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Overcoming Emotional Resistance
You need to remove the anxiety and fear of doing the thing you’re avoiding. Then, you need to remove or invert the pleasant feeling you get from stalling:
- Give yourself small doses of the thing you’re scared of to diminish the fear it generates.
- Punish yourself for failure to act.
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Setting Constraints
- Set a decision deadline (for doing all the research and thinking) with a default (when the deadline passes, you’re stuck with the default).
- Start blindly, change later. Give yourself a default, and force yourself to work on it for a certain amount of time, before...
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Overcoming Rational Excuses
Spending some time analyzing the possible options is good. But an indefinite amount of time is going to be bad.
The way to get past this is to set constraints. If you set these constraints in advance, then you can undermine the rational part of your mind from using them as a j...
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Why analysis paralysis happens
It has the same root cause as all forms of procrastination. It is caused by the desire to avoid something unpleasant: you don’t want to get started, so you start searching for excuses to justify avoiding the unpleasantness.
And there really are fears, uncertainties or doubts, ...
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Dealing with analysis paralysis
You have to manage 2 realities:
- Rationalization: Deal with your rationalization that you need more time to think, plan and research by preventing this excuse from working.
- Underlying fear: Even if you convince yourself that you are engaging in procrastination and...
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Analysis paralysis
It's a form of procrastination.
It happens when you convince yourself you can't go forward with a decision, because you haven't given it enough thought, done enough research or figured things out to get started.
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The Pursuit Of Resilience
- Stress in small doses is beneficial in certain demanding situations, helping us perform and think better.
- Intense, chronic stress is seen to diminish the person physically, psychologically, and cognitively, and the problems that provide stress and anxiety a...
Getting Brilliant Ideas: The Fear Of Failure
- The fear of failure and the stigma attached to failure limits our creative output.
- Fresh ideas don’t need the fear of being wrong or being labelled as stupid.
- Being wrong isn’t that bad either and makes a person humble, confident and self-assured.
- Laugh off failure ...
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For getting into the flow
- Remove distractions
- Give yourself enough time
- Do something you love
- Set Clear Goals
- Challange a little
The enemies of Flow,
- Multitasking
- Stress
- Fear of failure
- Lack of conviction
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