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How does one break conditioning? Or at least replace it with some more positive conditioning?

I've realised that despite the fact that I really enjoy learning things and challenging myself, I've managed to condition myself to view these things as 'work' and therefore something to be put off. I usually end up wasting stupidly large amounts of time playing computer/console games or reading fantasy novels, even if I'm not in the mood to enjoy them, rather than start on the thing that's 'work' but on the whole a lot more interesting and fulfilling than junk food type activities. (Examples: Reading nonfiction books that aren't mandatory course reading, finishing my board game, teaching myself more programming in my own time..)


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On a completely unrelated topic, I seem to have sprained my ankle. It sure does suck.
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A while back I read a funny story. I would like to find it again. Here is the situation:

I know the main site it came from. The story was contained in a comment to a post. I don't remember what the original post was about, nor do I remember the exact wording for the story, so googling is out. I don't even remember the exact timeframe I read the story in, nor did I talk about it online with anyone at the time (in case I could search chat logs to get a better idea of the date).

So.. is there any way to find this comment short of checking every post within the last 6 months or so?

EDIT: David has awesome Googling skills that I can only envy. Thank you!

And here's the story:
A developer was going on vacation for a few weeks, but knew that his contribution to the upcoming product would be scheduled while he was gone. So he put a tray outside his office holding two six-sided dice and a note reading “To estimate the development time required for any features I am developing, please roll the dice. The total is the number of weeks the feature will take to code and test.” The project manager went ballistic and called him in and said “you can’t do this!” The developer replied, “this is what I’ve been doing for the past five years when people asked me to predict development times, and my estimates have been just as good as anyone else’s.”

For an interesting analysis of project management and the skills required, here's the link to read the surrounding comments: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1087

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