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savedpass comments on Lifehack Ideas January 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Gondolinian 01 January 2015 02:34AM

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Comment author: savedpass 01 January 2015 02:24:08PM 5 points [-]

Ask yourself how much better or worse you are going to feel after completing a task you're procrastinating on. Write the answer down and put it to the test. After doing this several times I'm finding that I wrongly assume I'm going to feel worse after finishing the task, which makes me procrastinate.

Comment author: Calien 02 January 2015 11:54:43AM 2 points [-]

This reminds me of a CBT technique for reducing anxiety: when you're worried about what will happen in some situation, make a prediction, and then test it.