procrastination - Concepts
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- Action Triggers - Specific cues or situations that prompt desired behaviors automatically.
- Akrasia - Acting against one's better judgment - knowing what's best but doing otherwise.
- Bikeshedding - The tendency to spend disproportionate time on trivial matters while leaving important issues unattended.
- Eat the Frog - Tackle your most challenging or dreaded task first thing in the morning to build momentum and avoid procrastination.
- Five-Minute Rule - A productivity technique where you commit to working on a dreaded task for just 5 minutes, often creating enough momentum to continue.
- Getting Started Problem - The specific challenge of initiating work, often harder than the work itself.
- If-Then Planning - Creating specific plans linking situations to actions: 'If X happens, I will do Y.'
- Intention-Action Gap - The difference between what people intend to do and what they actually do.
- Lower the Bar - Set the bar lower at the day-to-day work level to overcome overwhelm and make consistent progress toward big goals.
- Momentum Building - Creating forward motion through small wins that generate energy for larger efforts.
- Procrastination Equation - The formula: Motivation = (Expectancy × Value) / (Impulsiveness × Delay).
- Procrastination in Disguise - Activities that feel productive but actually delay meaningful work on important goals.
- Procrastination Types - Different patterns and causes of procrastination requiring different intervention strategies.
- Productive Procrastination - Doing useful but lower-priority tasks to avoid more important or difficult work.
- Psychology of Procrastination - Understanding the psychological patterns and causes behind why we procrastinate, from perfectionism to overwhelm.
- Resistance to Starting - The psychological barrier that makes beginning tasks more difficult than continuing them.
- Starting Ritual - A consistent routine that signals the transition into focused work mode.
- Structured Procrastination - Using procrastination productively by working on important tasks while avoiding the most important one.
- Task Initiation - The executive function skill of beginning tasks without excessive delay or procrastination.
- Task Momentum - The tendency for ongoing work to continue more easily than starting or restarting.
- Temporal Motivation Theory - A theory explaining how motivation changes based on the timing of rewards and costs.
- Transition Rituals - Routines that mark the shift between different work modes or between work and rest.
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