How To Defuse Procrastination And Be Productive (Without Using Willpower)

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  @bronsonpascoe6793 · 1 year ago

  Just gonna open this in a new tab to watch later

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  @Arpin_Lusene · 1 year ago

  From years of working out, I found that half-assing is better than no-assing. I used not to be able to do a single pull up, but after doing hundreds of sad looking pseudo pull ups, I finally managed to get one proper pull up. Now I can do more than three in a row. From there I started applying that mentality to a lot of things in my life.

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  @ithinkthereforeislam-yt · 1 year ago

  It’s so weird that you can even procrastinate over things that you enjoy

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  @pachupac · 1 year ago

  I've always felt that my brain holds me hostage and I literally have to negotiate with myself like a toddler to get through my day.

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  @zeidrichthorene · 1 year ago

  A tactic that works for me when I remember it is the phrase &quot;Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly&quot;. &nbsp;It&apos;s a silly thing, because it sounds wrong, but the reality is, anything that&apos;s worth doing, on balance, it&apos;s better to do it slowly, inefficiently, weakly, etc. than it is to not do it at all. &nbsp;So I push myself to sometime to just do the worst thing that pushes me towards the goal. &nbsp;By worst I don&apos;t mean actually bad or harmful, but I mean kind of the most pathetic. <br><br>This gets around the &quot;not enough&quot; feeling. It&apos;s not meant to be enough. &nbsp;If anything, I might feel resistance because it&apos;s not pathetic enough. Then when I&apos;m actually started, I am allowed to do more, but I certainly don&apos;t push myself to do more. It&apos;s the pushing that creates the resistance anyways. <br><br>At the start there was a fear of external judgment, but really I had the opposite. I was more effective overall, so people were happy.

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  @AnanyaKajekar-kj7vm · 1 year ago

  the irony is that I am using this video as a form of procrastination 😂🤣

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  @kristoffer2250 · 1 year ago

  I tested all this. I always had trouble getting up from bed. But the next best thing that I realize was to walk out of multiple doors in the house. Then, I was in a very different headspace, able to focus on the next next best thing, which ultimately led to productivity

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  @benb1159 · 1 year ago

  &quot;Walk through a door&quot; is so fire. I already do this unintentionally and it was mind-blowing to hear a justification on why it seems to make my mind clearer.

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  @bedazzledmisery6969 · 1 year ago

  The doorway effect is so fascinating to me. It totally works, both in the negative and the positive.

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  @stormlord1984 · 1 year ago

  I ascended! After returning from work, I now procrastinate even on video games!

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  @thatswhatisaidCA · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBifDZwPiI4&amp;t=755">12:35</a> This sounds like what my Grandmother told me as a child (I&apos;m 61) - &quot;It only takes a second to complete it and it&apos;s DONE&quot;, and it WORKS. When I get lazy and pick up one used cup in one room, I know there&apos;s a cup in another room and maybe it&apos;s down the hallway and i don&apos;t feel like walking, but i just tell myself it&apos;ll just take a second to do it and it&apos;s DONE&quot;. Has worked for me throughout my life. Bet you didn&apos;t expect a 61 yr old woman subscriber... You have an excellent channel, really good. I&apos;m sure you&apos;re helping LOTS of people - Thank you!! (I think you need a sticker for our mirrors that says &quot;what CAN you do?&quot;)

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  @drp678 · 1 year ago

  I discovered this channel 4 months ago while &nbsp;juggling my way out through my maladaptive daydreaming and escape addictions...while being a hopeless rebel and a chronic procrastinator;<br>So after all extreme mindless scrolling, watching across entire youtube for my hyperactive brain to get some focus/dopamine spikes and after all that panic walking..i think i have sort of figured my way out...now<br>Today I am adding this comment as a souvenir for my attempts and a firm vow to fight this devil once and for all..<br>( Any activity on this comment shall keep reminding me of this)

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