A short excerpt from a motivational talk (YouTube) explaining that lacking knowledge or skills about how to achieve a goal triggers self-doubt and fear, which deactivates brain circuits for motivation, thinking, and imagination—leading people to default to inaction and procrastination. The speaker links four key internal mechanisms to a "procrastination circuit."
When we have a goal, any goal doesn't make a difference whether it's a relationship, goal, money, charity, whatever it is. Whenever we lack the knowledge or the skills there's a part of us that has self doubt is what triggers fear because we're worried we don't know enough. So if we don't know enough, if we don't have the knowledge or the skill or we think we have to have this certain knowledge or skill that we don't have or that we think we need, it's going to trigger self doubt, triggers fear, deactivates motivational centers in the brain and deactivates the thinking part of the brain and our imagination. It's circuits, it's all circuits turning on or off. And so in the absence of knowledge and skill of what to do about it we default to not taking action because we're protecting ourselves. And so all of these little mechanisms, these four key ones cause us to trigger the procrastination circuit in the brain.
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