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To make the benefits of action feel bigger and more real:
- Visualize how great it will be to get it done.
- Pre-commit, publicly.
- Confront the downside of inaction.
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Our brains are programmed to procrastinate
It’s easier for our brains to process concrete and immediate outcomes rather than abstract and future things. So the short-term effort easily dominates the long-term upside in our minds— behavioral scientists call this present bias.
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Considering the downside of putting a task off will help move forward with it
While we might weigh the pros and cons of doing something new, we far less often consider the pros and cons of not doing that thing. This often leads us to ignore some obvious benefits of getting stuff done.
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