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Comment on Ask HN: Does procrastination advice help you?

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Yep.

- Knowing what you really want - and reflecting one minute about something before starting it. If you're clear with yourself that you don't want to do something, it helps too. - understanding a bit more about motivation in general (why we do what we do, Edward L. Deci) - Knowing what extrinsic motivation may motivate you or not and reflecting a bit on it: a bit more money, anticipating nice things, the joy of things well done, reognition. Working on some vain thing for a better performance review (for the boss, conditioning yours) next year doesn't motivate everyone. - Sharing the psychological burden: talking about it, linking with other projects, some kinds of collaborative work. Maybe I'm getting older, but I sometimes suspect a lot of the bulsh* meetings and collaboration at work serve mainly this purpose. Not every method works for everyone though. - Solving general health problems, anxiety, depression, sleep apnea issues of course helps.

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