motivation

How to Get Motivated: A Guide for Defeating Procrastination

Followup to: How to Generally Reduce Procrastination and How to Stop Procrastinating Right Now Jump down to the end if you want the download links. Two of my recent posts were meant to highlight clear, actionable things we can do to defeat procrastination – whether it’s general life and environment changes or things that can […]

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How to Stop Procrastinating Right Now

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Followup to: How to Generally Reduce Procrastination As I said earlier, defeating procrastination and increasing our motivation is probably the most useful life skill we can learn. Are there specific things we can do the instant we notice we’re procrastinating? (If you’re impatient, jump right to the advice!) Hopefully you’ve already read and started implementing […]

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How to Generally Reduce Procrastination

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Defeating procrastination and increasing our motivation is probably the most useful life skill we can learn. Recommendations, advice, and methods abound on the internet and in popular self-help books. What should we do? Who should we listen to? What really works? (Click here if you’re impatient and just want the advice!) The Procrastination Equation is […]

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Motivation – Reducing Impulsiveness

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Update: This post is superseded by my newer work on procrastination. I want to continue to upload my notes I took from lukeprog’s awesome post over at Less Wrong called How to Beat Procrastination. The Procrastination Equation, as mentioned in my first post, shows where our motivation comes from: Impulsiveness tends to be the largest component of procrastination. If we can decrease […]

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