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I know exactly what works for me: having someone else depend on me doing my work on time. If I'm the only interested party, very little ever gets done, unless the consequences of doing nothing are pretty grave.
Seen through an evo psych lens, this makes a certain kind of sense. I wonder how much far-mode individual achievement was actually going on in our evolutionary history. Probably very little, if any. It seems like we freeze up in the face of some types of procrastination-inspiring tasks in the same way that we might've previously been averse to banishment -- in both cases the threat is a marked dropoff in being "held" by the group.