procrastination

Motivation – Reducing Impulsiveness

Self-mastery

Update: This post is superseded by my newer work on procrastination.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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Motivation – Increasing Value

Self-mastery

A summary of the Increasing Value component of the Procrastination Equation.

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Motivation – Increasing Expectancy

Self-mastery

Update: This post is superseded by my newer work on procrastination.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: Expectancy is something we want to increase, which in turn […]

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Recognizing when you procrastinate

Self-awareness

Many of the methods for defeating procrastination are difficult to use if you don’t recognize when you are procrastinating, both though introspection of your past, and in the moment. This seems to me like an extremely important procrastination meta-skill. For example, maybe I believe the reason I never floss my teeth is because I wrongly perceive […]

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