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Procrastination

Principles

• When what we are supposed to do is not the most valuable option to us in the current moment
  • ex) Would rather do something pleasurable in the immediate moment rather than work towards a long-term goal

Causes

• We tend to procrastinate if we are overwhelmed by the task at hand and don’t have a clear direction to follow.
• Use procrastination as a signal
  • “Is what I’m doing right now effective?”
  • “Should I need to take break?”
  • “Should I make this more exciting?”

Causes

• Generally comes from a lack of reward for doing a task

Prevention

• Habits can help us bypass such undesired feelings to actually get things done

1. Just start lmao
   • Even if it’s for 5 minutes, just start the thing, and after the 5 minutes are up you can decide on whether you want to continue doing it
     • Usually, you start to get into the zone and the experience isn’t as bad as you had imagined it to be

• Physically writing that you procrastinated and couldn’t get something done ^70a72f
• Confronting Procrastination

Practices

• Productive Procrastination

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