Back in the 1990s, I put pagers on students and paged them [eight times a day for five days before an academic deadline]. And when they finally started working on the project, empirically we found that they didn't see it as as difficult or as stressful as earlier in the week.
So their perceptions of the task changed. There's lots of reasons to think that that's what happens to us when we get started.
SL: But what about getting distracted?395
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