Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

This Is What REALLY Causes Procrastination (And How To Free Yourself From It)...

3 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Procrastination isn't the real problem, it's a symptom of identity doubt or fear. The speaker argues that if you could flip a switch and turn off fear, you'd act freely and stop procrastinating. Address what you're actually afraid of, not the delay itself.

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What do you think causes people to stay in procrastination mode for long periods of time? The problem is not procrastination. The problem is a symptom of a cause. It's like, for instance, it's a downstream effect of something else. Procrastination is always, almost always, the downstream effect of identity or fear. And that's really what it comes down to is the reason why you're procrastinating is because you either don't think that you can do it or you're procrastinating because you're afraid of something else that's coming in the future. If I were to be able to, if we had a light switch on the side, like a little switch on the side of our head, and we could turn off our amygdala of the thing that creates fears in our brain, and we're just say, okay, I have no fear. I can just take action. Everybody would have the life that they want to. Nobody would procrastinate.