The When/Then Trap
I have to have an iPad.
What I find amusing is people who are dying to get an iPad, but simply can’t answer the question “What are you going to use it for that your current computer can’t do?”.
The underlying point I am trying make is that promise of new technology and what it will do always fall short. The problem is when we put our faith in a new plugin, software, device that will somehow make us more creative or help us finally complete that project that we have been putting off. It won’t. However, by waiting for the new technology, we then put off working the very thing we know we need to be doing.
You know you are in trouble when you hear a “When/Then” statement. It simply goes “When I get X, then I will do X”. It never happens, no matter how bad we want it to. We will inevitably find an excuse for why we can’t get it done and then the cycle repeats itself.
So go ahead and buy an iPad, I know you probably will. However, don’t plan it helping you do what you are supposed to be working on right now.
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