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Think of yourself as an ape and give that ape the task you want to do.

Example, how will you make an ape play minecraft

1. Simplify Minecraft. Add swiping for movement instead of joystick. Add touches for breaking stuff.

2. Give a mini tutorial: Break the task into very small ch...

You can't stop yourself from drinking when in a bar. When you are surrounded by comfort zones like bed & couch, do you expect yourself to do uncomfortable tasks? So is assigning a place to a task enough? Nope, you have to change the whole environment if the task is hard. Therefore, going to a lib...

What's more inspiring than peer pressure? Doing a particular task with your peers helps build peer pressure. It also helps in completing a task easily if your peers are smarter than you.

Try to make any task more fun.

If it's repetitive or SC Ratio is 1:1, do it with MUSIC.

If it's not repetitive, listen to music right before doing it. Do it with your peers. Add Milestones. Example, eating a snack aft...

Procrastinating till 1 hour before the exam can still secure you an average grade and studying the whole year can also get you an average grade. Deadline pressure forces a flow state, we pace up, and focus really good at that time

A state of consciousness where you can do any task effortlessly is the flow state

A scientist analyzing data whole night is in a flow state. A topper studying all day is in flow state.

Flow State can be described as addiction to work.

You lose the track of time, hunger and even...

1. DOPAMINE:

You can do a task for as long as you want until you keep on recieving the dopamine. That's why people following their passion have a higher success rate.

2. Skills VS Challenge Ratio (SC Ratio):

SC Ratio has to be 1:1. The skills required to complet...

To overcome the resistance by brain, you can simplify the very pressurising hard task into smaller easier tasks/chunks/pieces.

Distraction free environment is important for focus. Habits like Meditation, less dopamine consumption, etc. also help in focusing.

I am addicted to coding. You type something and get a beautiful design. It gets you a lot of dopamine. So much that you don't care about the SC Ratio which is 1:1.5

Assign a span of time to a task and do that task, daily, in that specific time span. Be consistent.

Your mind will resist the task you are doing. It will resist by giving you tasks which give you more dopamine. But, when everything you do gives you nearly the same amount of dopamine, then your brain will resist less. Therefore, delete all your dopamine sources such as social media, TV, Netflix,...