipline or to "work harder". And also billions of ineffective tips you got when you searched for "How to overcome procrastination" using Google's search. Both focus on how to push and force a horse to walk to the pond to drink water.

A less considered approach is to not promising anyone that your horse will appear at a certain time to perform the feat of drinking water. Instead, give maximum freedom to your horse, follow whereever it wants to go. Not only after sometime it magically goes to the pond itself, you discover so many hidden desire/secret of the horse while you follow it to wherever it goes. There are also possibilities that you found something way more valuable than drinking water while you are strolling along with your horse. 

Create desire to do important thing, or make your desires important. The latter seems like a way more interesting approach.

Related Article:
Good and Bad Procrastination by Paul Graham