/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10194100
Seconding

>>10194100
It's definitely reinforcing neural pathways.

>>10194100
start to schedule when you're going to do things and stick to it. you'll notice you and everyone else who procrastinates has no schedule

>Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity
-Taleb

>>10194108
>quit procrastinating cold turkey and just start doing productive things

if I could do that I wouldn't be here

>>10194119
It worked for me and I was as bad as anyone

>>10194119
Then by all means continue to make excuses for why you're fucking lazy.

>>10194133
I'm not making excuses, I'm saying that image is stupid

>>10194100
Masturbation/Sex drains motivation. Fix on breaking these habits and the rest will follow. Look into prolactin and its relationship to motivation.

>>10194108
Holy shit, saved. You saint.

Can we use operant conditioning on ourselves? Using positive reinforcement to encourage good behaviour. Like giving ourselves a piece of chocolate after a study session, and putting ourselves through something uncomfortable after missing goals for extra points.

>>10194149

>>10194108
Super helpful. Thanks.

Had a religious experience and now I can't procrastinate anymore, I'm too scared to.

>>10194137
Try to do it when you're on break from school/on vacation. Doing it during stressful times will probably just make you relapse

>>10194240
Did you do this? What did you do during those 7 days?

>>10194118
>Taleb
cringe

>>10194100
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Science_of_Winning_at_Life
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RWo4LwFzpHNQCTcYt/how-to-beat-procrastination
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ty2tjPwv8uyPK9vrz/my-algorithm-for-beating-procrastination

>>10194597
seems interesting, i just procrastinated reading these articles

>>10194100
I second this >>10194116. Think about what you have to do (in a week or in a day for example), break it down in easier steps and then get to work on those steps, no excuses. Make sure it isn't something impossible or extremely hard to achieve and give yourself a reward for doing it. Don't be too hard on yourself if you aren't as productive as you wish at first, everyone has to start somewhere. You can allow yourself to surf the web and shitpost as much as you want after you have done those realistic and doable (for you) tasks. Try to improve every day.

>>10194108
I wanna add on to this that the health belief model commonly used in changing unhealthy habits should be the strategy and that screenshot the tactics.
Basically In health belief model you have perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefit, then you have a cue to action(typically through dissastisfaction) and self efficacy(believing you can make the change)

So note examples for the able that resonate with you, then you can at-will trigger the conditions to successfully enact the changes described in that 6 part post

Just go to a library and stay there lol

>>10194100
OP, i found recently that reading the hard-copy textbook helps me avoid procrastination because it let me get away from the computer. try to get away fro mteh computer man. unironically some people were not meant to handle too much internet. im starting to re-realize i am one of those people. in high school i was the most abstemious and self-disciplined individual i knew. nowadays im a complete hedonist and slacker. what changed? i started using the computer. literally every time im the slightest bit stressed i go to jack off or watch some stupid youtube vid. i dont even feel like eating sometimes when im at the computer. it makes me less hungry. idk why.

>>10194597
Do you have more stuff like that pic?

>>10194654
Health belief model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPzk1-mG7SY

bump i want to know as well