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#444: How to Use the Procrastination Equation to Start Getting Things Done

The Art of Manliness

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Is There a Genetic Component to Impulsivity?

You want to set very specific goals because that fires up our limbic system. The other component to the equation is impulsivity, right? You divide all that by impulsivity. And as you said, that's we're wired for him to be impulsive. So some of the tactics you talked about is put those temptations that cause you to beImpulsively out of your environment and into a more focused state. There are like seven different techniques but even down to making things less obvious. If you can make them from obvious to something little more abstract to immediate to something delayed, their mode of the power goes down.

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