tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167174016275703196.post8623319373900834001..comments2023-10-04T14:48:16.709-07:00Comments on Anarcho-Mercantilist: How to Really Overcome ProcrastinationAnarcho-Mercantilisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05536890545703938679noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167174016275703196.post-12658093585596709142012-01-14T07:29:10.275-08:002012-01-14T07:29:10.275-08:00Good point. I have recently realized that there is...Good point. I have recently realized that there is a "placebo effect" of motivation.<br /><br />Let's say that you like to play chess in a chess club. But you realize that the chess club wastes too much of your time. And you want to leave the chess club.<br /><br />However, you are free to join or leave the club as you wish. Signing up or signing out of the club is free and takes no time.<br /><br />But if you sign out the club, you will be less motivated to participate in the club, even though you could easily sign-in again. Why?<br /><br />Let's go back to the time when you were registered in the chess club. At that time, day after day, night after night, you daydream about "who are you going to beat next in chess" and how you want to "be the top player in the chess club." You daydream about beating other players at work. You daydream about beating other players when you are at home.<br /><br />But once you sign out of the club, you are less likely to daydream about beating the other players, in your spare time. There is less daydreaming about winning chess, so you have spared time you spent daydreaming with something else. The daydreaming is a distraction to you.<br /><br />This is what I call the "placebo effect" of motivation. Something simple such as "signing out" could motivate you, even though you could easily sign-up again.<br /><br />That's also why you are more likely to be motivated when you "just do it." Let's say you are procrastinating, such as watching YouTube videos rather than to do work. But you decided, what the heck, and you "just do it", you will directly switch to the work, and you will be more motivated? Why? Because when you do the work, you forget all of the YouTube videos. You will not think of "what's going to happen next in the YouTube video." Doing to work let's you to suppress your curiosity of watching YouTube videos. I'm saying that working is a distraction from your play time. When you work, you forget about daydreaming what would happen next in the video.<br /><br />Do you have more ideas about motivation?3D Face Analysishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07002380940176488169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167174016275703196.post-7939207164303246882012-01-14T07:27:24.585-08:002012-01-14T07:27:24.585-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.3D Face Analysishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07002380940176488169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167174016275703196.post-38149576623596883032012-01-14T07:23:38.404-08:002012-01-14T07:23:38.404-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.3D Face Analysishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07002380940176488169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167174016275703196.post-27054478536181496122012-01-13T23:14:47.596-08:002012-01-13T23:14:47.596-08:00The pain and pleasure of things can be enhanced an...The pain and pleasure of things can be enhanced and reduced by thought alone. <br /><br />The pleasure of a pizza can be enhanced by vividly imagining all its juicy details, recalling past pleasurable pizza memories, seeing yourself eating the pizza, etc. The pain of a pizza can be enhanced by imagining what you look like 5 pounds fatter, etc. Imagination evokes emotion, and emotions are strong psychological motivators.<br /><br />With practice, you can develop the ability to recall emotions on demand. Then you can just recall the the desired emotion after perceiving the desired stimulus. With reinforcement, this will create a connection between the stimulus and the emotion.<br /><br />Since procrastination is a 'stimulus' perceptible only by analyzing your own thoughts (i guess), it helps to enhance your capacity for self-consciousness/self-monitoring. Meditation can help here, and generally for other reasons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com