EP14. 拖延症和自我怀疑：究竟是天才的诅咒还是庸才的自我安慰？

在这一期「求异存同」中，我们从拖延症和创作障碍的泥潭中挣扎而出，试图揭开内容创作者内心的隐秘角落。无论是写作、播客、摄影，还是任何形式的创作，拖延似乎总是如影随形。我们不禁追问：拖延症究竟是懒惰的借口，还是完美主义的陷阱？创作障碍是天才的诅咒，还是庸才的自我安慰？

我们从心理学研究出发，探讨拖延症的三大心理特征：任务回避、情绪调节困难与完美主义倾向。同时，我们也分享了两位天才作家——Zadie Smith 和 David Foster Wallace 的创作观：前者认为写作障碍是“时间太多的奢侈”，后者则指出创作中的自我审视往往带来过度的痛苦与焦虑。

在团队协作与个人创作的对比中，我们反思了内容创作的孤独与压力。无论是面对平台的算法竞争，还是读者的期待，创作者们如何在高压下保持真诚？如何在自我怀疑中找到继续前行的动力？我们讨论了“天才困局”——当天赋与努力之间的鸿沟让人望而生畏，如何在不完美的创作中找到自我价值？

最后，我们分享了克服拖延与创作障碍的实用技巧：从亚里士多德的“行为习惯改变态度”，到菁菁的“小可乐疗法”，再到 Joan Didion 对“自尊”的的讨论。我们试图在创作中找到一种平衡：既忠于自我，又对结果负责。

【主播】

菁菁，影视打工人，IG：@yujingchenn

*开开，哲学搬运工，IG：@alex.yang.ykj

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【Joan Didion - On Self-Respect节选】

It is the phenomenon sometimes called alienation from self. In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the spectre of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that one's sanity becomes an object of speculation among one's acquaintances. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

【参考文献】

• Aristotle. (2009). Nicomachean Ethics (D. Ross, Trans.). Oxford University Press. (Original work published c. 350 BCE)
• Didion, J. (1968). On self-respect. In Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Freud, S. (1920). Beyond the Pleasure Principle (J. Strachey, Trans.). W. W. Norton & Company.
• Sirois, F. M., & Pychyl, T. A. (2013). Procrastination and the priority of short-term mood regulation: Consequences for future self. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7(2), 115-127.
• Smith, Z. (2009). Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays. Penguin Books.
• Steel, P. (2007). The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure. Psychological Bulletin, 133(1), 65-94.
• Tice, D. M., & Baumeister, R. F. (1997). Longitudinal study of procrastination, performance, stress, and health: The costs and benefits of dawdling. Psychological Science, 8(6), 454-458.
• Wallace, D. F. (1996). Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company.

【本期节目使用的音乐】

• 片头&片尾：Consolation & Reconcile by Jon Brion, Ladybird OST

【本期节目题图】

• 封面图：菁菁拍的开开和开开拍的菁菁
• 「求异存同」节目视觉设计：Yuqi Wang，IG: @djgfmu

【联系我们】

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以下渠道均可收听「求异存同」

小宇宙 | 苹果播客 | 荔枝FM | Spotify | QQ音乐 | 豆瓣

网易云音乐 | 喜马拉雅 | 蜻蜓FM | Amazon Music