Do people sometimes avoid small tasks because they feel emotionally heavy?
The weight of a task is not measured in minutes.
Yes. Emotional resistance can make simple tasks feel much larger than they objectively are.
The email takes two minutes.
The reply waits three weeks.
The hidden mechanism is emotional friction.
Humans avoid feelings as much as effort.
Avoidance creates guilt.
Guilt enlarges the task.
People think procrastination is laziness.
Very often, it is emotional self-protection.
