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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • There is some interesting research on procrastination as an emotional problem. It’s important to note the difference between procrastinating and being lazy. Procrastination is typically productive (I am cleaning the house or being active and engaged in some way instead of writing that term paper) and laziness is not (I haven’t eaten or bathed because I don’t want to and my ass is glued to the couch while I passively watch TV).

    The main hook into procrastination is that your subconscious percieves a low emotional return for the task to be performed. Instead it finds any other task it percieves to have a higher emotional reward and sets you about doing that instead.

    It helps to intentionally focus on how good it will feel to complete the task you are putting off, and so you sort of hijack your own brain.