112) From Shitty-ness to Well-ness, Part 6: Backlash, resistance, and dissociation

In the example of procrastination, your wiser self (or maybe it’s your motivated, goal-striving self) knows that Doing The Thing is the right thing to do, and has convinced itself that it WANTS to do that thing.  It will feel a sense of self-integrity, authenticity, if it follows through on its intentions.   

But then there’s a bunch of other selves.  And they say, “Fuck Doing The Thing; I want to Do a Different Thing.”