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Is it bad to coerce yourself to do unpleasant things? (with Matt Goldenberg)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Negative Emotions of Procrastination

Spencer: You want some force that's kind of maintaining you doing the thing even while you're doing it, is that right? Exactly. So there's an obvious one, which is that oftentimes these negative emotions that we use in the coercive motivation systems, they bring lethargy to the body. And so what happens when you use this self-loathing mindset is that you turn yourself into the type of person who you don't want to succeed.

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