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Deadline boost in work (i.e. deadline-driven)
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The boost only works when the brain is functioning properly, so working late at night or pulling an all-nighter doesn’t help with the deadline boost.
- I recently realized this fact.
- Negligence due to familiarity with difficult situations made me think that the deadline boost would work even late at night.
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Therefore, I want to be aware that the deadline boost cannot be used at night.
- (By doing so, my internal deadline will be shifted from 8:00 in the morning to 12:00 at night, which is good.)
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To be more precise,
- I recently realized that relying on the late-night deadline boost for tasks that require mental effort, except for parts of the work that don’t require thinking, is not a good idea.
- Decision-making cannot be done late at night.
- Trying to use the late-night deadline boost for decision-making or difficult tasks
- Ultimately, I cannot focus on what needs to be done.
- As a result, I become even sleepier and end up falling asleep while working.
- For example, if I were to write an essay from 21:00 to 28:00,
- I should finish outlining and reading references from 21:00 to 23:00,
- And then from 23:00 onwards, I should put it into writing and refine the details.
- When I think about the times when the late-night deadline boost worked well and when it didn’t,
- The ones that worked well:
- The first TOK Essay was somewhat successful with the late-night deadline boost because I had already written an outline beforehand.
- I was able to just focus on turning the details into writing.
- The Math IA was also easy because I already had a general idea and direction to follow.
- The first TOK Essay was somewhat successful with the late-night deadline boost because I had already written an outline beforehand.
- The ones that didn’t work well:
- I remember that TOK Essay 2/3 didn’t go well, probably because the outline was not well-organized, so I lost motivation in the middle of the night.
- (I might be distorting my memory a bit to make this argument.)
- For the main TOK Essay, I didn’t even write an outline in the first place, so the work didn’t progress even with a late-night deadline.
- I remember that TOK Essay 2/3 didn’t go well, probably because the outline was not well-organized, so I lost motivation in the middle of the night.
- The ones that worked well:
- I recently realized that relying on the late-night deadline boost for tasks that require mental effort, except for parts of the work that don’t require thinking, is not a good idea.