This is a real life example.
You are texting your friend and you forget that one handsome persons name.
What you do is you promise your friend that you will tell that person’s name when it pops to you.
More often than not the name pops in your head after some time.
Who is doing this work?
Because its not you as you didn’t know the person’s name when you were talking to your friend.
This is your brain and its just doing its job.
Your brain is full time problem solving machine.
You gave it a problem(What’s that boys name) and it gave the solution(Deepak).
See when we break it down, we procrastinate because doing the thing(work) is painful than not doing the thing(taking a rest).
Now your brain just like any other thing it has some limitations and let me give you a feel of this limitation.
And by knowing its limitations you remove procrastination once and for all.
Consider this problem- “Education system is broken”.
The problem is so huge that your mind runs away from trying it solve it because its painful.
See the only reason your brain solves the problem is because it wants to get rid of the pain.
Ever seen a maths problem which was soo big that , your mind automatically switches off and thinks about other things.
Ever been standing in a Que where you were bored and you are mind started to wander over soo many things.
You gave your brain a problem(I am bored) and it gave a solutions (Distractions like thinking about some joke or anything)
We all have problems in life.
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What we really do is hide from the pain of solving these huge problems and find the escape route which gives pleasure something like Insta story, whatsapp, youtube.
Remember your brain loves pleasure, why do you think people are addicted to drugs.
Drugs are 1.5X more pleasurable than sex.
Once you take drugs, your mind will give all the excuses in the world to get it.
Now there is hack around it.
See you brain loves to solve problems because it wants to escape from the pain.
But it hates huge problem and escapes from it.
You help by breaking the huge problem into tiny problems which doesn’t require more than a google search to do it.(don’t worry I am an awesome tool which will let you do it.)
For eg.
This is a problem I have from a long time.
Why don’t I have a girlfriend?
This is mainly due to two reasons.
I am really thin and tall.(lanky).
1. Looks
Get a gym member ship from “Power fitness” near my house. Where trainer will teach me how to gain weight and all. And it cost just 500 ruppes.
2.Marks.
See just like how we don’t really care about Virat Kohil’s wife or the nos of tattoos he has or whether he plays football or not all we see and what is really important is his score in tests, t20 and all.
Guess what same things applies to a student all people care or what is important is his score in tests, competitive exam and all.(See the similarity lol.). I learnt this the hard way.
And yes I am breaking down the Jee exam into tiny 5 mins problems and guess what I could see a huge decrease in my procrastination.
See what humans are really trying to do is solve problems, and rate of which they solve the problem determines their growth or how fast they become successful.
Consider yourself as a balloon and your destination is the the sky. The weights holding you back are problem and one by one you need let go of your small weighs(problems) and reach your destination quicker.
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Every human is trying to get to reach the destination(sky), but every one has weights(problems) attached to them.
Some are really above us like Jeff Bezos, Mark zuckerber they are the people who have let go of the problems(weights) one by one.
They have taken the pain to solve problems for example forget the small problems we have like "getting gf" and all.
Do you have any idea what it takes to build a fucking an entire operating system "Windows" or an e-commerce store with millions of components "Amazon".
When you completely understand this metaphor it becomes really easy and please stop punishing your brain for something it doesn't even deserves.
By breaking down(chunking) big problems into small problems and then easily solving it , what you will accomplish in the years you will accomplish it in days if you do this on a daily basis.
But there is a slight hiccup you will face, see your brain sees the problem as a pain and you honestly don’t feel like opening this app when there are other apps which give you pleasure(instagram).
Okay now I will give you the tool which will help to solve this issue.
See I got this Idea from a website called roam research.
Which basically does the same thing but in a convenient way.
The best part is even Google and Facebook both used that software.
See for your self if you want.
The only problem was that it cost $15 per month to use it which is approx 1050 ruppees.
After spending more than 6 hours on the internet I finally found a tool and guess what its even better cause it has its own mobile app(roam research is laptop).
And it ability to break it down unlimited bullet lists.
Its called dynalist. You can search on play store and download it now.
See let me give you demo of how this works.
When you break it down so small then when you complete the problem.
Click on the check arrow near it and you see the the strike through.
Press the three dots and click on "toggle check items".
And it automatically dissapears.
And when you click on the same thing again we can see it appears back.
This is something called the hisenbergs principle.
We love to see progress, and we love to comeplete things.
And please stop punishing yourself when its not even your fault.
All these tricks are hidden used by major corporations like Facebook and Google.
They don’t want you to know these things.
But my job is to provide such top secrets to you in a way any human can understand to make his life easier
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