IT student here. I finally started my Bachelor project two days ago.Now with most types of work I always know exactly what to do and subconsciously make a plan for when I'll do it. It always leads to stress but at least it works.But now I am having a deja vu from past (smaller) projects.With projects like this, every day for 3 months, I wake up and go to bed feeling anxious.Every day, I try to work for 1 hour before I "take a break" and then I hide in my bedroom for the rest of the day doing shit like posting on /adv/.How the fuck do I avoid this? It's the worst feeling ever. Not to mention I might actually fail this time.
>>34270475When I began my PhD dissertation, my advisor said "Don't make it good. Get it done."He wasn't telling me to do a half-assed job; he knew my own standards wouldn't let me do that. But he knew that the bigger the project, the more unworthy you are likely to feel, and the more the fear of not being good enough can be paralysing.Tell yourself it's just another assignment and the main point is to get it done on time. Leave it to your own inherent values to take care of the quality
>>34270475https://getcoldturkey.com/
>>34270475Just use AI to help you
>>34270475>started my Bachelor projectFor me, the biggest hurdle to accomplishing something is knowing exactly what to do and how to do it; therefore I'd break this down into a specific question you could ask/answer to get started. After that, the only issue is just sitting down for 5 minutes and doing the thing. Can you elaborate on the project at all?Also, abide by the advice of >>34270494. You can always spend a little more time towards the end perfecting things, but just getting something out there to begin with is the hardest part.
>>34270494Thank you>>34270634The technical details of the project are not so relevant as the fact that I have to create a written contribution which is essentially literature review and a technical one which is basically programming a tool. It's very open ended and I still have a lot of freedom to define where exactly it should go, maybe that's my problem.It sounds stupid to say this but I just realized that my problem is laziness and that I can actually do things that I don't want to do. I learn this anew every semester or so and every time it feels like the scales fell from my eyes. It turns out handling stress is much easier than handling the lack of it.
>>34272513>my problem is lazinessI feel you there. I also did a similar game of bs with myself in college and it felt really dumb. I figured out, though, that if I preemptively plan a day in advance (like in my mind I anticipate feeling dreadful/anxious) that a future day will be full of work, I noticed that it makes it a bit easier to force myself to get on with work on that specific day.I think forcing myself to feel anxiety/dread/missery in advance allowed me to then get on with the work. It's sort of like how some people rely on the rush of a deadline to get things done, but just manipulated a bit. In fact, I was able to often give myself an extra day ahead on my assignments by "planning" (by which I mean forcing myself to feel anxious and miserable) on doing work the day before they were due. This also applied to segments of large projects that I did (I would just "plan" the expectation that I'd have X% done by Y date), so maybe it can help you too.
