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Jay Shaw explains why you procrastinate: your brain predicts failure, difficulty, or discomfort, and that prediction triggers avoidance. The fix isn't fighting procrastination itself. It's interrupting the prediction underneath it.
Jay Shaw explains why you procrastinate: your brain predicts failure, difficulty, or discomfort, and that prediction triggers avoidance. The fix isn't fighting procrastination itself. It's interrupting the prediction underneath it.
Like people gotta understand procrastination is not a problem. Procrastination is the symptom of the problem. Your brain is a prediction machine. Your brain is constantly making a prediction and then asking itself, what do I need to do to survive this prediction I just made? If the prediction is failure, if the prediction is this is hard, if the prediction if this is uncomfortable, if the prediction is I'm not getting the result I want, procrastination is actually a healthy response. It's not about stopping the procrastination. It's about interrupting the prediction that's given birth to the procrastination. And what people do is they try to work on the procrastination, they try to work on the anxiety, they try to work on the overthinking. That's not the problem. The problem is the internal dialogue that's giving birth to the procrastination.
