
150 – The Procrastination Equation
The Bayesian Conspiracy
How to Increase a Task
If you are overwhelmed, you can't uncommit from stuff. Threshold says if the task you're avoiding is boring, try to make it more difficult right up to the point where the difficulty level matches your current skill. The best example I've seen of this in the wild recently is we go to Perkins every usually twice a month for my book club. He just memorizes everybody's order and he gets them right about 95% of the time.
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